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SB Divya @sbdivya.bsky.social · 5h

Afraid so!

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Lisa Eckstein @lisaeckstein.com · 1d

Highly recommend these great books, one an inventive space opera and the other more of a travelogue of Earth!

SB Divya @sbdivya.bsky.social · 1d

US Kindle readers: The Alloy Era duology (Meru + Loka) is on sale for the month of October. Get both for less than $5 and enjoy some “woke as woke can be” #spaceopera and far future #sciencefiction.

(Yes, that is an actual review that someone left for MERU, and it still brings me great joy. 😂)

starry backdrop with book covers for MERU and LOKA in the foreground, along with text below that says US Kindle readers: The Alloy Era duology is on sale for the month of October. Get both for less than $5! and a white rectangle above showing a one-star Amazon review with the heading “Woke as woke can be”

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SB Divya @sbdivya.bsky.social · 1d

US Kindle readers: The Alloy Era duology (Meru + Loka) is on sale for the month of October. Get both for less than $5 and enjoy some “woke as woke can be” #spaceopera and far future #sciencefiction.

(Yes, that is an actual review that someone left for MERU, and it still brings me great joy. 😂)

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 2d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 2d

A team of heliophysicists and machine learning experts in academia and industry has come together to develop Surya, the first foundation model for heliophysics, representing a new approach to studying and predicting solar activity. 🧪 🔭

Learn more: www.seti.org/news/surya-a...

Surya: A Foundation Model for Understanding Our Sun

www.seti.org

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 8d

STARRED review in @libraryjournal.bsky.social for WE WILL RISE AGAIN, the speculative activism anthology edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social and yours truly! Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...

We Will Rise Again

From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...

www.simonandschuster.com

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SB Divya @sbdivya.bsky.social · 8d

Such a great show!

SB Divya @sbdivya.bsky.social · 8d

Happy book birthday!

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 8d

Strange Horizons turns 25 this year, which is pretty much an eternity in the world of spec fic zines, and I had the privilege of going through the archives for a special short fiction roundup: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives

strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

A Short Fiction Treasures Special: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives

Going through the archives of Strange Horizons for this special column has been a bit like exploring a treasure chamber. I’ve picked fifty stories. I could have picked hundreds. Meaning: I left a l…

strangehorizons.com

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SB Divya @sbdivya.bsky.social · 11d

It went well! Really fun discussion about the ins and outs of world building. It was great to spend time with the Berggeuen folks, too!

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SB Divya @sbdivya.bsky.social · 13d

Wait, I thought it was on for yesterday?

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SB Divya @sbdivya.bsky.social · 13d

John, I didn't realize you were involved. Happy to hear it!

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SB Divya @sbdivya.bsky.social · 15d

Excited to be at L.A. ComicCon for the first time this weekend! I’ll be discussing how I designed life for a dark matter planet, along with others from the Proxima Kosmos project by the Berggruen Institute.

Our panel is on Saturday, Sep. 27, at 2:30pm in Room 403A. Hope to see you there!

black backdrop sprinkled with stars. Foreground shows logos for Proxima Kosmos and LA ComicCon. White text reads: Join me this Saturday at LA ComicCon for a panel on Proxima Kósmos: Imagining New Worlds Through Science and Story, September 27, 2:30pm, Room 403A

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Sydney Floryanzia 👑 @neurochemequeen.bsky.social · 18d

🧠 Celebrating #OpenScienceWeek, by highlighting my favorite (and my most used!) open science tools from the Allen Institute 🐭🧠🌐 @alleninstitute.org

#neuroskyence #neuroscience #brain #microscopy

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SB Divya @sbdivya.bsky.social · 22d

Happy book birthday @thomasha.bsky.social!

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 22d

We're celebrating @thomasha.bsky.social today. It's pub day for UNCERTAIN SONS. (Yes, I'm posting again. It's exciting.) Please consider grabbing a copy, print or eBook, from us, or elsewhere.

undertowpublications.com/shop/uncerta...

Book cover of UNCERTAIN SONS with text: "You! Yes, you! You need this book! The stories in Uncertain Sons already feel like classics of the uncanny. As inventive as Ray Bradbury, as unsettling as Thomas Ligotti or Carmen Maria Machado, Ha knows how to produce that peculiar, pleasurable, creeping sense of wrongness and dislocation so particular to weird horror. I am such a fan of Thomas Ha's writing-and I expect that you will be, too." -Kelly Link, Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Book of Love and Get in Trouble

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SB Divya @sbdivya.bsky.social · 23d

So glad to see this work going on! I've always felt that prioritizing humans over other species, while an understandable instinct, is fundamentally unjust. We need to find better ways to make progress in biology and medicine.

Emily R. Trunnell, Ph.D. @ertrunnell.bsky.social · 23d

🌎 #WC13 is the largest biennial, international conference on replacing the use of animals in experimentation, testing, & education.

This year, I joined leaders in Rio to share updates, connect, & learn from innovators worldwide. 🧪

Read on for highlights! 🧵

#WC13Rio

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Escape Pod @escapepod.org · 23d

Attention, sophonts! We've finished changing the locks and Escape Pod is now OPEN to all your amazing, amazing submissions!

Consult our submissions page if you want to refresh your minds on what we're looking for - ignore that "CLOSED" bit at the top - and we hope to see rad work from you all!

Short Fiction | Escape Pod

Escape Pod is open to submissions of science fiction short stories from September 1 - May 31.

escapepod.org

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SB Divya @sbdivya.bsky.social · Sep 8

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't grunge.

I listened to The Cranberries on endless repeat in the 90s. RIP Dolores O'Riordan 💜

Album cover of the Cranberries debut, showing the four band members sitting on brown sofa in a dark room. Title is Everybody else is doing it, so why aren't we?

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SB Divya @sbdivya.bsky.social · Sep 7

I hadn't! Thanks for pointing it out!

SB Divya @sbdivya.bsky.social · Sep 6

This is an amazing example of #sciart!

"Behold an Anatomically Correct Replica of the Human Brain, Knitted by a Psychiatrist"

www.openculture.com/2025/09/anat...

Behold an Anatomically Correct Replica of the Human Brain, Knitted by a Psychiatrist

Our brains dictate our every move. They’re the ones who spur us to study hard, so we can make something of ourselves, in order to better our communities. They name our babies, choose our clothes, de...

www.openculture.com

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · Sep 5

Hooray! My new tea & vampires novella (set at a most unusual inn in the Black Forest) is out NOW on my Patreon:

patreon.com/stephanieburgis

Subscribe at the Dragon Ruler level to grab it now, or preorder it for $2.99/£2.49 to get it on Sept 29th:

books2read.com/stephanieburgis

#romancelandia

A screenshot of Steph's latest Patreon post shows the title "Your Ebook Copy of A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence" along with the cover of the novella.

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SB Divya @sbdivya.bsky.social · Sep 3

#4 Permission to scrap the plan entirely: possibly the most important tip in this list and (for some of us) the most difficult to learn.

A Chronic Voice @achronicvoice.com · Sep 3

“Some days, that means I stick to my “ideal” plan. Other days, I swap high-energy tasks for lower-effort ones & let go of the rest. It’s not about #GivingUp —it’s abt #adapting early instead of #recovering late.”: buff.ly/PN7sFjN

#ChronicIllness
by @thethrivingspoonie.com

No, You Don’t Just Need a Better Planner—Why Chronic Illness Demands a Different Kind of Structure

Most planners fail your chronic illness routine. Here’s what actually works—and why energy-based planning makes all the difference.

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Ken Liu @kyliu99.bsky.social · Sep 3

If you are a B&N Rewards Member, you can pre-order ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM from 9/3-9/5 for 25% off! Use the code PREORDER25. #BNPreOrder (includes audiobook and eBook)

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/all-that-w...

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · Aug 1

Scroll.in has an excerpt from my Locus-nominated, British Fantasy Award & Subjective Chaos Kind of Award-winning THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAAR, which is now out in South Asia as a lovely new paperback (with new cover art by Samya Arif) from @westlandbooks.bsky.social. You can read it here:

Fantasy: Ru, a boy from nowhere, dreams of dragons. What is his connection to these divine beasts?

An excerpt from ‘The Last Dragoners of Bowbazaar’, by Indra Das.

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · Jul 28

Tachyon Press is doing a Humble Bundle deal for a whole bunch of their titles, including A Stranger in the Citadel, and Runes of Engagement by me and @daveklecha.bsky.social, so pay what you want and get a ton of amazing books!

www.humblebundle.com/books/tachyo...

Tachyon 30th Anniversary: Smart Speculative Fiction for Everyone

Elevate your home library with the Tachyon 30th Anniversary Bundle and help support the Electronic Frontier Foundation with your purchase!

www.humblebundle.com

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