Michael Sims
@michaelsimsbook.bsky.social
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 IN LOVE < Basic Bks/Hachette.
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Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death.
September 3, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death.
Reposted by Michael Sims
Nature honors Dolly Parton's scientific legacy. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Dolly Parton dies aged 80 – researchers celebrate her contributions to science
The country singer was an advocate for vaccines, public health, literacy and marginalized communities.
www.nature.com
August 26, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Nature honors Dolly Parton's scientific legacy. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The luscious blue drupes (not exactly berries) of silky dogwood enrich an urban (well, small-town) trail where I walk in #westernpennsylvania. I watch for these clusters every year. They start out pale green. Nibbling them won’t hurt you, but I find them repulsively bitter.
August 26, 2026 at 11:42 AM
The luscious blue drupes (not exactly berries) of silky dogwood enrich an urban (well, small-town) trail where I walk in #westernpennsylvania. I watch for these clusters every year. They start out pale green. Nibbling them won’t hurt you, but I find them repulsively bitter.
This is wonderful.
August 26, 2026 at 1:28 AM
This is wonderful.
This is the beautiful #bluelobelia, Lobelia siphilitica.
Linnaeus named the genus after Flemish botanist Matthias de Lobel. The species name recalls a colonial myth that Native Americans used this plant to cure a common malady among the Eurotrash invaders.
Let’s try #anewspecieseveryday.
Linnaeus named the genus after Flemish botanist Matthias de Lobel. The species name recalls a colonial myth that Native Americans used this plant to cure a common malady among the Eurotrash invaders.
Let’s try #anewspecieseveryday.
August 26, 2026 at 12:40 AM
This is the beautiful #bluelobelia, Lobelia siphilitica.
Linnaeus named the genus after Flemish botanist Matthias de Lobel. The species name recalls a colonial myth that Native Americans used this plant to cure a common malady among the Eurotrash invaders.
Let’s try #anewspecieseveryday.
Linnaeus named the genus after Flemish botanist Matthias de Lobel. The species name recalls a colonial myth that Native Americans used this plant to cure a common malady among the Eurotrash invaders.
Let’s try #anewspecieseveryday.
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
September 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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
🥜 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 🛟🧪
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 🛟🧪
July 8, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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.
July 6, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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.
This is exactly the attitudes I grew up around.
March 30, 2025 at 10:54 PM
This is exactly the attitudes I grew up around.
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.
“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...
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
March 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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.
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.
March 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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.
#bloodoranges and #roastedchickpeas on my desk. That’s all.
March 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
#bloodoranges and #roastedchickpeas on my desk. That’s all.
The 12-year-old deciding he is not at all too old to covet what he calls “museum-quality models.”
February 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The 12-year-old deciding he is not at all too old to covet what he calls “museum-quality models.”
#monarchcaterpillar in western Pennsylvania, from September
February 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
#monarchcaterpillar in western Pennsylvania, from September
#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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"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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February 27, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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.
February 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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.
Ohio sunset, October 2024, before the coup
February 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Ohio sunset, October 2024, before the coup
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.
February 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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.
