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Web mag devoted to the culture of science in fiction and fact since 2005. We promote 'lab lit' fiction (realistic novels about scientists, not science fiction) and all things geek chic. Skeets usually by @hstiles1 http://www.lablit.com [email there]
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LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 20d
Skying here in primarily from dom the obscure @hstiles1.bsky.social with very occasional quips from Dr Jenny @jennyrohn.bsky.social
You can find the email on the Lablit web pages! #booksky
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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 9h
What is development editing? How does it improve your work? Laura Portwood-Stacer explains⬇️.

📚Make Your Manuscript Work
#nonfiction #AcademicLife @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social

🎧https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-academic-life/id1539341620?i=1000730954206
The cover of the book Make Your Manuscript Work by Laura Portwood-Stacer
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LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 28m
When are the people wrong? Is an elite better?
#booksky
From being once lauded, to having even his body denied burial at home...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phocion...
Phocion - Wikipedia
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LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 28m
#I have [dom] started
Thomas R Martin
Phocion: Good Citizen in a Divided Democracy.
Consciously looking at Phocion through a lens of our age & the ills of democrary in the 2020s. Phocion was a major figure in Athens as its democracy failed in the Macedonian age. 💡📚
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
Phocion - Yale University Press London
Thomas R. Martin recounts the unmatched political and military career of Phocion of Athens, and his tragic downfall  “Elegant and enlightening.&rd...
yalebooks.co.uk
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jkhsquonk @jkhsquonk.bsky.social · 2h
Last night, I started Josephine Baker's memoir titled "Fearless and Free". It's transcribed from interviews with a French reporter and was published in 1949, in the middle of her amazing life. #BookSky💡📚 #biographies #reading #nonfiction
Cover of a book about Josephine Baker, with a black & white photo of her on the cover. Taken from the back she turns towards the camera.
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C Joss Wright @cjosswright.bsky.social · 2h
My two current reads, has anyone read either of these? If so, what do you think of them?
#reading #currentreads #readingcommunity #books #adventure #thriller #nonfiction
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LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 46m
If one can inherit trauma, we can surely inherit positivity too?
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LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 48m
Hmmm -depends what was advertised! I mean the music is surely the main draw - the staging is secondary [to me]. We all surely know directors like to provoke & perhaps the publicity was good?!
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Dr Caitlin Vincent @caitlinvincent.bsky.social · 1h
At what point does an opera become a bait and switch? What do you think? 🤔

Let me know in the comments. And don’t forget to order a copy of OPERA WARS, coming January 13!

www.simonandschuster.com/books/Opera-...

#operasky #booksky #nonfiction #opera #regietheater
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Dannye Chase is querying queer romance @dannyechase.bsky.social · 16h
On this day in 1816, a woman known only as the “Female Stranger” died in Virginia. She and her grave are real. Her legend is most likely not. Visit my Weird Wednesday blog to learn more & get writing prompts!
dannyechase.com/blog/females...
#writingcommunity #specfic ✍️ 🔱 #Horror 📚😱
The Female Stranger
Writing prompts for a mystery
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LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 55m
Presumably, in a space opera, no one can hear you sing?!
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LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 58m
Not a rogue dentist?! 🫣😉
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NC Sayers @ncsayers.bsky.social · 6h
If you’re a speculative fiction writer or reader and you live in the San Francisco area, I hearby order you to consider attending #WriterCommunity #WriteSky #WriterSky #SpecLit #SpecFic #sff
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 7h
And while I'm on the subject of appearances, where I'll be tomorrow night, with Kim Stanley Robinson, in San Francisco:

www.jccsf.org/event/john-s...
JOHN SCALZI & KIM STANLEY ROBINSON – THE SHATTERING PEACE
Two masters of sci-fi take the stage for a thrilling conversation where imagination meets urgency, and the future of humanity hangs in the balance.
www.jccsf.org
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LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 14h
End of #Windows 10 support so attempting to get the ASUS I recently got second hand to boot to #Linux Mint from my USB - arrrgh! ASUS do not make it easy & instructions from various places do not seem tto show exactly my Asus 'Sonic Master' set up in the Bios. No obvious USB mention there! grrr...
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LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 1d
We discussed The Great Divideby Cristina Henriquez yesterday. Some high scores some low. Very lit on #lablit as I realised half way in, but I liked it. A cxonsensus that there were too many charcaters, too many set ups for drama that never happened, & that characters seemed unchanged by the end 💙📚
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LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 1d
It was on this 2019 A Good Read - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 1d
Wondering if Cees Nooteboom's The Following Story might sneak in as #lablit or perhaps too 'magical realism-y'? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fol... #booksky ✒️📚
The Following Story - Wikipedia
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LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 2d
No obvious #lablit in the STimes/Observer yesterday... again! 😞
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LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 2d
Guess that many will turn out to be... bats!
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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 2d
It's crazy to think that while heading toward 9 billion people on Earth, we ere still undescribed (and know nothing about) hundreds to maybe thousand mammalian species
academic.oup.com/jmammal/adva...
"projections of ∼7,079 species by 2030 and ∼8,376 by 2050 if these trends continue"
🧪 #Macroecology
A graphical history of mammalian species-group name descriptions since the start of zoological nomenclature on 1 January 1758, incorporating all 28,382 available names (including preoccupied, replacement, and suppressed names) and 6,759 names currently recognized as valid species in MDD2. Type locality locations for species-rank mammal taxa described from 1 January 2000 to 15 August 2024.
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Bjerknes Center for Climate Research (BCCR) @bjerknes.uib.no · 2d
⚠️ The new Global Tipping Points Report is out and warns of potential risks to the Atlantic Ocean Circulation – however, there are large uncertainties about when, or if, the tipping points will be crossed. 🧪🌊

bjerknes.uib.no/en/news/to-s...
Two Systems, One Critical Challenge
The new Global Tipping Point Report is out and warns of potential risks to the Atlantic Ocean Circulation – however, there are large uncertainties about…
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Rob Yorke @robyorke.bsky.social · 2d
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) – otherwise known as ‘wait-and-see’ policy rather than spending tons of ineffectual money for dealing with pest invasion of forests

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#Forest #Ecology 🧪
A mixed stand of conifer trees in the UK
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LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 2d
ooh - try this on dogs!
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Dr Dan Jones @hookean.bsky.social · 2d
Your nose gets colder when you're stressed. Infrared hinterland 🙂
#PhysicsEd
#iTeachPhysics
#Science 🧪

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Thermal cameras read stress on my face
Psychologists subjected a BBC reporter to a carefully designed thermal camera stress test.
www.bbc.co.uk
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LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 2d
Happy Monday to all!
Dom had a lovely 4 days being well fed, walking in the Surrey hills - Puttenham Heath was fantastic & in a week day almost deserted... Incredible numbers of sweet chestnuts & acorns this year. If you like sweet chestnuts get out there now!
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Derek M Cartwright - author @derekmcartwright.bsky.social · 3d
It would need to be relatively close to impact the tides but it might help stabilise the weather caused by seasonal change. However the planets mass would cause extreme seismic impact - but hey why let science get in the way of a good picture!
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