Starting a new book today! Just love owls. Looks really good!🦉✨ What an Owl Knows by Jennifer Ackerman 💙📚💡 #booksky #readersky #AmReading #CurrentlyReading #nonfiction #science

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

Remembering Sylvia Plath (who would have been 92 today) with her wonderful forgotten children's book about, well, embracing your own weirdness www.themarginalian.org/2013/03/27/t...

Mr Puffin. #art #birds

African penguins being adorable at Boulder Beach, SA. 🐧

Meteor - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2jssKmA

Beautiful street mural in Lisbon, Portugal #Photography #Mural #Art #Lisbon #Portugal 📷

I love to see middle-grade literature celebrated. A Children’s Booker Prize is a fabulous and welcome idea. 🎉

Down with the crud today, butterflies, but since I missed #MolluskMonday I guess we're making #FossilFriday a twofer. ⚒️🧪🦪 These asymmetrical bivalves are ascribed to Exogyra, gryphaeid oysters of the late Mesozoic. Like other oysters, their calcitic shells laugh in the face of traditional symmetry.

Seriously (still) my most popular post and recipe! I’d love to tag the friend who got me writing about real French onion soup (which kicked off my Substack) but I just hope she knows who she is… thank you 🙏💜 open.substack.com/pub/jamiesch...

Penguin colony [ No. 6 ]. Image taken by Sentinel-2 on Oct. 19, 2025. -74.03, -23.40 🐧🐧🐧

The ability to write cogently and coherently is an increasingly valuable skill (in part because it’s increasingly rare 👀) 🙏🏽 @entrepreneurialthinkers and @iamrobryan (LINK to the full convo: youtu.be/othv4kma_WE)

Waning moon with "Earthshine." #Astronomy #Astrophotography

Congratulations to WHOI's @julesdeep.bsky.social, who was recently selected to deliver the prestigious @agu.org Rachel Carson Lecture. The award recognizes women whose work in ocean science is both cutting-edge and deeply relevant to today’s societal & environmental challenges: go.whoi.edu/Huber

Very excited to announce a new book deal--history, scent, science, DIY, and so many moods!

What do the 2026 #WomensPrizeforNonFiction judges like to read? And what is it that they are looking for in a prize-winning book? Get to know @thangamdebbonaire.bsky.social, Roma Agrawal, Nicola Elliott, Nina Stibbe and Nicola Williams better by watching the below👇

THE LIBRARIANS @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social is a *must-see.* Thanks to @ifla.org Met Lib for the private screening at Toronto Reference Library. Terrifying, deeply moving. I know several of the librarians & recognized books by many #KidLit #YALit friends. 😢 #BannedBooksWeek #LibrarySky cont'd

Day 2 of my Atlas Obscuras Explorer's Guide to Inventing the World tour! I met with sooo many amazing students, teachers, and educators. Plus a stop at @childrensbookworld.bsky.social! Huge thanks to @workmanpubkids.bsky.social for setting this up! #sciencerocks #readingrocks #stembooksforkids

🎉 Congrats to these bestsellers this week! 🎉 New York Times Bestsellers: ZOMBIE AND BRAIN ARE FRIENDS IMMORTAL DARK USA Today Bestseller: INVISIBLE Indie Bestseller: SPACE CASE: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL @pterlip.bsky.social @literaticat.bsky.social @jemiscoe.bsky.social @jenrofe.bsky.social

🆕Researchers combed through images from ESA's #MarsExpress & #ExoMars spacecraft to find 1039 swirling dust devils 🌪️ Using these dust devils to track raging winds on Mars, their findings include that the strongest winds blow much faster than we thought! Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🧪 ☄️

Today’s favourite proof note: Replace ‘this’ with ‘that.’ Which feels like a short summary of the entire process.

I know the news is tough right now. So take a moment and soak in the gorgeousness & promise of the science that led to this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine & Physiology. WOW. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/h...

I adore everything by @enchantedlion.bsky.social. Will look for this gem! Thank you, Maria. #poetry #picturebooks

Nuance is needed. For example: The impact of beef, then pork, is much greater than other meats Not everyone eats the same amounts (see below). And we have to stop just wasting it! An estimated 40% of the food we create is wasted. SO many ways to improve our food system.

She was among the best of us and will forever be a model of human goodness and curiosity. Rest well.

There's still time to submit a proposal! @ncte.org @nctecla.bsky.social #edusky #skybrarian #TLsky

Thank you, Topeka schools and KS state library, for such a fabulous time at the Kansas Book Festival. 🌻

Studying microscope parts, eyedroppers, cell multiplication, the nouns and verbs of research labs—Oh, the places I’ll go for a story!

Happy to finally pick up THE SPIDER LADY picture book on the remarkable Nan Songer by Penny Parker Klostermann and Anne Lambelet | Calkins Creek | Astra BFYR @annelambelet.bsky.social

Good overview of the latest development in authors' class action copyright lawsuit against Anthropic aifray.com/anthropic-dr...

Curious about the One School, One Book program? I'm giving you a look behind the scenes: youtu.be/d6vFEZH8UIc... #allschoolread

By attempting to abdicate any legal responsibility to provide for a healthy environment, the U.S. is running in the opposite direction as the global legal community, @zoeschlanger.bsky.social reports:

I love upper middle grade novels that challenge young minds. I find my favorite books are often ones written for kids ages 11-14/grades 5-8. This summer, I read 3 amazing ones: BLOOD IN THE WATER by Tiffany D. Jackson GRACIELA IN THE ABYSS by Meg Medina THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES by @katemessner.com

Years ago (nearly fifteen!) I ran a popular local geek blog, and one of my buddies ran a local tech news site. For whatever reason, a lot of media folks thought we were rivals, despite being good pals (I mean, I read at his wedding). But we leaned into it because we thought it was funny.

Curious and Curiouser: Alice in Wonderland | The Spokesman-Review

The main thing I learned is that in order to write a book, you have to write a book and there's nothing that's going to prepare you for writing a book until you write a book so you should write a book

I posted this ten years ago at the Other Place. Here it is again. The evolution of the Penguin logo, via The Book of Paperbacks (1981) by Piet Schreuders. AFAIK all the logos were drawn by Edward Young.

Not a nebula or galaxy, but a thunderstorm over Mexico, seen from space.

We are delighted to reveal the #BookerPrize2025 longlist – 13 books ‘all alive with great characters and narrative surprises’. Huge congratulations to the authors who make up this year's Booker Dozen. ➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2025

The National Science Foundation plans to abruptly end operation of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer, the sole U.S. research ship capable of braving the farthest reaches of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. scim.ag/4mB8LOX

Your periodic reminder that the estimated cost to end hunger in the U.S. is $25 billion.

This is wonderful.

I think that if you're a writer and you don't invent a word every now and then you're missing out on a solid chunk of the fun.

A rather special red sunset on the Scottish North West coast. #sunset #photography

Groundbreaking aviator Amelia Earhart was born this day in 1897. Celebrate by reading #MGLit Fleming's AMELIA LOST, @kristinlgray.bsky.social AMELIA SIX @rebeccabehrens.bsky.social THE LAST GRAND ADVENTURE or @bradmeltzer.com I AM AMELIA EARHART!

Well, that's a wrap on 24 yrs at SLJ, most recently as Editor in Chief. Unlike Peggy Olson, I didn't leave of my own accord-I was laid off this am, along with our publisher. There's a lot to be proud of, especially the staff, it was a pleasure to work alongside them. So, yeah, this swagger.

Wired rules. Just an incredible group of journalists who are completely meeting the moment. And you can subscribe for $2 a month, which is insane www.wired.com/story/a-new-...

I love all of this. Poetry has walked with me through a few difficult years. Congrats, Eric. Can’t wait to hear the news.

Last summer, I saw a single Jersey tiger moth in the garden (my first ever). Today, there are two on the dining room window, showing me their undersides. I love the naming of moths.