Ingrid Rocket

I'll be doing this tomorrow!

This is one of the coolest things the history and library team at @aip.bsky.social is doing. If you have photos, please consider contributing! Future historians will thank you :)

fascinating (and delicious!!)

Sounds amazing :) ! (pun intended)

About Lisa Welcome! I’m a Chinese American editor, book coach, and ghostwriter based in California’s Central Valley. In a past life, I was a magazine journalist; I wrote for The Davis Enterprise, …

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Agatha Christie learned to surf in the 1920s The famous crime fiction writer was among the first women to ride waves on a surfboard. Agatha Christie learned to surf in 1922 in Muizenberg and Waikiki.

Citation: www.surfertoday.com/surfing/agat...

I recently found out that Agatha Christie enjoyed surfing in Hawaii in the 1920s and now that image will remain rent free in my head.

Science writers reminder! If you need $$ to attend #SciWri25 (virtually in October and/or in-person in Chicago in November), the deadline to apply for grant support is TOMORROW 8/28: sciencewriters2025.org/grants/

Insomnia again and fascinated by "nostalgic" 1990s cake decorating videos in which they think 1990s cakes looked like the MTV logo.

Nope. The 1990s were all about star tips and twee cottage aesthetic.

Thank you for this content :D I have been following you for years (love all your posts about film and doodles) but this really spoke to my 90s heart lol. I didn't know how much I missed these layouts! and these cakes!

Say bye-bye to the beeps and boops of AOL's dial-up internet service AOL debuted the service in 1991. Dial-up has largely been replaced by broadband internet.

Me via NPR on AOL getting rid of dial-up (the soundtrack of the 1990s)

www.npr.org/2025/08/12/n...

Will you do any Bay Area book signings??

One of my work colleagues is excited for this! He's a fan of your work on telescopes!

A Handshake in Orbit 50 Years Ago Transformed the Space Race

Hopeful article with historical insights via historian @historyasif.bsky.social =

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/s...

This one is amazing!! We can get it cheaply in the US at Trader Joes - Only $6!

Portrait of Dr. Katalin Karikó

I Was Considered a Nobody Dr. Kati Karikó spent decades experimenting with mRNA. Her tireless, methodical work was dismissed and she was ridiculed. Then she won a Nobel Prize.

Dr. Katalin Karikó spent decades experimenting with mRNA. She was scoffed at, demoted, and eventually forced to retire. Then, she won the Nobel Prize.

Listen to her story in the first episode of “The Leap,” produced with the @hypothesisfund.bsky.social.

pod.link/73329284/epi...

🎉 The overall winner of this year’s #DanceYourPhD contest is Sulo Roukka, who meshed lab experiments with dance moves under flashing lights as sequined lab mates analyzed hot chilies and mint with fancy footwork.

Watch the winning work and learn more about the category winners: scim.ag/4lSpjCl

I am just so thrilled that you were down for the adventure! :D I can't wait to dive into it! If it isn't too much to ask, I'd love a signed copy!!!

Congrats!!!!!!

SO excited to hear that Brad has been passed! He's an incredible historian and I'm so excited to read whatever he's working on next!

Me and George Clooney

It’s taking me years of research & writing to try and bring Edward R. Murrow back to life with words—but this guy makes it look easy on stage!

Thrilled & grateful that George Clooney took the time to wish me “good night and good luck” before I defend my dissertation about our mutual fascination.

OMG!!!!! THIS MAKES ME SO HAPPY!!!

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How Organizations & Teams Shape Science I am delighted to continue our author interview series with this conversation with sociologist Janet Vertesi. The goal for this interview series is to connect with researchers who are publishing outst...

Just did this interview with American Institute of Physics about my new book, Shaping Science (Chicago, 2020), all about NASA teams and what makes them tick.

www.aip.org/history-prog...

I just showed this to a colleague and she called it a great example of 'outdoor futurism'!

New Sloan grant gives STRUDEL resources to improve tools and expand community - Computing Sciences

Currently, I work at LBNL in the Computing Sciences Area as a technical writer. I love it! I get to write about awesome teams of scientists (like these folks):

Ray Bradbury, luminary of the space age, at 100 A new biography chronicles the golden years of Earth's first martian

As a big fan of Ray Bradbury, I was also really grateful for the opportunity to write this book review in Science:

S is for Science: The making of 3-2-1 Contact The beloved after-school show of the 1980s was the product of a then revolutionary idea: asking children what they wanted in a television science series.

Hello everyone! I'm a science writer and a historian of #scicomm (Princeton, *2018). ✍️ If you're looking to learn more about my past work, you're welcome to deep dive into my past work at my website: ingridockert.com

⭐Here's one of my comprehensive articles, about the history of 3-2-1 Contact! ⭐

Number 1, please!

We're entering year 10 of the Library of Congress project. It's been a gigantic, wonky, surprisingly successful experiment of academic/federal research collaboration.