From Roots to Branches: Weaving Multiple Disciplines into a Living Manuscript • Career Authors Beronda L. Montgomery’s remarkable new book, When Trees Testify, connects Black American history and culture to specific trees, revealing a hidden botanical legacy. In this interview, health and welln...

What trees can teach us about creativity, today on @careerauthors.com #booksky @berondam.bsky.social careerauthors.com/weaving-mult...

Was lovely to talk about When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy and writing more broadly with @lkroe.bsky.social for @careerauthors.com .

Review: Particles and poetry The book makes a powerful case for physics as a vital lens through which everyone can explore the universe.—he publication timing of Chanda Prescod-Weinstein’s...

Stunned and grateful for this review of THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME! 🙏🏽

“The book makes complicated concepts so relatable, readers once wary of the cosmos because of its vast nature, can finally wrap their brains around it in digestible pieces.“

Gorgeous 😍😍😍

Our cosmos, ourselves Science, culture, and imagination are inextricable, argues a cosmologist

Thanks @cbo.bsky.social for this review of THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME! To be read by a peer like this is an honor!

"Instead, the reader is given a project that sings both the radio hits and the deep cuts of physics, set to an instrumental of different scholarly contexts, disciplines, and inspirations."

Data centers are a physical manifestation of AI infrastructure and they've become a flashpoint precisely because they're tractable. They exist in specific places, consume specific resources, can be seen and pointed to. I spoke with @lorenaoneil.com @rollingstone.com about our urgent AI reckoning.

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THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME DEBUTED AT #9 ON THE INDIE BESTSELLER LIST!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHH!!!!!

What I love most about this is that it means people are supporting indie bookstores ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
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Huge congratulations Gina!!!

👀👀👀... checking calendar IMMEDIATELY!

Opinion | Beware conservatives promoting “intellectual freedom” Victor Ray: This conservative lie about schools like mine is furthering authoritarianism

Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.

A very important point...the present is a very trying moment AND the ways in which this country has not reckoned with the many moments before this one must be recognized.

Thanks! Yes Overstory is a fascinating read, indeed ❤️

Two women smiling at the camera, Beronda L Montgomery (left) and April H Brown (right)

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Absolutely amazing & expansive convo with April H. Brown (@mshelene1.bsky.social) about When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, & America's Black Botanical Legacy hosted by @symposiumbooks.bsky.social

What a gift that this path brought me into community with April & others!

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The pleasure was mine!!!

Thanks for this! @alondra.bsky.social have a powerful and compelling talk!

Put together a reading list from the books and articles mentioned in the Algorithmic Agnotology speech by @alondra.bsky.social

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Flyer with text that reads: Upcoming When Trees Testify Events April 10-6 PM Symposium Books, Providence, RI in conversation with April H. Brown May 2-11:15 AM Des Moines Book Festival, Des Moines, IA in conversation with John T. Price Panel: Nature's Calling May 19-6:30 PM Arnold Arboretum at Harvard May 30 PGH Book Fest 2026 September 12 Petersburg Book Fest Petersburgh, VA More to come!!

Upcoming When Trees Testify Events

First up tonight, April 10 at 6PM at Symposium Books (@symposiumbooks.bsky.social) in Providence, RI with April H. Brown

Looking forward to this & following events. If you're waiting for me to come to your city/town, invite your local indie bookstore to reach out

What Star Trek, space-time, and subatomic particles have in common : Short Wave Subatomic particles, gravity wells and the beginning of the universe – these are difficult and mysterious concepts that are better understood with storytelling and metaphor. That’s exactly theoretical...

Had a TON of fun talking to @npr.org Short Wave about why thinking with physics matters in this moment 🧪⚛️

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To paraphrase James Baldwin, the belief in the goodness is the whole problem.

Would love to. Working on a summer date.

A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.

Flyer with images of book When Trees Testify (left,) and Beronda Montgomery (right) and text that reads: All Welcome 240 Westminster St., PVD, RI Join us! at Symposium Books Beronda Montgomery's When Trees Testify Moderator To Be Announced April 10th 6pm

I'll be @symposiumbooks.bsky.social this Friday at 6 PM in conversation about When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy.
Looking forward!

The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos “With this extraordinary book, Prescod-Weinstein cements her status.....

Happy launch day @chanda.blacksky.app!!!
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Lessons from Plants — Harvard University Press An exploration of how plant behavior and adaptation offer valuable insights for human thriving.We know that plants are important. They maintain the atmosphere by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing...

This beauty "Lessons from Plants" debuted 5 years ago on April 6, 2021.
It was a delight to work with editor Janice Audet then @harvardpress.bsky.social.
What an amazing & enriching journey it's been & continues to be.
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Apr. 4, 1968 | Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated in Memphis Learn more about this history of racial injustice.

To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. (@eji.org)
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Me too 😍😍😍!

The cover of When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy by Beronda L. Montgomery. There are leaves and plant parts from apple, willow, oak, and cotton on the cover.

Just finished When Trees Testify by @berondam.bsky.social -grateful for this book that ties together Black history and trauma, a sense of Black belonging in nature and science, and Black wisdom, power, and joy. I will be imagining our collective breath being taken up by trees from now on. 🌳💕

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Thrilled for you...and in such a physically beautiful location!!

Thank you 🙏🏾!