Mindy Weisberger

They were cheap AND they fit in a pocket, I will mourn them forever

🏆 Our science communication awards are now open!

These awards recognize exceptional science journalists, communicators, and researchers whose work in 2025 made #STEM accessible and engaging for broad audiences.

Deadline: April 3, 2026

Apply now: www.nationalacademies.org/awards/excel... #scicomm

SUMMER OF SOUL | Official Trailer | In Theaters and on Hulu July 2 YouTube video by SearchlightPictures

The Decline of Western Civilization I & II are both excellent, directed by Penelope Spheeris & respectively documenting L.A. punk & metal scenes in the '80s. Summer of Soul, about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival & directed by Questlove, is outstanding. Hype! is a great doc about Seattle grunge 🎸

hopefully by next week I'll have learned how to spell "Tucson" 🙃

A composite image of photos and text. Photos are of a book cover reading "Rise of the Zombie Bugs," and a white woman with glasses labeled "MINDY WEISBERGER." A banner on the left reads "Tuscon Festival of Books, Mar 14-15 2026, University of Arizona Campus, www.tusconfestivalofbooks.org"

The latest "pinch me" news about Rise of the Zombie Bugs is that I'm at the Tuscon Festival of Books next week, my first-ever festival! (cue internal screaming)

My panels: "The Strange & the Fierce: Stories from Earth’s Wild Side" & "Plants, Predators & Parasites" tucsonfestivalofbooks.org #BookSky

lol nothing I love more than trying to locate an author bio that I cleverly named "bio" & which is now lurking somewhere among eleventy thousand other files on my computer with names that include "biology," "biodiversity," "antibiotics," "bioluminescence" and "biomechanics," fml

Ugh, didn't realize. That's disappointing

Did you look at the PDF? It credits art and web design to Conni St. Pierre

Screenshot of a book cover showing an illustration of a crow perched on an "ICE" jacket lying in the middle of a snow-lined road under the light of a full moon. The cover reads "ICE Out " by Charles de Lint. Text to the right of the cover reads "ICE came to Newford. Big mistake." and "Download for free!"

Urban fantasy author Charles de Lint just published a new "novelet" and released it for free, his stories of myth and magic and community and found family are full of so much love and hope and we could all use some of that right now

www.charlesdelint.com/IceOut.html

A painted portrait of an older couple in formal wear, against a backdrop in shades of gray. The woman is standing behind the man, whose teeth are unnaturally white and bared in a grimace that he may have thought was a smile.

Went to a new (to me) imaging center for my annual mammogram and since then I have been haunted by the memory of this donor portrait in the lobby

Hello, book people! I am the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for 2026 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romantasy, and speculative books coming out in the second half of the year! If you have an adult or YA SFF/H book out July-Dec (or publicist), share the link/info here!

Those proposed bots were autonomous/remotely operable, but not swarms! This new proposal is for smaller bots that communicate with each other and can work independently or as a group, inspired by swarm behavior in insects like ants

A wheeled robot on a tabletop, its rugged chassis equipped with sensors. Its design resembles that of a miniature Mars rover.

"Swarm robots on the moon" sounds like the title of a sci-fi drive-in movie, but an NJIT student recently turned that idea into a proposal that won a $10K grant from NASA's L'SPACE Program. The project will prototype swarm robots that could construct a lunar base 🤖 🧪 🔭

news.njit.edu/robot-swarms...

These flies are SO FUZZY

You should apply for this award, starting today & through April 3.

I almost didn’t enter in 2025, and then someone reminded me my book was eligible. So I went for it - and won the top journalism prize! 💰

You can’t win contests you don’t enter. Submit your best work & you might win - just ask me.

My sister recently told the family (very excitedly!) how she used ChatGPT to "curate" a tour for her at the Met, and it made me want to curl up in fetal position under the table

Me too, I'd use it every day

These are so freaking adorable they deserve a cuttlefish emoji with heart eyes

A highly magnified grayscale image of the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans.

When you write about parasites, you get emails. Yesterday, someone sent me a cryptic message hinting at "a very interesting story (non-financial) about a parasitic nematoda infection," and now I can't stop thinking about what in the world could be a financial angle for getting infected by roundworms

Starting tomorrow, you can watch fish traffic via an underwater camera livestreaming from an Utrecht canal. If you spot waiting 🐟, you can ping an operator to open the Weerdsluis lock gate & let them through. Highly recommend this for easing elevated stress levels, or if you just like helping fish

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed

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Binders/sleeves for trading cards (Pokémon, MTG, etc) might work!

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

tcpipeline.org

It looks like it!

I get them too! Things like "A coat is not underwear" & "I am a banana" & "His grandfather is a sheep"

My hypothesis is that Duolingo does this because you're more likely to remember phrases that are deeply weird, & that helps your brain recall those words/syntax in a more normal context

Screenshot of a language app showing a cartoon of a person with purple hair standing under text that reads: "Write this in Dutch." Next to the cartoon is a speech bubble that says: "This development will improve the relations with our neighboring countries."

yes yes yes i know that my language app isn't subtweeting the news in my lessons, but jfc

Pledged! This looks so damn good 🎸

amazing, thank you!

Where is this magnificent octopus sculpture???

Three black-and-white photos showing a digital 3D model of an ancient ant trapped in amber. The species: Hypoponera electrocacica. (1) Body in lateral view. (2) Body in dorsal view. (3) Closeup of the ant's abdomen

Lots of ants have weird heads or jaws—not Hypoponera. It's been said that if this ant's subfamily is a Mr. Potato Head game, "Hypoponera is the potato”

Scientists recently described the 2nd known fossil of this basic bitch "potato" genus, in amber 🧪 #FossilFriday

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