J A Clarke
@janeeyrie.bsky.social
I write high fantasy with low characters. Poetry too.
Likes: equality, folk tales, birds, concept albums, woodruff cordial. Politics: let oligarchs fight their own wars.
https://bio.link/janeclarke
RPs/likes ≠ endorsement of any/all OP's views
Likes: equality, folk tales, birds, concept albums, woodruff cordial. Politics: let oligarchs fight their own wars.
https://bio.link/janeclarke
RPs/likes ≠ endorsement of any/all OP's views
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J A Clarke
@janeeyrie.bsky.social
· Jul 16
New poem published in Magma Poetry
Whoops! I nearly forgot to tell you... The poem is called “Halicephalobus Mephisto or Dirt Divinations” and it’s about a worm under pressure. You can pick up issue 90 of Magma directly from their site or from various bookshops with the foresight and good taste to sell Magma’s current and back issues. Digital copies are also available. Here’s what Magma say about themselves on their site:
jaclarkeauthor.com
I have a new poem published in Magma Poetry issue 90. OK, I’m a little late, but I’m updating my blog in an effort to get away from the Bad Sort of social media. You know how it is. Anyway, if you’re into hopeful poems, possibly featuring invertebrates…this issue’s for you
#poetry #NewPoetry
#poetry #NewPoetry
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And yes, I know the novella market has changed and awards focus is on novellas that appear as standalone books from medium to large publishers but I (obviously) still love publishing and reading novellas as meaty offerings in magazines and anthologies and I hope enough people still do too.
As the end of the year approaches here's my 2025 eligibility post for my novella "Descent" in
@clarkesworldmagazine.com:
a science-fantasy story about an expedition on a planet of sonic storms. Adventure, parental expectations and the limits of knowledge
wtalabi.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/2...
@clarkesworldmagazine.com:
a science-fantasy story about an expedition on a planet of sonic storms. Adventure, parental expectations and the limits of knowledge
wtalabi.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/2...
2025 Awards Eligibility (Visibility) Post
Well! Here we are once again, approaching the end of another year. Where does all the time go? Sometimes I wish I could pull a Megalopolis and “stop time” (IYKYK). But yes, as the inexo…
wtalabi.wordpress.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:57 AM
And yes, I know the novella market has changed and awards focus is on novellas that appear as standalone books from medium to large publishers but I (obviously) still love publishing and reading novellas as meaty offerings in magazines and anthologies and I hope enough people still do too.
What does history call a person who collaborates with fascism?
A reporter asks if Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist. Mamdani starts to give a delicate answer.
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
November 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
What does history call a person who collaborates with fascism?
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Greek secondary school teachers to be trained in using AI in classroom
Greek secondary school teachers to be trained in using AI in classroom
Some teachers and pupils voice concerns about pilot programme after government’s agreement with OpenAI
Secondary school teachers in Greece are set to go through an intensive course in using artificial intelligence tools as the country assumes a frontline role in incorporating AI into its education system.
Next week, staff in 20 schools will be trained in a specialised version of ChatGPT, custom-made for academic institutions, under a new agreement between the centre-right government and OpenAI. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Greek secondary school teachers to be trained in using AI in classroom
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This is a real image of a real thing that exists in the universe! And because a bunch of humans decided to get together and build a space telescope, we get to see it! 🤯
Very excited to share the NASA/ESA/STScI press release of our team's work on Apep! It's a terrific writeup, complete with a brand new beautiful visualisation of the nebula geometry.
1/? ⚛️🔭🧪
science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
1/? ⚛️🔭🧪
science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
Webb First to Show 4 Dust Shells 'Spiraling' Apep, Limits Long Orbit - NASA Science
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a first of its kind: a crisp mid-infrared image of a system of four serpentine spirals of dust, one expanding
science.nasa.gov
November 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This is a real image of a real thing that exists in the universe! And because a bunch of humans decided to get together and build a space telescope, we get to see it! 🤯
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Our monthly list of opportunities is a resource for artists and creatives seeking funding and community support to further their work.
Opportunities in November 2025
Residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from the Bobby Anspach Studios Foundation, Sculpture Space, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.
hyperallergic.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Our monthly list of opportunities is a resource for artists and creatives seeking funding and community support to further their work.
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Shoutout for teachers who hold a degree and/or QTS, and think anti-trans policies are unethical...
Please comment if you would be interested in taking on some paid online tutoring work for UK trans kids who have been forced out of schooling by policy and/or bullying.
Please comment if you would be interested in taking on some paid online tutoring work for UK trans kids who have been forced out of schooling by policy and/or bullying.
November 19, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Shoutout for teachers who hold a degree and/or QTS, and think anti-trans policies are unethical...
Please comment if you would be interested in taking on some paid online tutoring work for UK trans kids who have been forced out of schooling by policy and/or bullying.
Please comment if you would be interested in taking on some paid online tutoring work for UK trans kids who have been forced out of schooling by policy and/or bullying.
I’ve read this book. It didn’t end well.
Resilient infrastructure.
Joint action.
Safer Europe.
Today’s Military Mobility Package will strengthen Europe’s readiness and ability to move quickly in crisis.
To support adoption of disruptive innovations, we’re also laying out the Defence Industry Transformation Roadmap.
link.europa.eu/FFdWvC
Joint action.
Safer Europe.
Today’s Military Mobility Package will strengthen Europe’s readiness and ability to move quickly in crisis.
To support adoption of disruptive innovations, we’re also laying out the Defence Industry Transformation Roadmap.
link.europa.eu/FFdWvC
November 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I’ve read this book. It didn’t end well.
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Speaking to the Advisory Commission today, UNRWA's Commissioner-General underscored the urgent need for basic security, humanitarian assistance, and essential public services in #Gaza.
Full statement: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...
Full statement: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...
November 19, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Speaking to the Advisory Commission today, UNRWA's Commissioner-General underscored the urgent need for basic security, humanitarian assistance, and essential public services in #Gaza.
Full statement: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...
Full statement: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...
I’m not sure why the obvious parallels with Covid aren’t in this specific article but:
‘Robert F. Kennedy Jr…has said the virus should be allowed to burn through flocks so that farmers can identify birds with natural immunity, an approach public health experts have called “dangerous and unethical”’
‘Robert F. Kennedy Jr…has said the virus should be allowed to burn through flocks so that farmers can identify birds with natural immunity, an approach public health experts have called “dangerous and unethical”’
After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing millions of chickens and spiking egg prices, the federal government didn’t investigate if the virus was airborne.
So ProPublica did.
Absolutely terrifying reporting from @natlash.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/bird...
So ProPublica did.
Absolutely terrifying reporting from @natlash.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/bird...
What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I’m not sure why the obvious parallels with Covid aren’t in this specific article but:
‘Robert F. Kennedy Jr…has said the virus should be allowed to burn through flocks so that farmers can identify birds with natural immunity, an approach public health experts have called “dangerous and unethical”’
‘Robert F. Kennedy Jr…has said the virus should be allowed to burn through flocks so that farmers can identify birds with natural immunity, an approach public health experts have called “dangerous and unethical”’
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So much steampunk Victoriana and gore! What is this? Where is my beloved exploration of Enlightenment themes and contradictions? No. No no. Where is the post-revolutionary pessimism? Where are the late Romantics? The fears of the new bourgeoisie? The ghosts of medieval philosophers? #Frankenstein
November 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
So much steampunk Victoriana and gore! What is this? Where is my beloved exploration of Enlightenment themes and contradictions? No. No no. Where is the post-revolutionary pessimism? Where are the late Romantics? The fears of the new bourgeoisie? The ghosts of medieval philosophers? #Frankenstein
Post your favourite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.
November 16, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Post your favourite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
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Medical Republic: 'Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint'
'Additionally, certain risk loci overlapped with long covid (BPTF) and ME/CFS (OLFM4, RABGAP1L/GPR52), two poorly characterised disorders, albeit with different lead variants.'
www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...
'Additionally, certain risk loci overlapped with long covid (BPTF) and ME/CFS (OLFM4, RABGAP1L/GPR52), two poorly characterised disorders, albeit with different lead variants.'
www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...
Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint - Medical Republic
A massive global study links the chronic pain condition to 26 genes associated with brain signalling, marking a turning point in understanding its biological roots.
www.medicalrepublic.com.au
November 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Medical Republic: 'Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint'
'Additionally, certain risk loci overlapped with long covid (BPTF) and ME/CFS (OLFM4, RABGAP1L/GPR52), two poorly characterised disorders, albeit with different lead variants.'
www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...
'Additionally, certain risk loci overlapped with long covid (BPTF) and ME/CFS (OLFM4, RABGAP1L/GPR52), two poorly characterised disorders, albeit with different lead variants.'
www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...
Planned EU deregulation will reduce workers’ rights and cut "most of the supply chain from scrutiny" by severely limiting due diligence and reporting.
Likely to be part of the current, concerted drive to world war & Europe’s associated economic separation from the US
euobserver.com/green-econom...
Likely to be part of the current, concerted drive to world war & Europe’s associated economic separation from the US
euobserver.com/green-econom...
Deregulation plans break EU law, legal scholars warn
Over one hundred legal experts have warned that the EU’s Omnibus I package, which cuts green and social reporting rules, breached EU law and was "likely to be annulled" if adopted.
euobserver.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Planned EU deregulation will reduce workers’ rights and cut "most of the supply chain from scrutiny" by severely limiting due diligence and reporting.
Likely to be part of the current, concerted drive to world war & Europe’s associated economic separation from the US
euobserver.com/green-econom...
Likely to be part of the current, concerted drive to world war & Europe’s associated economic separation from the US
euobserver.com/green-econom...
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West Papua: Soldiers storm towns, execute, torture, and vanish indigenous civilians as protests erupt.
No mercy. #WestPapua #PapuaCrisis #HumanRights —
Read more: humanrightsmonitor.org/news/militar...
No mercy. #WestPapua #PapuaCrisis #HumanRights —
Read more: humanrightsmonitor.org/news/militar...
Military operations in Papuan highlands continue as people launch series of protests against militarism, demanding withdrawal of troops -
People in West Papua protest against the growing militarisation and ongoing expansion of military operations in the Papuan central highlands.
humanrightsmonitor.org
November 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
West Papua: Soldiers storm towns, execute, torture, and vanish indigenous civilians as protests erupt.
No mercy. #WestPapua #PapuaCrisis #HumanRights —
Read more: humanrightsmonitor.org/news/militar...
No mercy. #WestPapua #PapuaCrisis #HumanRights —
Read more: humanrightsmonitor.org/news/militar...
Why Do My Joints Hurt: a tale of minor inconvenience by Me
November 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Why Do My Joints Hurt: a tale of minor inconvenience by Me
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pretty weird that our second most populous state will treat 14 year olds like they're adults, but won't let them on social media until they're 16. feels like a bit of dissonance there
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
pretty weird that our second most populous state will treat 14 year olds like they're adults, but won't let them on social media until they're 16. feels like a bit of dissonance there
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Few things delight me more than newspaper headlines from old Universal horror movies. This one from The Walking Dead (Michael Curtiz, 1936)
November 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Few things delight me more than newspaper headlines from old Universal horror movies. This one from The Walking Dead (Michael Curtiz, 1936)
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Poets reading @ptbopoetry.bsky.social in Edinburgh 22-23 Nove include @pascalepetit.bsky.social, @marjorielotfi.bsky.social, @jesstraynor.bsky.social, plus an online event with Vidyan Ravinthiran & Arundhathi Subramaniam. There's special event for @rachaelboast.bsky.social's Versus Versus anthology.
November 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Poets reading @ptbopoetry.bsky.social in Edinburgh 22-23 Nove include @pascalepetit.bsky.social, @marjorielotfi.bsky.social, @jesstraynor.bsky.social, plus an online event with Vidyan Ravinthiran & Arundhathi Subramaniam. There's special event for @rachaelboast.bsky.social's Versus Versus anthology.
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‘We had never read anything quite like it. It is, in many ways, a dark book but it is a joy to read’
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
‘We had never read anything quite like it. It is, in many ways, a dark book but it is a joy to read’
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
I’m currently reading “The Empress of Salt and Fortune” by @nghivo.bsky.social , a wonderful, layered story with complex, believable characters.
I’m using it as my reward: if I get through all of my tasks today, I get to read another section…
Libby’s waiting list for this novella was lonnnngggg!
I’m using it as my reward: if I get through all of my tasks today, I get to read another section…
Libby’s waiting list for this novella was lonnnngggg!
Forget flat racing, the dogs, and the Grand National. Nothing beats the agonising thrill of watching the books you reserved on Libby inch slowly up the waiting list over the course of several months
#booksky #libraries
#booksky #libraries
a woman in a blue dress is reaching for a book on a ladder
Alt: Belle from "Beauty and the Beast" reaching joyfully along a row of bookshelves.
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I’m currently reading “The Empress of Salt and Fortune” by @nghivo.bsky.social , a wonderful, layered story with complex, believable characters.
I’m using it as my reward: if I get through all of my tasks today, I get to read another section…
Libby’s waiting list for this novella was lonnnngggg!
I’m using it as my reward: if I get through all of my tasks today, I get to read another section…
Libby’s waiting list for this novella was lonnnngggg!
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This is Murujuga National Park, site of the largest collection of rock art carvings in the world.
The oldest depiction of a human face anywhere in the world is HERE.
The LATEST dated specimens here are hundreds of years older than the Pyramids.
This is Gondwanalands history, encapsulated.🧵
The oldest depiction of a human face anywhere in the world is HERE.
The LATEST dated specimens here are hundreds of years older than the Pyramids.
This is Gondwanalands history, encapsulated.🧵
November 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
This is Murujuga National Park, site of the largest collection of rock art carvings in the world.
The oldest depiction of a human face anywhere in the world is HERE.
The LATEST dated specimens here are hundreds of years older than the Pyramids.
This is Gondwanalands history, encapsulated.🧵
The oldest depiction of a human face anywhere in the world is HERE.
The LATEST dated specimens here are hundreds of years older than the Pyramids.
This is Gondwanalands history, encapsulated.🧵