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Anita @anitamchandran.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Our tenth issue is finally out! There's a lot to love in this issue, which is both our longest and one of our best yet. I think it showcases some of the best parts of our mission, and is available for the price of a pint in zone 1 (£9 print/£5 digital only). Please check us out: tamarindlit.co.uk

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Jude Cook @judecook.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Very happy that @tamarindlit.co.uk have run my short story 'Progresso' in their excellent new issue #9. Many thanks to @anitamchandran.bsky.social. Download the digital copy or buy the print edition here: tamarindlit.co.uk

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Anita @anitamchandran.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

used to look forward to this column literally every year like a feral gremlin waiting for nerd xmas (Nobel season) and this does not disappoint

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Kasper @kasperdijk.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Congrats to László K and his fearless translator troops, also including Mari Alföldy, Hans Skirecki, and more

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Anita @anitamchandran.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Sátántangó was one of the most brilliant, baffling, and bleak books I've ever read. I hated and loved it in equal measure. I think about it often. Congrats to László Krasznahorkai !

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Anita @anitamchandran.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

devastating news about Kaiteur Kitchen and other potential evictions in Castle Square... between evictions of long-standing businesses and the hopeless and upcoming end of Corsica Studios, it feels that the life is being quickly drained from E&C

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Anita @anitamchandran.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Leaving One Battle After Another with the same feeling of being electrified that I had after Whiplash

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

With NIH director Jayanta Bhattacharya dismissing my reporting as "false" and "spreading rumors" hours before releasing a policy that confirmed said "rumors," I feel compelled to respond. Here's an inside look into how this story was reported. It was a weird one. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

On a Nature news article reporting that NIH planned to suspend subawards for foreign collaborations:
“No, that’s false. There’s going to be a policy on tracking subawards. The NIH and the government should be able to see where the money’s going.”

“I’m really uncomfortable with this conversation, because you’re like, actually spreading rumors that you don’t know anything about. … Nature also is spreading rumors. Halt foreign collaborations, that’s not true.”

“We’re working on the policy, Jocelyn. You shouldn’t be reporting rumors. I know there’s leaks all over here, but the leaks don’t actually reflect what’s happening. Don’t write about rumors. It actually makes the things that you and I care about worse. Like it spreads panic.”

Later that day, NIH released a policy that halted future subawards to foreign scientists and said they will need to apply directly for money under a system still in development.

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 22/04/2025

Had a letter published in the @financialtimes.com yday,written in response to a column last Monday that blames poor critical thinking on STEM education Raising divisions between arts and science only helps those who want to undermine all education. The problem is the commercialisation of academia 🧪

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Letter: A flawed understanding of the nature of science

From Gautam Kambhampati, Publisher, Tamarind Literary Magazine, Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire, UK

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Tamarind Literary Magazine @tamarindlit.co.uk · 09/01/2025

From ‘The Ripening’ by Sayani Sarkar in Tamarind Issue 7. On sale now at tamarindlit.co.uk/product/issu...

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‘Cells proliferate, blood flows, proteins tumble, tissues grow.
Gravidity is the sign of life.’
Sayani Sarkar
Tamarind Issue 7

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Anita @anitamchandran.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Happy new year! If you’re trying to build a reading habit for 2025, why not support an indie lit mag? The latest issue of Tamarind, our not-for-profit lit mag focusing on the sciences and arts, is on sale now. tamarindlit.co.uk Ships globally!

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Tamarind Literary Magazine @tamarindlit.co.uk · 25/12/2024

Merry Christmas from the team at Tamarind. We wish you all a cosy holiday season and a wonderful year of reading ahead. ✨

Tamarind issue 7 posed in front of a Christmas tree at a famous London bookshop 😌

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Anita @anitamchandran.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Quite the gauntlet in production, but probably our best one yet. Tamarind issue 7 is on sale now!

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Anita @anitamchandran.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

On today, the day that follows the longest night, a little poem about darkness from Wendell Berry.

To Know the Dark
WENDELL BERRY
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.

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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

"AI is a poor name. If it was called ‘extremely rapid computation’, or ‘assisted data analysis’ or ‘cognitive prosthesis’ then that would de-emphasize the magical portions of it." Kim Stanley Robinson www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Sci-fi icon Kim Stanley Robinson: ‘there’s so much bad fiction about anthropomorphizing AI’

The influential writer talks about frighteningly accurate predictions, the creative act of reading, AI consciousness — and hope.

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The National Union of Journalists @nujofficial.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

As Guardian & Observer journalists begin third day of strikes to help #SavetheObserver please help by reposting, by not reading the Guardian or by voicing your opinion to guardian.readers@theguardian.com You can also donate to www.nuj.org.uk/resource/gua... @gonuj.org Thanks for your support!

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Guardian & Observer journalists Hardship Fund

Donate to the Fund to show solidarity and support colleagues in need of financial assistance.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

NEW: the Scott Trust confirms sale of the Observer. RIP the Guardian. A total betrayal of the staff the organisation’s so-called ‘values’. This is a deal negotiated between 2 chums on a billionaire’s yacht: welcome to the the Guardian’s very own VIP lane

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Anita @anitamchandran.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

In solidarity with striking workers at The Guardian today and tomorrow. When we were on strike in May, Guardian colleagues came to support us on the picket line, and hopefully we can do the same for them. ✊🏽 * reposting because the last vers contained a Guardian link @nujofficial.bsky.social

Why we are striking
Save The Observer
Guardian and Observer journalists are going on strike to oppose the deal transferring the Observer to Tortoise media - rushed
through, and done without the involvement Democracy dies
of any Observer staff - because:
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1. Putting the Observer behind a paywall does not promote or protect liberal journalism and will erode its reach.
2. The deal has been done without testing the value of the Observer or inviting / considering other bids.
3. The Observer is currently a successful part of Guardian Media Group.
The paper's journalism gets more than 10 million page views online every weekend. Its print circulation is around 106,000 and is a significant source of revenue.
4. Tortoise, a digital start-up, was launched in 2018 and has yet to record a profit. Between 2018 and 2022, it lost £16.3m.
5. Tortoise's promised investment in the Observer has already been reduced to £20m in cash (from £25m). Experts say the proposed business plan's figures don't add up.
6. The striking journalists believe that the deal will diminish the Guardian and poses an existential threat to the Observer.
To voice your concern please write to:
guardian.readers@theguardian.com
(copying: observer.letters@observer.co.uk)
For more information: nuj.org.uk/savetheobserver

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Anita @anitamchandran.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

One of our best yet 😮‍💨

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Canongate @canongate.co.uk · 26/11/2024

I was going to put the bat down and step away from the dead horse, but now that we've been quoted in the Guardian talking about the AI dingbats, I want to just say a couple of things about self-publishing and the value of $5,000.

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Anita @anitamchandran.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Reading this excerpt of Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking and wondering about the confusion, fear and frustration that scientific writing and concepts can evoke, especially when we are in situations of distress and uncertainty. Wondering at how we can bridge the so called ‘expertise gap’… 1/2

Text reads: review for the USMLE." This book was by Stephen G.
Waxman, M.D., chief of neurology at Yale-New Haven, and was called Clinical Neuroanatomy. I skimmed successfully through some of the appendices, for example
"Appendix A: The Neurologic Examination," but when I began to read the text itself I could think only of a trip to Indonesia during which I had become disoriented by my inability to locate the grammar in Bahasa Indonesia, the official language used on street signs and storefronts and billboards. I had asked someone at the American Embassy how to tell the verbs from the nouns. Bahasa was a language, he had said, in which the same word could be either a verb or a noun. Clinical Neuroanatomy seemed to be one more case in which I would be unable to locate the grammar. I put it on the table by my bed at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, where it would remain for the next five weeks

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Tamarind Literary Magazine @tamarindlit.co.uk · 17/11/2024

Reminder that we are open for subs for our 8th issue! We accept fiction, non-fiction and poetry concerning science, scientists and the intersections of science and society. More at tamarindlit.co.uk/submissions/

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Submissions – Tamarind Literary Magazine

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Anita @anitamchandran.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

We actually are so privileged to work with such incredible artists. This issue is one of my favourites yet. Excited to share it with you all!

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Tamarind Literary Magazine @tamarindlit.co.uk · 14/11/2024

Short reintroduction for all the new folks! We're Tamarind, a non-profit #litmag publishing writing that considers science, scientists and the interaction of science and society. We believe in interrogating the plastic boundary between art and science. #writing #literature #sciart #litfic

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Being a bit cheeky, reposting the paper that Shobha Maharaj, Gretta Pecl & I wrote last month to underscore that as scientists/researchers working on climate change, we can be upset and still continue to do our work - in fact, the distress might make our work better. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Scientists have emotional responses to climate change too

Nature Climate Change - The dominant paradigm holding that science is always objective needs to be challenged. When scientists’ opinions about climate change and their own fears are seen as...

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 13/11/2024

It's beyond ridiculous to think that science editors have to be some sort of apolitical, non-human blob, air-gapped from any emotion, motivation, or stance. It's a fantasy that pops up whenever science disagrees with someone's opinions. In this case it's being utilized by the outrage machine. 3/6

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Anita @anitamchandran.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Last night, Samantha Harvey’s Orbital took home the 2024 #Booker Prize. While congratulations are very much in order, @hilaryfloon.bsky.social and I found ourselves somewhat more sceptical than the judges. Check out our short review in Nature Physics. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Anita @anitamchandran.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Introduce yourself with FOUR books you love: The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula LeGuin) Life for Sale (Yukio Mishima) Gathering Evidence (Martin MacInnes) The Vegetarian (Han Kang)

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