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Nancy Quinn @nancyquinn.bsky.social · 3h

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup

All That We See Or Seem by Ken Liu; When There Are Wolves Again by EJ Swift; The White Octopus Hotel by Alexandra Bell; Darker Days by Thomas Olde Heuvelt; Remain by Nicholas Sparks with M Night Shyam...

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Nancy Quinn @nancyquinn.bsky.social · 1d

Nature Center’s Emergency Butterfly Wing Transplant a Success Watched by Millions on Social Media www.goodnewsnetwork.org/nature-cente...

Nature Center's Emergency Butterfly Wing Transplant a Success Watched by Millions on Social Media

The one easy part was that butterfly's have no nerve endings in their upper wings. There are no blood vessels either.

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Nancy Quinn @nancyquinn.bsky.social · 1d

‘There is an inner poet in all of us.’ Laureate Arthur Sze on poetry as discovery. www.csmonitor.com/Books/Author...

‘There is an inner poet in all of us.’ Laureate Arthur Sze on poetry as discovery.

Arthur Sze, the new U.S. poet laureate, hopes you’ll take time to read a poem today – slowly. Within it, he says in an interview, are words and phrases that can be “seeds that nurture you.”

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Nancy Quinn @nancyquinn.bsky.social · 1d

6 New Books We Love This Week www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...

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6 New Books We Love This Week

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Nancy Quinn @nancyquinn.bsky.social · 1d

The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 British Academy Book Prize, recommended by Rebecca Earle fivebooks.com/best-books/2...

The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 British Academy Book Prize

To be shortlisted for the annual British Academy Book Prize, books have to be both rigorously researched and highly readable. Historian Rebecca Earle, chair of the 2025 judging panel, talks us through...

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Nancy Quinn @nancyquinn.bsky.social · 1d

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Cynic www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/b...

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Cynic

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Nancy Quinn @nancyquinn.bsky.social · 1d

BOOKSTORES OF THE WORLD www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

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BOOKSTORES OF THE WORLD | Kirkus Reviews

A tribute to literary oases.

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Nancy Quinn @nancyquinn.bsky.social · 1d

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week bookmarks.reviews/the-best-rev...

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The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring Thomas Pynchon, Gertrude Stein, John Banville, and more

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Dave Morris @davehasdiabetes.bsky.social · Aug 6

Further cautious hope for islet cell transplantation. #T1D #diabetes

Miriam E. Tucker @miriametucker.bsky.social · Aug 5

I don't normally say this, but this new report signals some real progress towards curing #type1diabetes : www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Transplanted Islet Cells Survive Without Immune Suppression

In a first for type 1 diabetes, researchers have gene-edited donor pancreatic islets in a way that evades the immune system to enable insulin secretion for at least 6 months.

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Nancy Quinn @nancyquinn.bsky.social · 2d

Truth!

Nancy Quinn @nancyquinn.bsky.social · 2d

34 years ago today, I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.

This is what I've thought about every time I've eaten a meal since then. 🙂

In all seriousness, this disease is a lot of work. But I'm also grateful for all the progress that has been made in helping us live with it.

#Type1 #T1D #Diaversary

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 2d

Wise words from a beautiful human (after the "Don't like" stuff).

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 6d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Nancy Quinn @nancyquinn.bsky.social · 2d

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

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Nancy Quinn @nancyquinn.bsky.social · 2d

JB Pritzker Has Had It With Democrats Who Won’t Stand Up to Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

JB Pritzker Has Had It With Democrats Who Won’t Stand Up to Trump

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Nancy Quinn @nancyquinn.bsky.social · 2d

Ican Klíma obituary www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Ican Klíma obituary

Czech novelist and playwright whose work was banned under communism

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Nancy Quinn @nancyquinn.bsky.social · 2d

Here are the winners of the 2025 Kirkus Prize. lithub.com/here-are-the...

Here are the winners of the 2025 Kirkus Prize.

Tonight, at a ceremony in New York City, Kirkus Reviews announced the three winners of the 2025 Kirkus Prize, in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, and Young Readers’ Literature. These wi…

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Nancy Quinn @nancyquinn.bsky.social · 2d

Edwidge Danticat on Haiti and Trump, Past and Present lithub.com/edwidge-dant...

Edwidge Danticat on Haiti and Trump, Past and Present

Acclaimed fiction writer and essayist Edwidge Danticat joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss her new essay collection We’re Alone. Danticat reflects on misinformation an…

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Nancy Quinn @nancyquinn.bsky.social · 2d

Interview: Jeff Kinney on His Favorite Books and the Latest in His ‘Wimpy Kid’ Series www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...

Jeff Kinney Knows What It’s Like to Be a Party Pooper

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

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Nancy Quinn @nancyquinn.bsky.social · 2d

Nobel Prize in Literature Is Awarded to Laszlo Krasznahorkai www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...

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Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 3d

A remarkable fact I've learned about the current Harvest Supermoon is that if you observe it natural surroundings and gaze up at it in awestruck reverence for long enough, there's a good chance you'll walk into a tree.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 3d

This.💯

So much this.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 3d

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Mary Hrovat @maryhrovat.bsky.social · 3d

Cloudy moon.

Night photo of the moon surrounded by and partially covered by gauzy clouds. The branches and needles of a pine tree are visible in the foreground.

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