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✨𝕆𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝕌𝕡𝕠𝕟 𝕒 𝕋𝕚𝕞𝕖 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕙𝕣𝕠𝕡𝕠𝕔𝕖𝕟𝕖🪸 I'm excited to share my new article, the first since I’ve joined @co_futures !! doi.org/10.1080/147526… Legendary places, mythical beings, and scientific imaginaries…to envision #climate futures. 🧵⬇️

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My research was featured by Universiteiten van Nederland & Institutions for Open Societies at Utrecht University. Here I discuss futurisms, SWANA SF, Ahmed Naji's work & my co-edited volume, The Speculative Route. The column is available in English below. linkedin.com/pulse/science-…

Less than 10 days to go! We look forward to opening up this space, no matter how small, to think with care and hope together, particularly at a time fractured by ever-expanding forms of carelessness and violence. 🕊️

@JMDetermann @springer1842 @SpringerNature Congratulations Matthias! Looking forward to reading it!

Grazie infinite and endless thanks to Lisa Scalone and her colleagues at @springer1842 for believing in my book Teaching Science Through Science Fiction: A Story of Innovation in the Classroom and Beyond. It is scheduled for publication on August 17, 2026. link.springer.com/book/978303224…

📣 Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research invites authors to submit papers for issue 2/2026. 📣 Deadline: 30.06.2026 Submissions should be made through the online portal: fafnir.journal.fi/about/submissi…

✨NEW ISSUE OUT! ✨ Fafnir's latest issue features a prefatory by Israel A.C. Noletto on SF & Eutopian Imagination, 2 essays on Norwegian SF & climate modeling as a worldbuilding tool, a lectio praecursoria and 7 book reviews! 🐉 Read for free here: fafnir.journal.fi

Karşınızda 4. Berkol Bilimkurgu Günleri Etkinlik Programı 💫 Etkinliklere katılım için rezervasyon gerektiğini unutmayın. Kütüphanenin mail adresinden kayıt olabilirsiniz. #berkolbilimkurgugünleri

Bu akşam Kadıköy'deyiz. İlgilenenleri bekliyoruz! 🐈

In “The Cultural Work of Fantasy in the Anthropocene" Marek Oziewicz celebrates the potential of fantasy to provide new models & patterns of thinking to counter the ecocidal status quo and underlines the genre's importance in educating citizens. fafnir.journal.fi/article/view/1…

🎉✨NEW ISSUE OUT!!🎉✨ Fafnir's issue 1/2025 welcomes midsummer with a blazing selection of cutting-edge speculative fiction research, essays, book reviews, and a prefatory by Marek Oziewicz. Check out the full issue for free here!: fafnir.journal.fi Happy reading!

Many thanks to the Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies (OSL) for supporting our symposium with this grant!

Join the orca uprising & come to Utrecht!! Visit easlce2026.sites.uu.nl for further details.

✨NEW NETWORK & CfP! ✨ @mugeozoglu and I are thrilled to announce the launch of our new network! We invite abstract submissions for our inaugural symposium: Literature, Care, and the Ethics of Living in SWANA (2026). Follow us here & visit our website to check the CfP.

@mugeozoglu and I have envisioned this network for a long time and we're thrilled to announce its launch! We're now inviting abstract submissions for our inaugural symposium: Literature, Care, and the Ethics of Living in SWANA (10 April 2026). Visit our website to check the CfP.

🛸ℕ𝕖𝕨 𝔹𝕠𝕠𝕜 ℝ𝕖𝕧𝕚𝕖𝕨🛸 My review of @JMDetermann's Islam, Science Fiction, and Extraterrestrial Life (@BloomsburyAcad) is now out in the International Journal of Middle East Studies @IJMES1 (by Cambridge University Press)! Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S00207…

For a system rooted in freedom, justice, equality—free from exploitation & nepotism. Where we are rewarded fairly for our labor, without facing precarity or threats to our well-being. For solidarity and fulfilment instead of competition and profit. Happy Labor and Solidarity Day!

@co_futures Feel free to contact me if you do not have access to the journal!

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