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P. Kanngiesser/P. K. Hoffmann

@patkanngiesser.bsky.social
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Assoc. Prof, University of Plymouth, researching cooperation, norms, ethical behaviour, and cultural learning across the world. Sci-fi & fantasy. Board games. Martial arts. Pen name: P. K. Hoffmann.

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Brendan Barrett @bjjbarrett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Our paper on how orangutan mothers plan and alter their space use at personal costs so their offspring may play with similarly aged offspring (independent of kinship and fruit productivity) has transitioned from preprint to peer reviewed publication doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Maternal ranging strategies facilitate offspring social play at energetic cost in the most solitary ape | PNAS
In most vertebrates, social play among peers is considered essential for behavioral development. Yet in solitary species bearing single offspring, ...
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P. Kanngiesser/P. K. Hoffmann @patkanngiesser.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
New paper in PNAS with Henriette Zeidler (lead), Marie Schäfer, Esther Hermann, Luke Maurits, Mike Tomasello, and Daniel Haun. The title sums up the key finding nicely. 😀
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MPI-EVA Leipzig @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
No matter where in the world: #Children help one another. The way they do it is shaped by their #upbringing. 🌏💛 New study @pnas.org by an intl. research team led by Henriette Zeidler, Michael Tomasello & @dbmhaun.bsky.social. See: tinyurl.com/dx593a2k & www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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Children from six cultures reliably help their peers – but in different ways
New study shows that helping others is a universal part of childhood, shaped by local upbringing
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MPI-EVA Leipzig @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
📢📅 Apply by 30 Nov 2026! Join our vibrant research community @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social or @unileipzig.bsky.social! Our Intl. Max Planck Research School The Leipzig School of Human Origins offers fully funded PhD positions. Interested? Find out more: www.leipzig-school.eva.mpg.de/application/...
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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
💚💚💚 So delighted, and a warm congratulations to all other winners and nominees. Thank you also to Alter Mag for commissioning a long-form essay on the history of Indian SF as the debut piece in their magazine. It’s available to read for free here: altermag.com/articles/the...
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The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction.
Before Asimov, there was Rokeya.
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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Every AI/HCI paper I review now just sounds like this.
Research [25] shows that people [26] enjoy the feeling of winning games [3,5,19]. Enjoying things can lead to longer life expectancy [2], higher economic productivity [9,22,33-40,302] and improve mental health [9]. Yet many games still include losing players [67,4]. A recent study showed that less than half of the players in a Chess [1] match win on average [42]. We have developed an LLM-driven co-creative [66], user-led [11], mixed-initiative [80] assistant for Chess [2], through which players can redefine the rules of Chess [3] using generative AI prompting such that they are the winner of Chess [4]. A study (n=3) showed that 100\% of people felt better, healthier and more self-actualised after using our tool, showing that this may be the way forward for games and human culture more broadly in the future.
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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 01/10/2026
It all started on this day. Thank you for a wonderful twenty years.
Text in the center reads: 20 Years Oct. 2006 - Oct. 2026, clarkesworldmagazine.com

(right) Cover art for issue 241 by Marcel Deneuve is "Labyrinths of Azarax" and features a blue and white mechanical eye in a circular opening looking at a small, white, glowing humanoid figure standing on a large pipe in the tunnel. Many pipes line the walls, all heading out to the main room. Pipes are yellow and gray. Room beyond is blue.

(left) Cover art for issue 1 by Tomasz Pietrzyk is "The Town of the Towers" and features a surreal town of yellowy white distorted towers with reddish orange roofs that overhang the towers and rise to a point. Mishapen dark windows and doors are scattered about on the buildings. Orange sky gives the entire piece a warm tone.
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Marty Cahill @mcflycahill90.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You know who just turned 1? 👀🦊🧡
A happy birthday graphic for Marty’s book, audition for the Fox, that came out a year ago!
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Simon Columbus @simoncolumbus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This week's Cooperation Colloquium: Patricia Kanngiesser @patkanngiesser.bsky.social Sustaining cooperation in intra- and inter-generational resource dilemmas Date: October 2 Time: 15:00 UTC+2 (Vienna) / 9am NYC Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...
Abstract: The world faces escalating environmental crises that demand cooperation within and across generations. Experimental games provide a testbed for studying sustainable decision-making and cooperation in a safe and controlled environment and for exploring underlying factors. In this talk, I will give an overview of past and ongoing research with children and adults, focusing on inter- and intra-generational sustainability dilemmas. In past work, we have shown that groups of children from two cultures successfully collaborated in a threshold public-goods game using water as a real resource (Kanngiesser et al., 2024). In recent work, we have employed a newly developed harvesting game with a depletable resource to study cooperation across generations of players—specifically, whether participants will adjust their harvesting behaviour and conserve resources better when they know that another, future player will depend on them. I will present new data from both adult participants and cross-cultural child participants on whether they make decisions that benefit themselves and/or future others. For adults, we also explore the role of task framing, cognitive factors (e.g. numeracy), and Social Value Orientation in their decision-making. I will discuss specific challenges of inter-generational collaboration: people might be motivated to benefit future others but might not know how to act to improve their own and others’ outcomes.
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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW CALLOUT ALERT! We are seeking Indonesian speculative fiction in Bahasa Indonesia and English for publication in khōréō’s Volume 7 in 2027. The callout is open from now until November 5, 2026, details on our website: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...
Open call for Indonesian Speculative Fiction in Translation
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Prof. Gillian Brown @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🚨Call open for manuscripts on 'Metascience of the evolutionary human sciences' for a Special Collection in EHS, co-edited by @louisbachaud.bsky.social, @hclarkbarrett.bsky.social and myself. @ehbea.bsky.social @humbehevosoc.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Call for papers
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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Jagoda Marinić @jagodamarinic.com · 12/09/2026
Mein neuer Newsletter ist der meistgelesene bisher. Es geht um unseren Umgang mit ultrarechten politischen kräften. Unshit the Zone. Danke für eure Aufmerksamkeit open.substack.com/pub/jagodama...
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Unshit the Zone
Eindrücke nach der Wahl und ein paar Vorschläge für eine Beruhigung der Zone
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Simon Columbus @simoncolumbus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Autumn 2026 Cooperation Colloquia We have an exciting interdisciplinary series of speakers with Kasper Otten, @patkanngiesser.bsky.social, @charlesefferson.bsky.social @nikoletaglyn.bsky.social, Cameron Curtin, & Devesh Rustagi Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...
List of speakers: 
2026-09-18 | Kasper Otten (WODC / Erasmus University Rotterdam) | The ​co-occurrence of ingroup and outgroup prosociality across 121 societies
2026-10-02 | Patricia Kanngiesser (University of Plymouth)
2026-10-16 | Charles Efferson (Université de Lausanne)
2026-10-30 | Nikoleta Glynatsi (RIKEN Center for Computational Science)
2026-11-13 | Cameron Curtin (IAST)
2026-12-11 | Devesh Rustagi (University of Warwick)
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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"We are witnessing a general threat to intellectual work" say leading mathematicians mathandai.org
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Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
We are in the Age of Humans - the Anthropocene. Our new article (open access) shows how even with a moderate future emissions scenario, global temperature will still be elevated by 3-4°C in the year 3000! Lifetime of our CO2 in the air is that long. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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We Are in the Anthropocene—Now What?
The Anthropocene's enormous consequences are of long-term nature, the slow pace of recovery currently under-appreciated among the public The smallest unavoidable residual emissions (e.g., from fo...
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 31/08/2026
August 31st or, as it is conventionally known amongst academics, À la recherche du temps perdu
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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We won a Hugo!
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Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk @ilkokowalczuk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Die FAZ druckt heute ein interessantes Interview mit dem engagierten Soziologen Matthias Quent @mquent.de aus Jena ab. Die letzte Antwort ist ein treffender Hinweis, was viele nicht wahrhaben wollen.
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 27/08/2026
Psychological Science special issue call 📣 Ever had your research denigrated bc it's "only descriptive", "what's the mechanism though?" and "but what are the theoretical implications?" Now has come your time to shine. Send your best descriptive work! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
Psychological Science invites submissions that advance psychological science through careful description of psychological phenomena. Psychological research often focuses on explaining and predicting phenomena before we have a sufficiently detailed understanding of them. It can be difficult to build strong theories on incomplete empirical foundations of the phenomena themselves. Careful descriptive research helps establish shared empirical reference points developed around well-characterized phenomena. As such, descriptive research contributes to psychological science both by improving our understanding of the phenomena themselves and by providing a stronger foundation for future theory-building, explanation, and prediction.

We are interested in manuscripts that:

Deepen our understanding of psychological phenomena, including what they look like, how they vary, and how they unfold;
Draw on a variety of sources of evidence and methods, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches; research conducted in naturalistic settings; intensive, longitudinal, or small-sample designs; and open or large-scale datasets; 
Provide necessary context for interpreting what is being described, including who is represented in the data, the settings and circumstances in which phenomena occur, and the broader social contexts in which they are situated; and/or
Make a substantive contribution to psychological science through the quality, depth, or significance of the description provided.
The deadline for submitting regular manuscripts is April 15, 2027. Registered Reports will also be considered. The deadline for submitting Stage 1 Registered Reports is November 15, 2026. Authors should indicate in the “Comments to Editor” box during submission that the manuscript is intended for the “Descriptive Research in Psychological Science” special issue.
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A thread on the dispute at Exeter Uni. #ucu #defendexeteruni @ucu.org.uk On 15 June HR called Exeter UCU into a confidential meeting and informed us they would be putting over 500 colleagues at risk of redundancy and expected to loose around 200 staff. The number of c.150 you’ll have seen is FTE.
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Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @kristinandrews.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Fabulous new entry for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy just dropped! 🐝🐵 🐘🐠Animal Normativity 🦌🐶🦜🐬https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/animal-normativity/ authored by @simonfitzpatrick.bsky.social
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Animal Normativity (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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Claudio Tennie @ctennie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A 2025 Science paper reported that bonobos combine calls to create new meanings. We analyzed its stats and then reanalysed the data. --> The claim did not hold up. Our paper (open access): doi.org/10.7717/peer... With @johanlind.bsky.social @annajonand.bsky.social
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Nightmare Magazine @nightmare-magazine.com · 21/08/2026
Hey, guess who's got two thumbs and is opening to submissions on Aug 24? It's THIS MAG. Actually, I guess the magazine doesn't have any thumbs, but I—JJA—do, and I'm eager to get them all over dem horror stories after 6 years out of the editorial chair. I guess it will mostly be my other fingers.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I don’t think most people realize how bad this will be for the world.
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El Niño set to be 'strongest in living memory', says Met Office
Scientists say the growing El Niño weather pattern is an "unprecedented event" and means 2027 is likely to be the world's hottest year on record.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I hope 2025 & 2026 have adequately prepared everyone for the shitshow that will be 2027: Strongest El Niño and highest global temperature on record Energy and affordability crisis from the illegal war End of 3-year federal science grants awarded in 2024 AI bubble bursting Continued rise of fascism
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Federico Rossano @federicorossano.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Chimpanzees usually fail a simple pointing task that human infants and dogs pass. In our new iScience paper, we provide a possible explanation: once their attention is engaged, chimpanzees use human pointing to find hidden food 73% of the time. Attention may be the missing piece.
Figure 2. Three photos showing the experimental conditions. Left: the experimenter points toward the baited container while calling the chimpanzee’s name and making food grunts. Center: he points without vocal attention-getting cues. Right: he provides gaze and food grunts but does not point. Chimpanzees succeeded only when attention-getting cues and pointing were combined.
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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
PLEASE SHARE! Writers! Uncanny Magazine will be open for short story submissions from August 24 to September 7! WE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOUR AMAZING, HUMAN-WRITTEN STORIES! www.uncannymagazine.com/submissions/
Uncanny Magazine will be open for short story submissions from  August 24 to September 7!
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Lia Lao @thelialao.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
my favorite story i’ve written (“revolutions, as told by a humble rice farmer”) is out in @podcastle.org! 🥹😭 referencing tang dynasty poetry it asks “what if we focused on this RANDOM RICE FARMER instead of the empire??” it’s a deconstruction of nationalism & v queer podcastle.org/2026/08/11/p...
poster with the words “revolutions, as told by a humble rice farmer”, “fantasy”, “3500 words”, “history from the bottom-up, emperors get decapitated, but we keep farming rice” “@thelialao”

on the left side are picture of rice paddies and on the right side are two men wearing hanfu
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026
In reality, commons need not be tragic and many of our most important resources have been managed as commons for hundreds of years: archive.org/details/gove... 86/
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Governing The Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but ...
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026
The original "Tragedy of the Commons" paper was a racist hoax perpetrated by an academic fraud who wanted to make the case for the expulsion of black and Brown people from America and their mass extermination abroad: memex.craphound.com/2019/10/01/t... 85/
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“The Tragedy of the Commons”: how ecofascism was smuggled into mainstream thought – Cory Doctorow's MEMEX
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 29/07/2026
This is a really beautiful website by @jdworkin.bsky.social on the everyday household items that were once only dreamt about – a music player, nightlight, family photos, clean water, ice, spices, and more. 10/10 would recommend exploring it! ordinaryabundance.com
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Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026
In the summer of 2013, two esoteric, technical, incredibly important texts were published within weeks of one another: the first is the Snowden leaks, which revealed a system of global, pervasive digital surveillance. 1/
"Eugène Delacroix's painting 'La Liberté guidant le peuple' ('Liberty Leading the People'), depicting the French revolution as a ragtag group of peasants led by a flag-waving, bare-breasted incarnation of 'Liberty.' The painting has been altered: the scene is now being observed with a giant, smoke-shrouded CCTV dome, and the distant building have been replaced with a mainframe computer.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026
Fundamentally, Piketty argues that the cheapest way to stop people from building a guillotine on your lawn is to build hospitals and schools; this is cheaper than paying for guards and prisons to lock up would-be guillotine builders. 43/
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Andrea Pisauro @andreapisauro.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Under pressure? It may not be bad. We think of pressure when there is too much of it, but in the right doses it is what makes us reach our goals on time. That's the idea @brainapps.bsky.social & I developed in this paper finally in press at @natcomms.nature.com nature.com/articles/s41467-026-75987-6
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Neural and computational mechanisms of effort under the pressure of a deadline - Nature Communications
People are effort-averse in most situations but can exert effort for little reward when progressing towards goals. Here, the authors show that under deadline pressure people become effort-seeking whil...
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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Our ✨July 2026 issue✨ is now free to read online! Here is a thread of everything inside it. Please read it and please spread the word! havenspec.com/issues/issue... 🧵
Cover of Haven Spec Magazine, Issue 24, published July 2026.

Fiction in the issue is by R.L. Meza, Lora Gray, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor, and Dan Peacock.

Poetry in the issue is by Arden Baker,
H.V. Patterson, Christopher Leigh Silverberg, and Anna Madden.

The cover art is titled "Finally, some sleep" and is by Caleb Worcester. It features an astronaut lying comfortably on a cloud high above the lights of a city.
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Over the next several months, we will phase out some popular OSF features. These changes do not affect current public content, which remains safe and accessible. We have prepared support material to help users adapt. I am very sorry for the disruption to your work. Please read this post for details.
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OSF Changes | Center for Open Science
We are preparing substantial changes to OSF that will reduce its functionality, focus OSF on its unique strengths, and move toward an integrated model with complementary services. As part of that shif...
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Hache Pueyo 🕷️🗝️ @hachepueyo.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
August is Women in Translation Month, an initiative focused on women who write in languages other than English. Here are the books written by women that I reviewed on my column on @reactorsff.bsky.social, focused on speculative fiction in translation:
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Sunday Times research finds universites down £550+ million on international (aggregate across the 55 universities with lower international fee income of 128 surveyed)
Annual revenue from international students. Change over 2 years. Coventry dowm £74m
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Katja Diehl @katjadiehl.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
"I want you to panic." But not from @thunberggreta.bsky.social —this time from a firefighter whose face betrays his despair—he understands all too well how deeply political denial still hinders action. He was @zackpolanski.bsky.social s press conference. We need more of this involved people at mics.
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
My blurb: unfolds the era of Alexander the Great's conquering rampage across Eurasia with a graceful, fiery verisimilitude both intimate & mythic, starting from the Indian subcontinent and stretching all the way to ancient Babylon--it resounds in time, and sings to the present with a singular voice.
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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
One more call! If you'd like to join a discord server for writers of spec/strange who are marginalized genders (nonbinary, women, trans, etc.), let me know so I can DM you the link! We're sharing what we know with each other. Answering each other's questions. Vibing. Worrying. Etc.
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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 07/08/2026
Doing some work in one of our university cafes prior to a meeting. All I can hear is people around me talking about the shabby way they've been treated in the latest cost-cutting measures, misery about redundancies & departmental closures, & discussion of retirement. Things are grim.
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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Absolutely dying lmao
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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Everyone’s talking about AI, but this is the one that really hit home for me on so many points. Extremely moving and relevant essay.
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K. Wroten 🍏 @jukeboxcomix.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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Julien Kimmig @jkimmig.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Welcome to the CAMBRIAN FECAL REVOLUTION. We didn't name it the Cambrian fecal explosion for obvious reasons. I'm happy to share this paper on fecal matter and its role in Cambrian ecosystems. So if you want to read a really shitty paper (50 days free access): authors.elsevier.com/a/1nYg8cZ3X7...
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)
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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 02/08/2026
I played with an excavator! ショベルカーはこうやって使いますっ☆
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
It's very painful inside 95% of universities. The reality is that (a) 25% to 33% of posts will close; (b) a handful of unis will go bust and be forcibly merged; (c) Arts and Humanities will be restricted to a small number of institutions whose disgraceful behaviour certainly won't be forgotten.
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