Mindy Weisberger

Hello, book people! I am the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for 2026 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romantasy, and speculative books coming out in the second half of the year! If you have an adult or YA SFF/H book out July-Dec (or publicist), share the link/info here!

Those proposed bots were autonomous/remotely operable, but not swarms! This new proposal is for smaller bots that communicate with each other and can work independently or as a group, inspired by swarm behavior in insects like ants

A wheeled robot on a tabletop, its rugged chassis equipped with sensors. Its design resembles that of a miniature Mars rover.

"Swarm robots on the moon" sounds like the title of a sci-fi drive-in movie, but an NJIT student recently turned that idea into a proposal that won a $10K grant from NASA's L'SPACE Program. The project will prototype swarm robots that could construct a lunar base 🤖 🧪 🔭

news.njit.edu/robot-swarms...

These flies are SO FUZZY

You should apply for this award, starting today & through April 3.

I almost didn’t enter in 2025, and then someone reminded me my book was eligible. So I went for it - and won the top journalism prize! 💰

You can’t win contests you don’t enter. Submit your best work & you might win - just ask me.

My sister recently told the family (very excitedly!) how she used ChatGPT to "curate" a tour for her at the Met, and it made me want to curl up in fetal position under the table

Me too, I'd use it every day

These are so freaking adorable they deserve a cuttlefish emoji with heart eyes

A highly magnified grayscale image of the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans.

When you write about parasites, you get emails. Yesterday, someone sent me a cryptic message hinting at "a very interesting story (non-financial) about a parasitic nematoda infection," and now I can't stop thinking about what in the world could be a financial angle for getting infected by roundworms

Starting tomorrow, you can watch fish traffic via an underwater camera livestreaming from an Utrecht canal. If you spot waiting 🐟, you can ping an operator to open the Weerdsluis lock gate & let them through. Highly recommend this for easing elevated stress levels, or if you just like helping fish

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed

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Binders/sleeves for trading cards (Pokémon, MTG, etc) might work!

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

tcpipeline.org

It looks like it!

I get them too! Things like "A coat is not underwear" & "I am a banana" & "His grandfather is a sheep"

My hypothesis is that Duolingo does this because you're more likely to remember phrases that are deeply weird, & that helps your brain recall those words/syntax in a more normal context

Screenshot of a language app showing a cartoon of a person with purple hair standing under text that reads: "Write this in Dutch." Next to the cartoon is a speech bubble that says: "This development will improve the relations with our neighboring countries."

yes yes yes i know that my language app isn't subtweeting the news in my lessons, but jfc

Pledged! This looks so damn good 🎸

amazing, thank you!

Where is this magnificent octopus sculpture???

Three black-and-white photos showing a digital 3D model of an ancient ant trapped in amber. The species: Hypoponera electrocacica. (1) Body in lateral view. (2) Body in dorsal view. (3) Closeup of the ant's abdomen

Lots of ants have weird heads or jaws—not Hypoponera. It's been said that if this ant's subfamily is a Mr. Potato Head game, "Hypoponera is the potato”

Scientists recently described the 2nd known fossil of this basic bitch "potato" genus, in amber 🧪 #FossilFriday

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Three black-and-white photos showing a digital 3D model of an ancient ant trapped in amber. The species: Hypoponera electrocacica. (1) Body in lateral view. (2) Body in dorsal view. (3) Closeup of the ant's abdomen

Lots of ants have weird heads or jaws—not Hypoponera. It's been said that if this ant's subfamily is a Mr. Potato Head game, "Hypoponera is the potato”

Scientists recently described the 2nd known fossil of this basic bitch "potato" genus, in amber 🧪 #FossilFriday

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"Perhaps Punch and his trials on Monkey Mountain can be a reminder of the importance of watching out for those in our communities who people seem intent to exclude, shove aside, or disappear"

Thanks for sharing this!

Thank YOU (as always) for sharing!

I’m transgender, I live in Kansas, if you want to help rn donate to either the ACLU of Kansas or the ACE foundation in Wichita - the ACE foundation especially is the organization that will help people with money for groceries, rent, etc. More orgs also included in attached img

acefoundationict.org

Thank you to @authorsabb.bsky.social heroes @beccacoffindaffer.bsky.social and Ed Underhill, we have some slides that can be shared by anyone about this, with particular reps to target. Let's kill this bill in committee.

If you're stunned/enraged by the latest anti-trans cruelty in Kansas and want to help people directly, this 🧵 has options (highly recommend finding one small thing to do rather than/in addition to ragescrolling & howling into the void)

Kansas informs trans residents their driver’s licenses become invalid on Thursday Some transgender Kansans said they had received the letters from the Department of Revenue. Others hadn’t by Wednesday evening.

“‘The persecution is the point,’ said Rep. Abi Boatman, a Wichita Democrat and the only transgender member of the Legislature, who received the [Kansas Dept of Revenue] notice on Wednesday.” To underscore that: a Kansas state legislator is among those whose driver’s license will be voided. (🎁 link:)

Oh damn. Good thing @distributeaid.org started sourcing durable medical equipment in 2024. We've shipped it to both Lebanon and our US hubs across the southern US.

If you're a mutual aid group that needs wheelchairs, crutches, or rollators and can pickup from us please DM me!

It's just 5 minutes and absolutely worth it!