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Carrie SpookyAtADistance Lynn

@carrielynnland.bsky.social
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#PhD candidate in #ScienceFiction; master's on #Dune; podcaster & host of New Books in #Secularism; #academicsky

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just so, so, so, so tired of having to spend so much of my time, effort and mental energy on thinking and talking about a theft-based ecocidal socially harmful technology whose core public face (the LLM-slop type) has zero - ZERO - proven use cases in education and academia.
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Will Gervais @willgervais.com · 16/09/2026
Had a fun chat about Disbelief with @carrielynnland.bsky.social for New Books in Secularism, check it out! open.spotify.com/episode/5oJK... 💙📚 🧪
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Will Gervais, "Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species" (Prometheus Books, 2024)
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I knew that some folks will not be delighted by this review of Graham Farmelo's new biography of Hawking, but so be it. The book itself is good - as I say, Farmelo lets people's words speak for themselves, and many are quite damning. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Hawking by Graham Farmelo review – the dark side of genius
A biography of the physicist recognises his achievements, but also reveals the selfish narcissist underneath
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Carrie SpookyAtADistance Lynn @carrielynnland.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The more I learn about Vladimir Nabokov, the more I love. This is SO Nabokovian 🦋
Paragraph from Wikipedia describing Nabokov’s contribution to the taxonomies of butterflies.
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Carrie SpookyAtADistance Lynn @carrielynnland.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Hope this eventually pops up on the @piatpod.bsky.social
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Carrie SpookyAtADistance Lynn @carrielynnland.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This looks very cool!
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Brian Honan @brianhonan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Happy Skynet day to all those who celebrate
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 30/08/2026
If you rely on scraping to collect data for your academic studies, be aware that AI poisoning is a thing. journal.messyfounder.com/why-brands-a... #academicsky #phdsky
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Why Brands Are Secretly “Poisoning” Their Data to Stop AI Scrapers
AI isn’t sending you traffic anymore — it’s stealing your IP
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Carrie SpookyAtADistance Lynn @carrielynnland.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Great topical premise for a sci-fi movie right now - the cliché robot butler, but it’s such a shameless kiss-up bootlicker they have to kill it for the cringe factor lol. Someone make this please.
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Etele Plaza's Interactive Kisrobot
Alt: A robot butler called “Kissrobot”
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Carrie SpookyAtADistance Lynn @carrielynnland.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
That’s it, this will forever be atheism’s mascot in my head-canon, I will never get this image of Dawkins out of my head 🤣 Thank you, @willgervais.com
The preface describes an image of Richard Dawkins, “burst[ing] through the wall like Kool-Aid Man yelling “Oh yeah, God’s dead!”Cover of book “DISBELIEF: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species” by Will Gervais (Prometheus Books, 2024)
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Carrie SpookyAtADistance Lynn @carrielynnland.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
What a fantastic success story. Intelligent, targeted law-enforcement responses are more effective than resource-heavy brute force. ICE could learn from Baltimore.
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Library funding is tied to usage.
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Just My Opinion👵🏻 @justmyopinionok.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
A relic of the future 🖖 #StarTrek
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Decades after it was lost, original ‘Star Trek’ USS Enterprise model found and restored
It's not every day a piece of science fiction history is discovered, but that's exactly what happened with the original 33-inch USS Enterprise model from "Star Trek: The Original Series."
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19/07/2026
“If students are using it to compose, which is the biggest tragedy of all, they’ll never learn to write. And their voice is stolen from them.”
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Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’
He called AI writing “pastiche nonsense.”
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Australian Journal of International Affairs @austjia.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
🚨 New online: in this discussion piece, Madhav Joshi presents 5 shifts in international peace building practices which underlie recent increases in armed conflict and the slower implementation of peacebuilding processes.⬇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #AcademicSky
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With 57 ongoing intrastate armed conflicts around the world, 2024 was one of the deadliest years. The end of the Cold War was followed by two relatively peaceful decades, as peace process settlements ended numerous armed conflicts. Since the early 2010s, the onset and persistence rates of armed conflict have been significantly higher than their termination rates, indicating a decline in peace agreements. This article examines five shifts in international peacebuilding practices driving this trend: a pivot in US foreign policy from peacebuilding to statebuilding, the decline in multilateral solutions to armed conflicts, an increase in
religious conflicts and a lack of culturally informed mediation support, a well-intended emphasis on inclusive peace processes that are practically difficult to implement, and a slower
implementation pace of the most recent peace agreements. The concluding section explores what could lie ahead for
peacebuilding and peace processes.
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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
With the first book in our CINEMAS OF ASIA series coming out in just a few months, I really want people to know how awesome this series is. And that we want your ideas! We're on Open Access publisher and we *pay* our authors for their books. Plus our print editions are beautiful and affordable.
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Cinemas of Asia
Lever Press is a scholarly press supported by more than 50 liberal arts institutions. It publishes peer-reviewed, born digital, open access monographs at no cost to authors or their academic instituti...
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
#FiveAlive 5 ALBUMS to get Sun Ra virgins on the road. 1. The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra Volume 1 2. Space is the Place 3. Other Voices, Other Blues (Sun Ra Quartet ft. John Gilmore) 4. The Singles: The Definitive 45s Collection, Vol.2, 1962 - 1991 5. Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy
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Nose Stuck in a Book Blog @nsiabblog.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Life changing #booksky
Dont let anyone talk you out of buying that 1 book at the bookstore. Those 3 books could be the most life changing 10 books you’ve ever gotten
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Gary Erskine @garyerskine.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
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Carrie SpookyAtADistance Lynn @carrielynnland.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Why do we create art, why do we write, when it feels like the world is ending? Ed Simon joined me on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to discuss his latest book, WRITING DURING THE APOCALYPSE (@bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social) which addresses these very questions. newbooksnetwork.com/writing-duri...
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Carrie SpookyAtADistance Lynn @carrielynnland.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Is it possible to devise a system of morality and ethics from math? From physics?? From the Laws of Thermodynamics??? @dmdalton.bsky.social says YES in his latest book from @nupress.bsky.social. Give a listen to our discussion on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/the-matter-o...
Book cover shows partial eclipse of the sun; title: THE MATTER OF EVIL: From Speculative Realism to Ethical Pessimism by Drew M. Dalton.
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Carrie SpookyAtADistance Lynn @carrielynnland.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This was such a fun discussion! Ready to get your 🤯 by physics??
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Carrie SpookyAtADistance Lynn @carrielynnland.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
There are lovely people in the world. It helps me to remember that. I’ve never set foot in a lab but I feel like I could instantly be friends with all these people.
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Geoffrey Talaxian 🌯🚀🎧🍽️⚓️🦋🌊♎️🏳️‍🌈 @waxsonic.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
“Bring me Solo and the Wookiee”
Orange and white portly tabby laying on its side propped up on its right front leg
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Carrie SpookyAtADistance Lynn @carrielynnland.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
In AI news: AI is still bad at things …
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Carrie SpookyAtADistance Lynn @carrielynnland.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Enjoyed speaking with Elliot Hanowski on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. In this #AuthorInterview #podcast, we talk about notable atheists and unbelievers in Canada during the interwar period, including their activities and their opponents. #Booksky newbooksnetwork.com/towards-a-go...
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Elliot B. Hanowski, "Towards a Godless Dominion: Unbelief in Interwar Canada" (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2023) - New Books Network
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Carrie SpookyAtADistance Lynn @carrielynnland.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
@drkarlnadolsky.bsky.social & @drnadolsky.bsky.social just listened to your episode with the debate between Dr Stacy and Dr Lauren from Sept 2025 and had to respond with my experience/anecdote, as a perimenopausal woman who lifts 4-6x/wk and started at 19 yrs old.
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Carrie SpookyAtADistance Lynn @carrielynnland.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
My school, Université Laval, is looking to hire a full-time, tenure-track professor of Making Maple Syrup 🍁Not making this up: www.rh.ulaval.ca/emplois-disp...
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Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Maple Syrup Production | Ressources humaines | Université Laval
A privileged living environment in the heart of Quebec City and the first French-language university in North America, Université Laval is a major university open to the world and recognized for its culture of excellence in teaching and research. Thanks to the Department of Wood and Forest Sciences of the Faculty of Forestry, Geography and Geomatics, Université Laval is the only university in Quebec to offer undergraduate programs in forestry and wood engineering leading to the Quebec Order of Forest Engineers or to the Quebec Order of Engineers. The Department of Wood and Forest Sciences is also responsible for the integrated multi-faculty bachelor's degree in natural and managed environments and the only graduate program in agroforestry in Canada. It has 35 full-time professors and lecturers, five research chairs, a teaching leadership chairs, a research consortium, two research centers and over 500 undergraduate and graduate students. Collaborations with the Departments of Geography and Geomatics, as well as with other faculties at Université Laval, offer interesting opportunities for multidisciplinary research.
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Carrie SpookyAtADistance Lynn @carrielynnland.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I’ll just have Copilote summarize it for me and coordinate sending a reply.
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Woodrow Peel 🆗🆒 @woodyluvscoffee.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Go for it. I don't even care any more.
Photo of a sketch of a Neanderthal. The headline reads:
Scientists Growing Neanderthal
'Minibrains', Will Connect Them to Crab Robots
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Carrie SpookyAtADistance Lynn @carrielynnland.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Enjoyed talking with JL Schellenberg about his recent book "WHAT GOD WOULD HAVE KNOWN: How Human Intellectual and Moral Development Undermines Christian Doctrine" (@academic.oup.com, 2025) on New Books in Secularism, a #podcast on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/what-god-wou...
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J. L. Schellenberg, "What God Would Have Known: How Human Intellectual and Moral Development Undermines Christian Doctrine" (Oxford UP, 2024) - New Books Network
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bpj1701.bsky.social @bpj1701.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Just throwing this out there. Cosplay Academic Conferences.
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Carrie SpookyAtADistance Lynn @carrielynnland.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
@ifbookspod.bsky.social Hi! Recently discovered you and really enjoy the podcast. Just last week suddenly I can neither download nor stream. I just get “queued” or “failed.” This happens with your episodes in both Apple Podcasts and Pocket Casts, but I have no problems with other podcasts.
Pocket Casts shows episodes failing to download. Apple Podcasts shows “Unable to download podcast” error message.
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Going to do another listen to Akhenaten in celebration.
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Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
After her last interview in @theguardian.com just last week, it's immensely sad to announce the death of Diane Munday at 94. Patron of @humanists.uk (first joining 70 years ago!), friend and mentor. Her exemplary life as an activist will be a permanent inspiration. humanists.uk/2026/01/11/h...
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Humanists UK mourns Diane Munday, leading campaigner for the Abortion Act (1931-2026)
Humanists UK is deeply saddened to announce the death of its patron, Diane Munday, who dedicated her life to social reform, most notably as the principal leader of the campaign for the Abortion Act 19...
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Carrie SpookyAtADistance Lynn @carrielynnland.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I'm BACK on New Books in Secularism, @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, joined by @dnewheiser.bsky.social to talk about his book "Art-Making as Spiritual Practice: Rituals of Embodied Understanding" (Bloomsbury, 2025). Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/art-making-a...
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David Newheiser et al., "Art-Making as Spiritual Practice: Rituals of Embodied Understanding" (Bloomsbury, 2025) - New Books Network
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Delighted to see that my conversation with Miranda Melcher about my book Magazine promoted anew on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. It's a fun little book -- and now an audiobook, too. www.bloomsbury.com/us/magazine-...
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Magazine
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.For a century, magazines were the authors of culture a…
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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Tis better to have shoved an ass Than never to have shoved at all
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
six months ago Reader’s Digest asked if they could purchase the publishing rights for this elaborate shitpost I wrote a year ago now wherein I pretended to be the elf equivalent of David Brooks at the North Pole. Thought it was maybe a phishing scam but it’s real LMAOO
A page in Reader’s Digest reading “Elf Mayhem is Taking Over”
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SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Breaking: The ATA picked up an unexpected signal… turns out it was Santa, piloting a saucer through the Saturn system. He was navigating the icy fractures of Enceladus to deliver presents to any single-celled residents who might be hiding in its subsurface ocean. 🎅🪐🛸 Happy Holidays!
Cassini photograph of Saturn showing the ring plane edge-on and broken up by the moon Enceladus. A graphic of Santa Clause in a red saucer-shaped UFO pulled by eight reindeer is in front, heading away from the gas giant.
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Anna Dent @annadent.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
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Carrie SpookyAtADistance Lynn @carrielynnland.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Pretty great, unexpected news. (Also, it’s not just about “driving the whales crazy” 🙄)
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Carrie SpookyAtADistance Lynn @carrielynnland.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
@michaelburns.bsky.social did I hear you say you had a book in the works, or was that wishful thinking?
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Carrie SpookyAtADistance Lynn @carrielynnland.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Self-loathing is the mother of good invention 😂
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Carrie SpookyAtADistance Lynn @carrielynnland.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
News flash: university students really love science fiction in the classroom too (but you think anyone has a budget for such a professorship? 🙄)
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