Shark! Drama! This story was a wild ride from start to finish. Check it out The Daily Beast

Help save the Texas Observer, y’all!

New for Audubon Society, I wrote about how birding can change your brain: audubon.org/magazine/sprin…

YES! 🐍🦎🦉🦆

Thanks Lauren Leffer, Joanna Thompson 💖💜💙, and Casey Crownhart for bringing all of this excellent goblin shark gossip into my life. slate.com/technology/202…

“Wow, great question,” is my love language.

If you read one thing today, read this.

Happy gay month!

Trying to figure out how many cigarettes my run was equivalent to 🙃

Good news! The AQI has been downgraded from “apocalyptic” to “medium dystopia”

Breaking: The words/phrases “billionaire,” “asshat,” “deadbeat dad,” and “apartheid clyde” are now considered slurs on this platform.

Living dangerously (ordering a bagel in the UK).

Our statement on G/O Media’s plan to implement AI content, just days after laying off newsroom members

Lab-grown meat just got approved in the US. I wrote about what you need to know. scientificamerican.com/article/lab-gr…

Do any astronomer/planetary scientist-types have thoughts about the magnetic Avi Loeb spherules? If so I’d love to hear your takes! #journorequest

I’ll say this about the trials start time: heat-related illnesses are not a matter of “toughness”. In fact, tough people are probably more likely to experience them, because they’re more likely to keep going even as their organs shut down.

New piece by me.