From everything I'm hearing, these layoffs have dealt yet another devastating blow to @natgeo's magazine and digital editorial teams. Absolutely gutting.

This sure would be embarrassing if they recently announced plans to spend almost a quarter-billion dollars on three people.

Stuck on this maze? Don’t worry—it’s more of a connect-the-dots puzzle. sciencenews.org/article/hamilt…

lotta y'all keep saying "cousin greg" when you mean "jonah ryan."

To the public, Microsoft uses its reputation as an AI & sustainability leader to tell a compelling story: AI will do wonders to help solve the climate crisis. To fossil-fuel firms, Microsoft has a different message: AI will help them drill, baby, drill. 1/ theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Anyway, yes I use my time productively

two more great ~remote~ jobs open ProPublica, on two of my favorite teams in the newsroom! ⭐️engagement reporter ($80K-$115K) ⭐️research reporter ($80K- $100K) apply! propublica.org/jobs/

Everyone is tweeting ‘there’s an emergency, read local news, read local news.’ Y’all, you have to FINANCIALLY SUPPORT local news. You have to donate. You have to subscribe. You have to do it even when you think the reporting is mediocre and they publish op-eds you don’t like.

People are asking me how they can help Western NC right now. Donate to Mountain Xpress or Asheville Watchdog or The Assembly. But more importantly, pay for your local news wherever you live. Journalism will only survive if you support it.

Cannot get over the fact that I am a member of the only generation that will ever experience the eight year window when the internet both contained pretty much all knowledge AND it was easy to find and generally reliable. And it was my exact high school and college years.

"why isn't the news covering this" is really just short for "i actually don't read or watch the news"

More than 60 percent of U.S. respondents in a recent poll believe that U.S. democracy is at risk. sciencenews.org/article/united…

It could not be any clearer today that the interests of publishers and the interests of journalists are not the same thing. Standing with all guilds and their defense of true journalistic independence today.

“While mainstream journalism codified its political independence, it never liberated itself from the constraints of American capitalism. Our press remains first a business, whose interests often clash fundamentally with its values.“ cjr.org/analysis/a-tes…

Just a reminder, for no reason at all 👀 : No billionaire can tell us what not to publish — and we’re committed to putting our community first. Join today: buff.ly/40nkSaf

Strike averted at the Southern California News Group, where Guild journalists have wrung more than $700,000 in new newsroom spending out of Alden Global Capital. Many journalists here went years without raises; some hugely underpaid members will get pay hikes of over 48%.

We’re working to negotiate a fair contract for our workers and remain hopeful we can achieve one. We’re asking for remote work for all who choose, pay transparency/equity, AI protections, better parental and bereavement leave, sick time & more. Let’s do this! Society for Science

Researchers at a major science conference used words like “chaos,” “confusion” and “insane” to describe the climate at their institutions. sciencenews.org/article/defund…