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Share a snippet of your favorite description of an environment in your book. No dialogue allowed! #WritingPrompt

I'm actually working on a research project on what elements and compounds are required to boostrap up terrestrial biochemistry, and sure enough, many carbonaceous chondritic meteorites have most or all of the ingredients. It's not surprising that microbes set up shop on the samples so quickly

Excited to announce 3 #AcademicJobs in Humanities at Uni Strathclyde funded through the Charlotte Lythe bequest. I'm new here, so appreciate your help in getting the word out! The jobs are in History, Media and English/Creative Writing. Details below in my first bsky thread (drumroll please...)

a small, wrinkly basset hound puppy with droopy eyes sits on a collection of fuzzy blankets. his brown ears are each the length of his body, one hanging on the right side of his head, the other delicately in his mouth as he chews on the corner of it. this is a game changer.

This is Fred. He just found out he can chew his own ear. There aren't actually any rules against it, he checked. 12/10

Never forget: READING FOR PLEASURE has the biggest positive impact of any factor on children's life chances. So never stop sharing books with kids. Never stop reading to them, and helping them to read. Never stop changing lives. #literacy #kidlit #books

Saints of Storm and Sorrow by @gabriellabuba.bsky.social

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Last of the Talons by Sophie Kim

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A Song to Drown Rivers by Ann Liang

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President Biden assures Americans that, this time, the T-Rex containment unit is completely reliable.

Alright! Started working on a literary agent starter pack on here, for all my writer friends out there!

Follow along and see what folks are looking for. go.bsky.app/EFopcRo

Call for papers: UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association annual event, Glasgow, 17-18 June 2025 (CFP deadline 15 Jan 2025) easychair.org/cfp/ukie2025. The theme is ‘Collaboration beyond boundaries’ #DigitalHumanities

i am in desperate need of a romcom. preferably queer, preferably YA, but i’ll take anything (self-promotion of course welcome)!

HarperCollins is selling their authors’ work to AI tech. On Friday, author Daniel Kibblesmith posted a series of screenshots on Bluesky in order to share a concerning email he received from the agency who’d repped him on his children’s book S…

What, you want me to sell you the right to have AI scrape my work?

What's the offer?

$2,500 a book?

Okay, here's my counteroffer: Go fuck yourself

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End of November always feels like that time of year when rapid fire passes start to happen, as people wind down their inboxes.

Friends, please don’t let it get you down.

Be gentle on yourselves, and each other. There’s a new year of art coming. ❤️

Illustration by Abigail Larson inspired by "The Goblin Market" by Christina Rossetti. The image depicts a warm sunrise scene in a wooded setting. A young woman in a butter-yellow gown is surrounded by goblins offering fruit to her.

The goblin market 🍓🍈🍎🥭🍒

a photo of me, Jamison Shea, a black author with black rimmed glasses, a mixture of black and golden locks, gold rings through both nostrils and septum. I hold a book - I Am the Dark, which has a black girl screaming on the cover.

howdy, I published a book and finished my darling dark fantasy duology today.

I AM THE DARK THAT ANSWERS WHEN YOU CALL is out now. 🌚🖤

Editing Services Hi there, writers! I am offering editing services! As you’ll see, I edit poetry collections, poems, short stories, novels, flash fiction, nonfiction books, screenplays, all types of business …

I'm looking for more editing work! I have 4 years of editing experience through literary journals, small presses, & freelance platforms. I also freelance edit for a digital marketing agency. I have a BA in English & a BA in Creative Writing.
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Public Affairs Specialist (Social Media/Digital Communications Manager) NEH is an independent grant-making agency of the government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.

New year, new job for you or someone you know?

The Nat'l Endowment for the Humanities is seeking a Public Affairs Specialist (Social Media/Digital Comms Manager). (Salary starts at $64,957)

Apps are due Jan 8, 2024. More info, including application reqs, available at www.usajobs.gov/job/764995300

My programme has a position for a Lecturer in Māori Literature and Creative Communication - it would be fantastic if this ad could be shared widely across academic and Ao/NZ bluesky #kikorangi www.wgtn.ac.nz/about/workin...

Leo: Actually, Frankenstein is the doctor. The monster is you.

ODSECS 32: Cindy Ermus Crisis and Contagion: Researching Disease and Disaster in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

Our last #18c seminar of 2023 happens soon, we hope you can join us for @cindyermus.bsky.social, "Crisis and Contagion: Researching Disease and Disaster in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World"
Tuesday, 5 December 2023
11:00-12:00 EST / 16:00-15:00 GMT

Register for free ticket to the zoom today!

‘We’re absolutely making it too hard’: The complexity of adult immunization delivery hinders v... The process of keeping track of which vaccines are recommended — and avoiding paying for them out of pocket — has grown increasingly convoluted.

“Unless they are ill, many adults interact infrequently with the medical establishment. When they do, they may get care in a variety of places — making it no one person’s job to ensure they are up to date with their vaccinations… adults often have to figure this stuff out themselves”

Really? That’s so messed up. Mine did, but it did take a while to find somewhere that had it in stock, and most places don’t have the under 12 one still.

This is a scary fact. So few people are masking, too, which makes it so much worse for immune comprised people who a) are taking all the precautions and b) are still at a high risk.

Reminder that the new COVID shot isn’t just a booster, it’s a new vaccine more effective against more variants. Important to get it and remind friends & family.

Deadline approaching—please share the news: Early American/18th and Medieval TT jobs in English at UT!

There is a species of water beetle that regularly gets swallowed whole by frogs. And while there’s a lot of things you can do to keep from being eaten, once you’re inside a frog, your options are severely limited. Generally you get digested. But this particular species of beetle said “You know, I bet there’s another way.” And it started walking. In fact, it walked through the frog’s digestive tract and out the back end. This is 100% true, you can look it up. 19 out of 20 of these beetles will simply walk out of the frog, unharmed. It usually takes them about an hour, although one beetle speed-ran the frog in five minutes, which I’m sure was very exciting for the frog. The moral of this story, if there is one, is that no matter how dark the situation, there is always a way through. And there’s always a light at the end of the frog.

Ursula Vernon's Hugo acceptance speech included this delightful anecdote-slash-metaphor-slash-encouragement. https://www.patreon.com/posts/91410900

I’m seeing so many masks being worn at protests around the country right now. Thank you! Solidarity means fighting together to stop a public health disaster abroad while also engaging in health justice praxis locally. Our struggles are connected. 😷✊️

Since MSA is next week, I’d like to share! Later this year, I’ll be stepping in as editor of the M/m Print+ feminist/queer theory forum “Orientations.” Gratitude to Janine Utell for leading the way with her tremendous work on this important & dynamic platform. Please reach out! More details soon.

5th annual 💥Vcologies Early Career Paper Prize💥 is open! Please share/RT!

Wider remit than before, “ecological thinking in the Anglophone world from 1750-1945”…

Consider submitting a paper by Jan. 31, 2024, for $250!