Mosquito-Borne Illness Rarely Seen in U.S. Is Suspected on Long Island www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/n...

Here's an I mportant article from The New York Times on what to do if your passport is lost or stolen while you are out of the country. 🛂 ✈️

Eastern garter snake, (Thamnophis sirtalis) in our backyard this morning. 🐍🧪

Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying. Protect wildfire fighters now! Call on the Forest Service to immediately yupdate their rediculouly dangerous rules! 🌳🔥🚒 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/u...

Meal time for Junior on our shag bark hickory. 🧪🐣 Mom was on an adjacent tree.

Sharing is nice. Scene from our deck this morning. 🧪🕊️🐣

Thrilled to have signed my 2nd book contract in 2025. This one for "Feet First: A Natural History, from Fins to Fetishes" to be illustrated by my friend and ANNH colleague Patricia J. Wynne (of course). Here's a special shout out/thank you to my agents Gillian and Liz for keeping me busy 🧪🦶🏻👟👠📚🐘🦇🐾

10-Minute Challenge: Bosch’s ‘Garden of Earthly Delights’ www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 🎨 🖼️

Doing research for my next book. Could be worse. 🧪📚

Just signed the contract for my first kid's book, "Desi the Vampire Bat", which will be illustrated by my longtime friend and AMNH colleague Patricia J. Wynne. 🧪🦇📚

Interesting article. 🧪Maybe It’s Not Just Aging. Maybe It’s Anemia. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/h...

Please read. This is important information. What to Do When There’s a Flash Flood Warning www.nytimes.com/article/flas...

Text for my first children's book (about a family of vampire 🦇🦇) has been accepted and is moving on to the copy editor. Roughly 10k words into my next popular science book. 🧪📚🦶🏻👟👠🐘👣

Bat Cave Footage Offers Clues to How Viruses Leap Between Species www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/s...

Here are the NYTimes picks for their favorite movies each year since 2000. 🎥🍿

Very bad science ju-ju. 🧪

A new study finds that eliminating fluoride in drinking water would cause 25.4 million more cavities for kids in the U.S. within the next five years and double to 53.8 million in 10 years. The study comes as Utah and Florida have recently banned fluoride, following the lead of RFK Jr.

This is a scary article by Carl Zimmer about the how scientists have found a second species of the fungus that causes white nose syndrome in bats. A potentially devastating development 🧪🦇

This has to be the greatest bird feeder EVER.

Cool story about the importance of dermestid beetles at the AMNH. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/n...

This publicity stunt has apparently become justification (among MAGA types) to can the Endangered Species Act. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/m...

A rather unique article. Enjoy! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/m...

And here's a comedy YouTube show that #SFF readers and authors might like to check out: I was on @peculiarbookclub.bsky.social last week, interviewed by zoologist @billschuttauthor.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ15...

#SciArt Job Alert! The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is offering an opportunity for an illustrator to join the Bartels Science Illustration Program for a visiting artist residency. This is a full-time, paid temporary appointment that lasts up to one year. cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Cornel...

Having written BITE, a book about teeth, I thought I'd post this article on some dental does and don'ts. 🧪

This was the final cover for Hell's Gate. Thankful I received great blurbs from legendary thriller writer Clive Cussler, James Cameron, James Rollins, etc. Definitely my favorite fiction project. 📚💙 🦇 It would be a spectacular movie (If seriously interested, contact me or Gillian MacKenzie Agency)

A new review of my latest book BITE: AN INCISIVE HISTORY OF TEETH FROM HAGFiSH TO HUMANS just came out in the London Review of Books. 🧪📚 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Just told Bowie we ordered a mini Tasmanian diredoodle. 🧪

Though not quite as dire as advertised, this is cool but controversial, especially if they (or other proposed de-extinct species like dodos or wholly mammoths) were ever introduced into the wild. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/s...

I found it extremely interesting to trace the history of fluoridation, including the recent controversy, in my latest book, BITE. 🧪https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/13/books/review/bite-bill-schutt.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7U4.uE3Z.vsFK7HHs0xyw

Dum da dum dumb. 🧪 Utah becomes first state to ban fluoride in public water - NBC News

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

🦇 Super excited to see 'The Lives of Bats. A Natural History' published today. It was a joy to write and to see it come to life with extraordinary photos and illustrations. Thanks @princetonupress.bsky.social! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Completely psyched to be working on FEET FIRST with my artist friend Patricia J. Wynne and my DARK BANQUET editor, John Glusman. A big shoutout to my terrific agent Gillian MacKenzie, my family, mentors, and everyone else who's been there for me all these years.🧪📚🦶🏻

Check out these amazing videos of cuttlefish employing mimicry as they hunt. 🧪 #cephalopods www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/s...

As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio.

During these troubling times, these are wise words to follow.

Very interesting article in today's NYT. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/w...

What a lovely, kind, wonderfully talented human being. I'm so honored (and happy) that we're friends. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/m...

Since Feb. 14 is the launch day anniversary of "Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History" here's a Fun Fact from my book: The Cupid Myth may be based on a cannibalistic, love dart-firing snail. 🧪 Happy Valentine's Day! ❤️ (Figure by Patricia J. Wynne)

I was interviewed by CNN for this story and very pleased that the writer stressed my key concern: A need for STRONG evidence before any DEFINITIVE conclusion about cannibalism can be reached. 🧪 Though the researchers made that clear, the media will generally ignore it. www.cnn.com/2025/02/12/s...

Happy Birthday Charles Darwin, who was born on the very same day (Feb 12, 1809) as Abraham Lincoln. 🧪

The #H5N1 #birdflu virus from a severe case in Louisiana shows it was developing mutations that could help it attach to cells in human respiratory tracts, including a mutation seen in a recent severe case in British Columbia, Canada, the #CDC reported today. www.statnews.com/2024/12/26/c...

When the edible kicks in.

Two things come to mind. 1) Cool Edmontosaurus skin! 2) Bad place to walk. 🧪

She speaks truth.

Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.

Here's the cover for the upcoming Spanish language edition of my book “Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History” 🧪 📚

I wrote about this and other groundbreaking feats of modern and future dentistry in my latest book "Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans. 🧪 📚 www.popsci.com/science/huma...

In brief: this is potentially VERY BAD JU-JU. 🧪 www.sciencenews.org/article/bird...