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Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.

Comic-con deciding to allow GenAi imagery in the art show —giving valuable space to GenAi users to show slop right NEXT to actual artists who worked their asses off to be there— is a disgrace! A tone deaf decision that rewards and normalizes exploitative GenAi against artists in their own spaces!

#Booksky We’re still here, along with our small queer press colleagues and indies, and we’re under financed, but not running scared.

The first Voices of Academia blog of 2026 A journey from researcher to research enabler: A story of acceptance and shifting identity by Sarah Masefield "...I’m not a researcher now. I was outmanoeuvred by the system." voicesofacademia.com/2026/01/09/a...

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Sickness, Disability, and Death in NHS England Staff The three graphs that *every person* needs to see. The question that every single person needs to ask their government: What are you doing to protect me from Covid infection?

I would really caution anyone against implying that paywalling this feature is a legitimate response to public outcry. The paywall is an endorsement, not a restriction. Musk is saying "this thing you're all talking about is valuable. Pay me for it." The actual material effect is just monetization.

Hi @royalsociety.org, you might find this thread interesting. “Now consider the system that allows him to exist, that created him and protected him and rewarded him.”

One week in and I'm really enjoying this challenge, but I won't have a lot of time tomorrow, so if anyone wants to point me in the direction of some good flash fiction, that'd be most appreciated!

if you do not want to watch the video, go to settings > content and media and uncheck the "autoplay videos and gifs" box right now

If it was ever about protecting children, twitter would be banned in the UK right now.

Oh... Shit @facianea.bsky.social @chilluminatipod.fm

Well, it's a new year. Here we go again. Good luck everybody.

I wonder what part of lower bills, tax billionaires they're panicking about most? Cry harder. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Reminder, original fiction/poetry submissions open TOMORROW NIGHT, at 12:01am Eastern Time on January 1st 👀 Reprint submissions will temporarily close at the same time. Nonfiction will remain open! We can't wait to read your work. We're so excited for 2026 🪐🗡️ othersidespec.com/guidelines/

To close out the year here at Indieventure, we've decided to answer a listener's question about our favourite AAA games of the year... in blog format! 👀 Welcome to the 2025 AAA-venture Awards! First up, Rebecca's picks: indieventurepodcast.co.uk/2025-aaa-ven...

My New Year's resolution is not to set a ridiculous Goodreads book challenge for 2026, but instead to challenge myself to read one piece of contemporary short fiction a day for the year. Any recommendations welcome, speculative, queer or under represented authors preferred. #booksky

We were in first place in this film award voting. A film made purely with AI just netted over 150 votes in 12 hours. Now it's personal. Please. Help us kick this THING's ass fair and square. ART FOR ARTISTS. Reshare? VOTE! www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...

"Why would I care about that?" "Hey, why am I no longer being paid overtime?" "Hey, why haven't I had a raise in 5 years?" "Hey, why are they taking all the safety signs and guard rails down?" "Hey, why am I working 7 days a week now?" "Hey, why was I fired for having one day off sick?"

A lot of writers have busted their butts all year to publish great fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and journalism. Consider sharing their work today. Consider what you send people's attention to.

Every post from @sffreview.bsky.social - which I’ve now blocked - reads like genAI, and based on their posts, is an outlet no one should support in any way.

…If you think this is a good thing, a right thing, a "kind" thing, then we have such a fundamental mismatch of values that all questions of technology need to be put on Long Pause while you & i figure out what we mean by "good," "right," & "kind." You can't technofix your way out of values problems

A good book haul this year, including @johnnymains.co.uk Christmas ghost stories collection which I have been very excited to sink my teeth into.

merry almost christmas!! 🎄

One day Mark Gatiss might learn not to push something too far. Not today though, I suppose.

That is not Tim which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even Tim may die.

There is no AI used in Blue Prince. The game was built and crafted with full human instinct by Tonda Ros and his team at @dogubomb.bsky.social. It is the result of eight years of development, fuelled by imagination and creativity, and we are extremely proud of what Tonda has achieved.

You don't actually have to meet something abhorrent halfway. You just don't.

If your story was written by AI, you didn’t actually write it, and that’s why I don’t want it or think it should be eligible for awards. If your story was assisted by AI, you used tools that are built on plagiarism, and that’s why I don’t want it or think it should be eligible for awards.

Very disappointed in the new Nebula Award eligibility information from SFWA that allows partially-generated works to be on the ballot. See 9.11.2. www.sfwa.org/complete-neb... This shouldn't be difficult. #noAI

While Amazon is investing billions of dollars to expand AI, independent bookstores are hosting community events, personally recommending books to readers, and providing a space that is safe and welcoming during a time when we need them most. Never underestimate the power of a local bookstore.

The volume of scams I'm getting at the moment is obscene. It's getting exhausting having to be so vigilant all the time. But thank god the government are dealing with 'dangerous' people fleeing war zones for their lives instead these actual fucking vultures.

some studios are pro-junk and AI-slop now i guess not surprised. but at the end of the day, the only thing that will end this is you and your dollar. if you want human-made art and animation, it’s up to you, the customer, to prove it. rip Hollywood. the next iteration of you will make more sense.

Amazon is making money off AI copies of books - and putting the onus on authors to prove they’ve been plagiarised. Honestly, just stop buying books from Amazon. Get them from an actual bookshop or order them from a reputable book supplier like bookshop.org www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it. So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

Every writer I know, every artist I follow, is in the fucking trenches trying to survive this shit. GenAI is not the future because if it keeps going there is no future, and even if it was that would be no excuse.

If some guy stole my shit and made millions off it while wiping out my job prospects, and you, as my friend, bought that guy's cheap mass market replica of my shit, you and i would for obvious reasons have a problem. It being a massive company, not a guy, actually makes it even more of a problem.

Seeing a lot of love this weekend, from people I would not expect, for a man who, in his last years, chose to support transphobia under the flimsy guise of free speech. I love a lot of Tom Stoppard's work as well, but I will not mourn his death.

I want automated systems that handle things like maintenance and cleaning and upkeep of habitation, not art and literature. Free me from the endless distracting upkeep so I can do more creative things, don't take creative things from me, you fucking assholes

Three days left on the general submision window for the debut issue of FANTABULOSA! A new magazine of queer scifi and fantasy! (Trans and BIPOC authors have until 15 Dec!) Send us your queerest SFF! 🧙‍♂️🚀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️👽🔮 6000 word limit $0.08/word USD More details: www.bona-books.com/submissions

I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.

They can’t make computers as intelligent as humans, but they can make humans as unthinking as computers.

Do not steal books, I beg. Borrow from a library. Libraries lend e-books!

isn't there somebody you forgot to ask?

This is the best thing I've read all week.

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com