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Hey Bluesky! 👋🦋 We’ve been reading your replies about our paywall, and we’re listening. We want to share why it’s there—and an easy, low-cost way to read more.

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Scientific American Unionizes with WGA East, Demands Voluntary Recognition | Press Room NEW YORK (April 13, 2026) – The reporters, editors, producers, and other professionals involved in producing a successful print and digital product at Scientific American unionized with the Writers Gu...

We're blown away by all the solidarity with and love for our announcement! If you'd like to read more about why we're unionizing, check out this press release from @wgaeast.bsky.social. Excited to share where we go from here!

Gorgeous!!!!

If you need me, tough, I'm busy huffing my neighbor's lilacs until I feel like a human being again.

Happy new issue day! The May issue of Scientific American goes deep on heart disease, weird magnets, the science of luxury and so much more. Dive in here: www.scientificamerican.com/issue/sa/202...

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Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

Hello, Bluesky! We, the staff of Scientific American, are pleased to announce we have formed a union with @wgaeast.bsky.social. Just as mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell, we are the powerhouse of the publication, and we’re excited to have a new way to contribute to its success.

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If you loved our Artemis II videos, you should know we’re a Webby nominee! 🎉 Vote Scientific American for best Social Video – Short Form (Education & Science) 🗳️ spklr.io/6005Eyowc

It's Monday post-Artemis and I probably owe you a message back

While I have your attention... If you've enjoyed our Artemis II coverage here at @sciam.bsky.social and want to see more (much more) of the same in the future, please become a subscriber. Your support makes a difference. It's what makes our work possible.

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“What we really hoped in our soul is that we could...have the world pause and remember that this is a beautiful planet and a very special place in our universe, and we should all cherish what we have been gifted,” —Artemis II astronaut Reid Wiseman. Mission coverage: spklr.io/6001EyN07

"There are a lot of parts of life in our city that we have just come to accept as if it's the cost of being a New Yorker, when in fact, these are political decisions and political choices" is the most succinct summary of the governance crisis plaguing Democrats in large cities I've ever heard

Artemis II's last test: Will its heat shield work? Excess charring on Artemis I's heat shield had NASA racing to understand what went wrong—and to ensure the technology was still safe for the current crew's high-speed reentry.

I can say without hesitation that this is the HARDEST article I have ever written, but I am incredibly proud of it.

If you have questions about Orion’s heat shield, given the issues with Artemis I, I hope I can provide some answers:

www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

The Moon is different now. It looks totally new! And I look at it *a lot* so you can trust me.
I am grateful to my editors at @theatlantic.com for letting me say a few things about what Artemis II has meant this week. Gift link:

www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages A key issue is protections against layoffs from AI

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more.

They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom.

www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.

I didn’t think we’d get to this point but here we are. Please support our fight for a fair contract by honoring our strike today.

The sooner we can reach an agreement on the contract, the sooner we can get back to doing journalism in this urgent time.

Yeah, that’s what it was published with until they finally released photos yesterday. I had a snarky caption in the story, I promise!

We're on strike! Don't visit propublica.org on April 8

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🌑 ☀️ After hearing how astounded the Artemis II crew was by the total solar eclipse they experienced near the moon last night, we can finally get a hint of what they saw. Read more: www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...

See NASA Artemis II mission’s first incredible photos of the moon, Earth and a total eclipse The first images from NASA’s Artemis II mission's lunar flyby were worth the wait

Photos photos photos, so many gorgeous photos of the moon and Earth: 🧪 🔭 www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

NASA’s Artemis II crew experience total solar eclipse from space From the perspective of the Orion capsule, the moon will fully block the sun’s disk for nearly an hour

Same story about how cool a solar eclipse from the moon would be, now with an actual photo of a solar eclipse from the moon: 🧪 🔭 www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...

Aww thank you Mika <3

NASA’s Artemis II crew experience total solar eclipse from space From the perspective of the Orion capsule, the moon will fully block the sun’s disk for nearly an hour

The crew of Artemis II is experiencing a total solar eclipse RIGHT NOW from just a few thousand miles above the lunar surface. Here's why it's cool and what they could see 🧪 🔭

Hoping beyond hope that today's wakeup song will be "When the moon hits your eyes"

Honestly if you're trapped in a flying tin can 169,000 miles from Earth the least you deserve is arriving at the chorus of Pink Pony Club!!!

A very angry horseshoe crab stands on the beach with angry angry eyes and the words around him says they only want to tell you about my evolutionary history as they destroy Our evolutionary future

We’re at teen art club again 😎

NASA's Artemis 2 pilot Victor Glover listens to 'Whitey on the Moon' every Monday. This is why. "It ain't about racism. It's about the human condition."

"And so it's a reminder to me that there are more perspectives and more stories out there than you'll hear from the people cheering for NASA on a regular basis," Glover said. "But those people? We work for them too." www.space.com/space-explor...

Artemis II mission is about to fly humans to the Moon — here’s the science they’ll do Set to lift off this week, the NASA flight will take astronauts around the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years.

Like many science journalists this week, I'll covering the #ArtemisII mission for @nature.com. Our first story is now up! We explore the science that the astronauts will do on their flight — and how this advances beyond the Apollo era. 🧪🔭

www.nature.com/articles/d41...