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Dr Lucy Rogers

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Award-winning freelance engineer, author and speaker. Wonder & Curiosity. PopSci book 'Up' launching April 2026. #Up #Skying Narrowboater. British. www.lucyrogers.com https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/DrLucyRogers

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Dr Lucy Rogers @drlucyrogers.com · Aug 13

I am very excited to report that my book is now available for pre-order!!

If you like things that fly – be it aircraft, bugs or birds, then this book is for you!

I am also so delighted with the beautiful cover art by @Rachelhillustrates.bsky.social :)

www.penguin.co.uk/books/461507...

Book cover of "UP" with butterflies, glowworms, bats, condors, a hot air balloon, an aircraft, a kite, stars, clouds and other things that are above us.

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 5h

For more on how to survive the climate upheaval, read my book of solutions Nomad Century

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 18h

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 22h

Even though I never spoke to them, I miss the people who used to be regulars in my gym but one day just disappeared.

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Linda @linda2.bsky.social · 1d

I thought I was invisible until spotted by this cygnet which stared into my lens. A face-off commenced. Great symmetry in a bird.

#BirdOfTheDay #Spotted #UKWildlife #cygnet #Birds #Photography

An image of a cygnet which happened to look into my lens at a key moment. This head shot is the result. The symmetry of facial features most evident.

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 19h

Scientists suspected that Europe’s largest bats snack on migrating songbirds when they can, but a stunning newly published observation proves it

Bat vs. Robin—Scientists Capture Real-Life Audio of Midair Hunt

Scientists suspected that Europe’s largest bats snack on migrating songbirds when they can, but a stunning newly published observation proves it

www.scientificamerican.com

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Dr Lucy Rogers @drlucyrogers.com · 20h

It's warmer there than the UK at the moment then!

Dr Lucy Rogers @drlucyrogers.com · 21h

_packs more shorts and less long trousers_

Dr Lucy Rogers @drlucyrogers.com · 21h

Ewwww. I have a really awful spelling mistake (can't even blame it as a typo) in an email subject header that is being replied to by many people in the publishing industry and I am blushing.

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 1d

Cats need to learn that if I break my neck from them weaving in and out of my legs whilst I'm going downstairs every morning, I will be unable to feed them.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · Mar 23

this cat looks like one of the Old Master painters who's just slept with three servants, argued viciously with his annoying patron about the inferior ham he receives, and then painted his masterpiece out of spite

Collection of paints, brushes and pots on an old table. In the corner a large very fluffy cat sprawls in decadence

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 22h

Quavers or Skips?

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Dr Lucy Rogers @drlucyrogers.com · 22h

Floaty light

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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 23h

@laurenlaverne.bsky.social Can't thank you enough for featuring Ada Lovelace Day on your show, especially this year when I've had to do as much as I can with no funding at all. It means a lot to me that ALD still resonates with people! 🥰

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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 23h

Last call to join us tomorrow for our celebration of the end of the Universe! Come party while there’s still a chance wegottickets.com/event/676292

The End of the Universe

After a magnificent* 13.8 billion years** astronomer Chris Lintott (Sky at Night) and Steve Pretty (Hackney Colliery Band) lead a funeral and wake for the universe, as it sadly heads into heat death. ...

wegottickets.com

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Dr Lucy Rogers @drlucyrogers.com · 1d

Gah. Think I'll miss you this trip :(

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Dr Lucy Rogers @drlucyrogers.com · 1d

Have fun!! You in London still next Wednesday?

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 1d

Other work by the Ladybird artists
Forestry Commission booklet, 1968
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

A scene in a park in autumn is viewed through a frame of broad-leaf autumn leaves

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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 1d

This #buyastrangerabook offer from @notmoro.bsky.social is still up for grabs.

Jess is offering to buy one lucky person the book of their choice, up to £20!

So, if there's a particular book you're after, let us know!

UK only

Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 2d

More #buyastrangerabook day action!

@notmoro.bsky.social is offering to buy one lucky person the book of their choice, up to £20!

So, if there's a particular book you're after, let us know!

UK only

Jess (Eldritch mode) 🎃 @notmoro.bsky.social · 2d

Yes please, I would like to BUY A STRANGER A BOOK, up to £20. ("Strangers" can include mutuals I don't know very well, unless I have already bought them a book previously.)

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 1d

I love shitting on social media as much as the next guy, but Skype a Scientist was built directly from social media connections.

We've matched over 60,000 classrooms with scientists from it...

That's pretty great.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 1d

The witch's calendar of harvest refuses ink-marked dates. She knows the turn year by berry swell, by movements through colour towards ripeness. She waits on the mistletoe drupe, not in hope of Christmas kisses, but future cures. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky