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.bsky.social
· Sep 25
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
You can find the email on the Lablit web pages! #booksky
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Avian influenza is taking a heavy toll on birds and other animals. We look at what gives H5N1 its staying power and why, when we have poultry vaccines, we don’t use them. It’s “Flu the Coop” on @bipisci.bsky.social. 🧪 #podcast
Listen here: bigpicturescience.org/episodes/flu...
Listen here: bigpicturescience.org/episodes/flu...
November 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Avian influenza is taking a heavy toll on birds and other animals. We look at what gives H5N1 its staying power and why, when we have poultry vaccines, we don’t use them. It’s “Flu the Coop” on @bipisci.bsky.social. 🧪 #podcast
Listen here: bigpicturescience.org/episodes/flu...
Listen here: bigpicturescience.org/episodes/flu...
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Excellent! They’ll be writing poetry soon! 😎👍
November 29, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Excellent! They’ll be writing poetry soon! 😎👍
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🧪Science meets fantasy: If we lived in Terry Pratchett's alternate universe, how would physics explain Discworld?
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@lbscience.org
www.lbscience.org/en/2025/11/2...
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@lbscience.org
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Why Does Water Fall Off Discworld? - Little, Big Science
Terry Pratchett’s Discworld (which also appears in mythologies and other stories) is a captivating realm that attracts millions of geeks from all over the world. The structure of this world is familia...
www.lbscience.org
November 28, 2025 at 5:06 AM
🧪Science meets fantasy: If we lived in Terry Pratchett's alternate universe, how would physics explain Discworld?
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@lbscience.org
www.lbscience.org/en/2025/11/2...
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@lbscience.org
www.lbscience.org/en/2025/11/2...
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On the Factor Fexcectorn and autism bicycle AI slop study: I got an answer from Springer Nature this morning that this scientific paper will be retracted! 🧪
Full story: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...
Full story: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...
Riding the Autism Bicycle to Retraction Town
Does anyone *really* know their Factor Fexcectorn?
nobreakthroughs.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:25 AM
On the Factor Fexcectorn and autism bicycle AI slop study: I got an answer from Springer Nature this morning that this scientific paper will be retracted! 🧪
Full story: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...
Full story: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...
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From Veronika Dornan @dornanv.bsky.social : Like a bouncer at a nightclub, JWST is trying to figure out if some star clusters are really as old as they say they are… ⚛️🔭☄🧪
astrobites.org/2025/11/25/s...
astrobites.org/2025/11/25/s...
Astronomers Hate Them! This Star Formation Ingredient Makes Clusters Look 300 Million Years Older
Like a bouncer at a nightclub, JWST is trying to figure out if some star clusters are really as old as they say they are ...
astrobites.org
November 28, 2025 at 6:10 AM
From Veronika Dornan @dornanv.bsky.social : Like a bouncer at a nightclub, JWST is trying to figure out if some star clusters are really as old as they say they are… ⚛️🔭☄🧪
astrobites.org/2025/11/25/s...
astrobites.org/2025/11/25/s...
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November 29, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Good morning, afternoon, evening, night, depending on your longitude! Try to allow some reading time this weekend if you can! #booksky
I have a short strange novella to eat up [not #labli]
Malcolm Devlin -Engines Beneath Us www.goodreads.com/book/show/52...
I have a short strange novella to eat up [not #labli]
Malcolm Devlin -Engines Beneath Us www.goodreads.com/book/show/52...
November 29, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Good morning, afternoon, evening, night, depending on your longitude! Try to allow some reading time this weekend if you can! #booksky
I have a short strange novella to eat up [not #labli]
Malcolm Devlin -Engines Beneath Us www.goodreads.com/book/show/52...
I have a short strange novella to eat up [not #labli]
Malcolm Devlin -Engines Beneath Us www.goodreads.com/book/show/52...
Lovely - a child was just jumping up to wave at the camera! www.youtube.com/live/P1VOrSo...
The Gävle Goat LIVE 2025 | Lofi Christmas mix
YouTube video by Gävle Goat LIVE
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November 29, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Lovely - a child was just jumping up to wave at the camera! www.youtube.com/live/P1VOrSo...
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In a fascinating interview, astronomy professor Jon Willis tells us about questions where the answer is 'I don't know', why a single data point can be helpful, and a discovery that has blown his mind: popsciencebooks.blogspot.com/2025/11/jon-... #interviews #astronomy #astrobiology
November 26, 2025 at 9:58 AM
In a fascinating interview, astronomy professor Jon Willis tells us about questions where the answer is 'I don't know', why a single data point can be helpful, and a discovery that has blown his mind: popsciencebooks.blogspot.com/2025/11/jon-... #interviews #astronomy #astrobiology
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Interesting comparison of my X and Bluesky timelines. X leads on the budget. Bluesky on a traffic jam in Oslo...
November 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Interesting comparison of my X and Bluesky timelines. X leads on the budget. Bluesky on a traffic jam in Oslo...
Enjoying Vanished Ocean by Dorrik Stow, maybe a bit too much of the chatty/slightly biographical for my taste, but that is not an issue really. In fact I recall other geologist/palaeontologists doing that! Perhaps it relates to the type of person who studies that? #booksky 💡📚
Started Vanished Ocean: How the Tethys reshaped the world by Dorrik Stow
aleady learning stuff such as 260 mya the year lasted 378 days!
#bluesky 💙📚 💡📚
aleady learning stuff such as 260 mya the year lasted 378 days!
#bluesky 💙📚 💡📚
November 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Enjoying Vanished Ocean by Dorrik Stow, maybe a bit too much of the chatty/slightly biographical for my taste, but that is not an issue really. In fact I recall other geologist/palaeontologists doing that! Perhaps it relates to the type of person who studies that? #booksky 💡📚
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At State Library NSW, reading letters written in 1923 by Louisa Lawson’s sister, describing how in 1867 a teenaged Louisa gave birth in a tent on a goldfield to a sickly baby in winter & didn’t cope. Sister not sympathetic at all. Totally fascinating (and sad). #booksky #biography #AustralianHistory
November 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
At State Library NSW, reading letters written in 1923 by Louisa Lawson’s sister, describing how in 1867 a teenaged Louisa gave birth in a tent on a goldfield to a sickly baby in winter & didn’t cope. Sister not sympathetic at all. Totally fascinating (and sad). #booksky #biography #AustralianHistory
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You can purchase "The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and The Unmaking of U.S. History" by Ned Blackhawk from this BLACK-owned online bookstore
#booksky #blackbooksky #books #bookmail
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shop.mrwelltravelled.com/products/the...
#booksky #blackbooksky #books #bookmail
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shop.mrwelltravelled.com/products/the...
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. Hi
by Ned Blackhawk Description A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America. . The most enduring ...
shop.mrwelltravelled.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
You can purchase "The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and The Unmaking of U.S. History" by Ned Blackhawk from this BLACK-owned online bookstore
#booksky #blackbooksky #books #bookmail
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shop.mrwelltravelled.com/products/the...
#booksky #blackbooksky #books #bookmail
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shop.mrwelltravelled.com/products/the...
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www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... what a bizarre & sad story
BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Mr Waring of the BBC by Freddie Phillips
True story of Peter Waring whose ambition brought fame and infamy.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... what a bizarre & sad story
Love how children see the world! www.visitgavle.se/en/christmas...
November 28, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Love how children see the world! www.visitgavle.se/en/christmas...
So excited that the Gavle goat is going up again! www.visitgavle.se/en/gavle-goat just a pity their privacy laws require all the pixillation! Yule is soon here!
November 28, 2025 at 9:51 AM
So excited that the Gavle goat is going up again! www.visitgavle.se/en/gavle-goat just a pity their privacy laws require all the pixillation! Yule is soon here!
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I just put down a story after reading only 3 chapters. It wasn't a bad book, the story simply forces the MC into something stupid that furthers their path. It was literally an "are you sure prompt" that tricked them into accepting. And it wasn't something big! It was just a stupid little detail.
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November 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
I just put down a story after reading only 3 chapters. It wasn't a bad book, the story simply forces the MC into something stupid that furthers their path. It was literally an "are you sure prompt" that tricked them into accepting. And it wasn't something big! It was just a stupid little detail.
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Lots of options for #DoorstoppersinDecember! If you fancy tackling some big books in December, do join this challenge and share what you'd like to read: drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/d... #booksky
#DoorstoppersInDecember: Many, many options
Given my current reading pace, I probably won’t be getting through as many Doorstoppers in December as I would like – but having gone through my Goodreads TBR, I have certainly found lo…
drlauratisdall.wordpress.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Lots of options for #DoorstoppersinDecember! If you fancy tackling some big books in December, do join this challenge and share what you'd like to read: drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/d... #booksky
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Physicists measure the spin of entangled pairs of Top Quarks at the LHC [via @quantamagazine.bsky.social] 🧪🥼⚛️💥🌀
"CMS analyzed a huge bank of collision data, tallying the #spins of top quark pairs that flew off in all different directions"
www.quantamagazine.org/particle-phy...
#quantum #TopQuark
"CMS analyzed a huge bank of collision data, tallying the #spins of top quark pairs that flew off in all different directions"
www.quantamagazine.org/particle-phy...
#quantum #TopQuark
Particle Physicists Detect ‘Magic’ at the Large Hadron Collider | Quanta Magazine
The supercollider is now being used to explore quantum phenomena, including a “magic” form of quantum entanglement.
www.quantamagazine.org
November 28, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Physicists measure the spin of entangled pairs of Top Quarks at the LHC [via @quantamagazine.bsky.social] 🧪🥼⚛️💥🌀
"CMS analyzed a huge bank of collision data, tallying the #spins of top quark pairs that flew off in all different directions"
www.quantamagazine.org/particle-phy...
#quantum #TopQuark
"CMS analyzed a huge bank of collision data, tallying the #spins of top quark pairs that flew off in all different directions"
www.quantamagazine.org/particle-phy...
#quantum #TopQuark
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Michael E. Mann writes in Nature that people do not have to dismiss or exaggerate the climate threat to justify concerted action. 🧪
Bill Gates’s climate comments are a dangerous distraction
People do not have to dismiss or exaggerate the climate threat to justify concerted action.
go.nature.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Michael E. Mann writes in Nature that people do not have to dismiss or exaggerate the climate threat to justify concerted action. 🧪
November 28, 2025 at 8:55 AM