Top 5 movie genres: -Revenge rampage with the most beautiful fight choreography you've ever seen -Monster as metaphor -She told you so -Totally unhinged women -You will absolutely never guess whodunnit

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

The only thing that's interesting about Nuzzi is the story of how an amoral careerist with no interest in policy and abysmal ethics became an acclaimed national political reporter. But rather than tell that story, the entire media seems desperate to play a part in it.

Olivia Nuzzi getting this baby-soft profile after fucking a Nazi is a sign that we've overcorrected from shaving heads.

So this is where we're at, huh?

This sounds so good!

Tonight, @NewsHour airs a segment about They Poisoned the World and the wonderful, courageous people at the heart of the book. I promise their stories will inspire you! #PFAS #ForeverChemicals @CrownPublishing

I'm beyond thrilled to share that SISTERS IN SCIENCE has been nominated for the #GoodreadsChoiceAwards! 🎉 This means the world to me because it's decided by readers. ❤️💙 Voting is now open, and I'd be so grateful for your support! Voting for round one ends Sunday, Nov 23.

So our government is apparently fascist goons on one side, and incompetent ninnies on the other. Fabulous.

Awesome deal on the SISTERS IN SCIENCE audiobook, which won an Earphones Award from AudioFile Magazine. Snag it for only $7.99! www.audible.com/pd/Sisters-i...

Hell yes

Delighted that the FT have reviewed my new book, #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power. The reviewer writes “Economica is an epic…[&] important retelling of global economic history that puts women at the centre”. Out now @headlinebooks.bsky.social @hachetteuk.bsky.social #EconHist

I also write books, and any support for them (including library borrows and word of mouth) helps me spend more of my time writing fiction, so it is much appreciated.

When I was pregnant, my pelvis essentially fell apart. I was on bed rest and when I did go out, I had to use a walker. So yes, this would have been an incredibly useful thing for me to have access to.

WTAF!?!

Your daily dose of rage. Gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/h...

An assignment that managed to hit so many of my interests: history, medicine, dance, gender. My latest for National Geographic. www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

October's book recommendations over at Beyond Curie. Including picks from Rosa Espinoza, Rae Wynn-Grant, Sarah Ruden, @vnbateman.bsky.social and @christinewebb.bsky.social My newsletter is free open.substack.com/pub/oliviaca...

Really proud of this profile Samantha Riedel wrote of me in THEM. We talked about BLACK FLAME, DC comics firing me, Palestine, and real-life community as it relates to the internet. www.them.us/story/gretch...

In honor of spooky season, I'm sharing one of my favorite pieces I've ever written. To interview my favorite author of all time, T. Kingfisher, was a career high. @tkingfisher.com www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/arti...

In honor of spooky season, I'm sharing one of my favorite pieces I've ever written. To interview my favorite author of all time, T. Kingfisher, was a career high. @tkingfisher.com www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/arti...

It's interesting how people who use genAI will always offer excuses for why in their case it's ok, and how this rationalization *exactly* mirrors how they deal with fascism. Almost like genAI is an instrument of fascism and selecting/softening psychologically vulnerable targets for recruitment.

Let them eat AI

The dark romance girlies have every man fooled into thinking we all have an abusive stalker fantasy. No, baby. Use that bass in your voice to ask me about my day. 😂

Come along on my perimenopause book tour. It was a trainwreck. Shout out to Bridget Christie and her absolutely amazing show, "The Change," for perfectly articulating this experience. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/17/o...

I am attacked

The audacity to anthropomorphize machines being built by corporations --stealing data --exploiting the labor of the people who are actually the "undesirables" under eugenic thought --killing the environment, and then compare criticisms of such eugenic practices to, wait for it, eugenics.

Come along on my perimenopause book tour. It was a trainwreck. Shout out to Bridget Christie and her absolutely amazing show, "The Change," for perfectly articulating this experience. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/17/o...

At Dame I wrote about tradwives and white women choosing white patriarchy because whiteness gives them power. www.damemagazine.com/2025/10/15/t...

My very vulnerable essay essentially about the extended brain fart that is perimenopause has found a home in a national newspaper. Online and in print. Thrilled, but anxious.

Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January. www.wired.com/story/cdc-te...

The faux feminism at work here is exactly the kind of shit that @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social was writing about when he wrote Elite Capture, the essay and book! www.bostonreview.net/articles/olu...

While everyone is rightly aghast at Klein's defense of Charlie Kirk as "doing politics the right way," I feel like this terrible opinion didn't get enough coverage. open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

We have allowed the lazy, grifting Silicon Valley charlatans into the front door, & in doing so, we have learned just how many of our own colleagues & administrators simply are not interested in the actual business of education. It's incredibly demoralizing. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Why I do what I do.

Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.

See you on the science and history panels! Excited to say yes to scary things (public speaking, flying) that mean I get to explore a part of the country I've never seen before.

Karen Attiah, a black woman, got fired for A: accurately quoting what Charlie Kirk said about Black women B: Accurately observing that most white Americans seem permissive of white violence. It's bullshit, but almost expected in this white supremacist country.

A deep dive into the destruction of US cancer research by @jonathanmahler.bsky.social “It’s an absolutely unmitigated disaster,” a former top official at NIH told him. “It will take decades to recover from this, if we ever do.” Gift link: nyti.ms/48iH3Cr

Obsessed with these bronze art nouveau dancing scarf lady bookends. I'm so happy I trusted my gut and snapped them up at the thrift store. $25 is a bit more than I usually spend on my little thrift trinkets, but some googling tells me they're worth around $150 to $500.

Every pundit article: BLUESKY IS A HOTBED OF RADICALIZATION Majority of posts in my feed: Check out this cool bug/bird/random historical personage I found! Small but vivid minority of posts: Do you think Gritty and Alf are in a polycule or nah?

Had the great pleasure of reviewing @peterbrannen.bsky.social’s extraordinary new book (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...

Facts are the mortal enemy of arbitrary and unchecked power, which feeds on concealing reality to evade accountability. Which is why authoritarians in every era, on the Left and Right, suppress facts and attack experts at every opportunity.

We have forgotten all the ways people used to get toxins out of their food before federal regulation. It's not that food and water used to be cleaner -- it's that domestic work used to include detoxing everything we put in our mouths!

I'm looking for pitches for @MotherJones' print culture section, Mixed Media! These are ~2,000-word essays that combine reporting, cultural criticism, historical research, and/or personal narrative. More details in our pitch guidelines here: www.motherjones.com/contribute/w...

I feel like Chicken Little, but as a science journo, what can I do but write? open.substack.com/pub/oliviaca...

If you read anything I've written lately, I hope it's this post. open.substack.com/pub/oliviaca...

If you read anything I've written lately, I hope it's this post. open.substack.com/pub/oliviaca...

States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it. Great article on the need for Democratic governors to step up and protect public health, featuring the incredible @gregggonsalves.bsky.social.

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