Marsh Hlavka
@othermarshes.bsky.social
Field ecologist, natural history museums, writer of speculative/ecological/queer/trans fiction. Recent work in: Fusion Fragment, Kaleidotrope.
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I got to share my first two publications this year! They’re very different pieces—worlds, genres, intentions—but equally speculative and moody. (links below)
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So on March 9, a French scientist, on a visa to attend a conference in Houston, was denied entry to the US and subsequently expelled because his phone had messages decrying scientific policies put forward by the Trump administration: www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant q...
www.lemonde.fr
March 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
So on March 9, a French scientist, on a visa to attend a conference in Houston, was denied entry to the US and subsequently expelled because his phone had messages decrying scientific policies put forward by the Trump administration: www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
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Hey, you want something good to eat?
Singing Hills #6, A Mouthful of Dust, is up for pre-order and out October 7!
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Singing Hills #6, A Mouthful of Dust, is up for pre-order and out October 7!
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
A Mouthful of Dust
Hunger makes monsters in this dark new tale in Nghi Vo's Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle."Nghi Vo is so good."―NPR on The Brides of High HillWanderi...
us.macmillan.com
March 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Hey, you want something good to eat?
Singing Hills #6, A Mouthful of Dust, is up for pre-order and out October 7!
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Singing Hills #6, A Mouthful of Dust, is up for pre-order and out October 7!
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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everyone saying “go birds.” yes exactly birds are wonderful
February 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
everyone saying “go birds.” yes exactly birds are wonderful
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Love this perspective, from the ever-wise @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social.
It is Friday afternoon of a wild, wild week. And yet for me a reassuring one. My greatest fear was not of what they would do. It's that we would let them. And I'm seeing a lot of beautiful intransigence. From federal workers. From people all over the country obstructing ICE....
January 31, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Love this perspective, from the ever-wise @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social.
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This is a great thread about how students in research are impacted.
Ah, okay: at the undergrad level, these programs have been used to support student participation in research labs AND enabled them to get paid, either during the summer and/or during the academic year.
January 31, 2025 at 10:38 PM
This is a great thread about how students in research are impacted.
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they want to erase us completely. do not let them, we will outlive these fascists. create art, take pictures of yourself or your trans friends, make something lasting. we will outlast them forever
‼️ The State Department has REMOVED TQIA+ on their page of recommendations for queer travelers. This page yesterday said "LGBTQIA+" and now just says "LGB".
The federal government is trying to erase trans people from existence.
The federal government is trying to erase trans people from existence.
January 31, 2025 at 9:06 PM
they want to erase us completely. do not let them, we will outlive these fascists. create art, take pictures of yourself or your trans friends, make something lasting. we will outlast them forever
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These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️
In California, Incarcerated Teenagers Help Fight Wildfires
"You’re put in danger every time you’re on the fire line.”
www.teenvogue.com
January 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️
I got to share my first two publications this year! They’re very different pieces—worlds, genres, intentions—but equally speculative and moody. (links below)
January 1, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I got to share my first two publications this year! They’re very different pieces—worlds, genres, intentions—but equally speculative and moody. (links below)
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The story of the Klamath River might just be our favourite things that happened this year. After decades of activism by the Karuk and Yurok tribes, the river was finally freed of four huge dams, ahead of schedule and on budget. https://buff.ly/4gd6E1b
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
'Anything that can be built can be taken down': The largest dam removal in US history is complete – what happens next?
The Klamath River is free of four huge dams for the first time in generations. But for the Yurok tribe, the river's restoration is only just beginning – starting with 18 billion seeds.
buff.ly
December 31, 2024 at 2:50 PM
The story of the Klamath River might just be our favourite things that happened this year. After decades of activism by the Karuk and Yurok tribes, the river was finally freed of four huge dams, ahead of schedule and on budget. https://buff.ly/4gd6E1b
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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tfw you love your job at the Bird Naming Factory
December 30, 2024 at 10:30 AM
tfw you love your job at the Bird Naming Factory
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Well, this was a bit surprising. First, I have been going to Yolo Bypass near Davis, CA very very often and always dream of getting a good raptor pic with the "Hunter Check Station" sign. And I got one today of a kestrel sitting on that sign. Yes, this is a hunter check station.
December 28, 2024 at 12:36 AM
Well, this was a bit surprising. First, I have been going to Yolo Bypass near Davis, CA very very often and always dream of getting a good raptor pic with the "Hunter Check Station" sign. And I got one today of a kestrel sitting on that sign. Yes, this is a hunter check station.
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(Last digression before I get to work for the day!)
Yes! Trust that authors are doing things on purpose. :)
From Eco's own notes in the appendix of THE NAME OF THE ROSE: he's testing you with those first hundred pages. If you love it, then continue! If not, then stop!
Yes! Trust that authors are doing things on purpose. :)
From Eco's own notes in the appendix of THE NAME OF THE ROSE: he's testing you with those first hundred pages. If you love it, then continue! If not, then stop!
December 27, 2024 at 6:51 PM
(Last digression before I get to work for the day!)
Yes! Trust that authors are doing things on purpose. :)
From Eco's own notes in the appendix of THE NAME OF THE ROSE: he's testing you with those first hundred pages. If you love it, then continue! If not, then stop!
Yes! Trust that authors are doing things on purpose. :)
From Eco's own notes in the appendix of THE NAME OF THE ROSE: he's testing you with those first hundred pages. If you love it, then continue! If not, then stop!
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Naturalists have done this since Darwin's time but gatekeeping in science means that vast collective knowledge is not recognized or dismissed as 'amateur'.
Quote: "It is very hard to interpret big data in ecology in meaningful ways if you do not know anything about who the organisms are and what they do in the environment."
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
A place for natural history in the 21st century
Natural history provides an important basis for observing interactions between organisms in their environments. Biotropica recently inaugurated a new paper category called “Natural History Field Note....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 15, 2024 at 1:34 PM
Naturalists have done this since Darwin's time but gatekeeping in science means that vast collective knowledge is not recognized or dismissed as 'amateur'.
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‘How do we get EVEN MORE kids into paleontology?’
The National Museum in Prague: ‘We got this.’
The National Museum in Prague: ‘We got this.’
Sharks eating dinosaurs! At the charming National Museum in Prague.
Totally morbid paleoart. But based on one of the few Czech dinosaur fossils, an ornithopod bone crisscrossed with the razor blade bites of sharks.
Totally morbid paleoart. But based on one of the few Czech dinosaur fossils, an ornithopod bone crisscrossed with the razor blade bites of sharks.
December 15, 2024 at 12:07 PM
‘How do we get EVEN MORE kids into paleontology?’
The National Museum in Prague: ‘We got this.’
The National Museum in Prague: ‘We got this.’
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it's good to get out and meet new people
December 12, 2024 at 1:07 AM
it's good to get out and meet new people
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Ugh this is so sad. Maybe not her most powerful, but to me, her most moving poem is this one
December 10, 2024 at 3:17 AM
Ugh this is so sad. Maybe not her most powerful, but to me, her most moving poem is this one
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I cohost a podcast with @yvettel.bsky.social & @chineloonwualu.bsky.social on African SFF called Griots & Galaxies --
csi.asu.edu/griots-and-g...
*and* I'm a fan of Just Keep Writing, as well -- www.justkeepwriting.org/podcast
csi.asu.edu/griots-and-g...
*and* I'm a fan of Just Keep Writing, as well -- www.justkeepwriting.org/podcast
Griots and Galaxies Archives - Center for Science and the Imagination
csi.asu.edu
November 29, 2024 at 7:33 PM
I cohost a podcast with @yvettel.bsky.social & @chineloonwualu.bsky.social on African SFF called Griots & Galaxies --
csi.asu.edu/griots-and-g...
*and* I'm a fan of Just Keep Writing, as well -- www.justkeepwriting.org/podcast
csi.asu.edu/griots-and-g...
*and* I'm a fan of Just Keep Writing, as well -- www.justkeepwriting.org/podcast
rec request: i’m looking for sff discussion podcasts. specifically review/crit pods, but i’m also down for craft discussions. tell me your faves!
November 29, 2024 at 6:55 PM
rec request: i’m looking for sff discussion podcasts. specifically review/crit pods, but i’m also down for craft discussions. tell me your faves!
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me: i heard you do a terrible owl impression
him: where
me: holy shit that is bad
him: where
me: holy shit that is bad
September 4, 2023 at 5:09 PM
me: i heard you do a terrible owl impression
him: where
me: holy shit that is bad
him: where
me: holy shit that is bad
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Next week is this amazing panel with contributors to Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction. Come and join us on November 20th at 6 pm EST!
November 13, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Next week is this amazing panel with contributors to Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction. Come and join us on November 20th at 6 pm EST!
thinking about the nature of the work, as an ecologist and as a speculative fiction writer. i never want to simply accept a future. my work is about my/our own imagination & survival
November 6, 2024 at 7:59 PM
thinking about the nature of the work, as an ecologist and as a speculative fiction writer. i never want to simply accept a future. my work is about my/our own imagination & survival
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FF#22 Story Preview: "Calling from the Payphone at the Teleporter Depot" by @othermarshes.bsky.social. Ever find yourself waiting in the teleportation line and end up having to comfort the crying kid ahead of you? And it makes you really think about your life? Then this one might be your jam.
September 27, 2024 at 7:20 PM
FF#22 Story Preview: "Calling from the Payphone at the Teleporter Depot" by @othermarshes.bsky.social. Ever find yourself waiting in the teleportation line and end up having to comfort the crying kid ahead of you? And it makes you really think about your life? Then this one might be your jam.
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ALL THE STARS
New piece for @fusionfragment.bsky.social inspired by my favourite line from a beautiful story by @othermarshes.bsky.social
Check it out + a whole galaxy of beautiful stories in the latest issue; & support independent publishing!
fusionfragment.com
Acrylic, pastel, digital paint
New piece for @fusionfragment.bsky.social inspired by my favourite line from a beautiful story by @othermarshes.bsky.social
Check it out + a whole galaxy of beautiful stories in the latest issue; & support independent publishing!
fusionfragment.com
Acrylic, pastel, digital paint
August 3, 2024 at 5:57 PM
ALL THE STARS
New piece for @fusionfragment.bsky.social inspired by my favourite line from a beautiful story by @othermarshes.bsky.social
Check it out + a whole galaxy of beautiful stories in the latest issue; & support independent publishing!
fusionfragment.com
Acrylic, pastel, digital paint
New piece for @fusionfragment.bsky.social inspired by my favourite line from a beautiful story by @othermarshes.bsky.social
Check it out + a whole galaxy of beautiful stories in the latest issue; & support independent publishing!
fusionfragment.com
Acrylic, pastel, digital paint
thrilled to share “Calling From the Payphone at the Teleporter Depot”!! features bad breakups, fresh starts, folk physics, and the kindness of strangers. also, some early scifi teleporter horror.
FF#22 has arrived! Work by Charlie B. Lorch @bwilliamschilds.bsky.social @megelison.bsky.social @othermarshes.bsky.social @ideofmarch.bsky.social Anj Baker @thesuiway.bsky.social Sophie Gazarian @drfionamoore.bsky.social and EC Dorgan!
Get your copy for free at fusionfragment.com/issue-22
Get your copy for free at fusionfragment.com/issue-22
August 28, 2024 at 9:23 PM
thrilled to share “Calling From the Payphone at the Teleporter Depot”!! features bad breakups, fresh starts, folk physics, and the kindness of strangers. also, some early scifi teleporter horror.
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One of my favourite things about doing breeding bird surveys is catching the sunrise in June. This was taken just after 4 o’clock this morning and was worth the 3 AM wake up. 🌿
June 23, 2024 at 1:20 AM
One of my favourite things about doing breeding bird surveys is catching the sunrise in June. This was taken just after 4 o’clock this morning and was worth the 3 AM wake up. 🌿