„He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.“ David Hume

„A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?“ Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

Poetry is the flowering of ordinary possibilities. —Thomas Merton, Message to Poets bit.ly/3fgjscH

'Science’ turns 40! Thank you for your continued love and support for the song over the years. To celebrate this anniversary, the official video has been digitally restored. Go and give it a watch, Dr Magnus Pyke and Miss Sakamoto have never looked better! youtube.com/watch?v=V83JR2…

Let us not give them support by becoming an “opposition” which assumes they are definitively real. Let us remain outside “their” categories ... We remain innocent and invisible to publicists and bureaucrats. —Thomas Merton, Message to Poets bit.ly/3fgjscH

Audiences are interested in more and better climate news. The science is urgent. It is time journalism schools do better at preparing future journalists for covering life on a hotter planet. Jill Hopke, PhD Nieman Reports bit.ly/3sTVx5H

What can journalists do to reconcile police statements with potentially contradictory community accounts? If police department contacts are in your phone, community contacts should be there, too niemanreports.org/articles/kansa…

My latest in Nieman Reports. I share my experiences teaching climate journalism at DePaul University. Climate change is in everything. J-schools should include training in reporting on the science, as well as the social and political dimensions of climate change, in core curricula.

If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.

But it is better to prophesy than to deride. To prophesy is not to predict, but to seize upon reality in its moment of highest expectation and tension toward the new. —Thomas Merton, Message to Poets bit.ly/3fgjscH

Objectivity isn’t serving journalism or communities if it’s just another name for my own or someone else’s preferred biases. @ijbailey Gina Kaufmann Nieman Reports bit.ly/3Nsj8E2

Perhaps it is the greatest madness to see the world as it is and not as it should be. —Cervantes

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60% of America will have an election denier on the ticket. The only way they lose is if people vote. Elections matter. Your vote matters. Please vote! #Vote #VOTEVOTEVOTE #ElectionDay2022 #democracy

"...empathy doesn’t blind us. It allows us to see more clearly just what’s at stake for the individuals and communities on whom we report, insight that can and should bring more depth and nuance to stories." James Geary 🔥 on journalistic 'objectivity' via Reuters Institute

was hoping for something more than “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard” from the oldest known sentence (1700 BCE) written in the first alphabet. Like "The pilot who sees from afar, he will not wreck his boat," Amenemope (1100 BCE) bit.ly/3Ej3ecg

Our micros were whispering that they wanted to shout from the rooftops. Our Summer Issue is here! Chitralekha Hore James Geary nathaniel calhoun citronreview.com

Did you know? Every year, we nominate as many works from our pages as we can. … , The Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net Anthology, and The Best Small Fictions, we love you all. Dear readers, perhaps you have flash favorites we should consider? citronreview.com