Julie Nováková

The exhibition might interest @pepikhipik.bsky.social (as Maciej's and Artem's work was an integral part of the recent solarigraphy meeting in Prague).

Tomorrow in Prague: the grand opening of the science art exhibition Circumnavigation in Time!

Experience the passage of time as caught on solarigraphy images by Maciej Zapior, Artem Koval from @czechacademy.bsky.social and colleagues across the globe.

Reservations: rezervace.fzu.cz/exkurze.offe...

Science Fact in Science Fiction: Getting It Right in SFF - Julie Nováková is an award-winning Czech author of science fiction and detective stories. She is also the editor of Life Beyond Us, an anthology pairing SF stories with science fact essays.

Science Fact in Science Fiction: Getting It Right in SFF - Bert-Oliver Boehmer (Panelist): Bert-Oliver Boehmer is a science fiction writer and author of the award-winning novel Three Immortals.

Science Fact in Science Fiction: Getting It Right in SFF - Steven D. Brewer (Panelist): Steven D. Brewer is the author of LGBTQIA+ science fiction and fantasy stories. Science educator, biologist, technology guru, and award-winning author of Esperanto-language haiku, haibun, and prose.

Science Fact in Science Fiction: Getting It Right in SFF - Gabrielle K. Byrne is a book coach and published middle grade fantasy author with 20 years of experience in non-formal science education.

👆 At Quasar, join us for Science Fact in Science Fiction, helmed by @kashinggiwa.bsky.social & featuring @juliannesf.bsky.social, @stevendbrewer.com, @bertoliverboehmer.bsky.social, & @gkbyrne.bsky.social.

We're going to chat about a wide range of ways to integrate science well in our storytelling!

Máme dveře!

V pátek se konferenční pódium na @fzuavcr.bsky.social změní na prkna, která znamenají svět, a těmito dveřmi projde Leo Szilard v podání Miroslava Táborského... ale proč bych vám prozrazovala kam? Přijďte se v pátek v podvečer podívat!

Rezervace míst: rezervace.fzu.cz/exkurze.offe...

Přijměte prosím pozvání na akci Za oponou vědy: Divadelní dny Fyzikálního ústavu AV ČR.

Prostřednictvím divadelních představení, vědeckého stand-upu i tance přibližuje vědu veřejnosti a představuje vědecké příběhy - lidí jako Szilard, Bohr či Heisenberg i jednotlivých buněk nebo částic.

That, and to write some more fiction, comic book storyboards and plays, plus edit anthologies, organize science outreach theatre days... which is why she's back here after a few months' pause (sorry; it really has been a busy time).

I'm very late to this party but this pairing of SF stories with science essays is a hell of a fine concept. Added to the to-buy list.

pozvánka na akci Za oponou vědy

Chyběly mi sociální sítě v době, kdy jsem na nich nebyla?
Ne; chyběly ale mojí práci. Proto...

🎭 Už v pátek a sobotu se konají Divadelní dny @fzuavcr.bsky.social a bude to pecka! Na část představení jsou stále ještě volná místa.

📖 Mám venku i novou knihu. Jak se psala ve třech? O tom někdy příště.

#FyzikaBudoucnosti, antologie sci-fi povídek a článků o budoucnosti fyziky z @fzuavcr.bsky.social a poskládaná
@juliannesf.bsky.social, je jedním z prvních projektů, které jsme podpořili v programu na pomoc popularizačním projektům. A teď už je venku a ke stažení: www.fzu.cz/verejnost/vy...

Jak pokřtít antologii na téma #FyzikaBudoucnosti? 🤔
Jak jinak než kapalným dusíkem!

Celá kniha je volně ke stažení (zatím jako pdf, brzy i epub) na webu @fzuavcr.bsky.social: www.fzu.cz/verejnost/vy...

Video: @pcieslar.bsky.social

Děkujeme @nf-iocbtech.bsky.social za podporu projektu.

It's #EarthDay 🌍, meaning it's also exactly two years since the publication of #LifeBeyondUs!

How do science fiction authors and scientists view the search for life - on Mars, Venus, exoplanets - and all burning questions that go with it?

➡️ read.laksamedia.com/life-beyond-...

Už sedím ve vlaku! V sobotu bohužel už budu pro změnu na #ABCFestival, ale pokud se někdo chystáte na #AFO teď v úterý a středu, ráda vás uvidím!

Okna vesmíru dokořán - Výborná SHOW | Česká televize Planetární vulkanolog Petr Brož — Spisovatelka sci-fi Julie Nováková — Šéfredaktor webu Kosmonautix.cz Dušan Majer

Ke zhlédnutí je díl Výborná show, kde vystupuje jako jeden z hostů náš šéfredaktor Dušan Majer.

Společně s ním jsou dalšími hosty @chmee2.bsky.social a @juliannesf.bsky.social.

www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/16047...

#VýbornáShow s Dušanem Majerem @kosmonautix.cz, @chmee2.bsky.social a mou maličkostí poběží dnes večer na @ceskatelevize.cz (dá se sledovat i online přes iVysílání).

www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/16047...

Bohužel nevím.

Koncem loňského roku konečně anglicky vyšel třetí díl! Zatím se nakladatelství neozvalo, ale doufám, že je v plánu vydat i ten; připomenu se :).

🌌 Today's #AstronomyPictureofTheDay is comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) with its many tails as captured by Martin Mašek and Jakub Kuřák with one of our FRAM telescopes @fzuavcr.bsky.social of @czechacademy.bsky.social.

☄️ Martin Mašek, also using FRAM, also discovered the Christmas comet C/2024 Y1 (Mašek)!

I was happy to highlight some of the outreach and education activities at @fzuavcr.bsky.social and beyond in 2024, and to take a peek into what's coming this year (such as the science edu comics!). Moderating the discussion with our special #InternationalDayofEducation guests was a delight.

With my ebook of LIFE BEYOND US edited by @juliannesf.bsky.social Lucas K. Law and Susan Forest at a NASA astrobiology meeting at #AGU24. My story "Hemlock on Mars" opens the anthology.

Nechcete někdo max 4 lístky na úterý 16:30 na Dlouhého, Širokého a Bystrozrakého?

www.minor.cz/repertoar/dl...

Už jsme viděli a chtěli znovu, ale rýmička. Loutkové, hraje (ano, ta) Antoine Formanová. Je to psáno od 4 let, ale naše malá to viděla ani ne ve 4 a OK.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L4p...

This has been a busy summer! I'm now at #EPSC2024, having presented about using science fiction for science outreach + education and the books #LifeBeyondUs & #StrangestOfAll that we created at the #EuropeanAstrobiologyInstitute, and I spent most of the previous week in Leiden at the Lorentz Center.

The book launch of 'R.U.R. and The Vision of Artificial Life' (ed. Jitka Čejková) is today! Join us in Prague at VŠCHT or online at 3 p.m. CET: cesnet.zoom.us/j/91554584734

I'm happy to have contributed an essay on Čapek's vision of robots replacing human work and on the universal basic income.

Embracing Uncertainty When Searching for Life Beyond Earth Opinion | The many unknowns about detecting life on Mars and other planets shouldn’t undermine support for space exploration.

When we discover signs of alien life one day, they are unlikely to be unambiguous. How do we grapple with communicating this uncertainty to the public without repeating past mistakes?

I dove into this topic in my op-ed in Undark Magazine.

There's nothing quite like having the physical copies of the culmination of a year of work in hand:

#Astrobiology community: How do you view the positives and negatives of future privately-funded astrobiology space missions? Do you expect greater flexibility in terms of community demands, instrumentation? Faster response times? Planetary protection risks? Unclear data handling? etc.

THE DIGITAL AESTHETE: Human Musings on the Intersection of Art and AI is released today! Read stories by Adrian Tchaikovsky and Jane Espenson, with new stories unlocked every week, or buy the ebook or paperback editions now.

future-sf.com

I wonder how much of the radius gap we'll also be able to attribute to chemistry, hydrogen-metal oxides reactions. I recall these two studies, with more upcoming:

iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It's exciting to think of the feedbacks between all the processes!

NASA Data Reveals Possible Reason Some Exoplanets Are Shrinking A new study could explain the ‘missing’ exoplanets between super-Earths and sub-Neptunes.

Congrats to my friend @aussiastronomer.bsky.social for her new research paper and big NASA press release!

www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-da...

Covers of five books on the Tor-com-list.

LIFE BEYOND US anthology is on James D. Nicoll's Tor-dot-com list of 5 must-read SF books published in 2023 - and what an amazing company it's in!

The list: www.tor.com/2023/11/15/f...

Where to find the book: read.laksamedia.com/life-beyond-...

Cover of Life Beyond Us anthology, depicting a stylized version of JWST overlaid with images of life forms.

My latest work: LIFE BEYOND US, #anthology of 27 science fiction stories with 27 companion science essays on different facets of #astrobiology.

More about the book + free educational resources: europeanastrobiology.eu/life-beyond-...