Winners 2026 - gutsygreatnovelist.com Announcing the winners of the 2026 Chapter One Prize. Congratulations to Janelle Boucher (1st), Jane Sasser (2nd), and Rhiannon Harvey (3rd)!

Excited to see my WIP: Birde & the Bomb selected as notable chapter in the Gutsy Novelist Chapter One Prize gutsygreatnovelist.com/winners-2026...

Michael Pollan says AI may 'think' — but it will never be conscious "Consciousness is under siege," says author Michael Pollan. His new book, A World Appears, explores consciousness on both a personal and technological level.

My take on the topic of #AI and #consciousness: the real discovery may not be that AI can fool us into thinking it has a sense of self, but that we’ve been fooling ourselves into thinking we do
www.npr.org/2026/02/19/n...

I refuse!

Dark academia is apparently a music genre now!

Of course

Them be fighting words!

Thrilled to announce I’ve signed with @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social at Rosecliff Literary to represent my debut novel A Body at Rest, a historical mystery set in 1945 Ithaca, NY. Excited to share more as the publishing journey unfolds!

Yup

Are these 3 separate requests or a mashup? Because Louise penny writing a Stephanie Plum novel sounds amazing

The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations “In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...

For those who still embrace the em dash in the age of AI—this one's for you: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

A study on moon landings, particle ejection, dust clouds and Görtler instability YouTube video by Michigan Engineering

And check out this awesome video on the project: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccx1...

Solving a moon mystery helps game out future landings U-M, Johns Hopkins partnership explains a consistent pattern in the dust under moon landings.

New paper out in Nature Communications! Together with Johns Hopkins we showed that the persistent streaks observed during lunar landings is caused by Görtler instability triggered by rocket plumes.

Story: news.engin.umich.edu/2025/07/solv...

Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Some eye candy: Görtler vortices in an underexpanded jet by PhD graduate Meet Patel

Carl Sagan on why books are human’s greatest invention:

Freeman Dyson’s response was hay

www.goodreads.com/quotes/4100-...

Scalar mixing is a beautiful thing. We're starting to look into how compressible turbulence caused by particle wakes and shocks mix scalars

Sesame Street: Bert and Ernie's Fish Call YouTube video by Sesame Street

A classic: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUus...

The Capecelatro Research Group takes over Ypsilanti.

Art for Tame Impala’s “Currents” by @edsunspot.bsky.social
@EdSunspot #fluidart

Big things ahead at the University of Michigan! U-M and Los Alamos are teaming up to build next-generation #HPC facility for #AI research record.umich.edu/articles/u-m...

New paper out in JFM! Simulations, experiments, and theory all wrapped up in one. #openaccess doi.org/10.1017/jfm....

Super excited to finally hold this in my hands! Fluid Mechanics 7th edition is now out! #Fluidmechanics #fluiddynamics shop.elsevier.com/books/fluid-...