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Dihya Tamaghza

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Disabled indigenous Imazighen visual artist, poet, writer, and biologist primarily interested in invertebrates and plants (working on deep sea coral genomics). Writing a novel. https://linktr.ee/dihyatamaghza

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Dihya Tamaghza @dihyatamaghza.bsky.social · Apr 23

Dihya Ammar on Substack

Hiya! I’m Dihya, an indigenous Imazighen writer, poet, artist, and scientist based in Scotland. My first post is an introductory one found here: https://open.substack.com/pub/dihyatamaghza/p/writing-t...

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Lunar Sea Literary @lunarsealiterary.bsky.social · 22h

We have officially opened for General Submissions! Simply email us at: [email protected]. Read our first post below to get a feel for what we are after. Always free 🌙

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#writers #litmag #artmagazine #submissioncall #shortfiction #poetry

Lunar Sea Literary

Exploring the vastness and diversity of human voice from the Moon to the deepest seas.

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Dihya Tamaghza @dihyatamaghza.bsky.social · 2d

Don't miss our @chillsubs.bsky.social page! Lifesaver for us writers looking for specific publication standards and guidelines! www.chillsubs.com/magazine/lun.... Just another publication hoping never to charge reading fees and encourage everybody to create art!

Lunar Sea Literary - Chill Subs

We vow to never charge fees for writers and artists, and hope, in time, to compensate successful submitters for their craft. This is our vision. A world in which the weird and wonderful thrive in harm...

www.chillsubs.com

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Dihya Tamaghza @dihyatamaghza.bsky.social · 2d

Just launched an online literary magazine that I've been working on this past year. Eager to read what everybody has to send us! We are accepting fiction, poetry, CNF, and artwork. #literarymag #openforsubmission #fiction #poetry #writersofbluesky #artmagazine
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Submissions

Submissions are presently accepted via email: [email protected], or via the online submission form below. We do not presently accept snail mail due to timing and geographical difficulties …

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Oxford Flash Fiction Prize @oxfordflashfiction.bsky.social · Jun 1

The Oxford Flash Fiction Prize 2025 is now open!

One story. 1,000 words. One shot at glory.

This year, we’re going big: one annual competition to celebrate the best in flash fiction.

Enter now! 👉 oxfordflashfictionprize.com

#FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #OxfordFlashFictionPrize

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Marginalia Literary Circle @marginaliabookclub.bsky.social · Jun 30

New book club just dropped! If you live in the UK and identify as LGBT+, POC, or disabled and want to discuss the greatest literature has to offer with your peers, then bop into our Discord to join our free book club! 🏰
discord.gg/WpPYY55B #bookclub #lgbtbooks #pocbooks #disabledbooks

Marginalia literary circle is a new free book club for UK-based LGBT, POC, and disabled peoples. This is a cover image featuring a unicorn wearing pink sunglasses.

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Dihya Tamaghza @dihyatamaghza.bsky.social · Apr 23

Dihya Ammar on Substack

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Dihya Tamaghza @dihyatamaghza.bsky.social · Apr 23

Casually waking up in the middle of the night remembering that great crested newts smell like pea shoots or roasted nuts and nobody knows why...

#herpetofauna #biology #evolution #insomnia #herpetology #newts #greatcrestednewts

Dihya Tamaghza @dihyatamaghza.bsky.social · Apr 22

As an autistic person... WTF?

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Dihya Tamaghza @dihyatamaghza.bsky.social · Apr 22

What is 'Dark Oxygen' and why is NASA interested in it?

#deeepsea #sciencecommunication #biology #chemistry #geoscience

Is Oxygen Produced in the Deep Sea?

The year 2013 was characterised by the Zombie Apocalypse Hoax, a third North Korean nuclear test, the Chelyabinsk meteor explosion, the start of Pope Francis’ reign, the largest tornado ever record…

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Dihya Tamaghza @dihyatamaghza.bsky.social · Apr 9

Do you want a synopsis? 🫠😭

Dihya Tamaghza @dihyatamaghza.bsky.social · Nov 27

She's already repeatedly begged for cuddles and scratches, snuggled up on my legs of her own volition. Absolute doll. Wasn't expecting her to take to us so quickly and naturally.

Dihya Tamaghza @dihyatamaghza.bsky.social · Nov 26

She's so precious 🥹

Dihya Tamaghza @dihyatamaghza.bsky.social · Nov 26

This week's reading 💙📚
One for leisure, one for research for my next write.

#books #witches #history #literature #bookreview #literaryprize #booksky #readingsky

Dihya Tamaghza @dihyatamaghza.bsky.social · Nov 26

Getting a cat for a trial period to make sure she'd be happy in our living space and with our lifestyle. Trying really hard to contain my excitement 🥹 hoping it goes well. Any advice on making a cat comfortable in a new space and with new people?
#pets #catadvice #catsofbluesky #vet #furryfriends

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Dihya Tamaghza @dihyatamaghza.bsky.social · Nov 19

The stereotype of what I get gifted for my birthday as a writer...

#writerscommunity #writers #typewriter #antiques

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Daisy Flores 🌼 @daisyflores.bsky.social · Nov 18

Woah!

Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · Oct 28

Y’ALL! Scientists at Schmidt Ocean just captured this rare video of an open-ocean squid caring for its young. That pearl-packed black bag between its tentacles is a brood pouch, each pearl is a developing baby squid (you can see a few hatch out at the end).

Nature is so cool. 🧵

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Dihya Tamaghza @dihyatamaghza.bsky.social · Nov 18

Vintage photograph of a potato field. Was stranded on the side of the road for eight hours (entire night) and starting looking around for pests or disease at 4am. Even in dire situations, the need to be a biologist persists 🫡🌱🥔 #STEM #biologist #fieldwork #artphotography #vintagephotography #potato

Dihya Tamaghza @dihyatamaghza.bsky.social · Nov 18

Would love to be added, thanks.

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Brooke Jarvis @brookejarvis.bsky.social · Nov 15

Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory

A map of flight paths emanating from breeding colony of gulls, with this caption: Early on, LifeWatch noticed something odd. Most gulls were making daily trips to Mouscron, a city on the French border 65 km away. They went to investigate and found the birds bingeing on discarded snacks at the Roger & Roger potato factory.

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Dihya Tamaghza @dihyatamaghza.bsky.social · Nov 15

I'm now physically at my worst but finally have a diagnosis. An obvious one I'd suspected for a while. Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTs) is sometimes mild and people can cope by increasing fluid and salt intake but sometimes there are uncommon symptoms that can make it difficult 4/5

Dihya Tamaghza @dihyatamaghza.bsky.social · Nov 15

The weakness got worse, migraines were appearing weekly and soon became a reliably daily occurrence. Nausea followed and some days were really bad. Some days I can't lift my head. But some days I was okay, it was tolerable and I thought I'd be OK. I pushed myself too hard and it cost me a PhD. 3/5

Dihya Tamaghza @dihyatamaghza.bsky.social · Nov 15

I was a junior athlete, playing on my local handball team and running dozens of miles a week without breaking a sweat. Slowly, I noticed I was getting light-headed and started fainting after running. It took a decade before I got a diagnosis which is horrific in itself when you're getting weaker 2/5

Dihya Tamaghza @dihyatamaghza.bsky.social · Nov 15

During some of the ok days, I've been able to sit and do research, write, try to figure out a sort of routine even though every day is unpredictable. I have managed to write a 1st novel draft & finally submitted an MSc dissertation. Here's to the future, and finding stability in myself. 5/5 #POTs

Dihya Tamaghza @dihyatamaghza.bsky.social · Nov 15

Not sure there's enough talk about going from able-bodied to disabled out the blue. Like it's not as shocking when it happens to people doing dangerous jobs because the risk is known but the fact of the matter is, you can wake up one day and be ill and that's not talked about enough. 1/5
#disabled

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Dihya Tamaghza @dihyatamaghza.bsky.social · Nov 15

You were suggested to me by Bluesky if that helps.