Excited that Lost in Curiosity has been chosen as an Indie Next August pick (alongside the latest books from Colson Whitehead, Chang-rae Lee, Claudia Rankine, and other amazing authors)! Very grateful to the indie booksellers who read and selected the book. More info at www.robertakwok.com/book

🌊 "The US is no longer a reliable global partner in ocean observation." - Brad deYoung ➡️ You've heard about the OOI; now read about the other ocean-observing networks at risk. By me for @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Meghan is an incredibly smart and versatile science journalist and altogether delightful human and you should absolutely hire her!

That's right, friends! STARLOG is back and I'm the editor-in-chief. We have so much good stuff for you in our first issue, coming this November!! Science! Sci-fi! Fantastic weirdness! Plus you can subscribe now to our podcast hosted by @jhoffman.bsky.social and @da7e.com!

From Tuesday through Friday, Barnes & Noble is running a 25% off sale for upcoming books, including Lost in Curiosity (print, e-book, and audiobook)! Checkout code is PREORDER 25 and the book comes out July 21. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lost-in-cu... #bnpreorder

If you are following layoffs + sale of @sciam.bsky.social ...please check out worker's union perspective. #writing #union

Today is my last day at Scientific American, which has been sold to LabX media group. For three decades I've led the magazine's coverage of human origins, archaeology, paleontology, animal behavior, ecology, BIRDS. End of an era. Anyway this feels weird to say, but I'm now available for assignments!

Now, more than ever, it is unbelievably important to support publications like bioGraphic, which does incredible work in science and nature journalism even as other publications are being bought up and gutted

Scientific American is being sold to LabX Media, publisher of Discover: group.springernature.com/gp/group/med... They've fired me and other union staff, ahead of June 26 vote ratification. My rates are suddenly more reasonable, if you need editing or reporting - [email protected]

Had a blast speaking with Amani about folktales, Black feminist theory, haunted houses, Never Whistle at Night Part II, queer characters exploring their sexuality, & everything else RABBIT, FOX, TAR on @americanbookseller.bsky.social’s BookED podcast!

Heads up. Listeria. Nothing to mess around with.

Join the 200+ members in our International Students Slack Community! 🌍💪 If you’re an international science journalism student or want to become one, apply here: www.theopennotebook.com/internationa...

Writers who use a lot of research: Scrivener for Creative Writers is back! July 12, 1:30pm ET, recording will be up for two weeks. Student discount available! jaimegreen.net/classes

So thrilled to be part of the next edition!!! #sciencejournalism #sciencewriting

multi-stop Alaska tour! Both Fairbanks AND McCarthy! Starts tomorrow!

A baker’s dozen promising new titles. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/sne... @curtisippolito.bsky.social @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social @robertakwok.bsky.social @wtflanksteak.bsky.social @kaepernick7.bsky.social #booksky

Three days left to enter the Goodreads giveaway for my upcoming book Lost in Curiosity! You can enter to win one of 10 free print copies: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

“[This book] will be cherished by the general public (and will be on my syllabi) for years to come.” —Seth Mnookin, author of The Panic Virus and director of The Graduate Program in Science Writing at MIT Pre-order your copy here: www.theopennotebook.com/the-best-sci...

It's summer reading time! Join the @sciam.bsky.social challenge. We've got fun themes! Fun prizes! #sciambookbingo www.scientificamerican.com/article/join...

Joanna is amazing to work with and she now offers self-publishing support in addition to transcription!

Woah! Beautiful words about RABBIT, FOX, TAR in @nytimes.com!!! 🐇

5 stars! Great stories about day-to-day science. www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #LostinCuriosity #Edelweiss #booksky 💙📚 @robertakwok.bsky.social

The opinion writing workshop is Tuesday!

CALIFORNIA! ProPublica is hiring a SENIOR EDITOR to head up our 6th regional bureau. Apply here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

Did you love this comics poem? Did you know that an archival reproduction of the original watercolor version is 35% off (and so is nearly everything else) on my Etsy through June 2? Check out the sale: www.etsy.com/shop/HiddenD...

exciting news! truly living the dream—Wired is launching a book club this summer, hosted by ME! more details to come, and sign up here: www.wired.com/newsletter/b...

Pitches due Friday for @technologyreview.com's Impossible issue: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Good news! We are offering my Center for Wildlife Studies shark biology and ecology course again this fall! You can take the online take-at-your-own-pace lecture for university transfer credit or just to learn something new.

Newsroom Managers, Editors, and Communications Directors: Recruiting for a staff position? Want freelancers to see your call for pitches? Then share your opportunity to our NASW Job Bank! Post a #SciWriJobs ad at www.nasw.org/node/ad... or on our homepage at www.nasw.org/product...

Hey dudes--run don't walk! All the prints on my Etsy are 35% off through June 2. Here's a sampling with a me for scale. www.etsy.com/shop/HiddenD...

If you are going to the Bay Area Book Festival and you need MOAR scifi and fantasy books and art in your life, you can keep the energy going by signing up for BayCon 42! I'll be there, along with @charliejane.bsky.social and many other awesome folks!

Goodreads is running a giveaway for my upcoming book LOST IN CURIOSITY: Field Notes from Scientists' Adventures into the Unknown! You can enter to win a free print copy www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

Correction--the @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social auction runs through Monday, May *11*! Bid to zoom with me and AMA👇

Today feels kinda' big! My new book, years in the writing, decades in the musing, is out today! It's about the very profound effect that our minds have on our physical health. Also contains anecdotes about my dog. Best read with tea. Milk. No sugar. @atlanticbooks.bsky.social #science #scicomm 🧪

I really, really hate to sharing this, but last week, we @biographic.bsky.social learned that the California Academy of Sciences will no longer be providing the magazine with financial support, including money we were expecting to receive this year. We're in a real bind.

I'm thrilled to announce that my book LOST IN CURIOSITY: Field Notes from Scientists' Adventures into the Unknown is available to pre-order now and has been chosen for Indies Introduce, the American Booksellers Association's list of best summer/fall debuts! www.instagram.com/p/DYCj597DTp... (1/N)

It's pub day at last! Here's what I've been up to, and (of course) what an animal has to say about it: elizabethgpreston.substack.com/p/how-to-brood 🧪

Seattle Children's employees: my DMs are open. Would love your thoughts on the ongoing helipad discussions.

HAPPENING THURSDAY: Current freelancer? Considering adding or transitioning to freelancing work? Have an interest in hiring and working with freelancers? Join us to connect, collaborate and commiserate. Open to all NASW members. Join the May 7 event:

My first live radio! This was a fun chat and listeners shared some great animal stories (including a cat who made a cockroach into her pet??)

On Thursday, April 30, 7PM, I'll be joining @robertmoor.com at @powells.bsky.social to celebrate & discuss his truly wonderful new book, IN TREES. It's a brilliant meditation on trees literal & figurative; botanical, familial, & conceptual — trees as ways of thinking & being. Highly recommended!

To celebrate spring, the next NSWA Science Salon- on May 1 from 6-9pm - will focus on phenology, the seasonality of natural life cycles! It's a potluck so please bring a dish to share and your beverage of choice. Register today! lnkd.in/gYsWCtrx

SCIENCE WRITERS WANTED: Can you help students learn more about the field of #sciwri? This summer, the David Perlman Virtual Mentoring Program, organized by NASW's Education Committee, returns, and NASW members are invited to serve as mentors. Learn more and sign up by May 1:

My book BEYOND BELIEF is out today! It says: in a world flooded with questionable claims and misinformation, evidence from science can help show what’s nonsense – and what’s not. In other words: "Essential reading for the rational-minded". Please repost! 1/🧵 @princetonupress.bsky.social

Earlier this month, I traveled to Southern Oregon to witness the growing momentum among Pacific NW Indigenous elders, youth, knowledge holders, and their supporters as they gathered to revive an essential part of their culture: 🔥fire🔥 1/

"How to cover the federal appropriations process," 1pm EDT, Thursday (April 30), online discussion with @maxkozlov.bsky.social @virginiagewin.bsky.social @alesszimm.bsky.social

Some professional news... I'm delighted to be @cangeo.bsky.social's new (part-time*) Western Canada Editor! Coverage area: MB, SK, AB, BC, YT, NWT. I'll have more detailed pitch guidelines once I get settled in, but in the meantime, I'm at [email protected] if you'd like to get in touch.

For Hubble's 36 anniversary, NASA has released this image of the Trifid Nebula, a star-forming region in the constellation Sagittarius. It's a beautiful image, one that also calls up a lot of emotional history for me (a short thread). 🧪🔭 science.nasa.gov/missions/hub...

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Join us on April 23 for a reading celebrating new books by Patricia Smith, Ashley M. Jones, Donika Kelly, and Aimee Nezhukumatathil. Register for this FREE event: https://bit.ly/4dSVhwO