Thrilled and honored to have "The Smell Test," my piece for The New York Times Magazine on the great promise of scent in medical diagnosis, included in this year's Best American Science and Nature Writing—selected by the great @susanorlean.bsky.social herself, no less.

New piece of mine for @theguardian.com Long Read, on the most ancient possibly hominin fossils ever discovered; the two-decade fight over the bones themselves and their meaning; and what we know—and what we don't, and maybe won't—of the deep origins of humanity.