Abhilash Jayachandra

probable writer. retweets five times for luck. goes into hiding during summer and winter. shows up exactly when not needed

[Abhilash Jayachandra @abhi1511]

It's alive!!!
My story, "The Sing-Along Killing and Silent Death of Malakine, The Horse Whisperer" is now up on @strangehorizons
Great thanks to @ALWlikeahowl and the rest of the SH editorial team for their wonderful work on my story.
https://t.co/XAOq5YYPeM

[Uncanny Magazine @UncannyMagazine]

Sunday is your FUNDAY, Space Unicorns! The Uncanny Magazine Year 13: The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU! Kickstarter is 53% funded! KEEP THIS ROLLING, YOU MAGNIFICENT SPACE UNICORNS! https://t.co/hWCODGcywb

[vivek tejuja 🌈 @vivekisms]

Will post this, till something happens:

24 years across L&D, corporate communications, publishing/book promotion/ghost writing, content, & magazine culture editing. Anyone hiring for content, editorial, communications, brand storytelling, or L&D, pls DM me. RTs apprctd. Thanks

[vivek tejuja 🌈 @vivekisms]

24 years across L&D, corporate communications, publishing/book promotion/ghost writing, content, & magazine culture editing. Exploring new opportunities. If anyone is hiring for content, editorial, communications, brand storytelling, or L&D? DM me. RTs appreciated. Thank you.

[Abhilash Jayachandra @abhi1511]

@TejaswineeRC I feel that ship has sunk..
Or we can bribe them with humanity?

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

A student submitted an essay she wrote by hand. Her university ran it through an AI detector. The detector said she cheated. She is autistic.

Her name is Moira Olmsted. Adelphi University. February 2026. Turnitin flagged her essay as 100% AI-generated. She was disciplined.

Two other AI detectors classified the same essay as human-written.

She sued. She won. The court called the school's decision "arbitrary and capricious."

She is not the only one.

In May 2026, a high school student in Palo Alto was expelled after an AI detector flagged his work. He faced visa revocation. He filed a federal civil rights lawsuit.

A researcher at Griffith University just proved mathematically why this keeps happening. The paper is on arXiv. The finding is one sentence.

AI text detectors have a structural flaw that no amount of better engineering can fix.

Here is what the math says.

If a university wants its detector to catch 80% of cheaters, at least 750 out of every 10,000 innocent students will be wrongly accused. That is not a software problem. It is a theorem.

If the university tries to limit false accusations to 1%, detection power collapses to 6%. It catches 6 out of every 100 AI-written papers. The other 94 get through.

There is no setting where the detector is both fair and effective.

The reason is diversity. Every student writes differently. Non-native English speakers use simpler vocabulary. Shorter sentences. Clearer structures. So does AI. A Stanford study found that 61.3% of TOEFL essays written by non-native English speakers were misclassified as AI-generated. A separate analysis tested 14 commercial detection tools. Zero out of 14 reached 80% accuracy.

The students most likely to be wrongly accused are non-native English speakers, neurodivergent students, and anyone who writes with clarity and precision. The qualities that make their writing effective are the same qualities the detector mistakes for a machine.

Vanderbilt University understood this. They disabled Turnitin's AI detection in 2023 after calculating that even a 1% error rate across 75,000 submissions would produce 750 wrongful accusations per year.

750 students accused of cheating for writing like themselves.

The paper's conclusion is not that we need better detectors. It is that the diversity of human writing itself makes accurate detection mathematically impossible.

The same thing that makes your writing yours is the thing that gets you accused.

https://t.co/L91ldtXP05

[Kunal Ray @IamKunalRay]

If you have a food story, we will be happy to hear! #food #eating #cultures #India #writing
https://t.co/7GBYkvh9w3

[Ritika Chopra @RitikaChopra__]

The world just noticed Mumbai's garbage mountain.

A UCLA report ranks it among the world's top 25 methane hotspots. At 50 metres, twice the height of the Gateway of India, it's been poisoning the air for years.

For thousands living in its shadow, this was never news.
@_iampratip went to find the people the report didn't name.
(1/10)

[David Perell @david_perell]

Maria Popova is famous for her personal blog, The Marginalian, where she's published more than six million words.

All the nights I've spent reading her writing were like an entry point into intellectual curiosity. She's introduced me to more writers and ideas than just about anybody, and this conversation is about how she does it.

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:37 Why writers should visit archives
04:39 Lessons from reading diaries
09:41 Letters vs diaries
11:35 Presence over productivity
18:30 How language shapes thought
19:48 Why Maria started reading poetry
36:46 Why college failed her
39:58 Reading to survive
41:41 Why epiphanies don’t stick
43:57 Thoughts on famous quotes
47:32 Why AI can never make art
53:10 Stop calling it content

I've shared the full interview with Maria Popova below. If you'd rather watch it on YouTube, or listen on Apple / Spotify, check out the reply tweets.

[William Whyte @william_whyte]

I have a lovely cover!

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Sci-Hub is an evil website that pirated 85M+ research papers and made them freely available

And now they've added AI to their database to make Sci-Bot.

It answers your questions using latest, full-text articles.

But DO NOT use it. We should all try to make billion-dollar academic publishers richer.

I'm putting the link below so you know how to avoid it.

[Randa Jarrar @randajarrar]

Thinking of writing a tell-all book about the literary world. 😌😌😌a world I was in for 25 years and that is peopled with narcissists, rapists, racists, unhinged poets, and two-faced capitalists.

[Palash @ABiggerSpalash]

I'm constantly hiring and referring writers, video editors, designers, content strategists and creatives.

If you are a creative person and have some body of work, do apply.

RT/QT for karma :)

(link below)

[Abhilash Jayachandra @abhi1511]

@randajarrar Go for it! 💪🏻

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

The samosa is one of the most eaten street foods on the planet. This is a 500-year-old recipe for it, written in Persian in a manuscript sitting in the British Museum.

The manuscript is called the Ni'matnama, the Book of Delights, written between 1501-1510 AD, for the Sultan of Mandu in central India. It passed through the hands of the Mughal Emperor Akbar, Tipu Sultan of Mysore, and the British East India Company before ending up in what is now the British Museum, where it has sat ever since.

The samosa recipe inside calls for roasted aubergine (eggplant) pulp, dried ginger, and lamb cooked completely dry with onion and garlic, all fried in ghee. No potatoes, no chilli. Both arrived in India after this manuscript was written.

This is the samosa before it became street food. It is richer, more perfumed, and more obviously royal than anything you will find at a street stall today.

© Eats History

#drthehistories

[Damilola Omotoyinbo ||flower geh @_Damilola_O]

Writers.
I have compiled a list of magazines you can submit to and what they pay.
Please retweet so it can reach more writers who need this.

1. Terrain $50
2. The Pig’s Back $300
3. Twenty-two, Twenty eight $30
4. Brick Magazine; a literary journal $65-100

[Satyarth Pandita @SatyarthPandita]

Pre-Orders for GRAMMAR OF THE VOID now available on Amazon.

Buy your copy today!!!

Link to buy: https://t.co/PfEokBXYNw

[Medievalists.net @Medievalists]

Over 32,000 medieval manuscripts transcribed in four months using AI https://t.co/WPbmB7uVlR #medievalmanuscripts

[Rana Dasgupta @byranadasgupta]

This October I'll lead a writing workshop in the Himalayas. Hosted by @HimalayanWrite, "Writing About Change" is for all writers: non-fiction, fiction, poetry, drama. The setting is spectacular, with many activities on offer (morning yoga, mountain treks, movie evenings under the stars). If you like the idea, find out more here:

https://t.co/e7skJNIgCT

[weird medieval guys @WeirdMedieval]

new article babesessss

https://t.co/qwr7kRF5wP

[Tulika Bose @TulikaBose_]

Hi folks, I'm commissioning features at @thejuggernaut — the largest South Asian diaspora publication globally.

You don't need to be South Asian to write for us, but you should have a strong curiosity for South Asian issues — esp. the pitches you choose to take on.

Linking our pitch guide below, and please feel free to reach out with any questions!

https://t.co/Fcf7085a7j