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I may have picked the wrong season to crochet a large blanket

Me after moving paragraphs around for 4 hours without writing any new words

time to reignite the Freud Wars

Prepping for our science fiction discussion group’s upcoming screening of Tarkovsky’s Solaris; reading about the unknowable sentience of oceanic systems is just a little on the nose, as the hurricane approaches.

All Too Well: now with 100% more bridges

Again contemplating how she experiences the external world and forms thoughts to which I have no direct access; all while having lil whiskers

Damn, crazy that these obviously separable components of happiness come out to such nice, round numbers.

We Won! Grad workers at Yale said overwhelmingly: UNION YES!

We are still accepting abstracts for the 2023 Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Biology at Yale! This graduate student conference is a great opportunity to get feedback on your work. Happy to answer questions! tinyurl.com/JASBIO2023

Enjoyed writing about this wonderful book!

"I have a slightly uncomfortable fondness for the pandemic memes, just like my wary fondness for Gaia theory. They’re like a wild animal someone has taken in as a pet: they’re cute, but they don’t seem entirely safe." historians.org/research-and-p…

"[THE YEARS SHALL RUN LIKE RABBITS] exemplifies the power of science fiction to explore of the edges of experience where the artificial, the natural, and the sacred come together." Libby O'Neil reviews @InkStainedWreck's debut novel (@wolsakandwynn): full-stop.net/2024/07/24/rev….

Loved reading and thinking about this book -- review up now.

"In THE YEARS SHALL RUN LIKE RABBITS, Ghan succeeds in transforming the nightmare of the present into a future that, however strange, extends a promise of new creation." Libby O'Neil reviews @InkStainedWreck's debut novel (@wolsakandwynn): full-stop.net/2024/07/24/rev….

I talked about an essay based on part of my dissertation here!

"Not being a textbook frees you from the scourge of 'balance,' from the need to pretend you don’t have a politics." —@MarkBould3, from his interview w/ Libby O'Neil on his book w/ Steven Shapiro, THIS IS NOT A SCIENCE FICTION TEXTBOOK (Goldsmiths Press): tinyurl.com/3bjf7tv4

Enjoyed talking to Mark Bould and Steven Shaviro about science fiction in the classroom and beyond -- check out the conversation here.

I wrote about Pippa Goldschmidt's beautiful collection of speculative science short stories here