MattBille
@mattbille.bsky.social
Writer, naturalist, historian. Space, zoology, marine life, cryptozoology, Dunkleosteus. 4 science/history books, 2 novels: Querying ecothriller Apex Predator
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https://mattbille.blogspot.com
Don't forget: old books can be updated and republished for a new audience. My tale of monsters in LA, The Dolmen, got great reviews. But the city has changed since 2014, and I've become a better writer. I gave it a full rewrite and relaunched it. Reviews are good! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0F1...
Death by Legend
www.amazon.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Don't forget: old books can be updated and republished for a new audience. My tale of monsters in LA, The Dolmen, got great reviews. But the city has changed since 2014, and I've become a better writer. I gave it a full rewrite and relaunched it. Reviews are good! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0F1...
What is your record for first draft to publication? Raven's Quest, a fantasy novel written in 1982, drifted through publishers and revisions (Tor kept it two years before rejecting it) and periods on the shelf until a small Christian publisher brought it out in 2018.
December 14, 2025 at 6:14 AM
What is your record for first draft to publication? Raven's Quest, a fantasy novel written in 1982, drifted through publishers and revisions (Tor kept it two years before rejecting it) and periods on the shelf until a small Christian publisher brought it out in 2018.
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"Young children whose parents read them five books a day enter kindergarten having heard about 1.4 million more words than kids who were never read to, a new study found. " This is per Ohio State University. We NEED to read more to all kids!! ehe.osu.edu/news/lis... #booksky #writingcommunity
December 13, 2025 at 12:47 AM
"Young children whose parents read them five books a day enter kindergarten having heard about 1.4 million more words than kids who were never read to, a new study found. " This is per Ohio State University. We NEED to read more to all kids!! ehe.osu.edu/news/lis... #booksky #writingcommunity
This is wonderful.
This is DELIGHTFUL and I highly recommend a scroll through the whole thing: neal.fun/size-of-life/ 🧪
December 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
This is wonderful.
As you're looking at 2026 and thinking about conferences, think about this. They may be overhyped, and some are overpriced, but the CAN do you good. The skill sessions help, and the connections can help even more. My first big-pub sale happened because I met the editors at a conference. Research!
December 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
As you're looking at 2026 and thinking about conferences, think about this. They may be overhyped, and some are overpriced, but the CAN do you good. The skill sessions help, and the connections can help even more. My first big-pub sale happened because I met the editors at a conference. Research!
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Yet another study (French) shows that Pfizer/Moderna vaccines are safe and save lives.
A study of 28 mil people over 4 yrs shows that 75% of vaccinated people had a lower risk of dying from severe Covid.
🧪 www.scimex.org/newsfeed/cov...
A study of 28 mil people over 4 yrs shows that 75% of vaccinated people had a lower risk of dying from severe Covid.
🧪 www.scimex.org/newsfeed/cov...
Covid vaccines safe four years on, first long-term study suggests
Covid vaccines safe four years on, first long-term study suggests
Getting the Pfizer or Moderna Covid vaccine in 2021 did not increase overall risk of death in the next four years compared
www.scimex.org
December 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Yet another study (French) shows that Pfizer/Moderna vaccines are safe and save lives.
A study of 28 mil people over 4 yrs shows that 75% of vaccinated people had a lower risk of dying from severe Covid.
🧪 www.scimex.org/newsfeed/cov...
A study of 28 mil people over 4 yrs shows that 75% of vaccinated people had a lower risk of dying from severe Covid.
🧪 www.scimex.org/newsfeed/cov...
Park rangers are the unsung, underpaid, incredibly dedicated heroes of this country's Crown Jewels.
Bloomberg: How Trump Pushed US Park Rangers to the Breaking Point—and a Union Drive
“The most immediate thing we want from a union is to protect us from reductions in force happening out of nowhere. We don’t want to keep losing.”
🔗: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
“The most immediate thing we want from a union is to protect us from reductions in force happening out of nowhere. We don’t want to keep losing.”
🔗: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
December 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Park rangers are the unsung, underpaid, incredibly dedicated heroes of this country's Crown Jewels.
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A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Redirecting
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December 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
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Further, and impressive in scale:
In this cohort study including 22.7 million vaccinated individuals and 5.9 million unvaccinated individuals, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and no increased risk of all-cause mortality over a median follow-up of 45 months.
In this cohort study including 22.7 million vaccinated individuals and 5.9 million unvaccinated individuals, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and no increased risk of all-cause mortality over a median follow-up of 45 months.
COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France
This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-t...
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December 8, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Further, and impressive in scale:
In this cohort study including 22.7 million vaccinated individuals and 5.9 million unvaccinated individuals, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and no increased risk of all-cause mortality over a median follow-up of 45 months.
In this cohort study including 22.7 million vaccinated individuals and 5.9 million unvaccinated individuals, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and no increased risk of all-cause mortality over a median follow-up of 45 months.
Interesting they hype hybrid/cross-genre fiction - at last! 20-30 agents turned down my WIP (now sold) for crossing creature thrillers and mainstream dramatic fiction. Bestseller Jonathan Maberry told me "All good fiction crosses genres." Maybe the industry's catching up.
Part 2 of our WriteStats Publishing Year in Review is now live.
We examine how genre preferences evolved in 2025, and why hybrid storytelling is becoming the baseline.
A data-backed guide for authors planning for 2026.
Read here: writestats.com/genre-shifts...
#writingcommunity
We examine how genre preferences evolved in 2025, and why hybrid storytelling is becoming the baseline.
A data-backed guide for authors planning for 2026.
Read here: writestats.com/genre-shifts...
#writingcommunity
Genre Shifts in 2025: What Worked, What Skyrocketed, and What Authors Should Know for 2026
Discover the major genre shifts in 2025, from romantasy to hybrid fiction, and see what these trends mean for authors planning for success in 2026.
writestats.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Interesting they hype hybrid/cross-genre fiction - at last! 20-30 agents turned down my WIP (now sold) for crossing creature thrillers and mainstream dramatic fiction. Bestseller Jonathan Maberry told me "All good fiction crosses genres." Maybe the industry's catching up.
🧪December 6, 1957. The Naval Research Laboratory's TV-3, the third test flight in the Vanguard satellite program, attempts orbit with a six-inch spherical spacecraft on board. We were privileged to talk to the key people involved to get the whole story! www.amazon.com/First-Space-...
The First Space Race: Launching the World’s First Satellites (Volume 8) (Centennial of Flight Series)
The First Space Race: Launching the World’s First Satellites (Volume 8) (Centennial of Flight Series) [Bille, Matthew A., Lishock, Erika, Allen, James A. Van] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The First Space Race: Launching the World’s First Satellites (Volume 8) (Centennial of Flight Series)
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December 6, 2025 at 1:10 AM
🧪December 6, 1957. The Naval Research Laboratory's TV-3, the third test flight in the Vanguard satellite program, attempts orbit with a six-inch spherical spacecraft on board. We were privileged to talk to the key people involved to get the whole story! www.amazon.com/First-Space-...
December 6, 1957. The Naval Research Laboratory's TV-3, the third test flight in the Vanguard satellite program, attempts orbit with a six-inch spherical spacecraft on board. Read the whole story! www.amazon.com/First-Space-...
The First Space Race: Launching the World’s First Satellites (Volume 8) (Centennial of Flight Series)
The First Space Race: Launching the World’s First Satellites (Volume 8) (Centennial of Flight Series) [Bille, Matthew A., Lishock, Erika, Allen, James A. Van] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The First Space Race: Launching the World’s First Satellites (Volume 8) (Centennial of Flight Series)
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December 6, 2025 at 1:08 AM
December 6, 1957. The Naval Research Laboratory's TV-3, the third test flight in the Vanguard satellite program, attempts orbit with a six-inch spherical spacecraft on board. Read the whole story! www.amazon.com/First-Space-...
I'm looking for the first university to realize the way to preserve human intellectual capacity is to ban every known and potential LLM use in every class that's supposed to be about creativity. Not taking bets.
“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
December 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I'm looking for the first university to realize the way to preserve human intellectual capacity is to ban every known and potential LLM use in every class that's supposed to be about creativity. Not taking bets.
This looks fascinating. Thank you!
Ghosts Behind Glass has been officially published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social!
If you are looking for an absolutely gorgeous book that tackles a deeply serious topic, this is a perfect choice. Would make a really thoughtful Christmas gift.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
If you are looking for an absolutely gorgeous book that tackles a deeply serious topic, this is a perfect choice. Would make a really thoughtful Christmas gift.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Ghosts Behind Glass
How museums display extinct species—and what these exhibits say about us. While it’s no longer possible to encounter a dodo in the wild, we can still come face-to-face with them in museums. The rema...
press.uchicago.edu
November 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This looks fascinating. Thank you!
Speaking of one of the many other things we should all be mad about... our well-spent tax dollars created the most successful exploration agency in history.
'In anticipation of the proposed cuts – 25% overall and, crucially, a 47% cut to NASA’s science spending – NASA has flagged 40 major projects, including 23 active missions, for closure.'
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Who will take the lead in space research as NASA cuts bite?
Proposed cuts to the NASA budget, which threaten US university-based space research programmes as well as joint space missions, have left internationa...
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November 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Speaking of one of the many other things we should all be mad about... our well-spent tax dollars created the most successful exploration agency in history.
I'm some totally unrelated white guy in Colorado. But we're all allowed to get mad over this kind of crap. Hell, we're required to.
November 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I'm some totally unrelated white guy in Colorado. But we're all allowed to get mad over this kind of crap. Hell, we're required to.
Magnificent!
Years of work involving an amazing team at BBCSstudios Framestore AppleTV, our series #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge is out now on #AppleTV. Huge thanks to everyone involved. All 5 eps have been released!
November 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Magnificent!
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Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
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Fifteen years after Andrew Wakefield lost his medical license for his bogus study on autism and vaccines, the ascent of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has given the discredited former doctor a new level of popularity.
www.ms.now/news/the-ret...
www.ms.now/news/the-ret...
The doctor who falsely tied vaccines to autism is enjoying a comeback
Andrew Wakefield, who was once cast out for his retracted study tying autism to the MMR vaccine, is making a comeback in the second term of President Donald Trump as an ally of Health and Human Servic...
www.ms.now
November 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Fifteen years after Andrew Wakefield lost his medical license for his bogus study on autism and vaccines, the ascent of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has given the discredited former doctor a new level of popularity.
www.ms.now/news/the-ret...
www.ms.now/news/the-ret...
Apex Predator is now slated for February 2027 by Blackstone. Set at Alaska's Lake Iliamna, Apex updates the "prehistoric rediscovery" thriller by emphasizing human drama and realistic science. (Represented by Connor Smith, Hesperides.) Something awaits you.... www.mattbilleauthor.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Apex Predator is now slated for February 2027 by Blackstone. Set at Alaska's Lake Iliamna, Apex updates the "prehistoric rediscovery" thriller by emphasizing human drama and realistic science. (Represented by Connor Smith, Hesperides.) Something awaits you.... www.mattbilleauthor.com
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You're not going to BELIEVE the dots we've connected!!!
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November 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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AI has specialist uses where it can improve life. But he's right: AI Generating art, music, and writing is an unmitigated negative.
November 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
AI has specialist uses where it can improve life. But he's right: AI Generating art, music, and writing is an unmitigated negative.
I was GOP for many years until 2016 because they used to be for federalism and fiscal responsibility. But this GOP is constantly adding reasons in critical areas of tech, science, and medicine why, whether you like the Democrats in general or not, 2026 elections MUST give them a veto-proof Congress
Big Tech, with the GOP's help, is trying to override state laws regulating AI because it wants to avoid a patchwork of regulations that could limit its power, profits, and ability to operate without accountability.
This is not about innovation, it’s about control.
This is not about innovation, it’s about control.
Republicans are looking for a way to bring back the AI moratorium
Congress’ last attempt to pause state AI regulations failed.
www.theverge.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I was GOP for many years until 2016 because they used to be for federalism and fiscal responsibility. But this GOP is constantly adding reasons in critical areas of tech, science, and medicine why, whether you like the Democrats in general or not, 2026 elections MUST give them a veto-proof Congress
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November 21, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Fascinating.
Asa Gray was born OTD in 1810. A devout believer in a personal God, G was also one of Darwin’s greatest champions.
In a correspondence spanning 12 years, G and D minutely explored what evolution says about God and free will. D could not accept G’s God, but was deeply torn.
🌱🐋 #HistSTM #philsci 🧪
In a correspondence spanning 12 years, G and D minutely explored what evolution says about God and free will. D could not accept G’s God, but was deeply torn.
🌱🐋 #HistSTM #philsci 🧪
| Darwin Correspondence Project
www.darwinproject.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Fascinating.