Joanne Manaster
@sciencegoddess.bsky.social
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! https://www.facebook.com/ReadScience
Website: http://joannelovesscience.com
Read Science! https://www.facebook.com/ReadScience
Website: http://joannelovesscience.com
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"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
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
The Last Word On Nothing | AI is Full of Bullshit. Now It’s Faking Science
www.lastwordonnothing.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
"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
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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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.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
November 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
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...
amzn.to/4i1qA8N or
bookshop.org/a/97643/9780...
November 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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...
amzn.to/4i1qA8N or
bookshop.org/a/97643/9780...
I was so excited for this book that I accidentally pre-ordered an audiobook AND an e-book!
It's finally here! "Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves From the Tyranny of the Automobile" is now available wherever you buy books. Thank you to everyone who has made this day possible, including our amazing podcast listeners. We hope everyone finds the book valuable!
www.lifeaftercars.com
www.lifeaftercars.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I was so excited for this book that I accidentally pre-ordered an audiobook AND an e-book!
For a little escape, I invite you to read about the amusing 2025 Ignobels.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Meet the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize winners
The annual award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and the 24/7 lectures.
arstechnica.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
For a little escape, I invite you to read about the amusing 2025 Ignobels.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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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
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...
www.scientificamerican.com
September 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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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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...
www.the-geyser.com/are-we-losin...
Are We Losing Our Minds?
A new position paper warns against the uncritical adoption of AI in academia
www.the-geyser.com
September 9, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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...
www.the-geyser.com/are-we-losin...
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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? ...
One Martian museum. One school sleepover. One mysterious intruder. What could go wrong? ...
July 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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? ...
One Martian museum. One school sleepover. One mysterious intruder. What could go wrong? ...
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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...
I spoke to station directors in South Dakota and Alaska about what this could mean:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/b...
Public Broadcasters Brace for Vote on Sharp Funding Cut
www.nytimes.com
July 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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...
I spoke to station directors in South Dakota and Alaska about what this could mean:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/b...
#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...
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...
May 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
#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...
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...
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
🧪
Cross fingers for #4 to hatch safely, too!
#birds 🐦 #mothersday
🧪
May 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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
🧪
Cross fingers for #4 to hatch safely, too!
#birds 🐦 #mothersday
🧪
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May is starting off with some exciting new books! Get excited to add these books to your reading list.
May 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
May is starting off with some exciting new books! Get excited to add these books to your reading list.
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...
As a biologist, naturally I read it and can attest this book deserves this recognition. 🧪 💙📚
bookshop.org/a/97643/9781...
May 6, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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...
As a biologist, naturally I read it and can attest this book deserves this recognition. 🧪 💙📚
bookshop.org/a/97643/9781...
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If you love your library, listen up…
April 15, 2025 at 1:45 AM
If you love your library, listen up…
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"Science in the US is entering a phase resembling the Lysenko era in the Soviet Union."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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
www.theguardian.com
April 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"Science in the US is entering a phase resembling the Lysenko era in the Soviet Union."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"Even more songs to calm the nerves" from NPR www.npr.org/2025/04/08/1...
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...
www.npr.org
April 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
"Even more songs to calm the nerves" from NPR www.npr.org/2025/04/08/1...
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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!
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!
More Everything Forever
This "wild and utterly engaging narrative" (Melanie Mitchell) shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death,...
www.hachettebookgroup.com
April 8, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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!
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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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...
April 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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...
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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
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
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.
www.nytimes.com
April 4, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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
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
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....)
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
(more recent science 🧪 📚 releases soon....)
March 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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....)
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
(more recent science 🧪 📚 releases soon....)
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
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
March 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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
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
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
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
March 3, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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
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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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
🦊🐻❄️ #Mammals #MarineMammals
February 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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
🦊🐻❄️ #Mammals #MarineMammals
Starting it today!
Today is the day! AIR-BORNE is out. Thanks to the Associated Press for this review, calling the book "gripping"--"reads like a combination of detective and horror stories." 🧪https://apnews.com/article/book-review-airborne-zimmer-1adb7f2db55012be5f0d383d5908f3cc
February 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Starting it today!