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Lisa M.P. Munoz
@lisampmunoz.bsky.social
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Science communicator: Passionate about science, family, endless forms most beautiful...and Swiss chocolate. Author of WOMEN IN SCIENCE NOW (https://amazon.com/Women-Science-Now-Strategies-Achieving/dp/0231206143) via
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Oh my goodness, that's amazing! and wonderful!
paulguinnessy.bsky.social Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 6d
Women made up 21% of faculty members in US physics departments in 2024, up from 16% a decade earlier. The percentage of women faculty members in the nation’s astronomy departments rose from 19% in 2014 to 25% in 2024. #academia #womeninscience #faculty
Upward trend in percentage of women physics and astronomy faculty in US
physicstoday.aip.org
December 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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scurry.bsky.social
Writing is thinking - a short but memorable thread.
carlbergstrom.com Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 12d
I've spent all day struggling to write a single page of a popular science article. I bang away at a word processor; give up; start diagramming on paper. Take some notes; draft a few sentences in pen; return to the computer...and very slowly I figure out what I was trying to say in the first place.
December 17, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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cogneuronews.bsky.social
From Sam McDougle's love of music has sprung a focus on how people learn and get better at motor skills – an area he sees as sometimes neglected in cognitive neuroscience. Read a new Q&A with him, a preview of his #CNS2026 YIA talk:
www.cogneurosociety.org/taking-actio...
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Taking Action Seriously in the Brain: Revealing the Role of Cognition in Motor Skills
Samuel McDougle, a CNS 2026 YIA recipient, studies both how people build motor skills through mental functions like “motor working memory."
www.cogneurosociety.org
December 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Give a gift that lasts beyond the season. Our new releases bring bold ideas, rigorous research, and fresh perspectives to readers who care deeply about understanding the world. A holiday gift with purpose. buff.ly/bJDmkZ1 #HolidayGifts #ReadUP #GiftBooks #BookLovers #AcademicBooks #IdeasMatter
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December 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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physgal.bsky.social
RIP Rob Reiner
a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the woman is saying have fun storming the castle
Alt: a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the man is saying "have fun storming the castle" - from Princess Bride
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December 15, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Bystander tackles and wrestles gun from alleged gunman during Bondi beach mass shooting.

-pure heroism.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Bystander tackles and wrestles gun from alleged gunman during Bondi beach mass shooting
Video shows the man rushing one of the alleged gunmen who shot dozens of people on Sunday evening in Australia
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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❤️❤️❤️
#scicomm
annemarie.bsky.social Anne Marie Conlon @annemarie.bsky.social · 17d
What's the best science gift you ever got? 🔭🔬

We asked @nature.com readers for their faves. They include the geneticist inspired by slicing up cow eyeballs she was given as a child, and the former head of the Canadian Space Agency who got a telescope for Christmas in time for the Apollo 8 mission
The gift that shaped my career in science
Nature asked about your most memorable scientific gifts. You delivered.
www.nature.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Let's share it wide: these rocks need a home! #geologists #geology
geology.bsky.social Andrew Alden @geology.bsky.social · 18d
Here's a long shot: a big orphan pebble collection from the USGS, yours if you can take and treasure it. See alt text
California Conglomerate Clast Collection Seeks New Home Conglomerate clasts were collected from 279 sites by Vic Seiders and Brett Cox for their report, "Place of Origin of the Salinian Block, California, as Based on Clast Compositions of Upper Cretaceous and Lower Tertiary Conglomerates," USGS Professional Paper 1526 (https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1526/report.pdf). This is an extremely important comprehensive collection. Localities are principally in or near the Salinian Block in western California, but cover from Anchor Bay (Stewarts Point quad, 4,281,400N, 462.390E) to Cabo Vizcaino in Baja California, including a bit of western Arizona. At least one locality, on Highway 92 near Pilarcitos Creek (site WO-268, Woodside quad, 4,149,080N, 555.710E), is now inaccessible, having been encased in Caltrans concrete. In the mid 1990s, when the USGS closed their rock storage depository in Menlo Park, throwing irreplaceable collections in the trash, the Seiders and Cox collection was given by Brett Cox to Kathleen Burnham for safe keeping. However, she used only one of these clasts in her own work, has no further need of them, and has run out of room to store them. The collection is entirely pebbles, size range 0.4-6.0 cm, mainly 0.4-3.0 cm, and samples were etched overnight in 5% hydrofluoric acid solution, to aid in identification. The rocks are neatly stored in boxes measuring 12" x 9.5" x 5". At present the stack is 6 by 3 by 6 boxes, which comes to 108 boxes, and the stack measures 69" x 39" x 30", roughly 47 cubic feet. The boxes are marked and numbered. One box was partially damaged, however, no clasts or markings on the box were lost. Kathleen used the Seiders and Cox locations for some of her own collection, and reports that despite their work pre-dating GPS, their sample locations are extremely accurately specified in their publication. If this collection would be useful to you, and/or you can give these rocks a home, DM me and I’ll pass on your name. clean etched pebbles from the collection Boxes of the collection, each one clearly marked and annotated
December 11, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—"

Reviews.

Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)

Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!
December 9, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Watched "Medicine Man" for the first time in >30 years and it aged better than expected--great at showing some aspects of science! Researched the inspiration after and found this wild story on someone who thought the cure to cancer lay in shrunken heads:
magazine.atavist.com/2020/the-sec...
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The Secret Formula - The Atavist Magazine
Could shrunken heads hold the key to curing cancer? One man thought so—and spent a lifetime trying to prove it.
magazine.atavist.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Delighted that one of my Antarctic winter photos has won the 2025 Royal Society Photography Competition, Earth Science & Climatology category.

Captured during polar-night surveys of ocean conditions near Antarctic Peninsula glaciers.

royalsociety.org/journals/pub...
December 4, 2025 at 8:40 AM
lisampmunoz.bsky.social
Writing a nonfiction book is like moving, where you feel really good, like you're almost done, when 90% of the words are on the page, or 90% of the stuff is boxed up...until you realize that the last 10% is the toughest. All those little knick knacks hiding away in every corner of the room!
#authors
December 4, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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A fun read on writing books v. film 👇
Think about some of these story-telling elements a lot when watching TV these days.
rebeccamakkai.substack.com/p/youre-writ...
Thanks @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social
You're Writing a Book. So Stop Writing a Movie.
What film teaches us wrong about writing fiction
rebeccamakkai.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
lisampmunoz.bsky.social
Want to do something different for Cyber Monday? Buy some books! Mine, Women in Science Now, is 50% off through @columbiaup.bsky.social
cup.columbia.edu/book/women-i...
Other award winners & #scicomm books there! Stock up for the holidays 🎁
#WomeninSTEM #WomeninScience
(also at Indie & other stores)
Women in Science Now | Columbia University Press
Silver Medal in the Social Change and Social Justice Category, 2024 Nautilus Book AwardsWinner, 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleWomen working in the sc... | CUP
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December 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
lisampmunoz.bsky.social
One of the most thrilling things about the new season of #StrangerThings so far is seeing in Holly's room the identical wallpaper, along with matching curtains, that my younger sister had in her room growing up...
They did their homework for sure! #80schildren
November 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Frikkin amazing stuff.
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Tapping the sign again
Page from BRAINS First Panel: "An AI has no sense of anything. No context. No experience." Illustration of a little pink frog (he's playing a blood cell in this comic, though, which is why he's pink) Second panel: "It cannot touch" the pink frog bends down to pick a flower Third panel: "It cannot smell" 'sniff sniff' the frog smells the flower Fourth panel: "It cannot breathe" (the frog is now dark blue with bright pink lungs visible, as though the frog has been imaged in some way) Fifth panel: "It cannot think" (the frogs brain is now visible, similarly to the lungs in the previous panel) Sixth panel: "It cannot be" the frog is floating and his cute lil butt is visible Seventh panel: "*Stares directly at camera*" the pink frog stares directly at camera Eight panel: "It cannot be... YOU"
November 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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So enjoyed my interview with the brilliant and inspiring neuroscientist Carol Barnes! 👇
#WomeninSTEM #WomeninScience #scicomm #neuroscience
cogneuronews.bsky.social Cognitive Neuroscience Society @cogneuronews.bsky.social · Nov 24
When Carol Barnes turned 65, she had a stunning realization: that she was now the people, 65 years+, she had been studying for the past several decades, and that she was “OK.” Read a Q&A w/ Barnes to get a preview of her #CNS2026 award talk on aging: www.cogneurosociety.org/50-years-of-...
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50 Years of Busting Myths About Aging in the Brain
Carol Barnes, CNS2026 DCC recipient, has spent her career working to bust myths about age, the aging process, and memory.
www.cogneurosociety.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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In every dystopian novel: the government bans books.

In reality: we gave up reading voluntarily.
Line chart showing US teen reading habits since 1985: daily readers fall sharply while those who "hardly ever" read rise to about 48% by 2024.
November 24, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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A hs student who voluteers at the Museum of the Earth has also been tmraising money to help out PRI. Donations have been coming in with the press push, I think they'll make it but keep sharing and donate what you can:
www.weny.com/news/local/h...
Horseheads student hoping to save Museum of the Earth from closure
ITHACA, N.Y. (WENY) — The Museum of the Earth in Tompkins County is facing potential closure due to lapses in funding from several sources. A student from Horseheads High School
www.weny.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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physgal.bsky.social
Feeling very old...
kiaspeaks.us kia speaks @kiaspeaks.us · Nov 21
My favorite piece of content today.
actuallychloehayes › millennials 20h serious question for the millennials... my older cousin said she used to 'burn' cds for her crush. like... with ? was that a ritual? did it work? you guys were literally practicing witchcraft just to get a text back. i'm scared of y'all. Q 2.9K
November 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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The first known use of 'wicked' was in the 13th century.
britannica.com Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · Nov 21
We hope everyone flies free this weekend.

BTW, the name Elphaba is a reference to "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" author L. Frank Baum.
Comparison infographic of The Wizard of Oz (1939) and Wicked: Part 1 (2024) highlighting runtime, book origins, awards, and production details.
November 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM
lisampmunoz.bsky.social
This makes me ill in so many ways (some of which I possibly can't get into due to past NDAs) but all of which rejects the scientific process, a beautiful framework that has led to so many breathtaking advancements in human health...ugh, where are we going?
Thanks for your coverage!
#scicomm
maxkozlov.bsky.social Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · Nov 21
About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.

Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A glorious selfie with the official MAHA lanyard seconds after I made it past Secret Service screening.
November 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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First kiss dates back 21 million years, say scientists. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
First kiss dates back 21 million years, say scientists
A new study looks at how the mouth-on-mouth smooch came into being, and concludes that Neanderthals also kissed.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 4:09 AM
lisampmunoz.bsky.social
Does anyone else need some Muppets tonight?
youtu.be/iRNl0iWE490?...
The Muppets Sing Mr. Blue Sky | Dear Earth
YouTube video by The Muppets
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 2:30 AM