just got served an Instagram reel about "upcyling" a cucumber seed into a cucumber plant. What are we even doing

I’m gonna miss Dumb Siri

My @quantamagazine.bsky.social story about the history of worm memory transfers is a @longreads.com editor’s pick this week! “What happened? Claire L. Evans checks in with the scientists who are trying to figure that out, her usual curiosity and low-key wit in tow.” longreads.com/2026/06/08/q...

Planarian worms' regenerative abilities make them effectively “immortal under the edge of the knife.” This begs the question: When you chop a worm in half, do both halves remember? @theuniverse.bsky.social goes down a rabbit hole — erm, worm hole — to find out www.quantamagazine.org/are-memories...

For a new essay series, @quantamagazine.bsky.social invited me to follow my reporting bliss, and so naturally I went deep on 1960s cannibal worm memory transfers: www.quantamagazine.org/are-memories...

In the 60s, an eccentric behavioral psychologist named James McConnell pureed a bunch of worms and fed them to other worms. For years after, he claimed that the cannibal worms learned the ground-up worms’ memories. Could he have been… right? www.quantamagazine.org/are-memories...

My latest! I promise this story has everything: cannibalism, memory transfers, generational scientific controversy, unbelievable 60s worm cartoons—even the Unabomber makes a brief appearance.

Really proud of these screens I made for @blippo.plus! Pixels, baby!

In honor of our Apple Design Award nomination we wanted to share some ‘lil details of Blippo’s design we love. Blippo+ was designed by @teamyacht.com (w/ help from Femtofax & CUBIS! designer @theuniverse.bsky.social) w/ contributing design and implementation by developer @marklacroix.bsky.social.

In these times of imminent collapse, we choose to hang out in semi-abandoned buildings and build stuff with our friends for all to enjoy. Won’t you join us? open.substack.com/pub/yacht/p/...

We’re playing two songs we wrote about Eve Babitz at The Huntington next week. www.huntington.org/event/page-r...

We're fully flipped that @blippo.plus is a finalist in the most prestigious app design awards on Earth: The Apple Design Awards! We labored over every wonky pixel with love and it's wonderful to receive this recognition. #WWDC developer.apple.com/design/awards/

We’re throwing a spontaneous buffet of entertainment on Friday inside the iconic Johnie’s Coffee Shop at Wilshire & Fairfax! 8pm FREE. www.instagram.com/p/DYSVnfRm0e...

ANNOUNCEMENT: Jona & Claire of the band YACHT will be appearing separately at FWB Fest in Idyllwild, CA! Jona’s performing solo as Clip Art, and Claire will be speaking. Look at this sick lineup! See you there! 🎟️ dice.fm/event/ryqgrr...

I (Jona) have a new solo project called Clip Art! The Clip Art Megamix is 15 minutes of rapid fire Dynamic Graphics, new unreleased music, and restrained choreography. Come see it at BLUM Gallery in Los Angeles on Saturday, April 25th as part of the Flux Festival. 🎟️ luma.com/fluxfestival...

bugs bunny would wipe the floor with Q from star trek

there's still so much fecundity and enduring beauty in the nonhuman world. let's preserve and treasure it.

Ha ha April Fool. You've actually been having a bizarre dream and it is in fact 1996 right now. We are all going to go watch the new Coen Brothers movie 'Fargo' later. I will call you on your phone that is attached to a wall and can't make you insane later.

Let’s gooo (to LAMaterial.com and give them our money)

it’s genuinely bonkers how every billboard in San Francisco is like: “Zirping your Pingos got you buggin? Yeah, Fnarf’s on that 🤖🦾”

Blippo’s own Claire and Jona (aka @com.y-a-c-h-t.com) are giving a tiny talk today at GDC as part of the Indie Soapbox session, along with some other fabulous devs! Come say hello! @officialgdc.bsky.social #GDC2026 schedule.gdconf.com/session/indi...

📡 Blippo+ writer @theuniverse.bsky.social, and game/creative director @com.y-a-c-h-t.com will be standing on top of something called the "Indie Soapbox" and giving something called a "microtalk" at GDC. Come say hi! schedule.gdconf.com/session/indi... @officialgdc.bsky.social #GDC2026 #IGF2026

3/1/26 6135 Wilshire Blvd 11-6pm

An invitation to any LA-based friends On Here: this Sunday is the first Dead Media Chat Room, an informal symposium about archaic technologies and new rituals to revive them, at our office on Wilshire. Co-presented with Wilshire Online and my friends at TAPE Los Angeles:

It was really such an honor to get this award for my first foray into games writing, which, as I say in my speech, was really the summing-up of an enormous collective worldbuilding effort. And from the nicest people in the biz too! May sincerity always prevail ❤️

A great DVD-extra of a chat between two giants of game writing. You absolutely have to subscribe to this podcast!

Huge stuff happenin’ in Los Angeles at Wilshire & Fairfax 99 Cent Opening Sunday 2/22 The Wilshire Online Expo 26 Sunday 3/1

📻NEW on the Panic Podcast: Creators @theuniverse.bsky.social and @mrsambarlow.bsky.social talk about the alchemy that combines movie magic with the interactivity of video games, and what (if anything) makes a “good” FMV. 🎧Listen now: podcast.panic.com/episodes/s02e02/ or wherever you catch pods!

If anyone’s looking for a fundraiser to support folks who’ve been sheltering in place in Minneapolis, this one comes to me from a local friend who’s a certified real one: www.gofundme.com/f/critical-r...

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Flip different. Blippo+ has arrived on Macintosh™ computers.  Get it on the Mac App Store: blippo.plus/mac ⌘ Get it on Steam: blippo.plus/steam

I won a prize 🤓

can someone who knows things about media explain to me why you can’t buy a New Yorker at the airport anymore?

🏆 Blipoo+ writer Claire L. Evans (@theuniverse.bsky.social) is up for Best Writing in a Game at the NY Game Awards (@nyvgcc.bsky.social) this weekend! See you in New York! www.eventbrite.com/e/15th-ny-ga...

OH MY GOB! Blippo+ has been nominated for four awards for the 28th annual Independent Games Festival! 🏆 Seumas McNally Grand Prize 🏆 Nuovo Award 🏆 Excellence in Visual Art 🏆 Excellence in Audio 🏅Honorable Mention: Excellence in Narrative See you @officialgdc.bsky.social!

If you’d told 12-year-old me that I’d someday get to work on a video game that ranked *higher* than Donkey Kong on a list like this I would’ve laughed you right outta the living room

“Blippo+ would have been an extraordinary game in any year, but it felt particularly resonant in this one because it’s just so exuberantly, unabashedly, undeniably human, a collaborative work made by very creative people.” 📡❤️🍾

“Blippo+ is more than just a collection of TV shows, it’s also a fascinating narrative experience that immerses us in a culture on the brink of potentially radical change. A better world is possible, and the revolution just might be televised. “ Thank you @carolynmichelle.bsky.social!

best thing about the current iteration of the Avatar franchise is how Jermaine Clement has to remind viewers who he is by saying “I’m Ian Garvin!” and “I’m a marine biologist!” at least once but preferably twice per film

What does it mean to live with a wild animal? Went long on Konrad Lorenz, zoo-keeping, and the dark side of a Dr. Doolittle lifestyle: clairelevans.substack.com/p/those-curi...

"I can't think of another game that does something so experimental so successfully" 🙏 Thank you @thejenna.bsky.social and @secondwindgroup.com!

joining @theuniverse.bsky.social at the nub-end open.substack.com/pub/clairele...

Here's the origin story of Blippo! (The 2025 video game people will be discovering for months and years to come!)

#6. BLIPPO+ - The experience of watching a news story become so culturally all-consuming that it seeps into all media, captured in an extraordinary work of interactive fiction. "Took my money and bought a TV /TV brings me closer to the world."

My @pioneerwork.bsky.social piece on the history of interactive cinema gets the full print treatment in this glorious third issue of Broadcast, which is consistently an all-killer, no filler publication!

“Passive observation becomes something of a meta puzzle as you try to piece together all the quirks of a foreign culture through news broadcasts and public access shows. Blippo+ recreates that experience in astonishing fashion.”

It's been quite a year for Quanta biology! In this year-end post I highlighted some favorite stories by @yaseminsaplakoglu.bsky.social @theuniverse.bsky.social @peterbrannen.bsky.social @mollyherring.bsky.social and Ariel Bleicher - and I want to share more of our great work from the year below!

Read about this year’s biggest moments in biology.

Oh my gob! Blippo+ was my first foray writing for a new medium, so I'm extremely tickled by this nomination for Best Writing in a Game! Thank you so much for taking a peek into the Bend @nyvgcc.bsky.social!!

First newsletter from my new office, on extinct megafauna, buggy computers, and the dotcom bubble: clairelevans.substack.com/p/feed-the-s...