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Kristin L. Gray

@kristinlgray.bsky.social

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Author, reader, sunshine seeker BAHA user 🤟 Former RN 🩺 Fan of unsolved mysteries, science, space Studying copyediting and planes ✈️ MURDER AT PENGUIN RANCH (‘26) 🇦🇶 Rep: Caryn Wiseman ABLA

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Kristin L. Gray @kristinlgray.bsky.social · Mar 22

Day one of ground school. 🛩️@sportys.bsky.social #avgeek

Author poses with a green-and-white Cessna 150 in hangar.

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Women's Prize @womensprize.bsky.social · 1d

What do the 2026 #WomensPrizeforNonFiction judges like to read? And what is it that they are looking for in a prize-winning book? Get to know @thangamdebbonaire.bsky.social, Roma Agrawal, Nicola Elliott, Nina Stibbe and Nicola Williams better by watching the below👇

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 3d

THE LIBRARIANS @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social is a *must-see.*

Thanks to @ifla.org Met Lib for the private screening at Toronto Reference Library.

Terrifying, deeply moving. I know several of the librarians & recognized books by many #KidLit #YALit friends. 😢

#BannedBooksWeek #LibrarySky

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Panel discussion taking place in a conference room with four speakers seated on stage in front of an audience. A large screen beside them displays a slide that reads, “America’s war on books is more than a war on words. THE LIBRARIANS. Directed by Kim A. Snyder.” The slide also shows several film festival logos.

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JenSwanBooks STEM Author @jenswanbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Day 2 of my Atlas Obscuras Explorer's Guide to Inventing the World tour! I met with sooo many amazing students, teachers, and educators. Plus a stop at @childrensbookworld.bsky.social! Huge thanks to @workmanpubkids.bsky.social for setting this up! #sciencerocks #readingrocks #stembooksforkids

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Andrea Brown Literary Agency @andreabrownlit.bsky.social · 9d

🎉 Congrats to these bestsellers this week! 🎉

New York Times Bestsellers:
ZOMBIE AND BRAIN ARE FRIENDS
IMMORTAL DARK

USA Today Bestseller:
INVISIBLE

Indie Bestseller:
SPACE CASE: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL

@pterlip.bsky.social
@literaticat.bsky.social
@jemiscoe.bsky.social
@jenrofe.bsky.social

This week Space Case made the Indie Bestseller list, Zombie and Brain Are Friends and Immortal Dark made The New York Times Bestseller list, and Invisible made the USA Today Bestseller list. Pictured are the logos of those lists and the book covers surrounded by confetti to celebrate!

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 3d

🆕Researchers combed through images from ESA's #MarsExpress & #ExoMars spacecraft to find 1039 swirling dust devils 🌪️

Using these dust devils to track raging winds on Mars, their findings include that the strongest winds blow much faster than we thought!

Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🧪 ☄️

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 4d

Today’s favourite proof note:

Replace ‘this’ with ‘that.’

Which feels like a short summary of the entire process.

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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 4d

I know the news is tough right now.

So take a moment and soak in the gorgeousness & promise of the science that led to this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine & Physiology.

WOW.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/h...

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded for Work on Immune Systems

www.nytimes.com

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Kristin L. Gray @kristinlgray.bsky.social · 4d

You accomplished so much, Joe! Bravo! Look at those hours.
I had to take a few months off for grad school and just returned. New FAR/AIM and study books arrived today.

Kristin L. Gray @kristinlgray.bsky.social · 6d

I adore everything by @enchantedlion.bsky.social. Will look for this gem! Thank you, Maria. #poetry #picturebooks

Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 6d

A poem … is when you are in love and have the sky in your mouth.”

This is so wonderful www.themarginalian.org/2017/03/24/t...

This Is a Poem That Heals Fish: An Almost Unbearably Wonderful Picture-Book About How Poetry Works Its Magic

“A poem … is when you are in love and have the sky in your mouth.”

www.themarginalian.org

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 7d

Nuance is needed. For example:

The impact of beef, then pork, is much greater than other meats

Not everyone eats the same amounts (see below).

And we have to stop just wasting it! An estimated 40% of the food we create is wasted.

SO many ways to improve our food system.

How a mere 12% of Americans eat half the nation’s beef, creating significant health and environmental impacts

Tulane University News and Press Releases

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 10d

She was among the best of us and will forever be a model of human goodness and curiosity. Rest well.

CNN @cnn.com · 10d

Jane Goodall, a conservationist who broke barriers for women and revolutionized the study of primates, has died at 91. https://cnn.it/4o44cxf

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Melissa Stewart @mstewartscience.bsky.social · 12d

There's still time to submit a proposal!
@ncte.org @nctecla.bsky.social #edusky #skybrarian #TLsky

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Kristin L. Gray @kristinlgray.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you, Topeka schools and KS state library, for such a fabulous time at the Kansas Book Festival. 🌻

Author pictured with author Lesa Cline-Ranaome holding a copy of her Newbery Honor award-winning book ONE BIG OPEN SKY

Author laughing while presenting in a school library to a group of school children seated on the floor.

Kristin L. Gray @kristinlgray.bsky.social · 23d

This makes me so happy for you both.

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Nikki Grimes @poetnikki.bsky.social · Sep 1

Studying microscope parts, eyedroppers, cell multiplication, the nouns and verbs of research labs—Oh, the places I’ll go for a story!

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Kristin L. Gray @kristinlgray.bsky.social · Aug 28

Hahahaha oh my gosh. Love. 🥳

Kristin L. Gray @kristinlgray.bsky.social · Aug 28

You got me. Excited for the book, Josh! Congrats!

Kristin L. Gray @kristinlgray.bsky.social · Aug 27

Happy to finally pick up THE SPIDER LADY picture book on the remarkable Nan Songer by Penny Parker Klostermann and Anne Lambelet | Calkins Creek | Astra BFYR @annelambelet.bsky.social

Picture book titled The Spider Lady: Nan Songer and her Arachnid WWII Army

Illustration of Nan holding a glass terrarium with a black spider. The background has wooden shelves filled with more terrariums and plants.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · Aug 12

Good overview of the latest development in authors' class action copyright lawsuit against Anthropic aifray.com/anthropic-dr...

Anthropic draws judge’s ire in book authors’ multi-billion-dollar copyright case: “if Anthropic loses big it will be because what it did wrong was also big” – ai fray

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Victoria J Coe @victoriajcoe.bsky.social · Aug 13

Curious about the One School, One Book program? I'm giving you a look behind the scenes: youtu.be/d6vFEZH8UIc... #allschoolread

One Book to Unite them All

YouTube video by Victoria J Coe

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Aug 8

By attempting to abdicate any legal responsibility to provide for a healthy environment, the U.S. is running in the opposite direction as the global legal community, @zoeschlanger.bsky.social reports:

America Is Living in a Climate-Denial Fantasy

On climate, the U.S. and the rest of the planet are now in “completely separate worlds.”

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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · Aug 8

I love upper middle grade novels that challenge young minds. I find my favorite books are often ones written for kids ages 11-14/grades 5-8.

This summer, I read 3 amazing ones:

BLOOD IN THE WATER by Tiffany D. Jackson
GRACIELA IN THE ABYSS by Meg Medina
THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES by @katemessner.com

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Kristin L. Gray @kristinlgray.bsky.social · Aug 7

Eric. This is the best, most wholesome thing I’ve read all year. Congratulations. I love this for all of you.

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · Aug 7

Years ago (nearly fifteen!) I ran a popular local geek blog, and one of my buddies ran a local tech news site.

For whatever reason, a lot of media folks thought we were rivals, despite being good pals (I mean, I read at his wedding).

But we leaned into it because we thought it was funny.

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Children's Bookshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · Aug 4

Curious and Curiouser: Alice in Wonderland | The Spokesman-Review

Curious And Curiouser: Alice in Wonderland

On Aug. 2, 1865 — 160 years ago Saturday — Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” was first published in London.

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