zack savitsky
@zacksavitsky.bsky.social
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science journalist. agent of entropy. signal: zcs.01
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zack savitsky
SciComm Excellence
6 days ago
Halloween is also
#DarkMatterDay
! 🎃🌌 Celebrate the invisible forces that shape our universe with
@zacksavitsky.bsky.social
,
@clairelamman.bsky.social
, and
@sanjanacurtis.bsky.social
. Studying the origins, elements, and mysteries of the cosmos — connects us all:
youtu.be/xbrom_qFwsA
#scicomm
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Cosmology: Our Quest to Understand the Universe
YouTube video by SciComm Excellence
https://youtu.be/xbrom_qFwsA
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one of those “i love my job” stories
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reposted by
zack savitsky
Quanta Magazine
about 1 month ago
The climate is changing. So is the way we understand the climate. On this week's episode, contributing writer
@zacksavitsky.bsky.social
joins host
@pateljournalist.bsky.social
to discuss his reporting on the rich history and uncertain future of climate modeling.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Climate Modeling Is at a Crossroads
Podcast Episode · The Quanta Podcast · 09/30/2025 · 27m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-quanta-podcast/id1021340531?i=1000729305487
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it was a privilege to contribute to this package. check out my story on how scientists digitally sculpted the planet to predict the future, and how those in power today are dismantling the quest to model the climate
www.quantamagazine.org/how-climate-...
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about 2 months ago
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zack savitsky
Sarah Scoles
3 months ago
Alec is a great guy and a great journalist. He recently went for a backpacking trip on a glacier in Norway and is now missing. Please help spread the word in case someone knows something that can help searchers.
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
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Climate journalist Alec Luhn missing on Norwegian glacier
A search is underway for award-winning climate journalist Alec Luhn, a Wisconsin native, who is missing on a Norwegian glacier.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/climate-journalist-alec-luhn-missing-norwegian-glacier/
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in a copper-clad laboratory in Vienna, the textbook understanding of electricity is starting to crack. what’s emerging is a new vision of electronics without the electron. my latest feature for
@science.org
www.science.org/content/arti...
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‘Strange metals’ point to a whole new way to understand electricity
Exotic materials with bizarre electron behavior could pave the road to revolutionary technologies
https://www.science.org/content/article/strange-metals-point-whole-new-way-understand-electricity
4 months ago
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zack savitsky
amandagefter
5 months ago
He modeled the logic of induction; traced the contours of the embodied mind; hung out with Einstein, Wheeler, and Bohr; gave away millions for art and conservation; fought for civil and gay rights; and lived as a janitor. My new story in
@nautil.us
nautil.us/finding-pete...
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Finding Peter Putnam
The forgotten janitor who discovered the logic of the mind
https://nautil.us/finding-peter-putnam-1218035/?utm_campaign=gefter
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reposted by
zack savitsky
SciComm Excellence
5 months ago
#SciComm
awards winner
@zacksavitsky.bsky.social
is a freelance science journalist who writes stories about our evolving understanding of the universe and our place within it. 🌌🪐 His reporting seeks to answer some of humanity's deepest questions. Watch here:
youtu.be/j7ntz1K_vr4
#sciencejournalism
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Zack Savitsky: A Journalist On A Mission to Understand Our Universe
YouTube video by SciComm Excellence
https://youtu.be/j7ntz1K_vr4
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big week for physics
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i spent most of this year studying (confronting) disorder, futility, and uncertainty. here’s my optimistic interactive essay on the decay of everything:
www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-entr...
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What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know. | Quanta Magazine
Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay. But entropy, as it’s currently understood, is less a fact about the world th...
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-entropy-a-measure-of-just-how-little-we-really-know-20241213/
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