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The Dodge @thedodgemag.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Today we're excited to be featuring Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social and her beautiful nonfiction piece "The Breath of Bees" from our Summer 2026 Issue OUT NOW! Read the rest of Geetha's piece and the other works from our latest Issue on our website, linked in bio!

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The Dodge @thedodgemag.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

We are so excited to announce that our Summer 2026 Issue is OUT NOW! You can read the new issue on our website through the link in our bio! You can also use that link to RSVP to our Zoom Launch Party on Wednesday 7/22 at 7 p.m. EST. We hope to see you there!

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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

New nonfiction out in @thedodgemag.bsky.social, from a time when I was briefly a beekeeper in Iowa (spoiler alert: it was a disaster). The bees in the photo here are Tetragonisca angustula, a species native to Panama, and a source of endless passive fascination. thedodgemag.com/summer-2026-...

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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Adding this to my ongoing collection of social insect fiction discourse. "what would ayn rand have them do—scatter and leave the colony foodless, defenseless? or worse, have the workers fight among herselves for the last scrap of succulent grub?" It's a wee story, you have time to read it.

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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

"I still believe in my country because | joy keeps happening without | permission" I could have drop-quoted any line from this poem and it would have pulled you into the group hug we all need. Read both poems at the link. Breathtaking work by Oladosu Michael Emerald >>

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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Literally one of the best pedagogical books I've used 💜

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Crucial Comix @crucialcomix.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

A beautiful new comic about an unexpected conversation with an NYC Lyft driver. www.crucialcomix.com/comic/lyft-r...

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The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

A poem from a mother of two in Lebanon #peace

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The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

@fiddes.bsky.social writes the Epilogue to his Spring Journal. #Lebanon #gaza #beruit #Iran #people #humanity We Must Go On...

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I'm still doing a GoFundMe to help my parents rebuild after a devastating house fire. The costs of doing so, with an uninsured house, are extremely high. My parents are elderly and low-income and my disabled brother lives with them. I deeply appreciate shares of this link! gofund.me/ac93c03d5

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Donate to We Lost Everything to a Fire. Help My Family Rebuild., organized by Chloe Clark

On January 24th, our childhood home burned down. Our parents lost 50… Chloe Clark needs your support for We Lost Everything to a Fire. Help My Family Rebuild.

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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Genuinely living through the era where poems are praying through us>>

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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Let me tell you, there is no thrill greater than showing your child that a creature from their imagination exists in real life. We looked at a whole bunch of nonbinary (gynandromorph) butterflies tonight. You should too.

6-year-old's doodle of a butterfly with the left half of its wings painted in sparkly orange-red, and the right half in sparkly blue-green. Smudgy fingerprints abound.

A gynandromorphic common blue butterfly on a thistle flower. Left half of wings are iridescent powder blue (male patterning), and right half are brown fringed with orange dots (female patterning). Photo by Burkhard Hinnersmann, from Wikimedia Commons.

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

This creature from that nest remains and probably always will be the coolest thing I've found: the bilateral gynandromorph Polyergus longicornis; half worker, half winged male alate. A They/Them Ant. 🖤❤️ Still feels kind of surreal! 🌿🐜🧪

Black and red ant split neatly down the middle head to gaster; the black half being the male alate, and the red the female worker. The black half has a wing, the red does not.

View of the other side of the creature, the red worker half.

Top down view; the single translucent wing is covering nearly the whole gaster. The head and thorax is red on the right, black on the left.

The creature, facing you, showing off the wild difference between each half. The worker mandible is like 4x the size of the alate mandible. The alate eye is roughly twice the size of the worker eye.

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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Ashraf Shaikh: "Communities don’t need poetry. They need policy. Wildlife doesn’t need abstraction. It needs security." Stumbled upon this piece quite by accident and I'm simultaneously in awe of the impassioned argument and dying inside because my own writing has so often missed the mark.

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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Wherein I take up an ill-advised project in tropical gardening because of various personal sadnesses 🌿

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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 22/01/2026

I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊 Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.

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Part 1: How do LLMs work?

YouTube video by Andrew Perfors

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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

"These are my kind of people: | no tears—just ,| steam from a kettle | that never quite boils."

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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 16/01/2026

A lot of people coming from higher castes claim to be caste-blind. Even in the sciences, the range of experiences of those navigating a career in STEM is a testament to how deep-rooted caste is even among those who claim to have given up the practice. (Published Oct. 2021)

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Perspective: Saying DEI in an Indian Accent

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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

et tu, libby?! libby users, you can give them feedback on their new fuckery of an ai policy by pressing the bottom-center button in the app & scrolling down

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 17/12/2025

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

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Laina @lainasparetime.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

My favourite blog post is up!! Queer Middle Grade Books Coming out in 2026 (So Far)! lainahastoomuchsparetime.wordpress.com/2026/01/09/q...

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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

My alma mater, the MFA Program Creative Writing & Environment at Iowa State University, is hiring an assistant professor, tenure-track. If you're a writer who blends your creative work with place, nature, ecology, environment, etc, apply: isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...

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Assistant Professor of English (Creative Writing and Environment)

Position Title: Assistant Professor of English (Creative Writing and Environment) Appointment Type: Faculty Job Description: The Department of English in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Io...

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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Did you know you needed a climate change poem today? You need one every day, a prayer and foghorn. Read @lindszd.bsky.social's beautiful work: "Love is a simple object navigating | blurry physics, an ark baring its hull | to flood, remaining afloat." From www.ronslate.com/given-after-...

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“Given” & “After Some Words Scrawled on a Bathroom Stall” – On the Seawall

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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Who knew I needed to see Paleolithic rock art. Thread below, come for the shade, stay for the delicately carved sculptures >>

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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Every time I find an interview with Trudy Cooper in the wild I rejoice. Platinum Grit and Oglaf are way more niche than they deserve to be. Also, how is this thing that I love that someone created 16+ years old?

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Nicole Walker @nikwalk.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

What a gift it is to have this essay published on this hopeful day! Thank you so much, @jacqdoyle.bsky.social , for helping to bring this piece into the world.

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Larisa A. White @larisa-a-white.com · 04/11/2025

Love this infographic. Spot on!

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Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Arthropod Photo of the Week: October 22, 2025 Jagged ambush bug Phymata sp. Hemiptera: Reduviidae By Tom Astle (@tjalamont.bsky.social), Montana, USA #arthropodPOTW

A close-up image of a yellow insect with textured, bumpy skin perched on a bright yellow flower. The background is blurred, highlighting the details of the insect and petals.

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The Offing @theoffingmag.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Best of the Net 2025 Nonfiction and Poetry nominations (@geetha-iyer.bsky.social, @rogerthatmack.bsky.social)

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NONFICTION

Geetha Iyer (@geetha-iyer.bsky.social), "Exquisite Corpus"

Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin, "Ngoại and the Coral Reef"

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POETRY

Kristin Gustafson, "Horse Poetica"
Lauren Saxon, "if I could give you the moon"
Mack Rogers (@rogerthatmack.bsky.social), "My mother's scrapbook found while I was looking for inspiration"
Maya Salameh, "EXCERPTS FROM SEPTEMBER'S PSYCHOSOMATIC EFFECTS ON ARAB AM. GIRLS"
Tim Seibles, "So, After A While,"
Shasparay, "Judgment Day"

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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

🧵Open submissions call! I recently took on a new position as Associate Editor of Creative Nonfiction at ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. If you have work that intersects people+nature in some significant way, I want to see it! Read on for submissions criteria...

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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Me to 5yo: Please walk faster, I want to get home. Also me: 5yo, hold my bag, and the umbrella, and the raincoat, I have to chase down this insect and confirm it is not a bee. 15 minutes later... Look at this beauty. Bumblebee robberfly, not currently assassinating anything smaller than a raisin.

Much like a bumblebee, this insect is covered in yellow hairs. Furry yellow legs, yellow face with black eyes, domed yellow thorax, abdomen banded in yellow and unfurry black. How to tell it is a fly and not a bee? One large set of brown wings, one set of halteres (little yellow nubs under the main wings, used for steering), antennae are short and more like horns than the rounded tipped antennae of bees, and the mouthparts come to a point, meant to pierce their prey to suck out their blood. The eyes are rounder and more beady looking than bee eyes. Robberflies hunt by sight. They are also called assassin flies, because they are spectacular predators. This one is giving me intense side eye from the tarmac after evading my camera for so long.

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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

My new mode of interacting with Bsky--if it's not a poem or a picture of an invertebrate within three newsfeed posts, I'm outta here. Lucky me:

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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

In a confluence of interests--this paper looked at classical Chinese poetry to infer range contraction of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise. Poetry as natural history notes, love this.

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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I knew this folio on queer epistolaries was going to knock me out and I was right and I have grading to do but all I want to do is keep reading >>

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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Ok, bear with the shaky-cam (it is my signature special effect as an overenthusiast), but would you take a look at this blessed date palm? Rosy-faced lovebirds, common pigeons, and gila woodpeckers (I think?) all nesting in the same date palm tree crown. Phoenix, AZ.

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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

🧵"It is characteristic of the scribble to resist being anything and to be part of the move; on the move, just as the scribbler is [...] The line takes time and is time as a temporal trace, thus the scribbler [...] and the scribble [...] are forms of growth and return [remaining] unfinished, always."

A toddler (my kid four years ago) photographed from above sitting on a tile floor with red and yellow paint in a tray and a sketchbook with red, yellow, and murky orange dashes of paint running across the pages. The sole of the toddler's left foot is painted red. There's a line of red paint on the toddler's right knee. The toddler's right hand is holding a brush and motion-blurred. More body painting will ensue.

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Michelle R. Brady @bradymicheller.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

List of NEA grant recipients no longer receiving funding. You don't have to care. You just have to know. @electricliterature.com @onestorymag.bsky.social @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social @redhenpress.bsky.social @mcsweeneys.net etc docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #writingcommunity

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NEA GRANT TERMINATION TRACKER

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Or, if you prefer a smaller bookshop:

Title: The exceedingly tiny bookshop

It is no wider than its own narrow door but is easy to find as there is always a queue of eager customers outside.

One at a time, they enter to find themselves uncomfortably close to the proprietor. His impeccable suggestions are mote than worth the indignity.

In the miniature stockroom a professional contortionist is employed to unpack deliveries and replenish the display.

The shelves can accommodate only eleven volumes, but each is chosen with such care that nobody leaves empty handed.

On Saturday mornings, a local author reads stories to as many small children as can be wedged into the shop.

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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Excited to come across this paragraph by @alexanderchee.bsky.social in the newsletter I just read by dear friend and luminescent @jiminhanwriter.bsky.social. I needed this.

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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Raging? Me. Too. Even (and especially) so, here is a baby sloth eating a melon.

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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Literally nothing I read about LLMs reduces my rage. So happy (?) to see the carbon expenditure of using ChatGPT as a calculator laid bare like this >>

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

🧵NOT BY ME, this is a post from someone who wants to remain anonymous but works extensively with trans people pre-transition. They were asked by someone “why do you think that’s so much [coverage of trans people] in the news at the moment?” This was their response:

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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Kenyan #journalist Alvin Kaunda was reporting live from Nairobi when a curious baby #elephant, Kindani, decided to join the broadcast. The playful elephant stuck her trunk in Alvin's mouth, making for a hilarious moment! A joyful reminder of wildlife's charm and the work of the Sheldrick Trust!

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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

There are many horrors, but today my kid asked me what was the best poem I ever wrote, and I read it to her, and then she said she would write a poem, which turned into a story, which turned into a comic, and isn't it a gift to watch a child develop narrative and visual literacy in the 2020s.

A notebook with a child's stick figure drawing of a mother and child by a tall shelf, with a jar on every shelf. The almost-top jar contains a fruit. The topmost jar, which the child is pointing at, contains cookies. Text in the child's hand on the top of the page reads, "Nila Nila what | do you want | Mama I want | a cookie | dut cookies | aren't healthy Nila | ok fine then" Let it be known that this is a work of fiction. The child has access to plenty of cookies. And fruit not in jars.

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shing yin khor @shing.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

More info about our tea pet fundraiser for the Trans Youth Emergency Project! The store launches April 29th, 12 PST. Tea pets are mailed randomly, requests possible at a higher tier! We'll probably sell out! tea4t.bigcartel.com/about

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"? Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

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Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic

Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male

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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

So excited for this 🌈🌍, everyone look, register, listen in!

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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I've been waiting for this book to come out for so long. @vauhinivara.bsky.social is one of the writers I teach when I teach my students about LLMs and storytelling. Can't wait to finally buy this 💜

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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Adding this to my mash-up animal cognition seminar/creative writing class syllabus/notes for the book I wish I were writing instead of grading right now >>

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