Colin Schultz
@colinschultz.bsky.social
Aspiring gadfly. Newsy guy @ bioGraphic https://www.biographic.com/story-type/news/ Pitch me a story: Someone doing something for a reason. || cschultz@biographic.com Don't send me press releases.
And people have been saying this for 40 years
Laura Phillips@lauraphillips.bsky.social · 4d agoSir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency
It's incredible is how little folks understand about academe. Peer review is brutal. Academic Q+A is Troy level slaughter. Bros attacking a lady academic for a fair review would shit themselves on stage after a paper and break down into toddler tears after their first conference paper w a mean Q+A.
Building the road ahead of you as you go is sometimes what you have to do to get where you’re trying to go.
All I can give you is climate change, not earthquakes hakaimagazine.com/news/did-cli...
Did Climate Change Bring Down Late Bronze Age Civilizations? | Hakai Magazine
Marine archaeologists excavating the eastern Mediterranean are learning how the Bronze Age Mycenaean, Egyptian, and Anatolian Empires fell.
hakaimagazine.com
Brandon Bishop@brandontbishop.bsky.social · 7d agoSomeone please show me an explanation for the Eastern Mediterranean Late Bronze Age collapse involving earthquakes that follows modern understanding of earthquakes. The classicists(?) are bringing this up and I'm... let's say "curious."
Did you know that the flowers of avocado trees change sex every day? Scientists have noticed this nearly 100 years ago but only now do we how it works. Life is amazing.
Avocado flowers switch sex daily—now we know why
New work explains how avocado trees coordinate a complex reproductive strategy, switching every day between male and female
scientificamerican.com
damnit I had this on my to-do list. Curse this publication pause
Godspeed You! Bluesky Emperor@andrewpaul.bsky.social · last wk.this is wild and totally obvious once you think about it, but almost no one is considering this: all those ships struck in the Strait of Hormuz are invasive species powder kegs www.popsci.com/environment/...
this is wild and totally obvious once you think about it, but almost no one is considering this: all those ships struck in the Strait of Hormuz are invasive species powder kegs www.popsci.com/environment/...
Strait of Hormuz ship bottleneck could fuel invasive species nightmare
Hundreds of ships currently sitting in the Strait have untold organisms in their hulls.
popsci.com
A U.S. Citizen Deleted His Phone’s Data. Now He Faces a Felony Charge. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...
A U.S. Citizen Deleted His Phone’s Data. Now He Faces a Felony Charge. (Gift Article)
Federal prosecutors charged a man returning to the United States with obstruction because he gave them a passcode that erased his smartphone during a customs search.
nytimes.com
#Freelance journalists - I just sent out a call for pitches for @technologyreview.com's Breakthroughs issue. Pitches due Friday August 7. We're also looking for front-of-book articles (the pitch guide I mention in this post has more info on those). www.linkedin.com/posts/rcourt...
#freelance | Rachel Courtland
#Freelance journalists: MIT Technology Review is seeking pitches for our upcoming Breakthroughs Issue. We’re looking for big swings: narrative features, essential profiles, and sharp reported essays ...
linkedin.com
Trump Administration Eyes Massive Coal Reserves Under Federal Lands insideclimatenews.org/news/2407202...
Trump Administration Eyes Massive Coal Reserves Under Federal Lands - Inside Climate News
The Western U.S. is sitting on billions of tons of unmined coal, a new report from the Department of the Interior finds.
insideclimatenews.org
"On Friday, wildfires in Spain overran one of three observatories the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration uses to connect with spacecraft, including Voyager 1, the James Webb Space Telescope, and the recently completed Artemis mission around the Moon." www.wired.com/story/spanis...
One of NASA’s Most Important Deep Space Observatories Hit by Spanish Wildfires
Flames burned through the Deep Space Communications Complex near Madrid, but NASA has been unable to assess the damage as a wildfire emergency grips the region.
wired.com
This is really wild The Mind-Blowing Flaw That Flooded New Orleans www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku_o...
The Mind-Blowing Flaw That Flooded New Orleans
YouTube video by Practical Engineering
youtube.com
I think people who do not work in media have trouble grasping how genuinely terrifying it is watching organization after organization (even those ostensibly held by entities able to fund them!) continually get carved down into nothing. Lights going out all over
Asher Elbein@asherelbein.bsky.social · 2w ago"Most of the affected employees were at National Geographic, both at the cable network as well as editorial and operations." 🫠
When my wife said, not long after the cuts started hitting the CDC and FDA, that we needed to start avoiding US fresh goods, I thought she was overreacting. Mmmmmm, nope
paris martineau@paris.nyc · 2w agoNew: State health officials say parsley and cilantro appear to be linked to surging cyclospora cases in North Carolina The disclosure comes as the FDA says it’s investigating a new outbreak linked to an unidentified source. Unclear if the two are related www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
'We're trying this out of frustration': Marmots star in OnlyFans account as researchers desperately look for ways to raise funds amid US budget cuts www.livescience.com/animals/land...
'We're trying this out of frustration': Marmots star in OnlyFans account as researchers desperately look for ways to raise funds amid US budget cuts
As U.S. federal research budgets continue to be slashed, a team of marmot researchers have turned to unconventional sources of funding.
livescience.com
"A nun who was taken into immigration custody after being arrested while walking to Mass in her habit last month in Texas pleaded Thursday for people to have the chance to be heard before being taken into custody" m.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pss...
Nun detained by ICE while walking to Mass says many are in her situation
YouTube video by Associated Press
m.youtube.com
Trump Administration Wants to Hold World’s First Deep-Sea Mining Lease Sale insideclimatenews.org/news/2307202...
Trump Administration Wants to Hold World’s First Deep-Sea Mining Lease Sale - Inside Climate News
If the sale moves forward, mining activities could begin in federal waters near American Samoa. The proposed site is directly adjacent to a national wildlife refuge.
insideclimatenews.org
I'm on the hunt for published research that will let me explore a key question: what will be the unintended side effects on non-target species of a weaker ESA? How do conservation effects, targeting a specific endangered species, ripple out to the wider ecosystem? Any leads are appreciated!
It is an odd experience to try to rank the beauty of bowerbird nests. Do I like what they like?
@hannahcole04.bsky.social · 2w agoDo humans and birds share an eye for design? 🐦🎨 For my Master's diss, I’m testing if we share aesthetic tastes with bowerbirds. I need 100 responses to finish! Visual, anonymous & under 5 mins. Link: exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 🧪 cc: @scienseed.com #AcademicSky #SciComm
Do humans and birds share an eye for design? 🐦🎨 For my Master's diss, I’m testing if we share aesthetic tastes with bowerbirds. I need 100 responses to finish! Visual, anonymous & under 5 mins. Link: exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 🧪 cc: @scienseed.com #AcademicSky #SciComm
The 2026 western US snow drought was about four times more likely due to climate change www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
The 2026 western US snow drought was about four times more likely due to climate change | PNAS
In the spring of 2026, anomalously low snow conditions in the western United States threatened winter recreation and water supplies. Here, we inves...
pnas.org
Holy shit the media is having enough problems staying solvent and retaining reader trust--can we not?
Hanaa’ Tameez@hanaatameez.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW: At least five media companies are using algorithmic pricing to decide how much news subscribers should pay. If you've been told that your news subscription price was determined by an algorithm using your personal data, please take the survey at the end: www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/this...
Search traffic has declined so much that some publishers are considering opting out of Google entirely www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/sear...
Search traffic has declined so much that some publishers are considering opting out of Google entirely
Back in 2024, Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief of The Verge, coined the term "Google Zero," which he defined as "that moment when Google Search simply stops sending traffic outside of its search engine to...
niemanlab.org
"The Trump administration also plans to overhaul how the US government funds federal research by supporting more individual scientists and the use of AI, rather than universities, according to a White House report released on Tuesday night" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Trump administration says 15 agencies will get $5bn in ‘AI for science’ effort
Administration will also overhaul how US government funds federal research by supporting individual scientists and AI over universities
theguardian.com