Tisse Takagi
@tissetakagi.bsky.social
rhymes with Lisa. nonfiction book editor. opinions my own.
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THE @imaniperry.bsky.social on When Trees Testify (@henryholtbooks.bsky.social):
A beautiful journey through the imagination & intellect of one of our most important contemporary science writer...an inheritor of the Black ecological tradition, who brings her heart & knowledge to bear on the world...
A beautiful journey through the imagination & intellect of one of our most important contemporary science writer...an inheritor of the Black ecological tradition, who brings her heart & knowledge to bear on the world...
November 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
THE @imaniperry.bsky.social on When Trees Testify (@henryholtbooks.bsky.social):
A beautiful journey through the imagination & intellect of one of our most important contemporary science writer...an inheritor of the Black ecological tradition, who brings her heart & knowledge to bear on the world...
A beautiful journey through the imagination & intellect of one of our most important contemporary science writer...an inheritor of the Black ecological tradition, who brings her heart & knowledge to bear on the world...
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Check out the cover for our inaugural title, @kevinhartnett.bsky.social’s THE PROOF IN THE CODE, coming June 9, 2026! Shoutout @fsgbooks.bsky.social for the beautiful design. Want a copy of your own? You can now preorder here: us.macmillan.com/books/978037....
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Check out the cover for our inaugural title, @kevinhartnett.bsky.social’s THE PROOF IN THE CODE, coming June 9, 2026! Shoutout @fsgbooks.bsky.social for the beautiful design. Want a copy of your own? You can now preorder here: us.macmillan.com/books/978037....
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I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...
When We Devalue Art (Books!) We Devalue the Future
When you’ve spent your whole adult life working in and around book publishing you get used to hearing that people don’t read anymore and that the industry is on its last legs. There is always a cri…
lithub.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...
"The Future of Truth, then, might be thought of as a book about how people need to embrace what few remaining opportunities we have to act like mad penguins, before we all become like pigs stuck in quadrilateral sewers."
Werner Herzog’s New Book Tackles The Problem Of Truth | Defector
You might think of Werner Herzog’s new book, The Future of Truth, as the story of two animals. On the front cover, you see the silhouette of a lone penguin, somewhere in the middle distance, setting ...
defector.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
"The Future of Truth, then, might be thought of as a book about how people need to embrace what few remaining opportunities we have to act like mad penguins, before we all become like pigs stuck in quadrilateral sewers."
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
October 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
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i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
October 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
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There are no words for Sudan-- the "blood bath" conclusion marks the complete failure of the international community. This is a horrific situation & like so many other wars, I doubt there will be justice for these survivors & their families.
Sudan siege ends in bloodbath despite pleas for mercy
Evidence emerges of atrocities committed by the paramilitary RSF after it seized control of El Fasher
www.ft.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
There are no words for Sudan-- the "blood bath" conclusion marks the complete failure of the international community. This is a horrific situation & like so many other wars, I doubt there will be justice for these survivors & their families.
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According to the theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli, there is no such thing as objective reality — only perspectives. In a conversation with @zacksavitsky.bsky.social and a new video, Rovelli shares his own perspective on the nature of our world. www.quantamagazine.org/carlo-rovell...
October 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
According to the theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli, there is no such thing as objective reality — only perspectives. In a conversation with @zacksavitsky.bsky.social and a new video, Rovelli shares his own perspective on the nature of our world. www.quantamagazine.org/carlo-rovell...
Allow me to crow about Katy O'Donnell, my dear friend, all-around brilliant person, and best editor in the biz!
PW Star Watch 2025 Finalist: Katy O’Donnell
The editorial director of Haymarket Books, O'Donnell has embraced the publishers political mission and tweaked the house's publishing program, resulting in two recent New York Times bestsellers and a ...
www.publishersweekly.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Allow me to crow about Katy O'Donnell, my dear friend, all-around brilliant person, and best editor in the biz!
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ALL Haymarket EBooks are 80% off through November 7th ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽
Haymarket Ebooks on sale for $2!
At Haymarket, our mission is to publish books that contribute to struggles for social and economic justice. We strive to make our books a vibrant and organic part of social movements, and we believe t...
www.haymarketbooks.org
October 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
ALL Haymarket EBooks are 80% off through November 7th ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽
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is being into birds just having a dinosaur phase but for grown-ups
October 27, 2025 at 11:44 AM
is being into birds just having a dinosaur phase but for grown-ups
This!!! "you will be intellectually transformed by the process of reckoning with the knowledge these courses are about."
I'd add that the memory of how this transformation *feels* is as important; I still hang onto the visceral satisfaction & pleasure of learning voice leading in AP music theory
I'd add that the memory of how this transformation *feels* is as important; I still hang onto the visceral satisfaction & pleasure of learning voice leading in AP music theory
October 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This!!! "you will be intellectually transformed by the process of reckoning with the knowledge these courses are about."
I'd add that the memory of how this transformation *feels* is as important; I still hang onto the visceral satisfaction & pleasure of learning voice leading in AP music theory
I'd add that the memory of how this transformation *feels* is as important; I still hang onto the visceral satisfaction & pleasure of learning voice leading in AP music theory
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In terms of process, I enjoy writing but revising????? Oh, that’s my real kink. A second or third draft???? A fourth???? Making tweaks on my desktop AND my phone???? *moans* I’m a WHORE for revision.
October 20, 2025 at 2:05 AM
In terms of process, I enjoy writing but revising????? Oh, that’s my real kink. A second or third draft???? A fourth???? Making tweaks on my desktop AND my phone???? *moans* I’m a WHORE for revision.
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I call it “joyful rigor” when I explain this effort to my students. I don’t believe in or rather, I’m not a “suffering poet.” I’m a writer who enjoys writing. The work works on me and I’m grateful for the opportunity to delve into the process at my own pace and to be changed by it.
That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually.
The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.
The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.
In terms of process, I enjoy writing but revising????? Oh, that’s my real kink. A second or third draft???? A fourth???? Making tweaks on my desktop AND my phone???? *moans* I’m a WHORE for revision.
October 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I call it “joyful rigor” when I explain this effort to my students. I don’t believe in or rather, I’m not a “suffering poet.” I’m a writer who enjoys writing. The work works on me and I’m grateful for the opportunity to delve into the process at my own pace and to be changed by it.
Devin Kelly's poetry newsletter is a weekly salve against inhumanity: "Some days, I can think of nothing better than to be like a clam"
Mary Oliver's "Clam"
Thoughts on clams.
ordinaryplots.substack.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Devin Kelly's poetry newsletter is a weekly salve against inhumanity: "Some days, I can think of nothing better than to be like a clam"
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Had never read Jane Goodall's original 1963 article in Nat Geo on the wild chimpanzees in Tanzania until now. It's a wonderful blend of science and journalism, and well worth your time.
www.nationalgeographic.com/pdf/jane-goo...
www.nationalgeographic.com/pdf/jane-goo...
October 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Had never read Jane Goodall's original 1963 article in Nat Geo on the wild chimpanzees in Tanzania until now. It's a wonderful blend of science and journalism, and well worth your time.
www.nationalgeographic.com/pdf/jane-goo...
www.nationalgeographic.com/pdf/jane-goo...
so I thought I knew how greenhouse gases worked but this brilliant @quantamagazine.bsky.social explainer on the underlying quantum mechanics showed--as ever!--that there's so much more to know
The Quantum Mechanics of Greenhouse Gases | Quanta Magazine
Earth’s radiation can send some molecules spinning or vibrating, which is what makes them greenhouse gases. This infographic explains how relatively few heat-trapping molecules can have a planetary ef...
www.quantamagazine.org
September 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
so I thought I knew how greenhouse gases worked but this brilliant @quantamagazine.bsky.social explainer on the underlying quantum mechanics showed--as ever!--that there's so much more to know
This @jenkabat.bsky.social essay on MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN—one of the great wilderness novels—made me so happy today
My Side of the Mountain - Orion Magazine
On Jean Craighead George’s most famous book, Walden’s legacy, and the dream of togetherness
orionmagazine.org
August 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
This @jenkabat.bsky.social essay on MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN—one of the great wilderness novels—made me so happy today
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#GravitationalWaves provide a unique way to study black holes
This Orrery (by Zoheyr Doctor) illustrates the diverse black hole binaries and neutron star black–hole binaries from our O3b run. More massive binaries are shown as orbiting more slowly
#BlackHoleWeek 🔭
This Orrery (by Zoheyr Doctor) illustrates the diverse black hole binaries and neutron star black–hole binaries from our O3b run. More massive binaries are shown as orbiting more slowly
#BlackHoleWeek 🔭
May 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
#GravitationalWaves provide a unique way to study black holes
This Orrery (by Zoheyr Doctor) illustrates the diverse black hole binaries and neutron star black–hole binaries from our O3b run. More massive binaries are shown as orbiting more slowly
#BlackHoleWeek 🔭
This Orrery (by Zoheyr Doctor) illustrates the diverse black hole binaries and neutron star black–hole binaries from our O3b run. More massive binaries are shown as orbiting more slowly
#BlackHoleWeek 🔭
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It is World Quantum Day, so apt to note that yesterday Bryn Mawr College unveiled a new plaque to mark Dr. Emmy Noether’s resting place. She died OTD in 1935. Bryn Mawr welcomed this refugee mathematician when other institutions balked at hosting a woman, no matter how eminent.
April 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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