I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.

Today I walked barefoot, swam, got sun on my shoulders, drank two coffees and a a real mango & passionfruit icee pop, and celebrated the first day of summer! #Australia

Yes, it's real. @brianstelter.bsky.social just confirmed it over on X. This is how he thinks it happened. ⤵️ I'm very much here for pirated, contraband U.S. network TV documentaries that the regime has censored, by proxy. source URL: x.com/brianstelter...

Incredibly disturbing!!! Not that many of us journalists didn't see this coming from a mile away...

I know people are rightly going to be worried about child health, their own health. But we also can't afford this. Like, John Hopkins did an estimate (next link) and every measles case during outbreaks cost on average $43,000 to treat. That kid who got tetanus cost $1 million dollars to treat /1

This is so brilliant; I played through one of the rooms and it was so interesting and informative and kinda fun!! And I'm not even a doctor. Try it out.

I love to be told that feminism has failed women by women whose careers and ability to flourish in public life, let alone have a credit card, only exist because of feminism

Really ending the year on a high note over here! My book, The Stronger Sex, was named one of @libraryjournal.bsky.social' s Best Science Books of 2025! www.libraryjournal.com/story/Stella...

There's a lot about today's world I do not love, but seeing the diversity of creatures in the world captured by people who care and pay attention and share them is one of the reasons to appreciate being here.

Kids, freelance science journalism is never going to pay well, but if you work hard, one day you may coin a goofy neologism that will show up in people's push notifications 🧪

I know it's tough to keep up with it all but a christian nationalist law firm where Erin Hawley (Josh Hawley's wife) is a lawyer is using the 1873 Comstock Act to try to get the abortion pill banned in all 50 states. Here are the details: www.jezebel.com/josh-hawleys...

Need something to feel good about? I sure do. Here are 7 fantastic science stores from 2025. Science will continue, even if The Regime tries to kill it at home. #Science 🧪

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Shoot, usually I've read at least a few of Barack's book faves; this year I've read none!!! This is what happens when you deep-dive midcentury Goldenage crime novels...no regrets!!

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

SO COOL!!! Researchers...can piggyback a signal on a 4,400-kilometer-long telecom cable that runs from Cali & Hawaii, so that it acts like 44,000 seismic-activity detectors: “It’s the instrument we’ve all been waiting for,” says geophysicist Vala Hjörleifsdóttir www.science.org/content/arti...

Everything sucks. Sorry I have nothing smart to say about this.

So I'm 5th-generation New Yorker on my father's side and grew up in NY (6th-generation Aussie on my mother's side). A great-grandchild of immigrants and refugees on both sides. And the fact that Zohran is LISTENING brings me so, so much hope for the city I love and is nestled deep in my bones.

My latest for @cnn.com on the worldwide push to change women's sports uniforms so they are comfortable/promote winning at sports, not how the women look. Imagine that!! Shockingly, it's been a bit of an uphill battle...(not shocking). Very cool to speak to the changemakers. #athletics #womenssports

Absolutely honored for my book to be featured on The Open Notebook this way! TON is an incredible resource for us science journalists, and for them to include details of my reporting for The Stronger Sex makes my heart smile. Thanks @skylerdware.bsky.social & @siricarpenter.bsky.social for this!

This guy clearly needs a snuggle. From me, in particular.

You CANNOT tell me that dogs can't smile. Because it's perfectly obvious that they do!!!

In dark times, look for the helpers and the heroes. Ahmed al-Ahmed ❤️ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Loved including some personal/experiential stories like yours in the book, thanks for sharing @beebrookshire.bsky.social!

So grateful for this toadlet and also the people out there dedicated to finding (and protecting) such creatures.

It's the kind of day when only Fiona Apple's album "Tidal" will do: So much sadness and anger in perfectly equal measures, executed with beauty and strange joy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogZA...

Mother Nature is the 💣 🐝 😎

Need some bookish gift ideas? Author @oliviacampbell.bsky.social put together an incredible list of books for everyone on your list (including mine) :) bookshop.org/shop/oliviac...

This is the innovation we need. Take power into our own hands!

If America is going to act like it's the Leader of the World and "the best" and on and on I heard growing up, then it gets to be critiqued by said World. Period.

To date, #immunology research favoured a “one-size-fits-all approach skewed toward male biology”, ~Caroline Duncombe at Stanford. This also a problem for men. “[Women] have an immunity advantage that could have offered insights had it not been neglected for so long,” @newscientist.com #womenshealth

Thread on #Childfree Women's Health: For a long time, I have been on-and-off reporting a longform piece (unplaced) on the problematic way medical studies lump all women w/out kids together. This is a problem because the women who are unable to have kids due to health issues are NOT the same 1/3

This gave me hope for the future of writing. And thinking, for that matter.

Love seeing my articles in print! This is my @newscientist.com piece on women's immune strength my friend @michellem just sent me!

Stealworkers

Proud to be on this list of the 12 Best Science Books of 2025 alongside Enshittification, Simon Winchester's latest, and @bonnietsui.bsky.social 's book, On Muscle. nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/12-...

I don't get this - how can a government agency "order" a church to do something about a religious display?

Was just required to verify my age to use Bluesky due to new laws around kids/teens accessing social media in Australia. I used the "face/biometric" test and it confirmed that indeed, I look like an adult human. So futuristic!! Yes, they promised to delete image immediately after verification FYI.

Thanks so much @tschlichenmeyer.bsky.social at the Telegraph Herald for recommending my book as a Holiday Gift! Love seeing it among all these great reads. #holidayread #holidaygift #booklove #sciencebooks www.telegraphherald.com/news/feature...

Same! I can't even think without em-dashes!!!

oh hey look it’s the thing literally everyone said would happen

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

New lit prize recognizing "“refugees and migrants make hugely valuable contributions to our arts, culture and society… it is vital to keep platforming and amplifying these othered narratives in order to emphasise our shared humanity.” counterpoints.org.uk/footnote-x-c...

The algorithm couldn't design a more perfect story just for me.

A little thread: Science is defiantly anti-fascist because it pursues truth, is necessarily collaborative, and relies on open communication. And because its falsifiability is incompatible with the cultism, faith-based belief systems, disinformation, and propaganda of Christian nationalism.

And Data as my uncle! Guess it's time for a TNG rewatch, I think it's been a good 5 years so I'm ready.

Feel SO lucky I got to grow up in the beautiful Hudson Valley! I know exactly what this picture smells like. YUM.

Me and a few leading colleagues discuss female-specific immune systems in health and disease. By @starrevartan.bsky.social in @newscientist.com www.newscientist.com/article/2501...

My newest feature (which they pubbed w/out telling me, doh) for @newscientist.com is all about why and how women's immune systems are so badass (there's a sidebar abt testosterone's immune-dampening effects too.) It's impt to understand this for right treatments. www.newscientist.com/article/2501...

Perfect.