Is Climate Change Causing Sharks To Bite Humans? Metro Thinks So | Happy Earth Day, here’s your reminder about how I had to walk by billboards that misstated my own research on my way to my job combating pseudoscience.
Heartdrum and Fuse 8 logos. Photo of Rosemary Brosnan (blond with shoulder length curly hair in pink v-neck shirt) and Cynthia Leitich Smith (brunette with long hair wearing purple glasses and gray v-neck shirt), both smiling in round frame. Quote: “Heartdrum has published over 30 books! Heartdrum’s books have picked up 74* starred reviews and counting...numerous awards and accolades.” *Update: 77 starred reviews! Blue background, white text.
Heartdrum celebrates 5th anniversary! Heartdrum, the Native Voices Imprint, Turns Five: We Talk with Curator Cynthia Leitich Smith and Editor Rosemary Brosnan by Betsy Bird from Fuse 8 Production at School Library Journal: afuse8production.slj.com/2026/04/16/h...
Look we may have arrived the party 3.5 billion years too late...
But we're here now and down to clown!
www.popsci.com/science/curi...
Middle grade novel titled MURDER AT PENGUIN RANCH held up in front of a white brick bookshop, Dad Suggests Books.
A stack of CITY SPIES Europa books by author James Ponti sit inside the bookshop. The Roman Collesium graces the cover.
The picture book HOLD by Randy Ribay + Zeke Peña rests on a white counter next to a purple coffee mug.
You know it’s a great day when you drop off early reader proofs at a local indie bookstore! ☀️🐧📘
Fun to peek at new releases by @jamesponti.bsky.social + Zeke Peña, too! Congratulations, friends.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
#kidlit #independentbookstore #reader #bookshop #galley
Tardigrade cake at premiere screening of LIFE UNEARTHED at American Museum of Natural History in NYC! Ariel and Rose posing in front of a 3 foot large tardigrade cake.
Marci Bortman, Wes Swingley, and Ariel Waldman on stage discussing the series.
Ariel on stage introducing the series.
Crowd waiting to eat tardigrade cake.
The most epic premiere screening of my new @pbs.org series LIFE UNEARTHED at @amnh.org this weekend.
Complete with a tardigrade cake by Rose McAdoo!
Watch LIFE UNEARTHED on the PBS app on your streaming device or on Apple TV and Amazon! www.pbs.org/show/life-un...
Love love love! Your dress is fab, and Rose’s cake is incredible. Congrats, Ariel! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I just signed a bill to rename Minnesota’s community solar program after Speaker Melissa Hortman.
Melissa was a true champion of solar and I was proud to sign this in honor of my dear friend.
Congratulations! Can’t wait to read, Kate. 💫💙
Astronaut perks....
You get to hug your spaceship :)
#ArtemisII
We got our SaveUSFS.org website updated! A lot of new brands have joined!
34… 4… what’s a little exaggeration of 30 ships amongst friends?
(4 ships transited yesterday)
Trapiche amethyst slice from Brazil
O heresy in fair, fit for these days!
Women as astronauts, women as helicopter pilots… it’s so important for young girls to see.
Imagine being in space 30 min ago and now you’re about an hour from In n Out
Congratulations! 🎉
The capsule splashing down onto the water with the three red and white parachutes above it
Splashdown! Vehicle is stable and upright. “A perfect bulls-eye splash for Integrity and its four astronauts!” #Artemis
This is why we should fund science.
A robotic arm extends to place science instruments in contact with textured rocks.
Meanwhile on Mars...
Check the wild textures in the background
science.nasa.gov/mission/msl-...
Creators, *this is worth the read*. But, Roaring Brook closing isn't the same as Dial closing. Yes, there were layoffs, but RB is reshuffling & a new imprint is in the works. But the squeeze is real. We've been seeing it and feeling it for years. vickyweberbooks.substack.com/p/what-nobod...
Now on @sciam.bsky.social: Some ask, “what’s the science value of Artemis II?” Most answers focus on learning about the moon or human health there.
But the best answer, IMO, involves lunar astronomy, which is where Artemis could be a true game changer.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...
Oh no. NSF Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program shuttered.
This one leaves me winded. A good story from 2025 by @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social offers insight into what we are losing: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Absolute cinema watching that jar of Nutella escape contain behind the backs of the astronauts after packing other things away
efore going to sleep on flight day 5, the Artemis II crew snapped one more photo of the Moon, as it drew close in the window of the Orion spacecraft. Orion and the four humans aboard entered the lunar sphere of influence at 12:37 a.m. EDT on April 6, at the tail end of the fifth day of their mission. That marked the point at which the Moon's gravity had a stronger pull on the spacecraft than the Earth's. Artemis II's closet approach to the Moon will come on flight day 6, as they swing around the far side before beginning their journey back to Earth. About an hour after entering the lunar sphere of influence, Artemis II Mission Specialist Christina Koch said, "We are now falling to the Moon rather than rising away from Earth. It is an amazing milestone!"
It is astonishing that humans are able to do these things. This is what happens when we act collectively to solve extremely difficult technical problems. (It works with many other kinds of problems, too.)
You can follow Artemis II's encounter with the Moon starting at 1pm EDT. 🧪🔭
plus.nasa.gov
Absolutely breathtaking view of the Artemis II launch.
Wow.
to the moon.
#NASA #ARTEMISII - NASA PAO reports that at 9:38, the chilldown of Liquid Hydrogen on the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (second stage) is underway in preparation for tanking. Also, PAO reports that the Artemis II crew should be waking up about now.
Happy School Library Month!
Read about our 2026 School Librarian of the Year @alliethelibrarian.bsky.social and finalists @mslibrarian75.bsky.social and @librarycherity.bsky.social
www.slj.com/story/Alexan...
#Skybrarians #EduSky #TLSky
