Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

So, bad news and good news then?

As I always do with boycotts, I urge: be tough with corporations, gentle with individual buyers. For some people, Black Friday sales are the way they get their kids jackets that fit, shoes that hold up to the weather. Yelling at them doesn’t help the cause.

seasonal reminder that if someone says they don't drink: -it's none of your business why -hosts should have several non-alcoholic beverage options -the holidays can be a tough period for non-drinkers -many jokes about not drinking are bad -people are burned out and might just be tired

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

Oh no I just realized I have entered one of the most dangerous seasons of the year for me personally: what if I got a planner? season.

We nearly lost wild turkeys--but now they're thriving. Here's their story: 🧪 🌎 www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...

H5N1 bird flu has been circulating in U.S. wildlife since late 2021 but has caused only one human fatality. Now a different type of bird flu has also caused a death. @meghanbartels.bsky.social reports for @sciam.bsky.social:

I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"

yes people call the friday after thanksgiving Brown Friday. yes plumbers get lots of holiday calls. yes it's because you overwork your disposals, pour fat/gravy/grease in your sink, and clog hosts' toilets. holidays are hard enough as it is. don't make them harder.

Science says eat more pie: 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/whic...

Scientists have a whole new understanding of how the overlooked lichen helped plants turn Earth's land green. Which means, ahem! Please lichen subscribe to our excellent news stories!!! 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/this...

What you need to know about the first bird flu death in humans since January and the virus subtype behind it: 🧪 🛟 www.scientificamerican.com/article/firs...

What you need to know about this year's flu season: 🧪 🛟 www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

People on here are constantly sharing screenshots of stories they think are important without linking to the original work, and then wondering why the media ecosystem is so broken. If you can't be bothered to even link to the work you're sharing, you're part of the problem!

CORRECTION: A *third* potato has been named after Prince.

every year someone does a study that’s like “we gave 100 homeless ppl money and their lives improved” and every year the government kills that guy

COP30 just wrapped and the Paris Agreement turns 10 this year. Here's where we are on climate: 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

That's just ... so fast. Hurricane Melissa really was an incredible storm. 🧪 (by @meghanbartels.bsky.social for @sciam.bsky.social)

Is photosynthesis 800 million years older than scientists thought? 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-u...

It seems to have gotten lost in the MeToo backlash but sexual harassment is in fact illegal

Come hangout with me this Thursday at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn to talk about gay animals, huge trees, what Greek literature tells us about climate change and being pissed off about stuff!! RSVP link below 😇 get there early for a seat 😘

🚨NEW: A massive new study found no link between exposure to recommended levels of fluoride and IQ decline in children. Over the past year, Health Secretary RFK Junior has claimed that fluoride causes IQ loss, neuro disorders and bone cancer, among other issues. My story for @sciam.bsky.social 🧪

They taught birds to chirp like R2-D2. FOR SCIENCE. Do NOT miss the video, incredible work. 🧪 🪶 www.scientificamerican.com/article/thes...

Whether you caught last week's aurora or missed out, if you want to know where we are in the solar cycle and what could come next on the sun activity front, here's the status report you need: 🧪 🔭 www.scientificamerican.com/article/afte...

this, all day right now (unmute, it’s a bop)

just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management. remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.

In @sciam.bsky.social December issue @bethgardiner.bsky.social shows readers why Big Oil is so interested in Big Plastic 🧪 📚 If you're looking for more to read on plastic, power and pollution check out why I recommend these 5 books www.scientificamerican.com/article/five...

As temperatures drop, I urge New Yorkers to know their rights to heat and hot water services, and to reach out to my office if their rights are being violated.   No New Yorker should be left without their home utilities as days and nights grow colder.

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A machine built to eat people will eat people.

Yes; and I want to make a different point. Editors *shouldn’t* be invisible. They should have bylines. YOU DESERVE to know who shapes the stories you read. Editors do that no less than writers/reporters do. Very often, they’re the ones who assigned the piece, not the writer, and who headlines it.

don't reskeet book excerpts from terrible people, even to dunk on them or to hate-read. You give prestige magazines clicks, and you encourage them to do this crap more. Encourage terrible people to go to What Ever Happened To?? land

When DHS dared to call its anti-immigrant racial profiling weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” I knew I was going to have to write about it. Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...

Excited to start auditioning eagles to participate in this important project!

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

I’ve wanted to brag about my Christmas gift last year and here’s my chance. I got the whole family matching magazine subs! Adults got Southern Cultures, OA, Bitter Southerner, The Sun, & New Yorker. Kid got Lux, Oyla, and later we added The Onion. We always have stuff to talk about!

Hello from the very worst day of the year, No More Cherry Tomatoes At The Farmers Market day. I will be inconsolable until conditions improve.

"Alice supported and took many people with Long COVID under her wing — I was honored to call her a colleague and friend." @mileswgriffis.bsky.social in @thesicktimes.org's obituary for the great Alice Wong: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...

So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.

I think some of us may have forgotten that the entire point of living in a society is that each of us gives up a little so that we all gain a lot.

I like how with the whole “sitting on Epstein files” and “actually the rape victim was the instigator and Matt Gaetz was the real victim” stuff most papers would take a little break. But not the New York Times. They want to repeatedly hammer home just how fucking awful they are.

More really cool science news: Scientists have extracted the oldest known RNA! This is a particularly amazing feat because RNA degrades very quickly. (Also, we learned that Yuka here was a male, not a female as previously thought.) 🧪 (by @humbertobasilio.bsky.social for @sciam.bsky.social)

I, for one, welcome our new trash panda overlords. But for real, fascinating science on how we might be seeing the very early stages of domestication in action in wild animals. 🧪 By @marinacoladas.bsky.social for @sciam.bsky.social

Will bird flu cause turkey turmoil this Thanksgiving? Here's what you need to know: 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-...

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These emails really do highlight why rich folk are so impressed by ChatGPT.

Yes, even if Substack wasn’t shot through with Nazis, it’s a bad model. That it is shot through with Nazi makes it a VERY bad model.

Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?