lepoulsdumonde.com is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Small french Mastodon instance for friends, family and useful bots

Administered by:

Server stats:

52
active users

#books

500 posts296 participants109 posts today

A Century Ago, Pioneering Astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Showed Us What Stars Are Made Of

The trailblazing Harvard scientist, who documented the dominance of hydrogen and helium in stars, is still inspiring researchers today

By Elizabeth Landau

smithsonianmag.com/science-nat

Stellar Atmospheres is available at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/73996

Quick reminder tha tonight (Thursday 20th) @TheEdinburghBookshop will be launching Shoreline of Infinity's SF Caledonia anthology, with readings from several of the authors, including T.L. Huchu, Rachel Plummer, Rhiannon Grist, Iain Bain and Kirsti Wishart. Details on the events page:

edinburghbookshop.com/events-1

niklas.reviews/csaba-szabo-unr

I've just reviewed Csaba Szabo's ''Unreliable: Bias, Fraud, and the Reproducibility Crisis in Biomedical Research'.

It's a tour-de-force through how most biomedicine research results are impossible to reproduce, how the field is corrupted by fraud, and what some real scientists are doing to counter all of this.

@bookstodon #book #reading #CsabaSzabo #BookReview #reviews #books #science #biomedicine #papers #research #NonFiction

This week I've been mainly reading, no. 218.

Although written nearly 40 years ago,
Lois McMaster Bujold's Falling Free (1988) seems incredibly timely; dealing with an uprising among genetically modified slave workers, Bujold's sci-fi novel deals with callous corporations, workers' exploitation & toxic management, all presented in a breezy & fluid style; its a great read & wears its politics pretty openly. Highly recommended!

@bookstodon #scifi #books #politics

I see that #Malaysia and #Singapore have joined the countries who can access #KoboPlus

If you’re newly looking to give it a go, I’ve been listing my favourite K+ reads for a while now. Mostly in the SFF, history, romance, and historical non-fiction areas. Maybe browse my tag, see you what you find:

wendypalmer.au/tag/koboplus/

@bookstodon #bookstodon #books #welcome #indieReads
@indieauthors

Wendy PalmerKoboPlus – Wendy PalmerPosts about KoboPlus written by Wendy

Para #QuartaCapa cujo tema é "capas bonitas", trago "Hellraiser" (Clive Barker), na edição brasileira da editora DarkSide Books. Não sou fã do gênero, mas é daqueles livros que compraria só pela capa.

Menções honrosas: "Valis" (Philip K. Dick) numa antiga edição da Aleph que imitava a caixa de um remédio tarja preta; Trilogia Alien com ilustrações metalizadas (Tim Lebbon e James A. Moore) da editora Leya; A religião nos limites da simples razão (Immanuel Kant) da editora Lafonte, que traz um coração formado por trilhas de placa de circuito e um chip/processador no centro.

youtube.com/watch?v=BMM6pJIPYv