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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 🧪📚💙
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Website: http://joannelovesscience.com
I've enjoyed every book written by @elizkolbert.bsky.social and am excited that today she has a new book out! Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World

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November 4, 2025 at 4:24 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.

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November 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This picture of Groucho (RIP 2021) is "weighting" for a caption.

I'll start: "I've coughed up hairballs heavier than this."

#caturday
June 7, 2025 at 10:27 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 🧪

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May 22, 2025 at 9:36 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

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May 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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. 🧪 💙📚

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May 6, 2025 at 2:31 AM
And from March 7, we see from Paul Taylor

Fossils: An Essential Guide

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March 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
On shelves on March 6, we have Steve Nicholls' book,

Steel River: Walking the Tees – A Journey Through Nature in a Human World 🧪

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March 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
March 4 brought us a book from researcher @alexbollen.bsky.social

Motherdom: Breaking Free of Bad Science and Good Mother Myths 🧪

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March 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
On March 4, we saw the release of a book by Professor @ciaragreene.bsky.social and lecturer @gillian-murphy.bsky.social

Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember

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March 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
From March 4, Author Maja Bak Herrie, who works with media theory and philosophy of science brought us

Thinking Through Data: How Outliers, Aggregates, and Patterns Shape Perception (Sensing Media: Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Cultures of Media) 🧪

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March 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
For fans of the history of science, we have this new book from March 4 by historian and writer Violet Moller

Inside the Stargazer's Palace: The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Europe 🧪

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March 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Always love a great adventure book!

From March 4 we see a book from @cassidyrandall.bsky.social :

Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women's Ascent of Denali 🧪

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March 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I read and enjoyed a galley of this book!

Available as of March 4 is a book from Jennifer Lucy Allen

Clay: A Human History🧪

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March 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Available as of March 4 from author Sophie Strand, we see

The Body Is a Doorway: A Memoir: A Journey Beyond Healing, Hope, and the Human 🧪

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March 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
On shelves on March 4 from @chloedalton.bsky.social is

Raising Hare: A Memoir 🧪

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March 10, 2025 at 3:52 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 🧪

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March 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Going back a couple of weeks, from Feb 6, we have @helenlpgordon.bsky.social's

The Meteorites: Encounters with Outer Space and Deep Time 🧪

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March 3, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Feb 25 brought us a book by @profdasgupta.bsky.social

Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins: Lessons on Belonging from Our DNA 🧪

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March 3, 2025 at 3:35 AM
From Fritz Alwin Breithaupt on Feb 25, we see,

The Narrative Brain: The Stories Our Neurons Tell 🧪

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March 3, 2025 at 3:27 AM
From @mitaeroastro.bsky.social professor David Mindell on Feb 25, we see

The New Lunar Society: An Enlightenment Guide to the Next Industrial Revolution 🧪

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March 3, 2025 at 3:23 AM
On shelves as of Feb 25th from Sturla Henriksen

The Ocean: How it has formed our world - and will shape our destiny 🧪

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March 3, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Available as of Feb 25 is @alexclapp.bsky.social's

Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash 🧪

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March 3, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I have this book from the library, and it is fabulous! From Feb 25th, we see Nia Imara's

Painting the Cosmos: How Art and Science Intersect to Reveal the Secrets of the Universe 🧪

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March 3, 2025 at 2:55 AM
From Feb 25th, we have a book by Matthew Weinzierl and Brendan Rosseau:

Space to Grow: Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier 🧪

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March 3, 2025 at 2:41 AM