Hey that's me!

When I moved here in 2017, hearing about this trauma center was one of the ways I learned How the City Works. Great to see that it's having a measurable impact! news.wttw.com/2026/03/05/u...

Put in a hold at the library the second I finished this episode, excited to learn more

Important work from Alex!

Between Ben Johnson and Da Pope, 2025 has been a banner year for Chicago math majors

A stunning visual of Chicago's 20-year death gap, mapped on the L, via @myersjustinc.bsky.social @chicago.suntimes.com. Here's what residents & community leaders are doing to close this gap: tinyurl.com/47r2vcj5 @wbez.org @chjreportinghealth.bsky.social @watchdogdiva.bsky.social @kffhealthnews.org

My first byline in Inside Climate News! I made the trip down to Springfield to see how citizens are pushing for transit and energy reforms during this busy veto session insideclimatenews.org/news/1510202...

Lots of blooming going on tonight

Shouting from the rooftops: Paying for news isn't a subscription service. Subscriptions are worthless if you don't use them. On the other hand, you can contribute to news orgs, read zero articles per year and still reap the benefits of living with a well-funded press.

Incredible

To wrap up my time at the Journal Sentinel, I got to cover some of my favorite research I've seen. Combining western science with Indigenous knowledge shows how cultural burns and environmental stewardship supported red pine forests around the Great Lakes. www.jsonline.com/story/news/2...

Did a lot of driving in a car without Bluetooth this summer, need to give a special shout-out to these CDs

Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war. She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza. tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb

Adding to my 2030 bingo card: "DeAndre Jordan's 2015 free agency decision is relitigated during a primary debate (any party)"

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Had a great time wading through streams, fishing for lampreys to report for this story! Learn about more layers of protection against invasive sea lampreys scientists are studying www.jsonline.com/story/news/2...

Will be paying attention to this going forward

My idea of fun - finally got to get out there and see the exposed streetcar rails on Clark

Gone fishin' (for lamprey larvae)

I allow myself one impulse buy per grocery shop, today it was this Greek tea. Hoping it lives up to what it says on the box.

Humans are still better than AI at cribbage! For now, at least. One of my favorites to write (so far) www.jsonline.com/story/news/2...

Hour -0.5 of the Riverwest 24 #RW24

Harrowing lead story and image on the Washington Post homepage right now. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Taking the advice to "just post some stuff"

The Chicago Reader's Gossip Wolf column remembers the recently passed CHIRP DJ Clarence Ewing. It's a very nice story. chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...

Excellent reporting from Caitlin Looby on how Enbridge and the Army Corps of Engineers have disrespected Odawa tribes to try to extend the life of the Line 5 pipeline www.jsonline.com/story/news/i...

New Rubin Observatory images are stunning! Read about how Wisconsinites made them possible www.jsonline.com/story/news/2...

Introducing...your sneak peek at the cosmos captured by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory! Can you guess these regions of sky? This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! 🔭🧪 #RubinFirstLook ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream

That Haliburton injury means this game will either get a storybook ending so incredible that they'll literally make movies and shows about it or an ending that will be regarded as one of the most unsatisfying what-if's of all time. Polar opposite possibilities.

I feel like I've aged six or seven NBA seasons since this one started in October

My first byline in the Journal Sentinel is this morning's top headline www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...

🎶 if you surf long enough you become the wave 🎶 -pat the bunny

This is a Nick Shoulders propaganda account

Gotta take the nuggets of good news when we can get them!

🚲 ➡️ 🧦 @chicagobikesox.com

"Utah is a bad city" -Dirk

I'm going to start referring to 3:00-4:30 as Midwestern Prime Time

Shoutout to Daniel Bice of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, who’s been on the Judge Dugan story all week. You can catch up on his coverage here www.jsonline.com/staff/264800...

I'm excited to join this cohort, and equally excited to still be able to spend my summer within the Great Lakes Basin! Catch my science writing this summer at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics https://go.nature.com/4jGqiUc

I never need to be reminded that Finom rocks so hard, but I definitely appreciate it every time it happens youtu.be/xWlr5xV-3SM?...

Luka ❤️

Colossal didn't make a dire wolf. This is not a dire wolf! Stop saying it is!! I feel like I'm going mad!!!

Last summer I heard the take that sports fans are uniquely suited to understand the absurdity of these times, and now I see more evidence every day

“modern record”… they’re statcast-era-ing it!

I’ll post my regular thread after a much-needed hike, but Meeting The Moment (Week 10) is live. So *much* happened in science & higher ed this week. I’m focused on turning fear into fuel buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

The Trial of John Snow "Yes, your honor, I did indeed remove the handle from the Broad Street Pump." "Yes, I realize now it is immaterial that cholera is waterborne, not miasmatic." "Yes, your honor, I plead guilty to directing people to believe one idea over another regarding health outcomes."

"Politics should have nothing to do with sports" says man while watching men's sports league that for some strange reason does not have a single openly gay player in it

they're lying to you, but you don't have to fall for it. ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...