#Vaccine specialist Peter Hotez: scientists are ‘under attack for someone else’s political gain’
The physician-researcher who spoke out against #misinformation during the #COVID-19 pandemic says attacks against #science are formidable — and getting worse.
(Academic press) book pre-publication reviews are back. Really positive. YES!!!!!!!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉.
So now I'm moving onto final revisions. It feels good to slip back into that headspace again.
My big question for anyone who has sent a book off to the world: What was your strategy for those last steps? There's addressing the feedback, of course. But after that? It will never been perfect. But it has to be great. How do you know when to let it go?
I am looking for #academia and #nonfiction#authors and #scicomm people who want to do some AMA-style events on Lemmy. The few I ran on Reddit were fun, and it makes an excellent opportunity for public outreach as people feel comfortable in an informal space, ECRs especially. These are great if you have a paper you want to rizz too. It's a good outreach thing; I always think 1:1 talking to people is the most successful and impactful. @phdstudents@academicchatter
BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google
Libraries today are more important than ever. More than just book repositories, libraries can become bulwarks against some of the most crucial challenges of our age: unequal access to education, jobs, and information.
Today in Labor History August 14, 1791: Dutty Boukman led a Vodou ceremony with enslaved people from Saint Domingue plantations that led to the start of the Haitian Revolution, the largest slave uprising since the Spartacist revolt against the Romam empire. Boukman was born in Senegambia. His name, Boukman, came from the English “Book Man,” because he not only knew how to read, but taught other enslaved people how to read. He, and priestess Cécile Fatiman, had led a series of meetings with enslaved people prior to August 14 to organized and plan for the uprising. Boukman was killed by French troops a few months into the revolution. Trinidadian Marxist writer C. L. R. James wrote the best book on the Haitian Revolution: “The Black Jacobins,” (1938). Also, be sure to check out the wonderful music of the contemporary Haitian pop group, Boukman Eksperyans, named for the Haitian revolutionary, Dutty Boukman. A fictionalized version of Boukman plays the title character in Guy Endore's novel “Babouk,” an anti-capitalist parable about the Haitian Revolution.
Big update and news for everyone participating in the #PennedPossibilities group. The following link has all the past questions and will be updated nightly with the future ones for anyone new to our community.
This will be on my profile in my links (and the post will be pinned as well) for everyone to find.
Today in Labor History September 27, 1962: Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published, ushering in the modern environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior
In this thought-provoking, handsomely illustrated book, Italian neurobiologist Stefano Mancuso considers the fundamental differences between plants and animals and challenges our assumptions about which is the ‘higher’ form of life.
CNN senior legal analyst and nationally bestselling author Elie Honig explores America's two-tier justice system, explaining how the rich, the famous, and the powerful— including, most notoriously, Donald Trump—manipulate the legal system to escape justice and get away with vast misdeeds.
THE OPPRESSION OF THE UYGHUR PEOPLE explored in heartbreaking detail through an exiled poet and filmmaker’s memoir. Beautiful writing about a horrifying topic brings stories of the imprisoned and murdered into the light. A MINUS
It's #BookLoversDay and I want to share the list of awesome #nonfiction books I read for this year's Polymath Training Challenge.
Run on a Hungarian book site, this challenge announces 12 nonfiction topics every year - 11 are the same, the 12th is randomly selected for each participant. You get to pick the books you want to read.
I found some awesome books for this year and finished early, so I'm sharing now 😊 📚
This photo is a page from Democracy In America Volume 1, by Alexis De Tocqueville. I'm supposed to be reading it, but doing photoshoots is more fun sometimes. 🤣📚
There's some lights that reflected in the iPad screen which looks pretty. 😍
My 1st book launched a couple weeks ago and people have been sending me photos of it out in the wild, which is a thrill to see. It’s weirdly separate from me now, out there living its best life
#WomensNonfiction 3.
Ada Blackjack: A true story of survival in the Arctic - by Jennifer Niven
Ada was an Iñupiaq woman who joined an arctic expedition in the 1920s. The expedition got stranded on Wrangel Island, and slowly all the (somewhat foolishy unprepared) explorers died or disappeared, leaving Ada to fend for herself for almost two years. She survived, and the book uses her diary among other sources to tell her story.
In honor of #WomensHistoryMonth I decided to do a toot a day with the hashtag #WomensNonfiction. Just because I love talking about books, and my favorite genre is (auto)biographies, memoirs, and journals of interesting women through the ages. And of course I want to see what you all have to add to the list 😊 📚📚📚
Since I am a bit late, I'll be catching up for the first few days 😅
Le Brun (1755–1842) was a painter whose works still hang in galleries around the world, including the British National Gallery & the Louvre. She was the portrait painter of Marie Antoinette before she fled to Italy and then to Russia from the Revolution, leaving an abusive husband behind.
Her memoirs are entertaining and witty, showing a glimpse at the life of a remarkable woman.
The ancient world is a magical place. From the ziggurats of Sumeria to the temples of Crete and the pyramids of Egypt, the ancients call to us.
Magic never dies, but only slumbers, awaiting discovery by those who would once again revel in its beauty and respect its power.
These spells speak to the many human needs and desires of protection, prosperity, romance, fertility, healing, and divination. Each spell is described in detail, complete with step-by-step instructions as well as background information about the deities involved, encouraging the reader to develop a relationship with these ancient deities who are still very much alive in our world today.
More info on my website (link in bio). Be the magic you want to see in the world!
A BLACK PHYSICIAN’S UNSPARING examination of the profound impact racism has on healthcare and health outcomes intertwines with stories of her own, her sister’s, and her mother’s lives as doctors. Thoughtful, deep, engaging. A MINUS
#WomensNonfiction 18.
The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier - by April White
This book needs to be a high budget HBO show.
At the end of the 19th century, Sioux Falls was known for its lax divorce laws: if someone resided there for 90 days, they could file for divorce. The town's main hotel fast became a "divorce colony" of desperate women (and some men) and their own private dramas.
Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe's groundbreaking book revisits the formation of the State of Israel. Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint.
This is the cover of the #WomenInTechBook! "It's Never Just You" – a #nonfiction, part-#memoir book on how women come into tech jobs and what makes them stay. Hope, you like it. =)
The #Kickstarter prelaunch page is up. Hop on over and klick the button to get notified when the campaign launches.