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Thanks so much to @lynnelamberg.bsky.social and @sciencewriters.org for featuring my chronicle of trial and error in creating AN INTRODUCTION TO ERROR and finding a wonderful publisher in Cornerstone Press. Also a glimpse of the many books that inspired mine. 🙏🏻📚 www.nasw.org/member_artic...

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AN INTRODUCTION TO ERROR is out today from Cornerstone Press! Join me in celebrating mistakes and uncertainty. 🙈Thanks a million to Eunice Kim for the beautiful cover art, Rosanna Warren, and everyone who has supported this book making its sidewinding way into the world. ❤️

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California. Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."

Some good news: *everyone* is eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine in Washington State, and it *will* be covered by your insurance!

"So yes, the governors of the west, of Washington, Oregon, and California, will take up the efficacy of science."

I'm so excited to be launching my debut poetry collection, AN INTRODUCTION TO ERROR, in conversation with the brilliant Sarah DeWeerdt! Come out and join us at Elliott Bay Book Co. on Sept. 18 at 7 pm. Cosponsored by @nswa.bsky.social. www.elliottbaybook.com/events/47800

No one would be confused about what's happening if you saw it in another country. No one.

I never met Steve Gilbert, but I wish I had -- the stories of his incredible toxicology research, outreach and advocacy (plus winemaking and winetasting clubs!) are legendary. It was inspiring to work on this memoriam piece. deohs.washington.edu/hsm-blog/mem...

Joanne Kyger

Offering health care for pets helps their humans too, according to a new study led by DEOHS's Center for One Health Research. @wsuvetmed.bsky.social @uwsph.bsky.social deohs.washington.edu/hsm-blog/off...

Rachel @maddow.msnbc.com last night: "We do now live in a country that has an authoritarian leader in charge. We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country."

It was “win-win” research for shellfish & crop farmers. Then the USDA canceled it. DEOHS faculty Sarah Collier's project helped shellfish farmers find a market for seaweed that smothers their oyster & geoduck harvests by testing it as fertilizer. @uwnews.uw.edu deohs.washington.edu/hsm-blog/vid...

Over the weekend, we received the sad news that two of our @realchangenews.bsky.social vendors were detained by ICE at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, WA. Real Change is mobilizing quickly to provide assistance to the vendors and their loved ones. www.realchangenews.org/support-ice-...

Seattle folks, please vote by tomorrow! This is a critical primary, a chance to elect much more progressive folks to lead our city. I'm supporting: ✨Katie Wilson for Mayor ✨Erika Evans for City Attorney ✨Dionne Foster and ✨Alexis Mercedes Rinck for City Council www.thestranger.com/stranger-ele...

Good Saturday morning—pour yourself a cup of coffee, and have a poem by @deirdrelockwood.bsky.social 💜☕️

Season of salmonberry then currant raspberry thimbleberry cherry almost blackberry —Deirdre Lockwood, with a new #SummerRiot beauty this morning! @deirdrelockwood.bsky.social

Wildfires force evacuations in the Columbia Gorge, Portland may see reduced MAX service, and Indigenous youth create art focused on "rematriation." This, and more news from across the #Cascadia #bioregion: cascadia-journal.ghost.io/cascadia-tod...

The summer ant invasion has gotten to the point where I am seriously considering getting an anteater.

My friend David Lasky did the drawings for this public service: publichealthinsider.com/2025/07/09/w...

#Cascadia has many options to deny #ICE the ability to operate here. This is one.

I spent one of the most creatively inspiring months of my life at Marble House Project in Vermont. They're open for residency apps through July 20, with a cool ecology-focused one next summer! marblehouseproject.submittable.com/submit

I'm thrilled to share that my debut poetry collection, AN INTRODUCTION TO ERROR, is now available for preorder from Cornerstone Press (for 20% off through Sept. 15): tinyurl.com/yyyjdk9y

The Call for Submissions for our literary journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social is open until August 1, 2025. We’re looking for work that explores freedom’s multidimensional nature. Check out the full call ⬇️⬇️

A cross-country renga since sickness came here the crows have stopped commuting what is it they know? From 'Since Sickness Came Here' by Deirdre Lockwood & Rebecca Starks aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...

Seattle cannot be complicit in this administration's campaign of fear. Our immigrant neighbors are our neighbors, period—they are our coworkers, our children's classmates, our small business owners, and the backbone of our community. When the federal government targets them, it targets all of us.

Our experiences over the past 3 years suggest it may be valuable to understand these attacks on science as extensions of the Big Lie (of election fraud), Covid denialism, & Jim Crow 2.0 — part of a collective effort to bend reality, science & values to align with the central fantasies of Trumpism.

Thinking of this @propublica.org reporting today about stillbirths of unvaccinated parents during the Delta wave, before CDC had explicitly recommended COVID vaccines for pregnant people and the damage the virus did to the placentas. www.propublica.org/article/covi...

In the early days of the pandemic my dear friend Rebecca Starks and I started a renga via text message between our homes of Seattle & rural Vermont. So grateful to @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social eds for including it in the Careful/Care-full Collaboration issue. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...

"Do you know what a werewolf is?" 6 yo: "Yeah, it's a wolf that wears people out."

Zuck: the average American has three friends

"This is not right or left; it is right or wrong. This is not a partisan moment; it is a moral moment. Where do you stand?" [email protected]

Douglas Kearney

1/ On April 5, there are nationwide protests happening literally everywhere in the US. Find more details here: handsoff2025.com

You can help save Washington State's endangered critical services like schools and care for the homeless, and tax the rich. It takes just a few minutes to sign in pro on these five bills! Please do! rondezvous.beehiiv.com/p/help-save-...

Alfredo "Lelo" Juarez, a union organizer for farmworkers in WA, and Lewelyn Dixon, UW lab tech and green card holder, must be released from ICE detention. Nonprofit Community2Community calls this "a targeted attack on farmworker leadership." Please call yr reps! www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

TB is the leading cause of death worldwide from a single infectious agent, but there's hope if it can be detected early so undiagnosed folks can get on treatment fast. I loved writing about these researchers' work to find some of the "missing millions" using tongue-swab testing. #WorldTBDay

This springtime poem from the beloved Jenny George 🩵

Loved working on this story about Viviana Albán's work on how contact with animals might impact kids' gut health in Ecuador. DEOHS grad students are so inspiring!

BREAKING: The University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University has reneged on their commitment to host the @sciencewriters.org annual conference and withdrew their entire financial support. The National Association of Science Writers is now looking for a new venue, sponsors, and partners.

One of my favorite David Lynch moments (though I can't remember the source, maybe a NYT interview?): when asked about the challenge of directing himself in Twin Peaks, (something like) "Gordon doesn't need direction."