Reported on everyone's favorite giant from this year's @aas.org meeting 🌟 #AAS247

If you want to put people back on the moon, don’t gut the agency in charge of getting them there. www.wired.com/story/china-...

Chess dungeon crawler, yeah aftermath.site/chess-dungeon-...

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

fat bear week this, federal duck stamp contest that. now mineral cup

there's a chill in the air, which only means one thing: it's time for white man murmuring music

Fundamentally the #Mars announcement NASA is making today boils down to: there could have been some chemical reactions in these ancient rocks that could have been mediated by living organisms. The word "could" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting there. 🧪

I’ve learnt a lot of new things about the differences between Europe and the US in the past two years, but honestly the biggest surprise has been realizing that tuna pizza is not a thing in the US.

The GPSW is thrilled to announce our incoming Class of 2026! Welcome Laura Martin Agudelo, Zoe Beketova, @ashleydsouza.bsky.social, Ana Georgescu, Jamie Jiang, Lucie McCormick, Alex Megerle, and Julia Vaz. You can read about our new cohort here: sciwrite.mit.edu/faculty-and-...

Seven journalists are headed to grad school as 2025 Taylor/Blakeslee Fellows! Each will receive $6,000, thanks to the Brinson Foundation. Congrats to Bridget Balch, Alonso Daboub, Rachel Duckett, @ashleydsouza.bsky.social, Ana Georgescu, @stellamayerhoff.bsky.social & Alex Megerle. bit.ly/tbs2526

A problem many over-hyped companies have: "This whole strategy—making enormous claims to guarantee wall-to-wall coverage in the press, only to later quietly correct such claims in an interview with a single publication—is not just dishonest, but also patronizing." Read @sabs.bsky.social's story:

just because a fancy company says something doesn't mean we have to believe them, and in fact, we should not! defector.com/do-not-be-ba...