Joanne Manaster
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
- 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 🧪
- Instead of 30 car seats manufactured to exacting US safety standards in China, maybe our beautiful daughters will have just two, but they will cost a few (hundred) bucks more www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
- Not to mention, the administration wants people to have more babies! That so called $5000 incentive check will only help cover tariffs. The mind boggles.
- 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...
- I am sorry. Is this a biography or about biology?
- It’s is about Linnaeus and Buffon, two famous natural scientists, essentially a biography about biologists.
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- Looks interesting! Any chance there’ll be an audiobook?
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- Thanks, Lucy! 🩷 I’m a little behind on the recent releases (had major surgery in mid-March, but recovering well), and will get back to it soon.
- 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....)
- 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
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View full threadOn shelves on March 6, we have Steve Nicholls' book, Steel River: Walking the Tees – A Journey Through Nature in a Human World 🧪 amzn.to/3YFEi90
- Oops, Trees*
- And from March 7, we see from Paul Taylor Fossils: An Essential Guide amzn.to/3DNpaP5
- 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 amzn.to/407qofv
- March 4 brought us a book from researcher @alexbollen.bsky.social Motherdom: Breaking Free of Bad Science and Good Mother Myths 🧪 amzn.to/427lLEU
- 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 🧪 amzn.to/4gK2tKb
- 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) 🧪 amzn.to/4fPC8cj
- 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🧪 amzn.to/3CNQLyR
- 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 🧪 amzn.to/4gBDJmK
- On shelves on March 4 from @chloedalton.bsky.social is Raising Hare: A Memoir 🧪 amzn.to/4e0Su0Q
- 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 🧪 amzn.to/4f2cC3V
- 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
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View full threadFeb 25 brought us a book by @profdasgupta.bsky.social Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins: Lessons on Belonging from Our DNA 🧪 amzn.to/41fgj0A
- Going back a couple of weeks, from Feb 6, we have @helenlpgordon.bsky.social's The Meteorites: Encounters with Outer Space and Deep Time 🧪 amzn.to/4j7plEZ
- From @mitaeroastro.bsky.social professor David Mindell on Feb 25, we see The New Lunar Society: An Enlightenment Guide to the Next Industrial Revolution 🧪 amzn.to/3XeZ0LL
- From Fritz Alwin Breithaupt on Feb 25, we see, The Narrative Brain: The Stories Our Neurons Tell 🧪 amzn.to/4ik179b
- Available as of Feb 25 is @alexclapp.bsky.social's Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash 🧪 amzn.to/3ESNLTa
- On shelves as of Feb 25th from Sturla Henriksen The Ocean: How it has formed our world - and will shape our destiny 🧪 amzn.to/43qGGmK
- From Feb 25th, we have a book by Matthew Weinzierl and Brendan Rosseau: Space to Grow: Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier 🧪 amzn.to/4bnopJ8
- 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 🧪 amzn.to/4a8yRnl
- Excited to read @restingdinoface.bsky.social's newest! On shelves as of Feb 25 is When Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance 🧪 amzn.to/3zwHvhy
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- Thanks for highlighting this. This had me worried, but luckily just now I've been able to access all, which is a relief since I teach a genomics course and we absolutely use these resources. This has been a concern for me since the announcement of the initial NIH stranglehold.
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- Exactly. I absolutely had to read it twice! Good for them, though!
- Starting it today!
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- I can only imagine how stressful that is, given we may have a new future with these diseases. 😞
- Time to check out the #PopSci 📚 releases from the past couple of weeks! 🧵 This book is especially timely for many reasons. From Feb 11, pediatrician @adamratnermd.bsky.social brings us Booster Shots: The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health 🧪 amzn.to/4j4nil3
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- Available as of Feb 18 is a book from author Terry Gibson Disaster Makers: Tackling Unmanaged Growth for Sustainable Futures 🧪 amzn.to/3XeVwZE
- From NatGeo explorer Nalini Nadkarni on Feb 18 we see the release of Tree Notes: A Year in the Company of Trees 🧪 amzn.to/4bh0gnK
- From Feb 18 by @danenroute.bsky.social , we see American Poison: A Deadly Invention and the Woman Who Battled for Environmental Justice 🧪 amzn.to/3QspvtA
- Also released on Feb 18 is psychology professor @profkeonwest.bsky.social 's The Science of Racism: Everything You Need to Know but Probably Don’t―Yet 🧪 amzn.to/43927sx
- On shelves as of Feb 18 is a book by @lydiakang.bsky.social and Nate Pederson Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them 🧪 amzn.to/4fTdbwP
- Available as of Feb 18 is David Gessner's The Book of Flaco: The World's Most Famous Bird 🧪 amzn.to/3EDizac
- From Feb 12, Chemistry educator @drjohnodonoghue.bsky.social brings us Onscreen Chemistry: The Portrayal of Chemical Science in Film and TV 🧪 amzn.to/4gM6HRD
- Moving on to Feb 18, we see a new book from psychologist William von Hippel The Social Paradox: Autonomy, Connection, and Why We Need Both to Find Happiness 🧪 amzn.to/3NKk0VH
- Also on shelves as of Feb 11 is brain surgeon Allan J. Hamilton's CEREBRAL ENTANGLEMENTS: How the Brain Shapes Our Public and Private Lives amzn.to/417IcaL
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- So sorry about the misdirect! Thanks for letting me know.
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View full threadAlso from Feb 4th, we have a book from Charles Pillar, Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer's 🧪 amzn.to/4fqS9FZ
- Another book from Feb 4th in my imminently TBR pile is by veteran automotive reporter Mike Colias Inevitable: Inside the Messy, Unstoppable Transition to Electric Vehicles 🧪 amzn.to/3Elty81
- Hitting shelves on Jan 30 was author David Howe's Science and Sensibility: From the Heavens Above to the Earth Below 🧪 amzn.to/4h2Nxal
- Available as of Feb 4th and cued on audio for me is @neilshubin.bsky.social's latest: Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future 🧪 amzn.to/3YUBq8I
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- Released on Jan 28, we see The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History by @nirarielli.bsky.social who provides a wide view of the history and importance of the lake, including its scientific significance. 🧪 amzn.to/4gJNzU8
