I interviewed @chanda.blacksky.app about her new book, The Edge of Space-Time. We discussed cosmic wonder, the mythology of genius, Deep Space Nine, and thinking beyond false narratives and manufactured inevitabilities. If your brain is stuck in the churn of bad news, you'll want to check this out.

I resigned from the National Science Board in May when meaningful oversight became untenable. I respect colleagues who stayed to serve the NSB's mission. Today's news clarifies that was an erosion of oversight and function has become open elimination of the Board itself. 🧵 time.com/7285045/resi...

Happy Independent Bookstore Day! Visit one if you can or boost a fave. They’re more than shops. They’re community resources, precious third spaces, part of the fight against book bans and genAI. And if you need a book to get you out there, today’s a great day to pre-order Tyrant Lizard Queen

If I may add to your thread…for both #independentbookstoreday & #DNAday, why not celebrate by ordering Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins: Lessons on Belonging from Our DNA - free shipping all weekend from bookshop.org to support your local independent shop! 🧬 🧪 ✊🏾🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♿️🤰🏿 bookshop.org/p/books/wher...

#IndependentBookstoreDay seems like a good time to come out of hibernation! @bookshop.org has free shipping all weekend, so let's start a recommendation thread: No better place to begin than @chanda.blacksky.app's brand new THE EDGE OF SPACETIME: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Wanna buy books for Black Friday while supporting independent bookstores? @bookshop.org has free shipping all weekend! Check out some of our recommendations at bookshop.org/shop/catalys...

It's nice to be excited about science again. Congratulations to my old colleague, Michel Devoret! Being quoted in this article about this amazing achievement is a major bonus 🤓 cen.acs.org/people/nobel... #NobelPrize #Physics #Science #PhysicsNobel

Been neglecting Bsky for a bit (probably didn't miss anything?) But hey, it's anti-Prime days at @bookshop.org - free shipping today & tomorrow! So here are just a few recommendations, random examples, no particular reason...

It's Amazon Prime Day, which means it's yet another great day to stick it to Bezos and support indie bookstores instead! If you wanna shop online, @bookshop.org purchases support a local indie of your choice. Plus, they're doing a sale and free shipping for Prime Day!

Folks who want to support independent and minority-owned journalism time to put your money where your mouth is! Throw some cash at @thexylom.com, an absolutely fantastic Asian American-run science publication that needs your help staying alive! fundrazr.com/sustain-the-...

DEFIANT is officially out today! In honor of Juneteenth, LegionM is gifting free copies to teachers and librarians to help bring the story of #RobertSmalls into classrooms and libraries.If you know an educator, send them to teachers.defiantproject.com #Defiant #Juneteenth

Excited to be at @convergencecon.bsky.social dealers room again this year! Unfortunately sold out of our Chris Kluwe books yesterday but he might be willing to sign other books… worth a try…

Wrote a whole fucking book about doing the cosmos ethically #BookSky www.boldtypebooks.com/titles/chand...

Here’s a banger excerpt from @karenhao.bsky.social’s new book, Empire of AI, about her time profiling the company in 2019 and how it led them to ice her out for the next 3 years www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/19/1...

🎉 Exciting news: Chain Reactions: A Hopeful History of Uranium is coming out in paperback this July! If you missed it the first time around, the paperback is a great chance to pick it up (or share it with a curious friend). 📚 Pre-orders available now!

Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it" by Colette Delawalla (@cdelawalla.bsky.social), Victor Ambros, Carl Bergstrom, Carol Greider, Michael Mann and Brian Nosek for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A new environmental book list -- this time for the Earth-loving kids! @therevelator.org therevelator.org/summer-2024-...

Nonfiction science new releases for April, 2025! Did I miss any nonfiction science books? Which of these books are on your TBR? Climate seems to be April's theme. I'm interested in HOW CAN I HELP?, ATOMIC DREAMS, & PARTICLES OF TRUTH. #booksky #chemsky 🧪 #nonfictionbooks #nonfiction #science #🧪

An important point getting overlooked: When NIH cancels "diversity" grants (e.g., diversity supplements, Fs, Ks, etc), they aren't canceling the grants based on *what* the grant studies. They're cancelling them based on *who* is doing the research. And that disallowed "who" is anyone not white.

Folks, this is your *LAST CHANCE* to book a spot on our May 10th "shark scientist for a day" fundraiser trip! Opportunity is closing next week. Please share and tag interested friends- it's an amazing adventure for you, and fundraising for us! Tickets: fieldschool.regfox.com/shark-taggin... 🧪🦑🌎🦈

#EduSky friends join @scifri.bsky.social today from 2-4 pm ET for a LIVE SHOW. Since we all know how much I love the ISS, I'm looking forward to learning more about the next stage of NASA space stations. 🚀 🧪 Call in at (877) 925-9174! Learn more and listen at www.sciencefriday.com/episodes/apr...

I absolutely adore seeing my books paired with thematically appropriate traces and/or trace fossils! Thanks to @aukeflorian.nl for getting my book LIFE SCULPTED (2023, @uchicagopress.bsky.social) & for matching it with such a lovely piece of beetle-bored wood. 🧪📚🪵🪲 (Attn: @jeanb.bsky.social)

I have so much to do but I just got this BANGER book in the mail and I had to sit down and start reading it right away

Sign up to win Free Books for Life to celebrate the 5th anniversary of @bookshop.org ! (bonus - you can designate your favorite bookshop to win a prize, too!) Enter at woobox.com/r2f4rn

Until a couple of months ago, this sign hung in the lobby of the Space Telescope Science Institute: "STScI promotes an inclusive, equitable workplace and cultivates a diverse, engaged workforce." It has now been removed.

“My job as a leader of the university is to speak up for the values that we claim to believe in, especially when they’re at odds with people with enormous power.” — Wesleyan University’s President Michael Roth in @newyorker.com (proud to have him continually and publicly defending #HigherEd)

Twenty-four hours into his time, Sen. Booker just passionately defended public science and universities-- which, at their best, are cornerstones of democracy and a powerful tool for collective liberation (which is why they've been so aggressively attacked). Thank you, Senator.

Happy publication day to @brookmthompson.bsky.social and her children's book I Love Salmon and Lampreys! I just adore this book, and I hope it encourages kids (and adults) everywhere to speak up for environmental justice. www.heydaybooks.com/catalog/i-lo...

It's always a good day to support trans authors, but now more than ever, we want to honour as many diverse stories as we can to make the world brighter & safer. Consider picking up some of these recommendations for Trans Day of Visibility. 🏳️‍⚧️ www.swordsandsapphics.com/post/book-re...

What a great moment to respeak the name Edward J. Dwight, who from 1963-64 experienced what must've felt like a similar rollback & erasure.

If you work in a job with legal, ethical, or public policy implications; and your job involves performing work to effectuate decisions made by people above you without your direct input; start thinking NOW about what kinds of instructions you will refuse, and how you will refuse them.

There's basically three categories of people. People who know and are pissed/terrified. People who know and love it. and people who don't know. The latter category is HUGE rn.

🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies

When people ask me how I got into STEM/astrophysics, I always include that I was inspired partly by Sally Ride—she made her flight as the 1st US woman in space when I was young enough to be shocked that she was the 1st. I’m angry I might get to meet the last:

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

These are (among) the stories that need to be told, by the people who are experiencing them, in ways that their families and communities can understand. If the sound is these attacks on science is silence… then clawing back what we’ve lost will be even harder, possibly impossible.

GREAT NEWS! We have put the #books from the last THREE seasons on the @peculiarbookclub.bsky.social on our @bookshop-org.bsky.social page! Get your book-hook-up from #indy and support authors and booksellers alike! bookshop.org/shop/Peculia... 🧪🗃️📚

Clyde Tombaugh's discovery of Pluto was announced #OTD in 1930. Here it is dashing across his photographic plates, next to an image taken just after closest approach by NASA's New Horizons mission in July 2015. 🧪 🔭 🚀 Images: Lowell Observatory/National Geographic (July 1939); NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

It's Nerd Book Club time again! With an extremely great episode: Next Weds 19 March at 7pm US ET, I'll talk to @carlzimmer.com about his fantastic new book, AIR-BORNE. A co-production with the Atlanta Science Festival! RSVP here for the livestream links: humanhealth.emory.edu/events/livin...

Thanks. @catalystbooks.bsky.social Look out for my new kid’s picture book. It comes out in October. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/787550...

Jim West is a STEM hero. He made a technology that is in everyone’s pockets. The microphone. www.npr.org/2022/02/01/1...

THIS THURSDAY! Don't miss @peculiarbookclub.bsky.social where we host @catbohannon.bsky.social live on YouTube about her groundbreaking book EVE: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution! The link and more about the show below--at 7PM EST 🧪🗃️📚 www.youtube.com/live/TcobjLk...

Better late than never: here's a thread of 28 science books in honor of #BlackHistoryMonth! Always first and foremost for us is THE DISORDERED COSMOS by @chanda.bsky.social: catalystbooks.org/book/9781541...

Please sign this declaration to defend research from censorship!

We need to nurture the next generation of scientists! We need to build community and overcome this together @berondam.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/6wfW...

One of the questions after my talk today was about scientists refusing to buck the administration because they fear losing their jobs. I said that a lot of self-styled apolitical scientists lost their jobs this week, so silence will not save them. Respond and keep your values and dignity.

Make no mistake. This is an all-out attack on health in America. Not only is the EIS vital to controlling infectious disease; it was where a remarkably high fraction of our public health leaders received formative training and experience. www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

Good news. My new picture book comes out in October. Spark: Jim West’s Electrifying Adventures in Creating the Microphone by Ainissa Ramirez, illus. by Setor Fiadzigbey, launching the Black Innovators series. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

I've had the chance to interview researcher Rachel Hardeman a number of times for stories (including today) She's not on here yet but I wanted to share an op-ed she wrote. www.startribune.com/with-science...