Condolences to another www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/o...

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Trump's obsession with making Greenland part of the United States because it looks big on a map and is colored differently from the states is a classic case of Mercator Projection

this piece is worth a read

Earth, I can't emphasize enough, is a very special place

ok for real, does everyone interrupt their own hold music with "thank you for holding etc etc" messages just to drive people to hang up out of rage and thin the waiting line? or to only have to buy 25 seconds of music

Oh this thread made me extremely happy and also slightly angry

my condolences to Lydia

More like this please

Headed back to work after the holidays

this is what i have so far

Genuinely hilarious that Mamdani has basically assembled the New York Avengers for this

weeks I need before I'm ready for the new year: - a week to clean - a week to rest - a week to read - a week to finish up all my work for 2025 - a week to cook - probably another week to rest after all that

WHAT’s up guys its Plato welcome back to the cave. Guys we’ve got some CRAZY shadows for you today you are not gonna want to miss this! But first I have to thank our sponsor OnX Backcountry

Happy interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS closest approach day to everyone except avi loeb

the Problem is that StewarT doesn’t know what she’s talking about. She’s using “method” as a synonym for difficult egomania, and that simply isn’t what it is. I talk about it here: bsky.app/profile/isaa...

Ahem. New York Times. Please reread. Thank you. slate.com/technology/2...

watching the leo/jlaw actors on actors and it's not that i think they're botoxed to hell or anything, but they just seem asleep. the disparity between their intensely placid interview and then the aliveness of their presence in the film clips is fucking weird

2011, huh?

@lemoustier.bsky.social do you have any book recs for learning about neolithic/prehistoric Europe? I got a taste through PROTO and want more

not for nothing: i feel like the turing test is more a test for humans than it is a test for machines en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_e...

Meanwhile, Avi Loeb stays writing Three Body Problem fanfic on his Medium blog.

I spoke with Dr David Nutt of @Drug_Science on one of addiction science’s biggest errors: dopamine as the whole story. “Patently daft,” he says. (We also talk psychedelics, drug development, and circuit models) Read more and listen here: carlerikfisher.substack.com/p/what-addic...

such a shame they outlawed acting in America but thank god there were brits ready to play these Kansas folks in our stead 😔🙏

I second that! I think about this book ALL THE TIME! When I went digital I kept this book and @astrokatie.com 's "End of Everything." Both are very thought-provoking and have a permanent place in my head now.

We're working on a brief write-up of this event and would love to hear from readers/community members who watched, particularly anyone with personal experience and/or expertise in Lyme! Email/signal info in my bio.

This book was SO good, folks. Not just "could there be life elsewhere," but "would we even know it if we found it?" So many layers and such a fun read that really stretched my imagination.

Yes!!! This one is a good one. ⬇️

You know, what? Sure! Here's a last-minute gift idea for the science- or sci fi–lover in your life. (It's my book, I wrote it) bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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There's a guy on Twitter who posted about Rob Reiner's perfect run of films and included North. Every time someone calls out North, he says "Not the time, 2 people are dead." It's making me laugh until I cry, and I'm confident Rob Reiner would have found it hilarious.

'tis the season to be annoyed that publishers sell their backlists in poorly printed, thin papered, hard to read, unpleasant to touch POD editions and you don't know which books you asked for are going to get that cruel treatment until it's too late

📣 📣 Calling all #scicomm practitioners and enthusiasts in #NYC! 📣 📣 SciCommUnity NYC is hosting our first after work mixer on Tuesday, January 13th at 6pm! Come mingle with our members and spark new connections with NYC-based scicommers! RSVP here: luma.com/xfr3trbn Hope to see you there!🗽🪐 🧬

you could also post about my book and say you liked it and tag me-- i mean, any author, tag THEM in it, because we are bottomless pits desiring praise :)

good morning. we need to destroy the artificial intelligence. all of it. thank

i love creative work but my kingdom for some spreadsheet bullshit i could do while my kid makes the most noise possible doing legos on a snow day

He has a reserved personality. Like pasta water

"It's like Lotto, you have to be in it to win it."

Writers and editors, don't forget to nominate work for The Best American Science and Nature Writing! Deadline is 12/20 (for anything published by then). Info and submission form here: jaimegreen.net/basn

customs official: anything to declare? Jenny Holzer: [taking a deep breath]

"for 70 years science has agreed that saturated fats are bad for you but a eugenicist and his horde of scammer influencers say maybe not, let's look into it" LET'S NOT www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/w...

Over at NF we've offered our annual list of book recommendations. Two of mine are from big publishers and I'm as surprised as anyone!

The text generator generates text. If you ask it for persuasive text, it generates text that is more persuasive. The text generator cannot lie, or tell the truth—it just generates text. Every time we say “the bot lied” we are misleading ourselves.

looking very much like the grinch, sir, wonderful, they're saying nobody has ever looked more like the grinch

teaching a small press course for MFA students in spring, might give them an assignment to interview someone about their publish experience. If you're an editor and/or have published at least one small press book + would like to be included on the list of possible interview subjects, please lmk

Frikkin I(love) Fash Association more like Amirite

Hello, my wife and I recorded a Hanukkah song! Enjoy! youtu.be/6aLhQqryWYY

a little intel from the parent of a 6yo: if you're hearing about kids replacing 6-7 with 9-11, it's probably not malicious. My kid learned a rhyme - "6-7, my name is kevin, i was born on 9-11" - and has no idea it means anything. Sometimes he says "at 9:11" like it's a time!

new elevator pitch for my wip