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.

There’s a new one of these every week and then there’s people like this who are like well couldn’t be me.

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.

Kinda dumb that we live in like one of the only developed countries on the planet where failure to pass a comprehensive and total budget doesn't trigger elections

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!!

Barnes & Noble’s having a 25% off preorders sale that includes the paperback of The Payback, which is out on May 12th. The code is PREORDER25, the sale is for members, but you can become a member by giving them an email. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-paybac...

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.

See you this weekend in Tucson! It's going to be 90 degrees! But I hear it's a dry heat. I'm on the history and science panels on Sunday.

It's #WomensHistoryMonth AND #WomeninHorror Month, so let's talk about these intersections with @untappedny.bsky.social 3/24 6pmEST! Join this FREE illustrated virtual talk hosted by yours truly + Andrea Janes, founder of @boroughsofthedead.bsky.social RSVP: www.untappedcities.com/spectral-wom...

Think of all the news stories we're missing -- the stories we could be having instead of "ai chose my wine," "ai can sometimes form a coherent sentence!" "I let ai run my life for a week." Everything about it makes me filled with rage.

Golden.

Happy #InternationalWomensDay to the brilliant women of Past Preservers! 🌍✨ ​From the lab to the field and the screen, our experts are the leading voices in science, history, and communication. We’re incredibly proud to support and collaborate with such a world-class team of trailblazers.

Happy International Women's Day! @nature.com put together a collection of recent women's health and women in science stories--by @smjyoti.bsky.social, @scattercushion.bsky.social, @lindanordling.bsky.social , @sarahemilywild.bsky.social, and myself --to commemorate.

"Light pink, slightly depressed" -- same basal cell carcinoma, same

'Most intriguing of all were Mary’s salons held just for women, where topics of discussion ranged from science and literature to solving social ills of the day.' Fascinating overview of the life & work of scientist Mary Somerville by @oliviacampbell.bsky.social.

Mary Somerville was a brilliant scientist. The designation was, in fact, created for her. She and her husband held science salons, counting among their friends the leading thinkers of the day. oliviacampbell.substack.com/p/the-origin... #WomensHistoryMonth #sciencehistory #science #history

This is the book I'm currently reading (listening to) and it's quite good. I read many books about WW2 but never heard about this story until now (another "hidden figure").

I just want to give them all a sandwich

In this week's What'SUP blog post, we take a look at some of the books available in our Women's History Month sale. press.syr.edu/celebrating-...

To kick off Women's History Month, I'm sharing a booklet that we made for our Radical Black Women of Harlem walking tour. It's free to download and you can organize your own self-guided tours using the booklet. bcrw.barnard.edu/publications... - made this when I was a researcher in residence.

BREAKING — 51 Iranian children are dead after a strike hits Minab girls elementary school in Iran.

On the cover of The Lancet: Editorial — “Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure” Read the latest issue: spkl.io/63327Aa31W

Pete Hegseth went to Princeton and Harvard. Let me go dig up my old thread about how they don’t actually hate universities they just hate ordinary people that aren’t themselves going to them

"Daring escape out of Nazi Germany." Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @oliviacampbell.bsky.social & @harpercollins.bsky.social! Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe

It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school. They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.

Happy paperback publication day to my second book, SISTERS IN SCIENCE! Dive into the true story of how Lise Meitner, Hedwig Kohn, Hertha Sponer, and Hildegard Stücklen fought sexism to become eminent physicists, then helped each other flee the Nazis. #nonfiction #womenshistory

One of the best #histSTM books I've read this year! (Granted, it's only February, but you should still pick up a copy of Sisters in Science if you're interested in #physics, #histsci, or #WomenInSTEM!) www.harpercollins.com/products/sis...

Happy paperback publication day to my second book, SISTERS IN SCIENCE! Dive into the true story of how Lise Meitner, Hedwig Kohn, Hertha Sponer, and Hildegard Stücklen fought sexism to become eminent physicists, then helped each other flee the Nazis. #nonfiction #womenshistory

21 inches and counting ❄️

Reducing human value to what we can be trained to do is straight up technofascism. Every fascism has its suhumans. To technofascists, humans are the subhumans.

With ALT

Gotta love an orange "bestseller" badge! Snag the SISTERS IN SCIENCE ebook for an incredible $3.99!

“A federal agent fired shots through the driver’s side window”. Sound familiar? That’s exactly how Renee Nicole Good was killed. This 23 year old lost his life and ICE’s involvement was covered up for a year. They’re killing people and hiding the evidence.