We have a family of barred owls living in our yard. We see and hear them every day. I drew one of the young ones! Colored pencil on paper. substack.com/@kathrynhuli...
Kathryn Hulick
@kathrynhulick.substack.com
Science journalist and author of THE UFO FILES (Quarto, 2025). I talk about AI, fascinating research, and walks in the woods. Anything that makes me say “wow!” She/her
Senior Research Scientist Linda Charmaraman, Ph.D. is featured in a @snexplores.bsky.social article by @kathrynhulick.substack.com on a new study showing that more than half of US teens use AI-based chatbots to complete their homework. Read here: www.snexplores.org/article/teen... #edusky #edtech
“The best way that AI can be useful in research is to explore a thousand dead ends just to find this every-once-in-a-while connection that humans had missed,” Thomas Bloom told me. But there are risks to using AI for math. Read more in @sciencenews.bsky.social 🧪 www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-g...
An AI math breakthrough sparks calls for new guardrails
The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to everyone.
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Did you know that the world's rarest wolf lives only in North Carolina? I wrote about this species and a wildlife crossing being built to help protect it for Sierra Magazine 🧪 www.sierraclub.org/sierra/new-r...
New Road Crossings Help Save World’s Rarest Wolf
Design work is underway on the project in North Carolina’s Alligator River Wildlife Refuge
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Follow @reckoningscience.org for insightful stories about science by @naomioreskes.bsky.social, @kaurov.org & colleagues #HPS 🧪 #STS
Naomi Oreskes@naomioreskes.bsky.social · 4mo agoI only have seven followers on Reckoning Science. I am reckoning most of you don't realize that is me (and my great research associate, @kaurov.org So please follow us! bsky.app/profile/reck...
Happy Star Wars day! Throwback to this radio interview I did about alien life and why we wonder so much about what’s out there (in a galaxy long ago and far away, perhaps?) open.substack.com/pub/kathrynh...
Why do we wonder about life beyond Earth?
I was on the radio this morning!
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My challenge for you today: go outside and notice something amazing. Share a picture or description. 🍃 🌼 🦎 open.substack.com/pub/kathrynh...
Ferns, flowers, and whorls
I’ve been posting a lot of science and tech news lately.
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“Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant,” reads OpenAI's coding agent instructions. www.wired.com/story/openai...
OpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins
“Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant,” reads OpenAI's coding agent instructions.
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Can AI really reason like a doctor? Read my new story for Science News 🧪 www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-h...
Can AI help doctors avoid missed diagnoses? A new study suggests yes
AI may help doctors avoid missed diagnoses, but it still needs real-world testing and human oversight before it can guide patient care.
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What makes you say “Wow”? That’s where you start your science storytelling. And that’s just one tip I shared in a talk last week about science communication, hosted by APS. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_8g...
Public Engagement Community Hour with Kathryn Hulick, April 2026
YouTube video by American Physical Society
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Hey all! I'm doing a little segment with @nhpr.org called "Cosmically Curious." You'll hear from me or one of my awesome astronomy colleagues in New Hampshire every week. www.nhpr.org/show/cosmica... 🎢🔭
Cosmically Curious
NHPR is proud to announce the launch of Cosmically Curious, a new space-focused segment hosted by Patrick McNameeKing. It's all about celebrating the night sky with a healthy dose of joy, curiosity an...
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Are you a scientist or academic? Join me next week at the APS Public Engagement Community Hour. I’m a children's book author & journalist. I'll be sharing how to make your science communication spark & sizzle! 🧪 🗓 April 16 ⏰ 12-1:30 p.m. ET Register for free: apsphysics.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
It’s my birthday today and I get the gift of breathtaking images of Earth setting and an eclipse seen from the dark side of the moon! 🌖 Thank you NASA and the Artemis II crew. 🧪 open.substack.com/pub/kathrynh...
Earthset and an eclipse from the moon
Wow!
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I wrote about Moltbook and the weird world of AI agent teams for Science News. AI agents often don't work well together, it turns out, but you can wrangle them if you know what you're doing. 🧪 open.substack.com/pub/kathrynh...
The weird world of AI agent teams
Behind the scenes at a bot-run social network, company, and science lab
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How long have you been scrolling just now? If you don’t know, that could be a problem… learn about the science of brain rot in my new story for teens 🧪: www.snexplores.org/article/brai...
Got brain rot?
Excessive scrolling through social media or viral videos can mess with your mental health — and possibly alter your brain’s development, studies show.
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Did you know that trapdoor spiders weave secret lairs? Or that mangrove trees build new land? See what I drew and learned on a trip to the rainforest of Costa Rica. 🇨🇷 open.substack.com/pub/kathrynh...
Art and science in Costa Rica
5 interesting nature facts and a look at my drawings
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I created an activity to teach science vocab! 🔬📚 Students pick a tricky science word from my book THE UFO FILES, dig into its meaning, then create a short video, reel, or poster to teach it. patriciamnewman.com?p=13207 #STEMed #LitLinks #EduSky @patricianewman.bsky.social
Today, I volunteered as a virtual visiting author for #WorldReadAloudDay at six classrooms around the USA. I read from my book THE UFO FILES and talked about becoming an author. But first, I test your wits with a space quiz. Ready? Let's go! 👽 open.substack.com/pub/kathrynh...
Happy World Read Aloud Day!
Try a space quiz and listen to me read from The UFO Files!
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I both love and hate this robot hand... the nerd in me thinks it's such a cool idea for a hand to detach and wander around, using its fingers like tentacles. But it also totally creeps me out! Anyone else? #robotics 🧪 www.sciencenews.org/article/deta...
This detached hand robot has a thing for skittering on its fingertips
The robot can bend, grasp and carry in ways humans can’t, which could help it navigate spaces too confined for human arms.
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This is such a cool story about the brain science of hypnotism! www.snexplores.org/article/hypn... 🧪
Hypnosis isn’t magic. It’s the brain at work
While we still don’t know much about how hypnosis works, it appears to help some people conquer pain, anxiety and other problems.
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Merry T-reX-mas! 🦖 As a gift, I'm sharing an excerpt from my book, Welcome to the Future, about whether it might ever be possible to have a pet dinosaur... (because it worked out so well in Jurassic Park, right?) 🦕 Read the book excerpt: kathrynhulick.substack.com/p/merry-t-re...
Merry T-ReX-mas!
Santa, what big teeth you have...
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Why did I only just find out that that there are water striders that live IN (ON!!) THE OPEN OCEAN? 🧪 OCEAN STRIDERS!!
Why did only one genus of insects, Halobates, take to the high seas?
Oceans cover over 70% of the earth’s surface and house a dizzying array of organisms, including five species of the peppercorn-sized ocean-skater Halobates, which live exclusively at the ocean surface...
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AI tools like DeepLabCut and SuperAnimal are changing how scientists study movement, helping them understand how brain activity drives behavior. Read more: bit.ly/4qnX7JF @trackingactions.bsky.social @deeplabcut.bsky.social
How AI Is Changing Neuroscience Discovery
AI is altering how scientists study the brain
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So... recently I got to speak on a panel at MIT! The conversation centered on storytelling, ethics, and humanity in AI development. Here are the main points I made: kathrynhulick.substack.com/p/i-spoke-ab...
I spoke about AI at an MIT conference
Here's one of the key points I made about young people and AI: The real world and real human voices matter. All AI should be in service to what real people care about learning, expressing, and experie...
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This is a cool computer science story about a new method to find the shortest path between two points. “This thing might as well have been discovered 50 years ago, but it wasn’t” - Mikkel Thorup 🧪 www.quantamagazine.org/new-method-i...
New Method Is the Fastest Way To Find the Best Routes | Quanta Magazine
A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the classic algorithm taught in textbooks.
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Appreciate Quanta for shining a light on our joint work with Simon Gsell, Sham Tlili (@shamtlili.bsky.social), and Matthias Merkel (@merkellab.bsky.social).
Quanta Magazine@quantamagazine.org · 11mo agoBiophysicists are realizing that there is an undervalued element at play in early development: Aside from genes, mechanical forces also steer the growth of embryos. @annademming.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/genes-have-h...
15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵
My latest story in Science News. 🧪 “Even when [side effects] can be rare, when they happen to you, it means all the world,” says public health researcher John Ayers.
Science News@sciencenews.bsky.social · 12mo agoA new AI tool could link people experiencing harmful side effects of unregulated products to public health workers who can provide help. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-health-side-effects-social-media
This is starting in 15 minutes! Listen to me and several other experts tell stories about inventions.
Kathryn Hulick@kathrynhulick.substack.com · last yr."Inventions almost always inspire curiosity since they – by their nature – have never existed before." I'm excited to be on this upcoming panel discussing invention and innovation, hosted by @ecornellonline.bsky.social September 30, 1pm ET, free to attend 🧪 ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/ove...