Laura Jenkins

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method PARIS—In an effort to modernize the principles and empirical procedures of examining phenomena and advancing humanity’s collective knowledge, the International Council for Science announced Thursday t...

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method

turing.ac.uk using a Cloudflare real human verification check box test?!

Really, Alan Turing Institute?

The work I did on finding a type of hydrogarnet called hydroandradite in a couple CM carbonaceous chondrite meteorites and what it indicates about alteration history has been published in American Mineralogist! It can be read here: pubs.geoscienceworld.org/msa/ammin/ar...

A trilobite fossil placed on a tiny beach chair next to a succulent.

A trilobite fossil in a beach chair next to a Pacifico beer can.

Havent had a vacation in 252 million years!!!

Was just discussing with a writer friend the weird headspace of leaving a piece to compost for a bit.

Not working on a thing to make it better is often a necessary but odd part of the creative process.

You gotta let it sit so you can come back with fresh eyes.

for people who like it when their ventricles get infected with elder gods and love stories, and are partial to a bit of sex/prayer and eating teeth, then once again I have you covered.

Read my novelette Shadow Jack at @giganotosaurus.bsky.social

giganotosaurus.org/2025/05/01/s...

Promo graphic for Name From Nowhere, cyberpunk fiction by Winter Simpson. The background image is of a dark-haired woman wearing visor-style sunglasses and a black coat is standing in front of a pink and blue patterned neon sign. The colours from the sign are reflecting on her skin and sunglasses. The tag at the top of the graphic says patreon.com/winterandwords. The rest of the text says "I am so close to wiping that smirk off his face. Maybe this is what I’ve needed all day. A convenient excuse and the right person."

🔫 NAME FROM NOWHERE chapter 14 is now live!

💜 Chapter 14 finds Aria back in her present day. If you'd like to follow along with new chapters, my Patreon is completely free to join and I'd love to see you there!

🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/135377...

🏷️ #QueerWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Patreon

slurpee machine with one crashed screen

I'm drinking the Bios Crash slurpee I hope it crashes my bios I hope I blue screen

PodCastle 902: Godzilla as a Young Man Named Mike - PodCastle Godzilla as a Young Man Named Mike E.M. Faulds   I remember your mum telling me, after it all went down, that during the lockdowns you washed your hands so often your skin cracked and turned scaly and...

It's out and I'm 😭
Awesome job, @elizachanwrites.bsky.social, you did it proud. And thank you once again to @podcastle.org for this special. It's my privilege to have taken part.

podcastle.org/2025/07/29/p...

Staying Still E.M. Faulds writer published a post on Ko-fi

What is this story really about though?

ko-fi.com/post/Staying...

Our Brian M. Milton's got a bumper new tale for fans of sentient spinach. Spinach 419 is being serialised this week in The Daily Tomorrow, concluding this Saturday (2/08).

Read parts 1 & 2 at the link below now:

@munchkinstein.bsky.social (1/2)

Promo graphic for Name From Nowhere, cyberpunk fiction by Winter Simpson. The background image is of a dark-haired woman wearing visor-style sunglasses and a black coat is standing in front of a pink and blue patterned neon sign. The colours from the sign are reflecting on her skin and sunglasses. The tag at the top of the graphic says patreon.com/winterandwords. The rest of the text says "It’s not that the weight I’ve been carrying is getting any lighter, but maybe I’m starting to get strong enough to carry it better."

🔫 NAME FROM NOWHERE chapter 12 is now live!

💜 In this chapter, Aria gets to have a hopeful moment after all the trauma. My girl deserves it after everything I've been putting her through.

🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/134847...

🏷️ #QueerWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Patreon

#Goals

Illo of a celestial person reaching up to grab a star. Based off the Pillars of Creation photo taken by the Hubble telescope in 1995. Drawn by gdbeeart in autumn 2021, photoshop.

Grasp, based off the Pillars of Creation photo taken by the Hubble telescope in the 90s

It's a GSFWC double-header on the BFS podcast Long Story Short! Our PS Livingstone joins our Robin CM Duncan for 'Myth, Romantasy & Feminist Rage', an interview with Scarlett St. Clair (Hades x Persephone saga).

Check it out at the link below!

@robincmduncan.bsky.social @pslivingstone.bsky.social

Finished writing the silly scifi short story! Now it's time to do the editing equivalent of applying a chainsaw to the not so silly scifi story

Extremely surreal to have this news break as Pluto scientists meet to celebrate the ten-year anniversary and everything New Horizons has accomplished!

Blood In The Bricks A little over a year ago I approached Ian Whates of NewCon Press about an idea I had for an anthology. Like many horror readers I'd been wholeheartedly enjoying the folk horror boom, but I'd started to notice diminishing returns in terms of the originality in the stories I was reading. At the same time, Charlie Says had just been published, which I'd taken to thinking of as form of folk horror itself ... just one set in a large town instead of a remote, rural village. Urban folk horror? It felt fresh.

Blood In The Bricks

A little over a year ago I approached Ian Whates of NewCon Press about an idea I had for an anthology. Like many horror readers I'd been wholeheartedly enjoying the folk horror boom, but I'd started to notice diminishing returns in terms of the originality in the stories I was…

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

I don’t know why, but the phrase: “If you aren’t part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate” really tickles me…

Doing background research is fun because sometimes you'll encounter terms like "Gaia Sausage."

It is the remains of a galaxy (a.k.a. the Sausage galaxy) the Milky Way merged with.

There is a breakfast pun in there somewhere

We are delighted to learn that our own Jenni Coutts is a finalist for Best Artist at the World Fantasy Awards! The results will be announced at this Autumn's World Fantasycon in Brighton. Best of luck to all those shortlisted!

@jennicoutts.bsky.social

a dachshund is standing in a hotel or hospital hallway, staring intently at a spot on the wall

liminal dachshund

Thanks for any reposts, folks. I'm offering ~25 years of expertise here for a reasonable amount of money and zero grifty hardsell or AI nonsense. And I'm teaching how to be independent and do things low cost or free for yourself where possible.
Anyway, again reposts = 🫶

Hey look it's me! I thoroughly enjoyed playing The Librarian's Apprentice; if you're a fan of solo RPGs or are looking for an easy one to get started with... give it a shot 🥰📚

Promo graphic for Name From Nowhere, cyberpunk fiction by Winter Simpson. The background image is of a dark-haired woman wearing visor-style sunglasses and a black coat is standing in front of a pink and blue patterned neon sign. The colours from the sign are reflecting on her skin and sunglasses. The tag at the top of the graphic says patreon.com/winterandwords. The rest of the text says "I don’t want to be on this conveyor belt, but it’s another step closer to getting the fuck out of here."

🔫 NAME FROM NOWHERE chapter 07 is now live!

💜 Today's chapter goes back in time two years, to Aria's release from prison. If you want to read along, my Patreon is free to view and join.

www.patreon.com/posts/133497...

🏷️ #QueerWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Patreon

Brian's "Reason to keep running" collection Help Brian Milton raise money to support Trussell

Also, I'm going to ask for donations so you can guilt me into not giving up and I can collect all the posts about how I added a kilometer by doubling back past some bins. The excitement!
www.justgiving.com/page/brian-m...

Finished editing chapter 3 of that urban fantasy novella! I think I'm going to take a break from it to write some silly scifi and edit some not so silly scifi

Webinars Websites and Webinars for Authors

On 12th July, our E.M. Faulds will be offering another round of her lauded webinars on creating your own author website, with prices starting from just £10!

To book your session, check out the link below:
bibliotta.com/webinars/

@bethkesh.bsky.social

Headline: EDINBURGH FATHER OF TWO CONVERTED INTO LUXURY STUDENT ACCOMMODATION Image: a student flat bedroom with a large and awkward man's face embedded in the wall