Science writer. New book: A Pox on Fools arrives in May 2026. Preorders https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/808113/a-pox-on-fools-by-thomas-levenson/ Professing science writing at MIT. Spouse & dad. Servant to 2 feline overlords...All opinions mine.
Boston Tom Levenson
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The horn of Africa is grieving because their
-Their farms are no longer yielding
-Advancement of desert is alarming
-Our major rivers are drying
-Proliferation of pest and pathogens
-Development of tropical diseases.
-Our crop are dieing out.
Climate change is a reality.
Abilu Tangwa.
Hey #booksky,
I’m just starting to get the “feature your book with our community” emails for the new one, A Pox on Fools.
One of them breaks a little from the pattern I’ve seen so far, the Manhattan Book Club.
Has anyone encountered them?
Truly a great line in a song description:
"All stoner and doom bands are foam in the wake of MOUNTAIN."
Metaphors may be groaning but the meaning is clear.
And another book "club" offer of promotion for A Pox on Fools (which you should definitely check out, btw).
The sincerity of the AI bot behind the email text is conveyed perfectly in the image below:
Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️
The sound you just heard is John Thune day drinking.
I have lots of t-shirts. My favorite is one from 2009 sporting a pic. of Charles Darwin wearing a Che Guevara-inspired beret, w. a blue footed booby instead of a red star, and the slogan "Viva la Evolution!"
But I have never got as many smiles and attaboys as I do when I wear this one:
Concur with a minor adjustment:
This is the biggest scandal in American politics that does not directly involve Donald Trump and his family.
Couldn't agree more.
And it wouldn't be publication week if I didn't hijack this sentiment and suggest that the book you pick up could very well be this one:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/808113...
@kkjetelina.bsky.social takes us through the cases of New World Screwworm, back in the U.S. for the first time since 1966.
The biggest threat? The Trump Syndicate’s incompetent anti-science approach to just about everything…
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#MedSky 🧪
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Your daily reminder this should be the biggest scandal in American politics right now but nobody seems to care.
Ken Paxton freed a man who raped a boy for 3 years. He also doesnt have to register as a sex offender.
www.texastribune.org/2026/05/19/k...
Patrick McCann -
Critics are pointing to two other serious felony cases that the attorney general’s prosecutors took to trial that ended in mistrials and, eventually, plea deals.
