If you're a writing professional who'd rather *not* have random AI-generated articles attributed to you without your knowledge or approval, here's the opt-out email:
expertoptout@superhuman.com
It's insufficient and tacky af, but it's a start. Go ye thereforth, etc. etc. etc.
I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.
I tell people this all the time! as you cross the physical threshold, your brain recognizes it as an ontological threshold and flushes its cache. it's okay!
(the article has some good strategies for how to overcome the "doorway effect." I separately came up with two of them on my own, not to brag.)
Leaving a public comment is easy and took me less than a minute. Link toward bottom of article. Super worth-it.
this is also my pitch to all my amazing science followers -- please consider following @romancingthevote.com and offering zoom consults to writers (or just curious nerds!) as an auction item! science consults have been SO POPULAR & you can do it to help fight voter suppression!
In Elle magazine this week, Nicola Coughlan spoke about #Bridgerton and body shaming. We have a terrific essay in BRIDGERTON AND PHILOSOPHY, "Examining Assumptions About Love and Fatness" by Cheryl Frazier and Jeremy Fried that dives into this topic in the show and fandom. #romancelandia
Tumblr cap from user @persianmom I do not want the ai overview. I want to read six wikipedia pages as god intended.
I have some free e-print links to this article. Comment below and I'd be happy to share.
I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for. lithub.com/why-we-must-...
Bumping this for the daytime crowd, as I'd like to get a heating-oil order in tomorrow if I can. 🙂
SIDEWAYS STORIES FROM WAYSIDE SCHOOL by Louis Sachae
yeah I love dark academia
If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.
…Bumping this for the Evening Crowd. 😄
More than 70,000 North Carolinians have incomplete voter registrations. Check the database below to see if you’re on the list. If you are, you can still vote, but you should bring your driver’s license with you, and you may be required to cast a provisional ballot.
Co-sign!
if the US government logs these trees at the rate / quantity they're proposing, we'll lose one of the last old-growth forests. there's no coming back from that. if you have five minutes to leave a comment pushing back against the BLM, please do; there's a guide to that below.
Realizing I should include the main things you should do to support native bees/other insects
1) Plant native plants
2) Don't use pesticides, and tell your friends and neighbors to stop using pesticides
3) Leave fallen leaves in the winter
4) Leave dead stems over winter for overwintering critters
I need one of these dipshit assholes to explain to me if this is all about research needs in the public good how these companies are then selling AI products instead of giving them away for free to everyone
🌕➡️🔴 Lunar eclipse alert!
Depending on where you are (mostly: Central/Eastern Asia, Oceania, most of North/Central America), you may be able to see a TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE ("blood moon") overnight!
You can find information about timing and viewing locations here: www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/luna...
Humanity has known about diabetes for at least as long as we've been writing about medicine. Only in the last century have we made any progress in understanding it. A cure for even one type is a stunning leap forward, literally millennia in the making.
"We're waist deep in the big muddy and that big fool says to push on". These people never learn. youtu.be/fXiI6coHpdQ
I absolutely hated Fennell's Wuthering Heights and I talked about it here: lighthouse.mq.edu.au/article/2026...
Thank you to @authorsabb.bsky.social heroes @beccacoffindaffer.bsky.social and Ed Underhill, we have some slides that can be shared by anyone about this, with particular reps to target. Let's kill this bill in committee.
bsky.app/profile/swee...
I wrote up a script for people unsure what to say or who have anxiety about calling. fellow cis people, you have no excuse to not put your lives on the line for trans people. we are past the point of simply hoping things improve.
I keep reminding people that admins hate English departments because they are popular (read: inefficient), not because they aren’t. AI is in a long line of technologies that promise to solve that problem for them.
I would also be bad at my job if I didn't say, hey, want to be a part of this amazing thing? go donate to a rent fund at standwithminnesota.com. maybe one of the smaller ones.
It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*
Promotional cards for the horror film DEAD MEDIA fanned out on a table. The card features a woman peering over a glowing DVD.
Got some promo cards made for our horror movie DEAD MEDIA. Bringing them to our festival premiere this weekend at @nevermorefilmfest.bsky.social in Durham, North Carolina. Made them as bookmarks to celebrate physical media of all kinds!
Tix & info here: nevermore2026.eventive.org/schedule/694...
Text on the image: Topics of interest may include but are not limited to: Sports in romance narratives in a variety of media, including but not limited to: genre fiction, memoir, screen media, music, or in the teaching of these media. The significance of self-publishing in contemporary sport romance The relationship between sport fan communities, romance fan communities and sport romance fiction ‘BookTok’ and the impact of sport romance fan behaviour on athletes Precursors to contemporary sport romance such as Jilly Cooper’s Rutshire Chronicles and Susan Elizabeth Phillips’ Chicago Stars Portrayals of gender difference and subversion in sport romance Class, wealth and celebrity in sport romance Queer themes and homophobia within sport culture as explored in sport romance Young Adult sport romance and the pedagogical interventions endeavoured by sport romance in young people’s physical activity
CfP 🚨 Are you interested in #RomanceResearch and Sports? JPRS is calling for papers for its special issue on Sport Romance!
📆 300-word abstracts to be submitted by 31st May 2026 to Atlanta Tsiaoukkas (at839@cam.ac.uk).
🔗 Find all the information on our website: www.jprstudies.org/submissions/...
If you are thinking 'well I'm not a Goth so this doesn't apply to me'... how about a writing workshop with romance writer par excellence KJ Charles? Or a talk on carnivorous plants? A tour of Dante's Inferno? A cooking class?
We Goths welcome everyone!
