Writing Women: 10 Authors With Must-Follow Twitter Accounts
Remember when you thought 2016 sucked? The good old days.
— Deborah Blum (@deborahblum) January 27, 2017
Deborah Blum
Deborah Blum is, as her bio states, a “book author, science journalist, blogger, and director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT.” Her latest book, The Poisoner’s Handbook, is a fascinating read about death by every kind of poison known to science. It’s also a documentary on PBS.
Her other books include A Field Guide for Science Writers: The Official guide of the National Association of Science Writers, Sex on the Brain: The Biological Differences Between Men and Women, Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection, and Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death.
Ms. Blum’s Twitter feed is chock full of scientific goodness. Seriously, if there’s a science or medical issue you need to know about, it will be in her timeline.
Of course, these days, this also verges into politics:
The confusing, wild world of science in the Trump era, by @zcolman https://t.co/4VS327tIEN
— Deborah Blum (@deborahblum) January 27, 2017
One of the best things about following authors one admires on Twitter is that it’s not just anonymous nobodies like me who are thinking things like her tweet about 2016.
She’s well aware of data and statistics, and she’s up on the news. It’s not just our imagination. Things are weird and bad right now. I guess it’s cold comfort to be validated here, but I guess I will take any kind of comfort I can get?