Last day to apply for the Empowerment Award of the @neuroethology.org. If you're a disadvantaged researcher investigating the mechanisms of animal behaviour, this award is to help you overcome barriers. Deadline: May 15th 2026 Info here: www.neuroethology.org/empowerment-... Please share

This tango with Diane Reeves's voice and Hüsnü Şenlendirici's clarinet is pure magic

No donations for 3 months on this fundraiser. Can we please change that?

Last day to apply for the Empowerment Award of the @neuroethology.org. If you're a disadvantaged researcher investigating the mechanisms of animal behaviour, this award is to help you overcome barriers. Deadline: May 15th 2026 Info here: www.neuroethology.org/empowerment-... Please share

Illustration: William Harvey, 1838–40, woodcut I finished final edits for A DARK AND NARROW HOUSE -- and with that a six year journey comes to an end. The book, started mid-pandemic in April 2020, has achieved its final strange shape at around 105,000 words.

I need to make sure you all heard that right because this did not make enough noise the first time around—THE Crawford, Stoker, World Fantasy and British Fantasy award winning Usman T. Malik, who has published incredible short fiction for over twenty years, will have a DEBUT NOVEL out NEXT YEAR

Last week, we celebrated NOVA, an electrifying showcase of bold new writing from emerging South Asian playwrights and what an incredible journey it has been. We are so proud to have presented the work of our NOVA writers: afshan d’souza-lodhi, Dilan Tulsiani and Mohammed Barber.

Our work on trace conditioning x reversal learning in honey bees is now published ! @martingiurfa.bsky.social I especially want to acknowledge Shirel's part in this work, for collecting most of the data during her Bachelor's internship. 🐝✨ Link: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

This photograph, titled "Pink" by photographer Marc Zetterblom, captures a scene in Stockholm, Sweden.

Orlando’s Book of Practical Cats

The Murder in the Lighthouse

Could’ve told them this without expensive polling

Pellegrino Turri. That was his name. Other examples: audio books, electric toothbrushes, video captions, touch-screens.

And an Italian inventor — his name escapes me at the moment; will look up — was inspired to build what is arguably the first working typewriter to give his blind partner a way to write.

For example, Alexander Graham Bell worked with people with hearing disabilities, and his work evolved over time to the invention of the telephone.

Not talking about this particular tech, but there are many technologies that have proven invaluable for people with disabilities, and, flipping that around, assistive tech that has gone mainstream.

Great perspective. If we could repurpose all these remarkable technologies as assistive technologies that help those of us in need of it live easier it would be great.

The good taxpayers of New York have given me a pair of Meta glasses because I am low vision disabled, and I seem to have used them more than a lot of people on here, so let me say a little about my experiences:

I’ve just checked and had already said no. Suggest you do the same now.

I don’t mind my data being used my for research to help the NHS etc, however, because the government have now allowed Palantir access, I have withdrawn my consent using this link: your-data-matters.service.nhs.uk

This King's Speech is not good enough. Labour's manifesto said they'd give trans people "recognition and acceptance" and that they would "remove indignities" from daily life. They keep sliding further from these claims. With another drop in our ILGA-Europe 🌈 map score yesterday, we must do better.

Tashan Mehta's THE MAD SISTERS OF ESI (Calvino-esque (reductive) meta galactic fantasy), Ursula Whitcher's NORTH CONTINENT RIBBON (exoplanetary sf mosaic novel, rich in political/cultural verisimilitude), Deena Helm's OUR CUT OF SALT (heartbreaking Palestinian haunted house story, not out yet).

Yayyyy the brilliant @natashamhatre.bsky.social wins another award! Congratulations! 😍

Oh man! Enough to keep every dream you had alive!

Morning 😂.

The fourth Reform councillor suspended, expelled or forced to resign since being elected on...Thursday

A great set of practical suggestions on how to overcome language barriers in science, from our project member/collaborator @henryarenas.bsky.social and @vramirezc.bsky.social, also highlighting some of our work. #languagebarriers www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Incredibly proud of this piece, where I spoke to dozens of Dalit New Yorkers about their experiences of discrimination and allies who support this bill.

So my band might have another gig coming up in June. If you're not in Bangalore you can still listen to us on bandcamp: djinnandmiskatonic.bandcamp.com/album/paleo-ep We play doom metal!

This is great news! Clara is amazing and the science is brilliant. Go work with her if you can!

Great opportunity! Stephen is lovely and does such consistently cool and amazing research!

OK Global Southern Bluesky, let's go: share your most beloved non-Anglophone pop culture franchises. We want to know about the Nepali romance novels, the Khmer superhero comics, the Guatemalan detective movies, the Malawian ghost hunter cartoons. Or whatever's out there. Please boost!

Nagaraj dear! Don't worry about me.

I'm going to do a thread of my short fiction, and it's only fitting to start from here. My Bombay gothic werewolf tale is part of this lovely anthology with these brilliant writers, editors, poets, and artists – the press' ten year anniversary anthology can be preordered here:

And it's not just the foreign press. Our papers are full of the fawning quotes of BJP voters ushering in Bengal's 'new dawn' as Hindutva browshirts rampage across the state and impose their familiar terror.

This play about the discovery of the double helix is pretty interesting – far better than Photograph 51, including the gender-blind casting of Watson and the deconstruction of Watson's book at the end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=k17P...

Don't let this stall while I take an urgent break: these 21 families have a LOT of emergencies—hunger, illnesses, little shelter. Direct aid helps! EASE the impacts of this ongoing genocide! Then find a new, bold way to act to make this stop! Best way to help? Hit "weekly/monthly" on just a coffee:

Went out for a bit tonight, and the city's festooned in saffron flags. Red Road is lined with cartboard cutouts of Modi, literally every five feet, an army of flat clones proclaiming: you can never escape me, you can never escape us, we're here to destroy your state whether you like it or not.

"Hello to the lovely people of Blue Sky .. I share my post and feel both ashamed and sad. I am ashamed to repeatedly ask for help, and I am saddened because this is the only way my family is still stable." Partagez 🔁 donnez 💰‼️ chuffed.org/project/ahme...

by age 30 you should have one friend for every major animal group to spam. seen a good crab post? forward to your token crab person. bat post for the bat person. cicada post for the cicada person. bear post for the bear person. jellyfish post for the jellyfish person. and so on and so forth.

There’s definite plausibility to the idea that the critical thinking which can come from the humanities is in higher demand as AI gets better www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

Newcastle City Council Results (all up) LDM: 25 (+2) GRN: 24 (+22) RFM: 24 (+24) IND: 3 (-3) LAB: 2 (-44) CON: 0 (-1) Labour LOSS to NOC Changes w/ 2022/23/24 (new boundaries).

The thing about Reform's success is this: whatever their political future, whether they have peaked or not, it is hard to express just how unpleasant the resurgence of their sentiments actually is. I grew up in Greater London in the 1990s, and a lot o that time was very grim. And it's back.

There was literally a period when I had to calculate if I was fast enough to not only sprint away from a crowd of Nazis but to be out of sight when I got round the corner so they would not know where I lived. That was the reality of the time. "Be strong, or be quick." Those were the options.

Happy 100th birthday, Sir David Attenborough! Of all the billions of animals on Planet Earth, you are one of the very very best. Thank you. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Still the best film adaptation of The Odyssey

Traitors India is the best Traitors. There's no drama like Indian drama.

“To me, being a visual activist means I only illustrate stories that resonate with me deeply, by giving voice to minorities or social situations that need to be addressed,” says Fatinha Ramos. www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/05/fati...