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Michael Sims

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Author NYT Notable Bk & Lib Jour Best Sci Bk ADAM’S NAVEL, WaPo & Globe Best Bk STORY OF CHARLOTTE’S WEB, Edgar & Gold Dagger finalist ARTHUR & SHERLOCK. Journalist: New Statesman, NYT, TLS, LAT, WaPo, WSJ. Next book DARWIN’S CHILD < Basic Bks/Hachette.

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Michael Sims @michaelsimsbook.bsky.social · 26d

After we moved to a new place this summer, I found in a box these books that I read over half a century ago. (I’m 67.) I’m sentimental and I keep things. They conjure so many memories of how much I enjoyed #sciencefiction as a teenager. I have read little of it since. #heinlein #asimov

Michael Sims @michaelsimsbook.bsky.social · Jul 8

Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · Jul 8

🥜 Food Allergies may start in the Skin, not just the Gut🥜

Damaged skin (as with eczema) can let food proteins in, priming IgE responses that later trigger gut Mast Cells, which drives allergic reactions & anaphylaxis. buff.ly/Nfo06vB

#medsky #pedsky #foodallergy #immunosky 🛟🧪

Complex chart showing a peanut above the skin layer with S. Aureus bacteria. This triggers a chain of reaction in the skin and in the lymph nodes. When the baby eats the peanut, it triggers the tuft cells and SAP and this eventually causes mast cells to degranulate.

Michael Sims @michaelsimsbook.bsky.social · Jul 6

In our new house, I admired a bowl glorified by sunlight on the old bureau we reincarnated as a sideboard. Then I saw the still almost empty china cabinet hosting a 17th-century Dutch still life. Sadly, Clara Peeters and Brueghel the Elder lacked cocktail shakers and their playful way with sheen.

Michael Sims @michaelsimsbook.bsky.social · May 30

What fun to see this pop up again. Thank you!

Michael Sims @michaelsimsbook.bsky.social · Apr 5

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

More than 200 health professionals say Trump has ‘malignant narcissism’ in open letter

George Conway-led Pac questions Republican nominee’s mental fitness for office in full-page New York Times ad

www.theguardian.com

Michael Sims @michaelsimsbook.bsky.social · Apr 5

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u...

Anti-Trump Protests Get Underway Across the Country

Demonstrators packed the streets in several cities to bemoan what they considered a lack of strong opposition to the president and his policies.

www.nytimes.com

Michael Sims @michaelsimsbook.bsky.social · Mar 30

This is exactly the attitudes I grew up around.

Michael Sims @michaelsimsbook.bsky.social · Mar 25

Apparently our godforsaken excuse for a government is happily planning to rack up all kinds of warnings from other nations about the dangers of having anything to do with the U.S.

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Mar 25

“Netherlands tightens US travel advice for LGBTQ+ people
German and Finnish authorities have taken similar steps, and Belgium is planning to do the same, as the Trump administration removes some protections for sexual minorities.” 3/25/25 1/ www.politico.eu/article/neth...

Netherlands tightens US travel advice for LGBTQ+ people

German and Finnish authorities have taken similar steps, and Belgium is planning to do the same, as the Trump administration removes some protections for sexual minorities.

www.politico.eu

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Michael Sims @michaelsimsbook.bsky.social · Mar 24

A typically smart, humane, and helpful piece by the great @nytimes.com columnist Margaret Renkl.

Michael Sims @michaelsimsbook.bsky.social · Mar 24

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/o...

Opinion | Why I Got the Measles Vaccine at Age 63

Cases have now popped up in at least 19 states, including Kentucky and Georgia. That’s near enough to home for me to start worrying.

www.nytimes.com

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Michael Sims @michaelsimsbook.bsky.social · Mar 10

Working on my next book, about the always fadcinating #charlesdarwin and #emmadarwin, at the dining table to be near the springy view at the big window. Five whitetail deer just paraded along the ridge trail right behind the apartment. Nature is just as creative today as it was a million years ago.

Michael Sims @michaelsimsbook.bsky.social · Mar 3

#bloodoranges and #roastedchickpeas on my desk. That’s all.

Michael Sims @michaelsimsbook.bsky.social · Mar 3

Of course.

Michael Sims @michaelsimsbook.bsky.social · Feb 28

The 12-year-old deciding he is not at all too old to covet what he calls “museum-quality models.”

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Michael Sims @michaelsimsbook.bsky.social · Feb 27

#monarchcaterpillar in western Pennsylvania, from September

Michael Sims @michaelsimsbook.bsky.social · Feb 27

SLFerguson @slferguson.bsky.social · Feb 27

#DailyDose

"Six entire schools are on outbreak status, one school for both respiratory and gastrointestinal illnesses, three more schools are experiencing outbreaks of respiratory illness, while two others are dealing with gastrointestinal illness outbreaks."

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Washoe County schools face multiple illness outbreaks

UPDATE as of 3:00 p.m. on February 26: Six entire schools are on outbreak status, one school for both respiratory and gastrointestinal illnesses, three more sch

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Michael Sims @michaelsimsbook.bsky.social · Feb 25

Lemons, blood oranges, and, yes, avocados, not limes. Every day of this evil coup I remind myself that the world is also still full of beauty.

Michael Sims @michaelsimsbook.bsky.social · Feb 25

I’m reading it now and enjoying it very much.

Michael Sims @michaelsimsbook.bsky.social · Feb 25

Another thoughtful and compelling book by Lee Dugatkin.

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Michael Sims @michaelsimsbook.bsky.social · Feb 25

www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...

Dr. Calhoun’s Mousery By Lee Alan Dugatkin -- Review

A compelling biography about a groundbreaking scientist and his controversial work, using rodent cities to examine the potential catastrophes that might befall human overpopulation.

www.forbes.com

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Michael Sims @michaelsimsbook.bsky.social · Feb 25

Ohio sunset, October 2024, before the coup

Michael Sims @michaelsimsbook.bsky.social · Feb 25

Michael Sims @michaelsimsbook.bsky.social · Feb 24

Canada geese in a wintry river & their tracks in snow beside it. I thought the 3-toed tracks might be from other birds such as coots or rails. But an ornithologist I consulted said no, those tracks are by geese. in deeper snow, not and thus show only toes, not webbing. #Canadageese, #tracksinsnow.

Canada geese in a wintry river and their tracks in snow beside it.

Michael Sims @michaelsimsbook.bsky.social · Feb 18

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

How Spain’s radically different approach to migration helped its economy soar

As immigration has increased, GDP has surged and unemployment has fallen to lowest level since 2008

www.theguardian.com

Michael Sims @michaelsimsbook.bsky.social · Feb 18

“Not o good look.” Good God.