Some days I think my job is pretty normal, and then other days I find myself paging through an obscure Flemish herbal written in the 1500s

🧵 3/3 Bottom line for 🧪: The last remaining fight over the Billionaires' Bill is this week (*right now*) and in the House. The fight for science funding in FY26 starts *next week* in the House and will continue during the summer. So: don't lose hope...it's a *summer-long* fight for science!

You can read the original story that inspired this episode at: hakaimagazine.com/features/rai...

Back in 2021, I came across a strange story about some folks raising baby sharks taken from dead mothers caught by fishermen. That story became a feature for Hakai Magazine, and today, it's in @radiolab.bsky.social as part of their "Week of Sharks" !! open.spotify.com/episode/2SkQ...

The cuts to NSF, NASA and the NIH come just as interest in STEM fields is booming. This administration is literally crushing the dreams of young people in the USA. Not to mention the impact on the STEM workforce. 🧪 ⚛️ 🎢

I adored this fascinating, hopeful @betsymason.bsky.social story for @biographic.bsky.social about the intelligence of urban wildlife, and how we can coexist: www.biographic.com/the-coyote-n...

Are baby whale sharks "holding their breath" to hide from predators and bulk up after birth? www.biographic.com/whale-sharks... It was a joy to work with @colinschultz.bsky.social once again for this, my first story in @biographic.bsky.social!

Whale Sharks’ Low-Oxygen Advantage Whale shark babies seem to find safety in dangerous oxygen minimum zones. by @cgeib.bsky.social www.biographic.com/whale-sharks...

Today I was overjoyed to hear the first peepers and the first returning osprey of the season...and then I also found the first two ticks of the season 🙃 guess that's spring in New England, baby

“We are really trying very, very hard ... to move our world forward" through "foundational, sometimes groundbreaking research, and then you get flagged and blacklisted because there is a word like ‘female’ in your project.” My latest, w/the brilliant Agnel Philip www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

"Phenology" has been a big scary word for me for a while now. There's something about shifting seasonal cycles, and species out of alignment, that makes me nervous. But most stories I've read about climate change and phenology have felt distant, abstract. Not this one.

Could anyone use a copy of @theopennotebook.bsky.social's Craft of Science Writing? I've taught it for 4 yrs & we recently upgraded to the new edition, but it's still an excellent resource! Would love to send it (free!) to a student or someone just breaking into the biz.

Every day the news is terrible but I'm so grateful for the folks out there doing the work. grist.org/politics/the...

In June, I had the pleasure of spending a day observing the kelp harvest of the Shinnecock Kelp Farmers, the first Indigenous-owned kelp farm on the East Coast. My story on their work, to restore local waters and reclaim land & water sovereignty, for @nature.org: www.nature.org/en-us/magazi...

Bird researchers are combining the age-old tech of radio tracking with the newer advances of aerial drones—my first story for @audubon.org magazine, and the second produced with the support of a generous grant from @ijnr.bsky.social: www.audubon.org/magazine/fol...

If you're in New England and wondering if you just felt an earthquake, yes, you did! (Me, too!)

Say hello to @biographic.bsky.social's first news story: Who Watches the Watchers? The recent charging of prominent documentarians in British Columbia court is raising important questions about the ethics of wildlife videography. www.biographic.com/who-watches-...

I have a new story up in @theguardian.com: how drones are showing promise in scaring predators, like grizzlies & wolves, away from human spaces in the American west—a way to keep both humans and animals safe as predator populations grow there. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

In honor of @hakaimagazine.com merging with biogGraphic (a crossover event made for science journalists!), here are some of our favorite alumni pieces from both outlets: First up, @cgeib.bsky.social, '16, explores the wild world of artificial shark uteruses: hakaimagazine.com/news/scienti...

The plastics industry wants to market plastic bags as "recyclable," even though they're virtually guaranteed to end up in a landfill or incinerator. Their logic: the bags are "capable" of being recycled. My latest: www.propublica.org/article/plas... w/incredible art by Max Erwin

Forgot to share this really fascinating piece I did for @mongabay.bsky.social on one of my favorite intersections, food and climate change! How edible plants mostly seen as weeds or survival food could help make African food systems more resilient: news.mongabay.com/2024/07/in-s...

This latest @hakaimagazine.com feature is fascinating and nuanced and has one of the best headlines I've seen in a long time: hakaimagazine.com/features/blo...

When @colinschultz.bsky.social asks if you want to write about researchers that built an artificial uterus to save sharks, you absolutely say yes. hakaimagazine.com/news/scienti...

When a shark is born prematurely, salt water is toxic to its tiny body. A preemie baby shark can’t its regulate the salt levels and often die, so researchers in Japan built an artificial uterus to simulate a mother shark’s womb. By Claudia Geib. hakaimagazine.com/news/scienti...

Happy pride! I wrote about the food that makes you gay, from jokes about ice cream to worries about soy, the long history of colonial fears about bodies and selves being able to change via food, and why that needn't be feared at all www.eater.com/24162871/foo...

More cool radio tracking for @mongabay.bsky.social! My latest, on the work done by Save Vietnam's Wildlife to rehabilitate and research pangolins rescued from the illegal wildlife trade: news.mongabay.com/2024/05/on-f...

This news from BC is really heartening, and the @hakaimagazine.com story by @serenarenner.bsky.social is excellent: hakaimagazine.com/news/in-coas... — I'll be especially interested in following what's still developing around control of coastal waters...

This is a really excellent, important investigation into this disturbing trend, from @restofworld.org restofworld.org/2024/facial-...

Much of my favorite work that I've produced has been with the amazing team at @hakaimagazine.com—if you value high-quality science journalism about the oceans (and much more!) it would mean a lot to all of us who write & work for this incredible mag if you became a member: hakaimagazine.com/support/

A researcher looking for subsea methane may have uncovered a new porpoise foraging behavior, by way of the strange divots they leave in the seafloor—my latest for @hakaimagazine.com hakaimagazine.com/news/theres-...

Forgot to share last week, but another very cool tech story I got to cover for @mongabay.bsky.social — how tiny radio tags are enabling researchers to track & remove some incredibly destructive invasive insects: news.mongabay.com/2024/03/mini...

I've noticed that after getting a LOT of tick bites over the last few years, I get itchy as soon as one starts to latch. Which made me curious if this was a superpower for preventing Lyme. Turns out it might be! www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...

It was tremendous fun contributing to this gorgeous book created by @cjgiaimo.bsky.social—and it's now available for pre-order!! I can't wait to get my hands on one! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/atlas-obsc...

"There cannot be regret without freedom. Regret is freedom projected into the past." nymag.com/intelligence...

I've sort of been on the breadfruit beat ever since learning about the potential of this "world-saving" tree with Gastropod last year—in my latest, for @mongabay.bsky.social, I covered the first study about this tree's carbon storage potential: news.mongabay.com/2024/03/brea...

Watch out! The scammers have figured out how to use poetry!!

Tremendous thanks to those who shared their deep connections with this island with me, especially the folks at PKO and the KIRC. There are so, so many more stories here that couldn't fit in this article, and which I hope to come back to! news.mongabay.com/2024/02/on-k...

I'm incredibly proud to share my latest for @mongabay.bsky.social: the story of the Hawaiian activists, scientists, and technology wizards working to restore an sacred island from military destruction, erosion, invasive plants and... cats. news.mongabay.com/2024/02/on-k...

The work to restore Hawaii's least-famous island. An incredible story by Claudia Geib for @mongabay.bsky.social

Time for my semi-regular re-up of my story on the media's relationship to protest. This story center's the George Floyd protests but it's generalizable. www.niemanlab.org/2020/06/its-...

I'm just a girl, sitting in front of an empty video call, asking an interviewee to please show up for the time we scheduled (for the second day in a row)

Catch-and-release fishing can kill sharks. But fishers will work to limit the damage—once they know how. Written by Claudia Geib. hakaimagazine.com/news/at-shar...

A new platform called NatureHelm provides companies and individual landowners with a tool to track indicators of ecosystem health, @cgeib.bsky.social reports:

People in the elasmobranch world, is there a shark conference going on or something? I've reached out to 6 shark researchers looking for a comment on a story & hearing crickets! (or snapping shrimp? what's the underwater analog?)

OH NO I came up with a new book idea I love even though I've told myself I need to take a break from writing books OH NOO

Next Friday, I'll be hosting a panel at 1:30 Eastern about how the disappearance of local news outlets impacts how communities learn about local science stories. I'd love for you to join, either in person in Woods Hole or via our livestream! www.mbl.edu/events?trumb...

Writing transitions either feels like pulling off the world's most beautiful magic trick or hitting your reader with a stick and shouting I'D LIKE TO TALK ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE NOW PLEASE

My Florida colleagues @drcatmac.bsky.social and @drjuliawester.bsky.social work with a former intern of ours, who is now a drag Queen, to raise money for LGBTQ+ youth in Florida through the annual “drag and tag” fundraiser- tag sharks with drag queens! 🧪🦑🌎🐡🦈