If you need a researcher to tell you about Tylenol, MMR vaccines, and autism. Here is one. www.npr.org/2025/09/23/n... The TL;DR...

Sharing this info on groundhogs because it never fails I get neighbors sending me photos every fall and spring going "WHAT IS THIS THING!??!?! IS IT A GIANT RAT?!!?" I mean yeah...it's a groundhog. I've got one. His name is Keith. www.reconnectwithnature.org/news-events/...

Some people think ChatGPT has a place writing things like news briefs, stuff written to a specific style and tone and, y'know, kinda boring. So Science did a study. ChatGPT failed. Why? It got stuff wrong. "Also, extensive editing for hyperbole was needed." www.science.org/content/blog...

It's LIVE CAM TIME. Fat bear week is upon us! explore.org/livecams/bro... The live cam sets have a "meditation" highlights reel and wow do they know their audience.

We deserve some joy. We deserve some FAT BEARS. NEXT WEEK NEXT WEEK!!!! Go Grazer Go you absolute unit! www.npr.org/2025/09/19/n...

The cute and science you needed today.

Wake up babe a new dinosaur just dropped.

MMR vaccines do not cause autism (see my 🧵 of studies) At the same time, one potential cause of autism is rubella, which is *prevented* by MMR vaccines. Which means...vaccines may actually help prevent autism. 🧵 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21592401/

This is my new Tom Holland "Umbrella" video.

"you have digits because a bit of the genetics that help you form your butt was used to activate the right genes where they're needed" arstechnica.com/science/2025...

As a matter of disclosure, please remember that I and many if not most creative folks have business dealings with one or more corporate entities who are navigating, delicately or, uh, otherwise, the fact the US government has been taken over by fascists, no, it's not great and also we have bills

I was on a de-extinction panel at @dconscitrack.bsky.social with @dmos150.bsky.social and other amazing ppl called "We have wolves at home" And now people send me MORE stuff from Colossal, like "hey saw this and thought of u" The equivalent of "here, this tastes TERRIBLE! Try it!" 😂🤮

Every god damned morning I wake up and do this

Come to the MAGICAL local bookstore!!! Contains many BOOKS and at least one Genuine Certified Live Author! Likelihood of cursed knowledge: 95% Also, I will be there nerding.

Heyyyyyy if you're in Takoma Park next Thursday and want to support a small bookstore, head to People's Book, where I will be talking with @haruspex.bsky.social about my BOOK at 6pm on 9/25!!! peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/animal...

Here's the deal folks. We haven't yet hit our fundraising goal. We have one more campaign planned for the year, but the long-term existence of this magazine hinges to a decent degree on readers signing up as recurring donors. If you value what we are making, it would mean a lot if you signed up

Asking for an author’s book at a library is a wonderful thing to do. The library buys the book, maybe even multiple copies, which really does help authors. A simple request can spread a lot of good around. Also I just love libraries and I’m always happy when someone checks out one of my books. 📚

*honks vigorously* Support the @sn-media-guild.bsky.social for a fair contract!!

I'm attending this @sn-media-guild.bsky.social picket virtually and I can hear all kinds of honking!

When I confront someone I know about AI slop...she recognizes that it is slop. She does not take it down. Because she does not care what the reality is. She cares that it matches her feelings. brookshire-team-trash.beehiiv.com/p/people-kno...

Ok my fav thing so far about this thread has been finding the few, the PROUD who know and love Fugazi. Join usssssss.

Someone reached out to me today, asking if I was joining the Anthropic settlement (one of my works is in it), and mentioned this Op-Ed in (where else) the NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o... They wondered if it was worth it. I wanted to reiterate my response here....

Appreciated this perspective on generative AI imagery and misinformation from @beebrookshire.bsky.social . Subscribe to her Team Trash newsletter. Highly recommend. #CreateDontScrape #NoAI

These people are not sharing facts. They don’t actually care about sharing facts. They are sharing feelings. People have come to believe (on both sides) that their personal experiences and feelings are more true than truth itself. brookshire-team-trash.beehiiv.com/p/people-kno...

The issue isn't whether people know the header image of this newsletter is fake. The issue is they don't care. brookshire-team-trash.beehiiv.com/p/people-kno...

Sometimes I think about like the silly crap that takes up space in my brain, like the complete lyrics to "oops I did it again." I wish I could get rid of it to store more useful things. And now, GREAT a part of my hippocampus needs to fire and put together some synapses to know what a "groyper" is.

I appreciate this commentary on AI slop, but I think it's missing something. I saw THIS EXACT image slopped around, and I asked someone who shared it if she knew it was fake. She didn't, but recognized it IMMEDIATELY when it was pointed out. And didn't care. theconversation.com/what-is-ai-s...

Perhaps you need a break from *waves hands* In which case have you ever examined how your dog reacts to the television? Because scientists have and the results are pure, perfect, and Very Good. Just like dogs. www.snexplores.org/article/dogs...

A hopeful thread! Some of my favs: HIV treatment is better by leaps and bounds, and now 2x year injections can prevent people from contracting it! www.npr.org/sections/goa... CRISPR has cured, CURED, sickle cell anemia in patients for at least a year! www.scientificamerican.com/article/fda-...

You know, cronching on apples in particular, I really do feel like I'm bursting cell walls for my own nutritive purposes. Mmmm sweet cell walls. Delicious chloroplasts and nuclei. Tangy lysosomes....

Put your phone in a box! Put that box in another box! Then mail it to yourself and when it arrives?! SMASH IT WITH A HAMMER! youtu.be/mMSHOPkcVv8?...

PUT THEM IN MY MOUTH. MY VEINS. This is what I need.

People often assume that if THEY can't do something, like say, swim a mile without training, then animals couldn't possibly do it too! Animals will always, always prove us wrong. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

National Guard clearly imposing loads of order up in here.

Need this every morning. Otherwise I get on here and it's just DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM all the way down. I feel the doom. But it's a lot for the first cup of coffee.

The best sound when recording for a podcast is when the room is "dead," no fans, windows closed, popcorn walls. Hot. Airless. THUS Hypothesis: 2 dudes talking will lead to unhingedness due to high volumes of CO2 on the brain. The longer the show, the higher the CO2. Rogan's show runs ~3 hours

Awakened this morning by a very excited cat, yowling at us to COME AND SEE. Our Eliza Schuyler Hamilton had a mouse. A live one. at 4am. What did I do? I did in fact write a book on this subject. www.harpercollins.com/products/pes... I went back to bed, TBH.

"If I had to guess what kind of shot we would make sure schoolchildren got, I would have guessed wrong. I am always guessing wrong. I am always guessing that we want children to live." @petridishes.bsky.social doesn't miss. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

🚨RELEASE: After 500 days at the table with no fair contract, Science News Media Guild members (@sn-media-guild.bsky.social) have authorized a strike. Bosses are stalling. Workers are ready to fight. ✊ wbng.org/2025/09/05/s...

500 days and still no deal? Our workers deserve better for the incredible work they do! Please take a moment to sign and share our petition for a fair contract. actionnetwork.org/petitions/fo...

It is absolutely unsurprising to me that rats are a big issue near playgrounds in NYC. What do rats need? Food! Places to dig! Water! What do playgrounds have? SAND! Water fountains and splash pads! And so many snacks wielded by kids with developing motor skills. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/n...

If you'd like to make a cis straight man feel very inadequate about himself today, make sure to note that fruit flies have sperm that are each as LONG AS THE FLY ITSELF. And they store them all without getting tangled. www.sciencenews.org/article/gian...

Anyone who has studied any art history knows this intimately. The most powerful man in all of Europe in the 17th century wore fancy silk tights, high heels, and a wig of long lustrous curls. Dude was so manly other people faked anal fistulas to emulate him.

The quote I come back to the most these days is Voltaire's "Whoever can compel you to believe absurdities can also compel you to act unjustly." (That's a loose translation though not as loose as Torrey's common "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”)

I listen to and read a lot of history and biography, and I have started to realize there's a phrase lots of people use about people brought up right or famous: "He/she was just in that and absorbing all of that" Like you can absorb talent or genius. It's privilege. They're "absorbing" privilege.

DC people! I'm giving a talk September 25th at The People's Book in Takoma Park! And I'm doing it with @haruspex.bsky.social which means it will be INCREDIBLE. Come hear me chat about the animals we hate! peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/animal...

Hello new followers and THANK YOU for coming to my panels at DragonCon, telling me you liked my panels, and in general being amazing. If you can please do tate and review us in the app, and make sure Science Track gets all the bigger rooms it deserves!

1. I loved this panel. 2. I was the person who live-skeeted it...and remembered just how much I love doing that.

This is your regular reminder that rationality is an emotion. It is not the opposite of emotion. It is the feeling of being calmly certain. That is not the same thing as being right. It is the FEELING of being right.

I can’t believe the final panel on @dconscitrack.bsky.social was packed. Thank you everyone for coming to learn about sleep. Also putting me on this panel was a personal attack 😂