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Web mag devoted to the culture of science in fiction and fact since 2005. We promote 'lab lit' fiction (realistic novels about scientists, not science fiction) and all things geek chic. Skeets usually by @hstiles1 http://www.lablit.com [email there]
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Skying here in primarily from dom the obscure @hstiles1.bsky.social with very occasional quips from Dr Jenny @jennyrohn.bsky.social
You can find the email on the Lablit web pages! #booksky
You can find the email on the Lablit web pages! #booksky
Watching Star Trek Strange New Worlds, -I enjoy the characters but so often find other things just daft -
November 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Watching Star Trek Strange New Worlds, -I enjoy the characters but so often find other things just daft -
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Finished Flesh by David Szalay from Booker 25 shortlist today, a compelling read, 4/5 Amazon review, pencil drawn author bookmark, a touch of likeness, as usual, not perfect. 🤪 #BookSky 📚💙 #bookerprize @thebookerprizes.com @jonathancape.bsky.social #art
October 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Finished Flesh by David Szalay from Booker 25 shortlist today, a compelling read, 4/5 Amazon review, pencil drawn author bookmark, a touch of likeness, as usual, not perfect. 🤪 #BookSky 📚💙 #bookerprize @thebookerprizes.com @jonathancape.bsky.social #art
Flesh won it...
“That’s a hell of a novel, IMHO.” -Zadie Smith on ELLE'S Shelf Life. Read Zadie Smith’s 2025 Book Recommendations and learn more about FLESH by David Szalay, finalist for The Booker Prize.
https://bit.ly/3J4KW3W
https://bit.ly/3J4KW3W
The 2025 Novel Zadie Smith Says Surprised Her Most
Plus, more reading recommendations from the Dead and Alive author.
www.elle.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Flesh won it...
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Before the Booker Prize gets announced today, here’s my ranking of the shortlisted novels:
1. Flesh
2. Audition
3. The Rest of Our Lives
4. Flashlight
5. The Land in Winter
6. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
(But #6 is probably going to win)
1. Flesh
2. Audition
3. The Rest of Our Lives
4. Flashlight
5. The Land in Winter
6. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
(But #6 is probably going to win)
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Before the Booker Prize gets announced today, here’s my ranking of the shortlisted novels:
1. Flesh
2. Audition
3. The Rest of Our Lives
4. Flashlight
5. The Land in Winter
6. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
(But #6 is probably going to win)
1. Flesh
2. Audition
3. The Rest of Our Lives
4. Flashlight
5. The Land in Winter
6. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
(But #6 is probably going to win)
Not a black and white answer, tbh. There are five main characters. None of whom are scientists. But one works in an essential but non-scientific capacity for a scientific project.
A sixth character (who IS a scientist) looms large in the narrative, but is ‘off screen’ for nearly all the book.
A sixth character (who IS a scientist) looms large in the narrative, but is ‘off screen’ for nearly all the book.
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
#booksky 💙📚
➡️ From 9:30pm GMT, tune into our live-stream of the winner announcement so you can hear the news as it happens. We'll be streaming here on Instagram Live and on YouTube, so take your pick on where you'd like to join us!
Here's the YouTube link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKu9... (3/3)
Here's the YouTube link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKu9... (3/3)
The Booker Prize 2025 Ceremony Livestream
YouTube video by The Booker Prizes
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
#booksky 💙📚
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A Monday morning question: which book(s) did you spend your weekend with?
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
A Monday morning question: which book(s) did you spend your weekend with?
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📚The BOOKER PRIZE 2025 will be announced tonight at 9.30pm GMT live on the @thebookerprizes.com you tube channel. In the meantime, download our latest episode and listen to us discuss the shortlist and who we think might bag the top spot #BookSky #LitFic #Books #Reading #BookerPrize2025
November 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
📚The BOOKER PRIZE 2025 will be announced tonight at 9.30pm GMT live on the @thebookerprizes.com you tube channel. In the meantime, download our latest episode and listen to us discuss the shortlist and who we think might bag the top spot #BookSky #LitFic #Books #Reading #BookerPrize2025
I think #lablit lite? Anyone read confirm or not...?
💙📚 #booksky Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy now in paperback www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
Wild Dark Shore
A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed …
www.goodreads.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I think #lablit lite? Anyone read confirm or not...?
💙📚 #booksky Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy now in paperback www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
Wild Dark Shore
A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed …
www.goodreads.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
💙📚 #booksky Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy now in paperback www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
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A followup to my video about books that everyone should read. Thinking about who we count as a person changes how we treat the people around us, and this book really asks that question.
🪐📚💙📚💬 #Discworld
🪐📚💙📚💬 #Discworld
November 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
A followup to my video about books that everyone should read. Thinking about who we count as a person changes how we treat the people around us, and this book really asks that question.
🪐📚💙📚💬 #Discworld
🪐📚💙📚💬 #Discworld
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November 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
itiner-e.org Roman all over the place
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We have just a few signed copies of the book Britain's Folklore Year left from last night's event.
It's a really lovely little hardback from @nationaltrust.org.uk publishing, packed with interesting lore and traditions throughout the year and ideal as a gift!
💙📚🪐
#SignedBooks
It's a really lovely little hardback from @nationaltrust.org.uk publishing, packed with interesting lore and traditions throughout the year and ideal as a gift!
💙📚🪐
#SignedBooks
November 8, 2025 at 12:27 PM
We have just a few signed copies of the book Britain's Folklore Year left from last night's event.
It's a really lovely little hardback from @nationaltrust.org.uk publishing, packed with interesting lore and traditions throughout the year and ideal as a gift!
💙📚🪐
#SignedBooks
It's a really lovely little hardback from @nationaltrust.org.uk publishing, packed with interesting lore and traditions throughout the year and ideal as a gift!
💙📚🪐
#SignedBooks
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Biochemical evidence suggests Norse people settled in Iceland almost 70 years before the accepted arrival date of the 870s, and didn't chop down the island's forests
Ancient DNA may rewrite the story of Iceland's earliest settlers
Biochemical evidence suggests Norse people settled in Iceland almost 70 years before the accepted arrival date of the 870s, and didn't chop down the island's forests
www.newscientist.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Biochemical evidence suggests Norse people settled in Iceland almost 70 years before the accepted arrival date of the 870s, and didn't chop down the island's forests
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A Texas leafcutter ant, Atta texana, hauls spring Prunus buds along a tree branch on her way back to the nest.
November 8, 2025 at 1:22 PM
A Texas leafcutter ant, Atta texana, hauls spring Prunus buds along a tree branch on her way back to the nest.
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Recommended read: Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, wrote in the Guardian ahead of COP30 about the need to act “with the urgency the climate crisis demands”.
The era of fine speeches and good intentions is over. Brazil’s Cop30 will be about action | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
This is our message to world leaders: make this the ‘Cop of truth’, before people lose faith, says the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
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November 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Recommended read: Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, wrote in the Guardian ahead of COP30 about the need to act “with the urgency the climate crisis demands”.
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Toms still coming!
November 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Toms still coming!
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Tigers Between Empires is a Pick of the Season at @powells.bsky.social in Portland, Oregon!
November 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Tigers Between Empires is a Pick of the Season at @powells.bsky.social in Portland, Oregon!
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Went into my years-abandoned garden to clear out the old weeds, and lo! Autumn crocus survives!!
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November 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Went into my years-abandoned garden to clear out the old weeds, and lo! Autumn crocus survives!!
😍🤩🥳
💜❤️💜
😍🤩🥳
💜❤️💜
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So did my mother too In Jamaica, that was behind in dentistry, and that was in her 40s. She had so much pain and discomfort with her false teeth. I was too young to understand why she did it.
November 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
So did my mother too In Jamaica, that was behind in dentistry, and that was in her 40s. She had so much pain and discomfort with her false teeth. I was too young to understand why she did it.
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Terrific day @mrclmb.bsky.social - tea, lovely homemade cakes, chats with young and old, signed and sold all the copies of my book (32! should have brought more) and had a lovely time giving a talk about Francis Crick. Thanks to all, especially Shahana Ahmed who organised it all and made the cakes!
November 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Terrific day @mrclmb.bsky.social - tea, lovely homemade cakes, chats with young and old, signed and sold all the copies of my book (32! should have brought more) and had a lovely time giving a talk about Francis Crick. Thanks to all, especially Shahana Ahmed who organised it all and made the cakes!
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The Case Of The Turning Tide by Erle Stanley Gardner (1963)
Cover by Romek Marber
#penguinpaperbacks #booksky #coverdesign
Cover by Romek Marber
#penguinpaperbacks #booksky #coverdesign
November 7, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The Case Of The Turning Tide by Erle Stanley Gardner (1963)
Cover by Romek Marber
#penguinpaperbacks #booksky #coverdesign
Cover by Romek Marber
#penguinpaperbacks #booksky #coverdesign
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Today’s #birdOfTheDay theme is #fighting and I couldn’t not include this pair of battling Black Guillemot from our trip to Norway earlier in the year. #birds #photography #birdPhotography #wildlifePhotography #nature #wildlife #birdsOfTheWorld
November 7, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Today’s #birdOfTheDay theme is #fighting and I couldn’t not include this pair of battling Black Guillemot from our trip to Norway earlier in the year. #birds #photography #birdPhotography #wildlifePhotography #nature #wildlife #birdsOfTheWorld
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It just keeps excelling itself. #taylorswift #thenakedweek @andrewhunterm.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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The Naked Week - Series 3 - 2. Trains, Tice, and Taylor Swift - BBC Sounds
The team shoehorn an agenda, get out of jail free, and Taylor Swift is LIVE IN THE STUDIO!
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM
It just keeps excelling itself. #taylorswift #thenakedweek @andrewhunterm.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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This is a brave stance. I am …much more conflicted.
November 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
This is a brave stance. I am …much more conflicted.