"I’ve been working for a very long time. I have never, ever been treated as badly as this."
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"I’ve been working for a very long time. I have never, ever been treated as badly as this."
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Corporate broadcast coverage of climate change fell 35% in the last year, even as Trump systemically dismantled climate policy and billion-dollar disasters rose
The gradual deprioritization led NBC climate reporter Chase Cain to hit a breaking point, and he quit last week
Here's our interview:
"Money doesn’t grow on trees. Money grows trees in the places where the people were once left impoverished and nature-poor." --Danez Smith
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"We are bearing witness to what fear can do to the health of a community"
A poignant piece @NEJM about the Minneapolis devastation
"We care for our patients because they are human beings. Our patients are being harmed. People are dying unnecessarily."
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“History is rhyming, not repeating.” Michael Kleber-Diggs on the echoes of 2020 in Minnesota:
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"I like to give them low stakes opportunities to start cultivating what they want to say and how they want to say it."
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excited to have finally covered work by @projectceti.bsky.social, a group i’ve followed with interest for years.
wrote about an intriguing endeavor in acoustic interspecies translation—and tricky marriages of tech and nature—for @atmosmag.bsky.social to kick off 2026! 🐋
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it’s the most wonderful time of the year (when defector watches christmas movies) 🎊
the usual useful list:
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I have been thinking A LOT lately about the flowering of art and culture under the New Deal, when the government decided it actively wanted to invest in job creation and creativity, so it's both sad and typical of the Trump admin to destroy that legacy.
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so glad the navigator’s in the world—thanks for the chance to be a part of it!
And now for some backstory -- Bringing the Science Reporting Navigator into the world (out TODAY at @theopennotebook.bsky.social) was a true journey.
www.theopennotebook.com/science-repo...
it’s Science Reporting Navigator day! 🎉
this incredible toolkit from @theopennotebook.bsky.social & @rjionline.bsky.social will help journalists fold science into all kinds of reporting.
as a former local reporter, it was a joy to play a small part in bringing this resource to life. check it out!
The BS asymmetry principle: The amount of energy needed to refute BS is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.
Thank you to every science communicator who is doing the almost impossible work of countering misinformation every day. Every single one of you is saving lives!
all this to say—jaws has been everywhere this summer, and this theatergoing experience reminded me why.
i’m thinking about the Beloved and Complicated Shark Movie with extra nerdy gratitude today! ❤️
but writing this piece let me dive into the bizarre, complicated afterlives that art can have, through the lens of a story that’s bled into so many parts of our lives and culture. (puns in this thread intended, with regrets and apologies).
last year i wrote this piece for atmos about jaws’ legacy in shark science and the power of art, and through this whole anniversary summer it’s been so obvious that i should resurface it, and i’m so shit at social media that i haven’t done it!
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a half century on, the jump scares, sobering town politics, and wacky characters still hit. it was such an unexpected pleasure to sit in a theater and feel that energy with a bunch of strangers.
though i’ve watched this movie more than a dozen times easily, i realized in talking with my friend that i don’t think i’ve ever watched it by myself!
at its core, it’s a movie about people that always makes me feel connected to whoever’s watching it with me.
yesterday i watched jaws in a theater with my partner, his mom (who was seeing it for the first time since it came out 50 years ago!), and my dear friend who’d never seen it at all 🦈
out this week with high country news: a feature on the importance of studying "dead things" on LA's beaches.
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Time for some real talk: @thexylom.com, the only Asian American-run news outlet covering science, climate, and the environment, will run out of funding in July if we don't secure $7,500 by the end of the month. I might lose my job at a time while waiting for a visa extension -- a nightmare scenario.
One of the most underreported aspects of life for Black undocumented migrants can be summed up in one statistic: They’re deported at a rate four times more often than their numbers would suggest.
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The appointment of Tama as station master of Kishi Station in 2007 saved the station and added an estimated ¥1.1 billion to the local economy.
