Earlier this year, California’s Death Valley was overrun by a superbloom. I visited the park in late March. It was incredible to see the desert all covered in purple and yellow flowers – and I wrote a short piece about it for Science News Explores. www.snexplores.org/article/scie...

Scientists Say: Superbloom

These massive wildflower blooms create colorful carpets over desert landscapes during unusually rainy years.

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If you've ever wondered what makes a LLM 'memorize' information, and spit it back out word-for-word, you should read this new piece by @peterha2l.bsky.social!

Peter Hall@peterha2l.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What do a group researchers do with 200k GPU hours from NVIDIA worth around a million dollars? They train a bunch of AI models on fake people from Arizona, of course! Hubble is a new open source model suite appearing at ICLR this month. Read the full story here: www.science.org/content/arti...

Happy to share my first story for @nature.com, looking at an aspect of science that doesn’t get discussed enough: retractions that happen because scientists discover honest mistakes in their work. I spoke with researchers who chose to self-retract about what helped them get through the process.

Nature@nature.com · 5mo ago

Retractions, which have long been associated with misconduct or poor scientific practice, can carry a lot of stigma Some in the research community want that to change go.nature.com/46R3tJF

So excited to share a story I wrote for @snexplores.bsky.social on how some animals make themselves (almost) invisible - and why humans can't do the same! My last piece written as a @aaasmassmedia.bsky.social, and probably the one I had the most fun working on. www.snexplores.org/article/how-...

Is it possible to be invisible?

Fiction is full of characters with the power to vanish. But some animals have real-life ways to become nearly invisible.

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Highly recommend the @aaasmassmedia.bsky.social program for any scientists who want a behind-the-scenes look at how science journalism works!

AAAS Mass Media Fellowship@aaasmassmedia.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🧑‍🔬 @sofiavritzer.bsky.social’s summer was packed with fascinating stories at @sciencenews.bsky.social thanks to the support of the Heising-Simons Foundation. Take a look at the stories here: www.aaas.org/programs/mas... #MassMediaFellowship #SciComm

So excited to share a comic I wrote out on @snexplores.bsky.social! Flamingos make underwater whirlpools with their heads and feet to catch shrimp 🦩🌀 Written during my @aaasmassmedia.bsky.social this summer: www.snexplores.org/article/flam.... Beautiful illustrations by the amazing JoAnna Wendel!

Flamingos hunt by creating their own underwater tornadoes

Chilean flamingos use their beaks and feet to create underwater whirlpools that suck in prey.

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@natastron.nature.com's beautiful September cover shows the first ever image of a dying start that exploded twice on it's way to become a type 1a supernova. I got to write about this really cool discovery this summer for @sciencenews.bsky.social. www.sciencenews.org/article/supe...

In a first, an image shows a dying star exploded twice to become a supernova

The image offers the first evidence for a previously unconfirmed origin story of type 1a supernovas.

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Daniel Pomarède@pomarede.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Beautiful new cover at Nature Astronomy's Concentric shells of highly ionized calcium and sulfur in the ejecta of a type Ia supernova provide evidence of the double-detonation scenario for exploding sub-Chandrasekhar-mass white dwarfs. 🧪🔭 www.nature.com/natastron/vo... @natastron.nature.com

This summer, I had the incredible opportunity to spend 10 weeks as a Mass Media Fellow with @aaas.org at @sciencenews.bsky.social. I wrote nine articles covering topics like astronomy, paleontology, neuroscience, human health and policy. Here are a few of the highlights:

So excited to be one of the 2025 AAAS #MassMediaFellows! I can’t wait to spend my summer writing about cool science at @scinews.bsky.social. Very grateful to @aaas.org and the @heisingsimonsfdn.bsky.social for this opportunity!

AAAS Mass Media Fellowship@aaasmassmedia.bsky.social · last yr.

This news is hot off the press! We are so excited to present the 2025 #MassMediaFellows! These 17 scientists will spend their summer writing, reporting, and working on their #SciComm skills in news outlets across the country! Learn more about the #MMF50th class here: www.aaas.org/news/aaas-ma...