It's no secret nonfiction book writing is hard, and there are few places to learn how to do it. If, like I was, you are terrified of writing your first book, this might provide some guidance and encouragement. I enrolled to see what I can learn too!
You can even easily see how it crawled there -- check out that slime trail to the right!
Today I turned in a draft of my second book
So let's again share my advice for science colleagues who are considering writing a science book!
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two watercolor brain paintings. One says No AI only brain, the other says use your own brain
New ones! artologica.etsy.com 🎨
Ad for my book, SISTERS IN SCIENCE, being on sale for 1/2 price at Barnes & Noble
One of my main goals as an author is to sell enough books so they'll let me write another one. Currently, it looks like that's not going to happen since my publisher is not happy with the sales of my second book. A sophomore slump. I'm open to promo ideas & would appreciate any shares of this post!
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New painting underway!
I feel like this belongs on top of a Christmas tree
The cover of Nature Genetics July 2025 issue. Digital art of a mouse paw skeletal prep on dark background, digits I to IV disintegrating into viral particles. A caption says “An endogenous retrovirus causes limb malformation”.
Pretty surreal to see my artwork on the cover of Nature Genetics! Big congrats to @julianeg.bsky.social, @stemundi.bsky.social and the others, and thank you Juliane for letting me help bring your research to life visually.
www.nature.com/ng/volumes/5...
Just found this -- excited to read your paper!
Cool! Will spread the word! One of the facts from your book I am still amazed by and tell people about was that rattlesnakes evolved their rattle to keep bison from stepping on them. It makes so much sense!
Thanks, Jason! And thanks so much for your help with the Sloan grant. It was such a lifeline for us at a hard time for our family. : ) When is your book coming out?
My lastest post on finishing my slime mold book, and a reader poll on the subtitle! open.substack.com/pub/theartfu...
Today I handed in the full manuscript for The Slime Mold's Guide to World Domination. After two years of incessant deadline pressure, I feel like I can finally breathe again. Now I can catch up on all that thrilling housework and home maintenance I've been putting off for months! Also: stare at sky
Two full bankers' boxes worth of papers plus eleven books
This morning, after > two years, I finished reading the very last paper for my slime mold book. In case you've ever wondered how much research it takes to write a book, here is a photo of 95% of the papers and all but three of the books I read to write "The Slime Mold's Guide to World Domination".
For some reason, the system says you can't receive direct messages.
On which part?
Yesterday I disqualified a paper from research on my slime mold book for being nearly incoherent, a punishment I dubbed the "Pain Penalty". To back up my sense that this thing was not worth it, I checked the number of citations on Google Scholar: 9.
The Slime Mold's Guide to World Domination is now 95% done! For more info, check out my latest Substack post: theartfulamoeba.substack.com/p/the-latest...
Status Update: Still alive. Slime Mold Book Progress: *Eleven* chapters in the hole as of 4/25/25; now just one to go and I'm already a quarter of the way through it. Projected book publication is now Summer 2026. Still frantically repeating Alan Shepard's Prayer
If you figure this out let me know because at this point I honestly think I'm having the same problem
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here's Tusoteuthis with and without bioluminescence, from my Western Interior Seaway mural 3, painted in 2021 for the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, USA.
#SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #GiantSquid #Octopus #Tusoteuthis #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld
As Monday approaches, all I can say is: “Me too, Jupiter. Me too.” Here I go again!
Universe willing, I'm going to write a whole book about them one day. Hold tight.
Thank you! Very helpful.
It might just be stuck to the bubble but it's still damn cute.
Ok, I have to ask -- where did this come from? I'm planning to write a book on water bears and would love to track it down.
Lovely visit with a Lampocteis. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 799 #SouthSandwichIslands #MarineLife
W white fluffy looking nudibranch.
Close up of the feathery polyps on a black coral.
Transparent soft coral growing on a dead coral stalk.
Nudibranch, black coral, soft coral on dead black coral stalk. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 800 #SouthSandwichIslands #MarineLife
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