J'adore!!

Working on a story about flexibility in the female body for National Geographic, and how it's an overlooked strength. What are your favorite examples of flexibility? (Flexibility can include bendiness, muscular flex, metabolic, and more!)

Noticing a Black woman and two blonde women doing the work necessary here while the men in suits stand around except for Dr. Oz (don't like him but he knew what he was looking at and responded properly as he has been trained).

Huge congratulations to Shalaya Valenzuela of Tseshaht, winner of the national Tom Longboat Award. Silver in Paris with Canada’s Rugby 7s, a UBC champion, and a powerful role model for Indigenous athletes. Read more at Ha-Shilth-Sa. Go Shalaya! #TseshahtProud #IndigenousExcellence

About once a week I take a little walk around Twitter for 15 minutes or so. Every time I just come out chuckling. There are hundreds of posts about how it's time to repeal the 19th amendment allowing women to vote, and supposed women (bots!) saying "I'd give up my right to vote for sanity in the US"

This was such an excellent event and I had SO much fun meeting people I'd only "met" via messages and emails so far!

6 Nov 2025 -- Lost in the news last night, a small PA town elects state's first transgender mayor. Eria Deuso of Downington (30 miles west of Philly) won 64% to 35% over her Rep. rival. Can the statehouse be far away? @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

"We in the past were stronger" ~ @starrevartan.bsky.social recently discussing her new book, The Stronger Sex, What Science Tells Us About The Power of The Female Body, with @marynmck.bsky.social. Catch their entire #HealthStorytelling Author Q&A on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ75...

Always thought this whole concept was sooooo effed up (even as a kid! Even when it was normalized around me I DID NOT get it! Its so blatantly, fundamentally unfair that one group gives up their name and the other group that has more power expects it! wtf?!) But this is new levels of effed.

I'm so happy for NYC!!! So proud!! I just cried happy tears!!!

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Well this is exciting! My interview on The Science Show with the redoubtable Robyn Williams of the ABC (Australia's BBC) ran! Really proud of this one; something about being interviewed by someone with 50 years' experience (! Robyn's a legend) brought out my best. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Super-annoying that I don't fit ANY of these categories! If I was running the Heritage Foundation and I was coming up with derogatory name for someone like me: -Stubborn bitches with offbeat fashion sense and hippie names? No, not mean enough....ugh this is hard, as I actually like myself, hahaha.

It's also why all of those smug european countries are pulling back on their welfare programs. They were happy to have them when they were relatively homogenous but now that they're afraid of immigrants having them - esp POC - they're scaling back

This work was my first job as a geologist. We tested the soil around underground oil & gas storage tanks in Connecticut (a state with a LOT of regulations around this thankfully, because they can literally poison people's water). The fact that there was only ONE guy doing this is already horrific.

I hope we reach a time when we think of physical strength, we imagine women as much as we do of men! 💫

I'm in my "apply for alllll the things" era and so far, it's a lot of work! Applications are hard and time-consuming. But you don't get if you don't ask! I used to be sooooo bad at asking, but it's a skill I'm strengthening. #phew #sciencejournalism

Shocked! I'm so shocked! /s

It's so amazing to know that my writing and speaking is spreading these ideas throughout the world!

I think the left is showing its soul right now and I couldn't be prouder. Here's the real answer to WWJD?

THIS is what a president sounds like. I honestly feel truly inspired and it's been awhile since I have!!! A Queen in Queens.

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS! Scroll down to "major events timeline" and swipe through the timeline. I can't believe this is real. #whatisgoingon www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...

Maryn asked me such great questions!

This is a REALLY good video that gets into the *specifics* of how AI is degrading our information environment and putting truth further out of reach for the average person / the population as a whole

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

The worst US state living up to its reputation in my heart and mind (and personal experience). Would not set foot there again in my lifetime.

For shame, all of ya, except Smith College, which *increased* the percentage of Black first-year students this year. 🫡

So much beauty in the world!

They are pooling resources, tracking data, and rallying research communities. Science is a collective endeavor and this collective is stepping up. Join em, #ScienceSky 🧪 🩺 @standupforscience.bsky.social

Turns out a frog can be quite comfortable in a carnivorous pitcher plant.

Friends have called me naive for being shocked time & again by naked greed, misogyny, and racism. Zohran's take here is exactly whyI will continue to be shocked.

I remember! I miss that world.

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

WHY does breastfeeding cut #breastcancer risk? A quick look into the immune mechanisms behind this new research I wrote abt in @nature.com . Good news for moms who can't/don't want to breastfeed AND women like me who are childfree. This research gets us closer to a breast-cancer vax. #womenshealth

Just canceled my very longstanding subscription to the @nytimes.com - Just can't get over their awful coverage of trans issues, their non-focus on women's health issues, and their lame lack of acknowledgement of the No Kings protests. Just depressing.

Great assignment for @nature.com: I covered the breaking news of @loisher.bsky.social's research at Peter Mac Cancer Centre into immune mechanisms of why breastfeeding cuts breast cancer risk. This moves us toward a breast-cancer vaccine for all. #womenshealth #cancer www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My first feature for @newscientist.com - I examined how the rise in treatments and research around #perimenopause is great—EXCEPT when the public (& doctors) then assume every woman's midlife health issue is peri - when it's not. #menopause #womenshealth www.newscientist.com/article/2499...

Welp, I STILL know my best friend's phone numbers! 424-3255 and 424-3759. Our home's was 424-3181 which is a REALLY nice number. Area code was 914 (good numbers) but then it was switched to 845 - pretty horrific. Yes of COURSE there are "good" and "bad" numbers. (All letters are good though.)

My time is nigh!!! My friends in grad school, describing me to my now-partner called me "heady" and "super-earnest." Sigh, it's true. Always has been. Even in elementary school, my friend Dario: "Starre, you think EVERYthing causes cancer." (I was telling him abt nitrates in hot dogs. I was 9.)

Good lord police you're looking for someone who robbed an art museum the guy is RIGHT THERE

This Wed., Oct. 22, 6pm ET. @marynmck.bsky.social Health Storytelling LIVE Author Q&A series continues w/ @starrevartan.bsky.social, discussing her new book, The Stronger Sex, What Science Tells Us About the Power of the Female Body. Set a reminder & catch it on YT www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ75...

Hey @leahshaffer.bsky.social‬ - I'd love to be added to the Science Storytellers list; I see so many of my friends there! :)

BREAKING: I've just learned that there are teeny-tiny chameleons called stumped-tailed chameleons and they look like this AND I CANNOT HANDLE IT

Hypothermia! Had it once, wouldn't recommend. But it has neuroprotective capacities, and lots of other great info in this fascinating paper.

OK, I'm doing the Newsletter Thing. I have essays I'm dying to write! And I'm going to put them up on a website too. I think there's a name for that? A blog or something? :) Any advice appreciated!!

OK, as a former Episcopalian this cracks me UP!!!

Solidarity is the only way

It's time again for Nerd Book Club! Join me at 6pm US ET on Weds 22 October to hear from @starrevartan.bsky.social about her excellent new book THE STRONGER SEX: WHAT SCIENCE TELLS US ABOUT THE POWER OF THE FEMALE BODY. RSVP here for livestream links: humanhealth.emory.edu/events/livin...

Not my books, but can recommend these great books: The Stronger Sex by @starrevartan.bsky.social (www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...) and a poetry book called An Introduction to Error by Deirdre Lockwood (www.deirdrelockwood.com/book)