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🇵🇭🇮🇳 roller-skater since I was ten • school supplies • gardens • bioluminescence • lumpia • axolotls • Buckeye • NYT bestselling author • BITE BY BITE (food essays) • WORLD OF WONDERS (nature essays) • four books of poems + NIGHT OWL (Ecco, Spring 26)
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my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read! “I know this so loudly I don’t hear, at first, my father’s silence.”
I refuse to give em dashes to the AI
nature poets thanking the source of their inspiration
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
awww thank you!
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Please everyone preorder please thank you lol www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...
I saw the photo before I saw who posted this, and I thought, that looks like a dog Aimee Nezhukumatathil might have!
ha ha you guessed it! 🌸🌸🌸
Perhaps you might need to see a picture of my rescue dog, River Pearl, in my garden. 2 years ago she was found wandering the streets of Chattanooga and no one claimed her. Until I wrote a letter to her shelter to say why I’d give her the very best life. She’s named after the state gem of Tennessee.
Oh darn! Filed my claim this morning.
Please spread the word. The print run is expanding. Get on board with this collector’s item while you can.
I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.
Big news out of Florida tonight! An environmental challenge has brought the use of the Everglades detention camp to a halt.
Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper! We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media. Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑 doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
manifesting this for us! 😂✨✨
highly recommend going on a 10++ mile state hike with a pal in these last August weeks of cicada and wildflower stars (pic of Ross and I at Hocking Hills State Park)
Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Ross Gay show us how to measure time in gardens in this year-long poetry swap. orionmagazine.org/article/lett...
Once abundant in California waters, the sunflower sea star was nearly wiped out by sea star wasting disease. The cause wasn't clear at first, but one culprit has been identified—a bacterium named Vibrio pectenicida. This finding may help scientists understand and control this disease.
Eater is one of the news outlets I read for pleasure, to know what’s going on in my neighborhood and just for the sheer fun and intelligence of the writing. Disgusted by these cuts.
Good morning from this Gulf fritillary caterpillar in my garden. By evening they’ll almost certainly be in a cocoon.
My publisher released four of my novels with new gorgeous covers by the great Yuko Shimizu. They’re calling it the LaValle Quartet though each book stands alone. Just look at these things! They’re in bookstores now. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/LVQ/t...
If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
"Come thick slice of enticing. Come, / my love. My joy.” Joshua Nguyen, from AMERICAN LỤC BÁT FOR MY MOTHER #ReadPoetry #SealeyChallenge
List of resources in the thread ❤️🖤🤍💚
Today is the FINAL day to submit to our Summer Creative Nonfiction Contest! Send us essays up to 5,000 words for a chance to win $1,000 and publication. This year's contest will be judged by @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social. prairieschooner.submittable.com/submit
Mary Jane Rathbun (1860 – 1943) was a US zoologist who specialized in crustaceans. She worked at the Smithsonian Institution from 1884 until her death. She described more than a thousand species and subspecies and many higher taxa new to Western taxonomy. 🦀 #WomenInSTEM
The idea that novelists and historians could be replaced by AI could only come from people who have no use for fiction or history.
What a sick-ass archive pull.
Our Summer Creative Nonfiction Contest is coming to a close on August 1st! Read our interview with guest judge Aimee Nezhukumatathil (@nezhukumatathil.bsky.social): prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-scho... Find guidelines & submit your work here: prairieschooner.submittable.com/submit
Bobtail squid in the intertidal today. #marinelife #tutkabay #cephalopod #alaska
when the sketch starts with Grover playing a waiter you know it's going down
WCK can use your donations. They are on the ground in Gaza, doing what they can in the face of a staggering and ongoing crime against humanity.
Bet you didn't know NYT bestseller Aimee Nezhukumatathil can do a convincing birdcall. This and other delightful details in our Orion Questionnaire.
thank you so much!
Started reading “Bite by Bite” by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, a book about that explores the way food and drink evoke our associations and remembrances. It is such a beautiful read and highly recommended. #booksky
Went tidepooling for the first time in a looong time! Juneau AK #NAEC2025.. here is the green urchin Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis with its covering response, showing off rocks and limpets!
100000% agree
In case you needed to see something lovely: here’s Grand Prismatic Spring (Yellowstone NP) in Wyoming. National Parks are some of the best things about this country. See them and support the rangers and NP staff when you can, especially this summer.
Less than 2 weeks left to enter our Summer Creative Nonfiction Contest! One winner receives $1000 & publication. Read our interview with guest judge @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social: prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-scho... Find guidelines & submit your work here: prairieschooner.submittable.com/submit
Will simply never get over the dazzle of seeing passion fruit flowering in the swelter of my summer garden
Oh hey, that’s me. 👋
DarkSky should have come out and said that dark skies are a human rights issue and so are concentration camps. That they disapprove of irresponsible lighting and concentration camps. End of convo. Instead they said they disapprove of irresponsibly lighting concentration camps 😒🔭
how does one survive flexing this hard
oh wow—so kind and what a sweet idea!
Currently recommending Bite by Bite by @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social to everyone I know. I'm giving a copy to my mom for her birthday with a list of foods that remind me of home/my childhood.
Happy Shark Awareness Day! I want people to be aware of 5 things: 1 Sharks are awesome 2 Sharks are not a threat to your safety 3 Sharks are ecologically important 4 Sharks are highly threatened 5 We can still save them- but it matters what we do, don’t reinvent the wheel, follow experts!
Folks need to remember that public funding of science drives economic growth and human quality of life decades into the future. This is about more than saving jobs on the line now. It's about your future health, and the future of health and well-being for the next several generations.
Thread with suggested sites of donation:
From @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social's book, Lucky Fish. Published by @tupelopress.bsky.social. Get it here: bookshop.org/a/862/9781932195583 #poem #books #writing
#molluscmonday
Hey, friends who live in red states -- if you have a GOP house rep, call their office and tell them they should vote NO.
It may feel exhausting to call them but it won’t be as awful as life under that budget. If you haven’t reached out, this is the time.
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Happy pub day to @maris.bsky.social !! Can’t wait to dig in!
It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:
May I present the mascot for the Halifax Oyster Festival, Pearl
Let's GO, southern states! Easy to donate the cost of 2 cups of coffee to help bring scientists to virtually visit classrooms!
I am participating in our local library's summer reading program for adults (there's a kids one too) and this is for my "well designed cover" pick. I found it by random near the ecology section. Sofar, sogood 📚😊💖💖 #ecology #memior #poetty #worldofwonders #aimeenezhukumatathil #Nakamaura #booksky
Ugh he's just spectacular 🦎
about 70% of the world eats like this. This tweet is the most racist thing I've seen in years
With just one month left to submit to our Summer Creative Nonfiction Contest, we're excited to share an interview with this year's judge, @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social, who recently spoke with two of our nonfiction editors. Read the interview on our blog: prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-scho...
This is a painted grasshopper nymph (Poekilocerus pictus). Gorgeous. Yes, it’s real. I caught and released an adult one of these in Arondizuogu, Nigeria once. 😃 My cousin said it looked like a masquerade and I’ve thought of them like that ever since.
Monstrous: "They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."
Toni Morrison is one of the greatest writers to ever live. What many don’t know, is that she was also the first Black woman to become a senior editor at Random House. I wrote about a new book that discusses how she edited by day, wrote by night, and ushered in a new generation of Black writers.
Embrace immigrants. Celebrate diversity. Fight for equality and commit yourself to serving the needs of those with needs. Be real. Be empathic. Be human. That’s a recipe for Democratic success. Not whatever it is that the party has been doing recently.
filmmaker mira nair created mississippi masala and the next mayor of new york, bravo🫡
Happy birthday to #botanist Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919-2010), 🧪🐡👩🏻🔬 #histsci renown algae expert, celebrated seaweed cook, devoted teacher & mentor, expert on Hawaiian ethnobotany, 1st Indigenous Hawaiian woman to earn a PhD in science & 1st woman or person of colour to become a full professor on 🧵
Happy 50th to JAWS! 🦈 An incredible movie that also happened to have a huge effect on our perception of sharks. Shark fishing ⬆️'d exponentially, and people believed sharks were mindless killers. I wrote Shark Lady to tell the story of the woman who proved sharks are smart & worthy of protection!
Somebody somewhere Needs flowers tonight
Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
Just saw fireflies for the first time. Nature is amazing!!
Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting
“A U.S. citizen!” And now he’s missing. Adrian Martinez tried to defend a man ICE was harassing. Video shows six agents swarming him. He struggles but doesn’t lay hands on them. They take him to the ground & shove him into a CBP vehicle. Abuse of power. Keep recording. Don’t stop. (1 of 2)
L.A. Taco has confirmed with the family of 20yr old Adrian Andrew Martinez, who was taken by ICE while working at Walmart in Pico Rivera, is a US citizen who was speaking up for his coworker that was detained. ~ @eltragon.bsky.social
My latest for American Scientist Magazine helps give scientists the tools to fight back against politicized charges that our research is silly or pointless- tools that will work whether you’re asked “why are we funding this” from your asshole uncle at Thanksgiving or an asshole US Senator. 🧪🌎
The morning offering from The Brit. We give you the Northern Pygmy Owl who is a whole mood.
A letter from the staff of Senator Tina Smith to the staff of Mike Lee. Worth the read.
getting to use an interoffice pneumatic tube system would fix me
Einstein - a wee owl in Edinburgh this morning
Great Horned Owl #birds 🪶
Proud of Minnesotans
Here’s a New York Times photo of the Chicago “No Kings” rally. NYT said the march that followed spanned at least 10 blocks.
“Too cold. Too tongue.” A poem by Aimee Nezhukumatathil.
ha ha thank you! but I promise planting native plants is so easy. and bees and butterflies will be so happy!
Agreed. I think I’d rather just read Ross Gay & Aimee Nezhukumatathil write about their gardening.
The incomparable Effie Burt singing an original at the #NoKings rally in Oxford, MS
I had an amazing session watching 3 young Long-eared Owls at La Mata Spain. A very scarce bird in the Alicante region but these are next to a picnic area and oblivious to passing people. Filmed through my telescope. Fabulous to watch. #birds #birdphotography #owls #canon
Ran into Dave Matthews in a mall in Ohio the day of a concert while he was shopping for socks juuust before "Crash" became a thing. Like circa 1997?
Look alive Texas! These stunning jellies, called "blue button," are washing ashore near you. They float on the ocean's surface like bubbles, & are extremely rare because they're normally found far from shore. But we're seeing reports form Padre Island and Corpus Christi this week! 🧪 #Texas
Facebook decided to suspend my account because of a piece (below) I wrote Monday about violence which in no way advocates for it (but does point out who is violent in the current ruckus).
Tonight's Strawberry Moon, and yes, this is the color that came out of the camera (the actual moon was slightly less vibrant)
This is an abomination considering the environmental impact. And one of the whole points is to get people (not computers) curious about what others have encountered. Please reconsider @inaturalist.bsky.social and please value the planet and community—please value anything besides money.
We feed you. They hunt us.
When curiosity meets cuteness! 🦉🍃 This little owl just discovered the camera—and possibly your heart.💚 #OwlLove #NaturePhotography #CuteAnimals #BirdWatching #WildlifeWonder #ForestFriends #CuriousOwl #NatureLovers #AnimalKingdom #OwlOfTheDay
this is an abomination considering the environmental impact. please reconsider and please value the planet and community—please value anything besides money.
This is counter intuitive to your purpose. GenAI is entirely unethical from start to finish. Legally dubious. In many cases downright harmful. And unsustainably taxing on the environment. People hate it for good reason. It's shameful to ally yourself with that. Reverse this decision.
zohran mamdani's mom is MIRA NAIR??? MISSISSIPPI MASALA MIRA NAIR?!
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