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@coimeas.bsky.social
ph.d. ann an litreachas coimeasach (fantasachd is ficsean-saidheansa). sgrìobhadair. e/esan | ph.d. in comparative literature (fantasy and sci-fi). he/him
https://anduilleaggheal.neocities.org/
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I'm currently looking for freelance editing work! I have experience doing everything from copyediting to substantive edits, mainly for academic texts but also for literary ones. I've worked extensively with non-native English-speakers, including editing literary translations.
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Academic & critical SFF folks: does anyone know if Fantastika Journal still exists? I went hunting for an article and found that their website is totally down; no movement on their socials for a while.
December 6, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Academic & critical SFF folks: does anyone know if Fantastika Journal still exists? I went hunting for an article and found that their website is totally down; no movement on their socials for a while.
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anyone have recommendations for ~nautical fiction~ (or poetry) that's set now-ish (let's say after ~1990, but especially 21st-century) by writers who have some personal experience with maritime work?
December 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
anyone have recommendations for ~nautical fiction~ (or poetry) that's set now-ish (let's say after ~1990, but especially 21st-century) by writers who have some personal experience with maritime work?
anyone have recommendations for ~nautical fiction~ (or poetry) that's set now-ish (let's say after ~1990, but especially 21st-century) by writers who have some personal experience with maritime work?
December 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
anyone have recommendations for ~nautical fiction~ (or poetry) that's set now-ish (let's say after ~1990, but especially 21st-century) by writers who have some personal experience with maritime work?
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My new essay looks at Thomas Burnett Swann's GREEN PHOENIX (1972) partial retelling of Virgil's Aeneid (actually, most of the story takes place between two lines of the epic, and the rest after its end). It's a really messy novel that deals heavily with gendered violence, and not always well.
Reading “Green Phoenix” by Thomas Burnett Swann
Thomas Burnett Swann’s Green Phoenix (1972) is the author’s sixth novel, a partial retelling of the story of Aeneas that deals heavily with gender relations and sexual violence.
seanguynes.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
My new essay looks at Thomas Burnett Swann's GREEN PHOENIX (1972) partial retelling of Virgil's Aeneid (actually, most of the story takes place between two lines of the epic, and the rest after its end). It's a really messy novel that deals heavily with gendered violence, and not always well.
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It is important to understand this as an intentional goal of the attack on civilian science 🧪
And science professors are making a choice right now about whether we will be clear with our students about ethics
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And science professors are making a choice right now about whether we will be clear with our students about ethics
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Fuck this 🧪
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
As Cambridge Faces a Life Sciences Downturn, Startups Turn To a New Industry: Warfare | News | The Harvard Crimson
As biotech firms shed jobs and life sciences funding dries up, policymakers have started to see defense technology as a way to buttress the Massachusetts economy. Industry experts say Cambridge may be...
www.thecrimson.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
It is important to understand this as an intentional goal of the attack on civilian science 🧪
And science professors are making a choice right now about whether we will be clear with our students about ethics
bsky.app/profile/chan...
And science professors are making a choice right now about whether we will be clear with our students about ethics
bsky.app/profile/chan...
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As a bioethicist, I also feel the need to add that the central issue with eugenics is “it’s evil” not “it’s factually incorrect.” And if we finally learned that, maybe big name bioethicists wouldn’t publish “what if eugenics but hi-tech” every five years.
1. Historically, eugenics was not a pseudoscience. It was *science* Almost every scientist, social scientist, academic, etc. believed in the validity of eugenics. You would have to search far & wide to find a scientist that didn't believe in some form of it. They taught it in college!
December 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
As a bioethicist, I also feel the need to add that the central issue with eugenics is “it’s evil” not “it’s factually incorrect.” And if we finally learned that, maybe big name bioethicists wouldn’t publish “what if eugenics but hi-tech” every five years.
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Fellow academics and cultural workers, please consider joining me and scholars like Robin Kelley, Angela Davis and Ruthie Gilmore in signing this important UAE boycott letter:
spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...
spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...
For a Cultural and Academic Boycott of the UAE – Spectre Journal
TAGATU3 call for a cultural and academic boycott of the UAE.
spectrejournal.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Fellow academics and cultural workers, please consider joining me and scholars like Robin Kelley, Angela Davis and Ruthie Gilmore in signing this important UAE boycott letter:
spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...
spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...
I hate Office 365 so much!!!!!!!
December 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I hate Office 365 so much!!!!!!!
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This has been two months in the making. The essay was written in September, the podcast recorded in October, and now both are available in November.
So here it is: my 10k word essay on the overlong and bafflingly insubstantial 2005 vampire historical thriller about Dracula, Kostova's THE HISTORIAN
So here it is: my 10k word essay on the overlong and bafflingly insubstantial 2005 vampire historical thriller about Dracula, Kostova's THE HISTORIAN
Reading “The Historian” by Elizabeth Kostova
In which I return to Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian (2005), a literary fiction vampire novel about historians fighting against Dracula across three generations—which once meant so much to …
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November 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This has been two months in the making. The essay was written in September, the podcast recorded in October, and now both are available in November.
So here it is: my 10k word essay on the overlong and bafflingly insubstantial 2005 vampire historical thriller about Dracula, Kostova's THE HISTORIAN
So here it is: my 10k word essay on the overlong and bafflingly insubstantial 2005 vampire historical thriller about Dracula, Kostova's THE HISTORIAN
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Teaching my Celtic Revival undergrads with an issue of (Irish Feminist-Nationalist newspaper) 'Bean na hÉireann' today, and this is definitely my favourite advert in it
DRIPSEY!
DRIPSEY!
December 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Teaching my Celtic Revival undergrads with an issue of (Irish Feminist-Nationalist newspaper) 'Bean na hÉireann' today, and this is definitely my favourite advert in it
DRIPSEY!
DRIPSEY!
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Bradan Press prez @dremilymcewan.bsky.social has a petition to the Govt of #Canada asking to change eligibility rules for Canadian publisher funding so a #Gaelic publisher like us doesn't fall thru the cracks! 🇨🇦 Canadians, PLEASE sign by Fri 5 Dec 2025, 11am EST: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
December 3, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Bradan Press prez @dremilymcewan.bsky.social has a petition to the Govt of #Canada asking to change eligibility rules for Canadian publisher funding so a #Gaelic publisher like us doesn't fall thru the cracks! 🇨🇦 Canadians, PLEASE sign by Fri 5 Dec 2025, 11am EST: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
DC statehood is assimilationist. DC should be independent
December 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM
DC statehood is assimilationist. DC should be independent
coming up on two months since Caskey Russell's The Door on the Sea came out and the library STILL doesn't have any of the seven copies it ordered -__-
December 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM
coming up on two months since Caskey Russell's The Door on the Sea came out and the library STILL doesn't have any of the seven copies it ordered -__-
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#OtD 2 Dec 1859 US abolitionist John Brown was executed by the state of Virginia for his leadership in a plot to incite an armed rebellion against slavery stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1265...
December 2, 2025 at 8:40 AM
#OtD 2 Dec 1859 US abolitionist John Brown was executed by the state of Virginia for his leadership in a plot to incite an armed rebellion against slavery stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1265...
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another year-end list of queer SFF where <8% of the books are actually by queer men about queer men :-/
November 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
another year-end list of queer SFF where <8% of the books are actually by queer men about queer men :-/
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Yes, Jared Diamond was wrong.
Rapa Nui's people did not suffer ecological and social collapse. They adapted to changed circumstances and thrived.
And they were nothing like "primitive"
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Rapa Nui's people did not suffer ecological and social collapse. They adapted to changed circumstances and thrived.
And they were nothing like "primitive"
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Studies show how the giant statues on Rapa Nui were made and moved—and what caused the island's deforestation
Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is often portrayed in popular culture as an enigma. The rationale is clear: The tiny, remote island in the Pacific features nearly 1,000 enormous statues—the moa...
phys.org
November 30, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Yes, Jared Diamond was wrong.
Rapa Nui's people did not suffer ecological and social collapse. They adapted to changed circumstances and thrived.
And they were nothing like "primitive"
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Rapa Nui's people did not suffer ecological and social collapse. They adapted to changed circumstances and thrived.
And they were nothing like "primitive"
phys.org/news/2025-11...
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If you’re looking for Palestinian speculative fiction for #ReadPalestine week, I got you: soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...
Read Palestinian Speculative Fiction Reading List
The following is a growing reading list for the #ReadPalestinianSpecFic challenge. This is a work in progress to create a list of all available Palestinian speculative fiction. Novels: Novels by Na…
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November 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
If you’re looking for Palestinian speculative fiction for #ReadPalestine week, I got you: soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...
thinking a lot of tangentially related thoughts but especially: the way all of Anglo-American SFF is still marked by Galland's Mille et une nuits, both the text itself and its production as a colonial fantasy.
Our essays for this week are:
Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence
by Tanvir Ahmed
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence
by Tanvir Ahmed
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
November 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
thinking a lot of tangentially related thoughts but especially: the way all of Anglo-American SFF is still marked by Galland's Mille et une nuits, both the text itself and its production as a colonial fantasy.
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Our essays for this week are:
Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence
by Tanvir Ahmed
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence
by Tanvir Ahmed
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
November 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Our essays for this week are:
Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence
by Tanvir Ahmed
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence
by Tanvir Ahmed
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
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If the mania (not great) for buying (questionable) books (laudable) has gripped you today, we should perhaps remind you that ARB is on Bookshop, and that shipping is free this weekend!
ARB's Coverage
Checkout out this list on Bookshop
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November 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
If the mania (not great) for buying (questionable) books (laudable) has gripped you today, we should perhaps remind you that ARB is on Bookshop, and that shipping is free this weekend!
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We need to complete funding so this second book can be included in a February opportunity that will *further* lift human translation.
We're funding an African small press owned by a Black woman who acts on her values for solidarity and a peaceful world.
Would you help rally and close this up? 🙏🏻
We're funding an African small press owned by a Black woman who acts on her values for solidarity and a peaceful world.
Would you help rally and close this up? 🙏🏻
Support African Translation Project
African Translation Project / Need to complete funding for Shona → English translation / still needed: $2400, 52% / Amount above completes funding for translation of Zvinobvinza / isiZulu translation ...
ko-fi.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
We need to complete funding so this second book can be included in a February opportunity that will *further* lift human translation.
We're funding an African small press owned by a Black woman who acts on her values for solidarity and a peaceful world.
Would you help rally and close this up? 🙏🏻
We're funding an African small press owned by a Black woman who acts on her values for solidarity and a peaceful world.
Would you help rally and close this up? 🙏🏻
I think we should all be learning and thinking more about Nauru actually
November 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I think we should all be learning and thinking more about Nauru actually
review of #SSBA2025 finalist Ghost Apparent, by Jelena Dunato, a loving and gleeful tearing-apart of fairy-tale romance by subjecting both the conventions of fairy tales and the conventions of romance to Renaissance/early modern Realpolitik: anduilleaggheal.neocities.org/leirmheasan/...
Ghost Apparent / an duilleag gheal
anduilleaggheal.neocities.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:55 AM
review of #SSBA2025 finalist Ghost Apparent, by Jelena Dunato, a loving and gleeful tearing-apart of fairy-tale romance by subjecting both the conventions of fairy tales and the conventions of romance to Renaissance/early modern Realpolitik: anduilleaggheal.neocities.org/leirmheasan/...
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NEW ARTICLE: Yemeni coins trace relations between pirates, merchants, and enslavers that traversed the North American, Arabian, & Madagascar coasts in the 1690s and shed light on colonial material exchange.
#vastearlyamerica #arthistory
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#vastearlyamerica #arthistory
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A Trail of Coins from Yemen to New York: Pirates, Plunder, and Enslavement in the World of Margrieta van Varick, ca. 1695 - Panorama
Panorama is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). The journal is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for d...
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November 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
NEW ARTICLE: Yemeni coins trace relations between pirates, merchants, and enslavers that traversed the North American, Arabian, & Madagascar coasts in the 1690s and shed light on colonial material exchange.
#vastearlyamerica #arthistory
journalpanorama.org/article/a-tr...
#vastearlyamerica #arthistory
journalpanorama.org/article/a-tr...