Max G. Levy captured the nuance of our critiques & illustrates our impact on yesterday's Advisory Committee meeting on MDMA-AT: "Rather than a straightforward, dusty bureaucratic session, the hearing was eye-opening, puzzling, fascinating, and profoundly sad." /1

What a joy it is to work with Maddie Bender again. This time she tackles the concerning rise of bird flu, and how we've, unfortunately, learned very little from COVID 19. Big thanks to Sequencer Magazine for letting us republish! slate.com/technology/202…

A tiny magazine's first syndication!!!

Great news: I blogged about my cat and my life again for Sequencer Magazine sequencermag.com/a-brief-update…

This snail-inspired robot creeps like the real thing. Believe it or not, snail locomotion is quite sophisticated. buff.ly/3z9gOyG

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In case you needed an excuse to look at pictures of Dan's cat Masha, he also wrote some words about her. buff.ly/4aWJqbO

NEW: I spoke with Ferris Jabr about how he conceptualizes life on Earth. Or, rather, life *of* Earth The big ideas here are really compelling and they come from his years of reporting his debut book Becoming Earth, out next week. 🌎Read Sequencer Magazine 🌍 sequencermag.com/a-scientific-c…

Peer inside Ferris Jabr's reporting diary (and dare we say, his brain?) in an excerpt from an expedition to Russian Siberia. And preorder his book, "Becoming Earth." buff.ly/45vJpKO

For decades Richard Lynn used manipulative research practices and bad statistics to justify race science & the belief that white people are superior to other races. My colleagues & I wrote for STAT about his far reaching impact & what to do about it statnews.com/2024/06/20/ric…

For Sequencer Magazine, a wonderful new writer-owned science magazine, cofounder Max G. Levy interviewed me about some of the ideas and themes in my new book, Becoming Earth. I greatly appreciate his thoughtfulness and fantastic questions. Read here: sequencermag.com/a-scientific-c…

For Sequencer Magazine, I reflected a bit on the race science situation, and how the self-correcting system of science seems to function, or not function at all. sequencermag.com/call-a-spade-a…

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For @sequencermag, I chatted with Rose Eveleth about their new CBC and NPR podcast Tested, on the Olympics's long obsession with sex, gender, and making elite athletes parade in the nude sequencermag.com/nude-parades-a…

APEX is like a drug-sniffing dog. But instead of a German Shepherd named Bruce scanning carry-ons for bags that smell like weed, the AI scours extinct animals’ genetic sequences for patterns it has learned to mean “this gene makes germ-killing molecules.” buff.ly/3YgQCNa

The Olympics is officially underway! As a science journalist and sports fan, of course I'm going to be writing about it.

More Olympic content! This Q&A between Dan Samorodnitsky and Rose Eveleth delves into the Games obsession with gender testing. sequencermag.com/nude-parades-a…

blogged about a wild trend Teddy Brokaw alerted me to for Sequencer Magazine. The kids are not alright!! sequencermag.com/no-mpox-isnt-b…

Fight us, Tom Nichols buff.ly/3XPZIQs