@fiddes.bsky.social writes the Epilogue to his Spring Journal. #Lebanon #gaza #beruit #Iran #people #humanity We Must Go On...

Donate to We Lost Everything to a Fire. Help My Family Rebuild., organized by Chloe Clark On January 24th, our childhood home burned down. Our parents lost 50… Chloe Clark needs your support for We Lost Everything to a Fire. Help My Family Rebuild.

I'm still doing a GoFundMe to help my parents rebuild after a devastating house fire. The costs of doing so, with an uninsured house, are extremely high. My parents are elderly and low-income and my disabled brother lives with them. I deeply appreciate shares of this link!

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Genuinely living through the era where poems are praying through us>>

Common blue photo credit: Burkhard Hinnersmann, off Wikimedia Commons.

6-year-old's doodle of a butterfly with the left half of its wings painted in sparkly orange-red, and the right half in sparkly blue-green. Smudgy fingerprints abound.

A gynandromorphic common blue butterfly on a thistle flower. Left half of wings are iridescent powder blue (male patterning), and right half are brown fringed with orange dots (female patterning). Photo by Burkhard Hinnersmann, from Wikimedia Commons.

Let me tell you, there is no thrill greater than showing your child that a creature from their imagination exists in real life. We looked at a whole bunch of nonbinary (gynandromorph) butterflies tonight. You should too.

Black and red ant split neatly down the middle head to gaster; the black half being the male alate, and the red the female worker. The black half has a wing, the red does not.

View of the other side of the creature, the red worker half.

Top down view; the single translucent wing is covering nearly the whole gaster. The head and thorax is red on the right, black on the left.

The creature, facing you, showing off the wild difference between each half. The worker mandible is like 4x the size of the alate mandible. The alate eye is roughly twice the size of the worker eye.

This creature from that nest remains and probably always will be the coolest thing I've found: the bilateral gynandromorph Polyergus longicornis; half worker, half winged male alate. A They/Them Ant. 🖤❤️
Still feels kind of surreal!
🌿🐜🧪

An expat in Dubai has a startling revelation: the Stephen Collins cartoon Reality check …

*snort*
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Ashraf Shaikh: "Communities don’t need poetry. They need policy. Wildlife doesn’t need abstraction. It needs security." Stumbled upon this piece quite by accident and I'm simultaneously in awe of the impassioned argument and dying inside because my own writing has so often missed the mark.

Wherein I take up an ill-advised project in tropical gardening because of various personal sadnesses 🌿

Associate or Full Teaching Professor in English (Creative Writing) Position Title: Associate or Full Teaching Professor in English (Creative Writing) Appointment Type: Faculty Job Description: The Department of English in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at I...

Another job posting from Iowa State U's MFA Program in Creative Writing & Environment, this time for an assoc. or full teaching professor: isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...

Part 1: How do LLMs work? YouTube video by Andrew Perfors

I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊

Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.

"These are my kind of people: | no tears—just ,| steam from a kettle | that never quite boils."

Perspective: Saying DEI in an Indian Accent Contrary to popular American belief, there is no such thing as an Indian accent, there are many.

A lot of people coming from higher castes claim to be caste-blind.

Even in the sciences, the range of experiences of those navigating a career in STEM is a testament to how deep-rooted caste is even among those who claim to have given up the practice. (Published Oct. 2021)

et tu, libby?!

libby users, you can give them feedback on their new fuckery of an ai policy by pressing the bottom-center button in the app & scrolling down

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.

My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!

go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

My favourite blog post is up!! Queer Middle Grade Books Coming out in 2026 (So Far)!

lainahastoomuchsparetime.wordpress.com/2026/01/09/q...

Assistant Professor of English (Creative Writing and Environment) Position Title: Assistant Professor of English (Creative Writing and Environment) Appointment Type: Faculty Job Description: The Department of English in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Io...

My alma mater, the MFA Program Creative Writing & Environment at Iowa State University, is hiring an assistant professor, tenure-track. If you're a writer who blends your creative work with place, nature, ecology, environment, etc, apply: isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...

Did you know you needed a climate change poem today? You need one every day, a prayer and foghorn. Read @lindszd.bsky.social's beautiful work: "Love is a simple object navigating | blurry physics, an ark baring its hull | to flood, remaining afloat." From www.ronslate.com/given-after-...

Could I ask, is this submission call open to hybrid work (I'm thinking a mix of prose and comics essays)?

omgosh, thank you!

Oh my goodness, what is this comic book called? Who is it by? Combines two of my faves (spiders and comics) in one and I have to know!

Who knew I needed to see Paleolithic rock art. Thread below, come for the shade, stay for the delicately carved sculptures >>

Every time I find an interview with Trudy Cooper in the wild I rejoice. Platinum Grit and Oglaf are way more niche than they deserve to be. Also, how is this thing that I love that someone created 16+ years old?

The word does not exist but it feels like it should be coined for this purpose: outrospective.

What a gift it is to have this essay published on this hopeful day! Thank you so much, @jacqdoyle.bsky.social , for helping to bring this piece into the world.

What a gorgeous piece, as always!

Love this infographic. Spot on!

Still timely now :'( Love the cognitive time lag thing. I thought I'd seen all I needed to see about zombies and I'm happy to be shown otherwise

Is this a post-March 2020 piece? It has that feeling. The surprise I felt reading this turn: "I keep thinking about how she didn’t live long enough for me to not kill her..."

A close-up image of a yellow insect with textured, bumpy skin perched on a bright yellow flower. The background is blurred, highlighting the details of the insect and petals.

Arthropod Photo of the Week: October 22, 2025
Jagged ambush bug
Phymata sp.
Hemiptera: Reduviidae
By Tom Astle (@tjalamont.bsky.social), Montana, USA
#arthropodPOTW