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Gunnar De Winter
@gunnardewinter.bsky.social
Biologist and semi-philosopher | science (and fiction) writer | plays with words and ideas

🌍 Belgium (for now)
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Hi, A.C. Thanks for doing this! Here's mine: bsky.app/profile/gunn...
If anyone is reading for Hugo/Nebula/Locus Awards and wants a Belgian on the ballot (how could I resist that alliteration?), here are two stories I'm proud of. One is my fiction debut in Clarkesworld, the other won a prize.

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#writing #fiction #sciencefiction #sff #writingcommunity
November 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Thanks, R.T.!
November 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
- Desert Beetle Song in @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social (winner of their fiction open call)
While greening the Sahara with beetle bots, Zarah and her precocious daughter Layna stumble upon a mysterious meteorite...
Desert Beetle Song | Tractor Beam
What if our salvation was hidden in the sand, not the stars?
www.tractorbeam.earth
November 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
- Child of the Mountain in @clarkesworldmagazine.com
Chime, the immortal child, takes care of the sisters' resurrections. Until she has an idea for herself...
Child of the Mountain by Gunnar De Winter
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
clarkesworldmagazine.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Reposted by Gunnar De Winter
This reminds me of a paper this year on how congenitally blind people can talk about colour in detail (wonder if relevant to Molyneaux problem too):

Liu, Van Paridon, and Lupyan. 2025. ‘Learning about Color from Language’. Communications Psychology 3 (1): 60. doi.org/10.1038/s442...
Learning about color from language - Communications Psychology
Blind people show similar associations between adjectives (e.g. cold) and colours (e.g. blue) as sighted people; word embedding models trained on corpora of written and spoken language learn these ass...
doi.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Me too!
November 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM