I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

Had so much fun alongside Felicity Nelson sharing our knowledge of Tiktok and how to make science-focused online videos for a variety of platforms at the Australasian Medical Writers Association!

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It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

I interviewed Ben & Jerry and saw the awesome workplace they created. I have loved their ice cream since I visited their factory in Vermont w/my grandma and ate a pint of experimental wild blueberry, so packed w/berries, but also SO creamy, it's a lifelong memory. But no more Ben & Jerrys for me.

The fact that this is now a t-shirt available in my (thankfully very lefty) tourist town!!!

Some good news today: Researchers using remotely operated submarines keep discovering new fish species, hundreds so far. This one is the bumpy snailfish

I grew this beauty!! She's just perfect. When she's done blooming I will dry her petals and add them to my chamomile tea for color & flavor & summer's joy, captured.

Why we write books! Love getting these notes so if you have read a book you liked or changed your pov, let the author know!

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

As we enter fall, it's so important that we tell everyone to leave those leaves! Mads Torres designed a poster to help us. Lightning bugs are one of the most charismatic insects we've got. Actions we take to protect them protects many insects! Get some to hang in your neighborhood! Squidfacts.net

NEW SCIENCE: Previous med guidelines based on vibes are out. New recs for pregnant & postpartum athletes are in, thanks to athletes pushing boundaries: hvy weightlifting, hard workouts, more = new research showing benefits, I wrote: #strongwomen #newscience #womenshealth www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/h...

I'm headed back to Australia to co-present a workshop at the Australasian Medical Writers Association on how to make great video content! We'll be teaching how to create effective, interesting, and useful science-based videos for Tiktok, Insta, etc. More: www.medicalwriters.org/events/confe...

A beautiful morning low-tide beach #ecstaticdance on the Salish Sea - with a lovely mandala! and the fog lifted & the sun came out at the end! #danceeverywhere #beinghuman #summertime #beach

And Mass' Gov Healey and NY's Gov Hochul are requiring CVS/Walgreen's to offer vaccines and issuing blanket prescriptions for all members of their states so anyone can get vaccines. Fascinating to see how this is playing out. I mean, the GOP always talked about states' rights so here we go.

Last week I mentioned how an incredible Egyptian publication, Haarf (the cultural weekly published by the opposition newspaper El Dostor) covered my book & I shared screenshots of the print version. Now it's avail online one & Google translate works well! So cool to be in Arabic! www.haarf.org/2779

I've LONG wondered about this, as a swimmer who is always conscious of people fishing in the same areas I swim.

Friends, if you have an Amazon account, I'd love it if you'd drop a review of my book. (Or on Goodreads!) As much as I don't really love supporting that platform, it is important and would appreciate a quick note and rating there if you can take a moment. Thanks! www.amazon.com/Stronger-Sex...

YES! Can't wait to nerd out! :)

Absolutely fantastic piece by @meredithwadman.bsky.social on #endometriosis w/sobering (angering!) infographics and how this may be an autoimmune issue. ALSO: a GREAT illustration showing a menstrual cup which is a first for me to see in a magazine!): #womenshealth www.science.org/content/arti...

Lovely and interesting interview with Julie Delpy, who I've long admired as a writer and actor. I feel this way too! "When I write, I’m in another planet; I literally escape this world completely into it.” www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

I'd actually just feel badly for them if they weren't destroying us all (and so many beloved animal species and beautiful habitats and clean water) to get there. Because it's so very, very pathetic that they have so much and give so little and care even less.

Short-sighted economists with little knowledge of biological constraints have paved the way (literally) for the collapse of global ecosystems.

Have been thinking a lot about the AI Weiwei exhibit I saw wth @catbohannon.bsky.social this week. Ultimately I think its a master class in how to fight for good over decades, lifetimes, generations. And fail. And do it again anyway. @seattleartmuseum.bsky.social

Mother Earth is watching. Don't be complicit.

Not every day that your book is featured in the cultural/arts weekly published by the progressive paper that helped topple a fascist regime! Egyptian journo Mervana Maher took the time to review my book & Q&A for ElDostor News's magazine. My 1st coverage in Arabic, my great-grandmother's language.

This isn't The Onion.

V. interesting map & #datajournalism project by @propublica.org Those places most in denial of climate change, who've long fought for fossil-fuel billionaires/against healthy air, water, etc. are the ones that are going to be absolutely reamed in the next 30 years. #FAFO #GoVT #climatechange

Absolutely FASCINATING conversation between a matchmaker and feminist journalist Vera Papisova, who went undercover on conservative dating apps during the 2024 election cycle. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM4Z...

Let’s stop calling them ‘medical miracles’, let’s instead call them, SCIENCE. Keep your miracles for your books of fantasy and fairy tales.

Unpopular opinion but I'm disappointed the smart, fun, literary cool girl is marrying the football player. Ew.

SO bizarre that literally entire countries are no longer shipping to the US - France, Germany, UK, Australia, Japan, Sweden, Norway, because the US introduced new rules and gave nobody ANY time to adapt, which is just horrendous governance by the US, & this doesn't seem to be covered much anywhere?

OH GREAT NOW THE SWAMP IS WOKE www.iflscience.com/deep-in-virg...

I'm always picking up rocks, and I swim a lot, so this story cut me REAL deep. Sigh.

WHOA! I buy clothing from France, Germany, and Sweden for myself and my partner! Good thing I'll be in Australia part-time going forward so can still access, but YIKES this really closes a huge market for....so many things!! This feels huge.

Had a deep & fun (how often do you get both?) convo w/Rosemerry and @cragcrest.bsky.social on the Emerging Form pod. I'm a regular listener to these discussions with authors & creatives, & every episode provides insights...I hope I did the same for others! emergingform.substack.com/p/episode-14...

On my Oregon vacation I swam in McCredie Hot Springs in the Salt River where I had a great convo with a nudist lady abt local history!

Incredible summer vacay in Oregon! Crater Lake National Park was a super-stunner!!!

À better measure of the US economy would be how the bottom 33% are making do on their income, rather than how the top 10% are making do in the stock market.

Precisely. I picked up a vintage 1970 copy of Graham Greene's "The End of the Affair" 9 years ago at a used bookstore and I'm beach-reading reading it now!

What a thread!! Never thought about this/realized it before but makes sense....

bring it

“I strove to be a shitty person to impress shitty people and win their admiration and patronage and it turns out shitty people are shitty. I was not expecting that because I am very dim in addition to being shitty.”

FFS New Hampshire. Always the most fully embarrassing New England state, then, now and forever.

"The collapse of American democracy is like the pandemic: Whatever you say at the beginning will sound alarmist – but likely prove inadequate by the end." Stuart Stevens

Great piece in the Netherlands' newspaper of record, @nrc.nl by longtime sports journalist there Danielle Pinedo. The English translation comes through really nicely: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

OH look! I finally found a decent use-case for AI!

Reading this piece sent shivers down my spine in the best possible way.

Kick off the weekend with a little audio? For the @nextbigidea.bsky.social Book Bites, I put together six of my fave science-backed ideas from my book, The Stronger Sex! Check them out here. #sciencejournalism #womenshealth #sportsscience nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/str...

Now THIS is terrifying, considering the destruction that private equity has already wrought. There's a lot going on right now, but this - THIS - really freaks me out more than most because it empowers the Destroyers of our culture aka private equity.