My husband is currently in Detroit, and has been working for months on lighting this international bridge project that Trump hates. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/w...

The goodest girl

My book proposal wasn't quite working, so I put it in a drawer to revisit later. I'm on to my next idea, but I'd love your help in honing the focus. While researching the history of hysteria, I found a broader theme of weaponization of madness accusations as a way to disappear inconvenient women.

Found both my books face-out at my local Barnes & Noble. 🥰 Signed all copies. They're in the science section, which is arranged by discipline, so they are not next to each other. My 13-year-old was meeting a friend to book shop, so I got to feel like a celebrity while he showed his friend my books.

A book I wrote the foreword for is shortlisted for the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize! Go read HIDDEN GUESTS! It's amazing. Congrats to Lise Barnéoud!

The peach tree we planted in our front yard is finally bearing fruit that isn't tiny and hard.

Total steal on my ebook. Snag at Bookshop or on Kindle. #history #nonfiction #authorsofinstagram #womenshistorymonth

Still laughing about this.

Researcher, author, thinker friends: it's the annual 50% off sale at @princetonupress.bsky.social -- now's the time to hit go on your cart. Here's what I decided to snap up. Tons of cool science, history, and philosophy books to be had.

In the late 1960s, 17% of NASA's staff were women; mostly secretaries. When schoolteacher Judy Sullivan applied for a job, the woman who interviewed her warned, “They’ll give you every reason in the world why they can’t have a woman over there. They’ll even tell you there are no female bathrooms.”

Steal work and pass it off as your own, with a program named after a woman whose work was stolen by men and passed off as their own!

This is what authors have been dealing with. Constant barrage of AI slop scams. "Be on our (fake) radio show." "Be featured at our (fake) book club." For a cost. And this is just a few weeks worth of emails; I already deleted some.

I'm back from my many March events and excited to share that SISTERS IN SCIENCE is included in the audible BOGO sale through 3/27/26! It's a truly fab audiobook. @htpbooks.bsky.social #womenshistorymonth #womeninstem #history

Had a blast at Tucson Festival of Books. Someone called me "delightful" after my first panel, I was in the author's lounge with Salman Rushdie and Joy Harjo, and someone recognized me at my hotel and told me they loved my talk. Needless to say, I will be absolutely insufferable for the foreseeable.

Phoenix to Tucson. Alien landscape.

See you this weekend in Tucson! It's going to be 90 degrees! But I hear it's a dry heat. I'm on the history and science panels on Sunday.

"Light pink, slightly depressed" -- same basal cell carcinoma, same

Happy paperback publication day to my second book, SISTERS IN SCIENCE! Dive into the true story of how Lise Meitner, Hedwig Kohn, Hertha Sponer, and Hildegard Stücklen fought sexism to become eminent physicists, then helped each other flee the Nazis. #nonfiction #womenshistory

21 inches and counting ❄️

Gotta love an orange "bestseller" badge! Snag the SISTERS IN SCIENCE ebook for an incredible $3.99!

You dare to approach the oracle without treats?

Until AI can walk into an archive and sift through thousands of delicate pages, photos, diaries, and folios to identify the dozen interesting and relevant tidbits of information that will help complete the picture of someone's life, I'd like to think my job is safe.

Apparently, we can't give you our money fast enough

Blizzard ready, so of course it will be nothing. Homemade veggie chowder and oat rolls. Plus a pot of Nepal Tea Collective Rose Label Gold.

I have been in a book rut for MONTHS, given *gesticulates wildly*. I have DNFed So. Many. Books. the last few months. Snake-Eater broke the spell. Turns out all I needed was my absolute fave: @tkingfisher.com horror. I'm back to finishing-a-book-in-a-few-days reading. Just a gosh-darn delight!