Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 05/06/2026This sometimes happens when I buy a big ticket item, too! Seriously, you think I’m going to buy two big screen TVs? At least they don’t know EVERYTHING! 030
Reposted by Joanne ManasterDavid H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com · 15/04/2026A 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... 4382176405
Reposted by Joanne ManasterNational Security Archive @nsarchive.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Today, 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...nsarchive.gwu.eduA Disappearing Data ChronologyAbout the ExhibitThe Disappearing Data Chronology documents fundamental changes to the federal information landscape under the Trump administration, including major data losses and restorations, legal... 210783
Reposted by Joanne ManasterSean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 11/03/2026The 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...arstechnica.comIg Nobels ceremony moves to Europe over security concernsMarc Abraham: “During the past year, it has become unsafe for our guests to visit the country." 711521
Reposted by Joanne ManasterMatthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 04/03/2026New 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...ijoc.org Enhancing Media Literacy in Higher Education: An Experimental Study on Misinformation Through a Gamified Intervention in Peru | International Journal of Communication 0122
Reposted by Joanne ManasterMelody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 23/02/2026Every 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...theguardian.comFears of polio resurgence as US vaccine adviser questions need for childhood shotsSurvivors say US healthcare system not ready for new cases – ‘the only thing to fix polio is the polio vaccine’ 7529310
Reposted by Joanne ManasterSteve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 18/02/2026When 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-...barnesandnoble.comNature Books to Welcome Spring - B&N ReadsWhether 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... 1325
Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 25/11/2025The 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... 052
Reposted by Joanne ManasterBethany 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.sociallastwordonnothing.comThe Last Word On Nothing | AI is Full of Bullshit. Now It’s Faking Science 06222
Reposted by Joanne ManasterLinnymother 🐙 @linnybobinny.bsky.social · 08/11/2025if 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.pethelpfinder.orgPet Help FinderWelcome 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... 1828813384
Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 04/11/2025My pleasure! Thanks for writing such engaging books. 010
Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 04/11/2025My pleasure! Thanks so much for writing these wonderful books. 000
Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 04/11/2025I've enjoyed every book written by @elizkolbert.bsky.social and am excited that today she has a new book out! Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World amzn.to/4nD8Txh or bookshop.org/a/97643/9798... 132
Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 04/11/2025I'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... 3367
Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 21/10/2025I was so excited for this book that I accidentally pre-ordered an audiobook AND an e-book! 1172
Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 19/09/2025For a little escape, I invite you to read about the amusing 2025 Ignobels. arstechnica.com/science/2025...arstechnica.comMeet the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize winnersThe annual award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and the 24/7 lectures. 091
Reposted by Joanne ManasterScientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Scientists 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 complexscientificamerican.comAutism Has No Single Cause. Here’s How We KnowScientists 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... 514870
Reposted by Joanne ManasterDisrupted Science @disruptedscience.bsky.social · 09/09/2025A 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...the-geyser.comAre We Losing Our Minds?A new position paper warns against the uncritical adoption of AI in academia 36632
Reposted by Joanne ManasterJules Howard @juleshoward.bsky.social · 17/07/2025People, 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? ... 282
Reposted by Joanne ManasterBen Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 14/07/2025This 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...nytimes.comPublic Broadcasters Brace for Vote on Sharp Funding Cut 16311100
Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 26/06/2025I’ve been spending this first week of my summer undergrad course telling students to NOT do this! Proper citations, always. 010
Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 07/06/2025"And when the catnip wore off, it was in here." 020
Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 07/06/2025This picture of Groucho (RIP 2021) is "weighting" for a caption. I'll start: "I've coughed up hairballs heavier than this." #caturday 350
Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Not this one, but certainly others of his! 010
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... 1538
Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Happy 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 🧪 211311
Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Not to mention, the administration wants people to have more babies! That so called $5000 incentive check will only help cover tariffs. The mind boggles. 010
Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 07/05/2025It’s is about Linnaeus and Buffon, two famous natural scientists, essentially a biography about biologists. 110
Reposted by Joanne ManasterW. W. Norton & Company @wwnorton.com · 06/05/2025May is starting off with some exciting new books! Get excited to add these books to your reading list. 022
Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Congratulations 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... 223832
Reposted by Joanne ManasterCarmen 📚 Latinx Book Influencer 📚 @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social · 15/04/2025If you love your library, listen up… 177132464512
Reposted by Joanne ManasterEric 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...theguardian.comWe are witnessing the destruction of science in America | Paul Darren BieniaszIf we stay on this administration’s course, future life-saving medicines may never be invented 13483218
Reposted by Joanne ManasterMoss - IL Public @mossilpubmedia.bsky.social · 09/04/2025"Even more songs to calm the nerves" from NPR www.npr.org/2025/04/08/1...npr.orgEven more songs to calm the nerves : All Songs ConsideredOur 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... 032
Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Looks interesting! Any chance there’ll be an audiobook? 140
Reposted by Joanne ManasterCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/04/2025What 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!hachettebookgroup.comMore Everything ForeverThis "wild and utterly engaging narrative" (Melanie Mitchell) shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death,... 1537452
Reposted by Joanne ManasterCarl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 07/04/2025It'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... 651228338
Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Thanks, Lucy! 🩷 I’m a little behind on the recent releases (had major surgery in mid-March, but recovering well), and will get back to it soon. 120
Reposted by Joanne ManasterPrasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 04/04/2025www.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 securitynytimes.comOpinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist (Gift Article)Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States. 18473299
Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 29/03/2025I'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....) 2314
Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 10/03/2025And from March 7, we see from Paul Taylor Fossils: An Essential Guide amzn.to/3DNpaP5 162
Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 10/03/2025On shelves on March 6, we have Steve Nicholls' book, Steel River: Walking the Tees – A Journey Through Nature in a Human World 🧪 amzn.to/3YFEi90 240
Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 10/03/2025March 4 brought us a book from researcher @alexbollen.bsky.social Motherdom: Breaking Free of Bad Science and Good Mother Myths 🧪 amzn.to/427lLEU 110
Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 10/03/2025On March 4, we saw the release of a book by Professor @ciaragreene.bsky.social and lecturer @gillian-murphy.bsky.social Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember amzn.to/407qofv 140
Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 10/03/2025From March 4, Author Maja Bak Herrie, who works with media theory and philosophy of science brought us Thinking Through Data: How Outliers, Aggregates, and Patterns Shape Perception (Sensing Media: Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Cultures of Media) 🧪 amzn.to/4fPC8cj 1101
Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 10/03/2025For fans of the history of science, we have this new book from March 4 by historian and writer Violet Moller Inside the Stargazer's Palace: The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Europe 🧪 amzn.to/4gK2tKb 1100
Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Always love a great adventure book! From March 4 we see a book from @cassidyrandall.bsky.social : Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women's Ascent of Denali 🧪 amzn.to/4gBDJmK 271
Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 10/03/2025I read and enjoyed a galley of this book! Available as of March 4 is a book from Jennifer Lucy Allen Clay: A Human History🧪 amzn.to/3CNQLyR 140
Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Available as of March 4 from author Sophie Strand, we see The Body Is a Doorway: A Memoir: A Journey Beyond Healing, Hope, and the Human 🧪 amzn.to/4f2cC3V 140