it was a privilege to contribute to this package. check out my story on how scientists digitally sculpted the planet to predict the future, and how those in power today are dismantling the quest to model the climate www.quantamagazine.org/how-climate-...

#journorequest I'm looking for migraine patients who have found relief with electrical neuromodulation therapies for a written article for the BBC. Reach out at [email protected]!

“And though nobody likes a runny nose or flinging snot across the room in a sneeze, the mucus in our nasal passages is arguably one of the wonders of the human body.” — @sofiaquagliajourno.bsky.social, BBC Future www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Cuckoos, cowbirds and other species outsource their parental duties. Scientists are uncovering new twists in this sneaky — and often treacherous — game of survival. Learn more in @sofiaquagliajourno.bsky.social's 2024 report:

Dive into the bird version of this cunning evolutionary strategy with @sofiaquagliajourno.bsky.social 's 2024 story

Octopuses never disappoint! Octopus arms are fine-tuned to detect microbiomes on surfaces and to derive information from them. Research by Rebecka Sepela et al., scicomm by @sofiaquagliajourno.bsky.social #octopus #cephalopod #nature #ocean #microbiome

"Among the abundance of life a section of the Blake Plateau is barren with the scars from the world's first deep-sea mining pilot test carried out in 1970." writes @sofiaquagliajourno.bsky.social for #BBC - an issue @ehildeb.bsky.social of #EPRG is closely following 👇 www.bbc.com/future/artic...

New fossils reveal birds like loons & gulls shared the Arctic with Tyrannosaurus 73m years ago, earlier than we thought. They may have given rise to the hardier, more advanced birds that dominate the world today. @sofiaquagliajourno.bsky.social @newscientist.com www.newscientist.com/article/2482....

Love answering all of your climate questions for @nytimes.com Ask Climate! Latest one is about... which seafood you should be eating. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/c...

@sofiaquagliajourno.bsky.social is a freelance journalist writing about all things science and nature. We asked Sofia about her experiences covering #biodiversity, traveling the world, and her unique love of often-forgotten creatures. Read more: www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/04... #scicomm

🌎 This #EarthDay we're celebrating the beauty and mystery of our planet with a dive into a recent piece by 2023 awardee @sofiaquagliajourno.bsky.social, featuring the first-ever footage of a colossal squid — the largest invertebrate on Earth. Read more: www.newscientist.com/article/2476... #scicomm

Let's celebrate the tiny, oft-overlooked frogs out there this #WorldFrogDay! Here you can see—to scale on two different coins—Microhyla nepenthicola and Mini mum, two diminutive microhylid frogs that have independently approached the apparent lower limit for the tetrapod bauplan. 🧪🐸

In my latest for BBC, I went to the Atacama desert in Chile to get to the bottom of how thousands of rare cacti were found in the house of a collector on the other side of the planet.. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Lovely series by my friend @sarahsloat.bsky.social 💘👩‍🦳 Give it a read!

Woolly mice designed to engineer mammoth-like elephants Genetically engineered woolly mice could one day help populate the Arctic with hairy, genetically modified elephants and help stop the planet warming. www.bbc.com/news/article...

he was a National Park biologist whose job was to make their wildlife work more efficient using AI, drones, and other technology. so to be terminated by a tech mogul under the guise of "government efficiency" was a cruel and bitter irony today's op-ed in @atmosmagazine.bsky.social 🌎🧪

The concept of the “extinction of experience” has been used to describe the dwindling human connection with nature, often applied to the general public. But ecologists themselves are not immune. Across universities and research institutions, field-based studies are in retreat. mongabay.cc/w0Tc9L

Do worms feel pain and are ants happy? Why the science on invertebrate feelings is evolving www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Tiny Frogs and Giant Spiders: Best of Friends, a classic Tetrapod Zoology article that I've had reason to republish in updated form three times now .... tetzoo.com/blog/2022/8/... #animals #zoology #biology #frogs #amphibians #spiders #arachnids

#SophoraToromiro trees, unique to #RapaNui, were once used for sacred artefacts, but became popular for construction & firewood - until they've been declared extinct in the 1960s. Now there's hope for their return: www.theguardian.com/environment/... by @sofiquaglia.bsky.social via @theguardian.com

‘The last plant left’: can Rapa Nui’s extinct tree be resurrected?

‘The last plant left’: can Rapa Nui’s extinct tree be resurrected? Seeds from the last toromiro, unique to remote Easter Island, were taken away in the 1960s. Now, after a crucial discovery gave hope for its survival, it is making a return www.theguardian.com/environment/...

💕Happy Valentine's Day!❤️ We got you a gift: Anilany karsticola, a #newspecies of miniaturised frog from Madagascar! 🧪 Published #OA today in Salamandra Read more and get the paper here: www.markscherz.com/archives/6117 Phenomenal 🐸 illustrations by postdoc & first author, @alicepetzold.bsky.social

Endangered frogs born at London zoo after rescue mission in Chile. Group of Darwin’s frogs threatened by chytrid fungus thrive in specially built room that mimics their natural habitat www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Fantastic piece about science and how it is communicated by my friend @sarahscoles.bsky.social

Do you remember the #arseniclife controversy from the long-ago internet? Here's my retrospective about what went on behind the scenes and within the science community back then, what happened to the scientist at the center of it all, and what's going on now. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/s...

If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.

I had the rare pleasure to add three caecilians to the Herpetology collections at the @nhmdk.bsky.social today! Two that recently passed away at the National aquarium, and one that I found on the shelves that was collected in the 1950s, but hasn’t been inventoried or catalogued until today!🏛️🧪🐸🐍🪱

Dogs can help keep bears away from people and livestock... but drones don't tangle with porcupines. That story and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

there are plans afoot to build the world's biggest amphibious house—homes that float like a dock when the property floods it'll be extravagantly expensive, but surprisingly, amphibious homes aren't only for the rich 🌎🧪 @chrisbaraniuk.com for @atmosmagazine.bsky.social

This is just so cool. Look how small that spider is! #Miniaturisation doing its thing. So glad the smallest miniaturised vertebrates are so much bigger. Must be a pain in the ass to get enough tissue for a high quality genome of species this small!

Love it when my friends cannot escape me... Latest MIT Tech Review in print

Do you want free and immediate access to data to explore potential stories with less red tape and lower costs? Start here, with this excellent primer from @fleerackers.bsky.social, with @arturo-gama.bsky.social, @richvn.bsky.social, @sofiquaglia.bsky.social, @alicedreger.bsky.social, and others. 🧪

To inaugurate my new profile on this app, I'd love to share some of my favorite stories I worked on in the past couple of years and some of the cool things I've been up to🧵

So great to be featured in this @Open_Notebook story by @FleerackersA about using open data in science stories... 📰📈there's open data about a lot of things, and it's a waste not use it! https://www.theopennotebook.com/2025/01/14/using-open-data-to-sharpen-science-stories/

Climate change is making wildfires more common and more potent: we're seeing that in LA right now. Can new technology help prevent fires from spreading violently, though? Can it make a difference in how early we catch the flames starting?🧵

This week I'm in the @nytimes answering a question that's been bothering my dad for a while now... Independent studies show savings are much smaller than those advertised, but there are still bigger picture implications that might make a difference....

In my latest for @newscientist I give a little breakdown of recent legal wildlife trade data from the US. And this is likely well lower than the actual numbers... https://www.newscientist.com/article/2464041-us-has-imported-billions-of-wild-animals-in-the-past-20-years/

Last year I traveled to the Marshall Islands to meet the canoe craftspeople showing the world we can decarbonize the shipping industry if we learn from Pacific Island tradition. ⛵️https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/02/1108651/wind-shipping-decarbonize-climate-change/

What an honor to be at the @pressgazette #BritishJournalismAwards last week, where I was a finalist in the environment category for my work in @guardianscience on ocean issues. Lovely to share this moment with my friend @SimarSBajaj, nominated as a new journo of the year! 🌊📰

It was an absolute honor to return to the @SciCommAwards by @theNASEM and Schmidt to welcome a new cohort of winners & what a blast for @fungalpals, @jmkendallbar, @YCabreraOC, and I to have the chance to host a workshop. Cannot wait to see what our community will do next! 📰🧪👑

Come for the clever chimps and stay for the debate about cumulative culture, they say... 🥜🪨🪝🐒 my latest in @NYTScience https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/science/chimpanzees-culture-dna-tools.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bk4.kxna.jSZoccP3KpRB&smid=url-share

Researchers globally are working on a range of projects to enhance corals’ resistance to marine heat waves. This summer I dove in Palau to learn more about ones focused on assisted evolution... My latest for @YaleE360 with @Coralassist_Lab...

#journorequest Do I know anybody who has noticed first hand that food-drug interactions were affecting their medical therapy? For a sensitively handled piece in BBC...

Freshwater mussels are like nature’s very own Brita filter. My latest for @Sierra_Magazine 💪🦪🌄 https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/could-little-bit-mussel-fix-our-polluted-streams

So stunning to see this story in print from my trip to Japan, with touching photography by Marla Tomorug. 🗾🎌🐡 https://nautil.us/the-plight-of-japans-ama-divers-533289/

Fish with tasting legs is in print 🐟🏃‍♀️ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/science/sea-robins-legs-tasting-fish.html

As climate change is causing more extreme storms – with stronger wind, heavier rainfall and more flooding – animal facilities are upgrading their extreme weather plans on a yearly basis and doing their fair share of doomsday prepping....

So great to see my cover feature about Dark Earth come to life for this edition of @sciencefocus 🌱👨‍🌾🌿💫 https://apple.news/A-QcCeAfNRhKC6pHAIez3GA

“We’re like, ‘How can those parents not recognize that that chick is not their own chick? It’s five times the size of them!’” My latest exploration of brood parasitism in @KnowableMag...