Talkin' #monarchs @scifri.bsky.social, starting at 16:15. www.sciencefriday.com/segments/bat... The @nytimes.com story is here (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...

Do this, people! It's a great award!

For the first time, scientists are tracking the migration of monarch butterflies across much of North America, actively monitoring individual insects on journeys. It could provide crucial insights into the life cycles of hundreds of flying insects at a time when many are in steep decline.

Taking a break from book writing to do this fun story! (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...

Equal justice under slaw. www.reuters.com/world/washin...

I'm just wondering what job Eric Adams is going to get in the Cuomo administration.

Big day in the NY Times for NYU SHERP. Congratulations William Herkewitz (SHERP 31) and @alexaroblesgil.bsky.social (SHERP 42)! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o... www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/s...

It's incredible how much GOP messaging has been this argument for the last ten years...

"Advice" from someone who has insisted on surrounding himself with yes men (and women) his ENTIRE LIFE. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

Bravissimo!

Went to a science journalism talk from @danfagin.bsky.social, who shared this mind-blowing idea: people are not irrational for ignoring scientific evidence, they're being TOO rational. They recognize that the social cost of going against their "tribe" is just not worth what they gain from the truth.

I signed. Beilock's stance is both wrong and witless. If your policy of "institutional restraint" doesn't exempt the greatest threat to higher education in memory, then your policy is actually institutional silence. And if you give in to the bully once, then he'll take your lunch money every day.

Universal message.

#Cornell friends, looking forward to seeing you April 24! Thanks for spreading the word! events.cornell.edu/event/univer...

A tragedy

"Come on, there is no best moment of watching a vicious kakistocracy be installed in the chamber its followers once desecrated in a coup attempt." @michellegoldberg.bsky.social for the win. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/o...

2nd inaugurals then & now: "With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds." "We are going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America."

@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social Hi Rob, I don't think we've met, which is surprising, but I've admired your work for years and would like to put you in front of my EJ grad students this spring. Since I don't have your email, can you email me at [email protected] so I can explain? Thanks!

If this is a dream, don't wake me.

I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

The Big Pedosky.

We're here! go.bsky.app/B6LJP7U

How well do you know the depths of New York City? Dive deep in Scienceline's latest Special Project: NYC Under the Surface scienceline.org/special-proj... #nyc #sciencejournalism #sciencenews #healthnews #environmentnews

We're here! go.bsky.app/B6LJP7U

I guess the game here is to extract small concessions, claim they're huge concessions, and then move on to the next outrageous performance. Good timing with overdoses and crossings going down, more "victories" to claim. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11...

Bear with me, it's a thread... Long before Senator Harris of California, there was another Senator Harris who ALSO ran twice for president: Oklahoma's own Fred Harris. He was a very interesting guy -- a liberal(ish) populist who managed to be elected twice to the Senate from an arch-conservative...

Another win for Jimmy Madison. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11...

Written 73 years ago: “Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

Despite a massive head start, BlueSky has now overtaken Threads in the US 👇

I thought for sure Hulk Hogan was getting this job, but I guess this is close. www.cnn.com/2024/11/19/p...

If there's a hell, Nancy Mace had better be buried in an asbestos pantsuit. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Truth.

Today in sentences I never thought I’d write: Is the Onion’s InfoWars hiring science writers?

Applications now open for the Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award, a grant of $12,500 to support the work of a promising early-career nonfiction writer on a story that uncovers truths about the human condition. Don't be shy. Apply! #journalism #funding

The measles vaccine has saved 94 million lives over the past 50 years, and it plus vaccines against 13 other pathogens have cut infant mortality by 40 percent and saved 154 million lives. 154 MILLION LIVES 🧪 Anti-vaxxer RFKJ is a menace to global health www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

This is a huge loss for science journalism, and therefore the planet, but I have every expectation SciAm will continue to provide superb coverage of our world (and worlds beyond!) even without Laura. Now more than ever, we need great journalism about all aspects of the scientific enterprise.

Meet your next Postmaster General.

Wonderful news.

This is today, come join us in person or online! journalism.nyu.edu/bigbookidea

Only problem I foresee is that millions of MAGAs won't get that it's satire. Do you have a plan for this, @theonion.com? www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/b...

I tried to do the #nyt #vertex puzzle this morning and it wasn’t there and my heart broke into a hundred little triangle-shaped pieces.

Great story in the Atlantic about my little sister and her work on the weirdest, coolest, and most inexplicable book... ever. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The most terrifying aspect of today’s ruling is that Trump and his people will interpret it as a green light for… just about anything. That’s a very strong argument for Dems this fall with voters and especially donors — but only if they have a candidate capable of making it.

If ALL that matters is effective communication — and I fear it might be decisive in the end, though it absolutely should not be — there is no doubt about who is “winning” this “debate”. It’s not Biden.

This “debate” is agony.

Feels good, doesn’t it?

How can journalists do a better job covering #LongCovid? JOIN US in person Wednesday at NYU Journalism or online at journalism.nyu.edu/kc for a discussion with @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social @mvgutierrezmd.bsky.social & @robinlloyd.bsky.social! You do need to RSVP at journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/eve...

Can anyone out there justify a hair code in a public school? I can’t. www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/u...

Paint it blue. No place like home.

It is a very strange feeling indeed to turn on CNN and watch John King etc. 1) dissect voting trends and political ID in my home congressional district and 2) interview various hacks I've known for 30+ years. #NY3