Thank you!!

The Crime Writers' Association Daggers 2026 Longlist The Emerging Author Dagger sponsored by Fiction Feedback Nida Broughton Murder on the Moon Emma Byrne Murder on the IPS Cariad Rod Cookson Ill Met by Murder Sophia Georghiou The Man Who Fit the Case Chris Gill The Desolate City Kate Koester Just a Simple Wedding Joyanna Lovelock Cordelia’s Chocolate Fix Lorna Mathew The Fixer Rebecca McFarland The Madam of Morningside Michael Nikitin Blind Side of the Sun Jude Simms Dead in the Water Melissa Smith The Pattern of Absence

I wrote Murder on the Cariad because I longed to read more scifi meets cosy crime. I've had so much fun building a world, and playing with my imaginary friends. This is the icing on the cake!

I want to read all 12: especially Murder on the Moon and Blind Side of the Sun.

Nerd-er Mystery FTW

THE CWA EMERGING AUTHOR DAGGER Nida Broughton with Murder on the Moon Emma Byrne with Murder on the IPD Cariad Rob Cookson with Ill Met by Murder Sophia Georghiou with The Man Who Fit the Case Chris Gill with The Desolate City Kate Koester with Just A Simple Wedding Joyanna Lovelock with Cordelia’s Chocolate Fix Rebecca McFarland with The Madam of Morningside Lorna Mathew with The Fixer Michael Nikitin with Blind Side of the Sun Jude Simms with Dead in the Water Melissa Smith with The Pattern of Absence

Please join us in congratulating all the longlisted authors for The 2026 CWA Emerging Author Dagger! ⚔️📚 (the earlier post contained an error)

The shortlistwill be announced on 28th May! 🗓️

#TheCWA #TheDaggers #CWADaggers #BookAwards #TheCWADaggers

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Hi fellow longlistee! I'm so stoked that someone else is (apparently) writing space-crime!

I hope we get to geek out sometime

The Crime Writers' Association Daggers 2026 Longlist The Emerging Author Dagger sponsored by Fiction Feedback Nida Broughton Murder on the Moon Emma Byrne Murder on the IPS Cariad Rod Cookson Ill Met by Murder Sophia Georghiou The Man Who Fit the Case Chris Gill The Desolate City Kate Koester Just a Simple Wedding Joyanna Lovelock Cordelia’s Chocolate Fix Lorna Mathew The Fixer Rebecca McFarland The Madam of Morningside Michael Nikitin Blind Side of the Sun Jude Simms Dead in the Water Melissa Smith The Pattern of Absence

I wrote Murder on the Cariad because I longed to read more scifi meets cosy crime. I've had so much fun building a world, and playing with my imaginary friends. This is the icing on the cake!

I want to read all 12: especially Murder on the Moon and Blind Side of the Sun.

Nerd-er Mystery FTW

A vital new book, Man Enough, is coming this Autumn www.shoutoutuk.org/2026/04/08/m...

A timely investigation of the manosphere, and a guide to helping young men and boys navigate the toxicity that harms them

Picture of a book "it's only rocket science by Lucy Rogers"

Well if I can't plug this now, when can I?? :)

I went back to capture what the astronauts said in full when the clock was stopped at T-10 minutes and they were asked if they were go for launch:

This is Victor. We are going for our families.
This is Christina. We are going for our teammates.
This is Jeremy. We are going for all humanity.

I don't even know I missed the description on the broadcast but it's some part of Artemis II separating with a starry background behind it

LOOK AT THIS

Artemis is a hopeful reminder that government can be a good thing if we staff it with passionate, skilled, and honorable people.

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The rules governing space remain dangerously on the fringes of public debate, left to the competing interests of global superpowers, vast industries – and a small clique of centibillionaires.

Finally able to breathe again

Godspeed Integrity

“It is much easier to confess your sins in the dark, than to acknowledge them in the light: to make it up with a god you don’t see, than with a man whom you do. Teach man to do right, to love justice, to revere truth. So be virtuous, not because a god would reward or punish him hereafter, but because it is right; and as every act brings its own reward or its own punishment, it would best promote his interest by promoting the welfare of society.” Ernestine Rose (1810–1892). Activist and humanist

'It is much easier to confess your sins in the dark, than to acknowledge them in the light: to make it up with a god you don’t see, than with a man whom you do.'

Ernestine Rose – humanist, abolitionist, and pioneering women's rights advocate. #HumanistHeritage
heritage.humanists.uk/ernestine-ro...

How buildings and cities can be aligned with life Following nature’s patterns, not fighting them, is the way forward for the built environment.

"If waste is considered as a future nutrient or underutilized resource, a different economic model can emerge. This is in stark contrast with the current assumption that wealth is created by consuming more."

Yes
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Prominent UK pro-Palestine activists guilty of breaching protest conditions Campaigners call verdict on Ben Jamal and Chris Nineham ‘grotesque’ and part of attempt to ‘undermine civil liberties’

Protesting for Palestine is not a crime. This verdict is an attack on the whole movement.

We stand with Palestine Solidarity Campaign and with Ben and Chris.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

A very happy middle aged woman with blue hair and a green jacket

MRW the annual ALCS payment hits!

Did you know that every time you borrow a book from a library in the UK the author gets paid? The @alcs.co.uk keeps track of lending and makes sure that authors are paid. The money helps, but most of all I love knowing that people have been borrowing my books!

I've signed the More Natural Capital Coalition's ten environmental pledges for the may election

I'm proud to be campaigning for clean air, green spaces, and local wellbeing

The image has the banner for the neuroscience capacity accelerator for mental health, the international brain research organisation, and Wellcome. There is a picture of a brunette woman and the speech bubble that reads. I am the event moderator at ncamh webinar; redefining leadership in global neuroscience research. 23rd April 2026

I'm very excited to be moderating this event in just under a month. We're accelerating the rate at which global research into mental health can be done.

I am green with envy! 😁

SHUTUPANDTAKEMYMONEY!!!!

Yesterday crime author and SoA Fellow Vaseem Khan joined our CEO Anna Ganley outside Parliament ahead of the long-awaited release of the government's report on AI and copyright.

Want to go to a Royal Institution talk? I'm talking about things in the sky on April 20th

Copies of my book (Up - A Scientist's Guide to the Magic Above Us) will be on sale (I'll sign it too if you'd like!)

Talk also available online (pay what you can)

www.rigb.org/whats-on/liv...

This visualisation helped me explain to my 10y/o why we *never* drive into town!

I can't wait to read this!

Hugops

SREs are all about breaking and fixing systems, so there are a lot of us who are trans and gender non-conforming.

Preparation means acting on incomplete information and preparing for worst-case scenarios.

The pattern of revoking IDs and is a known state aggression.

The entire annual budget for NASA is $24.4 B.

Annual budget for the National Science Foundation (NSF): $10.2 B.

NOAA: $6.9 B.

US Geological Survey: $1.45 B.

I have a ChatGPT joke but it ignored previous instructions and gave me a recipe for two-ingredient cauliflower fudge