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Dr Lucy Rogers

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Engineer, author and speaker. Wonder & Curiosity. PopSci book 'Up - A Scientist's Guide to the Magic Above Us' coming April 2026. #Up #Skying Narrowboater. British. www.lucyrogers.com https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/DrLucyRogers

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Dr Lucy Rogers @drlucyrogers.com · Aug 13

I am very excited to report that my book is now available for pre-order!!

If you like things that fly – be it aircraft, bugs or birds, then this book is for you!

I am also so delighted with the beautiful cover art by @Rachelhillustrates.bsky.social :)

www.penguin.co.uk/books/461507...

Book cover of "UP" with butterflies, glowworms, bats, condors, a hot air balloon, an aircraft, a kite, stars, clouds and other things that are above us.

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Paul Eggleston @pauleggleston.bsky.social · 2h

When I was forced to sell my drum kit and gig using kitchen pots and pans instead, that's when I knew I'd hit wok bottom.

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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 11h

We (OpenUK) are running a free unconference in London next week to discuss AI.
agentopenunconference2025.eventbrite.co.uk
Boosters and sceptics very welcome!

#Unconference #London #AI

Agent Open Unconference organised in partnership with the AI Alliance

Agentic technology will be explored in a day of technical and security discussions, with maybe some governance and ethics in an unconference

agentopenunconference2025.eventbrite.co.uk

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Friends of Wollaton Park @fowp.bsky.social · 4h

“Orange” Norway Maple.
(Acer platanoides)

#TreeTuesday #WollatonPark

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 9d

On every interactive internet-connected device around the world, a question came up in the user's preferred language:

"Do you agree or disagree with the proposition that it is morally wrong to claim you can own the body of another sentient being?"

I'm really curious to see the result of that poll.

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 7d

** If you want to, you can also read my stories on...
Tumblr: microsff.tumblr.com
Mastodon: mastodon.art/@MicroSFF
Facebook: www.facebook.com/MicroSFF
**

microsff.tumblr.com

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 6d

Suddenly, I noticed a faint smell of tuna. I looked over at my office partner, Dr. Hunt. She was grinning by the machine she'd built.

"It works!"

"Nice," I said. "What is it?"

"What you smell is the ghost of tuna!"

I felt something brush against my leg. The office filled with ghostly purring.

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 5d

The travel poster looked like so many others. A lush forest behind a serene beach. The text said "Be something exotic!"

"Sorry, there's a typo on your poster. I think you mean 'somewhere'?"

"No. We can make you to be, say, a bear, tiger, or hippo, for up to a week."

"A hippo? Tell me more!"

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 3d

An alien fleet appeared in Earth's orbit, and broadcast a message:

"Having studied you furtively, we now seek formal contact, and want to meet your greatest thinkers..."

A long list followed.

"How do we tell them?" world leaders wondered.

Topping the list were the names Calvin and Calvin's Dad.

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Bob @actualbob.art · 6h

Daily blended portmanteaus:

When Pareidolia gets creepy -> Paranolia

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 21h

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Dr Lucy Rogers @drlucyrogers.com · 13h

Final day of recording "Up- A Scientist's Guide to the Magic above Us" as an audio book today.

If you fancy me reading you a bedtime story, (aimed at adults - but no adult content!!) you can purchase it here:

www.penguin.co.uk/books/461507...

#Up #Skying

Recording studio with microphone and desk with papers on it.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 23h

Academic articles can be written in a popular science writing style

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 14h

"I keep eating my feather pillow in my sleep. It's really starting to depress me."
"Down in the dumps?"
"I dunno. I haven't been yet".

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Dr Lucy Rogers @drlucyrogers.com · 13h

Glenny

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Dr Lucy Rogers @drlucyrogers.com · 1d

Well done. Also (hugs)

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

Despite relentlessly discovering social media makes NO difference to ticket sales , let me remind you that I am in ST ALBANS this week

www.books-on-the-hill.co.uk/events/58bpt...

Author Talk: Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth by Robin Ince — Books on the Hill

We are delighted to be welcoming back award winning broadcaster, comedian and author Robin Ince in-store for a discussion about his latest book and first poetry collection, Ice Cream for a Broken T...

www.books-on-the-hill.co.uk

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J.M. Cooper @narrowqrs.bsky.social · 1d

Oops. One's edible, the other poisonous.
Here are rosehips. 🤷‍♂️

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Dr Lucy Rogers @drlucyrogers.com · 1d

(Hugs)

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sure they didn’t mean to eliminate the woman in this image.

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Dr Lucy Rogers @drlucyrogers.com · 1d

Cotoneaster I think

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Cotoneaster I think

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Mark Hodgkinson @iamhodgy.bsky.social · 2d

Hello lucy

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Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social · 2d

Oh yes. Saving them for later. I meant, no views, no Brocken Spectres, which is what I was hoping for. Eldest was 5m above the cloud and saw this in North Wales

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Dr Lucy Rogers @drlucyrogers.com · 2d

Awww