celebrating the high holy days www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPwG...

FYI this is the last day of Penzey's "release the files" sale, where all spices that start with "R" or "F" are 33% off with the code "files" www.penzeys.com

SecUnit: "Just remember you're not alone here. I never know what to say to that. I am actually alone in my head, and that's where 90 plus percent of my problems are". Me: FACTS 😅 Network Effect. Book 5 of #Murderbot books by @marthawells.com 🥰 #booksky #books #crochet #craft

Confused by patchwork COVID vaccine guidelines across states? @sciam.bsky.social has a map with the latest info from the National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations. We'll keep tracking updates. 📊 @unamandita.bsky.social ✏️ @jaimieseaton.bsky.social. www.scientificamerican.com/article/covi...

I'm teaching a Workshop4Gaza in November about writing alongside the non-human! We're raising funds for The Sameer Project. Come! We'll be reading from Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and more. www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/wri...

i share this mayo clinic video every year because more people need to see and hear how horrific a disease whooping cough is

Did a rare stint on the health desk and wrote about a complication of measles that can lead to a fatal brain disorder years after the infection, underscoring why widespread vaccination is so important. The child that died was too young to be vaccinated when the contracted measles. 🧪

When the narrative that's dominating partisan discourse runs up against facts too glaring to deny, there ensues an awkward interstitial in which the discourse quiets as partisans grasp for a new narrative around which to coalesce. I suspect we'll soon be hearing a lot about how video games are bad.

WSJ has now appended this lengthy editor's note to its original report. It notably contains zero contrition for the initial decision to spread such incendiary misinformation. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

memes and violence and racism and antisemitism all meld together in the acidic stew a ton of young men dip their heads in daily online, and that shit can cook your brain fast

one reason to want real gun control is that we wouldn't have to sit around endlessly going "what does the shooter's use of this obscure meme tell us about his views on society" bc he wouldn't be a shooter bc he wouldn't have a gun. he would just be....some guy. sounds better, right?

Every major publication in this country needs to have dedicated staffers or correspondents reporting on gaming, streamers, podcasts, and TikTok. Not as a once in a while thing. As standard beats. These are massive segments of American culture. No excuses for it anymore.

I am bravely asking:: defector.com/why-not-have...

don't need "guy at a diner" journalism when my extremely newsmaxed neighbor is back to waking me up with his 1 am ranting for the first time since the election

Always a delight to have @sarahgailey.bsky.social on Weirdest Thing! Tune in to today's (accidentally) all-cloaca episode, featuring seabirds that put Jamie Lee Curtis to shame, monocle-wearing lizards, and a good old fashioned midwestern Snake Panic www.popsci.com/science/miss...

Always a delight to have @sarahgailey.bsky.social on Weirdest Thing! Tune in to today's (accidentally) all-cloaca episode, featuring seabirds that put Jamie Lee Curtis to shame, monocle-wearing lizards, and a good old fashioned midwestern Snake Panic www.popsci.com/science/miss...

yeah im into BBW

The Onion News Network truck is currently stationed outside the Broadview ICE Detention facility just outside of Chicago.

Our lab at Yale literally studies government suppression of outbreak reporting. Please: don't promote unverifiable reports from anonymous accounts. They're very likely to be false, and it boosts unreliable actors. (If this is happening, I suspect CDC sources know how to text a journalist just fine.)

these can't be the same zigazigs the spice girls ah'ed for

This week on Science Quickly (@sciam.bsky.social), @laurenjyoung.bsky.social & @feltman.bsky.social discuss fallout from #CDC resignations. They share from @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social: “No one is home to watch out for health threats to the nation—and no one will be there to respond.” 🎧 Listen here

Nbd Tylenol is like the only safe OTC painkiller for pregnant people, I'm sure it's fine to cause such a moral national panic about autism that will result in nonzero pregnant people suffering more than they actually have to while BRINGING NEW HUMAN LIFE INTO THIS WORLD LIKE THEY KEEP SAYING TO DO

With the CDC in disarray and its future uncertain, today's episode of Science Quickly explores what’s driving the exodus of agency staff—and what this means for national health security. With @laurenjyoung.bsky.social! @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...

googling this once a day until the world gets better

More: - Tiffany Aching, Pratchett - Prydain, Alexander (great as a pre-LOTR series imo) - Dark Is Rising, Cooper - His Dark Materials (hits real hard for weirdo smart kids) - Graceling, Cashore (I mistakenly read them in order 1-3-2 and actually might recommend that) - Queen’s Thief, Turner

> "41% of Millennial and Gen Z employees admit they’re sabotaging their company’s AI strategy, for example by refusing to use AI tools or outputs translation: workers who know how to do work correctly keep the business on rails in spite of the bosses who can't tell answer-shaped output from answers

orville peck more broadway when

@mfischetti.bsky.social‬ wrote about the inevitability of a disastrous storm in NOLA for @sciam.bsky.social back in 2001. When Katrina hit, many outlets pegged him as they guy who had "predicted" the storm. We get into that story—and what's changed since—on today's podcast. bit.ly/4g88ZLm

Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans 20 years ago today. @sciam.bsky.social just released a podcast about how I "predicted" the storm and whether the city is safer today. www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/the-science-behind-hurricane-katrina-what-researchers-knew-before-the-2005/

Remember earlier when they were literally calling it a blood libel to suggest Israel would ever bomb a hospital and now the only ambiguity is how many times they bombed one

I’m on a podcast! 🪨🪸🦑 Thanks @feltman.bsky.social for having me on to @sciam.bsky.social’s show. We talked about “dark oxygen” and whats happened in the 12 months since the discovery making headlines. Listen (& then watch our mini doc starring @drandrewthaler.bsky.social @jjmarlow.bsky.social)👇

Reports of AI-induced psychosis are increasing. Researchers examined 17 cases and pulled out 3 main themes from people's delusions: romantic bonds with the AI, revelations of the "true nature" of reality, and AI as sentient or divine. by @conorfeehly.bsky.social , edited by me 🧪

love being out and seeing books written by cool people who are nice to me! @charliejane.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social @chucktingle.bsky.social @wordbookstores.bsky.social

this is one of my favorite things to make!

um please it's feltman with a t like the hot dog stand ever heard of it loser

a man wrote an angry blog about me but he spelled my name wrong so I only know about it cause someone sent it to me to make fun of it

Standing next to my open window today evoked the visceral sense memory of being a child in the summer in the pine barrens surrounded by LITERAL SWAMP

Using AI chatbots for “therapy” is dangerous, mental health experts say. Here’s why

180 years of Scientific American. Join in on the fun by sharing your own selfie of your favorite issue and tag with #SciAmInTheWild. Prizes for the winners!

I'll never forget that when I pre-wrote this obit almost a decade ago (!) and talked to Jeffrey Kluger about Jim, he ended the call by saying "good luck with your article, but I'm sure you don't mind me saying that I hope it never runs."

gonna tell my kids this was troye sivan

gonna tell my kids this was troye sivan

Signal boosting a fundraiser for legal defense of a friend-of-friend, a Palestinian who's currently being detained by ICE in West Virginia. Please help Majed if you're able! www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...

Signal boosting a fundraiser for legal defense of a friend-of-friend, a Palestinian who's currently being detained by ICE in West Virginia. Please help Majed if you're able! www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...

ICYMI I dressed up like an elf to talk about the boom in scientific research on Dungeons and Dragons with @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social from @dropout.tv @dimension20.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGqn...

Our friend @alecluhn.bsky.social is missing in Norway's Folgefonna National Park after a backpacking trip to the glacier there. Please share if you're in the area or know people who might be. Come home safe, buddy www.facebook.com/share/p/18xA...

last night I had a dream I was reading a book I was really into and I'm mad that I can't finish it (don't tell me to write it, I didn't say it was good)

Imagine doing this

Behold: A Surprisingly Beautiful Depiction Of Being Swallowed By A Toothy Penis Worm - defector.com/behold-a-sur... (wow @sabs.bsky.social really is the best to ever do it)

ICYMI I dressed up like an elf to talk about the boom in scientific research on Dungeons and Dragons with @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social from @dropout.tv @dimension20.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGqn...