Lynne Lamberg
@lynnelamberg.bsky.social
Book Editor, Natl Assoc Science Writers (see nasw.org/article/advance-copy), freelance sci writer/editor, focusing on sleep, mental health, adolescents & school start times
On March 9, 2020, Brad Fox flew from New York to Peru to spend 10 days with a traditional _curandero_, or healer, learning about plant medicines. COVID shutdowns kept him there for 14 months. Read Another Bone-Swapping Event, www.nasw.org/member_artic... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
November 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
On March 9, 2020, Brad Fox flew from New York to Peru to spend 10 days with a traditional _curandero_, or healer, learning about plant medicines. COVID shutdowns kept him there for 14 months. Read Another Bone-Swapping Event, www.nasw.org/member_artic... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
Cities offer superb birding ops, Ryan Goldberg reports in Bird City: Adventures in New York's Urban Wilds. Goldberg examines the impact of air quality, bright lights, window strikes, & more on 100s of bird species that visit New York. www.nasw.org/member_artic... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
November 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Cities offer superb birding ops, Ryan Goldberg reports in Bird City: Adventures in New York's Urban Wilds. Goldberg examines the impact of air quality, bright lights, window strikes, & more on 100s of bird species that visit New York. www.nasw.org/member_artic... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
In Spark: Jim West's Electrifying Adventures in Creating the Microphone, Ainissa Ramirez introduces readers aged 5-9 to inventor Jim West. It’s the 1st of her children’s picture books on Black innovators. www.nasw.org/member_artic... bsky.app/profile/aini... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
October 23, 2025 at 12:18 AM
In Spark: Jim West's Electrifying Adventures in Creating the Microphone, Ainissa Ramirez introduces readers aged 5-9 to inventor Jim West. It’s the 1st of her children’s picture books on Black innovators. www.nasw.org/member_artic... bsky.app/profile/aini... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
Why do many species of bees have yellow & black bands? Why do we need to sleep? In Why Rats Laugh & Jellyfish Sleep and Other Enchanting Stories of Evolution, science writer David Stipp ponders these and other Darwinian puzzles. www.nasw.org/member_artic... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
October 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Why do many species of bees have yellow & black bands? Why do we need to sleep? In Why Rats Laugh & Jellyfish Sleep and Other Enchanting Stories of Evolution, science writer David Stipp ponders these and other Darwinian puzzles. www.nasw.org/member_artic... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
Running for miles to locate invasive weeds, mussels, and insects is all in a day’s work for the dog sleuths Alison Pearce Stevens describes in Detective Dogs: How Working Dogs Sniff Out Invasive Species, for readers aged 8-12. www.nasw.org/member_artic... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
September 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Running for miles to locate invasive weeds, mussels, and insects is all in a day’s work for the dog sleuths Alison Pearce Stevens describes in Detective Dogs: How Working Dogs Sniff Out Invasive Species, for readers aged 8-12. www.nasw.org/member_artic... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
I used to follow parcels of water around the ocean,” Deirdre Lockwood reports in her poem, “My Chemistry.” In her 1st book of poetry, An Introduction to Error, Lockwood, a scientist & science writer, offers meditations on research & life. www.nasw.org/member_artic... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
September 24, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I used to follow parcels of water around the ocean,” Deirdre Lockwood reports in her poem, “My Chemistry.” In her 1st book of poetry, An Introduction to Error, Lockwood, a scientist & science writer, offers meditations on research & life. www.nasw.org/member_artic... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
Dennis Meredith's latest scifi novel starts with a real event: the 1961 Soviet detonation in the Arctic of a superbomb. The Czar Bomb spins a story of an even bigger bomb that rogue state terrorists plan to detonate over Washington, DC. www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
September 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Dennis Meredith's latest scifi novel starts with a real event: the 1961 Soviet detonation in the Arctic of a superbomb. The Czar Bomb spins a story of an even bigger bomb that rogue state terrorists plan to detonate over Washington, DC. www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
When the nation’s infatuation with Mars began, many people viewed astronauts as fiction and Martians as real, David Baron writes in The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze That Captured Turn-of-the-Century America. Backstory: www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
August 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
When the nation’s infatuation with Mars began, many people viewed astronauts as fiction and Martians as real, David Baron writes in The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze That Captured Turn-of-the-Century America. Backstory: www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
Avoiding ultra-processed foods can aid weight loss and improve health, Claire Wilcox writes in Rewire Your Food-Addicted Brain: Fight Cravings and Break Free from a High-Sugar, Ultra-Processed Diet Using Neuroscience. www.nasw.org/member_artic... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
August 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Avoiding ultra-processed foods can aid weight loss and improve health, Claire Wilcox writes in Rewire Your Food-Addicted Brain: Fight Cravings and Break Free from a High-Sugar, Ultra-Processed Diet Using Neuroscience. www.nasw.org/member_artic... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
Women have greater endurance for long-distance sports, pain tolerance, and resistance to infections than men, Starre Vartan reports in The Stronger Sex: What Science Tells Us About the Power of the Female Body. www.nasw.org/member_artic... @thecurioushuman @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
July 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Women have greater endurance for long-distance sports, pain tolerance, and resistance to infections than men, Starre Vartan reports in The Stronger Sex: What Science Tells Us About the Power of the Female Body. www.nasw.org/member_artic... @thecurioushuman @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
Collecting water samples on a glacier, chasing away a grizzly, writing for the public? All in a day’s work, glacier hydrologist Sarah Boon reports in Meltdown: The Making and Breaking of a Field Scientist. See www.nasw.org/member_artic... snowhydro.bsky.social/ ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
July 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Collecting water samples on a glacier, chasing away a grizzly, writing for the public? All in a day’s work, glacier hydrologist Sarah Boon reports in Meltdown: The Making and Breaking of a Field Scientist. See www.nasw.org/member_artic... snowhydro.bsky.social/ ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
Rising global temperatures, pollution, and more threaten coral reefs. In Reefs of Time: What Fossils Reveal about Coral Survival, Lisa S. Gardiner looks to reef history for ways to help reefs live on. www.nasw.org/member_artic... @lisasgardiner.bsky.social @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
June 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Rising global temperatures, pollution, and more threaten coral reefs. In Reefs of Time: What Fossils Reveal about Coral Survival, Lisa S. Gardiner looks to reef history for ways to help reefs live on. www.nasw.org/member_artic... @lisasgardiner.bsky.social @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
Dragonflies are acrobats of the air. Bats are the only mammals that can fly. Rebecca E. Hirsch explores the functions of wings in insects, birds, seeds, and even airplanes for kids aged 4-8 in _Wonder Wings: Guess Who's Flying. Backstory: www.nasw.org/member_artic... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
April 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Dragonflies are acrobats of the air. Bats are the only mammals that can fly. Rebecca E. Hirsch explores the functions of wings in insects, birds, seeds, and even airplanes for kids aged 4-8 in _Wonder Wings: Guess Who's Flying. Backstory: www.nasw.org/member_artic... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
Real-world zombies live in virtually all habitats where terrestrial invertebrates dwell, Mindy Weisberger reports in Rise of the Zombie Bugs: The Surprising Science of Parasitic Mind Control. Learn more: www.nasw.org/member_artic... Mindy Weisberger @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
April 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Real-world zombies live in virtually all habitats where terrestrial invertebrates dwell, Mindy Weisberger reports in Rise of the Zombie Bugs: The Surprising Science of Parasitic Mind Control. Learn more: www.nasw.org/member_artic... Mindy Weisberger @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
How do we make everyday choices? Do our choices serve our big-picture goals? In What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice and Change, Emily Falk explores the brain systems at work in making—and improving—our daily decisions. See: www.nasw.org/member_artic... @falklab @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
April 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
How do we make everyday choices? Do our choices serve our big-picture goals? In What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice and Change, Emily Falk explores the brain systems at work in making—and improving—our daily decisions. See: www.nasw.org/member_artic... @falklab @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
Jennie Erin Smith spent 7 years in Colombia following a study of a large family with a high frequency of early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease to write Valley of Forgetting: Alzheimer's Families and the Search for a Cure. Backstory: www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
April 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Jennie Erin Smith spent 7 years in Colombia following a study of a large family with a high frequency of early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease to write Valley of Forgetting: Alzheimer's Families and the Search for a Cure. Backstory: www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
In Wild in Seattle: Stories at the Crossroads of People and Nature, David B. Williams explores urban stalactites, seals and sea lions, a winter-active fungus known locally as “hair ice,” & more. Backstory: www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
April 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
In Wild in Seattle: Stories at the Crossroads of People and Nature, David B. Williams explores urban stalactites, seals and sea lions, a winter-active fungus known locally as “hair ice,” & more. Backstory: www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
Mainstream science is not always objective, neutral, or singularly truthful, Ambika Kamath & Melina Packer write in Feminism in the Wild: How Human Biases Shape Our Understanding of Animal Behavior. www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ambikamath.bsky.social @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
March 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Mainstream science is not always objective, neutral, or singularly truthful, Ambika Kamath & Melina Packer write in Feminism in the Wild: How Human Biases Shape Our Understanding of Animal Behavior. www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ambikamath.bsky.social @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
Prolonged space travel harms astronaut health, Dennis Meredith asserts in Earthbound: The Obstacles to Human Space Exploration & the Promise of Artificial Intelligence. His proposed alternative? AI robotic space probes. www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
March 6, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Prolonged space travel harms astronaut health, Dennis Meredith asserts in Earthbound: The Obstacles to Human Space Exploration & the Promise of Artificial Intelligence. His proposed alternative? AI robotic space probes. www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
“The Covid-19 pandemic made the ocean of gases surrounding us visible.” Carl Zimmer writes in Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe. It took months to recognize Covid-19’s airborne transmission. www.nasw.org/member_artic... Carl Zimmer @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
February 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
“The Covid-19 pandemic made the ocean of gases surrounding us visible.” Carl Zimmer writes in Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe. It took months to recognize Covid-19’s airborne transmission. www.nasw.org/member_artic... Carl Zimmer @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
Shut down your screens. Go outside at night. Tag along as Leigh Ann Henion attends a bat outing, a moth festival, and more in Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark. www.nasw.org/member_artic... Leigh Ann Henion @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
February 20, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Shut down your screens. Go outside at night. Tag along as Leigh Ann Henion attends a bat outing, a moth festival, and more in Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark. www.nasw.org/member_artic... Leigh Ann Henion @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
We really can die of a broken heart,” Mary-Frances O'Connor reports in The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing. She explains the science of grief reactions and tactics that aid recovery. www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
February 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
We really can die of a broken heart,” Mary-Frances O'Connor reports in The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing. She explains the science of grief reactions and tactics that aid recovery. www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
A teenager leading a birding tour in a Minnesota peat-moss bog finds a mummified Viking boy in one of eight stories that slide from reality to science fiction in NASW member Marie Zhuikov’s book, The Path of Totality. Backstory: www.nasw.org/member_artic... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
February 6, 2025 at 3:18 AM
A teenager leading a birding tour in a Minnesota peat-moss bog finds a mummified Viking boy in one of eight stories that slide from reality to science fiction in NASW member Marie Zhuikov’s book, The Path of Totality. Backstory: www.nasw.org/member_artic... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
Questions aren’t just for scientists,” Jessica Fries-Gaither tells readers aged 3-5 in Wild Wonderings: Scientists and Their Questions. She helps children turn their observations into questions and seek answers. Backstory: www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters #SciWriBooks
January 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Questions aren’t just for scientists,” Jessica Fries-Gaither tells readers aged 3-5 in Wild Wonderings: Scientists and Their Questions. She helps children turn their observations into questions and seek answers. Backstory: www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters #SciWriBooks
Principles of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity (DEI) are as American as apple pie, NASW Member Carlos Hoyt and Minna Ham assert in Diversity Without Divisiveness: A Guide to DEI Practice for K-12 Educators. Learn more: www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
January 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Principles of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity (DEI) are as American as apple pie, NASW Member Carlos Hoyt and Minna Ham assert in Diversity Without Divisiveness: A Guide to DEI Practice for K-12 Educators. Learn more: www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks