What if. Carboniferous Park It’s kind of like a tea garden, but then a ten foot millipede crawls by and you drop your tea. But then I gently touch your elbow and say, “Don’t worry it’s a detritivore”

It’s been on since launch. It’s my roommate now. It’s on the lease

Guzmania! I adore bromeliads.

TIL

I found the answer! Knew I'd seen it before! The video is well worth a watch bsky.app/profile/mora...

Here’s a fun exercise: read the whole article but imagine that the results might apply broadly to any system or person that tells you things confidently and authoritatively while imposing time pressure List all the systems & people you can think of that do that arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/r...

Took me a while to track it down but for all the camera nerds asking the same question I did - high res version complete with EXIF data is here: images.nasa.gov/details/art0... It was taken with a Nikon D5 with 14-24mm f2.8 lens, 1/4 sec at f4, ISO 51200

You can see all the camera settings on the NASA image pages here: Light mode: images.nasa.gov/details/art0... Dark mode: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

If I was up there I’d have my face glued to the window the entire time. All of the memory cards would be full and none of the pictures would even have the moon in them yet

The whole-Earth-at-night photo from the #Artemis II mission was brighter than many expected. That was mostly due to camera settings; here’s another pic taken just before with diff settings. Digital photography is always subjective—even before processing! (HT @swapnakrishna.com @jasonc0.bsky.social)

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

NEW: The President once again called to eliminate federal library funding in his federal budget proposal. We have been here before. And when we make our voices heard, we can overcome this again. Tell your Senators to reject the cuts & #FundLibraries in next year's federal budget: ala.org/showup

The Wetworks Miracle is available for download on Netgalley! Fans of weird horror, dark fantasy, portal fiction, biopunk, and religious esoterica will want to check out new horror from a new Latino author. Grab the novella here: www.netgalley.com/ca.... The Miracle manifests July 30 2026.

hard same

It’s April and that means it’s almost May and that means my book is almost out

I went on a NASA (earth) mission and they were using Windows 95 or 98. That computer had never been connected to the internet though. was running pretty specific software that would cost a shit ton to retrofit to a new OS.

How I wish we had a thriving technology ecosystem of Stuff That Can Be Easily Repaired And Maintained Long Term

I love that BRIGHT GREEN FUTURES has been sitting at the top of the free charts for MONTHS now... so many new folks are discovering #solarpunk and these amazing authors. But it's going back to paid soon, so grab it now! susankayequinn.com/books/bright... @renanbernardo.com @tkrex.bsky.social

I have a new story out! 🌱🔆 I gave a lot of what I'm feeling about this moment in time over to the story, and I'm excited for folks to check it out! If you're into Black queer baddies collaborating with the earth to destroy systems of power then you may like this one.

MEGACHELICERAX is my new doom metal band name

Astronauts Victor Glover is the first Black man to leave low earth orbit; Christina Koch is the first woman to leave low earth orbit. It is an excellent day.

Victor Glover is not only on track to become the first person of color to ever leave low Earth orbit, he is also currently *piloting* #ArtemisII

I think the Moon's formation is amazing! I feel like we take for granted that the Moon is close to Earth and so big, but it is wild that it likely came from a collision with a Mars-sized body early in our Solar System. 🔭🌕 science.nasa.gov/moon/formati...

One thing that amazes me is that two of the three American astronauts on board Artemis II graduated from public universities: Christina Koch earned three degrees from NC State, and Victor Glover was a defensive back on the Cal Poly football team. We are not going anywhere without public education.

Astronaut Victor Glover, pilot of the #ArtemisII, and his family. They must be so friggin proud.. www.nasa.gov/learning-res...

Thank you so much @renanbernardo.com ! One of my favorite solarpunk authors

Renan Bernardo gifted these lovely words about T. K. Rex's THE WILDCRAFT DRONES. "Wealthy people seem to be reading dystopias as rulebooks ... Instead, I'd say for people to read The Wildcraft Drones as a rulebook of how to live in community and find a healthy path to our future." Thanks, Renan!

The task of sending human beings around the moon and getting them back to earth safely is spectacularly complex and daunting. It takes thousands people and decades of planning. NASA is not owned by corporations and is not doing this for profit. The cost is minuscule compared to war.

Everybody go read this new story by @shingai-be-like.bsky.social

I think we all deserve to be a little oblique and self-serving right now. If you’ve got a moon story, post a moon story stateofmatter.in/fiction/sear...

jupiter wishes you a very happy trans day of visibility 🏳️‍⚧️

THEIA!

This is an oblique and perhaps self-serving response, but I earnestly waxed poetic about our round space friend in a recent short story: factorfourmag.com/the-rings-of...

A new book does the most amazing job of describing and devising an impressive range of alien creatures, with fantastic art ... tetzoo.com/blog/2026/3/... #aliens #books #bookreviews #SpecBio #xenobiology

On Trans Day of Visibility/last day of Women in Horror Month, how about some horror by trans women? Sundown in San Ojuela: Inland Empire Gothic. I called this book "luminous and so, so dark." Teenage Girls Can Be Demons: Just *blistering* with rage, empathy, and hella blood. What would y’all add?

In which I announce: Muñeca (pitched as "'Bound' meets 'Mexican Gothic,'" if you're curious) gets to have an audiobook (squee!) to narrated by Elena Rey and Frankie Corzo (double squee!) I already knew Corzo's work & was really hoping she'd be involved; Rey is new to me. libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

A WEIRD FISHES game??! Yes please!

Every single movie or TV show where people don't get a lawyer? Even when they absolutely should? That's effectively copaganda. Lawyer up.

Brief Ecology reviewed WHAT A FISH LOOKS LIKE in this month's ecofiction review! "Beker queers the format as much as the characters here, and the result is a love story that skips across time and space."

Occasionally liverworts can fool me into thinking they are slime molds. Targionia hypophylla from the magical hills of Oakalnd, California. #liverworts #macro

SURPRISE! To celebrate spring break, we our extending this call for stories through APRIL 5! Kick back, get the gold on Rainbow Road, and polish up that flash fiction. Time is ticking.

Just leaving this here. For no particular reason.

Hey! A lot of our reporters and editors are on Bluesky — give them a follow! We're posting here every day, and we're already seeing ~much~ better engagement than at the other place. Thanks to everyone on here making that happen. go.bsky.app/ESTn14E

Cambrian on my mind #sciart

whoever accepts this quest please tell us about it after

So I wrote "Huitzol and the Rope of Thorns" b/c it's cathartic to write about two brutal cops who just might have messed with the wrong Chicano graphic novelist and his favorite character, the god of war and revenge. oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S1... (Your library may vary.)

permission to do it badly

Riley Black has a new book coming! I cannot wait for this. Bring on the queendom!

honestly could apply to 99.99% of insects. <1% of wasps can sting you. <1% of roaches are pests. almost no insects are pests! insects are in your house because they're hungry and cold. there is beauty that will always exceed your expectations in the little animals outside if you look i promise

This is actually such a cool visualization whether or not you have any interest in Project Hail Mary (I really enjoyed the movie personally) youtu.be/8FT-oz9aZU4?...