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Sayani Sarkar, PhD (she/her) @omnivorescientist.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Asymptote Journal's Spring 2026 issue, “The Execution Is Today,” features a bold new translation of Plato’s Crito, poems by Rainer Maria Rilke and Osip Mandelstam, an interview with Hiromi Kawakami. My personal favorite is Drucker's "Typo-Translations of John Keats". www.asymptotejournal.com

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Sayani Sarkar, PhD (she/her) @omnivorescientist.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

After a long hiatus, sharing some new as well as old writing. My review of Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will by @wiringthebrain.bsky.social. Dabbled with some visual ideas for the readers. Thanks to @princetonupress.bsky.social for the copy!

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Gordian Knot of the Free Will Debate

Book review of Free Agents by Kevin J. Mitchell

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

That's me in the corner...

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Sayani Sarkar, PhD (she/her) @omnivorescientist.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

My trip to South Park Street Cemetery now on Elsewhere.

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Sayani Sarkar, PhD (she/her) @omnivorescientist.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Spring 2025 issue of Asymptote Journal is here. Spotlight on Korean lit, new translations of Chekhov and Pushkin, our first work from Guyana, Lesotho, and Paraguay, interviews with Federico Federici and Monica Ong, blending biophysics and astronomy with art and poetry. www.asymptotejournal.com

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Spring 2025

Featuring Robin Moger, Anton Chekhov, Judith Santopietro, Lee Chang-dong and Jeong Ho-seung in our Korean Feature

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Sayani Sarkar, PhD (she/her) @omnivorescientist.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Spring brings the crow family nesting again on the devil's tree in front of my house. I live with a murder of #crows. It was about time I dedicated an essay to the #corvids. Entries from my crow #journal, #ravens in popular culture, and books on corvids! sayanisarkar.substack.com/p/on-corvids

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Sayani Sarkar, PhD (she/her) @omnivorescientist.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Absolutely spiffed to see my hybrid essay in the print issue of @tamarindlit.co.uk. The Ripening is about eggs, gestation, medical history, growth, biological timescales, mythology, evolutions biology, and contemporary philosophy. I hope I can keep C.P. Snow's dream alive. Grab a copy 💓

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Sayani Sarkar, PhD (she/her) @omnivorescientist.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Winter 2025 issue of Asymptote Journal is here! Contains Elsa Gribinski’s absurdist diary entries, exclusive interviews with Agustín Fernández Mallo and Tan Pin Pin, poetry by Osip Mandelstam and Natsume Sōseki, and fiction by Lidija Dimkovska and Jurj Salem. asymptotejournal.com/jan-2025

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Winter 2025

Featuring Osip Mandelstam, Agustín Fernández Mallo, Lidija Dimkovska, Tan Pin Pin, Samuel, and Elsa Gribinski in our Special Feature themed on new forms

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Elon Musk has every right to say what he likes. And, yes, he & his fellow broligarchs are not the first billionaires driving politics. But, two things are new: A new hyperweapon they possess (cloud capital). Plus their hypocritical free speech campaign www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2025/01/06/m...

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Musk, Trump and the Broligarchs' novel hyper-weapon - Le Monde 4-1-2025, full original English version - Yanis Varoufakis

How does wealth manage to persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? By merely posing his dazzling question in 1952, Aneurin Bevan captured liberal democracy’s greatest par...

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Sayani Sarkar, PhD (she/her) @omnivorescientist.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

My latest essay on psychoanalytical books by Adam Phillips, Leo Bersani, Alison Bechdel, Frank Tallis, and psychogeography by Tina Richardson. #psychoanalysis is suddenly making a steady rumble in our popular discourse. sayanisarkar.substack.com/p/on-the-res...

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On the Resurgence of Psychoanalysis

Four contemporary books on psychoanalysis and its everlasting shadow on our culture

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I made this dainty lino block print of a Narcomedusae order of jellyfish on beautiful handmade deep blue Japanese Chitose Gunjo paper with silk fibres which add to the organic feel of the piece and makes each print rather unique. A bonus #jellyfish this #InsertAnInvert2024 blob month. 🧪🐡🪼

As described this is my lino block print of a Narcomedusae order of jellyfish in white on beautiful handmade deep blue Japanese Chitose Gunjo paper with silk fibres which add to the organic feel of the piece and makes each print rather unique. It is 4.5 inches by 8 inches or 11.3 cm by 20.3 cm.

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Sayani Sarkar, PhD (she/her) @omnivorescientist.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

#WritingCommunity, introducing myself here! Working on a hybrid nonfiction memoir blending natural history, the Tree of Life, growing up in 90s India, learning biology, academic journey and its joys and perils, and colonial history.

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Sayani Sarkar, PhD (she/her) @omnivorescientist.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Any olfactory enthusiasts here? Sharing a little something I enjoyed reading and talking about the science, language, and culture of smells. sayanisarkar.substack.com/p/the-langua...

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The Language of Everyday Smells

Book Review: The Smell of Fresh Rain by Barney Shaw

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Michael D. Barton @darwinsbulldog.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

The free e-book from University of Chicago Press for September is From Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women’s Rights in Gilded Age America by Kimberly Hamlin ~ tinyurl.com/yc9lynf3 #histsci

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Sayani Sarkar, PhD (she/her) @omnivorescientist.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

When a certain social platform which-must-not-be-named became a dumpster fire, I thought I would never get back the wonderful community of academics, writers, and creatives. Never too late to reconnect. Happy to be here, #AcademicSky!

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