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Can’t wait for the episode about how they have to cover a mass shooting with no full-time staff and someone has to quit afterward because they have a mental breakdown even though another sister paper did send them a pizza in solidarity

science journalism is not ok

Bout to do some plenary talking at #AbSciCon24 , extremely chill

British friends can pre-order my book now (American friends need to wait a little longer still!): amazon.co.uk/Mixed-Signals-…

Fbook promoted a post onto my feed of an AI generated photorealistic image of Lady Gaga wearing a dress shaped like the Guggenheim at the met. it's the PROMOTION of this post that raises 🚨🚨. We are entering the election danger zone with no guardrails in place.

I'm excited to read this book and have to note maybe the best title I've ever seen???

this clip is amazing framed as a performance by an actor trying to hold on to his job by pitching as hard as possible toward the maudlin delusion of liberal-historical thinking in hollywood

This is a really good book of essays about fatherhood as well as all the things fatherhood makes visible or invisible. It is not, importantly, annoying in the way a lot of writing about fatherhood can be.

“Attachments is not annoying!”
- Phillip Maciak

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Exciting news! My novel THE EDITORS is up on NetGalley before it hits the shelves on August 6.

Reviewers can now request this “enthralling, ambitious and sharply observed contemporary thriller” about the behind-the-scenes of an internet encyclopedia.

netgalley.com/catalog/book_w…

Very grateful for this review (tbh more of a beautiful essay of its own) by Adam Fleming Petty in Los Angeles Review of Books

This is the first book I’ve written where I let myself hope that it might make someone feel seen or recognized. Wonderful to know that it did

lareviewofbooks.org/article/bad-da…

Lucas is one of my absolute favorite essayists, and this book is a must-read. Congrats to the bestselling new release of the week!

28 minutes into #AbSciCon24 and just got another book idea, whoops!

It’s true but also lol

If you’re in the Providence area, I’m reading from attachments tomorrow night at a little bookstore bar called riffraff, and chatting with Elisa Gabbert

Science buds, who's going to #AbSciCon24 ? Would love to meet up/say hi! (Also I'm part of a plenary talk Weds am on communicating discoveries of ET life, should be fun!)

There’s this weird slippage people do where by “peaceful” they mean “lawful” but then they want to use MLK as an example and seem to forget where “letter from Birmingham Jail” was written from

The country of Colombia picked the funniest possible time to do this