The medical success stories about cancer just keep coming! Somebody needs to make a list!

You can bring Eslam's children some comfort by sharing & donating. They need funds for scarce & unaffordable food, shelter, & healthcare under Israel's genocidal siege. Eslam lost her husband to the genocide, and is caring for her children alone:

I can't even bear to look at fundraiser numbers any more, I just hope someone will help, that's all I can do. Every day. tiny.cc/rubaph

I'll be here every day asking for you to support everyone. We help each other in whatever way possible always and ever. tiny.cc/campmaw linktr.ee/mawasifamilies

Mithqal urgently needs help: 'I was on my way to my niece's wedding 2 days ago, &...there was a terrible bombing right next to me. I was in a taxi, 2 people in the car were killed, & I was shot in the side. I'm receiving treatment now.'

You can help Waseem's family find shelter, food & essentials after they escaped Israeli bombing. 'With your support, we can secure shelter for my family after we lost everything. Contribute via the link. 😭🍉'

@crab-exeter.bsky.social are a fantastic group of researchers, and a real beacon of excellence for Exeter. What a huge and deeply sad act of self sabotage this would be. Please consider signing their open letter👇🏻

As a trans child of immigrants, Last Dragoners of Bowbazar punched me right in the fuckin heart, man. I may have grown up half a world away from where the book is set but gatdayum if I didn't feel all that shit deep in my bones. Alice & Ru for life homie FOR LIFE

Trans rights are human rights always and forever.

I'm meeting the TV wildlife presenter today. David Attenborough? No, bro, at 9.

I'm meeting the TV wildlife presenter today. David Attenborough? No, bro, at 9.

GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-4157, has shown promise in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. FIVE years later, NEARLY 70% of people in the vaccine group are CANCER-FREE. The vaccine also cut a person’s risk of the cancer metastasizing by NEARLY 60%.

The University of Exeter have announced a programme of academic staff cuts, including all of www.exeter.ac.uk/research/gro... Sign the open letter of support at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @crab-exeter.bsky.social

When shall we three meet again? In thunder lighting or in rain?

Congratulations to everyone on the shortlist & a shout-out to fellow Indian @tashanmehta.bsky.social, whose MAD SISTERS OF ESI is the only one I've read so far (it's beautiful, a Calvino-esque uncategorisable meta galactic fantasy). Very eager to get to the rest!

you ppl still on Spotify why? we got options with actual stances on slop in music

All neuroscientists (in the broadest definition of the word!) are welcome, one of the results of our recent survey was a need for community, and this is one small way in which we want to try and provide that!

Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta has been shortlisted for Best Fiction for the Ursula K. Guin Award 🥳 This masterful work of fantasy is a book you do not want to miss. buff.ly/NcGPtef Get a copy now: buff.ly/cuH3Tmd

So happy to see Mad Sisters of Esi by @tashanmehta.bsky.social on this list. It's such a fascinating ambitious book!

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

🥁 Announcing our latest research grants! This year, we're funding 13 research projects that will advance wild animal welfare science. Visit our blog to learn more.👇️

When shall we three meet again? In thunder lighting or in rain?

Hooooorse

I got personal and fiery in my latest newsletter piece about Disclosure Day. I discuss why I loved the film, my own sensitive nature, having hope for humanity, the troubling misreadings of the film, and why cynicism is not wisdom. angelicabastien.substack.com/p/disclosure...

I’d say the hardest thing about being a writer is the writing.

"Crazy Beautiful!" 5,234 images from 2 time-lapse sequences photographed by Sophie Adenot & Jessica Meir on ISS Expedition 74 are repaired, remastered & retimed to create this video of aurora australis with music by Andreas Vollenweider. 11m19s 4K youtu.be/22mTjdmpG1M

There's an improv game that's exactly the same as this!

Hooooorse

I wanted to like QED's new 1% preprint ranking. I really did. But the more I looked at the data, the more uncomfortable it made me. Here is my full peer review. open.substack.com/pub/blekhman...

RIP to a legend ▫️Survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki ▫️Pioneered drag culture in Japan and was one of the first openly gay celebrities there ▫️Had a relationship with Yukio Mishima and became his muse ▫️Delighted Hayao Miyazaki in the recording booth for Princess Mononoke #voiceacting

Gunhild Carling is a Swedish jazz musician and multi-instrumentalist rockin'🎶'Bagpipe Swing' #bluesmusic

Not every day you get woken up by thunder. It's a very effective alarm ⛈️

This is remarkable.

when I say this in public, people are horrified. OF course I like cool breeze and clouds? Who in their right mind would like the SUN? I had to explain to a disbelieving British friend that RAIN is the symbol of romance in India, not the fricking SUN

The University of Exeter is not in budget deficit. Yet are proposing to cut 150 academic jobs. This include my job. Please sign and share the petition, write our Vice Chancellor, to your MP, and get the word out about the act of self harm this university is about to commit. c.org/yKcx6Zr29H

Excited to launch this today! If you know any Indigenous students in the Australasian region who are interested in Animal Behaviour, please encourage them (or nominate them) to join ASSAB for free 🐦 🐛 🐸 🐀 🪲 🐝 🐟 🦎 🐔

Tfw when you're a precursor to a contemporary wave. 'A critical precursor to this contemporary wave was Indra Das’s The Devourers (2015), a gothic dark fantasy that flawlessly wove queer fluidity and transcultural monstrosity through the dual timelines of Mughal India and modern Kolkata.'

Me and the new painting - available here: wgsaraband.com/expressionis...

We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event.

A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.

Along with almost all of my colleagues in history, this afternoon I got an email telling me that I am at risk of redundancy. It looks like the University of Exeter sent this email to the vast majority of people in Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty. Bit hard to breath right now.

🚨 New paper out "Strong negative reinforcement interferes with visual learning in a solitary pollinator" by @manel-a-pama.bsky.social, @jjfosterlab.bsky.social and @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social ↘️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Hawkmoth #DifferentialConditioning #Learning 🦋

Very excited to share our discovery of an engineering masterpiece from the Australian rainforest! In our latest paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social we report a hunting strategy in a spider, whose web outperforms every known biological catapult system.

Orange 🍊

Asking children aged 9 what they think they'll be like when they're 40.

In Istanbul, Turkey, a statue was erected in honour of Tombili, a beloved stray cat known for his unique habit of sitting in a relaxed posture, watching the movement of the street.

As a matter of URGENCY, PLEASE could 100,000 of you sign this petition in the next week: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...

It's getting dark, this week in Sable: A Ghost Story. Catch up on the Eisner nominated webcomic here: sablecomic.com