Even if you missed the event last week, it's not too late to pick up a copy of Tami Parr's "Goats in America." 🐐 "The book . . . is information dense, so much so that the weight of information would be difficult to digest were it not that Parr’s writing style is so crisp and conversational."

This very informative and helpful interview with @heidsky.bsky.social about what constitutes true digital literacy is your assigned listening for today.

I regularly learn many interesting and useful things from the books I read for review; however every so often, I not only learn from them but am genuinely transformed by what I read in them. "A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States" (@sunypress.bsky.social) is such a book. #Booksky

Another free sample from @princetonupress.bsky.social 🤔 😉❤️📚 #Booksky

Free samples... that's how they get you. 😉 #Booksky

Free and online? Count me in! #Booksky

Wound Man - the superhero we likely never knew about but from whom we've benefited for centuries. #Booksky

A "Grue Jay?" Apparently so. www.chron.com/life/wildlif...

Free book! @cornellupress.bsky.social has made the 25th anniversary edition of David Gessner's "Return of the Osprey" eBook temporarily free to read. #Booksky cornellpress.manifoldapp.org/projects/ret...

This week’s most noteworthy podcast episodes involving natural history books take up the subjects of the histories of significant plants, access to the commons in England, and a famous medical illustration. #Booksky www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2025/09/note...

40% off @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social's "The Medieval Pig‽" 😲 What in the name of all that is porcine are you waiting for? Perhaps listening to this superb interview she sat with the @themerl.bsky.social's "Absolute Units" podcast hosts will nudge you to act. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

As one who is perhaps best describable as "academic adjacent," I have found Bluesky to be the lively, friendly, and welcoming of intelligent discussion place that the bird site was early in its history before it degenerated into a virtual wasteland of bots, trolls, and other malefactors.

Tracey Davanna discusses how The Hunt Saboteurs Association exposes the violence, privilege, and state complicity surrounding illegal #FoxHunting, highlighting how direct action is often the only means of holding powerful rural elites to account: buff.ly/ybi37f8

From bioluminescent mushrooms to delicate fans & vivid colours, fungi challenge how we see the natural world. 5) Phallus multicolor 6) Clavogaster virescens 7) Campanella sp. Discover more of Stephen's stunning fungi photos in Planet Fungi: www.publish.csiro.au/book/8150 #FungiFriday #PlanetFungi

In this edition of Ideas, Ludovic Orlando discusses his new book Horses: A 4,000-Year Genetic Journey Across the World, a sweeping genetic history that unravels the mystery of where horses were first domesticated. #horses press.princeton.edu/ideas/ludovi...

More book sale news for those fortunate enough to live in the UK. Birdguides is offering the five volume set of Collins field guides at a very nice discount. #Booksky www.birdguides.com/store/booksh...

Well, I have some good news and some bad news... The good news is that Harper Collins is presently having quite a lovely sale on all their books. 🎉 The bad news - unless you're in the UK - is that the sale prices are only valid in the UK. 😐 #Booksky harpercollins.co.uk/collections/...

I had my annual flu jab yesterday. As expected, I feel a bit less than chipper today, which is both expected and fine. It tells me that my body is doing what it should do in response to the vaccine so that I'll be less likely to catch the flu later. Vaccines work. They're safe. Please get yours.

Let Tami Parr get your goat (curiosity started). 🙂🐐

Oxford University Press and the @rasjournals.bsky.social are seeking feedback from the people who matter most, our readers, about Astronomy & Geophysics. Please respond to our anonymous survey by 31st October 2025: oxford.ly/46fsLQu

The influence Big Tech has on all our lives and the damage it has done to them cannot be overstated. This book is thus essential reading for all.

An aging Earth, like an aging body, is increasingly vulnerable to heat’s fatal accidents, writes James Lovelock, the scientist behind the Gaia theory, in his book "Novacene." Lovelock died in 2022 on his 103rd birthday.

There are some very interesting books included in this new @pennpress.bsky.social sale list, including "The Medical Imagination; Literature and Health in the Early United States" by Prof. Sari Altschuler. #Booksky #HistMed

1,000 followers! 🎉 Thank you all very much. I'll do my best to make following The Well-read Naturalist worthy of your time and attention.

After spending some time contemplating a noteworthy stranding of what I suspect are either Pacific Sea Nettles or Lion's Mane near Haystack Rock in Oregon, my level of respect for those paleontologists who can identify severely distorted fossils to the species level has been even further increased.

Just a reminder: in the seventeen years that I have published The Well-read Naturalist I've not made a penny from it. That was never my purpose. I don't seek ads, cuts from any links, or paid placements. I simply love reading about natural history and seek to encourage others to as well. #Booksky

At Bruce's Candy in Cannon Beach, Oregon. Saw these and thought of all I've learned from @whysharksmatter.bsky.social, including that there actually is a species of shark named the Gummy Shark. 🙂🦈

Now available in paperback, this Choice Outstanding Academic Title offers a narrative perspective on the changing oceans, letting us see how our relationships to the oceans are changing too. buff.ly/hSdLpxz #OceanHealth #Ocean #Climate #ClimateScience #ClimateChange #ReadUP

Blending the latest science with breathtaking illustrations, Butterflies of the World by Blanca Huertas and Shinichi Nakahara is the premier guide to these exquisite creatures. Out now! Explore a free sample of this beautiful book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Sean Carroll talks with author Mary Roach about the many ways in which humans have chosen to replace bits of themselves, as told in her new book REPLACEABLE YOU. www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

The Essential Einstein: Public Writings presents a rich selection of Einstein’s humanistic writings drawn from a diverse array of materials he sanctioned for publication during his lifetime. Out September 23 (18 November UK pub). Explore a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Mathew's Ghost Moth (Gazoryctra mathewi), Cannon Beach, Oregon, U.S.A.

"In sum, we shall see how the peculiar properies of animal-naming stopped language from going entirely to the dogs." Ben Parsons, "Introducing Medieval Animal Names" (@uniwalespress.bsky.social / @uchicagopress.bsky.social) 🧑‍🍳💋<chef's kiss> #Booksky

For more stories like these, check out Andrea's book, Wild Collections: Specimens, Stories and Science from CSIRO, available now in all good bookshops and online. www.publish.csiro.au/book/8181

Disturbing as it may be, this London Review of Books podcast episode is your assigned listening for today. www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

A sizeable portion of this past fortnight’s noteworthy natural history book podcasts have a decidedly medieval flavour to them. #Booksky www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2025/09/note...

Does teaching about sex—and how to make sex safer—lead to more sex? Who should teach young people and sex? Where? And when? By the 1980s, this debate crystallized into a political, religious, legal, and educational firestorm that not many know about.

Even today, the names of women in astronomy are not as well known as they should be. skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-bl... . . #astronomy #astrohistory #womeninstem #womeninastronomy #stargazing #mindfullness

More from yesterday! Paperback #owls arrived - out 16th October - but if you come along to my event @cumbriauni.bsky.social Ambleside on 7th October you can get it early. I’d forgotten yesterday was the @wainwrightprize.bsky.social ceremony. Congrats to all the winners! #NatureWriting #Booksky

We’re delighted to announce the 2025 #WainwrightPrize Winners! From powerful storytelling to vital conservation work and bold illustration, this year’s winners reflect the richness, urgency, and joy of writing about the natural world. wainwrightprize.com #StoriesThatConnect

People sometimes ask me why I pay so much attention to and include books about subjects as classics and folklore in my reviews. To me, the liminal spaces between natural history and these subjects are among the most fascinating, and knowledge of them adds additional context and breadth. #Booksky

I am in awe of the scope and level of detail that the authors have included in this new edition. The site profiles make for very interesting reading all in themselves. @brandeispress.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social #birding #Booksky www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2025/09/bird...

#naturewriting www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Coming soon .... the 3rd edition of ‘A Naturalist’s Guide to the Snakes of Australia’ by Tie Eipper & Scott Eipper - & we hear it’s already available in Australia! #Newbook #SnakesofAustralia #NaturalistsGuides #Wildlifeguides #NaturalHistoryBooks #JohnBeaufoyPublishing

A redefinition of the animal’s relationship to sound and language in French texts from medieval England. Save 50% on Animal Soundscapes in Anglo-Norman Texts by Liam Lewis with code BB050. Offer ends 30 Sept 2025. Buy the book > buff.ly/YkvcOSi #medievalsky

Margaret M. Crump offers the first thorough biography of British scientist and physician James Cowles Prichard (1786–1848) Find us at the #BSHMCongress tomorrow or online ⬇️ buff.ly/JymuLKy @britsocmedhistory.bsky.social #medicalhistory @univnebpress.bsky.social

My new "No AI" badge for the website is simple and direct.

America is being a bit more uncivilized today than it usually is (and that's saying something). Take a break from it and spend a little time - with a nice cup of tea, of course - reading one of the most gently delightful books of natural history ever written. @oxfordacademic.bsky.social #Booksky

I shall be adding this as a chapter in the book "Nice Things We Just Can't Have In America" that I intend to write one day.

Heard in a pub 'round London's East End: "Cor blimey, Reg! Ow'd you come to know so much about Central and South American lizards then?" "Well, I read anole book, didn't I?" #Booksky