@opensecretsmag.bsky.social we brought our @tacobell.bsky.social story to life 👰‍♀️🤵

I once heard a writer say that they write compulsively, as if the words they need to say are creative demons waiting to be exorcised. Nothing else has rung truer.

you're an absolute legend. maybe one day we'll all make it

"Why did I act embarrassed about something that had finally given me the passionate spark I had been looking for in science?" Check out one of our top #ScienceWorkingLife essays of 2025: https://scim.ag/4jr2yok

So much time has passed that the "I don't even like Taco Bell" line in my piece is no longer accurate

I'm so excited to share my first-ever feature article! Link in comments

Speaking about the study with @liuswrites.bsky.social for The Scientist, co-author Kim Wever expressed alarm that "specific drugs or therapies that looked promising were reported "only once and never again." www.the-scientist.com/40-percent-o...

still can’t quite believe it😭

check out the other @rowanglassworks.bsky.social nominees too! www.rowanglassworks.org/best-of-the-...

I'm so honored to share that @rowanglassworks.bsky.social has nominated my work to be included in the Best of the Net anthology! 🥹

"My mother extended the bottle towards me. 'Let's go,' she said, sounding eerily cheery. "We can both join him." – from "Lightly buttered toasts, with strawberry jam" by Andrea Lius. https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/07/lightly-buttered-toasts-with-strawberry-jam-by-andrea-lius/

Thank you for sharing my story!

Mersey Mondays is finally a-go!! & for our first piece, we have former TMR contributor @liuswrites.bsky.social with a little hermit crab CNF 🦀💚🐷 Check it out 👇🏻 www.themerseyreview.com/merseymondays/1

So grateful to Hippocampus readers and editor Wendy Fontaine for selecting this piece the thoughtful comments, and Donna Talarico for the opportunity to share my story❤️

A piece that’s taken me years to write and another year to edit and gather the courage to publish under my real name, came out today on my dream literary journal @hippocampusmag.bsky.social hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/07/ligh...

“E-cigarette juice can have a nicotine concentration as high as 150 millimolar ... And we saw that (lung) toxicity occurs at micromolar levels (1000 times less). It’s just off the scale.” —Jay L. Zweier of the Ohio State University www.asbmb.org/asbmb-.... #ASBMBJournals #asbmbJBC

What do cancer cells and James Bond have in common? ✨😎✨ Find out in this ~15min talk! Huge thanks to @burkebrewing.bsky.social for hosting--and for buying me a beer--just two days before my PhD defense! www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3pr...

#poemoftheday: "Regret Tattoos" by John Richard Smith in @rattlepoetry.bsky.social #poetry rattle.com/regret-tatto...

thanks for finding this gem

Inside JBC: An international group of researchers found that nicotine exposure through the use of e-cigarettes, colloquially known as vaping, led to lung injury in mice. The researchers showed that aldehyde oxidase (AOX) mediates this effect. More from @liuswrites.bsky.social: ow.ly/YnS350VEXV6.

Curious how space cats help me survive Ph.D. candidacy? Find out in my latest essay for @asbmb.bsky.social 🚀🐱

My little hermit crab essay inspired by a classic molecular biology protocol is in the latest issue of @emergejournal.bsky.social :) Thank you @dianegotauthor.bsky.social for selecting this piece! emergeliteraryjournal.com/protocol-gen...

I just received an acceptance letter from my dream literary journal @hippocampusmag.bsky.social 🥰🫠🥹

My first piece for @oncobites.bsky.social is out! :)

All the videos from our Spring 2025 Contributor Reading Event are now up on our #YouTube channel! Here is a link to the full playlist www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Please like and subscribe! #WritingCommunity

Thank you so much @doorisajarmag.bsky.social & @maxwellbauman.bsky.social for this opportunity! 🧡

Thankful that I got to be one of the nine! :)

So grateful to Engage Science and @burkebrewing.bsky.social for the opportunity to share my research with the public last night!

Thank you so much for hosting us!!

I have a little piece in this issue!

My latest article for The Scientist is out today! Who would've thought that cholesterol synthesis is involved in bladder cancer? (not me) www.the-scientist.com/cholesterol-...

My science writer “origin story” is out today on ASBMB Today! www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/...

I think I like literary fiction because the point is often that there is no point

Check out my latest flash about (not) preserving legacies and how much I (pretend not to) miss my mom on @rowanuniversity.bsky.social’s flash glass 2024 anthology! www.rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-...

Next up is a short piece I wrote about eating (ab)normally, free to read on The Mersey Review: www.themerseyreview.com/issues/4/how...

My very first published work(s) from this summer ☀️

My attempt at a “hello world” post (a thread): I’m an aspiring science journalist who moonlights in creative writing. I’m relatively new to all this: writing, social media and talking about my writing on social media.