Workers deserve transparency and respect, not intimidation. We demand Springer Nature work with us directly and voluntarily recognize our union instead of wasting SciAm’s staff time and resources on meetings like these.

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 👀)

Today is Earth Day. Two weeks ago, humans saw the Earth from the moon for the first time in 54 years. I wanted to know what historians were thinking about the moment, and the images we all loved so much. 🧪 🌍

Happy Earth Day! 🌍 We've got several stories @sciam.bsky.social, including a look I took at where some blast-from-the-past environmental issues stand. (Hint: not all are in the past, though there has definitely been progress.) 🧪

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

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!

If you need me, tough, I'm busy huffing my neighbor's lilacs until I feel like a human being again.

Happy new issue day! The May issue of Scientific American goes deep on heart disease, weird magnets, the science of luxury and so much more. Dive in here: www.scientificamerican.com/issue/sa/202...

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

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.

If you loved our Artemis II videos, you should know we’re a Webby nominee! 🎉 Vote Scientific American for best Social Video – Short Form (Education & Science) 🗳️ spklr.io/6005Eyowc

It's Monday post-Artemis and I probably owe you a message back

While I have your attention... If you've enjoyed our Artemis II coverage here at @sciam.bsky.social and want to see more (much more) of the same in the future, please become a subscriber. Your support makes a difference. It's what makes our work possible.

Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...

“What we really hoped in our soul is that we could...have the world pause and remember that this is a beautiful planet and a very special place in our universe, and we should all cherish what we have been gifted,” —Artemis II astronaut Reid Wiseman. Mission coverage: spklr.io/6001EyN07

"There are a lot of parts of life in our city that we have just come to accept as if it's the cost of being a New Yorker, when in fact, these are political decisions and political choices" is the most succinct summary of the governance crisis plaguing Democrats in large cities I've ever heard

I can say without hesitation that this is the HARDEST article I have ever written, but I am incredibly proud of it. If you have questions about Orion’s heat shield, given the issues with Artemis I, I hope I can provide some answers: www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

The Moon is different now. It looks totally new! And I look at it *a lot* so you can trust me. I am grateful to my editors at @theatlantic.com for letting me say a few things about what Artemis II has meant this week. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

Brutal.

I didn’t think we’d get to this point but here we are. Please support our fight for a fair contract by honoring our strike today. The sooner we can reach an agreement on the contract, the sooner we can get back to doing journalism in this urgent time.

We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

🌑 ☀️ After hearing how astounded the Artemis II crew was by the total solar eclipse they experienced near the moon last night, we can finally get a hint of what they saw. Read more: www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...

Photos photos photos, so many gorgeous photos of the moon and Earth: 🧪 🔭 www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

Same story about how cool a solar eclipse from the moon would be, now with an actual photo of a solar eclipse from the moon: 🧪 🔭 www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...

The crew of Artemis II is experiencing a total solar eclipse RIGHT NOW from just a few thousand miles above the lunar surface. Here's why it's cool and what they could see 🧪 🔭

Hoping beyond hope that today's wakeup song will be "When the moon hits your eyes"

Honestly if you're trapped in a flying tin can 169,000 miles from Earth the least you deserve is arriving at the chorus of Pink Pony Club!!!

We’re at teen art club again 😎

"And so it's a reminder to me that there are more perspectives and more stories out there than you'll hear from the people cheering for NASA on a regular basis," Glover said. "But those people? We work for them too." www.space.com/space-explor...

Like many science journalists this week, I'll covering the #ArtemisII mission for @nature.com. Our first story is now up! We explore the science that the astronauts will do on their flight — and how this advances beyond the Apollo era. 🧪🔭 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Need to get up to speed on the Artemis mission fast? Here's a handy guide to NASA's moon mission launching tonight! 🧪 🔭

These snakes are both more organized and more toxic than me: 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/thes...

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The US was a racial dictatorship until 1965 and a not small measure of US politics since then has been an attempt, or resistance against the attempt, to return us to being one

Given that most major media and nearly every social media company is owed by people pushing fascist agendas and AI is rampant, we all have to be extra careful to practice media literacy. Slow down. Don’t share what you haven’t read. Be wary of confirmation bias. Check the source. Verify.

Absolutely never my brain writing a fantastic headline at 8am on a Saturday for a feature that literally does not at all exist.

“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention. “It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”

So, yesterday the US set a new March temperature record of 110 degrees, beating the old record by two degrees. Today the US set a new March temperature record of 112 degrees, beating the new record by two degrees and the old one by four degrees.

1/ Today, we overwhelmingly voted to authorize a STRIKE as we fight for a fair contract with @propublica.org.

Please do not! stare! at the fish! 🧪 🦑

Excited to share this piece by @parshallison.bsky.social and me in the April issue of @sciam.bsky.social. This is my fav type of #dataviz challenge: tackling a concept that is complex, fascinating, and that I haven’t seen represented in this way before. 📊 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Roses are redde Violettes are blue Sayinge "thys technologye ys the future" Ys an ideological move

Whether you're a plant person or not, you're probably a corpse flower person--who wouldn't be? The flashy, stinky blooms aren't just entrancing, they're also a lesson in the beauty of evolution: 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

1/ Paul Ehrlich died this week at 93. The takes split into hagiography and dismissal. But the interesting question isn't whether he got it right, he didn't, it's why he got it wrong, and who was asking the right questions instead 🧵

At the beginning of the pandemic some disabled people felt hope. We saw inclusion and accessibility improve overnight. We saw accommodations put in place that we had spent years begging for. We saw the world adapt. That hope was ripped away during the rush back to normal. It still hurts.

It's me, sitting on my couch doing my little crosswords and communing with lock-picking trash pandas everywhere 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/racc...

I know this is impossible for us discuss in this current moment but... People want to do interesting, thoughtful, creative, day to day work. They want to care for each other, and feel like they are contributing to something bigger. It should be where we start when we think about our communities.