Leanne Wiberg

on rare occasions, they have been bound in human skin

I'll be there. That's my birthday, so join me and it will be a party with lots of guests!

ATTN: Barbara A Cohen, Project Scientist at Goddard . . . I can't find a bluesky account using the term "Barbalon" you suggested as your bluesky account in a comment made to the Book a Scientist session, which just closed. I'd love to speak with you.

Thank you for pointing out that this clickbait title is not just an insult; it is a disgrace. Admittedly, newspapers are desperate for readers, but a newspaper editor who cheapens the 25-year-long accomplished career of a science educator is not the way to go.

Impacts on Mars often occur with ground hosting subsurface permafrost. The heat of the collision may have melted that frost, sending a muddy slurry spilling within and around the crater’s rim. That’s one possible explanation for how this cheerful, smile-shaped feature came to be.

Photo of Dr Lindsey Fitzharris standing next to Abraham Lincoln, dead in an upright coffin.

That time I made a dead Abraham Lincoln for my wife's YouTube series.

We did have a lot of fun, didn't we, @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social?

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Free. I’ll get it to you free. It’s a history and a manual in its own way—and it shows the hope of community organizing 100 years ago. Message me.
#Minnesota #ICEout

There are so many people who have written so many things that are so relevant to this moment. They say them much better than me. I think I’m going to start sharing a book a day. My first, @bschillace.brandyschillace.com and The Intermediaries. My heart is so heavy in MN tonight. But there’s hope.

Blank page in a printed book showing an ink drawing of a person with birds at their feet.

😍 Love this fab doodle found in "A right frutefull and approoved treatise, for the artificiall cure of... Struma" by William Clowes, 1602.
#doodle #rarebooks

My approach to Public Engagement of #Science.

#scicomm

That's up there with "The Beach a River of Sand" as a oldie-but-goodie.

A very simple explanation for why politics is broken Entertainment got too good.

America went through a political phase transition... A very simple explanation for why politics is broken. "In today’s America, the less money a white voter has, the more likely they are to support Donald Trump." www.vox.com/politics/475...

Leafcutter ant holds up a large piece of leaf that says "Call for Scientists."

Seeking scientist volunteers for the 2026 spring semester! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? Apply by 1/25. Please share widely. bit.ly/comicscollabspring2026

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🌐 Learn about the Association for Women Geoscientists, an AGI Member Society, which is an international organization devoted to enhancing the quality and level of participation of #women in #geosciences: www.awg.org

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A pair of two little rubber flying axolotles

To be fair if you saw this for £1.75, you would too.

The Intermediaries Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction <br /><br /> A <em>Kirkus Reviews</em> and <em> Boston Globe</em> Best Book of the Year <br /><br /> The fascinating histor...

I #resist in 2026.
When I wrote THE INTERMEDIARIES, I learned how #LGBTQ and #women and #minorities fought Nazis. SO bleak, but they kept going and hoping and I want to as well. Today, this is how #Iresist. I will gift copies/chapters. History shouldn't depend on capitalism to be shared. Contact me

I've been a-blockin' and a-mutin' all afternoon but I want everyone to know that I never block for this reply, though the universe gives me multiple opportunities every day. Many would block, but I have the patience of a saint. Go in peace, little one.

#TOMORROW! The @peculiarbookclub.bsky.social hosts @laminda.bsky.social to talk about "Rise of the Zombie Bugs". It's gonna be a blast!

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Join us for free at @peculiarbookclub.bsky.social on Thursday evening to learn why some cockroaches are simply "living, walking juiceboxes" for wasp larvae. Yum! That's Jan. 8th at 7 pm ET www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbyJ...

The deepest confirmed fish observation occurred at ~8,300 m. I know the shape behind it is another fish’s tail, but my brain insists it looks like the foreground fish is wearing a party hat. #deepsea #marinelife
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My friends in Austria sent this and I can't stop watching...wait for the end. 🤗💜

The Peptide Craze in the US. It's reckless and unfounded.
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Today @nytimes.com @jasmine.bsky.social goes deep into the use in Silicon Valley, the supply from China, and the reasons this biohacking is popular
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The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story A Weimar Story

So. Look. I don’t know if now is the moment. But I wrote about the rise of the Reich. And about resistance, and history, and what we did then to keep ourselves together.

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