Gemma Church
@gemmakchurch.bsky.social
👋 sff writer | 2x @bathflashaward.bsky.social shortlist | Latest words with @lunastation.bsky.social, Flame Tree, @utopiascifi.bsky.social | Countdown 🫖 owner | #Quantum content lead at @riverlane.com | Views my own | www.gemmakchurch.com
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Eek! I’m still floating on ☁️ nine after seeing my story “The Anti-Turing Test” in the Flame Tree newsletter! It’s one that’s very close to my heart too ❤️🙏
You can sign up to the newsletter here: www.flametreepress.com/reader-exclu... - some great opps for #sff #writers included
You can sign up to the newsletter here: www.flametreepress.com/reader-exclu... - some great opps for #sff #writers included
📣 I'm thrilled that The QEC Report 2025 is now live! 📣
It's been so much fun writing this in-depth report (short explainer: quantum computers are prone to errors and as they get bigger, those errors get bigger - it's a huge challenge to resolve, which is exactly what Riverlane specialises in) 🧪
It's been so much fun writing this in-depth report (short explainer: quantum computers are prone to errors and as they get bigger, those errors get bigger - it's a huge challenge to resolve, which is exactly what Riverlane specialises in) 🧪
📣 The #QEC Report 2025 is live! 📣
The #QuantumErrorCorrection (QEC) landscape is moving fast. But we need to move faster.
Our new QEC Report 2025 unveils critical shifts that will define the future of quantum computing, including....
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The #QuantumErrorCorrection (QEC) landscape is moving fast. But we need to move faster.
Our new QEC Report 2025 unveils critical shifts that will define the future of quantum computing, including....
🧪🧵(1/5)
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 AM
📣 I'm thrilled that The QEC Report 2025 is now live! 📣
It's been so much fun writing this in-depth report (short explainer: quantum computers are prone to errors and as they get bigger, those errors get bigger - it's a huge challenge to resolve, which is exactly what Riverlane specialises in) 🧪
It's been so much fun writing this in-depth report (short explainer: quantum computers are prone to errors and as they get bigger, those errors get bigger - it's a huge challenge to resolve, which is exactly what Riverlane specialises in) 🧪
A shout out for Imaginarium in Lymington - a specialist #bookshop in #SFF where I found this fab read, only to open it last night and see a story by @robertshearman.bsky.social! I know where ill be pointing people to for Christmas… 🎄 www.imaginariumbooks.co.uk 📚
November 12, 2025 at 7:38 AM
A shout out for Imaginarium in Lymington - a specialist #bookshop in #SFF where I found this fab read, only to open it last night and see a story by @robertshearman.bsky.social! I know where ill be pointing people to for Christmas… 🎄 www.imaginariumbooks.co.uk 📚
Think I'll quit my day job, 20+ years in science comms and @bobmort.bsky.social summarises the world of #quantumcomputing in 3 words 😅
July 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Think I'll quit my day job, 20+ years in science comms and @bobmort.bsky.social summarises the world of #quantumcomputing in 3 words 😅
😀 OMG, this is the finest (and/or funniest) tier I've seen on Patreon: patreon.com/tellinglimin...
Unless that last tier is not a joke?! Then, I guess, the joke is on you 👀 WHAT ?!?!
Anyway, Paul, Lucy & co are a fabulous bunch of creatives - pls give what you can! 👁️ #horror
Unless that last tier is not a joke?! Then, I guess, the joke is on you 👀 WHAT ?!?!
Anyway, Paul, Lucy & co are a fabulous bunch of creatives - pls give what you can! 👁️ #horror
Get more from Liminal Tales on Patreon
An evening of wonders and horrors beyond your imagining :)
patreon.com
July 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
😀 OMG, this is the finest (and/or funniest) tier I've seen on Patreon: patreon.com/tellinglimin...
Unless that last tier is not a joke?! Then, I guess, the joke is on you 👀 WHAT ?!?!
Anyway, Paul, Lucy & co are a fabulous bunch of creatives - pls give what you can! 👁️ #horror
Unless that last tier is not a joke?! Then, I guess, the joke is on you 👀 WHAT ?!?!
Anyway, Paul, Lucy & co are a fabulous bunch of creatives - pls give what you can! 👁️ #horror
Could write from here everyday, please?
July 7, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Could write from here everyday, please?
Meant to write "feedback on" in an email to a colleague. Wrote "feedbacon" and now I'm really hoping someone appears at my desk with a bacon sarnie 😅🥓
June 30, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Meant to write "feedback on" in an email to a colleague. Wrote "feedbacon" and now I'm really hoping someone appears at my desk with a bacon sarnie 😅🥓
🙏 @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social for publishing my #soilpunk story: 'All Things Bright and Beautiful' in Issue 2 'The Garden'
As a kid, I had an army of imaginary friends as I built dens in my own garden, including one called Acorn who appears in this #clifi 🤖🌸🌳
www.tractorbeam.earth/story/all-th...
As a kid, I had an army of imaginary friends as I built dens in my own garden, including one called Acorn who appears in this #clifi 🤖🌸🌳
www.tractorbeam.earth/story/all-th...
All Things Bright and Beautiful | Tractor Beam
Could Eden be right here all along?
www.tractorbeam.earth
June 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
🙏 @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social for publishing my #soilpunk story: 'All Things Bright and Beautiful' in Issue 2 'The Garden'
As a kid, I had an army of imaginary friends as I built dens in my own garden, including one called Acorn who appears in this #clifi 🤖🌸🌳
www.tractorbeam.earth/story/all-th...
As a kid, I had an army of imaginary friends as I built dens in my own garden, including one called Acorn who appears in this #clifi 🤖🌸🌳
www.tractorbeam.earth/story/all-th...
Thank you to everyone in my #quantum network who's spared their time to answer this survey - just reposting to give people another chance to help Riverlane understand the QEC community (not to mention some pretty cool prizes that are up for grabs!) 👇
👋 Last call to take Riverlane's QEC survey and help shape the future of #QuantumErrorCorrection!
⏳ Closes July 1, 2025, so don't miss out. Plus, you could win a Meta Quest 3 or our ASIC decoder chip! 🤯
🧪 Full details here: zo1r3443aln.typeform.com/QECSurvey2025
#quantumcomputing #survey
⏳ Closes July 1, 2025, so don't miss out. Plus, you could win a Meta Quest 3 or our ASIC decoder chip! 🤯
🧪 Full details here: zo1r3443aln.typeform.com/QECSurvey2025
#quantumcomputing #survey
June 24, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Thank you to everyone in my #quantum network who's spared their time to answer this survey - just reposting to give people another chance to help Riverlane understand the QEC community (not to mention some pretty cool prizes that are up for grabs!) 👇
The #quantum tech isn't the only reason I ❤️ working at @riverlane.com, it's also the people. Huge thanks to Guen + @abrahamasfaw.bsky.social for agreeing to do this (check out the 2nd 'blooper' vid! By golly, it's good!)
They're both hiring for their new teams too: www.riverlane.com/jobs#vacancies
They're both hiring for their new teams too: www.riverlane.com/jobs#vacancies
We grabbed new starters @abrahamasfaw.bsky.social and Guen to ask them why #QEC matters to them and what they’ll be working on... and well, we got one serious response! 👇
The other? By golly! You'll have to check out post 2/2 below 😂
www.riverlane.com/jobs
🎥 #QuantumErrorCorrection
🧵1/2
The other? By golly! You'll have to check out post 2/2 below 😂
www.riverlane.com/jobs
🎥 #QuantumErrorCorrection
🧵1/2
June 18, 2025 at 9:37 AM
The #quantum tech isn't the only reason I ❤️ working at @riverlane.com, it's also the people. Huge thanks to Guen + @abrahamasfaw.bsky.social for agreeing to do this (check out the 2nd 'blooper' vid! By golly, it's good!)
They're both hiring for their new teams too: www.riverlane.com/jobs#vacancies
They're both hiring for their new teams too: www.riverlane.com/jobs#vacancies
🌊 I'm thrilled that "The Rising Tide" has found such a beautiful home! This piece draws inspiration from a powerful 2019 exhibition about the history of women at Cambridge University, who were denied degrees until 1948, making #Cambridge the last major educational institution to change this.
Suburban Witchcraft Magazine Issue 9 is now Live!!!
Read at: suburbanwitchcraft.com/issue9
As always, we hope you enjoy perusing and exploring the many facets of Spring, love, loss, myth, persistence, joy, bloom and ash woven through #poetry, #storytelling, #photography and #art.
Read at: suburbanwitchcraft.com/issue9
As always, we hope you enjoy perusing and exploring the many facets of Spring, love, loss, myth, persistence, joy, bloom and ash woven through #poetry, #storytelling, #photography and #art.
June 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
🌊 I'm thrilled that "The Rising Tide" has found such a beautiful home! This piece draws inspiration from a powerful 2019 exhibition about the history of women at Cambridge University, who were denied degrees until 1948, making #Cambridge the last major educational institution to change this.
I take a lot of photos of my dog. This morning’s effort is one of my better ones!
June 12, 2025 at 7:05 AM
I take a lot of photos of my dog. This morning’s effort is one of my better ones!
Love love love this publication (and the cover art for issue 302 is amazing!)
June 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Love love love this publication (and the cover art for issue 302 is amazing!)
🐦 🐦 To COMPLETELY contradict my last message, here's a book of short fiction that I ❤️ !
The latest @bathflashaward.bsky.social anthology, available here: bookshop.adhocfiction.com/index.php?ma...
(and featuring two of my flashes 🙏)
The latest @bathflashaward.bsky.social anthology, available here: bookshop.adhocfiction.com/index.php?ma...
(and featuring two of my flashes 🙏)
June 5, 2025 at 9:37 AM
🐦 🐦 To COMPLETELY contradict my last message, here's a book of short fiction that I ❤️ !
The latest @bathflashaward.bsky.social anthology, available here: bookshop.adhocfiction.com/index.php?ma...
(and featuring two of my flashes 🙏)
The latest @bathflashaward.bsky.social anthology, available here: bookshop.adhocfiction.com/index.php?ma...
(and featuring two of my flashes 🙏)
Another excellent laptop sticker 📚
June 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Another excellent laptop sticker 📚
What a night at The Bizarre Bazaar! 🙏 Paul and everyone from Liminal Tales for your kindness and coaching me through my first tread of the boards.
Find out more (if you dare) here: linktr.ee/tellinglimin... 👁️ 👁️
Find out more (if you dare) here: linktr.ee/tellinglimin... 👁️ 👁️
June 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
What a night at The Bizarre Bazaar! 🙏 Paul and everyone from Liminal Tales for your kindness and coaching me through my first tread of the boards.
Find out more (if you dare) here: linktr.ee/tellinglimin... 👁️ 👁️
Find out more (if you dare) here: linktr.ee/tellinglimin... 👁️ 👁️
🌍 Soilpunk? It's a new genre (to me anyway!) that I am totally here for after reading Issue 1 of @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social
www.tractorbeam.earth
www.tractorbeam.earth
May 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
🌍 Soilpunk? It's a new genre (to me anyway!) that I am totally here for after reading Issue 1 of @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social
www.tractorbeam.earth
www.tractorbeam.earth
For reference, two lefts do not make a right
May 25, 2025 at 6:57 AM
For reference, two lefts do not make a right
Excited (& a bit nervous) to be reading one of my weirdest stories to a real audience next month 😬
Unlike the trailer below, I won't be sword swallowing (I hope) - but you never know what's going to happen at The Bizarre Bazaar...
7pm 1/6, Water Rats, Grays Inn Rd
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vsJ...
Unlike the trailer below, I won't be sword swallowing (I hope) - but you never know what's going to happen at The Bizarre Bazaar...
7pm 1/6, Water Rats, Grays Inn Rd
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vsJ...
Liminal Tales: The Bizarre Bazaar (Trailer)
YouTube video by Paul M Bradley
www.youtube.com
May 19, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Excited (& a bit nervous) to be reading one of my weirdest stories to a real audience next month 😬
Unlike the trailer below, I won't be sword swallowing (I hope) - but you never know what's going to happen at The Bizarre Bazaar...
7pm 1/6, Water Rats, Grays Inn Rd
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vsJ...
Unlike the trailer below, I won't be sword swallowing (I hope) - but you never know what's going to happen at The Bizarre Bazaar...
7pm 1/6, Water Rats, Grays Inn Rd
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vsJ...
Imagine if Katsu had a quantum upgrade @natashapulley.bsky.social... 🐙⚛️ (see below!)
@nicoleyh11.bsky.social also wrote an excellent book on quantum steampunk btw 🙂 👇
www.amazon.co.uk/Quantum-Stea...
@nicoleyh11.bsky.social also wrote an excellent book on quantum steampunk btw 🙂 👇
www.amazon.co.uk/Quantum-Stea...
May 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Imagine if Katsu had a quantum upgrade @natashapulley.bsky.social... 🐙⚛️ (see below!)
@nicoleyh11.bsky.social also wrote an excellent book on quantum steampunk btw 🙂 👇
www.amazon.co.uk/Quantum-Stea...
@nicoleyh11.bsky.social also wrote an excellent book on quantum steampunk btw 🙂 👇
www.amazon.co.uk/Quantum-Stea...
Reposted by Gemma Church
Absolutely! Balancing science with storytelling is key. As Arthur C. Clarke said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” How do you keep that balance? 🪐📚 #SciFi #Inspiration
...that it must also stay grounded in scientific fact, avoiding the trap of crossing into science fiction.
It’s about crafting a compelling, truthful journey that educates, inspires, and connects. That can't be done in one soundbite 🙂
#SciComm, #ScienceMatters, #quantum
It’s about crafting a compelling, truthful journey that educates, inspires, and connects. That can't be done in one soundbite 🙂
#SciComm, #ScienceMatters, #quantum
May 15, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Absolutely! Balancing science with storytelling is key. As Arthur C. Clarke said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” How do you keep that balance? 🪐📚 #SciFi #Inspiration
🧪 A speaker at a recent #quantum event called for those working in #quantumcomputing to be "storytellers" to connect with audiences
Of course, I 🩷 this!
#Storytelling is essential in #deeptech to connect on a human level & explain complex topics like quantum computing.
But it’s a long game...
Of course, I 🩷 this!
#Storytelling is essential in #deeptech to connect on a human level & explain complex topics like quantum computing.
But it’s a long game...
May 15, 2025 at 7:25 AM
🧪 A speaker at a recent #quantum event called for those working in #quantumcomputing to be "storytellers" to connect with audiences
Of course, I 🩷 this!
#Storytelling is essential in #deeptech to connect on a human level & explain complex topics like quantum computing.
But it’s a long game...
Of course, I 🩷 this!
#Storytelling is essential in #deeptech to connect on a human level & explain complex topics like quantum computing.
But it’s a long game...
The Cam is looking quite spectacular this morning ☀️
May 13, 2025 at 6:43 AM
The Cam is looking quite spectacular this morning ☀️
What a show! I’d thoroughly recommend Moonwalkers at London’s Lightroom 🌒🚀
April 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
What a show! I’d thoroughly recommend Moonwalkers at London’s Lightroom 🌒🚀
Potentially, the best laptop sticker ever… #writerslife
April 18, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Potentially, the best laptop sticker ever… #writerslife