bone-eater: Grim's blog about biology and other stuff

as a speculative bio enjoyer, it did take me a bit to get in-tune with Semiosis.

I crossed that damn road.

I could summarise the previous two books in The Children of Time series.

the book is open access.

not sure how many people were introduced to Tchaikovsky's work along the lines of: the first book is about sophont spiders, and the second one is about sophont octopi.

You might know the late Dr Schmidt: he's the guy who got stung by as many stinging insects as possible & created the Schmidt pain index.

with a kind of desperation I've started wandering off again.

I was audience to a discussion about a rewilding project.

WE is one of the Original authoritarian Utopias, written in the 1920s, predating 1984 and Brave New World.

a brilliantly thought-out piece ruminating on sentience in non-humanoid organisms.