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Conrad Scott
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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
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June 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Roses are redde
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes
May 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Archaeologists Unearthed An Ancient Network of Canals Beneath the World’s First City
They nourished crops of a whopping 700 farms
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March 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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5 year anniversary of signed copies of Waterline Immersion in Audrey’s Books, Edmonton

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February 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Wut.

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February 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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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.
www.iflscience.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Not … good?
New H5N1 Bird Flu Virus Genotype Found In US Cows In Second Spillover Event
The USDA confirmed the detection in milk samples from Nevada.
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February 7, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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In more inspiring news, The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms is now fully open access.
My chapter, “Anthologizing the Indigenous Environmental Imaginary: Moonshot Volume 3 and Ecocritical Futurisms” is part of this important volume.

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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 ...
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February 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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#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 ⤵

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Environmental Humanities – A journal published by Duke University Press
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February 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Giant Ancient Hot Spot “Islands” Found In Earth’s Mantle Using Earthquake Data
Their existence contradicts the common assertion the Earth’s mantle is well-mixed, suggesting our models are wrong.
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January 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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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.
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January 23, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Paul Huebener on Sleeping in the Anthropocene

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Sleeping in the Anthropocene
Within an experience of sleeplessness is a glimpse into a world of ever-worsening climate disasters.   n June 2013, unusually heavy rains fell on the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta and on...
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January 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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T.J. Clark · 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.)...
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January 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Jacking In to Cyberpunk: Stina Attebery and Joshua Pearson review “Cyberpunk: Envisioning Possible Futures Through Cinema” exhibition @Los Angeles Review of Books lareviewofbooks.org/...
Jacking In to Cyberpunk | Los Angeles Review of Books
Stina Attebery and Joshua Pearson explore the “Cyberpunk: Envisioning Possible Futures Through Cinema” exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
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January 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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"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...
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.
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January 15, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Doina Ciochina has won this year's Peter Nicholls Prize - for more details, see our newsfeed. www.sf-foundation.org/fresh-about
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
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January 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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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.
January 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM