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Alka Tripathy-Lang @dralkatrip.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

For @highcountrynews.org's latest issue on Deep Time, I reviewed 3 books that help us explore Earth's past in different ways: Basin and Range by John McPhee, Strata by @laurapoppick.bsky.social, and When the Earth was Green by @restingdinoface.bsky.social 🧪⚒️ www.hcn.org/issues/58-1/...

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Three books explore deep time and help us look forward - High Country News

Each of these books can, in its own way, teach readers how to think about Earth's history, and how to apply lessons from the past to our future.

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Hannah Waters @hanner.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

@laurapoppick.bsky.social's excellent Q&A with Karen Lloyd on the microbes that live deep in the Earth's subsurface and may divide only rarely over hundreds, thousands, millions of years www.quantamagazine.org/the-pursuit-...

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The Pursuit of Life Where It Seems Unimaginable | Quanta Magazine

A decade ago, Karen Lloyd discovered single-celled microbes living beneath the seafloor. Now she studies how they can survive in Earth’s crust, possibly for hundreds or thousands of years, and push li...

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Laura Poppick @laurapoppick.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Truly stunned. What an honor to have STRATA longlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. Congratulations to all of the other authors listed 🌏 💫 . @penamerica.bsky.social pen.org/announcing-t...

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Laura Poppick @laurapoppick.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

File this under things I never expected to see 😳 🤩. May the events of deep time continue to weasel their way into pop culture! 🌎 💫

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Laura Poppick @laurapoppick.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

If you love reading and discussing nonfiction books, and like the idea of someone else choosing your next book for you and sending it to your home, I recommend checking out this very cool service --> @readcurious.xyz.

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Laura Poppick @laurapoppick.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Honored to know that Strata is off on a journey to #AGU25 ☺️

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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

🪨 Geologist @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social explains how embracing wonder and awe adds to our scientific understanding of the rocks that form our planet: buff.ly/teeT0NU

"When I'm looking at these beautiful chevron zigzag texture in the rock, that's the moment
when that mountain was born... Those are the stories that the rocks hold inside them. If we can unlock them, it just gives you this immense sense of gravity of the time that passes." —Dr. Anjana Khatwa

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Laura Poppick @laurapoppick.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

WOW, thank you to @meghanbartels.bsky.social and @sciam.bsky.social for listing STRATA as a Staff Favorite Book of 2025. 🙏💫🌎 My own to-read pile just keeps growing and growing...so many gems on this list! 🤩

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Laura Poppick @laurapoppick.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Thank you so much @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social 🙏 ☺️. Honored to be in your company this year, and may 2026 bring ever more attention to the rocks 🪨.

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Laura Poppick @laurapoppick.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I love finding the talent of my friends prominently displayed 👏

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Margot Carpenter @margot-carto.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Have book will travel ... to the @nacis.bsky.social 2025 conference. I'm excited to be part of the #mappingwater session on Friday. And, thank you, @laurapoppick.bsky.social for the great reading material :)

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Laura Poppick @laurapoppick.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

My latest for @quantamagazine.bsky.social, a Q&A with @karenlloyd.bsky.social on the hidden worlds living within Earth's crust. Favorite new word: aeonophiles, in reference to microbes that may live for 100,000s or even **millions** of years, just riding out the waves of geologic events 🤯.

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Curious Reading Club @readcurious.xyz · 01/08/2025

📣 Our book of the month for August is... STRATA: STORIES FROM DEEP TIME by @laurapoppick.bsky.social We loved this detailed, deliberate overview of geoscience—and its mixture of lyrical prose and detailed profiles of researchers and the things they study. newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/announcing...

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Deep thoughts on deep time with August's book of the month

Laura Poppick's "Strata" takes the long view on geology.

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Laura Poppick @laurapoppick.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Honored that @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social selected Strata for their summer subscription! And also love that they have a subscription service, what a great idea. 🤩 Thanks Point Reyes Books and all of the other small independent bookstores helping to get this thing in the hands of readers 🙏.

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

In 2024, researchers reported a startling finding: deep-sea rock formations—known as polymetallic nodules—may be producing oxygen in total darkness. The phenomenon, dubbed “dark oxygen,” challenged assumptions about life-supporting chemistry in the deep ocean. Watch the full video: bit.ly/4foQbHp

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Laura Poppick @laurapoppick.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Thanks @literaryhub.bsky.social for listing Strata's cover as one of the best of July! So grateful to Steve Attardo and the whole team at @wwnorton.com for designing this beauty that captures the essence of the book while also offering a real feast for the eyes. lithub.com/the-11-best-...

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Laura Poppick @laurapoppick.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Thanks for the shout-out @literaryhub.bsky.social! And such company to be in, my summer reading list is piling up too quickly. manage.kmail-lists.com/subscription...

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Laura Poppick @laurapoppick.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

"Earth itself shaped humankind as we have shaped the planet in return - a relationship that requires repair but that could be rehabilitated with a little more recognition of where we came from." Thank you, @restingdinoface.bsky.social, for this beautiful review of Strata in @science.org today.

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Laura Poppick @laurapoppick.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Delighted to have this excerpt from Strata out in @literaryhub.bsky.social this week 🧊 🎉

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Laura Poppick @laurapoppick.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

"...it would not only erase all current limits on greenhouse gas pollution from cars, factories, power plants and other sources. It would prevent future administrations from trying to tackle climate change, with lasting implications." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...

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E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change

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Laura Poppick @laurapoppick.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Thanks so much @mounty.bsky.social! I've been encouraging my Maine friends to find a beach to read it on, or some other sedimentary environment :).

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Laura Poppick @laurapoppick.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Oh my goodness @bengoldfarb.bsky.social 😍. Youngest and sweetest reader yet! Love that the cover matches her binky.

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Laura Poppick @laurapoppick.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

NYC, see you Monday? Grab yours tickets to my convo with the brilliant @slaskow.bsky.social at Books Are Magic ✨ 📚 A ticket gets you either a book, or a gift certificate to the store!

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Laura Poppick @laurapoppick.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

In addition to an excerpt I have out in @nautil.us this week (nautil.us/the-stories-...) ...I also had a lot of fun writing this 3 Greatest Revelations piece about what surprised me as I researched the book: nautil.us/when-earth-h...

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When Earth Had No Fire

Laura Poppick’s 3 greatest revelations while writing her book, Strata: Stories from Deep Time

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cara giaimo @cjgiaimo.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

cambridge/somerville/environs - hop over to @harvardbookstore.bsky.social tonight where we'll be traveling very deep into the past with @laurapoppick.bsky.social and her new book, STRATA: STORIES FROM DEEP TIME! www.harvard.com/event/laura-...

the new book "Strata: Stories from Deep Time," arranged on top of a pile of fabric swatches meant to resemble layers of Earth

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Laura Poppick @laurapoppick.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Thank you @1juliarosen.bsky.social! Looking forward to holding your book in the not-too-distant future as well 📚🙏.

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Sarah Gilman @sarahmgilman.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Buy Laura's book! I feel privileged to have art alongside her gorgeous prose. Also, that cover! Amazing work, whoever designed it (and listened to Laura's excellent insights and taste regarding the arresting beauty of vintage geologic diagrams.)

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Laura Poppick @laurapoppick.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Come on out NYC! We'll talk deep time and, indeed, MUD.

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Zoë Schlanger @zoeschlanger.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

looking forward to reading this one

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Laura Poppick @laurapoppick.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

STRATA is officially out in the world today! Very grateful to @wwnorton.com for publishing this book, and to @sarahmgilman.bsky.social for gracing the pages with her beautiful illustrations. So looking forward to sharing this with readers! Find upcoming events here: laurapoppick.com

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cara giaimo @cjgiaimo.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

come see Laura teach me about my new favorite thing, ROCKS!!!!!

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Laura Poppick @laurapoppick.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Calling all Boston/Cambridge folks! I'll be in conversation with the smart + funny @cjgiaimo.bsky.social this Thursday at Harvard Book Store to celebrate the launch of STRATA. Please come on out! More info: www.harvard.com/event/laura-...

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Laura Poppick @laurapoppick.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Very much looking forward to being in conversation with the brilliant @slaskow.bsky.social at Books are Magic in Brooklyn a week from today! 🌏🪨🎉 Come on out and join our conversation about deep time + ancient stories in rock. More info + tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/in-store-l...

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Laura Poppick @laurapoppick.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

STRATA launches *tomorrow* -- pls come on out and celebrate! -7/16 - Bunker Brewing w/ PRINT - Portland, ME printbookstore.com/event/laurap... -7/17 - Harvard Book Store - Cambridge, MA www.harvard.com/event/laura-... -7/21 - Books are Magic - Brooklyn, NY www.eventbrite.com/e/in-store-l...

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Laura Poppick @laurapoppick.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Climate science helps us understand how Earth works. For example, we now know that the warming Gulf of Maine naturally buffers itself: @eos.org eos.org/articles/war... I often wonder if understanding how Earth works can lead to more awe + care and, in turn, more action. I think/hope so.

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Warming Gulf of Maine Buffers Ocean Acidification—For Now - Eos

Scientists constructed a 100-year history of acidity in the Gulf of Maine. They expected coastal variability but were surprised by what they didn’t find: a strong anthropogenic signal.

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Laura Poppick @laurapoppick.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

"When I asked her about the 1.5-degree target, she told me, 'Some people feel like, if you exceed it, it’s all over, and you can just give up...Why are we giving up on the future of life on Earth so fucking easily?'" 👏 Let's all listen to @ayanaeliza.bsky.social 🙏 www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

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Is There Still Time to Be Hopeful About the Climate?

Scientists have long insisted that we can and must limit global warming to 1.5 degrees—and some still do, even as that grim milestone nears.

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Laura Poppick @laurapoppick.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that...the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%...'It’s a nightmare,' Simon says. 'I really fear for the future of science.'" @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

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‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels

“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

'Simple physics’: How climate change is making natural disasters deadlier | My interview yesterday on @msnbc.com #ChrisJansingReports: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH8_...

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‘Simple physics’: How climate change is making natural disasters deadlier

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Laura Poppick @laurapoppick.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I was lucky enough to work w/ the ridiculously talented @sarahmgilman.bsky.social on illustrations for STRATA. They are available on Etsy, along with many other gems! Check them out: www.etsy.com/shop/HiddenD... And preorder STRATA to see these beauties on the page: bookshop.org/p/books/stra...

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Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I adore working with @sarahmgilman.bsky.social . Sometimes I edit her writing and sometimes she edits mine, but the end result is always 🔥 Our latest collab is this quiet, beautiful story about making space for a bird that many people love to hate

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A Wild Home on the Bones of the City

North America’s largest and most urban double-crested cormorant colony shows how people can share space with an unfairly reviled species.

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Laura Poppick @laurapoppick.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

@barnesandnoble.com is having a sale on all preorders through the end of the day tomorrow! Get 25% off a copy of STRATA using code PREORDER25 at checkout through July 11 (you have to be a rewards or premium member for the discount to apply): www.barnesandnoble.com/w/strata-lau...

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Laura Poppick @laurapoppick.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

My latest post, on how "deep time" came to be: laurapoppick.substack.com/p/on-the-ori...

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On the Origin of "Deep Time"

How language shapes geology

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Laura Poppick @laurapoppick.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

”It’s omnivorous and adventurous, a diarist and archivist... Garnet keeps this ancient planet churning." I'll read anything by Marcia Bjornerud. Loved this piece on "the true fruits of the underworld" in @noemamag.com: www.noemamag.com/fire-eyes-of...

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Fire-Eyes Of The Underworld | NOEMA

Pyrope garnet is arguably the most important mineral on Earth, key to Earth’s long-term habitability.

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