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LabLit.com

@lablit.bsky.social

Web mag devoted to the culture of science in fiction and fact since 2005. We promote 'lab lit' fiction (realistic novels about scientists, not science fiction) and all things geek chic. Skeets usually by @hstiles1 http://www.lablit.com [email there]

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LabLit.com@lablit.bsky.social · 8h ago

@notjustdna.bsky.social a scientist from your part of the world was one of these... Dr Arna Mitchell "challenged the evidence base and recommendations of an official report into systemic racism in New Zealand psychology." On www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

BBC Radio 4 - BBC Inside Science, The race to protect a third of the world

Time is running out for one of the most ambitious environmental pledges in history.

bbc.co.uk

LabLit.com@lablit.bsky.social · 8h ago

You can hear interviews of the three scientists commended by Sense About Science on the last three episodes of the Radio 4 Science Now - available as a podcast to download www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w... #MaddoxPrize

LabLit.com@lablit.bsky.social · 8h ago

You can hear interviews of the three scientists commended by Sense About Science on the last three episodes of the Radio 4 Science Now - available as a podcast to download www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w... #MaddoxPrize

BBC Radio 4 - BBC Inside Science, The zeptoverse

A glimpse into the world of the incredibly tiny

bbc.co.uk

LabLit.com@lablit.bsky.social · 8h ago

The Maddox Prize is awarded for scientists who stand up for Science in the face of opposition & ignorance - it has just been awarded #Science #Truth senseaboutscience.org/activities/2...

Matthew Cobb@matthewcobb.bsky.social · 3d ago

The reviews of Tom McCarthy’s THE RHYL POSTER have been mixed, but the one in @thetls.bsky.social was very sympathetic. Have not read any of his other books, nor even heard of him. This one has passed the read-the-free-sample-in-the-Books-app test, so I shall buy the hb. Here’s the TLS review.

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Dan Jagger@auditorynerves.bsky.social · 4d ago

‘It’s really, really unusual’: tender bond between male donkey & bull baffles scientists. Patroclo & Achille’s interspecies affair sheds new light on social & sexual relations between animals, scientists say. 🧪🫏❤️🐂🌈 #loveislove www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

‘It’s really, really unusual’: tender bond between male donkey and bull baffles scientists

Patroclo and Achille’s interspecies affair sheds new light on social and sexual relations between animals, scientists say

theguardian.com

LabLit.com@lablit.bsky.social · 3d ago

www.goodreads.com/book/show/34... #booksky

The Dreamers

In an isolated college town in the hills of Southern Ca…

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LabLit.com@lablit.bsky.social · 3d ago

It is literary fiction, very well written with a number of interesting characters. Astonishingly published just before C19, a virus in a small Oregon town starts off sending people into a deep sleep like a coma. The town is quarantined. Ensemble cast, authorial standpoint. I had as bedtime book! 😃

LabLit.com@lablit.bsky.social · 3d ago

The other book was 💡📚 #booksky The Last Assassin: The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar by Peter Stothard Cassius Parmensis was in at the death, & then every turn he took ended with him falling away to join another faction, always on the losing side. Enjoyed this! Have also read his Crassus bio

LabLit.com@lablit.bsky.social · 3d ago

Just finished two books from October... #booksky 🖊️📚 Karen Thompson Walker The Dreamers This is not in my view [dom], despite some descriptions, science fiction, but it is very nearly #lablit - it just lacks for one major scientist (though there are a couple of scientists).

LabLit.com@lablit.bsky.social · 3d ago

Just finished two books from October... #booksky 🖊️📚 Karen Thompson Walker The Dreamers This is not in my view [dom], despite some descriptions, science fiction, but it is very nearly #lablit - it just lacks for one major scientist (though there are a couple of scientists).

China Space Watch@chinaspace.bsky.social · 4d ago

1/2 🌏🛰️ China has released its first Fengyun satellite AI weather models! A new typhoon analysis system identifies storm position, structure, intensity and evolution, covering 7 features, updating every 15 minutes and generating reports in just 27 seconds.

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London & Southeast🔅@thesnowdreamer.bsky.social · 5d ago

It’s not looking the mildest start to November. I think the coolest start in a decade. The breezier east breeze off North Sea will tend to keep nights less cold. But it does seem towards end of next week we’ll see winds die down… and so the risk of widespread frost appears.

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LabLit.com@lablit.bsky.social · 4d ago

I finally finished my September 'project' - a scaffold board guitar. I had the neck & parts from an old child-sized guitar with a built in speaker. Rather than fix that & learn how to re-wire I just made the board for the body & shoved everything on. Linseed oiled the wood -smelt of it for ages!

Guitar made from old scaffold board
LabLit.com@lablit.bsky.social · 4d ago

A Patron of Humanists UK as well humanists.uk/2026/10/29/h...

Humanists UK mourns Sir Patrick Stewart (1940–2026)

Humanists UK is deeply saddened to learn of the death of distinguished actor, campaigner, and long-standing patron Sir Patrick Stewart OBE at the age of 86. Born on 13 July 1940 in Mirfield in West Yo...

humanists.uk

Stephalazarasus goes rawr! 🦕@stephalazarasus.bsky.social · last wk.

We lost another one 😭. He was my first captain, and he's the reason I love Star Trek🚀 #PatrickStewart #StarTrek #JeanLucPicard #RestAmongTheStars #booksky

Anthony The Fish Necromancer@mosasaurologist.bsky.social · 4d ago

Im gluing the teeth back into this badger head that I found this summer. The roly polys sire did some good work cleaning it up in the compost. One sad discovery is the entry and exit hole from a gunshot. Guess thats one reason it was mummified on the outcrop.

Im still working on figuring out where all the incisors go.The angle of the bullet through the back of the head