counterpoint: bethany is a great podcast guest and this episode will tell you everything you need to know about the latest ~protein craze~ bonus: it also features me really luxuriating in the phrase "the singular taste of a Cool Ranch Dorito"

*taps mic* so what's the deal with protein guys www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...

happy to see @mattielubchansky.com illustrations put to good use at Defector. Hire illustrators for your research, #ScienceSky 🧪 You can find some skilled folks on the #SciArt feed as well.

I for one am glad that we as a nation are finally addressing the fact that I'm under-babied! Looking forward to seeing how the government will ensure I'm given plenty of nutritious snacks (preferably dinosaur-shaped) and tucked in for nap time promptly each day at 2 pm

Sat down with Science Quickly and @feltman.bsky.social to talk peptides! This was a fun conversation about the hype versus the science. www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...

If you've learned the phrase "Wolverine stack" stack against your will and want to know what science actually says about the peptide craze, check out my conversation with @vicmsong.bsky.social for Science Quickly @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...

Sabercats high on catnip Ancient monkeys adrift on a raft of plants Dozing mastodons in the autumn leaves Hungry sauropods browsing the Jurassic salad bar A Triassic tree’s transformation all this and more in When the Earth Was Green, out in paperback today! 🌱

I got to sit down with @chanda.blacksky.app to discuss their latest book THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME for @sciam.bsky.social Science Quickly podcast 🚀 We talked about queer quantum mechanics, Star Trek, and Missy Elliot lyrics 👽 Check out our full 25min convo on youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlEu...

restoring balance to my gut biome by reintroducing gray wolves

The SciAm Union is disappointed that @springernature.com dragged our colleagues into a last minute meeting this morning with the notorious union-busting law firm Littler Mendelson (the same one Starbucks and Amazon hire 👀)

I talked to @colincarlson.bsky.social about the global wildlife trade, which is fueling zoonotic disease transmission even faster than we thought (and which you are probably a far more frequent participant in than you assume) www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...

And our ace podcast team (welcome back @feltman.bsky.social!) spoke to @drkatemarvel.bsky.social, @billmckibben.bsky.social, and chemist Susan Solomon about past environmental wins:

My first new Weirdest Thing episode of 2026 is out now! Featuring @chanda.blacksky.app and @laurenleffer.bsky.social and some very hungry caribou www.popsci.com/science/why-...

Hey Bluesky! 👋🦋 We’ve been reading your replies about our paywall, and we’re listening. We want to share why it’s there—and an easy, low-cost way to read more. TL;DR: You can unlock every Scientific American article for 90 days for just $1 spklr.io/6003EyRIR More context below 🧵 1/6

I love bruce!!! yeah I have a disability but I'm not an inspiration I'm a THREAT www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

When people say “start using AI or get left behind” they’re referring to the religious post-apocalyptic book series Left Behind by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, which is available for purchase at bookstores everywhere.

We're blown away by all the solidarity with and love for our announcement! If you'd like to read more about why we're unionizing, check out this press release from @wgaeast.bsky.social. Excited to share where we go from here!

the footage of drew barrymore and chris fleming giggling together and smooching is going to send me into psychosis (complimentary)

Hello, Bluesky! We, the staff of Scientific American, are pleased to announce we have formed a union with @wgaeast.bsky.social. Just as mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell, we are the powerhouse of the publication, and we’re excited to have a new way to contribute to its success.

I cannot emphasize enough that talking to Jesus, if that is something you would like to do, is now and has always been free. Zero dollars at the door.

I talked with Alexis Hall (@quicunquevult.bsky.social) to discuss their latest book HELLS HEART, easily one of my faves of this year already I seriously cannot stop talking about it, for @sciam.bsky.social Science Quickly podcast 👂🐋🚀 www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...

once again wondering if buying a new mic would fix all my problems

The acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has delayed publication of a CDC report showing the covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of emergency department visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half, @lenasun.bsky.social reports wapo.st/4ccudpF

officially scheduled to be the least prepared person at this year's UCB auditions

Some hopeful studies featured in @sciam.bsky.social suggest that today's children and young people are more empathetic and accepting of others' differences than previous generations. We love to see it. 💙

logged in just to tell you all to buy this extraordinary book that's out today! it is a science book for *everyone* by my fav guide through the wonders & mysteries of the cosmos, Prof. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein @chanda.blacksky.app, and the reason I now sometimes bring up quantum gravity in my chats

I used to be an executive editor but now I yap full time

rolling back into the workforce today, covered in a patina of baby vomit and ready to rumble

On the weird new game from the guy who made #Wordle, which the guardian is being really silly about (and comparing to #TimotheeChalamet???) in a way that infuriates me (or: on the loveliness of making things simply because you would like for them to exist) www.patreon.com/posts/153663...

On the weird new game from the guy who made #Wordle, which the guardian is being really silly about (and comparing to #TimotheeChalamet???) in a way that infuriates me (or: on the loveliness of making things simply because you would like for them to exist) www.patreon.com/posts/153663...

rachel use bluesky to actually keep in touch with people and read interesting thoughts, not to try to chase the dopamine fix you got from being a weird little microinfluencer on twitter challenge

buying this baby cubicle for my kid as soon as he's four months old so he can start practicing make number go up for shareholder, circle back on email, and other crucial life skills

wow @dropout.tv licensing Don't Hug Me I'm Scared somehow inches them even closer to being a streaming service curated especially and calibrated precisely for me, Rachel Feltman, a person who used to think she was unique and had original thoughts

ways in which having a baby is basically turning my life into a #horror movie (complimentary) part one of many: his best friend and only conversation partner is an entity we refer to as "the baby in the mirror"

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

I finally got around to making a @bookshop.org affiliate shop full of books from Weirdest Thing and also just books I like! We've got science! We've got history! We've got WLW regency romance! Stay tuned for more nonfiction, plus lots of horror and weirdfic bookshop.org/shop/weirdes...

yesterday was my birthday and I spent most of it soothing a three month old baby who got his first tooth at three weeks and already has a second one so be nice to me

will I be on here more? maybe. I'm also now possibly on threads www.threads.com/@rafeltman

@feltman.bsky.social My friends and I had a Powerpoint Party, and my theme was The Weirdest Thing I learned this week Also my look was full of eyes (earings, necklace, pants and make up) And i hand painted some bubblegum! My favorite podcast, and Kudos to your book hehe

trying to get my pittance NJ unpaid maternity leave stipend but have to first prove I was employed by the temp agency my main gig used to avoid giving me salaried benefits, which now literally doesn't exist and has been swapped for another temp agency that keeps forgetting what state I'm based in

fyi @sabs.bsky.social's perfect and wonderful book is part of the @libro.fm Shop Small Sale libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

when a show is incredibly good except the plot hinges on someone in a BSL-4 lab removing a layer of PPE while examining a specimen

genuinely very excited for this film about how shakers were metal as hell, actually www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zK_...

“I came to apologies bc I find apologies quite interesting & bizarre. They’re something that is called cheap talk bc anyone can apologize, whether or not they mean it—it costs them nothing—so you think they’d be meaningless, but they’re really meaningful.”🧪 @feltman.bsky.social

Here's a fun version of this: end-to-end development of a vaccine costs about $3-4B (assuming no incremental benefits in platform tech!). OpenAI's last cap raise came out to $40B. So, for the cost of non-consenually seeing Jason Momoa plow Marilyn Monroe, you could instead fully cure ten diseases.

On today's Science Quickly, I interviewed a former White House doctor about the president's care, aging and more: "It is a fact of science, it's not a political attack, that humans past the age of 60... start to have cognitive decline." "We have a gerontocracy." Listen on @sciam.bsky.social 🎧

Jared Kushner and a bunch of Saudi investors owning The Sims obviously isn't the worst thing that's happening right now but I just really didn't have that one on my enshittification bingo card

"You see CDC being torn apart, 2,000 people who are no longer there, years of experience, centers that are being demolished." @drdemetre.bsky.social discusses the dire state of US public health w/ @feltman.bsky.social on @sciam.bsky.social Science Quickly: www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...

Today on Science Quickly for @sciam.bsky.social: @drdemetre.bsky.social on how the CDC has decayed from a trusted source of health information to "an ideology propaganda machine that’s Orwellian"—and what we can do about it www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...