Since I'm home sick and X-Twitter may soon expect me to pay for access, I am going to recreate this here: 🎢 ⚛️ Pedro Pascal as classic physics textbooks: a thread

Hark! @davehone.bsky.social and I have been interviewed about spinosaurs for the Instant Genius podcast, created by BBC Science Focus. If you need a listen for your commute home, we may not be your worst option. #dinosaurs #fossils #paleontology #scicomm open.spotify.com/episode/7hWf...

Buy my books, help me keep Ben in blankets!

Me: I have a book idea that might actually be commercial! Agent: That's great! Me: The title is a reference to a classic 1971 Sesame Street Golden Book. Agent: There it is.

Hey, if you can’t boycott Amazon and still need items, don’t forget it’s the time of year where you can search “tip my driver” after a delivery and hit a button that makes Amazon pay them a little extra.

@tgeuorg.bsky.social calls it. As an academic I have been consistently saying this all along. The “Pathways” “study” is totally unethical. And it won’t even address the main pretext used to justify it; the issue of long-term negative effects (of which there is no evidence whatsoever).

For those not in those circles, I just need to remind you that losing a job to AI is not a vibes based idea. We are being told explicitly by art directors that we are being weighed against AI for jobs, people on teams fighting against the AD and you. It sucks. It’s demoralizing.

Today is your very last chance to snap up my complete Harwood Spellbook romantasy boxed set along with 9 to 11 other fabulous fantasies in the Leading Ladies Fantasy @storybundle.bsky.social. Grab it before it's gone! storybundle.com/fantasy

I enjoyed this one so much!

Very excited to share that our latest paper is out in Science! We show that the type specimen of Nanotyrannus—an isolated skull—is fully grown, showing that it is not a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex but a distinct species (1/12) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Lots of great suggestions already (thank you!) but so far my favourite is Let the Bodies Hit the Floor vs Teletubbies...

Bidding has now reached £300

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(Repost with screenshot) The Subtle Art of Folding Space got a starred review from Library Journal! "Chu finds a delightful and poignant intersection between the multiverse, family dysfunction, and dim sum in his debut novel."

The attacks on trans rights, which are basic human rights, are a terrible injustice and an attack on truth and fact as well. Everyone should be deeply alarmed and it should be disqualifying for a politician to support such discrimination.

Holiday deal alert! the paperback of Someone You Can Build A Nest In is just $10 on Amazon! In case you need a shapeshifting monster in search for love this holiday. www.amazon.com/Someone-You-...

I've been staring at this picture for a few days (using my old work as reference for new work) (how did I do that thing?) (lol) Anyway you can stare at it for a bit now, also. A wee Shackling in the garden. (cosclay, watercolor, glass, wire, acrylic)

Guess who got accepted...! Delighted to share that Indie Bites Magazine will be publishing FOUR GIFTS FOR THE WITCH OF THE WOODS AND ONE FOR THE WOLF in February. Meanwhile, I just posted a deleted scene this morning before I got the email. You can read "Henbane" now 🌿✨

I get so frustrated with the fact that study after study shows that having a strong social safety net for everyone (UBI, healthcare, modest housing, etc.) costs less than every single one of our current thoroughly broken for-profit systems. But we persist in restricting who "counts" as everyone.

Today is your very last chance to snap up my complete Harwood Spellbook romantasy boxed set along with 9 to 11 other fabulous fantasies in the Leading Ladies Fantasy @storybundle.bsky.social. Grab it before it's gone! storybundle.com/fantasy

Thanks for everyone who's bid on the #Creatives4Sudan auction so far. In amazing news, we're at 12k. We have TWO DAYS LEFT though. If everyone places lots of little bids, I think we could get to 15k easy. The money is going to Sudanese-run Emergency Response Rooms. 💗🇸🇩 app.galabid.com/creatives4su...

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For those who, like me, love speculative and alien evolution, there's a remarkable new book out, "Wildlife on the Planet Furaha" by Gert van Dijk. www.crowood.com/book/wildlif...

Only 1 more day left!

I'm relaunching Dominion of the Fallen in the US with @awfulagent.bsky.social Magnificent covers by @fringe-element.net Deliciously gothic atmosphere, queer characters from across the world, and high intrigue--in a Paris wrecked by magical cataclysms March 10th, 2026! awfulagent.com/ebooks/the-h...

Hey all, The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships. Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits. You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.

This month, we're going through by far the hardest move of my life (the first since my spinal injury and my husband' long covid; a move into a house that was absolutely full until we started cleraing it ourselves; etc), and things feel ROUGH - But it's fun to watch Pebbles explore her new home!

Nebula nominations are open. It would mean a lot if you’d consider “Through the Machine.” Published in Lightspeed and featured by Gizmodo, it’s a cautionary tale of AI in the arts, using the film industry as example. Thank you for your consideration. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/thro...

@stephanieburgis.bsky.social this made me smile today so I’m passing it on (video of our put-away shelves)

Summer Phoenix ☀️

For today's #AllIsBrightAdvent, a music recommendation - this song's not only part of my mental soundtrack for the book, it also has the title in it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqBX...

Pleased to be able to share the covers of the new edition of @aliettedebodard.com's Dominion of the Fallen trilogy. As someone who loves alternate worlds, especially ones that aren't centred on the USA, these really were delightful. Glad they're getting a re-release. 1/4

A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience by @stephanieburgis.bsky.social is a great example of how to hook an agent or editor’s interest with a first page. I’d request a full immediately. We’re dropped right into the story with a hilarious, compelling, snapshot of the protag. And the voice is stellar. 🧑🏽‍🍳💋

When I was a junior and more anxious teacher, yeah, I reached for control. It was a substitute for skill, knowledge, confidence, etc. Now it is SUCH A RELIEF to just not be a classroom cop. My class & classroom are a system that must function coherently, but there's no control for its own sake.

HALFWAY TO GOAL! $750 out of $1500! Please support the Giftmas effort on behalf of the Edmonton Food Bank. Follow the link below and you can get a sweet, easy recipe perfect for a holiday potluck.

I personally know a young trans girl who's been on the waitlist and SO EXCITED & impatient to join Girl Guides and have adventures. The fact that now she won't be allowed in after all because bigots think her presence would somehow be a threat to her cis sisters...it's just unbearable. :(

omg there's an excerpt from AN ARCANE INHERITANCE in Reactor! funnily enough, this is one of my favorite scenes, just for the sheer the sheer and obvious ust between hudson and ellory. check it ouuut

Only 2 days left to snap up the Leading Ladies fantasy @storybundle.bsky.social , including my complete Harwood Spellbook romantasy boxed set with 9 to 11 other fantasy novels by amazing authors like @kristadb1.bsky.social , @jbensonink.bsky.social & more: storybundle.com/fantasy #romancelandia

It was such good timing to see this so soon after falling in love with the vultures in @tkingfisher.com's A House with Good Bones!

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This week's Tuesday snippet comes from my cozy-spooky novella A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence, out now in ebook & paperback: books2read.com/honeymoonGrave And if you haven't yet read the first novella in the series, you can grab that, too! ❤️🦇❤️ books2read.com/undeadInconvenience #romancelandia

Today’s chapter is the first appearance of an important Welsh vocab word - panad - meaning a cup of tea (or sometimes coffee). Depending on where you are in Wales, you might also say paned, dishgled or dished. #AllIsBrightAdvent

Indie and non-traditional authors! Today is the day to tell thousands of readers looking for holiday gifts about your books! Follow the link for all the details and leave a post (there, not here)! Musicians/crafters/artists, etc: Your day is tomorrow! whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/02/t...

New essay out today in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social ! The Stranger Next Door: The Domestic Fantastic in Classic Nordic Children's Fantasy. My wheelhouse? Yeah. Definitely my wheelhouse. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

Literary Maps: Real Maps for Imaginary Places blogs.loc.gov/loc/2025/12/... Treasure Island at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc... #books #literature

Today! I am so happy and proud that this is out in the world, and so grateful to my friends and co-editors @older.bsky.social and @annaleen.bsky.social and all the amazing contributors to We Will Rise Again.

Day 2. Spirit sister. Painted and engraved glass panel, 2016.

I personally call it "solid way to escape holiday stress for a bit" but I do recognize that descriptions vary.

I finally had enough down time to photograph “ghost forest”, my big sculpture from my October firing. The results were just spectacular!

#booksky don't miss out if you don't already have a this fun fangy, dare we say feminist, read!