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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 13h

I love supporting all my fellow brilliant lady authors, I want to see all of you win everything, make all the bestseller lists, and get all the TV deals. GET IT

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Olivia Campbell @oliviacampbell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Midwives were once respected expert witnesses at trials concerning issues like assault, pregnancy, paternity, infanticide, and rape. The diary of an 18th-century American midwife gives us a peek into one such case. Read more in my Beyond Curie newsletter oliviacampbell.substack.com/p/the-midwif...

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The Midwife Who Testified at a Rape Trial

A peek into the practice of forensic midwifery via an 18th-century diary.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Everyone say it with me: AI companies are ✨extraction machines at scale✨. They are DESIGNED to sift through a million stupid ideas per second to find the next golden egg they can monetize. And they are destroying our Earth, at scale, to do this.

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samanthAAAH! riedel @samanthawrites.net · 23/09/2026

"Disability activists warned for years that this would be the outcome of allowing COVID-19 to spread unmitigated. Now that it’s time to pay the piper, the state and its media allies are working desperately to sever the connection between COVID-19 and its consequences."

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M. L. Krishnan @emelkrishnan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I would rather watch an interview with an actual wooden plank, than the AI-sharted, human mimicking failblob they're parading out to news channels.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Hello, would you be interested in interviewing the AI program we're pretending is actually a young actress?" (racks shotgun)

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Olivia Campbell @oliviacampbell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Happiest of pub days to my dear friend @sarahstankorb.bsky.social! Do yourself a favor and snag a copy of "Damned if She Does," a brave, essential book. As someone who only writes about long dead people, I can't imagine the courage it takes to do this work. Kudos, Sarah, you're an inspiration.

Cover of book "Damned If She Does: Why Women Quit Church and What it Means for the Future of Religion"

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Olivia Campbell @oliviacampbell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In which I recommend 5 recent/forthcoming books that sound intriguing. Featuring work by Moiya McTier @goastromo.bsky.social, Katie Mack @astrokatie.com, Hillary Rosner, Kristin Hugo @kristinhugo.bsky.social, & Caroline Tracey @cetracey.bsky.social oliviacampbell.substack.com/p/nature-is-...

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Nature is Healing! - 5 Books I’m Looking Forward To

Or, science books are making a comeback

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I went to the BOOKSTORE and unsurprisingly bought BOOKS by BRILLIANT AUTHORS so there, NEENER NEENER Excited to read these books by @kateheartfield.com and @premeemohamed.com

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Olivia Campbell @oliviacampbell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Am I incorrect in thinking you need a PhD to call yourself a historian?

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Taps the sign: bsky.app/profile/drsu...

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that if you are signing a letter supporting a disgraced eugenicist famous for hounding a Black scholar to death your main concern is not academic freedom. This goes double if you don’t have the same smoke for the Trump administration’s attacks on academia.

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Olivia Campbell @oliviacampbell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The establishment of the New York Botanical Garden was spearheaded by a woman: botanist and bryologist Elizabeth Britton. Read how in this week's Beyond Curie. oliviacampbell.substack.com/p/the-woman-...

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The Woman Behind the New York Botanical Garden

The extraordinary life of botanist and bryologist Elizabeth Gertrude Britton

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Dr. Moiya McTier @goastromo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

My book MOTHERS OF INVENTION comes out next week! I’m feeling jittery about it, so I made a companion music playlist 🏺 Check it out if you’re the “I like all music” type 😊 open.spotify.com/playlist/6mZ...

Screenshot of Spotify playlist by momctier called Mothers of Invention

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Olivia Campbell @oliviacampbell.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This is a fabulous pack, if I do say so myself go.bsky.app/J5kV6xE

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Amit Chandra, MD @amitchandramd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Via @npr.org Morning Edition today... Midwives and health systems struggle to fill gaps in maternity care: "...one in three counties, or nearly 35%, are maternity care deserts, meaning they have no birthing facilities or obstetric clinicians." www.npr.org/2026/08/11/n...

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A midwife crosses 'maternity deserts' to make a difference for Black moms and babies

New research from the March of Dimes says more than half of U.S. counties have no labor and delivery hospitals. One Black midwife tries to make a difference for moms in Alabama.

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention

My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

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Olivia Campbell @oliviacampbell.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Trust experts: follow AAP recommendations

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Decades? Sorry to be the one to tell people this, but the era of US scientific dominance is over. It will never recover.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Kate Sampson, contemporary ceramics artist #Womensart

Six ceramic bowls displayed on shelves each bowl has an individual pattern on the outside featuring flowering plants against a red or black background

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 09/08/2026

The beacon is lit

Small himalayan cat with her head in a barrel-shaped lampshade, creating a large shadow of her head

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/08/2026

I am absolutely thrilled to present to you: How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking) available for pre-order now, wherever you buy your books! www.simonandschuster.ca/books/How-to...

Cover of the book "How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking)" by Katie Mack. The top right corner says "Author of The End of Everything" and the bottom left says "Brilliant and thrilling! - John Green". The cover motif is a space image made of puzzle pieces.

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Olivia Campbell @oliviacampbell.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

When you gasp upon opening a book, I think it's a rule that you have to buy it. Thrifted this absolute beauty for $2.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

anyway, here's my piece about Oppenheimer which I thought was an aesthetic and moral disgrace. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/worship-th...

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Worship the Giant Bomb

Oppenheimer is a morally vacuous hagiography of power.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

by way of idle wishful thinking - would be great if NYT hired a science writer/thinker for the op-ed page to tell us what’s happening and what’s at stake in the sciences, at a time when they are under attack in a way Galileo would recognize, while newspaper science journalism is facing extinction

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Yep that's pretty much the poem.

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Olivia Campbell @oliviacampbell.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My husband is currently in Detroit, and has been working for months on lighting this international bridge project that Trump hates. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/w...

Lit up Gordie Howe Bridge connecting US and Canada at night.

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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

You may have never heard of the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality. But they are the only federal agency supporting work that brings basic research & discovery down to practice: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/s...

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Health Care Agency Discontinues Dozens of Active Research Awards (Gift Article)

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality slowed the awarding of new grants last year. Now it is stopping existing ones.

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The Open Notebook @theopennotebook.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

👀 Want to practice reading with a critical eye? The original annotations in our new book, The Best Science Stories and How They Work, analyze the qualities that make stories great. Here’s a sneak peak at some excerpts… 🧵

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

So the FDA is now "reviewing" the evidence on whether compounding pharmacies can make some peptides, complete with a panel full of people who, um, sell peptides. Peptides with almost no evidence that they actually WORK www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

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Peptides promise longevity and healing. Does the science back them up?

The world of peptides has exploded in wellness circles, but the benefits of injecting these gray-market molecules rest on little clinical evidence

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Lines like “Christopher Nolan’s genius ends when a woman enters the frame” is one of the reasons @angelicabastien.bsky.social is one of my favorite critics to read. Whole podcast worth a listen.! I like Nolan (inc. THE ODYSSEY) but I never go into his films expecting nuanced female characters

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Olivia Campbell @oliviacampbell.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Wild how quickly we went from Brat summer to BRAT diet summer (cyclospora edition)

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Jack Grimes @jackapedia.design · 16/07/2026

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

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Olivia Campbell @oliviacampbell.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

My book proposal wasn't quite working, so I put it in a drawer to revisit later. I'm on to my next idea, but I'd love your help in honing the focus. While researching the history of hysteria, I found a broader theme of weaponization of madness accusations as a way to disappear inconvenient women.

Pinel, Chief Physician of La Salpêtrière, Freeing the Insane from Their Chains. 1876 painting by Tony Robert-Fleury.

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The Open Notebook @theopennotebook.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The first selection in our new book is “How I Learned To Stop Worrying About Their Many Tiny Legs And Love The House Centipede” by @sabs.bsky.social (first in @defector.com), annotated by @maryroach.bsky.social. Pre-order: www.theopennotebook.com/the-best-sci...

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Olivia Campbell @oliviacampbell.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Found both my books face-out at my local Barnes & Noble. 🥰 Signed all copies. They're in the science section, which is arranged by discipline, so they are not next to each other. My 13-year-old was meeting a friend to book shop, so I got to feel like a celebrity while he showed his friend my books.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 10/07/2026

RIP Wally Funk (1939-2026), one of the Mercury 13 (which inspired For All Mankind) Also: "In July 2021. Funk became the oldest woman to travel to space at the age of 82. During the 11-minute flight, Funk experienced a few moments of weightlessness and marveled at the darkness of space."

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Olivia Campbell @oliviacampbell.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

A book I wrote the foreword for is shortlisted for the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize! Go read HIDDEN GUESTS! It's amazing. Congrats to Lise Barnéoud!

Screenshot of Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize shortlist of six books

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Olivia Campbell @oliviacampbell.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The peach tree we planted in our front yard is finally bearing fruit that isn't tiny and hard.

Three small reddish peaches on a vibrantly green peach tree

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Olivia Campbell @oliviacampbell.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Nonfiction authors need your love! So do independent bookstores. Am*zon does not. Enjoy the Anti-Prime Day sale on @bookshop.org with my many recommendation lists of nonfiction related to science and women. bookshop.org/shop/oliviac...

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Olivia Campbell, Author & Journalist Bookshop

I write and recommend books on the history of women in science and other feminist titles.

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