Joanne Manaster

"Chat GPT is not hallucinating, it’s bullshitting,"

ChatGPT is that guy in law school, dangerously wrong, deeply uninformed, and totally sure Debate Team is real life.

Except now, in 2025? Everyone trusts him. www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/11/10/a...

By @cragcrest.bsky.social

if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.

My pleasure! Thanks for writing such engaging books.

My pleasure! Thanks so much for writing these wonderful books.

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

amzn.to/4nD8Txh or
bookshop.org/a/97643/9798...

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.

amzn.to/4i1qA8N or
bookshop.org/a/97643/9780...

I was so excited for this book that I accidentally pre-ordered an audiobook AND an e-book!

Meet the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize winners The annual award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and the 24/7 lectures.

For a little escape, I invite you to read about the amusing 2025 Ignobels.

arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Autism Has No Single Cause. Here’s How We Know Scientists will not find a simple answer to how autism arises, despite Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s promise to announce its causes sometime this month. Here’s what makes the condition so staggeringly comp...

Scientists will not find a simple answer to how autism arises, despite Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s promise to announce its causes sometime this month. Here’s what makes the condition so staggeringly complex

Are We Losing Our Minds? A new position paper warns against the uncritical adoption of AI in academia

A position paper urging academia to be critical of AI technologies is an excellent wake-up call. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @olivia.science
www.the-geyser.com/are-we-losin...

Front cover. Lively museum scene with Martians running around.

People, get ready for the launch of.. ‘THE MARTIAN MUSEUM OF EARTH ANIMALS’. This is my book with the amazing Matt Hunt c/o @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social.

One Martian museum. One school sleepover. One mysterious intruder. What could go wrong? ...

Public Broadcasters Brace for Vote on Sharp Funding Cut

This week will be pivotal for the future of PBS and NPR, as the Senate plans to vote on ~$1.1 billion in funding.

I spoke to station directors in South Dakota and Alaska about what this could mean:

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

I’ve been spending this first week of my summer undergrad course telling students to NOT do this! Proper citations, always.

"And when the catnip wore off, it was in here."

Gray and white long haired cat sitting next to a barbell with 40 pounds of weights on it.

This picture of Groucho (RIP 2021) is "weighting" for a caption.

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

#caturday

Just saw mine, too!

Not this one, but certainly others of his!

R/V Sikuliaq in port in Seward, Alaska in May 2022

#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 🧪

cires.colorado.edu/news/satelli...

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

🧪

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.

It’s is about Linnaeus and Buffon, two famous natural scientists, essentially a biography about biologists.

May is starting off with some exciting new books! Get excited to add these books to your reading list.

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...

If you love your library, listen up…

We are witnessing the destruction of science in America | Paul Darren Bieniasz If we stay on this administration’s course, future life-saving medicines may never be invented

"Science in the US is entering a phase resembling the Lysenko era in the Soviet Union."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Even more songs to calm the nerves : All Songs Considered Our third installment of calming songs includes Max Richter's tribute to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ambient sounds from Ryuichi Sakamoto, Brazilian jazz from Wayne Shorter and more.Fea...

"Even more songs to calm the nerves" from NPR www.npr.org/2025/04/08/1...

Looks interesting! Any chance there’ll be an audiobook?

More Everything Forever This "wild and utterly engaging narrative" (Melanie Mitchell) shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death,...

What the hell happened to Silicon Valley?

No matter how closely you think you've been paying attention, the truth is far weirder and way more disturbing than you imagine.

I just read @adambecker.bsky.social's new book in proof and it's a gripping, spine-chilling story.

Out April 22—preorder now!

A gray wolf clone with dire wolf DNA edits.

It's not a dire wolf. It's a gray wolf clone with 20 dire-wolf gene edits, and with some dire wolf traits. And here's my story! Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/s...

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.