Very excited to be a judge for #SPSFC5 this year! Go on sign up, submit your fantastic Sci-fi. I want to read it!

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This makes me so happy I could cry. Black Sky, Blue Earth - my aching story about climate collapse & personal rebirth - is the lead story in this year’s @oysterriverpages.bsky.social. It has a lot of my soul in it. Please read it & all of Oyster River’s work www.oysterriverpages.com/black-sky-bl...

I STRONGLY encourage all educators to read this amazingly well-researched article from @themarkup.org about the issues of AI-detection software and who really benefits from it (spoiler: it is not our students): themarkup.org/artificial-i... #AI #GenAI #HigherEd HT @jessifer.bsky.social

Starting July 1, researchers funded by the US National Institutes of Health will be required to make their scientific papers available to read for free as soon as they are published in a peer-reviewed journal. Nature asks experts what researchers need to know about the NIH policy. #Academicsky 🧪

Gift Article #Econsky #Academicsky www.wsj.com/world/europe...

This is a damn good story to read, I got stuck in the endless loop…

A joint project of @freedom.press and @eff.org: Journalists have been asking us about how to prepare devices for travel. We put together a checklist of things you can do: freedom.press/digisec/blog...

Issue #3 is ready! Check out stories by @sharkiatwrites.bsky.social, @rworauthor.bsky.social, Zee Coonen, Irina Verene, and Kay Northbridge. Art by @jartravian.bsky.social, @beingcam.bsky.social, Melissa Yskamp, and Denny Marshall. Head to ToadShadeZine.com to get yours! #payforart #FuckAI #zine

🏆 I won the Jerry Jazz Musician Short Fiction Award! It's the first win for a story centering an African refugee woman. Read here: www.jerryjazzmusician.com/short-fictio... 💬 Please leave a comment at the bottom of the publication page. #WritingCommunity #ShortStory #WritersOfBluesky

Ready to test my writing skills in the Twisted Teams challenge "Twisted Teams 1"! Looking forward to the creative prompts and team collaboration. Any other writers joining me? twistedtournament.com/homepageteams #TwistInTaleContest #writingcontest

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GENEFIRE is on fire!🔥 At 0.99c for the rest of the weekend in the #narratessIndieSale Indiebook.sale

The sale is now live! Go check it out at indiebook.sale You can filter by genre, queer rep, wide, POC rep, disability rep and price, so it makes it much more easier to find the book you want! #NarratessIndieSale

The #NarratessIndieSale is this weekend! You can get DIRT-STAINED HANDS, THORN-PIERCED SKIN for $0.99 on all platforms starting tonight/tomorrow. Check out the other books too at indiebook.sale. 🌈📚

And the #NarratessIndieSale is live indiebook.sale

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THIS WEEKEND 300 indie sci-fi, horror, and fantasy books will be part of the #NarratessIndieSale. All these lovely e-books (and many more!) will be discounted to $0.99, $1.99 or even free! Leading bookworms agree, #IndieApril is the best time for a #bookhaul! #Booksky 📚💙 #IndieAuthors

Great lineup of #SFF in #narratessindiesale

Looking for some awesome indie SFF/Horror fiction? The Narratess Sale goes live Midnight April 5 and ends April 7. All books are $1.99 or less, including my flash fiction horror collection, Thin Slices, which will be on sale for $0.99. indiebook.sale

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The Dark Side of Super will be on sale for 99 cents across all e-book platforms it's currently on! April 5-7! Don't miss out!

“Ain’t bin a sale round these parts since nigh on six months” Bout time I’d say.

‘The Mechanics of Mortal Maintenance’! Hurrah! Just had a new poem published on AntipodeanSF. You can read it for free here: www.antisf.com/the-stories/... #scifi #poetry

One of my SF short stories “If I recall your childhood” Published in Issue 317 of AntipodeanSF www.antisf.com

There are lots of great writers in here!

Sharing this because it needs to be said again www.narratess.com/feature/abou...

Ooh. This looks good @tomljanovic.bsky.social

Scientists Take on Scholarly Journals With Walkouts, Scathing Letters and Delistings #ScientificPublishing #ScienceSky www.wsj.com/business/med...

As another Jim-Original I encourage you all to go and read this excellent story by @unmutualcharlie.bsky.social Top notch short fiction!

Guess what is coming up soon. Another Narratess Sale GENEFIRE epub will be 0.99p from April 5-7th

Screening of a new film about Douglas Adams, for which I was a consultant. Looking forward to seeing the finished thing on the evening of Thurs, 20th March in East London, at the Genesis Cinema:

The March Issue of Clarkesworld features original stories by Ryan Cole, Anna Burdenko, Tlotlo Tsamaase, Yukimi Ogawa, Koji A. Dae, Ren Zeyu, and Damián Neri. clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_222 Subscribe at: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Back at @Picocon 42 after a lovely lunch at the Imperial College iconic Student Union Bar. @kjd42.bsky.social, @jimiflan.bsky.social & @qntm.org are now together for the Guest of Honour Q&A Panel. 🎤

All copies at Picocon sold out (thank you all!) But you can still pick it up on the Zon www.amazon.co.uk/GENEFIRE-Jam...

What a great photo!

Looking forward to Picocon 42 tomorrow. Do you have any thoughts on the number 42? What a great number to reach for a SciFi con

Looking forward to digging into this one! On top of the TBR for now

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Hey, friends, especially my 11:59ers. Check out this new magazine. Now accepting submissions and paying pro rates. Read the latest issue now!

I’m already signed up for this madness, it’s lots of fun, but totally mad!

The #CRUKFunded Cancer Loyalty Card Study (CLOCS) analysed purchase data from two major retailers to identify shopping patterns before an #OvarianCancer diagnosis. Funded by @cancerresearchuk.org What cancers should we look at next in the CLOCS-2 study? news.cancerresearchuk.org/2025/01/28/c...

#WritingCommunity How about following these creatives? @bobbyp19.bsky.social @jimiflan.bsky.social @eevalancaster.bsky.social @authoradrianlopez.bsky.social @katrinaannejack.bsky.social @kirkburris.bsky.social @danhowarth20.bsky.social @sylvesterbarzey.bsky.social @horrormakesushappy.bsky.social

What a buzzing event! It was great

Anyone want to vote for my story? Apex is having a "Reader's Choice Award" for Flash Fiction, and my little story "Intertwined" is on there. Votes have to be done by February 14. Link is here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

My wild start to 2025 continues - intensely happy to feature in the wonderful 3Elements Review, with Cathy’s Theory Of Happiness. Cathy is my sunniest character ever. And there’s nothing suspicious about that, no sir. Also, how beautiful is this cover? www.3elementsreview.com/journal-issu...