Vital article. If even an experienced science journalist can fall afoul of the institutional misogyny threaded through medicine, what chance do the rest of us have? This is about the U.S, but the issues around “women’s complaints“, of course, apply internationally.

I’ve been quiet. Here’s why: At my 20-year college reunion in May, dozens of old friends arrived at our campus and started snapping photos on Georgetown’s front lawn. I, too, was on campus, but on the back side, at the university hospital, laid out on a gurney in the emergency room’s trauma suite…

I’ve been quiet. Here’s why: At my 20-year college reunion in May, dozens of old friends arrived at our campus and started snapping photos on Georgetown’s front lawn. I, too, was on campus, but on the back side, at the university hospital, laid out on a gurney in the emergency room’s trauma suite…

This is a must-read on the status of women’s health in America. Thank you to @fieseler.bsky.social for this personal reportage. Sending you all the positive healing vibes ❤️ sciencepolitics.org/2026/06/16/w...

I was on the “Tiny Matters” podcast talking about one of my favorite things…. offshore wind power! Listen here👇

I was on the “Tiny Matters” podcast talking about one of my favorite things…. offshore wind power! Listen here👇

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

*NEW* The dead whale found on a remote VA beach was the 2023 calf of the well-known whale “Porcia" #3293. According to NOAA, it marks the 43rd mortality in the ongoing "Unusual Mortality Event" impacting the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale. www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/end...

*NEW* The dead whale found on a remote VA beach was the 2023 calf of the well-known whale “Porcia" #3293. According to NOAA, it marks the 43rd mortality in the ongoing "Unusual Mortality Event" impacting the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale. www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/end...

*NEW* The freshly dead whale is a 3 year old female. What a loss. This species has less than 100 breeding females remaining. It's now washed up on a barrier island managed by The Nature Conservancy in VA. NOAA and other groups are attempting a necropsy to determine cause of death.

I'm getting reports that another critically endangered North Atlantic Right whale was just spotted dead. Carcass spotted off VA coast. This marks the 2nd death in just three weeks for a species w/ about 400 individuals remaining. Last month's fatality, a male, died from fishing gear entanglement👇

BREAKING: Trump directs Pentagon to buy whale oil to revive whaling industry

Check out "Ocean Empire," a column on entanglements between the US, "an empire of political and cultural influence" and another empire, "the global ocean, which makes up 70 percent of our planet" - by the brilliant ecologist and journalist @fieseler.bsky.social. sciencepolitics.org/2026/02/05/o...

My 6 year old said one of the kids in her class rolled in late to class this morning and when the teacher asked why he was tardy he just said “I blame Bad Bunny.”

There it is. The very last BOOK WORLD. I’m still in shock that Jeff Bezos, the man who is everything he is today because of selling books, would abandon readers like this. I grieve for The Washington Post and everything that has been stripped from it.

Please correct this headline @apnews.com. All humans are primates. That’s a biology. What Trump posted was a depiction of the first Black U.S. president and First Lady as chimpanzees. That’s racist. (Please repost to get an AP editor’s attention on this.)

🌊I have a new gig. 🌊 Introducing: OCEAN EMPIRE, my new column about U.S ocean policy and foreign affairs for @sciencepolitics.bsky.social. We are a brand new online magazine housed at Georgetown University. I'm thrilled to bring in-depth news analysis about what's happening to 70% of our planet.

@fieseler.bsky.social has a new column in @sciencepolitics.bsky.social! Ocean Empire will bring an essay a month. "The U.S. — this ocean nation I call home — is an empire of political and cultural influence whose reach, at times, seems unlimited." sciencepolitics.org/2026/02/05/o...

Marty Weil is a legend. He was the last reporter remaining from the Watergate era at the Post. Just an phenomenal old-school metro reporter. They axed him too. Please read this story to honor his tenure at the Post. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...

A column to keep an eye on, folks sciencepolitics.org/2026/02/05/o...

🌊I have a new gig. 🌊 Introducing: OCEAN EMPIRE, my new column about U.S ocean policy and foreign affairs for @sciencepolitics.bsky.social. We are a brand new online magazine housed at Georgetown University. I'm thrilled to bring in-depth news analysis about what's happening to 70% of our planet.

The Post cutting its climate team is a textbook example of oligarchy hollowing out public institutions. You can suppress inconvenient truths, but physics, biology, and their consequences cast the final verdict. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

I really love reading the Post’s Books section in their Sunday print edition at my kitchen table every Sunday. I relish the reviews. Discover new books. It is a pure delight, completely void of the uppity tone of the NYT Book Review. The Post’s Books section has now been “Eliminated.”

I'm sad to hear this, but looking forward to what Clare does next. I find good energy journalists to be surprisingly rare. Especially ones that have good judgement and write meaningful stories, instead of chasing sensationalism.

✨PERSONAL NEWS✨ I was let go from my staff reporter role at @canarymedia.com. Sadly the philanthropic funds supporting my beat came to an end. I love the staff there and will continue to root for them. Please support nonprofit journalism! Meanwhile, my ocean reporting found a new home. Stay tuned.

For nearly a century, the @washingtonpost’s foreign correspondents have been on the ground for the world’s most pressing stories. Now, our desk is facing potential steep cuts. Washington needs us. The world needs us. If you read us and need us, please watch this video and share.

The Washington Post gave me my first newsroom job. And I’ve been a daily print subscriber for 8 years. Every morning, I open the door and reach down for the Post. My husband and kid read the headlines over oatmeal. Its reporting is intertwined with our daily lives. This feels like a gut punch.

The Washington Post gave me my first newsroom job. And I’ve been a daily print subscriber for 8 years. Every morning, I open the door and reach down for the Post. My husband and kid read the headlines over oatmeal. Its reporting is intertwined with our daily lives. This feels like a gut punch.

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Praying and singing in below freezing weather. Mostly clergy. A protest against ICE’s violence at the Minnesota airport.

Deep-sea mining CEOs testifying on Capitol Hill right now saying U.S. needs to mine the high seas now before China does. It's not true. China is waiting for an international frameworks to take shape. America is the one going rogue. And that's driving U.S. allies closer to China. My reporting 👇

Rep. Huffman: “I think there is a very tight connection between NOAA and your company right now … and I don’t think there is any effective oversight by NOAA. I think you guys are in bed together to go out here and mine in the high seas.” The Metals Company CEO: "I refute that sir." #deepseamining

No commercial deep-sea mining exists anywhere because international legal frameworks don't yet allow it. But The Metals Company CEO is here saying "it is our plan to be in commercial production by the end of next year 2027.” Rep. Huffman barks back "because the U.S. a potential loophole" for you.

Lots of chatter by two deep-sea mining CEOs on this panel about the urgency to mine seabed for stock piling & natural security purposes. Then @drandrewthaler.bsky.social comes in with.... "... and the cheapest place to stockpile a polymetallic nodule is to leave it on the seafloor.” 💥

I'm watching @drandrewthaler.bsky.social testify now in front of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources. "While I have significant concerns about the long-term environmental harms that can result from mining the deep seafloor, I am not an absolutist against all forms of deep-sea mining."

I wrote about the deluge of AI slop that is gushing into scientific discourse www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

The Trump administration issued a new rule to fast-track deep sea mining in international waters, consolidating a two-step permitting process—one for exploration and another for commercial recovery—into a single review. This reduces environmental oversight. www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

My new parenting hack is just collapsing face down on the ground and saying in a loud robot voice things like: “Warning! Mom de-activated. Warning! Mom de-activated. To reactivate Mom, do the thing she just asked you to do 34 times.” They break the sound barrier putting on those shoes. 🤖

My new parenting hack is just collapsing face down on the ground and saying in a loud robot voice things like: “Warning! Mom de-activated. Warning! Mom de-activated. To reactivate Mom, do the thing she just asked you to do 34 times.” They break the sound barrier putting on those shoes. 🤖

Trump is winning his bizarre war on “windmills.” But multiple experts have told me it’s inaccurate to call America’s offshore wind dreams ​“dead.” At least one described the state of affairs as a kind of hibernation — and as a key time for ​learning. Here are those lessons. My latest👇

I love writing the same story twice in a less than four months span like please let me keep doing this, legal system

NEW: Trump’s war on “windmills” just lost another court battle. Looks like this judge isn‘t buying the administration‘s latest justification for stopping Revolution Wind — “classified information” about national security. Construction is back on. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

NEW: I obtained internal emails from the Department of Energy's climate working group. They show the group plotting to produce a second misleading climate report, DOE officials avoiding public disclosure laws, DOE peer reviewers stating they weren't qualified: www.eenews.net/articles/doe...

Trump is winning his bizarre war on “windmills.” But multiple experts have told me it’s inaccurate to call America’s offshore wind dreams ​“dead.” At least one described the state of affairs as a kind of hibernation — and as a key time for ​learning. Here are those lessons. My latest👇

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

What the fuck are we doing?

I once came to blows with a comms director for a billion dollar company after I wrote a negative article. I worked for months repairing the relationship. He just called today to tell me that, of all the reporters he works with, I am his favorite. A good reminder to be both dogged — and kind. ❤️

It's such a weird little story and just highlights how much more we have left to discover before we can ever say with confidence that impacts to the deep seafloor are acceptable.

Woah.