Independent bookshops will earn 100% of the profit from sales, and ebooks will be priced the same as they are on Amazon.

Please stop calling Cyber Security Awareness Month CSAM. Do not send e-mails with ideas for "Participating in CSAM".

Jane Goodall, from a March 2020 Paste Magazine interview: www.pastemagazine.com/article/jane...

What a life and a legacy. Thank you thank you for EVERYTHING Jane Goodall.

Since it’s the official start of Spooky Season, here’s one of my favorite icons. Like an Orthodox memento mori:

Today has been a lot. Too much.

“It would require turning off 20 space missions in space now that are returning good science. Literally just turning them off and letting them tumble into the darkness.” @caseydreier.bsky.social at @planetarysociety.bsky.social warns what could happen if proposed NASA science cuts take place.

I am really tired of living in interesting times, she said for the billionth time since 2001.

Delighted to discover my favorite tech-enabled feline Daphne and her cat flap are on Bsky.

Same. And good advice 👇

very excited for it to be that time of year when i contract a mysterious illness from my children.

Happy North Quabbin Garlic & Arts Fest weekend for all who will be celebrating 🧄

Well don't I feel stupid

Reading:

Happy Hades 2 day to all who are celebrating today. (I just started, no spoilers please 🙏)

Months after the Department of Government Efficiency's attack on the federal government began, WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as DOGE tore through their offices.

Meet Artemis II: the first mission to send humans around the moon since 1972. I’ll be covering this mission for National Geographic, so you’ll be seeing a lot from me about it, but here’s the first: www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

Hoping to convey the horrors of war, a former resident of Tinian in the Mariana Islands is passing on the tragedy of his father killing his younger sisters during a mass suicide after U.S. forces landed in World War II.

"Are ghost candles a fire hazard?" Is that a real candle that looks like a ghost or a candle in another plane of existence that looks like a ghost and was lit by a ghost or did the ghost light a real candle in our plane of existence and the appearance of the candle is irrelevant. Help us help you.

A New-York, Emmanuel Macron annonce un système de bourse pour des étudiants américains

"The world has always been full of autistic people; we just didn’t have a name for these neurotribes. We would say that autistic people were “difficult,” or “eccentric,” or “emotional.” Sometimes we’d call them geniuses." www.thebulwark.com/p/autism-mah...

Growing up Greek-American in very Catholic Massachusetts was an interesting mix of a deep shame culture at home/in my ethnic community, with a deep guilt culture outside of it/out in the neighborhood. And then leaving the northeast it was like -- neither of these seem to really exist in the States?

Every spring and fall without fail I get some kind of thing that makes me so congested for a week or two. Not great when you podcast daily! I promise my listeners that I’m doing my best to alleviate it, medicine and steam and tea and rest. I’m sorry 😭😭😭

This MAGA/MAHA/Trump/RFK Jr/Dr Oz/Dr Bhattacharya press conference right now is quite possibly the worst press conference—from the viewpoints of medicine, public health, & medical ethics—that I’ve ever seen. These men are so shameless & deeply irresponsible. Wherever happened to science & evidence?

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

Interesting to see more voices outside of the space silo noticing what's going on.

Hah, and for all of us whose moms DIDN'T take tylenol during pregnancy, what's our excuse then!? unreal

Could not have asked for a better day for the Lowell Kinetic sculpture race. I ADORE this event so much. Engineering + art = an absolute delight. Wish I had some decent pictures but I was biking along with the race and having too much fun! Thank you @lowellkinetic.bsky.social !!!

Spending a very offline weekend to cultivate some much-needed joy in my community. A ren faire and a kinetic sculpture bike fest - perfect weather for it all, I can't wait.

No Laughable www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Incredible photo for our times by @staceywescott.bsky.social. The thumbnail crops it - click through to see the whole thing. Very powerful.

This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem

I’ve always had a hefty physical media library but I’ve been adding to it a lot lately. And an important shoutout that your local library has a TON of movies and tv shows you can borrow for free. Start there!!!

The final ogive for Artemis II's LAS fairing was installed yesterday (per NASA image library), and I imagine everything's still appearing go for stacking of Orion come late this month/early next month. Photographer is Frank Michaux of NASA.

A harrowing story told in a compelling way by the Reuters team here - fantastic use of comic illustration to convey the narrative. I will be talking about this in the upcoming episode of Hacking Humans, as we often cover these scams and their horrific human toll. www.reuters.com/graphics/SOU...

A satellite photo of a volcano taken from space FROM THE SIDE

The Paper Bag Princess is an all-time favorite of mine to read to my daughter. I know what I'll be reading to her tonight.

HACK THE PLANET!

Heartbroken to hear this. This was a wonderful spot and I really enjoyed my visit here as part of the Webb #NASAsocial I was part of in 2022. NASA you deserve so much better, I am just so angry and heartbroken for what is happening to you.

Roses are red Our resolve hasn't faltered

Update: Homemade modern Greek alphabet guide complete. My daughter knows the alphabet but this helps her retain it. Always a struggle to figure out how to Romanize it. Opted to go with non-phonetic, as this is how they’re often written in math & science. But she knows the correct pronunciations.

Yesterday my 3rd grader asked me about 9/11 and I told her what I could (as age-appropriately as I could manage) about that day. What a sad parenting milestone.

🧶🚀 Crochet and space exploration - not the combo you expected? For #InternationalCrochetDay, meet a handmade Orion with crew module 👨‍🚀, European Service Module 🛰️, solar arrays 🌞 and Space Shuttle main engine 🚀, spotted at @esa.int's technical centre in the Netherlands 📸: ESA-M. Deschamps

internet culture desks aren't just for cute meme trend stories. ever since gamergate, understanding how and why info moves online is critical to seeing how we got *here*

“Certain dramatic events have transpired” WOW what a series finale!!!! Bring on season 4!!! #Foundation

Yay Foundation season 4 announced!! Thrilled to hear it!

My first 2 years of college I was Columbia SEAS class of 2005. Just two weeks into my freshman year, 9/11 happened. I was in Carman hall, and we could see the towers from our south-facing windows. I then ran to the Columbia Law plaza over Amsterdam Ave and saw the towers fall. I took this:

A listener just wrote to me that I am "too colorful to be AI" and that is honestly the highest compliment I can possibly imagine. Putting that on my bio FORTHWITH