How to Protect Your Penis Arm We've all got one.

A lesson from the ocean about guarding your vulnerable bits— for authors, news consumers, and anyone in the world: elizabethgpreston.substack.com/p/how-to-pro... 🧪

An older man just sat down across from me at this cafe with a paper copy of the London Review of Books with STICKY NOTES poking out of it, bless him

Citing a blog post I wrote in 2013 about hidden hippo testes is a deep cut in more ways than one. 🧪

(Please note I'm sharing this for the sake of the joke, not the article itself, which I have no memory of writing and is so old that the formatting is lost)

One hundred million years of skin feeding? Extended parental care in a Neotropical caecilian (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) Maternal dermatophagy, the eating of maternal skin by offspring, is an unusual form of parental investment involving co-evolved specializations of both maternal skin and offspring dentition, which has...

This is the paper: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Screenshot reading: "involved the simultaneous activity of all members of a clutch. Feeding behaviour is quite frenetic with the young frequently tearing pieces of skin by spinning along their long axes and sometimes struggling over the same piece of skin. The mother remains calm during this activity. When the mother has been peeled, the young continue to search for and eat fragments of skin on the substrate. Feeding bouts are short: just seven minutes for the only" (The phrase "When the mother has been peeled" is highlighted.)

Congratulations to the authors of a 2008 paper on skin-feeding by caecilians for the most disturbing clause you'll see today: 🧪

"for sale baby shoes never worn" may be the saddest use of six words, but "the pope is weak on crime" is the funniest

I literally one week ago was trying to convince a skeptical relative that it's a bad idea to upload her medical information to ChatGPT!

He Warned About the Dangers of A.I. If Only His Father Had Listened.

Wow, this story: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/w...

Thanks so much Bethany!!

Thanks Jason!!

picking up once you start noticing something, it can be hard to stop at one point, i decided i'd feel better trying to address what i saw at first, it turned noticing into a game faced with clear work ahead,...

My sister @akpresto.bsky.social's latest Lego-art-and-data-visualization newsletter is a lovely meditation on picking up trash: aangles.ghost.io/picking-up/?...

Protein, Pyramids, and Politics: The Forgotten Stories and Controversial Science Behind Government Dietary Advice - Gastropod The how, what, and why of RDAs, nutrition labels, and dietary goals.

In non-world-threatening but still political news, we just put out one of the most complicated episodes we've had to wrangle recently, based on the new government food guidelines from January/the odd new upside down pyramid: gastropod.com/protein-pyra...

A new book finds parenting inspiration in the animal kingdom In The Creatures Guide to Caring, science journalist Elizabeth Preston looks to the animal kingdom to explore what it means to be a good parent.

Breastfeeding is hard work. But after reading science journalist Elizabeth Preston’s book The Creatures’ Guide to Caring, be glad you're not a burying beetle.
www.sciencenews.org/article/animal-parenting...

Thanks Dad! I was just thinking I should post this here...

2026: when every day is the final dinner scene from “Don’t Look Up”

A new book finds parenting inspiration in the animal kingdom In The Creatures Guide to Caring, science journalist Elizabeth Preston looks to the animal kingdom to explore what it means to be a good parent.

Thanks to @viruswhiz.bsky.social @sciencenews.bsky.social for this lovely writeup (and sorry for any pseudopenis-related trauma)! www.sciencenews.org/article/anim... 🧪

How to Be Pink On blending in and standing out

On a Panamanian island, scientists found a cicada that's usually green but grew up to be hot pink instead. We're talking about what that has to do with evolutionary innovation, Chappell Roan, and finding your creative voice: elizabethgpreston.substack.com/p/how-to-be-... 🧪

What a beautiful moment.

How to Be Pink On blending in and standing out

What an insect that's totally the wrong color can teach us about developing your creative voice: elizabethgpreston.substack.com/p/how-to-be-... 🧪

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

My car has depression (check engine light is on).

Part of a typed paragraph with the first sentence underlined: "The Water-Holding frog holds as much awesomeness as it holds water! The Water-Holding frog lives in the dry deserts of Australia, and gets so big when it holds water. It even absorbs 50% of its own body weight just in water! It eats small frogs, tadpoles and insects. Some of its predators include birds, larger frogs and"

My third-grader brought home her Freaky Frog report, and I have to say, she nailed the lede.

LOL sorry

I could have written this identical lede but swapped out "Rahm Emanuel" for "my third-grade daughter." Maybe I should ask whether she's considering a 2028 run.

Also, is it possible to open a salad containers with one hand??

Yellow book cover reading "The Creatures' Guide to Caring: How Animal Parents Teach Us That Humans Were Born to Care." The author is Elizabeth Preston.

Sale alert!! Barnes & Noble members can get 25% off my book if you order today or tomorrow: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-creatu...

How to Snooze through a Storm Maybe things would be better if you weren't awake

Next time you're trying to keep up the hustle through a challenging time, consider whether it would be better to just...turn your body off for a little while? These swallows do it: elizabethgpreston.substack.com/p/how-to-sno... 🧪

Just a bunch of greenery blorping around in the acid, wailing "nooooooo not the red dye number threeee"

"Your stomach microbiome is plants" is a legitimately impressive number of wrong things in 5 words. 🧪

How to Snooze through a Storm Maybe things would be better if you weren't awake

Lessons on getting through a rough patch, from some deep-sleeping Australian swallows: elizabethgpreston.substack.com/p/how-to-sno... 🧪

A selfie of me wearing a white t-shirt that says “do not talk to me about AI I will kill myself”

I bought a new t-shirt. www.etsy.com/listing/4371...