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Grist opens applications for new rural reporting grants on climate and environmental justice Applicants can request up to $5,000 per project.

Funding alert: @grist.org is offering grants of up to $5,000 for reporting on rural climate issues and environmental justice in the United States. Newsrooms and freelancers are welcome to apply. Please share! grist.org/updates/gris...

You may think that steak is the most indulgent restaurant meal. Wrong. Three perfect squares of seasonal ravioli. Somehow not enough sauce to cover them. Thirty US dollars. The closest I have ever felt to being royalty.

Know an innovative start-up? Nominate them today.

Do you know a #StartUp driving scientific breakthroughs in chemistry? Nominate a start-up for our #10StartUpsToWatch program by Aug 1. Self-nominations permitted. Nominate now: cen.acs.org/surveys/star...

#chemsky

A very excited woman holds a very large French bulldog

Huge news: a man in Echo Park gave me his dog to hold.

China Is Putting Data Centers in the Ocean to Keep Them Cool China is pulling ahead of the rest of the world in sinking data centers that power AI into the ocean as an alternate way to keep them cool

Data centers not only use a lot of energy, but they need a lot of water to keep from overheating. But that competes with other uses of water, such as for drinking. So China is looking to put data centers in the ocean. 🧪

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We finally made it to Bluesky—just a few billion years after the Big Bang, and only slightly late to the party ✨🌌

We’re sharing some of our best stories from the year so far to kick off our Bluesky journey!

We’re Light-Years Away from True Artificial Intelligence, Says Murderbot Author Martha Wells Today’s large language models are hardly related to the kinds of machine intelligence we see in science fiction, according to Martha Wells, author of the Murderbot Diaries series

There's an interview with me in Scientific American: www.scientificamerican.com/article/were...

"The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash" Will Shock You Alexander Clapp, author of new nonfiction book 'Waste Wars,' tracks the world-wide blackmarket trade of our garbage

I got to talk @alexclapp.bsky.social ‪about why he lived out of a backpack for 2 years visiting the smelliest parts of the most beautiful places on Earth for his new book Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash for @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/wast...

Early-Career Researchers Reflect on the Emotional and Societal Fallout of Trump’s Funding Cuts Canceled grants and slashed budgets are disproportionately affecting junior health researchers, dealing a major blow to the future of science and society in the U.S.

Thousands of federal grants have been terminated, effectively cutting lifesaving research and the careers of people behind the work. Read their stories, thoughtfully written by @rachelnuwer.bsky.social for @sciam.bsky.social. www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

Each Friday this summer, I’m working with Today in Science to give you a book recommendation to bring to the pool, to the airport or just to your porch. Sign up for our daily newsletter Today in Science to get new science reading recommendations every week! www.scientificamerican.com/newsletters/

might help:
1 calling your reps
2 organizing your community
3 joining a local direct-action group
4 attending protests
5 volunteering
6 canvassing

won't help:
7 yelling that we're doomed
8 bragging about how cynical you've always been
9 sneering at people doing 1-6

I went during a super quick weekend trip to visit a friend, I have to say it’s sooooo worth the wait!

Buzzfeed style quiz that tells you what you would have for conclave breakfast if you were a cardinal WHEN

These Charts Explain Why Public Transit Is Safer Than Driving The rates of fatal crashes and crime are both lower on public transportation than on roadways

Trump's transportation secretary thinks the New York subway is unsafe. But public transit is actually far safer than driving, in terms of both vehicle fatality and crime rates. Story by me, with graphics by @unamandita.bsky.social: www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-p...

These Mysterious Shapes Are at the Heart of Intriguing Mathematical Problems Mathematicians describe the most beautiful and beguiling forms and surfaces they know

We asked mathematicians what their favorite, most beguiling, intriguing and endearing shapes -- and they sent back a zoo! www.scientificamerican.com/article/thes...

This Is the First Colossal Squid Filmed in the Deep Sea--And It’s a Baby! A colossal squid was filmed for the first time in its natural habitat near the South Sandwich Islands during a recent expedition, and it turned out to be a baby

Baaaabeeee squid do do do do do do ... 🧪

The Dire Wolf Isn’t Back—But Here’s What ‘De-Extinction’ Tech Can Actually Do Colossal Bioscience says it has “de-extincted” the dire wolf, but other scientists disagree and say more important conservation science is being lost in all the hype

Get behind the "dire wolf" hype to what could be real conservation science: 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

C&EN is reporting on the termination of international students' F1 visas and SEVIS status. Know any scientists affected? Signal me or @kvasquez.bsky.social

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Beehold the U.S. Native Bees Hiding in Plain Sight This Spring Scientists estimate there are about 4,000 species of native bees in the U.S.—and they’re both cooler and ecologically more important than honeybees

Good morning! Please come on a bee adventure with me, I promise you won't regret it. 🐝 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/ther...

The Heard and McDonald Islands Are a Pristine Biological Wonderland Trump’s tariffs put a spotlight on the uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands, which comprise a remote volcanic refuge for penguins and seals and a UNESCO World Heritage site

This was actually a really delightful piece to write, albeit for the dumbest possible reason. 🧪

Graduate Reductions Across Biomedical Sciences (2025)

🚨 Over 70 graduate programs in the biological and biomedical sciences have frozen or slashed admissions.

The consequences are profound—how many brilliant minds are being shut out of research entirely? How much future discovery is being lost before it even begins?

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Trump cuts threaten measurement lab critical for advanced chips and medical devices The Atomic Spectroscopy Group provides standardized measurements used across wide swaths of science and industry. The Trump administration plans to cut it.

NEW: Trump cuts are threatening a standards laboratory who's work on atomic spectra undergirds the entire modern economy.

The lab is run by just seven federal employees who have been paying out-of-pocket for their own coffee since 1973.

www.npr.org/2025/03/26/n...

You rarely clock how often you swallow until you get a virus that makes it impossibly painful to do so.

‘Stand Up for Science’ Rallies Will Protest Trump Attacks on Research Amid President Donald Trump’s attacks on government scientists and science funding, researchers are arranging rallies to “Stand Up for Science” in Washington, D.C., and nationwide on March 7

The @standupforscience.bsky.social rallies happen tomorrow! Read more: “We’re trying to give folks somewhere they can feel powerful and have their voices heard.” 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/stan...

Where We Are After Five Years of COVID Public health experts discuss lessons learned from the U.S. response to the COVID pandemic, on topics ranging from school closures to trust in science

It's been five years since the WHO declared COVID a pandemic. Where are we today, and what have/haven't we learned? My story in @sciam.bsky.social: www.scientificamerican.com/article/on-c...

Why That Song Is Stuck in Your Head Some songs get stuck in our head more than others, and scientists have uncovered what makes them so irresistible.

Fun Friday excuse not to work: “Make it stop!” Musical earworms stuck in your brain! New podcast from Scientific American on how to stop earworms, and why they’re there in the first place. Listen to Lady Gaga, Whitney Houston, the ooga chaka song… and me definitely not singing. 🧪

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