Extinction is forever. If we’re to have any hope for the future of nature, we have to learn to grieve. Experience, knowledge, culture, ways of being we can only now touch through tooth and bone, they cannot be replaced. My @slate.com essay on de-extinction is one of their top stories of the year.

I'm back at Slate next week after mat leave, and will be looking at pitches again! Particularly interested in health and science opinion and analysis, and/or with a first person angle, as well as features (2,500+ words, deeply reported) that turn a big idea on its head. [email protected]

I keep trying to think of something smart to say/think/feel about the CDC autism vaccines stuff but it’s just so stupid and so scary

human desire is wild, and if you temporarily blow up your career for an elderly man who wants to take vaccines from babies, you owe the reader a straightforward account of that and *some* kind of introspection—not whatever that excerpt was

one weird trick! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/t...

the ByHeart formula recall makes me physically ill to think about, and also i hope that it doesn't scare anyone away from formula generally ... formula is a miracle!

i've been looking forward to this piece since I saw it on the schedule while lurking on work Slack. Michelle Obama is "a self-improvement icon and lifestyle influencer with little interest in the state of our union" writes @c-cauterucci.bsky.social slate.com/life/2025/11...

Science News is preparing to strike ✊

it's nyc marathon weekend—a highly overrated race, if you ask me. slate.com/life/2024/11...

I have a baby who is a bad sleeper and let me tell you the answer is not anything you can buy or do or read to MAKE a very young baby a better sleeper. It is two parents on leave (or two full time caregivers in whatever arrangement). That is it.

my husband is a husband who insists on keeping a DVD collection … now our internet is out and we are both on parental leave, so, he wins this round

Altria is on the list, so now you have another motivation to quit smoking. www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/p...

yes I love the masters students who intern and write for me but .. don’t go!! reading TON was part of what I did instead www.theopennotebook.com

yes THANK YOU

having a newborn is extremely similar in my experience to running an ultramarathon, except instead of “you‘re doing doing WHAT, you super human person!” you get “and you will sign up for this a second time, yes?”

It’s wild explaining to people who had a kid even a few years ago what baby items cost now. the tariffs have screwed over babies.

“George made a selfish, impulsive, fucking dumb decision. It is honestly one of the most insane things I’ve ever heard but…I kind of love it?”

AJ Daulerio is now a parenting advice columnist for Slate and it is amazing slate.com/advice/2025/...

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S. Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world. www.nobelprize.org

I really feel like The Life of a Showgirl cash grab might be the thing that radicalizes an important segment of the population against billionaires slate.com/culture/2025...

I feel like we are rapidly approaching a future where every day is Amazon Prime day 😵‍💫

I gave birth a month ago and the most important thing I have learned is that EXTREME SHAKING DURING A C-SECTION IS NORMAL. No one told me or someone did and I forgot. Anyway I thought I was having a nervous breakdown; if I can spare one person from the shock of it this post will have done its part.

would love to see Trump try being pregnant for even four seconds

an intense and controversial inpatient treatment program for teens with chronic pain can deliver impressive results. but when it doesn't work, the fallout can be lasting, patients say. slate.com/technology/2...

thrilled that @arionne.bsky.social is now a Care and Feeding columnist at Slate! slate.com/advice/2025/...

I wrote about shopping for a stroller and car seat in Trump’s America slate.com/life/2025/08...

As a mortality researcher, I haven’t generally paid a lot of attention to people my own age (elder Millennial here). That’s, unfortunately, changing. (With @astokespop.bsky.social and Jacob Bor)

this is INCREDIBLE and I cannot recommend enough that you watch the hermit crab conga line video linked in the piece justice for hermit crabs!

Such a great article. There is no such thing as an "easy" pet!! Please do your research before getting any pet and realize that some creatures shouldn't be pets at all.

Who wants to come work at @wired.com Two amazing jobs now open. DM if you have any questions. Senior writer, Investigations: condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CondeCareers... Features Editor: condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CondeCareers...

The U.S. is not particularly good at keeping its populace alive. slate.com/technology/2...

Learned a lot of new stuff in this slate.com/technology/2...

"One day, perhaps, she might create a crab that’s incredibly well suited to domestication—the golden retriever of hermit crabs, if you will. But are they meant to live in our homes at all?" @mscottsinclair.bsky.social for @slate.com: slate.com/technology/2...

my feeling is increasingly: AI is a useful assistant for some very specific simple tasks, but bad for any kind of "thinking." it can help record the world—but not interpret it. slate.com/technology/2...

hermit crabs are creatures, too. loved editing this. slate.com/technology/2...

the longevity tech bros should be fighting tooth-and-nail for vaccines—the real longevity hack. slate.com/technology/2...

we felt it in New Jersey!

seems like we're talking about sydney sweeney, so!: slate.com/human-intere...

The xojane years of the internet taught me that being pregnant in public would be non-stop unsolicited advice and nosy comments. But it rules! People give me their seat on the subway and congratulate me. The only good part of being pregnant, even!

this is so terrible; i needed MORE antidepressants when i got pregnant, and stopped being able to run without severely injuring myself www.nbcnews.com/health/menta...

let's go to the mall and get our ears pierced while we still can slate.com/life/2025/07...

i love that the bluesky replies, quotes, and even many Slate comments on this article are people sharing how happy they were with their hysterectomies

LOL. Slate @samadams.bsky.social mapped Andrew Cuomo's venturous two-block journey in his "hitting the streets" campaign launch. slate.com/culture/2025...

the guy is way too comfortable with cavities, so we had to ask ... slate.com/technology/2...

getting your uterus removed—not necessarily so bad! by @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social‬ slate.com/technology/2...

How Strategist Brain Took Over the Democratic Party slate.com/news-and-pol...

I do not know why I am shocked every time by how bad social media is, but I am! Guys, we have to be able to talk about policy positions and their merits or what else are we doing here.

there is nothing more fun than getting on the phone with a writer and having them explain that they were just part of a llama chase. slate.com/life/2025/07...

In @slate.com , I explained why Zohran Mamdani’s proposal for fare-free buses is a bad idea for NYC. The cost would be enormous, the benefits meh, and the downsides real. If Mamdani can find $1 billion/year to improve transportation, there are many better ways to spend it. 🧵

yep, wrote about this depressing trend just a couple months ago slate.com/technology/2...