isabelthomas.co.uk
Science & nature writer • Author of 300 books, with Bloomsbury, Phaidon, OUP, Hachette & many others • AAAS Book Prize 2020 & 2023 • Tortoise wrangler 🐢 🐢 • Creators' Rights Alliance Committee • School SEND governor • Cambridge, UK • www.isabelthomas.co.uk
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This is such a lovely fact, I had no idea! 💚🐸
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One of my favourite frog chemistry facts (yes, I have several 😁) is that only a single amino acid mutation prevents poison dart frogs from poisoning themselves
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This is an outstanding fact! 💚🐸
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I brilliant fact! I was reading about desert frogs this morning, and they can survive by soaking up any fog that condenses on their skin! 🐸💚
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Frogs are full of surprises! Fowler's toad sounds just like a high pitched human baby crying!
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This is a brilliant fact, and reminds me of the Fanged Frogs of South East Asia! 💚🐸
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That is amazing! Especially when you picture a 30 cm ruler! 🫨🐸💚
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2/2…
Would absolutely also recommend “Moth” which looks at and explains simply adaption and evolution
…and “Fox” which explores the circle of life and death and doesn’t shy away from the realities. Stunning!
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And make sure your main life, loves and people are outside of publishing, so you always keep perspective
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Back yourself, but don't get overly attached to any particular idea or project; remember you are running a business and don't sell your time and ideas for less than they are worth; give every project your all while it is in your control, but then let it go and move your head & heart to the next
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I love them so much, such joyful days, and I am hugely grateful to teachers and SLT who add to their already impossible workloads to organise these special days and events for their pupils
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So grim
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Another writer told me we need to also change another setting to stop anything we write in Word being scraped to train AI
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Hi Mum 🥰
Also you can follow 'starter packs' - lists of accounts relevant to a field you're interested in
Like this STEM Education one:
bsky.app/starter-pack...
You can also ask the starter pack author/admin that they add your account to the list so other people can follow you for that topic
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@emmavieceli.bsky.social
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Thank you!
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You did recommend it!!! Don't take it back now! 😂
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Thank you! It was nerve-racking I hadn't been to an interview since mid 00s!
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I just got offered my first ITT place! (Chemistry) I'm very excited
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Fox and Moth are about nature in urban settings, life, death, the struggle for survival alongside humans, adaptation, hope
Not explicitly about my own background but it definitely influences my writing 🦊
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"Find us the next big thing, but only by copying what's already successful!"
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This is perfect!!! Thank you so much!
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Oh my gosh that is such lovely news, thank you so much! Chiara's artwork is exquisite, sharing a murmuration skyline below, and 1800s New York where the story begins!
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No wonder they need to have a little snooze on our shoulders from time to time!
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Hello, I'm part of the Creators' Rights Alliance Committee (and before that the Society of Authors CWIG) and share lots of information about creators' rights and making writing work