Absolutely beautiful. #womensart

Love this. Go ladies!! #womeninscience #womenleaders

Lynn Faust loved fireflies as a girl and noticed their dazzling display in Elkmont, a community in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. When Elkmont was shut down, Lynn discovered that these fireflies were unique with a synchronous pattern and wrote to scientists about this discovery.

The #PocketBear tour is coming to an end! 🧸💛 I'll be at @childrensbookworld.bsky.social in LA this afternoon: www.childrensbookworld.com/event/kather... Tomorrow, the tour wraps up at the #LagunaHills Community Center, with OC Public Library & Creating Conversations: ocpl.org/page/author-...

Always a writer, no matter what. 👏🏾

When authoritarianism is on the rise, you can count on the richest, least vulnerable men on the planet to be the biggest cowards.

Two book birthdays to celebrate today! @cornelia-illo.bsky.social @andreabrownlit.bsky.social @jemiscoe.bsky.social

Fantastic cover.

Long live middle grade books!

Lovely to see this piece about Middle Grade in Publisher's Weekly, with words of wisdom from our very own @ksonnack.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

A new picture book from @laurelsnyder.bsky.social! Congratulations to Laurel and illus. Leanne Hatch on the release of THE BOOK OF CANDLES: EIGHT POEMS FOR HANUKKAH. Young readers should have access to books that reflect and expand their worldview. Happy book birthday and welcome to the world!

The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality. ― James Baldwin Every single one of them. Goodnight 💚

#Bookaday I added James Gladstone and Pierre Pratt's My Subway Runs to my 2026 Books I Love presentation. @groundwoodbooks.bsky.social www.pinterest.com/mrschureads/...

Here's a short happy-go-lucky 🎶 parody about the way that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now collapsing American healthcare - based off #PaulSimon's toe-tapping "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard". youtu.be/FDiXrd-R68U It's called: "Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard."

Still trying to cut another 5k or so words from my manuscript…and keep thinking about things I need to add! 😩 #amwriting

Early reviews of INHERITED INEQUALITY are in I couldn’t be happier with its reception. I’ll be posting one each day this week. First up, award-winning author & sociologist, Anthony Jack. THANK YOU!

Writing isn’t just on the page, it’s in the mind too. ✍️💭

Hey, whatever works! 🤣

More love and kindness? Yes please. #booksky

Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

THE LAST RESORT is here! National Book Award winning and Newbery Medal winning author @erinentrada.bsky.social has a new middle grade series… and the first book arrives today. Ghosts will rise from the pages! Happy book birthday and welcome to the world!

Sound On! Venus Williams and Leylah Fernandez are the dream team we did not expect but we deserve. They have brought so much joy to this tournament. #USOpen 🎾

Netflix just gave Gavin Newsom 2 million for the redistricting fight and made a deal with Sesame Street. New episodes will air there and the backlog of old episodes will Be free to watch. Netflix picked a side. I will keep my subscription.

Today we celebrate the strength and resilience of working people everywhere. Nearly 300,000 federal employees have lost their jobs this year not because of necessity, but because of a political agenda. And while people’s lives were destroyed in the name of “saving money,”

@dickssportinggoods.bsky.social How about you start selling Taylor Townsend’s tennis clothing?! Fabulous.

What a bunch of petty bigots. Unbelievable…except totally believable from this bunch.

Are the people who believe these things so limited in their span of friendships / colleagues that they literally know no one in these towns to validate their “news”?!

Relatable! #writing

DOGE isn't fighting fraud — it's potentially exposing Americans to more of it. And now a Social Security Administration whistleblower is resigning after apparently being punished for trying to warn the public. Nothing about this fake government agency is "efficient."

Love libraries!!!

Was a frightening, but important, interview.

So most people don’t read daily?! What’s wrong with you?!?! 😳

Don’t care that it’s not just one, nominating “self-inflicted wound” as Word of the Year

Courage, hope, and resistance are all contagious. People need to see others stand up to MAGA and Trump's bullying and fascism. We're seeing it this week with Lisa Cook refusing to bend the knee and the CDC Director Susan Monarez refusing to quit. Imagine if powerful CEOs did this...

I seriously hate the US healthcare system.

Will I finish the next round of edits on my manuscript today? My mental magic 8 ball says YES! 🎱

Re-upping: if you work at EPA, NOAA, FEMA, NIH, CDC, USDA or other agencies that involve really any sort of science in their work, and you have something you want the public to know, I would always love to hear from you. Signal is davelevitan.26 and you can remain anonymous.

True!!

Over 125 economists signed the open letter calling on the President, Congress, and the American public to uphold the principles of Federal Reserve independence and not remove Lisa Cook without due process. There's still time to sign! And please share. #EconSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...

We saw all your comments yesterday on our post about celebrity chef and D.C. icon José Andrés, and we agree with you he truly deserves the Nobel Peace Prize! 💚

Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:

Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.

#Booklovers 📚 I have my library set up just like this! Amazing! #ThePoet

Happy birthday, @marcellapixley.bsky.social!

Remember that manuscript where I brutally cut 30k words? A publisher sent back very nice comments and four pages of suggested edits. Onward!! #writing #editing #optimism

🎨 Spotlight on @dreasdoodles.bsky.social Andrea's Illustrator Spotlight Andrea is represented by @ksonnack.bsky.social and is interested in picture books and nonfiction.

“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.