Ruthanna Emrys

I've got it on Kindle, but don't know what the AU availability looks like in that format. My best idea, based on 2 weeks in Melbourne, is to ask at Readings since they seem good at getting US-pubbed stuff.

It's believed we've lost the true name for bear in Germanic languages - "bear" roughly means "brown one," a euphemism used instead of the true name because it was believed that saying their true name would summon the bear.

It's one of my favorites that we've found for Reading the Weird! So consistently good.

Bookmate @aknighton.bsky.social shares his experience with the publication of Wiz Duo 3 with @wtpress.bsky.social. Much like mine - the WT folks have been great, and the launch was terrific (and tasty, when I finally got a chance at the cake)! britishfantasysociety.org/launching-wi...

the full illustration made in procreate for YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM by @tenebrouspress.bsky.social ! matt and alex are a dream to work with 🖤 thanks for letting me go buck wild on this one, haha

weird horror writers, consider submitting to this anthology. it's gonna be awesome, i promise.

Quirky, Quixotic, and Inspired by Dark Dreams of Madness: Caitlin Kiernan’s “Our Lady of Arsia Mons” - Reactor Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches. This week, we cover...

This week on Reading the Weird, secrets lie beneath the Martian soil... but they don't stay there: reactormag.com/quirky-quixo...

1) An administrative burden party is a brilliant idea.

2) This mundane crap is the stuff AI *should* be helping us with for a happier and more productive society, but capital prefers to weaponize it against us, including to make bureaucratic mazes more confusing and impenetrable.

There Is No “Now”: Carlo Rovelli’s The Order of Time - Reactor Are you ready to rethink everything you know about time?

Physicist Carlo Rovelli's "The Order of Time" will change the way you think about the nature of time and human perception; @r-emrys.bsky.social discusses the book and how it might inspire new speculative stories

Sssssooooo... yeah. (Wow!) 😳🤗

A blue background with the covers of all the books mentioned in the post on it. And I the center is text that says “Jewish book month 100 - Jewish science fiction that changed my life”

A pink graphic from the Jewish book council that says “share yourself share your story” in fancy font with the Jewish book council logo on top.

It’s Jewish Book Month! Here are 8 Jewish Sci Fi books that changed my life!

The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, an alternate history by Michael Chabon. Jewish stories can be relevant to everyone!

Next Stop by Benjamin Resnick. A future can be so dark, yet so full of hope

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Crow’s Second Tale by Marissa Lingen So Kiris knew, even at the age of five: no one should only know one story. Not even a crow, like in the song. And if she was the only one who had spotted the problem, she felt down to her five-year-ol...

New story this morning! The Crow's Second Tale in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social ! www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... This is one of my stories that is 100% not autobiographical except the part that is, which is that I tell stories to crows too, just in case.

I am thinking about the first thing I wrote after M was born, and while I thought that RPG sourcebook turned out pretty well, it's definitely not a classic that will be beloved for centuries. Torn between admiring Shelley's supermom abilities, and asking M why he wasn't more inspiring at 4 months!

I'm working on a bibliography - and indeed on a non-fiction book! So... I think that's a "coming soon."

Yeah, they try to up their figures with dark design. Part of how you know they *know* not one wants it.

I have that one downstairs! I love it because of the etymologies.

I think there are actual use cases for generative AI when what you want is the qualitative average of a dataset. Have our hiring decisions tended sexist? The exaccerbate-your-biases machine will tell you! But right now we're training it wrong, using it wrong, and betting the planet on our mistakes.

I used it while writing a report on its limits for my at-the-time employer. Asked it to come up with Ruthanna Emrys story ideas because it didn't seem ethical to mulch anyone else. It wasn't particularly good at it.

Too small to carry the boom box on my shoulder, and too sound-sensitive to blast it. Kept the encyclopedia at the library. Used the dictionary too often for it to get dusty!

Youyou Tu's work on anti-malarial compounds that saved millions of lives (w/Nobel+Lasker recognition) wins the low citation/huge impact cell. The original paper has 87 citations as of today: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11721477/ Hopefully she can get to 100.

What for huge citations and moderate impact?

Oh no, that sucks!

In a first for the state, Maryland’s school board reverses Harford County’s book ban Maryland’s school board is reversing Harford County’s decision to remove a book from public school libraries — the first time the state has intervened in a local decision about what’s appropriate for ...

Holy shit. THIS IS HOW AN ANTI-BOOK BAN LAW WORKS, Y'ALL.

Maryland's school board overturned a Harford County Schools ban on FLAMER.

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With 2508 citations in 127 years, Student (1908) introducing the t-test wins for huge actual impact with moderate citation impact: www.jstor.org/stable/23315...

Now, how about huge actual impact and minimal citation impact?

Solidarity with British Public Library staff currently on strike under a Labour government that keeps fucking labour.

*Thank* you. From my old NWO combat librarian.

Fridge Phobia and the Invention of Boiling: Bee Wilson’s Consider the Fork - Reactor A surprisingly deep look into the connections between food, technology, and human culture — plus fun facts about spoons!

How can a microhistory about cooking and kitchen implements inspire speculative fiction? Here's @r-emrys.bsky.social on how "Consider the Fork" may change the way you think about the technological and cultural aspects of food 🍴

Zeno's outline keeps adding chapters. They will be good, important chapters! But I would like... to finish... this book... proposal.

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Tversky & Kahneman (1974) wins for huge citation and actual impact: www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Now, what paper had a moderate citation impact but a huge actual impact?

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Very similar to my bookshelf! I would also add Jo Walton, Arkady Martine, Malka Older, Rosemary Kirstein, Victoria Goddard, Max Gladstone, Naomi Novik *and* Naomi Kritzer, Monaquil Blackgoose, Freya Marske, and Sarah Pinsker.