Digital Features Editor @AmSciMag. I help scientists tell their stories, share the wonder of science, & discuss barriers to better science. she/her. Tweets=mine
Joined November 2012
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I am thrilled to unveil @AmSciMag's inaugural digital-first #interactive feature about wood duck nesting & social networking. There are cute ducklings. There are hen fights. There is a duck that lays an egg on the back of another duck. So many quirky duck tales. And so much more.
19 Apr 2022
"Checking every box is like an Easter egg hunt, and there is always a small rush of anticipation."
-- John M. Eadie, Bruce E. Lyon, Eli S. Bridge
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28 Feb 2025
How do PhD scientists who want to live outside of research hubs do it? @_klburke reports. go.nature.com/4iiSrjD
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15 Mar 2024
A photograph of a small great white shark made headlines, but for the wrong reasons. The coolest aspect of the study was missed.
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7 Mar 2024
Women, gender minorities, and children are most likely to be exposed to endocrine disruptors because of the products they are more likely to use.
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ALT The Wasted Reality Arts Collaborative creates wearable trash art out of single-use plastics collected over one week in a person’s household. Single-use plastics were not the norm until the plastics industry began promoting them in 1956. Wasted Reality
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4 Mar 2024
"The share of people who live 50 or more miles from where they work rose sevenfold during the pandemic, climbing to 5.5 percent in 2023 from 0.8 percent in 2019." nytimes.com/2024/03/04/busin…
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.@WhySharksMatter's guide to #scicomm on Bluesky:
29 Feb 2024
Now that Twitter is declining, this recently opened social media platform could be the next home for online science communicators.
Image: Marco Verch/ Flicker
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ALT https://www.americanscientist.org/blog/macroscope/the-burgeoning-bluesky-science-community
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1 Mar 2024
Sex is not binary. Presenting male and female as the only two possible sex categories ignores the diversity of humans and other organisms, and it erases intersex people.
Image: Pierre-Yves Beaudouin/Wikimedia Commons
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1 Mar 2024
From March 1-8, americanscientist.org login access will be unavailable. The January-February and March-April issues will be available outside of the paywall during this time.
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16 Feb 2024
The double helix is the iconic image of DNA. Yet the molecule is much more varied and dynamic than our stereotypical image suggests. DNA is in living things, made mostly of water.
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19 Feb 2024
Anglers around the world are sounding the alarm about a rise in getting sharked, also known in the colorful language fishers use as “paying the taxman” or, more formally, as depredation.
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13 Feb 2024
The twisted ladder of the double helix has become an iconic symbol for genetics. There is even a DNA emoji 🧬. Visualize the interactive nature of the double helix in the latest issue.
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So excited to hear what readers think about the lovely DNA illustrations by Caryn Babaian in our most recent issue! #sciart
13 Feb 2024
The twisted ladder of the double helix has become an iconic symbol for genetics. There is even a DNA emoji 🧬. Visualize the interactive nature of the double helix in the latest issue.
Discover more: americanscientist.org/magazi…
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I gave a songwriting AI (suno) the following prompt: "an uplifting satirical pop song about AI taking our jobs." Favorite lyric: "Could it be progress? Could it be despair?"
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BlueSky is where I've been able to connect with the most people from my old Twitter community. #sciencetwitter #scicomm #AcademicTwitter
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6 Feb 2024
Today, we are highlighting Chanda Prescod-Weinstein @IBJIYONGI. Prescod-Weinstein writes with both a deep knowledge of physics and a psychic vulnerability that is a too rarely witnessed facet of the scientific persona.
#BlackHistoryMonth
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Here's a fun jaunt to space (to Zoozve!).
5 Feb 2024
BREAKING NEWSVE ABOUT ZOOZVE!
They named it! As of today, the FIRST EVER QUASI-MOON DISCOVERED IN THE UNIVERSE is officially named ZOOZVE! 🤯
But that's only half the news! Listen to @Radiolab update: link.chtbl.com/radiolab?sid=…
(PS Brian sneakily added my name to the caption😆)
ALT Kids solar system poster with a dot near venus labeled Zoozve, then crossed out, then 2002-VE written in, then crossed out, and then Zoozve! again written in.
ALT Official name and caption. Says: (524522) Zoozve = 2002 VE 68. Discovery: 2002-11-11 / LONEOS / Anderson Mesa / 699. This object is the first identified quasi-satellite of a major planet (Venus). When artist Alex Foster drew this object on a solar system poster for children, he mistook the initial characters of the provisional designation as letters, thus coining an odd and memorable moniker. Name suggested by Latif Nasser.
ALT Cover of the International Astronomical Union Working Group for Small Bodies Nomenclature Bulletin, Volume 4, #2, 2024 February 5. (Picture of two rocky asteroids on a black background.)
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1 Feb 2024
A theory put forward in the 1930s by E. E. Just, embryologist and African American, shares surprising connections with our emerging understanding of development. #BlackBrillance #BlackHistoryMonth
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Illustration by Tom Dunne
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My latest #BookReview : Required reading for those who want to understand the U.S. response to #COVID, and how to better handle a #pandemic in the future.
23 Jan 2024
“No country went into this crisis with more scientific knowledge or spent more money, yet with such depressing results,” the COVID Crisis Group writes of the United States.
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16 Jan 2024
Anyone who is or knows a journalist - please help us spread the word about our survey of journalists who lost their jobs in the past 2 years! Pls share?
Grateful to be partnering on this w/ @lamthuyvo @adriandgarcia @journo_cam & @NiemanReports' @LauraColarusso @meganisonline
We’re excited to announce the launch of #theIIJ Journalism #Layoffs Census, aiming to hold #newsrooms accountable for their #diversity goals. If you've experienced a layoff or buyout, please take the survey here: bit.ly/IIJcensus
Results tk in @NiemanReports
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Our Scholarships program is open again, with $250 & $500 stipends for events and programs coming up this year!
If you're a journalist who works in data and code, you can use them to build skills and a stronger network—apply now through January 22:
opennews.org/what/community/…
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"The high cost of sexism cannot continue to be ignored. With both problems and solutions clearly identified, there is little excuse not to act."
"The career obstruction women face has a broader toxic effect on academic culture, reducing productivity, education quality and research output, and lowering return on public investment. Sexism is not only bad for women, it is bad for science." 💯🎯
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