Next Thursday in Los Angeles, @ologies.bsky.social & I are hosting an evening of activism art! We'll be creating art that communicates important messages & learning about work happening in your city. RSVP here: luma.com/fp919u5x Poster by the amazing @nicolegoux.bsky.social! Please repost, LA!

Also, LA, get your tickets! Jan 15 with me and @sarahmackattack.bsky.social:

Any chemist friends here? I have a gaseous question: If you had sulfuric acid in the clouds of a planet, as well as scant water vapor, would the process of dissociation create hydrogen sulfide and thus would it smell like farts? Just doing some fact checking.

Father Frost brought me this as a New Year's present. I'm so happy I can finally rep ologies in the wild 😎 @ologies.bsky.social

Reminder: I'm doing a live art meet-up with @sarahmackattack.bsky.social in LOS ANGELES on JAN 15, so get your $15 tickets now before we fill up! Who's going? luma.com/fp919u5x

I want to print YOU DON'T GET GOOD AT A THING BY NOT DOING IT onto little cards and just hand them out in conversation sometimes

163. A few years ago I talked to the amazing Alie Ward on the Ologies podcast! 🧪 🔭 #TabClosed2026 #SpaceArchaeology @ologies.bsky.social

This means so much to me, truly. Big goopy teary thank you, Dr. @napaaqtuk.bsky.social

LA! Come draw with me and @sarahmackattack.bsky.social on Jan 15! We just released tickets and I think they’ll go fast, so jump on it:

Y'all, #Christmas came early. #TheDoubleTax, my author debut, was named one of the TOP FIVE BEST SCIENCE BOOKS of 2025 by the @latimes.com @ologies.bsky.social. I NEVER in a million years expected this and I am exceedingly grateful and overwhelmed by this honor. WOW. 😭 #GodsPlan #blacksky #booksky

We’re matching all first-time donations for @give-directly.bsky.social through the end of the year, doubling how much cash you send directly to families in need. Join us: givedirectly.org/pods (@lauriesantos.bsky.social, @ologies.bsky.social, @davideagleman.bsky.social, @hiddenbrain.bsky.social)

AI? Because wtf is this

"How are there any platypuses on the planet?" You have to listen for the context. Another great episode of @ologies.bsky.social that was perfect fory walk. www.alieward.com/ologies/orni...

Looking for an *L.A. based* artist who (against all odds) has time for a poster gig before the end of the year. It's for a science + art event. We can offer $500 for the gig. Dreadfully sorry about the timeline. Link a portfolio if you're interested, I'll delete this post when we found someone.

Dehydrated casserole! Floating tortillas! Smuggled sandwiches! The lovely Maggie Coblentz talks tastes, smells, nutritional values, menu options of SPACE FOOD, and why she has some on her desk. Astrobromatology: www.alieward.com/ologies/astr...

listening to the pteridology episode of @ologies.bsky.social from my Seattle home: Dr. Li: North America is not a great place to find ferns. The most exciting place to find ferns in North America is.... me, smugly confident: the Pacific Northwest! Dr. Li: Arizona. me:

here's how influential @ologies.bsky.social is: I actually, in real life, just told someone that life is short, cut bangs because they weren't sure about bangs with their curly hair. 💇‍♂️ (I also recommend the pod every chance I get, but yanno ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

Any science books folks are excited about being released in 2026?

Anyone have ideas on a good place to host an interactive event in LA? (Also save the date: Jan 15)

Anyway my forever recommendation is Ologies with Alie Ward (@ologies.bsky.social) Ask smart people silly questions and learn cool stuff!!

One of the reasons I love @alieward.bsky.social and the @ologies.bsky.social podcast is the warnings she gives at the beginning of episodes as well as her voiceovers & interruptions - her heads up “the siren is on our recording, don’t panic” - is so kind and thoughtful.

And for more of this ferntastic guest, follow Dr. @fernway.bsky.social 🌿💚

WE GOT FERNS, folks. I hope you like ferns. If you don’t, just listen and you will like ferns. 🌿🌿🌿 Dr. Li is hilarious and charming and you will love him. And ferns. In conclusion: ferns. www.alieward.com/ologies/pter...

Don’t forget about the #FindThatLizard Scholarship!! Please share #science #scholarship #funding #herps #HERpers #lizards #snakes #frogs #salamanders #game #challenge #education

For #GivingTuesday -- or any day: A mutual aid fund for friends in Gaza: chuffed.org/project/hand... For more context, we just released an updated 2025 interview with Dr. Dirk Moses on the genocide in Gaza: www.alieward.com/ologies/geno... CC: @mercedesdigsit.bsky.social

As usual, an incredible episode of @ologies.bsky.social with - this time a second installment of GENOCIDOLOGY with Prof. Dirk Moses. The first instalment was amazing, and this follow up episode just as incredible. #Science #Knowledge #Scholarship #Humanity open.spotify.com/episode/7JNj...

One of my favorite things about @ologies.bsky.social is when the ologist uses a technical term and Alie does an aside like “so I looked this up for us…” No judgement, just quickly getting everyone on the same page without making anyone feel dumb for not knowing something.

Tell me you know someone who owns an @alieward.bsky.social original, and I'll congratulate them on their brilliant purchase. Alie is the host of the @ologies.bsky.social podcast, and a writer and talented artist. This is one of my favorite paintings ever, and I'm so lucky that I get to own it.

I’m making a quick stop in NYC 🍎 on the way home from New Orleans ⚜️ to see Alie Ward do her first @ologies.bsky.social podcast live show. This is one of my favorite science podcasts that’s been a regular feature of my weekly listening since the pandemic.

The latest @ologies.bsky.social is Owls! It's brilliant (as are all Ologies). It's with the awesome Rocky Guitiérrez, who was PhD supervisor of @jonathanslaght.com (Owls of the Eastern Ice book!) who we got to meet & show owls to when he came to Brisbane a few years ago. pca.st/episode/573b...

The days of thanking veterans today and forgetting them tomorrow has to come to an end.

If you're not familiar, then start with this episode of @ologies.bsky.social and then listen to her books

You’ve all been very good this week, please have a crab.

OWLS. 🦉 #Strigiformologist R.J. "Rocky" Gutiérrez is your new favorite person. Let's talk: field work adventures owl eyes beak clacks face feathers hoots, roosts, nests silent flight froggy legs folklore owl crime nesting boxes + much more AND: it's a 2-parter. www.alieward.com/ologies/stri...

Hi! Get fucked Cuomo!

Niche ask but does anyone personally or professionally know Marion Rankine, the author of Brolliology? I JUST WANNA TALK. bookshop.org/p/books/brol...

OLD TIMEY POISONS! ☠️🤢 Enjoy some Aqua Tofana, cyanide peach pits, sketchy groundwater, arsenic, old lace, movie myths, tragic mix-ups, and the birth of forensic toxicology with Pulitzer Prize winning Deborah Blum. It’s been quite a Spooktober, y’all! ☠️ www.alieward.com/ologies/hist...

i wasn't watching the game but I can tell we won because of the explosions in LA right now

Los Angeles! This Saturday, I'll be interviewing THE Krystle Hickman @beesip.bsky.social (Indigenous Melittology: NATIVE BEES) about her stunning new book. Come join us for free! vromansbookstore.com/event/2025-1...

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

Any Ologists in Lisbon Portugal I should interview? LEMME KNOW

🍂 Our Fall newsletter is here! 🎧 See the impact of the $675,000 directed to charity by @ologies.bsky.social listeners in just two months 🐔 Learn how @thehumaneleagueus.bsky.social improves millions of farmed animals' lives 📖 Read our director's new article in @behscientist.bsky.social 👇 Link below

For anyone who needs to pass these on: www.alieward.com/ologies/geno... www.alieward.com/ologies/revo... www.alieward.com/ologies/arti... www.alieward.com/ologies/cons... www.alieward.com/ologies/trol... www.alieward.com/ologies/crit... www.alieward.com/ologies/blat...

What's EVIL? Who decides? #CriticalPonerology w/ Dr. Ken MacKendrick dives into: religion vampires angry mobs seeking vigilante justice billionaires homicidal news anchors subjects vs. objects & if your toddler is evil why you should be nicer to your coffee table. www.alieward.com/ologies/crit...

Loving that the @ologies.bsky.social podcast is making social commentary & enacting a form of protest & social resistance through the themes that are being published over the last 11 months. 10/10 💅🏽🔥✊🏽 Evil, cockroaches (IYKYK), rebellions, 'creepy', moral dilemmas, US Constitution, cryptology, etc.

You know what I love about @ologies.bsky.social is that it’s 6:30 in the morning and I’m sobbing over a mountain lion that I didn’t know had existed but will never, ever, forget. RIP P-22. I can’t wait to visit LA and learn more about him.

In honour of the excellent Blattodeology episode of @ologies.bsky.social podcast, please enjoy these veeeeerrrry fancy Mardi Gras cockroaches (Polyzosteria mitchelli) from arid WA: The stripes! The yellow shorts! The blue socks! 🌏🪳 #wildOz (Go listen to the episode www.alieward.com/ologies/blat...)

WE GOT COCKROACHES. Learn to love them -- I promise -- with #Blattodeologist Dr. Dominic Evangelista. STUNNING emerald green ones, glowing roaches, teeny ones that ride flying ants, clean-up helpers, and medical mysteries. They just want love & garbage. 🖤 www.alieward.com/ologies/blat...

#ICYMI Time magazine called @ologies.bsky.social one of the best podcasts of all time, @alieward.bsky.social and Salma Hayek share their love of bugs on live television, and we chat about asking scientists all the questions on the latest See Jurassic Right! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

It’s out! @ologies.bsky.social’s @alieward.bsky.social is on See Jurassic Right (if you don’t count the time she read my childhood Jurassic Park fan fiction).