Fun set of science stories. It never occurred to me that headbutting animals could be used for traumatic brain injury research, but of course it makes perfect sense.

Pitches due Friday for @technologyreview.com's Impossible issue: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Strong policy from arXiv! Hallucinated citation = ban for a year from arXiv, and 'subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue'. [repost: I incorrectly characterized Dietterich before - he is the vice-president of arXiv's external advisory council].

I'm committed to using public domain art for pitch calls, and for some reason really struggled with this one. But regardless...heads up! Pitch call for @technologyreview.com's Impossible Issue www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Reminder: It's far, far cheaper and easier to not emit the stuff in the first place than it is to pluck CO2 molecules out of the air.

Pocket change for many wealthy Californians! I hope someone/some place steps up.

I think air conditioning is officially no longer just a "nice to have" in Oregon.

How to get your first clip without having any past clips. (The ole Catch-22)

I never thought I'd refer people to X for something, but our AI fellow @michelletomkim.bsky.social is doing great live coverage of the Musk-OpenAI trial there. Here's the day 4 thread x.com/michelletomk...

Craig Venter (who has died aged 79) redrew the boundaries of biology — sequencing DNA at unprecedented speed, engineering synthetic life and charting ocean microbes. by @ecallaway.bsky.social | @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Nice story. Just like fruit, computer chips get sorted by quality too.

ICYMI, this lengthy @sciam.bsky.social Q&A with Breakthrough Prize winner & Physics Nobelist David Gross is worth your time. Gross is using his status as a soapbox to warn of the increasingly dire threat of nuclear annihilation. The Cold War ended, public awareness ebbed, but the arsenals remain.

Last week's Friday afternoon massacre of the NSB was among the highest profile terminations by the Trump administration, but it was far from the first. Reporting from @alexwitze.bsky.social, @maxkozlov.bsky.social, Rich Monastersky & me on the unprecedented toll to science advisory committees:

I know it feels like you need clips to get clips. But there are definitely ways through this chicken-and-egg problem.

For early-career science writers, getting your first clip often feels like a chicken-and-egg problem: editors don't often take on folks with no clips, but you can't build clips unless someone takes your pitch. I was asked to offer some tips on breaking this cycle by @theopennotebook.bsky.social:

I'm a reporter (and lawyer) covering Musk v. Altman for @technologyreview.com . Here's what's going on day 2 of the trial at the Oakland federal courthouse. Elon Musk and Sam Altman are here. Musk will likely testify today. Opening statements from both parties' lawyers to come soon.

I'll be reporting on the Musk v. Altman trial at the Oakland courthouse for @technologyreview.com. I'm a lawyer who clerked for a federal judge in California, so follow me to unpack what's really happening in the courtroom! www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/27/1...

"Cringey texts, raw diary entries, and endless scheming behind the founding and growth of OpenAI are expected to come to light," in Elon Musk's case against OpenAI, @technologyreview.com's Michelle Kim writes. She'll have up-to-the-minute coverage on X www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/27/1...

The acting head of the CDC has canceled the publication of a study that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

Struggling to keep up with the AI news? We've taken a page from our annual breakthrough technologies list and cooked up a list of 10 big things in AI that matter right now www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/21/1...

Well, well, well www.reuters.com/world/spacex...

What is really worth your attention in the busy, buzzy world of AI? Our reporters and editors have spent years thinking about this question, charting AI’s progress and mapping out what’s next. Now, for the first time, we’ve distilled our answers into a single list.

I wrote about the era AI malaise, which we are all living in. www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/21/1...

For @technologyreview.com's Nature issue, @boyceupholt.bsky.social went in search of ghost wolves in eastern Texas and came back with this fantastic story.

Red wolves -- the "wolves of the South," as I think of them -- is one of the world's most endangered canids. So I was intrigued to hear Colossal Biosciences claim to have cloned the species. My latest, the cover story of the upcoming "Nature" issue of @technologyreview.com: ter.li/3475yjiw

Watching Sam Altman's World ID announcement on its new ID verification partnerships w/ Tinder, Zoom, AWS, etc & want to point out that @technologyreview.com predicted all of this 4 years ago—while pointing out the privacy violations they built on. www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1...

For our Nature issue, the always excellent @stephenornes.bsky.social looks at mirror life: how a community of researchers turned from excitement to extreme trepidation—and what happens next www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/15/1...

For our Nature issue, the always excellent @stephenornes.bsky.social looks at mirror life: how a community of researchers turned from excitement to extreme trepidation—and what happens next www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/15/1...

I've been so excited about this for months, but we have new fiction in our May/June issue, the Nature issue, from @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social Look for it coming soon on the newsstand, or you read online right now: www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/10/1...

I'm so excited to have this story in our upcoming Nature issue. Follow @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social's link to read it for free.

Thrilled that my first new short story in several years, "Constellations," about astronauts crashlanding on a distant planet, has been published by the @technologyreview.com. Acquiring editor Rachel Cortland. Art by Rogan Brown. Free link to avoid the paywall: ter.li/r3tbrsgr

I'm delighted to say we're ramping up fiction again at @technologyreview.com, and we have a fantastic surprise coming tomorrow morning.

(Reposting with correct link 😬) I love this story I wrote for @technologyreview.com’s Crime issue and COMPLETELY MISSED that it came out (I write words for a living but can still read “February” and see “June”). Shout out to @rachelcourtland.com for being a DREAM! Read here: ter.li/blhlz9

I just closed a Google Doc for the first time *in years* without being warned that my changes may not be saved. What is Google Docs without that weird gamble?

Pitch deadline coming up!

I may overuse the word wild, but this one is truly wild: @antonioregalado.bsky.social gets the inside scoop on a stealthy startup's pitch to create brainless human clones that act as backup bodies.

Our spare body coverage continues. New scoop from @antonioregalado.bsky.social www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/30/1...

Freelance journalists and writers: @technologyreview.com has a new call for pitches, for its Kids issue. Pitches due Friday April 3. Please share! More details here: www.linkedin.com/posts/rcourt...

for anyone craving more Alysa Liu content @yuekaxu.bsky.social has been on a tear of figure skating blogs that are simply beautiful to read and learn from defector.com/alysa-liu-is...

I feel like every story I've read about this school is worse than the last.

Why steal a car when you can pose as the transport company and get handed the keys? @craigsilverman.bsky.social explores a rise in luxury car larceny, for @technologyreview.com's upcoming Crime issue. www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/17/1...

Fascinating story from @eabrown18.bsky.social on a little known scourge of museum collections www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

Good tips on pitching here! I would especially emphasize a small piece of the last one: do follow up on pitches if you don't hear back. It's really ok to do so—I promise. www.theopennotebook.com/twelve-tips-...

I was definitely in the double digits of my driving years before I learned about that little arrow www.wsj.com/business/aut...

For reasons, I looked into research in #Greenland recently. Did you know they have a new(ish) national research plan? That they have a new(ish) very capable oceanographic research vessel? That they are beefing up their computing capabilities to handle AI analyses of e.g. marine species? 🧪🇬🇱

Southeastern US, would that we could have your snow.

Here are our predictions for AI in 2026, along with a check-in on how we did with our 2025 predictions (pretty well!). I'm curious to see how the AI shopping experiment goes. www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/05/1...

For this year's Breakthroughs issue, @writearthur.bsky.social waded into some tough waters—the massive arming up of the European continent, and the future of automation in defense and war www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/06/1...

I’m not supposed to talk publicly about it but @technologyreview.com’s secret crystal ball technology has really upped our game.