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I think / write about the future, the environment, literature, and culture. Academics, poetry, prose.

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Live Updates: U.S. Enters War With Iran, Bombing Key Nuclear Sites
22.06.2025 00:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Roses are redde
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes

29.05.2025 20:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 803 ๐Ÿ” 262 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
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Archaeologists Unearthed An Ancient Network of Canals Beneath the Worldโ€™s First City They nourished crops of a whopping 700 farms

www.popularmechanics.com/science/arch...

06.03.2025 23:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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5 year anniversary of signed copies of Waterline Immersion in Audreyโ€™s Books, Edmonton

www.frontenachouse.com/product/wate...

@audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social

24.02.2025 18:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I know it was ridiculous when it came east, but we still have some ptsd having lived in the prairie capital that bore the spawn itself (sorry, again, canโ€™t get the horns out of my head)

15.02.2025 15:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wut.

www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

11.02.2025 19:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Google Ditches Pledge Not To Use AI For Weapons Or Surveillance Times have changed, says Google as it gives itself permission to scrap key principles.
07.02.2025 02:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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New H5N1 Bird Flu Virus Genotype Found In US Cows In Second Spillover Event The USDA confirmed the detection in milk samples from Nevada.

Not โ€ฆ good?

07.02.2025 02:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

SOME โ€œWheetago Warโ€ texts: โ€œMermaidsโ€
โ€œOn the Wings of This Prayerโ€/โ€œThe Fleshingโ€
โ€œWheetago Warโ€/โ€œI Double Dogrib Dare Youโ€/โ€œCrowโ€
โ€œLying in Bed Togetherโ€
โ€œWheetago Warโ€ stories (Moccasin Square Gardens)
AND newer publications

05.02.2025 16:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I would also like to thank Grace Dillon for bringing me in for this project at the Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) 2019 conference on โ€œFacing the Future, Facing the Past: Colonialism, Indigeneity, and SF,โ€ where I talked about a different but somewhat related focus.

05.02.2025 14:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Richard Van Camp:
my list of your โ€œWheetago Warโ€ narratives listed here now needs expanding!
(On the one hand, terrifying, and, on the other, as Iโ€™m going to coin it here, โ€œenjuvenatingโ€).

05.02.2025 14:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms delivers a new, inclusive examination of science fiction, from close analyses of single texts to large-scale movements, providing readers with decolonized models ...

In more inspiring news, The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms is now fully open access.
My chapter, โ€œAnthologizing the Indigenous Environmental Imaginary: Moonshot Volume 3 and Ecocritical Futurismsโ€ is part of this important volume.

www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

05.02.2025 13:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 10 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
Environmental Humanities โ€“ A journal published by Duke University Press

#envhum folks!

The 'Environmental Humanities' journal (Duke University Press) is currently looking for TWO (!!) new co-editors from January 2026 onwards!

Deadline: 31 March 2025

More information โคต

environmentalhumanities.org

02.02.2025 20:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 76 ๐Ÿ” 58 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I feel heard this morning as I struggle to wake up to 45 ๐Ÿ˜น

24.01.2025 18:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Giant Ancient Hot Spot โ€œIslandsโ€ Found In Earthโ€™s Mantle Using Earthquake Data Their existence contradicts the common assertion the Earthโ€™s mantle is well-mixed, suggesting our models are wrong.
23.01.2025 02:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trump's Executive Order Against Trans People Technically Makes Every American Female If you legislate with scientific words, you should know the science.
23.01.2025 02:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Sleeping in the Anthropocene Within an experience of sleeplessness is a glimpse into a world of ever-worsening climate disasters. ย  n June 2013, unusually heavy rains fell on the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta and on...

Paul Huebener on Sleeping in the Anthropocene

www.terrain.org/2025/nonfict...

17.01.2025 19:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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T.J. Clark ยท A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle The politics of an empire in decline are invariably a mixture of the cruel and the ludicrous. (Ask the Brits.)...
16.01.2025 19:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Jacking In to Cyberpunk | Los Angeles Review of Books Stina Attebery and Joshua Pearson explore the โ€œCyberpunk: Envisioning Possible Futures Through Cinemaโ€ exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

Jacking In to Cyberpunk: Stina Attebery and Joshua Pearson review โ€œCyberpunk: Envisioning Possible Futures Through Cinemaโ€ exhibition @Los Angeles Review of Books lareviewofbooks.org/...

15.01.2025 20:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Black Sci-Fi Writer Octavia Butler Predicted the Dystopia of the LA Fires by Studying History This week, her hometown of Pasadena has seen at least 5 killed and 5 schools burned to ash.

"Not for the first time, and surely not for the last, the internet has been full of the phrase 'Octavia knew.'" www.teenvogue.com/story/la-fir...

15.01.2025 21:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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SF Foundation UK News Science Fiction Journal Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction is a critical peer-reviewed literary magazine established in 1972 that publishes articles and reviews ab

Doina Ciochina has won this year's Peter Nicholls Prize - for more details, see our newsfeed. www.sf-foundation.org/fresh-about

14.01.2025 19:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 6 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA)
Open Call for Nominations: 2025 SFRA Innovative Research Award
Deadline for nominations: March 17, 2025

The SFRA Innovative Research Award
The Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) invites nominations for the 2025 Innovative Research Award.

14.01.2025 19:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0