laurapoppick.bsky.social
Maine-based science and environmental journalist with stories in the NYT, Scientific American, Smithsonian, and elsewhere. Author of STRATA: Stories from Deep Time (W.W. Norton, July 2025). www.laurapoppick.com
👤 Joined on 28 November 2023
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@laurapoppick.bsky.socialSemester grades are almost done, so I'm eying my stratigraphic pile of To-Be-Read science-oriented books & anticipating the pleasure of reading them. Thanks @restingdinoface.bsky.social, @dghaskell.bsky.social. @chanda.blacksky.app, @laurapoppick.bsky.social, & @stevebrusatte.bsky.social! 📚 #Booksky
Show Post@ferrisjabr.bsky.social’s BECOMING EARTH, @brandonkeim.bsky.social’s MEET THE NEIGHBORS, and @laurapoppick.bsky.social’s STRATA come to mind! Thanks again for including me.
Show PostThese two books — the recent Strata by @laurapoppick.bsky.social and A New History of Life by Ward & Kirschvink — take us on a thrilling tour of Earth's storied layers and wildly diverse forms of life, extant and extinct, highlighting milestones in our planet's evolution.
Show PostSuch geo-riffic birthday presents! Just finished reading @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social's 'The Whispers of Rock' & loved it, now need to put @laurapoppick.bsky.social's 'Strata' on my must-get-and-read list. Happy rock reading! 🧪🪨⚒️📚
Show PostFor @highcountrynews.org's latest issue on Deep Time, I reviewed 3 books that help us explore Earth's past in different ways: Basin and Range by John McPhee, Strata by @laurapoppick.bsky.social, and When the Earth was Green by @restingdinoface.bsky.social 🧪⚒️ www.hcn.org/issues/58-1/...
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