Gonna log off this app for the rest of the weekend but I wanted to boost this. If you are interested in participating in the nomination process for the Ignyte awards we have an application. Our awards are very dear to me. I thought the dire urgency of them would fade. I was wrong. We keep going 🖤

Alright. As is now tradition, here are my 10 favorite African SFF stories from 2025 📖 📚 Featuring tales from: @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social @clarkesworldmagazine.com @omenanamag.bsky.social @giganotosaurus.bsky.social @zamashort.com @khoreo.bsky.social @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social + more!

Mitosis, ink on yupo, 2026 #sciart

Samit is not only an excellent writer, he has years of practical wisdom, experience, and skills to share! He's running 2 workshops, one for global markets, one that's for the Indian market. Applications are currently open.

I will be one of the speakers/mentors at the Indian Ocean Writers’ Residency in Bentota, Sri Lanka from July 9‒15 2026. Applications close at the end of January—please do apply if you're interested, and share with anyone else who might be! vajra.me/2026/01/16/i...

Happy new year! Here's the January newsletter article for Ansyme: a fascinating look at sickness response (or lack thereof) for certain pneumonia infections.

And if you're not reading Malka Older, you should be!

This is the most personal piece I've published in some time. My fiancé left me a few months after I recovered from COVID-19. Recovered is probably the wrong word. I could remember my birthdate again. nonprofitquarterly.org/on-the-oracl... @npquarterly.bsky.social

A new atlas of the human dorsal root ganglion contains more than 53,000 neurons and nearly 500,000 non-neuronal cells from 126 people. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/peripheral-n...

I'm honored to have won the 2025 Sushila Devi Award for LOKA! 🙏 Very grateful to the Bhopal Literature & Art Festival and Shri Ratanlal Foundation for the award, and to the jurors for their kind words. 💙 to the team at Hachette India and to Cameron McClure for supporting the book! #sciencefiction

'Urgent appeal🚨 We are dying in Gaza due to the storm🥶 Our tent was destroyed & torn by the rain, and we are now homeless & without a tent We implore you to donate so we can buy a tent that costs $50 ⛺️ Please donate to save my family⬇️⬇️🤲 Verified @mommunism.bsky.social ✅'

Help us reach our funding goals for 2026! 🙏 #nonprofit #neuroskyence #neurosky

Psst! If you'd like a gift idea for an SFF fan -- or if you'd like to read a scifantasy that's basically THE WITCHER meets Trinbagonian folklore & Caribbean mythology -- there's a $1.99 Ebook sale now for my book, THE NIGHTWARD! www.harpercollins.com/products/the... www.amazon.com/dp/B0CSXFBWRN

Cancer is another instance (like autonomic medical conditions) at the intersection of neuroscience, immunology, and clinical medicine that needs more crosstalk.

Kate's books: a gift guide, a wish list guide, or an "if I get a gift card" guide For the reader who likes books about WWII, Little Women, Indiana Jones, The Night Watch by Sarah Waters, lesbian history in Paris, medieval history, fiber arts, and/or Nazis in pain: The Tapestry of Time. +

My novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR is one of Scientific American’s Best Fiction of the Year, 😊.

THE KING MUST DIE has been out for a whole month! To celebrate, I’m giving away 3 signed + personalized author copies. To enter, repost this and comment below with the last great story you read!

I'm relaunching Dominion of the Fallen in the US with @awfulagent.bsky.social Magnificent covers by @fringe-element.net Deliciously gothic atmosphere, queer characters from across the world, and high intrigue--in a Paris wrecked by magical cataclysms March 10th, 2026! awfulagent.com/ebooks/the-h...

INCIDENTALLY you should know THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is currently ranked #700 for 'Mystery and Thriller' at Libro and I *know* we can get that up to 666

Today is #GivingTuesday and we're almost 1/4 of the way to funding our activities for next year. Please help get us there if you can! 🙏 💜 www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

Mark your calendars! We are kicking off our End of Year Giving Campaign on the 2nd, Giving Tuesday! Donate at bwc.io/locus2025 (link in bio) through December and see your gift doubled via a $100,000 match challenge. The campaign is live now if you just can't wait.

would someone please buy this book? my publisher and i think it's funny. www.blaft.com/products/con...

I don’t shout about the anthology I co-edited enough, but Iran+100 got a nice little write-up in the Guardian! “This is an imaginative, audacious, exciting collection.”

Proud to say I’ve helped launch a #nonprofit to promote the study of #autonomic #neuroscience as it relates to medical conditions, including my own, #longcovid #mecfs. Please consider donating and/or subscribe to our free newsletter! Every bit helps 🙏 ansyme.org ansyme.substack.com

Proud to say I’ve helped launch a #nonprofit to promote the study of #autonomic #neuroscience as it relates to medical conditions, including my own, #longcovid #mecfs. Please consider donating and/or subscribe to our free newsletter! Every bit helps 🙏 ansyme.org ansyme.substack.com

People post so much randomly silly shit, 🤣.

QUASAR starts at the top of the hour--with poetry from yours truly! I hope to see many of you there!

In this week's #FreeFictionFriday pick by @bpladek.bsky.social , Chase, a risk analyst, has built his life around predicting everything that could possibly go wrong. But his partner, a passionate activist, has built hers on the belief that things can go right. 🔗 issues.org/futuretensef...

my story 'Birds' is reprinted in @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social's special 'Sinners, Saints, and Haints' issue! check it out! fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...

People nearby who seem sick might cause the autonomic brain to elicit a protective immune response - good to know for all those times I'm around unmasked people who sneeze or cough or blow their noses (scary!)

The first sentence/page of Infinite Archive:

We're kicking off our biggest fundraiser of the year by participating in NewsMatch, a national campaign to support newsrooms across the US run by the Institute for Nonprofit News. We need your help to keep telling #LongCOVID stories. Will you donate today? the-sick-times.fundjournalism.org/donate/

South Asian writer friends, South Asia Speaks is launching a new fellowship program for non-fiction writers interested in writing an impactful, research-driven piece. Check out the full details on their website and please spread the word!

Massive congrats to @vajra.me who continues to do amazing work!!

Hello from Juneau, Alaska! Here you will find alpine-to-ocean illustrations and art by me (Kierstin). I hope to spark interest in the natural world around us, and make science approachable for all ages 🏔️🌲🐋🦀 You can also follow me here: X @gsstudios907 IG @golden.spiral.studios

Hey, a reminder that I’m looking for work. I’m an award winning writer and editor serving the community. My book Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction just won an Ignyte award! I’m looking for clients, and would love to work in narrative games. Get in touch with me!

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!

Congratulations to all!

TIL that "discombooberate" is a word (an alternative slang for "discombobulate"), and I think it's a moral imperative that I find a way to use in my WIP.

Highly recommend these great books, one an inventive space opera and the other more of a travelogue of Earth!

US Kindle readers: The Alloy Era duology (Meru + Loka) is on sale for the month of October. Get both for less than $5 and enjoy some “woke as woke can be” #spaceopera and far future #sciencefiction. (Yes, that is an actual review that someone left for MERU, and it still brings me great joy. 😂)

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

A team of heliophysicists and machine learning experts in academia and industry has come together to develop Surya, the first foundation model for heliophysics, representing a new approach to studying and predicting solar activity. 🧪 🔭 Learn more: www.seti.org/news/surya-a...

STARRED review in @libraryjournal.bsky.social for WE WILL RISE AGAIN, the speculative activism anthology edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social and yours truly! Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...

Strange Horizons turns 25 this year, which is pretty much an eternity in the world of spec fic zines, and I had the privilege of going through the archives for a special short fiction roundup: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Excited to be at L.A. ComicCon for the first time this weekend! I’ll be discussing how I designed life for a dark matter planet, along with others from the Proxima Kosmos project by the Berggruen Institute. Our panel is on Saturday, Sep. 27, at 2:30pm in Room 403A. Hope to see you there!

🧠 Celebrating #OpenScienceWeek, by highlighting my favorite (and my most used!) open science tools from the Allen Institute 🐭🧠🌐 @alleninstitute.org #neuroskyence #neuroscience #brain #microscopy

Happy book birthday @thomasha.bsky.social!

So glad to see this work going on! I've always felt that prioritizing humans over other species, while an understandable instinct, is fundamentally unjust. We need to find better ways to make progress in biology and medicine.