Nick Petrić Howe
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Multimedia journalist of sorts at Nature. Host of the Nature Podcast. Former bee scientist.
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Hello! I am a science journalist and I make videos like this one where I wave my arms around a lot.
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These black hole jets are HUNDREDS of Milky Way galaxies long 🕳️
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https://youtube.com/shorts/K1jUksx72LA?si=j1x1b4Say_5LKQLX
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Time for another science carol! 🎄 Some researchers stuck a duck to a rock, so we sang a song about it. As you do!
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'Tis the season for some festive science songs. If you've ever wanted to hear someone sing about a dimunitive tyranosaur then now is your chance
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In a gear change from my last few stories...by acting as a "mechanical fuse" this simple little slipknot, added to surgical thread, can radically improve how surgeons perform sutures & lead to better outcomes A lovely intersection of mechanics, geometry and medicine 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Did you know there's lightning on Mars? There is! At least very small versions of it. AND YOU CAN HEAR IT. For more, check out my latest podcast for
@nature.com
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This is what lightning on Mars sounds like
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 26 November 2025
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03896-7
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A very cool story by my colleague
@lizziegibney.bsky.social
about how some quirky physics of knots could help make surgery better!
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Max Kozlov
about 1 month ago
About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in. Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Do you wanna see a robot pick up a weird squishy bug? I may have just the video for you...
youtu.be/FHW6eKvtcBw
about 1 month ago
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Bruce Gorrie
about 2 months ago
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
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Tom Gauld
about 2 months ago
A halloween cartoon for
@newscientist.com
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Is Nanotyrannus a baby T. rex, or is it its own species?
@shamini.bsky.social
has been finding out!
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Bowhead whales live a really long time! We may now know why. My latest for
@nature.com
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Bowhead whales can live for more than 200 years — this protein might be why
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 29 October 2025
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03551-1
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Nature is hiring a new Multimedia Editor, so if you want to work with me then this is a great opportunity. Who could say no to that? It's for verticals, so if you know your Toks from your Tiks, your ring lights from your Reels, and your shoots from your Shorts, then this might be the job for you!
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Associate Multimedia Editor or Senior Multimedia Editor
Job Title: Associate Multimedia Editor or Senior Multimedia Editor (12 Month Fixed Term Role) Organisation: Nature Portfolio Location: London – Hybrid Working Model Application Deadline: Sunday 9th No...
https://springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatureCareers/job/London/Associate-Multimedia-Editor-or-Senior-Multimedia-Editor_JR104616
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Highly recommend, we're fun! Also a great chance to cover cool science.
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Jacob Aron
2 months ago
Want some GOOD news, for once? This article will leave you feeling happy end positive about the future
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I am honoured.
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It's a very good moustache. You'll have to watch to see it.
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No mice were devoured in the writing of this headline (or in this research for that matter).
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Honey, I ate the kids: how hunger and hormones make mice aggressive
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 22 October 2025
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03446-1
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Naomi Oreskes
2 months ago
Proof that climate change is real and horrible:
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time after record heat
Previously the country was one of the world's only mosquito-free zones.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyz3vv62pgo?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
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Alexandra Witze
2 months ago
Fewer grad students means less science, but many STEM PhD programs in the US are cutting back on admissions this year due to federal funding uncertainties. Words by me for
@nature.com
:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@emsque.bsky.social
@ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social
@julieposselt.bsky.social
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US PhD admissions shrink as fears over Trump’s cuts take hold
Some doctoral programmes are admitting no students at all amid uncertainty about federal science funding.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03417-6
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Pavithra Suryanarayan
2 months ago
Astonishing when you see it like this.
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Dan Fox
2 months ago
Great new film from
@nature.com
youtu.be/BGT7kuaruZY?...
@shamini.bsky.social
and
@nickpetrichowe.bsky.social
knocked this one out of the park
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Would ChatGPT hire you? Your age and gender matter
YouTube video by nature video
https://youtu.be/BGT7kuaruZY?si=r3x3QM8dTQi0UH6C
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Dan Fox
2 months ago
Super close race in the technology Lovies category this year. Go and and give
@nickpetrichowe.bsky.social
a vote, and watch his excellent film on the AI surveillance pipeline while you're there
vote.lovieawards.com/PublicVoting...
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The People's Lovie Awards needs YOU
I just voted for this finalist to win a People's Lovie Awards. You should too.
https://vote.lovieawards.com/PublicVoting#/2025/film-video/general-video/technology
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Lucas Nunes
2 months ago
Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖
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Alexandra Witze
3 months ago
You've probably heard how a high percentage of
#Nobel
laureates are immigrants. The US in particular has benefited from the influx of bright minds.
@jennaahart.bsky.social
ran the data for this century's Nobel prizewinners — and shows more than 30% immigrated. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys
The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03247-6
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Nature
3 months ago
BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit" Stay tuned for more.
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Katharine Hayhoe
3 months ago
I may have found my defining quote. Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!
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Jacob Aron
3 months ago
Really cool story - bird species from across the world make the same sound to warn against cuckoos, and they can even understand each other. Feeds into ideas Darwin had about the origin of language!
www.newscientist.com/article/2498...
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20 bird species can understand each other’s anti-cuckoo call
Several species of birds from different continents use and understand similar alarm calls when they see an invader that might lay an egg in their nest – this shared call hints at the origin of languag...
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2498809-20-bird-species-can-understand-each-others-anti-cuckoo-call/
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Dr Adam Levy
3 months ago
my gosh. truly an end of an era.
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Jeremy Noel-Tod
3 months ago
On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read
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I've been a bit rubbish at the ol' social media recently, as I've been making lots of cool things. A short thread.
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Pwnallthethings
3 months ago
This is just incredible. Someone made not just a computer, but an *entire working LLM* out of (438 million) minecraft blocks
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
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https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/famed-gamer-creates-working-5-million-parameter-chatgpt-ai-model-in-minecraft-made-with-438-million-blocks-ai-trained-to-hold-conversations-working-model-runs-inference-in-the-game
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Stephanie M. Lee
3 months ago
I'm on
@nature.com
's podcast talking to
@nickpetrichowe.bsky.social
about the role that journalists can play in combating research misconduct. Honored to appear alongside
@jamesheathers.bsky.social
,
@abalkina.bsky.social
,
@richvn.bsky.social
and many others:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Research misconduct: how the scientific community is fighting back
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 08 September 2025
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02877-0
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Disco Elysium Quotes
7 months ago
I'm a deeply flawed individual, but I bring joy to the world.
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Fusion energy has got a boost from some chemistry inspired by the controversial case of cold fusion! By using electrochemistry to trap deuterium in palladium, researchers boosted fusion rates by 15%. Hear about it here
@nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Fusion energy gets a boost from cold fusion chemistry
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 18 August 2025
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02683-8
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Light-powered flying saucers, Victorian toys, and
@danjfox.bsky.social
animations. This video has it all! And they could help understand a weird part of the atmosphere known as the mesosphere, that's too thin for balloons and too heavy for satellites.
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Me: I don't think I have much of an accent anymore. The internet:
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Jon Gewirtzman
5 months ago
So fun to be featured on this week’s
@naturepodcast.bsky.social
talking about the tree microbiome and could not be more thrilled to be following a story on rubber ducks.
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If you're gonna test our your new sticky hydrogel then sticking a rubber duck to a rock must be in the top 10 best ways to do it.
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I covered this on the podcast, but it really warrants seeing!
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Researchers are trialling all sorts of inventive ways to root out errors. Scientists are human. So, sometimes mistakes slip through the cracks. To make science as robust as possible, though, they've created all sorts of methods to seal those cracks. I explore these in a new
@nature.com
podcast.
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AI, bounties and culture change, how scientists are taking on errors
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 21/07/25
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02307-1
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A fossil floppy flipper that made a mega-predator into a stealthy submarine. We've got a video for that
@nature.com
youtube.com/shorts/XAXEO...
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This ancient mega-predator was built for stealth
YouTube video by nature video
https://youtube.com/shorts/XAXEOq6vaaE
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Tired? Well that sleepy feeling may be driven by 'leaky' mitochondria, according to a new study. I spoke to Gero Miesenboeck from
@ox.ac.uk
for
@nature.com
all about the new study. It's here on the Nature Podcast at 12:11:
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‘Stealth flippers’ helped this extinct mega-predator stalk its prey
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 16 July 2025
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02277-4
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Researchers have hidden messages in their papers in an attempt to trick AI peer reviewers!
@lizziegibney.bsky.social
told me all about it for a quick video for
@nature.com
youtube.com/shorts/WvamK...
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Could hidden AI prompts game peer review?
YouTube video by Nature Podcast
https://youtube.com/shorts/WvamKH2Wsu0
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Sarah Hörst
6 months ago
My email is just one person after another emailing to tell colleagues that they are leaving NASA. I’m so sad and angry it’s honestly hard to function.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽
6 months ago
“If you cut out these diversity measures, you're going to make science full of people that are very elite…Full of people who have grown up with a large amount of privilege, who were able to work in a lab in high school because their dad was a prof at Cornell.” 🧪
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...
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How Trump’s D.E.I. Cuts Are Hurting Rural White Americans Too
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/us/trump-science-nih-grants-dei-cuts.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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And people say there's no good advice on LinkedIn
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Carissa Wong
6 months ago
Do we grow new brain cells in adulthood? Yes, according to evidence that provides a "missing link" in one of neuroscience's biggest controversies.
www.newscientist.com/article/2486...
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Do we grow new brain cells as adults? The answer seems to be yes
Scientists have found evidence of new brain cells sprouting in adults - a process that many thought only occurred in children
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2486985-do-we-grow-new-brain-cells-as-adults-the-answer-seems-to-be-yes/
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Coming soon to a dystopia near you: celebrated works of fiction stripped of all style and panache.
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Dan Fox
6 months ago
Great new
@nature.com
documentary from
@nickpetrichowe.bsky.social
and
@shamini.bsky.social
(with some animations by me). How much machine-vision research is actually surveillance research? Quite a bit.
youtu.be/g9JtlX4mlSc
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Is AI powering Big Brother? Surveillance research is on the rise
YouTube video by nature video
https://youtu.be/g9JtlX4mlSc
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