Nastaran Arfaei
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Nastaran Arfaei
@n-arfaei.bsky.social
Brain and behavior. PhD candidate at NYU.

Here I post mostly at the intersection of science and science fiction.

Images are made by myself unless otherwise specified.
Natalie was dead.

Her absence still lingered in the lab, in the intentional arrangement of objects on her bench, the unwashed pipettes, the unfinished notes.

I remembered the Tuesday morning vividly; seared into my memory like the afterimage of a lightning against the night sky.

#DVparty #SF 💙📚🪐
October 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
“Beyond the molten air, shadows of harvest poles stretched long in the afternoon sun.

Drops of sweat fell off my forehead. The pores in my suit pulsated, letting fresh gulps of air in and pushing the moisture away from my skin.

It was still not enough.”

#DVparty #SF #A #POC
#sff #writersky 💙📚🪐✍️
October 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
#Literature only! ✈️

Well played United…. Well played….

Now can someone explain what “counts” as literature these days? 💙📚✍️

#writersky #writingcommunity #readerSky #books #reading #sff #travel #mood #photography
July 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Who owns a machine after it merges with one’s mind?

A woman got an implant for epilepsy in clinical trial, then was forced to have it explanted when the company recalled it.

But after 6 years, wasn’t the implant part of her self?

Not scifi. Really happened.🧠🤖📚

#FutureTech #BCI #SciFiNow #Booksky
July 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
A neuroscientist is recruited to lead a team to find and “quench” consciousness if it emerges in supercomputers.

A technical challenge that quickly spirals into a deep ethical conflict.

Severance X Martian X Ishiguro

#Bluepit 📖 #Q #A #SF #SP #POC
#writercommunity #writersky #writers #AmQuerying
July 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
#BluePitHype second day!

Here is an image from a scene in ch7

“Shadows of the harvest poles stretched long in the low afternoon sun. Far, far before her eyes were fields, poles spread on a hexagonal grid, absorbing light and wind and temperature differences.”

#WriteSky #WriterCommunity
July 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM