One of the most fun things I've done this year is to help make a Russian-language science podcast accessible to English speakers The Naked Mole Rat is offbeat, surprising, always fun. Pls have a listen! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

"At a campus dedication ceremony in 1962, New College’s founders brought soil from the Harvard campus in Cambridge and mixed it with Sarasota earth. It was a symbolic gesture, meant to represent the 'shared lofty ideals of the two institutions'" apps.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/metr...

Re-up for 2025 bsky.app/profile/bart...

a. I'm so happy there are still enough narrative pods being made for best-of lists to be made b. delighted that The Harvard Plan s2 is on @nwquah.bsky.social's list in @vulture.com www.vulture.com/article/best...

“You should start a Substack,” they said. “It’ll be fun,” they said. “People will subscribe,” they said. So I did. It’s called Based in Bohemia, and the first post looks at Andrej Babiš’s vast business empire. Give it a read. You might like it. open.substack.com/pub/robjcame...

I'm really delighted that NPR's Embedded added The Harvard Plan s2 to their feed it's all about Trump's pressure campaign on higher ed this final episode includes NEW audio of fmr Harvard prez Claudine Gay AND Trump advisor May Mailman Pls listen & share! www.npr.org/2025/12/01/n...

Big thanks to @npr.org for boosting The Harvard Plan, our new co-production with @bostonglobe.com about the Trump administration's war on science. Listen to Season 2 Episode 1 in the Embedded podcast feed:

ICYMI, @ilyamarritz.bsky.social on academia and the Trump administration: www.wnyc.org/story/the-fu...

Season 2 of “The Harvard Plan,” a @bostonglobe.com and @wnyc.org podcast about Trump’s war on Harvard, has wrapped. I called up host @ilyamarritz.bsky.social to discuss Harvard-educated conservatives and how the school is responding to public backlash www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/17/n...

hey there! I'm on Brian Lehrer about 11:10a eastern to discuss Trump's pressure campaign on universities

our third & final episode of The Harvard Plan is out now, from @bostonglobe.com & @onthemedia.bsky.social featuring: - Trump highed ed strategist May Mailman - Claudine Gay getting candid - Vannevar Bush, the father of uni-gov't cooperation www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

JOB ALERT! We are hiring a business editor. You have an unerring instinct for the jugular of the wealthy & powerful? Build a team with me and we’ll get after it! job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j... You can email me or on Signal at 718-496-5233

There's an exclusive, closed-to-media MAHA summit tomorrow. Here's the full agenda I was leaked In attendance will be JD Vance, RFK Jr, Bhattacharya, Makary, actor Russell Brand (who is facing rape and sexual assault charges), and dozens of other MAHA influencers and people in Trump's orbit

I like "audio documentary" thank you for listening!

finally

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what an *incredible* voice Koko Taylor was... ...here's hoping her archive can be re-assembled and properly looked after

Don’t miss this: @onthemedia.bsky.social at its best. www.wnycstudios.org/story/the-ha...

WEEKEND LISTEN This year, the Trump admin threw everything it had at the nation's oldest and richest university 3 Harvard profs tell the story of what they saw @naxerova.bsky.social @ryanenos.bsky.social & Kit Parker www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

We’re back with Season 2 of our award-winning series THE HARVARD PLAN. To quote @ilyamarritz.bsky.social in episode 1 “this struggle is not academic…it’s a bare knuckled fight for money, prestige and power” www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

over the past 9 months, the Trump admin has used just about every lever available to pressure universities to follow his vision for higher ed... how it's going, so far>> my lastest miniseries w/ @bostonglobe.com & @onthemedia.bsky.social pls listen & share! www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

🚨🚨🚨 Coming next week from @bostonglobe.com @onthemedia.bsky.social & me >> youtu.be/c-JH7RKhnGo?...

What constitutes "greater China"?

the DOJ atty (& 2x Harvard grad) who suggested Harvard showed "wanton indifference to antisemitism" once wrote a paper from the perspective of Hitler & expressed admiration for Mein Kampf stunning reporting from @hilaryburns.bsky.social @talkopan.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...

You had me at "The failed payoff — a wad of cash in a red envelope stuffed inside an opened bag of Herr’s Sour Cream & Onion ripple potato chips..."

"The relationship is so meaningful to Bhattacharya that after he was nominated by President-elect Trump to lead the NIH, Bhattacharya asked [Harvard prez] Garber to introduce him at his Senate confirmation hearing, according to 2 sources" www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/11/m... via @bostonglobe.com

ICON so many hours of enjoyment and delight thank you, Susan Stamberg

much food for thought in this @ashleycarman.bsky.social piece www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

it has become something like cw that scientific research has a credibility problem what I find so powerful about Mike Damiano's reporting is how clearly it shows the incentives in high-stakes high-$$ research encourage self-deception & looking away www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/13/m...

Jay Bhattacharya on mrna vaccines: "I do not dispute its potential... But as a vaccine intended for broad public use, especially during a public health emergency, the platform has failed a crucial test: earning public trust." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

when was the last time you girded something that wasn’t a loin

"it’s time to create a new term for social media, one that better describes the current digital landscape. After all, no one is calling cars “horseless carriages,” and no one thinks that a porn bot on Twitter is helping you build a friend group" www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/12/o...

NEW: last spring, Trump's nominee for director of the NIH, Jay Bhattacharya, asked Harvard's president, Alan Garber, to intro him in his confirmation hearings Garber said he was willing it never happened now NIH is withholding big $$ from Harvard www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/11/m...

Alan Garber, the president of Harvard, has found himself on the opposite side of an escalating battle with the Trump administration as his former student, Jay Bhattacharya

NEW: last spring, Trump's nominee for director of the NIH, Jay Bhattacharya, asked Harvard's president, Alan Garber, to intro him in his confirmation hearings Garber said he was willing it never happened now NIH is withholding big $$ from Harvard www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/11/m...

epic re-frame here

Maybe I’m preaching to the choir on Bluesky, but I’m just so worried about what America looks like without local journalism. Public media was a rare sustainable model for local news and now it’s not. If you’re a listener or just a civic minded person, go to adoptastation.org

Power and audio should be separate, I do not want my phone to have a cloaca

“There’s almost a fear of [reaching an agreement] because it might be seen as too pro-Trump,” Mailman said. “And it’s like, don’t be scared. Penn survived it. Columbia survived it” via @aidanryan.bsky.social @talkopan.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/26/n...

I want to thank Time Magazine for not including any of my podcast projects in The 100 Best Podcasts of All Time!

I stand clarified!

drove north out of Manhattan today, passing Columbia's flashy, new-ish science campus, and it hit me just how much the school has invested in getting precisely the kind of gov't grants it has been starved of

I am defeated

FOR A GOOD CAUSE I'm swimming across the Hudson River to raise $$ to build an in-river pool to make the water accessible to all Newburgh >> Beacon 🏊🏊🏊, end of July if you're able to contribute, please make a donation & sponsor me! ssl.charityweb.net/riverpool/sw...

👀 current.org/2025/07/sout...

WHY WOULD I WANT A SUMMARY OF AN EMAIL I MYSELF WROTE?

BEGONE, AI WIDGET!

For news on the Trump Organization, read Forbes—the US president does.

so last month, VP Vance shared top billing at a conference with a convicted drug marketplace operator (who was pardoned by Trump)... the occasion? a bitcoin fest in Las Vegas @andreabernstein.bsky.social & I went there for @planetmoney.bsky.social

This is very sad news. Pineapple Street was a real pioneer, a dominant force in what I guess in retrospect was the golden age of narrative podcasts. It was also, in my experience making Wind of Change, just a wonderful company full of decent, creatively brilliant people. variety.com/2025/digital...