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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Taking notes and affirmations from Truschke's words on analog classrooms and banning AI as well. This is the first semester I've switched to analog assignments in creative writing. Next year, I'm bringing back the old school professor's mixtape of required reading in a spiral-bound course pack.

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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

So much clarity on teaching humanities with integrity: "I never ask students to not be offended. I would consider that counterproductive and a denial of their human emotions. Rather, my goal is to offer students a clear path for working through their emotions in pursuit of a humanities education."

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Mongabay Latam @mongabaylatam.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

📣 ¡Últimos días para postularte a la beca de Mongabay Latam! 🌎 La convocatoria está dirigida a periodistas de América Latina con experiencia en cobertura ambiental y financiará historias sobre océanos, bosques y cambio climático. 👉🏼 bit.ly/BecaMongabay2026

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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Also, can we please admire this absolutely stunning cover! Cover art by Ricardo Diseño.

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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

*the way my queer heart flutters* Folks, the forthcoming Foglifter is pre-order ready! You should snag a copy, it's going to be so gorgeous! Among the lovelies whose work features herein, I go off into the deep end, waxing lyrical about spiders while mourning social collapse during the pandemic.

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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

Forgot the alt text: Photo shows the wax tube entrance to a Tetragonisca angustula beehive with five bees perched on guard on the outside. These are tiny bees--about as small as a honey bee's upper wing--yellow-bodied, with green eyes freckled in black spots. Photo credit @martijnslot.bsky.social

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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

Common blue photo credit: Burkhard Hinnersmann, off Wikimedia Commons.

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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?

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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 · 04/01/2026

Could I ask, is this submission call open to hybrid work (I'm thinking a mix of prose and comics essays)?

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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Oh my goodness, what is this comic book called? Who is it by? Combines two of my faves (spiders and comics) in one and I have to know!

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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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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

The word does not exist but it feels like it should be coined for this purpose: outrospective.

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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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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

What a gorgeous piece, as always!

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

Love this infographic. Spot on!

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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Still timely now :'( Love the cognitive time lag thing. I thought I'd seen all I needed to see about zombies and I'm happy to be shown otherwise

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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Is this a post-March 2020 piece? It has that feeling. The surprise I felt reading this turn: "I keep thinking about how she didn’t live long enough for me to not kill her..."

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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

Do reach out if you have questions on any of the above! End 🧵

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

If creative nonfiction is not your jam, ISLE also accepts fiction, poetry, and scholarly articles. Check out their submission criteria as well. And follow @asle-us.bsky.social for more on the study of literature and the environment.

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

The general instructions page will be updated to reflect the details above, and the submissions portal and other details can be found here: academic.oup.com/isle/pages/G...

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Instructions to Authors

Types of Submissions Accepted Scholarly Articles We welcome scholarly article manuscripts of 6,500-8,500 words, formatted according to the MLA Handbook, 9th E

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

We do not accept simultaneous submissions but we guarantee a fast response (within one month) so your work is not held up indefinitely. Please limit your submissions to once a year. At this time, ISLE is a non-paying journal run by an all-volunteer staff.

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

We do not accept work that is composed with LLMs (AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Midjourney). Current LLMs are labor- and carbon-exploitative to a degree that cannot justify their ethical use in a journal that focuses on literature and the environment...

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