@sbdivya.bsky.social
author | editor | engineer (she/any) 📚 science fiction & fantasy 🎙️ former editor at Escape Pod 💻 machine learning & DSP 🦼 Long COVID / MECFS sbdivya.com
Seastar on rocky beach in southeast Alaska
Christmas anemone under the water with green urchins near rocky beach in southeast Alaska during winter
Hello from Juneau, Alaska! Here you will find alpine-to-ocean illustrations and art by me (Kierstin). I hope to spark interest in the natural world around us, and make science approachable for all ages 🏔️🌲🐋🦀
You can also follow me here:
X @gsstudios907
IG @golden.spiral.studios
Hey, a reminder that I’m looking for work. I’m an award winning writer and editor serving the community. My book Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction just won an Ignyte award! I’m looking for clients, and would love to work in narrative games.
Get in touch with me!
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!
13.10.2025 19:29 — 👍 300 🔁 52 💬 9 📌 0Congratulations to all!
13.10.2025 04:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0TIL that "discombooberate" is a word (an alternative slang for "discombobulate"), and I think it's a moral imperative that I find a way to use in my WIP.
09.10.2025 18:30 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Afraid so!
09.10.2025 03:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Highly recommend these great books, one an inventive space opera and the other more of a travelogue of Earth!
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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”
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. 😂)
I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
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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...
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...
30.09.2025 16:58 — 👍 83 🔁 55 💬 5 📌 3Such a great show!
30.09.2025 21:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Happy book birthday!
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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...
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!
28.09.2025 03:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wait, I thought it was on for yesterday?
26.09.2025 00:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0John, I didn't realize you were involved. Happy to hear it!
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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
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!
🧠 Celebrating #OpenScienceWeek, by highlighting my favorite (and my most used!) open science tools from the Allen Institute 🐭🧠🌐 @alleninstitute.org
#neuroskyence #neuroscience #brain #microscopy
Happy book birthday @thomasha.bsky.social!
16.09.2025 20:42 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0So 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.
15.09.2025 18:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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!
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 💜
I hadn't! Thanks for pointing it out!
07.09.2025 22:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...
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.
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
#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.
03.09.2025 22:54 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0If 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...
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:
01.08.2025 14:31 — 👍 27 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 0
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...
