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Mindy Weisberger

@laminda.bsky.social

Science writer/editor, bylines at CNN, Live Science, SciAm. Previously at Scholastic and the American Museum of Natural History. WGAE member. She/her. Author of Rise of the Zombie Bugs https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/53677/rise-zombie-bugs

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Mindy Weisberger@laminda.bsky.social · 2d ago

Do you like booze, books and zombies? My upcoming conversation with @nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social at @bklynbooksbooze.bsky.social (Sept 19, 2pm ET) may be just what you're looking for 🍺📚🧟‍♀️

Nicholas Kaufmann@nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social · 2d ago

On Saturday, September 19th, come by the @bklynbooksbooze.bsky.social Author Book Fair 2, where I'll be selling books along with my tablemate @jfoster.bsky.social! Plus, at 2 PM, I'll be in conversation with @laminda.bsky.social about her science book RISE OF THE ZOMBIE BUGS! Don't miss it!

Mindy Weisberger@laminda.bsky.social · 4d ago

Introduce yourself with 10 acts you’ve seen live: The Pixies Gwar Sonic Youth Ray Charles Marianne Faithfull They Might Be Giants Johnny Cash Billy Bragg Dee-Lite The Lunachicks

Diane Ademu-John@junkyardmessiah.bsky.social · 5d ago

Introduce yourself with 10 acts you’ve seen live: Prince The Pogues The Cure The Killers Adam and the Ants Iggy and the Stooges The White Stripes Erykah Badu Duran Duran James Brown (yes, James Brown!) …and of course Depeche Mode

Mindy Weisberger@laminda.bsky.social · 5d ago

Back from the Netherlands & hoping to keep honing my Dutch by reading more. Most of the excess weight in my suitcase was thrifted books: a nature guide, pop science, classic recipes, a brief history of clogs, modern romance, kids' books, comics and a few vintage issues of MAD

A pile of Dutch books and magazines on a white table. Titles, clockwise: "De Leerling Smurf," "Garfield Schiet Raak," "Op de Koken," "Het Klein Klompenboek," "Verboden Liefde Voor de Kroonprins," "Dieren en Planten Gids," "De Veerman van Den Briel," "De Vijf en het Spionage-mysterie," "Waroom Willen We Alles Weten?" and MAD Magazine.
Maggie Tokuda-Hall@maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 6d ago

earnest request: if you have kids in your life ages 3-8 whose interest in STEM you'd like to encourage, by all means please consider preordering WHAT DO PEOPLE DO AT THE SCIENCE MUSEUM. if you preorder by Monday I'll sign it for 'em. mrsdalloways.com/book/9781452...

What Do People Do at the Science Museum?

A fun, vibrantly illustrated behind-the-scenes tour of the inner workings of a natural history museum and all the incredible people who work there! Welcome to the Science and Natural History Museum! H...

mrsdalloways.com

Mindy Weisberger@laminda.bsky.social · 7d ago

"Dolly is taking this trope that is typically about women hating on women. Instead, she snuck in a song that is all about women loving other women. Instead of hating this woman or vilifying her for being able to take her man, she's exalting her for all the reasons that she's able to take her man"

The Only One For Me, Jolene | Dolly Parton's America | WNYC Studios

One of Dolly’s most iconic and successful songs is “Jolene,” a song about a romantic rival trying to steal her man... but, what if it isn't?

wnycstudios.org

Mindy Weisberger@laminda.bsky.social · last wk.

Photos for vaccine coverage shape a story's impact, and vax pix CAN be positive! The American Academy of Pediatrics has a library of images showing kids getting vaccinated, and nobody is crying or looks upset. They're free for all to use www.aap.org/en/news-room... 📷: Heather Hazzan, SELF Magazine

A child in a doctor's exam room receiving a vaccination. She appears relaxed and is smiling.A young child sits in her mother's lap as a doctor in orange scrubs swabs her arm in preparation for vaccination. Everyone is smiling.A child sits on an exam table as a doctor prepares to give him a vaccine. He looks resigned, but is smiling slightly and does not appear to be frightened or upset.A child sits on an exam table, smiling at the camera. He has a band-aid on his upper left arm.
Mindy Weisberger@laminda.bsky.social · last wk.

While I appreciate the coverage of this important public health story, news editors may want to consider what message they're sending about vaccination when they choose photos associating vaccines with pain

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.@sarahmackattack.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm making a "your month your scientist match" and I need a chemist and physicist volunteer, everybody I know well enough to text "Hey uhhh can I post this picture of you I took on skype a scientist's insta" are biologists apparently 😅. Any takers?

Starbucks Workers United@sbworkersunited.org · last wk.

🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:

BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting. What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it. Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. No Contract? No Coffee.
Mindy Weisberger@laminda.bsky.social · last wk.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar would be a very, very different children's book if it had been about one of these insect-devouring beasties

Judith A.H. Smit@judithsmit.bsky.social · 2w ago

Caterpillars eat plants, right? 🌿 Not always, some are carnivorous! 🥩🐛 Our new paper documents the life history, behavior, and vibrations of Juditha odites. It feeds on treehoppers, then moves into ant nests to consume ant brood! 🐜🐛🦋 link.springer.com/article/10.1... @insectessociaux.bsky.social

Mindy Weisberger@laminda.bsky.social · 2w ago

When you cover bizarre medical case reports for @livescience.com, it takes a lot to surprise you. Gentle reader, this one leapfrogged right over "surprising" and landed squarely on WTAF OMFG 🧪

Diagnostic dilemma: Doctors performed surgery to remove a mass in a woman's gut ‪—‬ and a bug-like creature immediately jumped out

In a strange case, doctors removed a mass from a woman's digestive tract and encountered a live organism they didn't expect.

livescience.com

Mindy Weisberger@laminda.bsky.social · 2w ago

Saturday is for Playing With Dead Things, an incredible group exhibit from experimental visual art initiative/art education nonprofit LINK in Zwolle, NL. Held in a 15th-century building—one of Zwolle's oldest—it features installations by Folkert de Jong, Max Onink and Elle van Baaren www.l-i-n-k.nl

Mindy Weisberger@laminda.bsky.social · 2w ago

The light in the Netherlands really IS different (cooler? Less intense?) from light in the eastern US. This was the view yesterday from the pier in Scheveningen, after a brief rain shower

A high-angle view of a sandy beach with the ocean on the right, under a pale blue sky dotted with white clouds. The tide is out and shallow pools of water on the beach reflect the sun. Silhouettes of people and gulls are scattered along the shoreline.