Hi Bluesky! Please share this Postdoctoral Fellowship, which is from 2027-2029 & housed in the English Department at the University of Notre Dame. Salary is $75,000 for each year, & the fellowship carries a $15,000 research budget for its duration. Mentorship & an individual office, too!

🌱 ⓥ Francisco Robles ⓥ 🌱@franciscondine.bsky.social · yesterday

Please share! My department is searching for a postdoctoral fellow for two years. Also, stay tuned for more news from ND English. This is going to be a year! joblist.mla.org/job/2001161/...

Awesome Husband bought some super-strong fancy glue for one specific project & is now walking around the house asking, with flair, what else he can glue (so far I have given him a broken souvenir thing Mom brought back from Hawaii & an earring with a [cheap] stone that fell out)

if the cheese banks fail we will have a problem worse than 2008

Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · yesterday

You can't predict the turns this sentence takes. Extreme heat is threatening Italy’s “cheese banks,” where hundreds of thousands of Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels are stored as loan collateral. fortune.com/2026/08/10/i...

Outkast’s Ms Jackson just came on at the gym and I will never in my life be able to hear that song without thinking about this comic

Happy World Cat Day 🐈   Cats have been making appearances in books, manuscripts and illustrations for centuries.   Here are some of our favourites from the collection... and some of our favourite attempts at cats...   Which one's your favourite?

Today is International Cat Day so we thought it would be the purr-fect opportunity to share some of the cats from the Ashmolean’s collection.

I didn’t paint and attach thousands of individual popcorns to model trees just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”

Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open)@hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 6d ago

Jim Henson didn’t muppeteer a tiny green frog that was singing and playing the banjo, with rubber gloves while totally submerged underwater in a airtight aluminum tank just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”.

The crossover we didn’t know we needed for 2026: the Bayeux Tapestry meets Greggs marketing team. #MedievalSky

& of course I’ve also written cat shapeshifters in the stories “Port in a Storm,” “Fire and Ink,” and the upcoming “The Warlock Affair”! #BookSky #cats @jms-books.com

🌱🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 4d ago

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters Happy International Cat Day! Are any of your characters cats, or do they have cats? Please tell me about them! Alternately, please give me your character's most cat-like trait! 🐈 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Canonically, Leo & Sam from In Frame & In Focus adopt kittens! Though Leo’s family has always had cats - they get Shakespeare names. Sam has never had cats but is happy to!

🌱🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 4d ago

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters Happy International Cat Day! Are any of your characters cats, or do they have cats? Please tell me about them! Alternately, please give me your character's most cat-like trait! 🐈 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

I’m so sad to hear about the death of John Crowley. Here’s one of my favorite passages of “Little, Big."

"'AI is adverse to the idea of learning. An educational institution should be focused more on teaching us than making us ready for a job. I’m not measuring my success on a billionaire’s mindset. I want education for the sake of education. I want to learn.’” ht: Dagmar Monett

As Colorado universities align with ChatGPT, student AI resisters take a stand against the ‘plagiarism machine’

“The majority of my participants flat out don’t think AI has a place in education,” said Mirakle Wright, a CU graduate student who is studying resistance to artificial intelligence.

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Consider how the average person parks. Now consider that it's information that those people are putting into the internet that are feeding AI algorithms.

To celebrate International Cat Day, we’re counting off twenty beloved cats and kittens from movie history, from animated Disney icons to purr-fect pals from global arthouse hits. https://boxd.it/3iA

One of my first pro publications was in one of those! Ah, some mixed emotions now, but still…

Bree (half of Kit Rocha)@mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 4d ago

I used to spend my weekends scouring used bookstores, trying to find old copies of Sword & Sorceress because that was the best place to find women writing fantasy and then I could go try to find any books they'd written. (obligatory: ugh mzb)

Miss Merlyn says happy #internationalcatday to you! #cats #CatSky

For me on #InternationalCatDay, it's got to be the Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa) Bowl cat, found in 1974. museum.wales/collections/...

Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 4d ago

#InternationalCatDay: a terrific #Egyptian gold finger-ring with a carnelian bezel in form of a #cat. The ring is presumably related to the goddess Bastet, who was worshipped in the form of a lion and a cat. 🐈 📷 The British Museum, 1947,1011.2

August 7 is National Lighthouse Day! Last year three of us @jms-books.com authors wrote novellas to celebrate - if you missed them at the time, come grab them this year! Available individually or in the collected box set! #BookSky #mmromance

Yay! 🐌😄🗡️

Jeannie (Jay) Marschall 🍇🫐🍏🍋🍊🍓@jeanniemarschall.bsky.social · 5d ago

I really really love "The Snails of Dun Nas" by @klnoone.bsky.social, in which a plague of huge snails has to be defeated and the protagonists' dynamic/relationship simply TORE MY HEART OUT it was so good; intimate, complex, just my thing! #SFFChat 🌈🚀💫

The moone doth belonge to everichon The best thynges yn lyfe are fre The starres do belonge to everichon Thei shyne ther for me and thee -- The floures yn spring -- The robins that singe -- The sunbeames that shyne -- Thyne, and myne! And love can come to everichon The best thynges yn lyfe are fre!

In which I discuss plagiarism behaviour, and how very like GenAI behaviour it is.

KJ Charles@kjcharleswriter.com · 7d ago

I blogged! On GenAI and full-fat plagiarism, and some striking similarities between the two.

Heere ys the booke of the humoral and elemental values of the Teenaged Mutante Turtles Who Are Ninjas: Michelangelo - Ayre - Sanguine - Springtyme Raphael - Fyre - Choleric - Somer Donatello - Earthe - Melancholic - Autumn Leonardo - Watir - Phlegmatic - Wynter

Today you should read Ray Bradbury's eerie and prescient short story THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS, as it takes place on August 4th, 2026...

Thanks to @zloch1.bsky.social for finding this amazing audio recording of Ray Bradbury's THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS, read by Leonard Nimoy! youtu.be/nmcURKn2sf8?...

August 4, 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains | Ray Bradbury & Leonard Nimoy | OEW Institute

YouTube video by OEW Institute

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do not tax Generatyve AI: get ridde of it

"I don't understand why you, a fantasy writer, don't appreciate the value of making bargains with the fae."

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · last wk.

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

Ask not for whom the belt owls.

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Academics and scoleres are not gate-keeperes. Thei will talke to you about their topiques. For dayes. Thei will sende lynkes. Thei will order bookes. Thys ys why thei lyve. Thei are the route bitwene past knowledge and future knowledge.