The way we're killing the planet means we kinda have to reduce the future population, no?

Join the Center for Canon Expansion and Change for the public talk, "The Enlightenment's Most Dangerous Woman" by Andrew Janiak (Duke). Tues 2 June, 1800-2030, at Open Book, Minneapolis, MN. Register via QR code in image or link: buff.ly/BscH3vV buff.ly/7rsXZoI

Vital thread for historians, other researchers who use digitized historical archives, and teachers. AI is altering docs via transcript and summary, and it’s radically changing them in dangerous ways:

"Can you explain this gap in your resume?" Me:

me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this

Thank you to @sciam.bsky.social for letting me dig into the protein enhancement fad. 1. If you are an elite athlete, OR elderly/frail, maybe you do need extra protein. 2. That's not you. You're not an elite athlete. 3. If it is you: consider yogurt. www.scientificamerican.com/article/prot...

Still laughing about this.

As I said here. Students are not the menace. Profiteers and opportunists are. bsky.app/profile/sonj...

Researcher, author, thinker friends: it's the annual 50% off sale at @princetonupress.bsky.social -- now's the time to hit go on your cart. Here's what I decided to snap up. Tons of cool science, history, and philosophy books to be had.

With her new book Arachnomania, Maria Tatar offers up an anthem to the humble creatures that haunt our imaginations, reminding us of just how much we are the kindred spirits of the arachnids we should think of as “some spiders.” 🕷️ Out May 19 (14 July UK pub): press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Pregnancy is the most dangerous time in your life for, like, every reason you can think of.

New cover for ANGEL DOWN. 💥

Less than 800 NSF grants awarded over the first half of the fiscal year for the entire country. Previous years were already over 2-3k awards by now. It is not particularly overdramatic to say we are seeing the death of federally funded science research in the United States.

“Oversimplification is a major hallmark of pseudoscience. Where real scientists see complexity & uncertainty, pseudoscientists claim unnatural simplicity w/ unearned confidence.”🧪

In the late 1960s, 17% of NASA's staff were women; mostly secretaries. When schoolteacher Judy Sullivan applied for a job, the woman who interviewed her warned, “They’ll give you every reason in the world why they can’t have a woman over there. They’ll even tell you there are no female bathrooms.”

Teens need a 3rd place! Their parents don't need counseling

Great thread. I will submit two other pieces of evidence, the first this series of photos compiled by @kendrawrites.com about what our beautiful country looked like before the EPA cleaned it up: www.popsci.com/america-befo... 1/2

Vaccines are humanity’s greatest scientific achievement.

Steal work and pass it off as your own, with a program named after a woman whose work was stolen by men and passed off as their own!

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Sam Altman thinks data centers are safe for nearby residential areas, so there should be no concerns. Build them like medieval castle walls around his house. Don't even bother with a door for him.

This is what authors have been dealing with. Constant barrage of AI slop scams. "Be on our (fake) radio show." "Be featured at our (fake) book club." For a cost. And this is just a few weeks worth of emails; I already deleted some.

“Yes, we have these great jobs, and we live in these great neighborhoods. But privilege comes with its own price.” Khiara Bridges took on Josh Hawley. Now she’s taking on the maternal healthcare system.

Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...

News used to be better

DO open the replies. Books are important even as it feels deeply weird to be selling them right now.

Where TF is the UN? Who is gonna stop this man?

Never Forget

Essay: Darwin, the great scientist, and Dickinson, the great poet, witnessed the separation of science from art, but they did not accept it for themselves. They resisted disenchantment. Darwin never lost his sense of wonder or his aesthetic appreciation of the beauty of the natural world.

Thanks for doing this! Rise of the Zombie Bugs brings together my love of pop culture zombies and the science of actual zombification—by viruses, worms, wasps and flies. Actual zombies are more common than you think, and you're probably closer to one right now than you may expect 🧟‍♀️

PREACH

Everything is political. What you buy, how you dress, the way you raise your children, what you read or watch, where you go and how you get there. The fact that sometimes you might be unaware of the political implications of your actions doesn’t mean they aren’t there.

You would get so many more amazing books if you had Universal Basic Income. Not even the most dream-scenario AI could compete with the creativity of a world of authors no longer afraid of affording rent.

🗣️ WHEN WOMEN CAN'T PARTICIPATE FULLY IN OUR ECONOMY, OUR ECONOMY SHRINKS!!!!!! A clip from today's interview with ABC News Live's Janai Norman. #blacksky #news

There's a long, bad journalistic tradition: All conservative grass-roots political movements are fascinating heartland phenomena, all progressive grass-roots political movements are ineffectual bleating. This one is written off as powered by white female college grads--the wine-moms slur, basically.

Best railcar graffiti I've ever seen

Apropos of a largely unrelated discussion…you know how there’s always someone saying they’re gonna reinvent a genre? Can anybody think of an example of a genre *actually* being reinvented? I’ve got Tolkien, Star Wars, and, if I’m being super generous, Lovecraft.

I’m tickled by the senior White House official going: ‘no, totally, the President is very racist and sexist what gave you the idea that he wasnt’

Text mining before the age of LLM training.

You know what would be great right about now? High-speed effing rail.

A new visitor to the yard this afternoon. A beautiful Kestrel, the smallest falcon in North America!!

I'm back from my many March events and excited to share that SISTERS IN SCIENCE is included in the audible BOGO sale through 3/27/26! It's a truly fab audiobook. @htpbooks.bsky.social #womenshistorymonth #womeninstem #history

Had a blast at Tucson Festival of Books. Someone called me "delightful" after my first panel, I was in the author's lounge with Salman Rushdie and Joy Harjo, and someone recognized me at my hotel and told me they loved my talk. Needless to say, I will be absolutely insufferable for the foreseeable.

In honor of Women’s History Month, here’s a thread about women who discover Caribbean reef history. (All examples are in my book, Reefs of Time, published by @princetonupress.bsky.social) #WomensHistoryMonth #marinelife #coralreef #ocean #ecology #geoscience #scicomm #paleo #booksky

"Hello kids. Today, I'm going to show you the proper way to punch a Nazi."

Phoenix to Tucson. Alien landscape.