In the seventh month of the second year of the second term, the heat will become unbearable, the skies will turn red, and bowels will loosen across the land.

Weird to have summer turning into a second "weather is so bad friends are canceling plans on each other in favor of staying inside" season. That used to be just winter in NY.

lowkey is it safe to eat raw veg in NY right now if you wash it at home or nah

turns out the cure for male loneliness might be invasive species control

My secret dream is to one day be part of a media coop and I loved this tiny bit of insight into how one such coop came to be from @elizapbrooke.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...

Good morning. Today is the LAST DAY to comment on the proposed OMB rule that will, honestly, destroy science in the US. And it will do FAR MORE THAN THAT. www.theverge.com/science/9576...

The worst parts of a career in journalism are bad (pay, general instability) but the best parts are so good. I get to call up the foremost expert in the world on a given subject and have them explain things to me? For my job?? I love talking to scientists who care deeply about the world!!

"For every dollar put into parks and recreation, cities reap $3 in local economic benefits every year." @grist.org grist.org/cities/urban...

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

"Exposure to particulate air pollution, known as PM 2.5, is associated with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia in older adults.... heat might make the blood-brain barrier more permeable, allowing more pollutants into the brain." Oof. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/c...

Quite frankly it is hard to romanticize your writing life when its 100+ degrees. A rainy fall day? Perfect, I’ll turn on all the lamps and light a candle and play some moody jazz while I write! A blazing summer day? None of that works! Any tips for setting a good ~writing~ mood during a heat wave??

The Philippines is leading the world in new solar installations right now www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Engaging in citizen science in New York has completely changed my relationship with the city and the land (and waterways) that make this city. If you want to experience that transformation yourself, consider joining this fungi dig: mycommunitymappingproject.substack.com/p/join-our-n...

RESULT: When Maryland adopted major restrictions on ICE earlier this year (we covered here: boltsmag.org/maryland-new...), just one Democrat in the state House opposed this: Delegate Frank Conaway. Conaway has been ousted by a wide margin in tonight's Democratic primary for HD40.

also not lost on me that as democratic socialists are winning some elections, a new red scare targeting anarchists, antifascists, and their allies is digging in hard, and today handed down 30, 50, and 100 year prison sentences to activists and organizers

NEW: Former city Controller Brad Lander and Assemblymember Claire Valdez cruised to victory over mainstream Democratic opponents in a whopping victory for Mayor Zohran Mamdani in two U.S. House primaries on Tuesday night. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/23/m...

Is it that Mamdani’s a kingmaker or is that there’s a genuinely activated and motivated movement rising here? I think focusing on man, no matter how charismatic, might risk missing the wider picture of what a score of uncelebrated organizers have been building

Now, more than ever, it is unbelievably important to support publications like bioGraphic, which does incredible work in science and nature journalism even as other publications are being bought up and gutted

"The punishment for the [Praireland] protesters exceeds the lengthiest prison sentences given out for the attack on the Capitol on January 6."

Now wondering if the last moments of the ants are "WHEEEE" or "AHHHH!!!!"

All I want for Christmas is JSTOR + unlimited journal article access

I had been hearing for years from other writers about how great Scrivener is, but that there's also a big learning curve. It wasn't until I took one of Jaime's classes that I finally felt the confidence to buy it and start using it. Very worth it!

“As one of my friends would say, it’s too late for pessimism.” —Kim Stanley Robinson Such a pleasure to hear from this science fiction giant last night in Brooklyn, whose works like The Ministry for the Future give a realistic but still hopeful vision of the kind of world we could build

Took a trip to the New York Botanical Garden archives in the Bronx and combed through boxes of 100+ year old letters to report this one themicrodose.substack.com/p/the-poster...

“It is different because New York’s mass unifying events tend to imply unbearable tragedy: 9/11, Sandy, Covid. Maybe the disorientation of this championship run was that shared experiences in the city were allowed to be good, gleeful, uncomplicated.“

Highly recommend living in city of 8 million people who collectively lose it with joy when their team wins. Let’s hear it for New York!!!!!!

going to laugh forever about the Knicks only losing the Trump Game immaculate scriptwriting, no notes

Even the most sports-naive among us (me) cannot resist the enthusiasm of New Yorkers when the home team is doing well… I love this city

"Many people I know aspire to compost because they have the sense that it’s “good,” but I would make the case that it’s actually just fun. It’s fun to be messy... and to witness yourself as an agent of such profound and generative transformation." whitneybauck.substack.com/p/composting...

Absolutely wild to see that the NYT is creating ads with ExxonMobil that are promoted via...playable versions of Wordle in the ad?!

"I think it’s pretty clear that democracy can’t survive inequality; there’s an ever-better case for taxing the hell out of billionaires even if all you do is bury the resulting money in a hole in the ground." @billmckibben.bsky.social billmckibben.substack.com/p/the-biggis...

public health: climate infrastructure: climate agriculture: climate insurance to repair it all: climate

"Li Jiahe has been fighting for a handful of birds he has never seen in a place he has never visited." I love getting a tiny window into what environmental work looks like in China: www.sixthtone.com/news/1018593

How many wrong ways are there to spell "mycorrhizae"? Brother, I'm finding out

The full announcement from Banerjee. A terrible loss for NPR and the nation. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

You have a chance to be heard about the NYC public libraries budget on June 10. You can testify in person, on Zoom or by submitting written remarks. All info here: bit.ly/June10Testify

Alright nerds anyone have favorite books about citizen science/community science written for a lay audience? Ideally something with a little history of science baked in

As a candidate, Zohran Mamdani promised to fund the city’s three library systems at 0.5% of the city’s budget. But as mayor, his executive budget proposal coughs up just 0.42% of the budget — less than his predecessor allocated.

Alright nerds anyone have favorite books about citizen science/community science written for a lay audience? Ideally something with a little history of science baked in

"Research suggests [mycorrhizal] connections can play a crucial role in helping Joshua tree seedlings make it through their perilous early years and reach maturity." Go fungi gooooo www.latimes.com/california/s...

If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)

“If a developed country cannot take care of that waste, what do you think a developing country can do about that waste?” I reported from Ghana on the women most impacted by the global fashion industry's waste crisis: atmos.earth/fashion-and-...

"Kayayei carry the literal weight of the fashion industry’s greed and excess on their heads. Some pay for it with their lives." I reported from Ghana on the women who are bearing the brunt of fashion's waste crisis for @atmosmag.bsky.social: atmos.earth/fashion-and-...

Do you ever get so excited about the books you have on hold at the library that you refresh the library app every 3 hours or is it just me

This is cool—a call for applications for a Pennsylvania conservation program that explicitly calls out fungi as a group of "spe­cies often left out of tra­di­tional con­ser­va­tion pro­grams but vital to the Com­mon­wealth's eco­sys­tems." www.pressreader.com/usa/kane-rep...

Happy pub day @kkwilkinson.bsky.social 🩵