Congratulations!

Happiness is a double-pronged telescoping marshmallow toasting fork, a bag of marshmallows and a fire while sitting next to the one you love

The Project Hail Mary LEGO set is really cool!

Spending my 20th anniversary with my husband and dog in a cabin in Virginia. It couldn’t be lovelier!

GLP-1 microdosers are chasing longevity Experimenters hope to harness the powerful effects of medications such as Ozempic and Wegovy at doses smaller than those studied most.

More than 10 percent of U.S. adults take GLP-1 drugs. But not all of them are taking full doses.

There is one thing the movie gets wrong. I’m begging you to balance the centrifuge!!!!

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Here’s what member @thsaey.bsky.social says: “The Open Notebook takes the mysticism out of great writing, showing how others have solved their seemingly intractable problems and gives me escape strategies to try the next time I encounter a wall blocking my writing.”

How realistic is Project Hail Mary? Ryan Gosling is on a mission to save the sun — and Earth — from star-killing microbes. Science News dissects the science behind the sci-fi movie.

Just saw Project Hail Mary for the second time. I love this movie. Here’s @carolyngramling.bsky.social and I reviewing the science.

www.sciencenews.org/article/the-...

How realistic is Project Hail Mary? Ryan Gosling is on a mission to save the sun — and Earth — from star-killing microbes. Science News dissects the science behind the sci-fi movie.

www.sciencenews.org/article/the-...
I liked the movie so much I am seeing it again on Saturday!

5 Logical fallacies in the era of RFK Jr. Common rhetorical tricks that are trending right now

I especially like the video at the end of this explainer on 5 Logical fallacies in the era of RFK Jr. open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...

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Also I am so excited that the cast of Firefly are bringing it back as animated series! But it needs a home/distributor. If you want to see it like and share these posts widely.

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A person in green Mandalorian armor and helmet stands next to a throne. There is Star Wars graffiti on the wall.

This is the way. When I am not doing journalism I like to dress as a Mandalorian to raise money for charities. #MMCC #Mandalorian

Good news! @sciencenews.bsky.social is hiring a features editor! www.societyforscience.org/jobs-and-int...

Congratulations to our colleagues at C&EN!

RFK Jr. food pyramid site links to Grok, which says you shouldn’t trust RFK Jr. Grok generated a meal plan to fit RFK Jr.'s food pyramid, then explained why it's bad.

arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

Science News Names Inaugural Winner of the Starks-Murcutt Prize for Excellence in Science Journalism Science News is proud to name Celina Zhao as the inaugural winner of the $1,000 Starks-Murcutt Prize for Excellence in…

Congratulations to Celina Zhao on winning the first Starks-Murcutt Prize for science journalism by @sciencenews.bsky.social interns! www.societyforscience.org/blog/science...

A ‘shadow CDC’ is scrambling to fill gaps in public health data Dozens of routinely updated CDC databases have gone quiet. Here’s what states and medical societies are doing to preserve U.S. public health

Dozens of routinely updated CDC databases have gone quiet. Here’s what states and medical societies are doing to preserve U.S. public health

Illinois joins World Health Organization network, after Trump administration withdraws from group Joining the World Health Organization’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network is the state’s latest move into an area that was previously the domain of the federal government, before the…

More of this, please!

Trump pulled the US out of WHO. Two states took matters in their own hands. Illinois just joined GOARN, which provides info/resources to help control outbreaks & public health emergencies.

California was the first. Isolationist agenda will backfire.

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Modernizing the National Institutes of Health: Faster Discoveries, More Cures | The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Full Committee Hearing on February 3, 2026 at 5:00 AM

I'm on Capitol Hill watching NIH director Jayanta Bhattacharya testify to the Senate HELP committee.

Thankfully I haven't been escorted out of this event (yet). Here's what I'm following. You can also watch live here:
www.help.senate.gov/hearings/mod...

The @society4science.bsky.social has announced that it will share many of these hard-won provisions with non-union employees. I'm pleased that our efforts will make this workplace better for everyone.

Without the union, none of these gains would have been possible.
We also won AI protections, more compassionate bereavement leave and up to 16 weeks of severance pay.

I am thrilled that after two years of negotiating we finally have a contract that our members could accept. This document will be a foundation on which we can build a more equitable, flexible and stronger workplace.

@standupforscience.bsky.social appreciation thread
Science Fight Club is important and necessary for two reasons:

1. Science has become incredibly political, as identity politics took over ALL politics.

2. Scientific institutions don't typically "fight"
and look where that got us. 🧪

He made beer that’s also a vaccine. Now controversy is brewing An NIH scientist’s maverick approach reveals legal, ethical, moral, scientific and social challenges to developing potentially life-saving vaccines.

This stemmed from my original story for @sciencenews.bsky.social
www.sciencenews.org/article/vacc...

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Canadian Broadcast Corp's As It Happens featured an interview with Chris Buck about vaccine beer. You can listen here at the 16:40 mark: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Yes. You’ll also find the other paper detailing the methods of Buck’s self-experiment linked in my story. Science News always links to the primary source

To be clear the oral route was less effective than purified injected particles but still
gave an immune reaction in mice. Buck made antibodies after drinking the beer but there’s no head to head comparison with injected vaccine because that one hasn’t entered clinical trials yet

The mice ate yeast mixed with kibble. They were not consuming alcohol

You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?"

Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.