NEWS: Boneshaker Books is moving! And we need your help to pull it off! We are looking to raise $15,000 to get us there and set up. $6,000 of that needs to be raised by 10/17. Please share! Radical bookstores forever! @boneshakerbooks.bsky.social www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

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NY subway platforms feel hot as hell in the summer. Meet Jack Klein, the guy who stealthily collects data about New York’s hottest days underground. 🚇New in @sequencermag.bsky.social www.sequencermag.com/the-covert-p...

@sequencermag.bsky.social is on Ghost! They're a writer-owned publication run by science journalists @goesbykim.bsky.social, @maxlevy.bsky.social, @dsamorod.bsky.social, and @maddiebender.bsky.social www.sequencermag.com

"How do we connect with nature? Fleeting thoughts for a fleeting summer" was a thoughtful post by Max Levy that I read today in my newsletter from Sequencer Magazine. www.sequencermag.com @sequencermag.bsky.social‬

When will the law cover the rights of cyborgs? New piece on Sequencer, live now: www.sequencermag.com/cyborg-right...

Do cyborgs have rights? When an airline damages a prosthetic, is that bodily harm or property damage? Another fascinating banger from Haley McAllister, up now @sequencermag.bsky.social www.sequencermag.com/cyborg-right...

"A couple months ago, while I was thumbing through old magazines at a record shop, I landed on a gem. “Learning To Love the Computer” emblazoned the cover of Nutshell magazine, a now-defunct periodical for college students," writes @maxlevy.bsky.social www.sequencermag.com/ai-critical-...

"A couple months ago, while I was thumbing through old magazines at a record shop, I landed on a gem. “Learning To Love the Computer” emblazoned the cover of Nutshell magazine, a now-defunct periodical for college students," writes @maxlevy.bsky.social www.sequencermag.com/ai-critical-...

Clouds play an important role regulating the climate. To incorporate clouds into climate models scientists are learning more about the *biology* of clouds: studies of plants, plankton & organics flung up by sea spray. Major thanks @joespring.bsky.social for edits on this tinyurl.com/388ncr38

At Standing Rock, the FBI had 10+ inside informants. The pipeline's security company used Iraq War tactics. Modern disinfo tactics were rampant. For @sequencermag.bsky.social I talked with @alleenbrown.bsky.social of @drilledmedia.bsky.social about misinfo and the legacy of Standing Rock.

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New on @sequencermag.bsky.social: medical device makers have a long history of stranding patients or straight up killing them with poorly manufactured batteries. A new kind of pacemaker, powered by the heart itself, could last a lifetime and free patients. From our mentee, Haley McAllister:

I wrote about a personal belief of mine for @sequencermag.bsky.social: that life-extension people, and by extension a lot of biofuturists who promise the world but ultimately are just selling something, are hacks. Be a bioluddite instead. www.sequencermag.com/who-even-wan...

Now that people are talking to/about AI as if they're people, is the internet going to have to switch to serif fonts? Lower case "L" and capital "I" look identical. And people use chatbots for therapy and itineraries. "I asked AI for advice" Alex? Claude? Albert? ChatGPT????

In true Sequencer fashion, I wrote something about something that seems silly but really isn't that silly IMO!! Maybe season 3 of The Rehearsal can be in an operating room... Read a report from my little field trip here: www.sequencermag.com/the-innovati...

NEW: "If you then read in a newspaper about human rights abuses happening in Nauru, you're implicated against your will... Your body is a part of that story." @maxlevy.bsky.social speaks with Jack Lohmann about his book, WHITE LIGHT www.sequencermag.com/on-fear-deat...

Check it out for a snippet of audio. Writing nerds and chemistry dorks (@maxlevy.bsky.social included), this is a fun one you won't wanna miss.

NEW: "If you then read in a newspaper about human rights abuses happening in Nauru, you're implicated against your will... Your body is a part of that story." @maxlevy.bsky.social speaks with Jack Lohmann about his book, WHITE LIGHT www.sequencermag.com/on-fear-deat...

New video just dropped! I helped produce this one for TED-Ed, in which we ask.... what the hell is a tree??? www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1EX...

New on Sequencer, public health-trained historian Edna Bonhomme speaks with Sequencer about her new book, “A History of the World in Six Plagues.” www.sequencermag.com/the-intimate...

Thrilled to announce that we too have also de-extinctified the Dire Wolf 🐺🧪

BIG NEWS: @maxlevy.bsky.social's essay for @sequencermag.bsky.social, "I tried to train my color vision. Here's what happened." was selected by editors @jaimealyse.bsky.social and @susanorlean.bsky.social for inclusion in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025.

Exciting news: My work will appear in the upcoming edition of Best American Science and Nature Writing!! The 2025 editor, Susan Orlean, selected an essay I wrote for Sequencer about trying to train my color vision. 👁️👄👁️

I'm really grateful for our @sequencermag.bsky.social readers, to Maddie Bender for editing this, and of course to @jaimealyse.bsky.social @susanorlean.bsky.social, and Mariner Books 📖🥳👀🧠 www.sequencermag.com/color-blindn...

NEW for @sequencermag.bsky.social: Does the Netflix content stream wash over you "like a numbing gel"? Free yourself. Having fun's not hard with a library card, and the increasingly expensive media services offered there. From @dsamorod.bsky.social www.sequencermag.com/your-local-l...

New from me for @sequencermag.bsky.social: free yourself from the streaming wars by going to your local library! At least before the disproportionately exorbitant costs that publishers, studios, and distributors charge libraries make that impossible. www.sequencermag.com/your-local-l...

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Thank you to my editor @shaun505.bsky.social who didn't bat an eyelash when I filed a 2k-word draft though the assigned word count was 1k. In my defense, who doesn't want to read about the funniest, sweetest, smartest, and most adorable mules and horses? My latest for @highcountrynews.bsky.social:

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*sung to the tune of Your Body is a Wonderland* 🎵 Your body is a wind instrument www.sequencermag.com/body-mod-lin...

For BioSpace, I'm looking to chat with any current or former staffers at the FDA. Please get in touch, especially if involved with drug dev and policy like CDER and CBER. DM me here, email me at [email protected], or message me securely at dsamorod.25 on Signal.

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There is no such thing as a humane execution method, and nitrogen gas is more inhumane than most. www.sequencermag.com/a-guide-to-v...

I have no idea if tone of voice still translates via text on the Internet, but I wrote this in the fall for @sequencermag.bsky.social. There is no such thing as a humane execution method, and nitrogen gas is one of the more inhumane ones. www.sequencermag.com/a-guide-to-v...

On our homepage @sequencermag.bsky.social, we've got a stellar Q&A with @carlzimmer.com about aerobiology and his new book, AIR-BORNE www.sequencermag.com/carl-zimmer-...

An environmental catastrophe is unfolding right before our eyes. Yet there's scant regulation on the perpetrating chemicals that are killing our most charismatic wildlife and more. A piece by me for HCN republished for @sequencermag.bsky.social www.sequencermag.com/turkey-vultu...

I came across an article about school closures from 1958 in an old LIFE Mag. Was struck by the POVs of white students on integration. This was less than 70 years ago

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My latest for @quantamagazine.bsky.social 🧪 Ecologists know surprisingly little about *how* coral grows into different shapes. It's a little environmental, a little genetic, and this "elegant" model is the first to simulate it so comprehensively 🪸🪸🪸🪸🪸🪸🪸

How do coral polyps "collectively bulge, branch, ripple and fan out" into a variety of differently shaped structures? @maxlevy.bsky.social on the coral reef biological packing problem www.quantamagazine.org/the-elegant-...

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NEW: @carlzimmer.com talks with @dsamorod.bsky.social about his new book AIR-BORNE: THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE LIFE WE BREATHE, out today. They discussed COVID-19, biological warfare, and the crucial contributions sneeze powder has made to science. www.sequencermag.com/carl-zimmer-...

NEW FOR @sequencermag.bsky.social I talked with the inimitable @carlzimmer.com about his new book AIR-BORNE, and about life in the air, the forgotten history of its science, and what we breathe in every day. www.sequencermag.com/carl-zimmer-...