Impeached the motherfucker, alright.

Three years in prison for He Jiankui, CRISPR baby creator technologyreview.com/s/614997/he-ji…

Next level: NFC Championship Game 🎮 AH x @PrestonSmith94 #ThePackIsBack | #GoPackGo x.com/packers/status…

Far from China, scientists seek to "boot up" the coronavirus using just its genetic code. technologyreview.com/s/615231/biolo…

Me and Amanda Katz have come to the part of the pandemic relationship with a romantic night of more antibodies testing. Considering an update on my New York Times Opinion column: nytimes.com/2020/04/15/opi…

Kara Swisher Shannon Woodward Amanda Katz New York Times Opinion On behalf of the whole Tasso team, thanks for trying out the kit and we are glad you liked it!

This is the moment Minneapolis Police fired on our CBS News crew with rubber bullets. As you can see, no protesters anywhere near us- we all were wearing credentials and had cameras out. Our sound engineer was hit in the arm. #cbsnews

So here’s what happened today. The NYPD arrested me at 96th Street and West Side Highway while I was taking photos and video to post to Twitter. I told the police I was with the Press, they walked by me and then turned around and arrested me.

Note when The New York Times uses the passive voice and when it uses the active voice.

Just subscribed to Defector. Best thing that's happened all week.

Great idea: The Science Museum (UK) used its digitized collection, API, and log of web pages with zero views to create “Never Been Seen”—a site that makes you the very first person to see an object. Nice model for serendipity. (via Seb Chan’s newsletter) thesciencemuseum.github.io/never-been-see…

Interesting development. Eric Lander out at OSTP going to be replaced, for the moment, by a combo of ex-NIH boss Francis Collins and OSTP deputy Alondra Nelson, who got there from Inst for Advanced Study. Everyone in this crowd, all three, are principally about DNA/genetics.

SCOOP: Smithsonian re-evaluating hiring of new women’s history museum boss after The Washington Post questions about sex-harassment retaliation suits she settled at a New York museum she led. Via Manuel Roig-Franzia Thomas Floyd bit.ly/3LimXMY

This is first rate accountability reporting about one of the world’s most revered museums looking the other way in its hiring process. It’s really unbelievable

For the past five years, I’ve been working on a book, and I can’t wait to share it with the world. The Lumumba Plot is coming this October from Alfred A. Knopf. You can pre-order here: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/616779/t…

guess what: i wrote the cover story of the july-august issue of scientific american!! squawk!!!! scientificamerican.com/article/parrot…

Exclusive - Nancy Yao withdraws as founding director of a new Smithsonian women's history museum after The Washington Post investigation of her handling of sexual harassment allegations. bit.ly/3PRMoHw

Big congrats to Ashley Smart on his win National Association of Science Writers (NASW) this year! (And to all of the other winners and finalists) nasw.org/article/nasw-s…