Associate online news editor @ScienceMagazine. Bylines @NewsfromScience @sciam @nytimes @washingtonpost etc. @NatGeo alum. https://nitter.cf/t.co/S3j9jdiXCg
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Joined October 2009
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As a reminder, I'm also on Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon. I'm currently most active on Threads but hope to ramp up Bluesky and Mastodon as we go.
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Personal news: I wrote ~3/8 of a book that's out today! If you want a visually rich, historically grounded look at magic thru the millennia, this book's for you. The National Geographic Book of Magic and the Occult is available wherever books are sold: bookshop.org/p/books/nationa…
This book was a massive lift. Huge thank-you to my coauthors @NinaStrochlic and Patricia and to our incredible editor Maya Myers as well as to the whole team at WonderLab and National Geographic, with a special shoutout to Kate Olesin and Jennifer Emmett.
Personal news: On March 10 I will be joining the staff of
@ScienceMagazine as an associate news editor! I’m thrilled to be supporting such an amazing group of staff and freelance writers, during this critical moment for both science and journalism.
On the eve of the 2024 election, I’m reminded of my coverage of the immediate aftermath of 2016. Through the lens of climate change — and the living conditions of people now and centuries hence — the stakes of this election are enormous. nationalgeographic.com/scien…
It took me until I started reading my copy this evening to realize that my story "Up and Away" was included as a Notable in this year's Best American Science and Nature Writing! A huge thank-you to @jaimealyse and @billmckibben!
The story in question: nationalgeographic.com/premi…
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And yet, my Triceratops emoji proposal got axed by Unicode after years in limbo. Someday, ornithischians will have their day in the sun. But that day isn’t today.
Two hours until the first send of my new newsletter, Deviations! Sign up now: deviations.ghost.io/
Exciting news! I'm delighted to announce that I'm starting a free ~biweekly newsletter, which I'm calling Deviations. deviations.ghost.io/ 1/
Deviations is, among other things, a learning exercise. I'm keen to try out @ghost, the nonprofit blog/newsletter platform that powers @404mediaco, @HellGateNY, @Sequencermag, and other amazing publications.
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So thrilled and honored to say that @SciCommAwards has given me a surprise prize this year for stories about nuclear weapons. Thanks to editors @ClaraMoskowitz , @erichand, and @michaelroston for taking these stories on and making them better.
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Something that may be of interest to @mattbelloni and others: This analysis also gives us a way to standardize viewership rankings in Netflix's six-month totals. (I've done this reranking, and it doesn't change things much, because again, most viewership accumulates quickly.)
