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Joanne Manaster

@sciencegoddess.bsky.social
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Book lover, university biology educator, STEM advocate. Increasing your science TBR pile since 2008. Mother of 3 earth scientists & one high school teacher 🧪📚💙 Read Science! www.facebook.com/ReadScience Website: joannelovesscience.com

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David H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com · 15/04/2026
A shocking new poll result: Many Americans somehow don't have a favorite dinosaur. And only 6% give the correct answer (triceratops). Check out YouGov's new polling on Americans and dinosaurs: yougovamerica.substack.com/p/whats-your...
A split bar chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Americans are most likely to say T. Rex is their favorite dinosaur, but many don't have a favorite."

The chart has the sub-headline: "Which of the following is your favorite dinosaur? (%)."

The chart has the note: "Note: "Other" includes responses of archaeopteryx, spinosaurus, plesiosaur, ankylosaurus, allosaurus, parasaurolophus, dilophosaurus, diplodocus, iguanadon, and pachycephalosaurus, as well as responses of "other." We know pterodactyls and plesiosaurs aren't dinosaurs. Opinion about dinosaurs comes from the question, "How much do you like or dislike dinosaurs?""
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National Security Archive @nsarchive.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Today, the Archive published a Disappearing Data Chronology--a timeline tracking changes in access to federal information under Trump, including major data losses and restorations, legal challenges to information takedowns, and threats to archival collections. nsarchive.gwu.edu/special-exhi...
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A Disappearing Data Chronology
About the ExhibitThe Disappearing Data Chronology documents fundamental changes to the federal information landscape under the Trump administration, including major data losses and restorations, legal...
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
The IgNobel Prizes, usually bestowed at a ceremony in Cambridge, Mass, are moving to Europe this year due to security concerns for honorees and journalists coming to the US from abroad. I bet I know who's going to win the IgNobel Peace Prize this year. arstechnica.com/science/2026...
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Ig Nobels ceremony moves to Europe over security concerns
Marc Abraham: “During the past year, it has become unsafe for our guests to visit the country."
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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
New study finds that a Latin America–adapted version of the prebunking game Bad News significantly reduced the perceived reliability of social media misinformation. ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
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Enhancing Media Literacy in Higher Education: An Experimental Study on Misinformation Through a Gamified Intervention in Peru | International Journal of Communication
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 23/02/2026
Every time I write about measles, experts warn that polio is next. But it's been so long since we had polio outbreaks, there are very few doctors who even know how to treat its long-term health issues. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Fears of polio resurgence as US vaccine adviser questions need for childhood shots
Survivors say US healthcare system not ready for new cases – ‘the only thing to fix polio is the polio vaccine’
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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
When I was a teenager hanging out at @barnsandnoble.bsky.social —and I was there a lot!— I dreamed of one day seeing books I wrote on their shelves So it's really touching to see The Story of Birds on their list of best nature books to welcome in the spring!🥲 www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/nature-...
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Nature Books to Welcome Spring - B&N Reads
Whether you’re curious about wildlife, intrigued by the mysteries of trees and flowers, or preparing to amp up your planting game, this list includes some of the best nature books to welcome in spring...
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Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
The latest book by biologist Rob Dunn is included in the top 100 @nytimes.com books this year. I've enjoyed all his books, and this is in my TBR currently. The Call of the Honeyguide: What Science Tells Us about How to Live Well with the Rest of Life. amzn.to/3LT7Fkx bookshop.org/a/97643/9781...
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
"Chat GPT is not hallucinating, it’s bullshitting," ChatGPT is that guy in law school, dangerously wrong, deeply uninformed, and totally sure Debate Team is real life. Except now, in 2025? Everyone trusts him. www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/11/10/a... By @cragcrest.bsky.social
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The Last Word On Nothing | AI is Full of Bullshit. Now It’s Faking Science
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Linnymother 🐙 @linnybobinny.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets. no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
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Pet Help Finder
Welcome to Pet Help Finder! A place to find services, events, and online or traveling resources for pet services. We ensure that all organizations found here are financially friendly so that your main...
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Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I'm thrilled to see a new book by @jonathanslaght.com! I loved Owls of the Eastern Ice and today we see the release of Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China. amzn.to/4i1qA8N or bookshop.org/a/97643/9780...
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Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I was so excited for this book that I accidentally pre-ordered an audiobook AND an e-book!
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Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
For a little escape, I invite you to read about the amusing 2025 Ignobels. arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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Meet the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize winners
The annual award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and the 24/7 lectures.
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Scientists will not find a simple answer to how autism arises, despite Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s promise to announce its causes sometime this month. Here’s what makes the condition so staggeringly complex
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Autism Has No Single Cause. Here’s How We Know
Scientists will not find a simple answer to how autism arises, despite Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s promise to announce its causes sometime this month. Here’s what makes the condition so staggeringly comp...
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Disrupted Science @disruptedscience.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
A position paper urging academia to be critical of AI technologies is an excellent wake-up call. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @olivia.science www.the-geyser.com/are-we-losin...
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Are We Losing Our Minds?
A new position paper warns against the uncritical adoption of AI in academia
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Jules Howard @juleshoward.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
People, get ready for the launch of.. ‘THE MARTIAN MUSEUM OF EARTH ANIMALS’. This is my book with the amazing Matt Hunt c/o @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social. One Martian museum. One school sleepover. One mysterious intruder. What could go wrong? ...
Front cover. Lively museum scene with Martians running around.
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Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
This week will be pivotal for the future of PBS and NPR, as the Senate plans to vote on ~$1.1 billion in funding. I spoke to station directors in South Dakota and Alaska about what this could mean: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/b...
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Public Broadcasters Brace for Vote on Sharp Funding Cut
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Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
This picture of Groucho (RIP 2021) is "weighting" for a caption. I'll start: "I've coughed up hairballs heavier than this." #caturday
Gray and white long haired cat sitting next to a barbell with 40 pounds of weights on it.
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Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
#ProudMomAlert My youngest son was the lead on this project for his masters project @colorado.edu. Check it out. (He now works with earthquake data) Satellite data from ship captures landslide-generated tsunami for the first time 🧪 cires.colorado.edu/news/satelli...
R/V Sikuliaq in port in Seward, Alaska in May 2022
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Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Happy Mother’s Day, especially to this robin mom who had three newly hatched chicks outside my mom’s house today. Cross fingers for #4 to hatch safely, too! #birds 🐦 #mothersday 🧪
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W. W. Norton & Company @wwnorton.com · 06/05/2025
May is starting off with some exciting new books! Get excited to add these books to your reading list.
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Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Congratulations to Jason Roberts for winning the Biography category of the Pulitzer Prize in 2025 for the book Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life. As a biologist, naturally I read it and can attest this book deserves this recognition. 🧪 💙📚 bookshop.org/a/97643/9781...
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Carmen 📚 Latinx Book Influencer 📚 @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
If you love your library, listen up…
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
"Science in the US is entering a phase resembling the Lysenko era in the Soviet Union." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We are witnessing the destruction of science in America | Paul Darren Bieniasz
If we stay on this administration’s course, future life-saving medicines may never be invented
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Moss - IL Public @mossilpubmedia.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
"Even more songs to calm the nerves" from NPR www.npr.org/2025/04/08/1...
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Even more songs to calm the nerves : All Songs Considered
Our third installment of calming songs includes Max Richter's tribute to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ambient sounds from Ryuichi Sakamoto, Brazilian jazz from Wayne Shorter and more.Fea...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/04/2025
What the hell happened to Silicon Valley? No matter how closely you think you've been paying attention, the truth is far weirder and way more disturbing than you imagine. I just read @adambecker.bsky.social's new book in proof and it's a gripping, spine-chilling story. Out April 22—preorder now!
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More Everything Forever
This "wild and utterly engaging narrative" (Melanie Mitchell) shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death,...
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 07/04/2025
It's not a dire wolf. It's a gray wolf clone with 20 dire-wolf gene edits, and with some dire wolf traits. And here's my story! Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/s...
A gray wolf clone with dire wolf DNA edits.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o... Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security
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Opinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist (Gift Article)
Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.
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Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I'm excited to learn that @maryroach.bsky.social has a book coming from @wwnorton.bsky.social called Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy (no cover yet) on September 16. wwnorton.com/books/978132... (more recent science 🧪 📚 releases soon....)
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Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Usually I post recent #PopSci 📚 releases on Sunday, but was grading for the day job, so let's see last week's releases now. On March 3, from @psychunseen.bsky.social, we see False: How Mistrust, Disinformation, and Motivated Reasoning Make Us Believe Things that Aren't True 🧪 amzn.to/4fR4939
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Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Some great new #PopSci 📚 from Feb 25th. 🧵 Up first is @carlzimmer.com's latest, which I am THIS close to finishing (spoiler--it's excellent): Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe 🧪 amzn.to/4bq8jyD
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Danielle Rivet, PhD 🐻🐻‍❄️ @grizzlygirl87.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Today (February 27) is #InternationalPolarBearDay! Did you know that #PolarBears inhabit five range states in the circumpolar Arctic? They exist in 20 subpopulations across Canada, the USA, Norway, Greenland, and Russia. 🦊🐻‍❄️ #Mammals #MarineMammals
a polar bear stands in the middle of the frame on a spit of land covered with brown vegetation and fall willows, water of the Hudson Bay in the background and a small pond in front
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Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Starting it today!
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Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Time to check out the #PopSci 📚 releases from the past couple of weeks! 🧵 This book is especially timely for many reasons. From Feb 11, pediatrician @adamratnermd.bsky.social brings us Booster Shots: The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health 🧪 amzn.to/4j4nil3
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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
A few people have kindly lobbed this into the tl, but here's my own gift link: Me, in NYT Opinion, arguing we're not failing to handle H5N1 flu in cattle because the response is based on plans for bird flu in poultry and doesn't match dairy farming structures. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/o...
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Opinion | Bird Flu in Dairy Cows Is a Slow-Motion Disaster for Public Health (Gift Article)
The country’s poor public health response to the outbreak is rooted in the inability to bring in dairy farmers as partners.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Attention Scientists! Check this out! A thing you can do that's useful and likely in your wheelhouse!
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Since RFK Jr just got confirmed today, I am taking this chance to share this wonderful @sciam.bsky.social piece on The Staggering Success of Vaccines www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...
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See How Many Lives Vaccines Have Saved around the World
Vaccines are the first step toward health equity in many parts of the world
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Mike MacFerrin @icesheetmike.myatproto.social · 13/02/2025
Get them while you can. The US CDC’s 2025 Immunization Schedules, for adults, children, pregnancy, travel, etc: www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp...
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Immunization Schedules
Make sure your patients stay up to date on recommended vaccines using these schedules.
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Chris Carroll, MD @chriscarrollmd.com · 13/02/2025
A great article from the Smithsonian on How Science Conquered Diphtheria, the Plague Among Children. A comforting piece from a time when public health was a priority. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
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How Science Conquered Diphtheria, the Plague Among Children
It was highly contagious, lethal and mysterious. Then medical experts developed treatments and vaccines, and the affliction disappeared—but not entirely
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Aidan Milliff @aidanmilliff.com · 08/02/2025
Here's a good infographic from AAUP on what indirect costs fund. It's a lot of important things!
Breakdown of the costs of research by direct/indirect costs.
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Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
For a brief reprieve from sports and political/government news, here is a 🧵 on recent #PopSci 📚 releases. First up is a very lovely book about PENGUINS! From 📷 Ursula Claire Franklin on Jan 14th Mission Penguin: A photographic quest from the Galápagos to Antarctica 🧪 amzn.to/3E7IfeX
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The western monarch butterfly population is near record lows; fewer than 10k individual butterflies counted this year. xerces.org/press/wester...
graph from 1997 to 2024 showing "total number of monarchs reported" on the x axis, with numbers normally around 150,000-250,000, with 2024 barely registering.
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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Applications are now open for the 2025 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Australian and New Zealand Fellowships. Five $25,000 fellowships will be awarded to outstanding post-doctoral scientists. Apply now at: www.forwomeninscience.com.au Applications close at 11.59pm, 5th March 2025 (AEDT).
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LOreal Australia: For Women In Science
Providing AU$25,000 Fellowships for early-career women scientists to consolidate their careers and rise to leadership positions in science. The Fellowships are awarded to women who have shown scientif...
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AHeise @aheise.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-... Use this site if you want to contact your senators and remind them of the economic impact of NIH in your state. Close to $1 billion in direct funding, in Michigan.
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NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research
Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.
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Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
it's also a test for the mass public - the only checks now are public opinion and markets. People need to call their reps and make noise.
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Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Sadly, not unexpected. 💔 🧪
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Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Disappointing. 🧪 Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of scientific meetings prompts confusion, concern www.statnews.com/2025/01/22/t... via @statnews.com
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Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of scientific meetings prompts confusion, concern
A flurry of scientific gatherings and panels across federal science agencies were canceled on Wednesday, at a time of heightened sensitivity about how the
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Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Looks like a Disney character!
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Beronda L. Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
So this was announced today: "President Biden Honors More Than 300 Americans with Nation’s Highest Award for Science and Mathematics Teachers and Mentors" www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-up... Happy #NationalMenteringMonth2025 #NationalMenteringMonth
Screenshot of White House announcement that reads in part:

President Biden Honors More Than 300 Americans with Nation’s Highest Award for Science and Mathematics Teachers and MentorsList of names from announcement "President Biden Honors More Than 300 Americans with Nation’s Highest Award for Science and Mathematics Teachers and Mentors"List of names continued from announcement "President Biden Honors More Than 300 Americans with Nation’s Highest Award for Science and Mathematics Teachers and Mentors" with Beronda Montgomery highlighted
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Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
A new year 🎉, a new round of #PopSci 📚 releases. Up first is a book from January 1. From @emilycarney.bsky.social we see Star Bound: A Beginner's Guide to the American Space Program, from Goddard's Rockets to Goldilocks Planets and Everything in Between 🧪 amzn.to/429uq9W
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