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LabLit.com
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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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LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 12h
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 · 22h
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 · 22h
It was on this 2019 A Good Read - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 22h
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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LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 2d
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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 2d
I was interviewed by the intrepid @mymacaroon.bsky.social - who has an exciting new science show on @resonancefm.bsky.social - listen here (my bit near the end)! We chat about #lablit - scientists in novels - and why representation matters. www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/cl... @lablit.bsky.social
Clear Spot - 9 October 2025 (The Science Show)
The Science Show. Richard and Mike from Science in the Pub present a show about science and science culture. This month: unmissable exhibitions, old news is good news, strange neanderthal diets, an in...
www.mixcloud.com
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Rian Nejar 🦋 @riannejar.bsky.social · 3d
A likely history of the formation of Earth's magnetic field [via ETH Zurich] 🧪🥼🌐💫

"researchers demonstrate the correct physical regime in which the Earth’s core viscosity has no influence on the dynamo effect."

ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

#earth #molten #core #magnetic #field #formation #simulation
A fully liquid Earth’s core also generates a magnetic field
For more than 100 years, scientists have puzzled over whether the Earth’s magnetic field had already been generated stably back in its early days when its inner core was fully liquid – unlike it is to...
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Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️ @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social · 3d
If you’re a #HumanMilk / #breastfeeding researcher/clinician and you want to bust through the media noise and bias towards “women’s issues,” we’ve got you:

bsky.app/profile/brid...

🧪 🩺 🛟 #SciComm #MedEd #MCH #MaternalChildHealth #ChildHealth #DOHaD #OBSky #PedSky #pediatrician
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Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️ @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social · 8d
☝🏼 "But what about moms who CAN'T breastfeed?"
🤔 “This economist says #breastfeeding doesn’t matter.”
📱 "I read that BFHI starves babies..."

Talking about #LactSci🤱🏽🔬 ain't easy! Our #HMI26 workshop will teach you to share #lactation research with empathy AND accuracy.

📍UC San Diego

Info & link👇🏼
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Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️ @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social · 3d
Media bias against women doesn’t just hurt female scientists’ careers; it also biases the information that gets the the public.

For example, my field, lactation science, is likely a thing you just now learned exists.

www.science.org/content/arti...

🧪 🛟 🩺 #BlueSci #MedSky #WomenInSci #SciMoms
When women researchers publish, media attention doesn’t always follow
Men-led papers receive more media coverage than women’s, new study finds
www.science.org
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 3d
The findings of a study in Nature shed light on germline selection dynamics and highlight a broader increased disease risk for children born to fathers of advanced age than previously appreciated. go.nature.com/4h5BglX 🧬 🧪
This is figure 1, which shows mutational burden and signature analysis in sperm and matched blood.
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LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 3d
@jennyrohn.bsky.social I think we know a few people who could teach this! 😉
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The Writers Grotto @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social · 4d
Join this crash course on how to review the movie, show or book you hated for all right reasons.

Wednesday, Oct. 15, from 6-8 PM PDT. Via Zoom.

www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-...

#writing #writingcommunity #moviereview #filmreview #filmcriticism #nonfiction #writingclass #writingworkshop
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Saraiphim 🖤🩶🤍💜 @saraiether.bsky.social · 3d
💙📚💡📚🎧 Light pollution is something I think about from time to time. This provides a more in depth view of concepts that I haven't previously considered. It also makes me want to see what I can do to help limit it's effects.
#booksky #TheDarknessManifesto
The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms That Sustain Life by Johan Eklöf A full moon in the sky and shadowy trees. Darker teal blue as the primary color of the sky backdrop. Text in white and yellow for the sub title.
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domynoe @domynoe.bsky.social · 3d
One more in the #readingpile that I thought would be quick.

Nope.

If Columbus was our first serial killer (he was), Las Casas was our first activist. And he pulled no punches. It's a HARD read.

#books #booksky #reading #literature #currentlyreading #booklist #nonfiction #taino #tainohistory
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Tawney @tlma.bsky.social · 3d
📚💡💙 #TheGeniusBat #StMartinsPress #YossiYovel

Learn many amazing ways of bats - and the who's and hows that have given us this knowledge. And it's all highly readable thanks to Yossi Yovel's writing.
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LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 3d
Looks good - but the subtitle word - 'only' - seems strange when perhaps about one in five mammal species are bats! I'd guess the publisher wanted that in there...!
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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 3d
#booksky for #IvanKlíma #shortstories #memoirs #literaryfiction 📚💙

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Ivan Klíma, Czech award-winning novelist, playwright, and Holocaust survivor, banned by a communist regime, has died aged 94.

The Guardian
www.ourdailyread.com/2025/10/ivan...
As editor and author, Ivan Klíma helped the Prague Spring bloom. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe/The Guardian More than a memoir, My Crazy Century explores the ways in which the epoch and its dominating totalitarian ideologies impacted the lives, character, and morality of Klíma's generation. Klíma's story begins in the 1930s, in the Terezin concentration camp outside of Prague, where he was forced to spend almost four years of his childhood. He reveals how the postwar atmosphere supported and encouraged the spread of Communist principles over the next few decades and how an informal movement to change the system developed inside the Party. These political events form the backdrop to Klíma's personal experiences, with the arrest and trial of his father; the early revolt of young writers against socialist realism; his first literary successes; and his travels to the free part of Europe, which strengthened his awareness of living as part of a colossal lie.
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