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Kristin L. Gray
@kristinlgray.bsky.social
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Author, reader, sunshine seeker
BAHA user 🤟
Former RN 🩺
Fan of unsolved mysteries, science, space
Studying copyediting and planes ✈️

MURDER AT PENGUIN RANCH (‘26) 🇦🇶
Rep: Caryn Wiseman ABLA
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Kristin L. Gray @kristinlgray.bsky.social · Mar 22
Day one of ground school. 🛩️@sportys.bsky.social #avgeek
Author poses with a green-and-white Cessna 150 in hangar.
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davidho.bsky.social
Congress has voted to release the Earhart Files!
U.S. Spy Agency Releases Amelia Earhart Records
The U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence released long-promised records related to vanished pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart. More records are promised on a rolling basis
www.scientificamerican.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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novicsara.bsky.social
Good morning my child just asked me if I was on the Titanic 💀
November 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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bethsawin.bsky.social
A time-, suffering-, and life-saving-hack: Listen to women, especially survivors. Believe them.

Imagine how different today would be if the powerful had listened to Anita Hill. To Christine Blasey Ford. To Trump's many accusers, especially those speaking about their mistreatment as children.
November 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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ridingrobots.bsky.social
Night sky light is usually so distant you can only glimpse it, long for it. Sometimes, though, it it brushes close enough to feel.
Shimmering pillars of colorful auroral light glowing in a starry sky. The light is reflected from the surface of a lake in the distance. A bare tree stands in the foreground. Woodruff Narrows Reservoir, Wyoming. Photo: Bill Dunford
November 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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skwinnicki.bsky.social
Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"

guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
Basic light pollution diagram showing four different streetlight set ups ranging from more light pollution on the left to less light pollution on the right. The most pollution option, labelled "very bad" is a street lamp with a round uncovered bulb on top, making a sphere of light in the air. The next option, labelled "bad" has a tiny cap on top, that limits the upward pollution a bit. The "better" option is mostly uncovered on top, limiting pollution above the streetlight. The final option, labelled "best" has a full shroud overtop, limiting the light to only below the streetlight, where it is needed for pedestrians and vehicles.
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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luishuckstadt.bsky.social
Bird Flu Ravaged the World’s Largest Elephant Seal Population, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/s...
Bird Flu Ravaged the World’s Largest Elephant Seal Population, Study Finds
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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readingraindoe.bsky.social
Starting a new book today! Just love owls. Looks really good!🦉✨

What an Owl Knows by Jennifer Ackerman
💙📚💡
#booksky
#readersky
#AmReading
#CurrentlyReading
#nonfiction
#science
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
November 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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mariapopova.bsky.social
Remembering Sylvia Plath (who would have been 92 today) with her wonderful forgotten children's book about, well, embracing your own weirdness www.themarginalian.org/2013/03/27/t...
October 28, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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spyglassart.bsky.social
Mr Puffin.

#art #birds
Illustration of a puffin standing on a green rock.
October 27, 2025 at 7:49 AM
kristinlgray.bsky.social
African penguins being adorable at Boulder Beach, SA. 🐧
African penguins at Boulder Beach, South Africa, with cool blue water in background.
October 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Meteor - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2jssKmA
Saturn, Jupiter, a meteor, green airglow, and the core of the Milky Way galaxy over Knolls, Utah
October 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Beautiful street mural in Lisbon, Portugal #Photography #Mural #Art #Lisbon #Portugal 📷
October 24, 2025 at 10:48 AM
kristinlgray.bsky.social
I love to see middle-grade literature celebrated. A Children’s Booker Prize is a fabulous and welcome idea. 🎉
thebookerprizes.com The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 24d
For over 50 years, the Booker Prizes have recognised the best fiction for adults. Now, we're delighted to announce the Children’s Booker Prize, supported by AKO Foundation.

Find out more: thebookerprizes.com/children
October 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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daverodland.bsky.social
Down with the crud today, butterflies, but since I missed #MolluskMonday I guess we're making #FossilFriday a twofer.
⚒️🧪🦪

These asymmetrical bivalves are ascribed to Exogyra, gryphaeid oysters of the late Mesozoic. Like other oysters, their calcitic shells laugh in the face of traditional symmetry.
A cardboard collection tray holding eight specimens of Jurassic bivalves ascribed to Exogyra, in various orientations. These illustrate the extreme asymmetry between valves, with the smaller one flattened and showing pronounced growth bands, while the larger valve is strongly recurved, with the umbo hooking over the hinge.
October 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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lifesafeast.bsky.social
Seriously (still) my most popular post and recipe!

I’d love to tag the friend who got me writing about real French onion soup (which kicked off my Substack) but I just hope she knows who she is… thank you 🙏💜

open.substack.com/pub/jamiesch...
Authentic French Onion Soup
Top off your New Year’s Eve revelry the traditional French way.
open.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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kosmi.bsky.social
Penguin colony [ No. 6 ].

Image taken by Sentinel-2 on Oct. 19, 2025.

-74.03, -23.40

🐧🐧🐧
October 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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letaseletzky.com
The ability to write cogently and coherently is an increasingly valuable skill (in part because it’s increasingly rare 👀)

🙏🏽 @entrepreneurialthinkers and @iamrobryan

(LINK to the full convo: youtu.be/othv4kma_WE)
October 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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catherineryanhyde.bsky.social
Waning moon with "Earthshine." #Astronomy #Astrophotography
October 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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whoi.edu
Congratulations to WHOI's @julesdeep.bsky.social, who was recently selected to deliver the prestigious @agu.org Rachel Carson Lecture.

The award recognizes women whose work in ocean science is both cutting-edge and deeply relevant to today’s societal & environmental challenges: go.whoi.edu/Huber
October 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Very excited to announce a new book deal--history, scent, science, DIY, and so many moods!
On background of botanical illustration of roses: Publishers Marketplace Deal Report Untitled by April Genevieve Tucholke, Lydia Kang Imprint Chronicle April Genevieve Tucholke and Lydia Kang's untitled journey through olfactory history, exploring various scent families, fromt he classics, like florals and gourmands, to the downright strange, like petrichor and the smell of books, and more, to Alex Galou at Chronicle, at auction, for publication in Spring 2027 by Jordan Hill at New Literary and Media and Michelle Tessler at Tessler Literary agency (World)
October 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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womensprize.bsky.social
What do the 2026 #WomensPrizeforNonFiction judges like to read? And what is it that they are looking for in a prize-winning book? Get to know @thangamdebbonaire.bsky.social, Roma Agrawal, Nicola Elliott, Nina Stibbe and Nicola Williams better by watching the below👇
October 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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THE LIBRARIANS @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social is a *must-see.*

Thanks to @ifla.org Met Lib for the private screening at Toronto Reference Library.

Terrifying, deeply moving. I know several of the librarians & recognized books by many #KidLit #YALit friends. 😢

#BannedBooksWeek #LibrarySky

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Panel discussion taking place in a conference room with four speakers seated on stage in front of an audience. A large screen beside them displays a slide that reads, “America’s war on books is more than a war on words. THE LIBRARIANS. Directed by Kim A. Snyder.” The slide also shows several film festival logos.
October 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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jenswanbooks.bsky.social
Day 2 of my Atlas Obscuras Explorer's Guide to Inventing the World tour! I met with sooo many amazing students, teachers, and educators. Plus a stop at @childrensbookworld.bsky.social! Huge thanks to @workmanpubkids.bsky.social for setting this up! #sciencerocks #readingrocks #stembooksforkids
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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andreabrownlit.bsky.social
🎉 Congrats to these bestsellers this week! 🎉

New York Times Bestsellers:
ZOMBIE AND BRAIN ARE FRIENDS
IMMORTAL DARK

USA Today Bestseller:
INVISIBLE

Indie Bestseller:
SPACE CASE: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL

@pterlip.bsky.social
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@jemiscoe.bsky.social
@jenrofe.bsky.social
This week Space Case made the Indie Bestseller list, Zombie and Brain Are Friends and Immortal Dark made The New York Times Bestseller list, and Invisible made the USA Today Bestseller list. Pictured are the logos of those lists and the book covers surrounded by confetti to celebrate!
October 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM