Adding this to my ongoing collection of social insect fiction discourse. "what would ayn rand have them do—scatter and leave the colony foodless, defenseless? or worse, have the workers fight among herselves for the last scrap of succulent grub?" It's a wee story, you have time to read it.

"I still believe in my country because | joy keeps happening without | permission" I could have drop-quoted any line from this poem and it would have pulled you into the group hug we all need. Read both poems at the link. Breathtaking work by Oladosu Michael Emerald >>

Literally one of the best pedagogical books I've used 💜

A beautiful new comic about an unexpected conversation with an NYC Lyft driver. www.crucialcomix.com/comic/lyft-r...

A poem from a mother of two in Lebanon #peace

@fiddes.bsky.social writes the Epilogue to his Spring Journal. #Lebanon #gaza #beruit #Iran #people #humanity We Must Go On...

I'm still doing a GoFundMe to help my parents rebuild after a devastating house fire. The costs of doing so, with an uninsured house, are extremely high. My parents are elderly and low-income and my disabled brother lives with them. I deeply appreciate shares of this link! gofund.me/ac93c03d5

Genuinely living through the era where poems are praying through us>>

Let me tell you, there is no thrill greater than showing your child that a creature from their imagination exists in real life. We looked at a whole bunch of nonbinary (gynandromorph) butterflies tonight. You should too.

This creature from that nest remains and probably always will be the coolest thing I've found: the bilateral gynandromorph Polyergus longicornis; half worker, half winged male alate. A They/Them Ant. 🖤❤️ Still feels kind of surreal! 🌿🐜🧪

*snort* www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Ashraf Shaikh: "Communities don’t need poetry. They need policy. Wildlife doesn’t need abstraction. It needs security." Stumbled upon this piece quite by accident and I'm simultaneously in awe of the impassioned argument and dying inside because my own writing has so often missed the mark.

Wherein I take up an ill-advised project in tropical gardening because of various personal sadnesses 🌿

I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊 Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.

"These are my kind of people: | no tears—just ,| steam from a kettle | that never quite boils."

A lot of people coming from higher castes claim to be caste-blind. Even in the sciences, the range of experiences of those navigating a career in STEM is a testament to how deep-rooted caste is even among those who claim to have given up the practice. (Published Oct. 2021)

et tu, libby?! libby users, you can give them feedback on their new fuckery of an ai policy by pressing the bottom-center button in the app & scrolling down

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

My favourite blog post is up!! Queer Middle Grade Books Coming out in 2026 (So Far)! lainahastoomuchsparetime.wordpress.com/2026/01/09/q...

My alma mater, the MFA Program Creative Writing & Environment at Iowa State University, is hiring an assistant professor, tenure-track. If you're a writer who blends your creative work with place, nature, ecology, environment, etc, apply: isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...

Did you know you needed a climate change poem today? You need one every day, a prayer and foghorn. Read @lindszd.bsky.social's beautiful work: "Love is a simple object navigating | blurry physics, an ark baring its hull | to flood, remaining afloat." From www.ronslate.com/given-after-...

Who knew I needed to see Paleolithic rock art. Thread below, come for the shade, stay for the delicately carved sculptures >>

Every time I find an interview with Trudy Cooper in the wild I rejoice. Platinum Grit and Oglaf are way more niche than they deserve to be. Also, how is this thing that I love that someone created 16+ years old?

What a gift it is to have this essay published on this hopeful day! Thank you so much, @jacqdoyle.bsky.social , for helping to bring this piece into the world.

Love this infographic. Spot on!

Arthropod Photo of the Week: October 22, 2025 Jagged ambush bug Phymata sp. Hemiptera: Reduviidae By Tom Astle (@tjalamont.bsky.social), Montana, USA #arthropodPOTW

Best of the Net 2025 Nonfiction and Poetry nominations (@geetha-iyer.bsky.social, @rogerthatmack.bsky.social)

🧵Open submissions call! I recently took on a new position as Associate Editor of Creative Nonfiction at ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. If you have work that intersects people+nature in some significant way, I want to see it! Read on for submissions criteria...

Me to 5yo: Please walk faster, I want to get home. Also me: 5yo, hold my bag, and the umbrella, and the raincoat, I have to chase down this insect and confirm it is not a bee. 15 minutes later... Look at this beauty. Bumblebee robberfly, not currently assassinating anything smaller than a raisin.

My new mode of interacting with Bsky--if it's not a poem or a picture of an invertebrate within three newsfeed posts, I'm outta here. Lucky me:

In a confluence of interests--this paper looked at classical Chinese poetry to infer range contraction of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise. Poetry as natural history notes, love this.

I knew this folio on queer epistolaries was going to knock me out and I was right and I have grading to do but all I want to do is keep reading >>

Ok, bear with the shaky-cam (it is my signature special effect as an overenthusiast), but would you take a look at this blessed date palm? Rosy-faced lovebirds, common pigeons, and gila woodpeckers (I think?) all nesting in the same date palm tree crown. Phoenix, AZ.

🧵"It is characteristic of the scribble to resist being anything and to be part of the move; on the move, just as the scribbler is [...] The line takes time and is time as a temporal trace, thus the scribbler [...] and the scribble [...] are forms of growth and return [remaining] unfinished, always."

List of NEA grant recipients no longer receiving funding. You don't have to care. You just have to know. @electricliterature.com @onestorymag.bsky.social @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social @redhenpress.bsky.social @mcsweeneys.net etc docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #writingcommunity

Or, if you prefer a smaller bookshop:

Excited to come across this paragraph by @alexanderchee.bsky.social in the newsletter I just read by dear friend and luminescent @jiminhanwriter.bsky.social. I needed this.

Raging? Me. Too. Even (and especially) so, here is a baby sloth eating a melon.

Literally nothing I read about LLMs reduces my rage. So happy (?) to see the carbon expenditure of using ChatGPT as a calculator laid bare like this >>

🧵NOT BY ME, this is a post from someone who wants to remain anonymous but works extensively with trans people pre-transition. They were asked by someone “why do you think that’s so much [coverage of trans people] in the news at the moment?” This was their response:

Kenyan #journalist Alvin Kaunda was reporting live from Nairobi when a curious baby #elephant, Kindani, decided to join the broadcast. The playful elephant stuck her trunk in Alvin's mouth, making for a hilarious moment! A joyful reminder of wildlife's charm and the work of the Sheldrick Trust!

There are many horrors, but today my kid asked me what was the best poem I ever wrote, and I read it to her, and then she said she would write a poem, which turned into a story, which turned into a comic, and isn't it a gift to watch a child develop narrative and visual literacy in the 2020s.

More info about our tea pet fundraiser for the Trans Youth Emergency Project! The store launches April 29th, 12 PST. Tea pets are mailed randomly, requests possible at a higher tier! We'll probably sell out! tea4t.bigcartel.com/about

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"? Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

So excited for this 🌈🌍, everyone look, register, listen in!

I've been waiting for this book to come out for so long. @vauhinivara.bsky.social is one of the writers I teach when I teach my students about LLMs and storytelling. Can't wait to finally buy this 💜

Adding this to my mash-up animal cognition seminar/creative writing class syllabus/notes for the book I wish I were writing instead of grading right now >>

Happy to have three poems from This Elegance in the current issue of @newenglandreview.bsky.social. Here’s one of them in the issue preview.

With its UFO-like display, the cuttlefish may look like it’s trying to get attention—but its intent is anything but. The undulating black stripes confuse prey, making the creatures all but invisible to crabs and other victims: scim.ag/3FVL43z

"If you lay your head against my womb. You will hear a gentle buzzing, a hum so loud & bright." From "Wasps," this week’s Comic piece by Helena Pantsis. Read it at The Offing today! theoffingmag.com/art/comics/w...