Gnarly Nature
The Frog Pond #26: Underwater Bees and Their Only Flower
The bee of the sea pollinates a cousin of algae that you can learn about for free since it's important to me as a nature devotee.
Sarah L. Hawthorn
SFFH writer / Haligonian / She/They / A FATE WORSE THAN DROWNING (@Sourcebooks Summer 2026) / Maritime Cryptid / Hazel stan account 🐈 / Rep: Larissa Melo Pienkowski with Azantian Literary Agency
Climate Chaos
The Frog Pond #25: Squid Bones vs Microplastics: Fight!
The humble squid (or at least its bones) is part of a new tool tackling microplastics!
Gnarly Nature
The Frog Pond #24: Why did Victorian Women LOVE Seaweed?
Why did women in the mid- to late 1800s, including Queen Victoria, LOVE seaweed so much? Boots, scrapbooks, and old boys clubs.
News
The Frog Pond #23: Let Mushrooms Take the Wheel and ✨ BOOK NEWS ✨
In this month's Frog Pond: Mushrooms drive tiny robots and a fancy new book title is dredged up from the depths.
Weird Places
The Frog Pond #22: Weird Bathypelagic Fish Roundup
At least 20 new species were found while exploring the Nazca Ridge, as well as a rare variety of cute, weird, and fin-walking fish of the sea floor.
Freaky Animals
The Frog Pond #21: Saunas Save Frogs
Frogs are in danger around the world from a fungus infection. One research team's found an innovative solution for an Australian frog species using miniature saunas.
News
The Frog Pond #20: I GOT A BOOK DEAL!
My speculative historical novel, THE DROWNED COAST will be published by Sourcebooks in Fall 2025!
Freaky Animals
The Frog Pond #19: Perplexing Pandas
What do pandas have in common with anteaters, gorillas, and geese? And why would a bear eat so much bamboo?
Weird Places
The Frog Pond #18: How many planets are in the Solar System?
Most planetary classification has been on a vibes-based system for centuries.
Strange Elements
The Frog Pond #17: Riddle of the Sphinx
It's not just people that have left and right "handedness" - so does, well, everything in biology!
Weird Places
The Frog Pond #16: Satellite Killer
Move over Bermuda Triangle, there's a bigger Atlantic anomaly and it's killing satellites.
Weird Places
The Frog Pond #15: A long shot to the Moon (and getting longer)
We won't have solar eclipses in 600 million years and more Moon facts you really don't need to worry about during your finite existence.