Jane Alexander
@janealexander.bsky.social
Author, The Flicker Against the Light, A User's Guide to Make-Believe, The Last Treasure Hunt. https://linktr.ee/janealexander. Teach CW @ UoE. She/her. janealexander@net
I’m a huge fan of The Lovecraft Investigations - here’s hoping this new series meets its funding goal.
May 1, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I’m a huge fan of The Lovecraft Investigations - here’s hoping this new series meets its funding goal.
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On Thursday 1st May I’ll be talking to Dr Christina Neuwirth about their fascinating research into gender inequality in the Scottish literary sector - do join us! On zoom and free for SoA @societyofauthors.bsky.social members: societyofauthors.org/event/indust...
Industry Insider – The 40% ceiling: Gender equality in the Scottish literary sector - The Society of Authors
Grab a cuppa and find out more about English novelist and game writer Naomi Alderman. Best known for her speculative science fiction novel The Power, which won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction in...
societyofauthors.org
April 22, 2025 at 10:05 AM
On Thursday 1st May I’ll be talking to Dr Christina Neuwirth about their fascinating research into gender inequality in the Scottish literary sector - do join us! On zoom and free for SoA @societyofauthors.bsky.social members: societyofauthors.org/event/indust...
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I just realized that webinar is an anagram of winebar. Suddenly, a way forward appears.
a woman is holding a glass of wine with the words cheers written on the bottom
ALT: a woman is holding a glass of wine with the words cheers written on the bottom
media.tenor.com
April 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I just realized that webinar is an anagram of winebar. Suddenly, a way forward appears.
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Dear March - Come in - 🪻
March 1, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Dear March - Come in - 🪻
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Perhaps we *do* need to start anthropomorphising LLMs - not as reliable researchers or trusty assistants, but as familiar spirits or demons. They WILL lie and deceive, and twist your words, and seek to get you into trouble, while following the letter of their instructions.
February 19, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Perhaps we *do* need to start anthropomorphising LLMs - not as reliable researchers or trusty assistants, but as familiar spirits or demons. They WILL lie and deceive, and twist your words, and seek to get you into trouble, while following the letter of their instructions.
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A fox looks up at Ayr Baths in the early 1980’s before the flume was put in and the urban myth about someone sticking razor blades in it
February 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
A fox looks up at Ayr Baths in the early 1980’s before the flume was put in and the urban myth about someone sticking razor blades in it
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This is brilliant - and, well, mea culpa, I suspect.
The incredible essay 'Machine Learning in Contemporary Science Fiction' by Jo Lindsay Walton has been longlisted for the @bsfa.bsky.social Awards #BSFAAwards2024 in the category Best Short Non-Fiction
Read: sfrareview.org/2024/01/26/m...
Vote: www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...
@jolwalton.bsky.social
Read: sfrareview.org/2024/01/26/m...
Vote: www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...
@jolwalton.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
This is brilliant - and, well, mea culpa, I suspect.
Bird nests made from anti-bird spikes?! 🤯
Hi, I'm a nest researcher 👋 and new here on BlueSky, sharing the craziest #bird nests I've ever found. 👀 Today, I’m sharing my discovery of rebellious birds that build nests out of anti-bird spikes. And honestly, it's like telling a joke...
A thread. 🧵
Hi, I'm a nest researcher 👋 and new here on BlueSky, sharing the craziest #bird nests I've ever found. 👀 Today, I’m sharing my discovery of rebellious birds that build nests out of anti-bird spikes. And honestly, it's like telling a joke...
A thread. 🧵
February 5, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Yes this
David Lynch knew the essential secret of storytelling: you can do whatever the fuck you want as long as you’re also trying to solve a murder
January 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Yes this
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🎶
when you go, will you send back
a lettuce from America?
🎶
when you go, will you send back
a lettuce from America?
🎶
January 18, 2025 at 9:16 AM
🎶
when you go, will you send back
a lettuce from America?
🎶
when you go, will you send back
a lettuce from America?
🎶
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Esq Tom Phillips, Canto XV: [no title], 1981
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1119171
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1119171
January 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Esq Tom Phillips, Canto XV: [no title], 1981
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1119171
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1119171
Excellent review of a fascinating short story collection. I loved Schrödinger’s Wife - strong recommend.
Schrödinger’s Wife (And Other Possibilities) by @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social reviewed by
@libbyoneil.bsky.social for #fullstopmag
www.full-stop.net/2025/01/03/r...
@mitpress.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @goldsmithspress.bsky.social
@sffoundation.bsky.social
#FeministSF
@libbyoneil.bsky.social for #fullstopmag
www.full-stop.net/2025/01/03/r...
@mitpress.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @goldsmithspress.bsky.social
@sffoundation.bsky.social
#FeministSF
Schrödinger’s Wife (And Other Possibilities) – Pippa Goldschmidt
Goldschmidt turns abstruse theories into metaphors of interpersonal relation, uncovering the hidden labor of scientific research and recovering the technical language of physics for humanistic conside...
www.full-stop.net
January 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Excellent review of a fascinating short story collection. I loved Schrödinger’s Wife - strong recommend.
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You can’t store your dog up there, mate
January 2, 2025 at 10:55 AM
You can’t store your dog up there, mate
Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025?
January 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025?
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Wonderful interview with Alan Garner.
Such a powerful, rich-&-strange maker-teller.
Your favourite Garner novel?
Mine: The Owl Service.
“She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.”
*Shivers*
Those commas.
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...
Such a powerful, rich-&-strange maker-teller.
Your favourite Garner novel?
Mine: The Owl Service.
“She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.”
*Shivers*
Those commas.
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...
https://theguardian.com/books/2024/dec…
December 16, 2024 at 8:06 PM
Wonderful interview with Alan Garner.
Such a powerful, rich-&-strange maker-teller.
Your favourite Garner novel?
Mine: The Owl Service.
“She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.”
*Shivers*
Those commas.
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...
Such a powerful, rich-&-strange maker-teller.
Your favourite Garner novel?
Mine: The Owl Service.
“She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.”
*Shivers*
Those commas.
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...
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Interview with Louise Bourgeois
December 12, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Interview with Louise Bourgeois
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We don't have an elf on the shelf but we do have a
December 10, 2024 at 11:38 AM
We don't have an elf on the shelf but we do have a
My childhood copies — a bit less pristine, and the print is almost too small for me to read these days, but they’re no less loved for all that. Almost time for the Christmas re-read…
December 3, 2024 at 7:32 PM
My childhood copies — a bit less pristine, and the print is almost too small for me to read these days, but they’re no less loved for all that. Almost time for the Christmas re-read…
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Day 1 of the #HooklandChristmasTree. We retrieve the Bloody Boy ornament from the box of china Mummers. Some say it's not blood that makes his skin red, but crabapple bark dye. I say best not spoil the seasonal magic. Besides, we all know where the skin of his drum comes from.
December 1, 2024 at 9:08 PM
Day 1 of the #HooklandChristmasTree. We retrieve the Bloody Boy ornament from the box of china Mummers. Some say it's not blood that makes his skin red, but crabapple bark dye. I say best not spoil the seasonal magic. Besides, we all know where the skin of his drum comes from.
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I see it's moving further to the left.
December 1, 2024 at 4:24 PM
I see it's moving further to the left.
Imagine The Void is haunted by the ghosts of 18th century hangovers
A library with a hidden street! Very cool! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The forgotten street found behind a hidden library door
The passageway gives a glimpse of how Edinburgh looked centuries ago.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 1, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Imagine The Void is haunted by the ghosts of 18th century hangovers
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Writing tip: Kill your darlings. Bake them in a pie and serve it to your editor at a grand dinner. When she compliments the chef, say, "Oh, do you like it? Aren't you curious about what meat it is?" and empty a sack onto the table. It is your darlings' decapitated heads!
November 29, 2024 at 7:23 PM
Writing tip: Kill your darlings. Bake them in a pie and serve it to your editor at a grand dinner. When she compliments the chef, say, "Oh, do you like it? Aren't you curious about what meat it is?" and empty a sack onto the table. It is your darlings' decapitated heads!
