Liz Wheatley
@lizwiz.bsky.social
Escapee from X, but still shy and retiring! Lover of family, food, fiction, and felines
This is from the (London) Times today, and I love it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
This is from the (London) Times today, and I love it.
Reposted by Liz Wheatley
A halloween cartoon for @newscientist.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:27 AM
A halloween cartoon for @newscientist.com
Just doing a word puzzle, in which DESERT and DESSERT are both acceptable answers. But which means what - is there an easy way to remember?
October 8, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Just doing a word puzzle, in which DESERT and DESSERT are both acceptable answers. But which means what - is there an easy way to remember?
The wonderful Allan Ahlberg died yesterday. There's an obituary in The (London) Times. Also the Guardian.
August 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The wonderful Allan Ahlberg died yesterday. There's an obituary in The (London) Times. Also the Guardian.
WOW!
This is the company that publishes Nature, the most prestigious scientific journal in the world.
Getting published in it is the highlight of a scientist's career.
The Trump admin isn't at war with "junk science." It's at war with science.
Getting published in it is the highlight of a scientist's career.
The Trump admin isn't at war with "junk science." It's at war with science.
Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature
At first, NIH told me its contracts with SN were active and that they help “advance scientific discovery”.
Hours later, HHS said the opposite: "Precious taxpayer dollars should not be used on unused subscriptions to junk science.”
At first, NIH told me its contracts with SN were active and that they help “advance scientific discovery”.
Hours later, HHS said the opposite: "Precious taxpayer dollars should not be used on unused subscriptions to junk science.”
July 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
WOW!
Beautiful story with amazing animation:
June 29, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Beautiful story with amazing animation:
@scalzi.com Did you by any chance catch the article by David Farrier in the Guardian on Sunday? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... ?
Or perhaps you were already aware of the research before writing Starter Villain...
Or perhaps you were already aware of the research before writing Starter Villain...
We’re close to translating animal languages – what happens then?
AI may soon be able to decode whalespeak, among other forms of communication – but what nature has to say may not be a surprise
www.theguardian.com
June 2, 2025 at 10:27 AM
@scalzi.com Did you by any chance catch the article by David Farrier in the Guardian on Sunday? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... ?
Or perhaps you were already aware of the research before writing Starter Villain...
Or perhaps you were already aware of the research before writing Starter Villain...
Piece in the (London) Times today about more children playing the ukulele in school music lessons rather than the recorder
Also includes the slightly surprising factoid that Henry VIII had 76 recorders!
Also includes the slightly surprising factoid that Henry VIII had 76 recorders!
April 30, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Piece in the (London) Times today about more children playing the ukulele in school music lessons rather than the recorder
Also includes the slightly surprising factoid that Henry VIII had 76 recorders!
Also includes the slightly surprising factoid that Henry VIII had 76 recorders!
This looks fantastic: www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
Solar-powered device captures carbon dioxide from air to make sustainable fuel
Researchers have developed a reactor that pulls carbon dioxide directly from the air and converts it into sustainable fuel, using sunlight as the power source.
www.cam.ac.uk
March 18, 2025 at 10:20 AM
This looks fantastic: www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
Woke up from a vivid dream in which we discovered hippos had burrowed under our house. Pretty weird in Surrey!
February 16, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Woke up from a vivid dream in which we discovered hippos had burrowed under our house. Pretty weird in Surrey!
Echoes of Edward Hopper...
Paper copy of my latest @newyorker.com cover. On newsstands now.
February 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Echoes of Edward Hopper...
@JoLidds There's a review of The Bookseller by Tim Sullivan
(pub. Head of Zeus) in the Times today
(pub. Head of Zeus) in the Times today
January 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
@JoLidds There's a review of The Bookseller by Tim Sullivan
(pub. Head of Zeus) in the Times today
(pub. Head of Zeus) in the Times today
Loving the news in today's (London) Times that one may soon be able to buy an *electric* Austin 7!
Here's one we had earlier:
Here's one we had earlier:
January 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Loving the news in today's (London) Times that one may soon be able to buy an *electric* Austin 7!
Here's one we had earlier:
Here's one we had earlier:
Clever stuff! Meanwhile you need to read The Cat Who Saved Books, by Sosuke Natsukawa, which is very relevant
My new year’s resolution generator for @theguardian.com. Let me know what you get!
January 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Clever stuff! Meanwhile you need to read The Cat Who Saved Books, by Sosuke Natsukawa, which is very relevant
@JoLidds
Jasper Fforde is now on Blue Sky. I work full time as an on-demand taxi service for my teenage daughters. Side hustles: Best Seller Author, Aviator, ex-film crew, wet chemistry photography. Picture: Welsh lake in fog..
January 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
@JoLidds
Important news story on CBBC: www.bbc.com/newsround/ar...
Stop sticking googly eyes on sculptures says US city
After googly eyes started appearing on sculptures, a US city council put out a request.
www.bbc.com
December 17, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Important news story on CBBC: www.bbc.com/newsround/ar...
@jolidds.bsky.social See - even the best known authors need Sales and Marketing depts!
YES THIS. I am sooooooo happy my publisher has marketing and publicity departments because the thought of everything I would have to do to make sales makes me want to nap until the very day I am on my deathbed.
Tbf, once anyone who's paid £5k to self-publish finds out what an impossible, demoralising, anxiety-inducing ball-ache it is to make even one person buy a book, I suspect the number of authors willing to pay will very rapidly dry up. Big name authors with vast publishing houses behind them struggle.
November 25, 2024 at 3:29 PM
@jolidds.bsky.social See - even the best known authors need Sales and Marketing depts!
Enjoying the "lost stories" of Terry Pratchett in A Stroke of the Pen, especially the one in which Father Christmas retires to the Costa Bombe!
June 29, 2024 at 4:19 PM
Enjoying the "lost stories" of Terry Pratchett in A Stroke of the Pen, especially the one in which Father Christmas retires to the Costa Bombe!
@ginbrogueshats.bsky.social @wheatles.bsky.social Talking of talking cats, there are more in Dead Boy Detectives. Are you watching?
May 22, 2024 at 6:27 PM
@ginbrogueshats.bsky.social @wheatles.bsky.social Talking of talking cats, there are more in Dead Boy Detectives. Are you watching?
@wheatles.bsky.social @ginbrogueshats.bsky.social Following our chat re talking cats in John Scalzi books yesterday, I remembered other great talking cats in Pratchet tales (tails?) e.g. the Amazing Maurice, and the Long Earth series with Stephen Baxter. Not to mention Old Possum's Practical Cats...
May 20, 2024 at 10:36 AM
@wheatles.bsky.social @ginbrogueshats.bsky.social Following our chat re talking cats in John Scalzi books yesterday, I remembered other great talking cats in Pratchet tales (tails?) e.g. the Amazing Maurice, and the Long Earth series with Stephen Baxter. Not to mention Old Possum's Practical Cats...
@shouldhavecat.bsky.social Why you should have TWO cats
February 19, 2024 at 11:31 AM
@shouldhavecat.bsky.social Why you should have TWO cats