HOP HOP HOORAY - Frog: A Story of Life on Earth has been shortlisted for the @wainwrightprize.bsky.social!!! 💚🐸💚🐸💚🐸

🎧 Ep 244 of Jo Durrant’s Beautiful Universe podcast is out Weds: 🤩 @adamhartscience.bsky.social myth busts animals with misleading names 🐸 @isabelthomas.co.uk chats at Chelt Sci Fest about frogs & impossible questions 📲 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j... 💻 jodurrantsbeautifuluniverse.libsyn.com

I'm looking forward to Brighton Festival next weekend! Tickets at brightonfestival.org/whats-on/Xka...

One of my favourite frog chemistry facts (yes, I have several 😁) is that only a single amino acid mutation prevents poison dart frogs from poisoning themselves

#PGDEp @morayhouse.bsky.social looks like a great book to support learning and teaching in science!

FROG: A Story of Life on Earth hops into the world today! To celebrate, I have a copy to give away, along with two perfect chocolate frogs! To enter, share this post and leave a comment below with your best froggy fact 🐸💚 @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

2/2… Would absolutely also recommend “Moth” which looks at and explains simply adaption and evolution …and “Fox” which explores the circle of life and death and doesn’t shy away from the realities. Stunning!

A first look at Frog! 💚🐸 ahead of publication tomorrow! Thank you so much @smithsmm.bsky.social I'm so pleased Frog has found its way to you!

Aaaaand we just hit 2,000 followers on Bluesky! 🫶 Help spread the word to fellow writers!

Happy #WorldFrogDay 🐸💚 the perfect day to preorder Frog and get the entire story of life, the universe and everything delivered to your door in May! @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social #danielegneus

Join us on 24 March for a fun evening of comedy and science in Cambridge! @cambridgejunction.bsky.social @cambridgefestival.bsky.social

Thank you for such a lovely review @justimaginecentre.bsky.social 🐦‍⬛

The Government is siding with big tech over British creativity. Today is the FINAL chance to respond to their consultation on AI and copyright. Let's make sure creators' voices are heard. Guidance below 👇 #MakeItFair #PayTheCreator www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...

My new cover feature for The Week Junior Science + Nature! Innovative ideas for tackling climate change, great discussion points for KS2 and KS3, on newstands now! 🐄

Turns out their own medicine tastes disgusting

Incredible essay by Mary Immordino-Yang on transcendent thinking in adolescents and how we support it as teachers and parents, an antidote to limited ideas of the brain/learning currently circulating . . . gets to math! #EduSky #ITeachMath www.scientificamerican.com/article/tran...

V838. Each color shows the passage of time. As the bright flash of light left the star, it illuminated the dust surrounding it, but because space is so big, we actually see the light travelling and illuminating the dust as it goes along. By Judy Schmidt. www.flickr.com/photos/geckz... 🔭 🧪

The Last Days of the Dinosaurs is a fantastic read, popular science at its absolute best (and great for upper middle grade and young adult dino fans too) 🦖☄️

It's #PLR day and brilliant news that my books were borrowed from public libraries more than 50,000 times last year 🦊🧡 these are four of the most-borrowed 🧪👩‍🔬 Thank you librarians, @britishlibrary.bsky.social & readers for using your library to discover the world #lovelibraries

Hi Mum 🥰 Also you can follow 'starter packs' - lists of accounts relevant to a field you're interested in Like this STEM Education one: bsky.app/starter-pack... You can also ask the starter pack author/admin that they add your account to the list so other people can follow you for that topic

Brings to mind the person who emailed me on Christmas day to point out a typo in a US edition 😱

'The perfect book for talking to children about death’ – The Guardian Fox: A Circle of Life Story out in paperback today! Fox shows that the scientific understanding of death and renewal is no less beautiful and comforting than traditional stories 🏅Winner AAAS Book Prize 2023 #naturewriting 🧪

My most gifted science and nature books this year! Snuggle up with a good book at Christmas 🦊🧡🧪 #naturewriting

"Find us the next big thing, but only by copying what's already successful!"

I had a sign! So I felt obliged to greet everyone in the same pose!

It was lovely to be the bookseller today and chat with customers! I'll be back with a galaxy of science books @ Stapleford Granary Christmas market #Cambridge on Monday 16th!

Day 8, Non-Fiction: 'Sky Dancers' by @isabelthomas.co.uk & illustr. by Chiara Fedele @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social The fascinating story of how starlings were introduced to the USA is a starting point for learning about invasive species - a poetic and beautifully illustrated text. #SparkLonglist

One of my books *Sky Dancers* has been longlistd for the Spark! School book Award! If you've been a student of my course in writing non-fiction for young audiences you will recognise this book! #naturewriting Thank you so much @sparkbookaward.bsky.social @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social

I didn't know know there was a Phoenix Comic Shop until just now and it is all my gift problems solved, it's amazing! #ukkidlit #kidlituk #ukkidslit #ukkidslitnews

Does anyone know of a picture book or early reader with a girl ninja? For a five year old girl #kidlituk #ukkidlit #ukkidslit

Do you have kids in your life who are interested in science? They might love this collection of papers in Frontiers for Young Minds authored by IF/THEN Women in Science (including one led by yours truly)! 🧵 of all the papers in the collection 👇 kids.frontiersin.org/collections/...

Starter pack for writers based in Cambridge: go.bsky.app/rgc2Ub

South Western Railway will be the first rail operator renationalised by the Labour government after it passed a law last week👏 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Me opening yet another email with a request or invitation for something that will take time in spring.

🚨 Webinar on inequalities in creative industries 🚨 Our upcoming webinar will focus on class inequalities in access to careers in the creative industries, as well as in access to creative degrees. Join our expert panelists on 4th December ⤵️ us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Want! Need! 🧪

There are wonderful storytellers, educators and scientists who teach young people about nature, climate, biology, animals, stars & planets, deserts & oceans, and create a universe of wonder through children’s books, art, outdoor learning and more. Who else goes on the list? go.bsky.app/JmyL28M

What's on your science Christmas list? 🧪 top of mine is the Edible Museum's chocolate natterjack toad 💚 ediblemuseum.com/products/cho... #naturewriting

Fellow authors! Not going to embarrass myself or you by asking you individually, but please share the post below - apparently the 99p Kindle deal is good for getting books to a wider audience. You know I’d do the same for you

Yeah not super great that a journal dedicated to ecology is happily using AI art when the environmental costs of generative AI is now a well known, widespread issue 🫠

With Heidi Alexander replacing Louise Haigh as transport secretary, the cabinet is now 100% state school educated for the first time in history. (Sir Keir Starmer's school was a selective state school when he joined, then became private two years into his time there.)

#naturewriting 🧪

'So yes, it is easier to sell them another book by one of those celebrities who Blacked-up on television, rather than by an unknown author who is consciously trying to avoid telling the kind of story they grew up reading.' www.thebookseller.com/comment/clpe...

I've started a list of science and nature writers for young audiences, let me know if that is you! go.bsky.app/KRmczwo #kidslituk #kidslit #childrensbooks #childrensnonfiction

It’s the eve of the vote on assisted dying. Everyone is united on one thing - that however MPs vote, UK palliative care is desperately underfunded. It’s in your gift to change this, @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social You could pledge meaningful action - funding - now. The question is, WILL you?

I didn't know this was one of my career goals until it happened

This is, technically, an Advent Calendar.

This is a lovely thread for fans of children's nonfiction 💙

😲 managed to personalise my handle with only minor gremlins