I’ve been on several long field assignments with scientists searching for dinosaur footprints in Alaska. They all loved Jurassic park. Movies like it and actors like Sam Neill show just how cool science, curiosity and deepening knowledge can be. www.hcn.org/articles/sci...

An Alaska expedition uncovers new details about dinosaurs of the Far North - High Country News

A trio of scientists spent weeks on the Yukon River to learn more about the habitat and landscape where ancient dinosaurs once roamed.

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Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 3w ago

My privilege to share some lovely stories from the science community about what Sam Neill's timeless performance as Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park meant to them—and why it will continue to inspire kids to chase their own discoveries for years to come.

Norway pay their female international players the same amount as their male players and have done since 2017.

Yeah, no. The first amendment is pretty explicit about freedom of the press. And if we back down, then the American people are not safe from their government. As always, you’re very welcome for the essential public service we all provide to you daily.

Steve Schmidt@thewarningses.bsky.social · 3w ago

The First Amendment was never written to protect journalists. It was written to protect the American people from government. steveschmidt.substack.com/p/the-govern...

BREAKING NEWS from Alaska. Although it’s not clear is this will benefit our tourism economy or if this could be a detriment to an already high rate of outmigration.

It’s bleak out here in journalism land… the place where editors don’t hear your tummy grumbling or understand why it’s doing that 😑

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4w ago

I've never said "X" in real life. As a writer, I only use it to say "X, the platform formerly known as Twitter" because I get paid per word and this earns me enough money for an appetizer

This is untenable. Something has got to give.

Half of Americans struggle to afford groceries and gas, exclusive poll finds

About 57% of polled Americans also believe economy is worsening in grim portrait of cost of living crisis, according to Harris survey for the Guardian

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Here's the investigative journalism I'm really into this week.

APM Reports@apmreports.org · 4w ago

The Utah state government has taken a firmer stance in recent years, following our investigative podcast Sent Away, a reporting partnership with @sltrib.com and @kuer.org. Listen: sentaway.org

I was, and remain, a female athlete. No one ever asked or demanded to see my vagina just so i could kick a ball, run, jump, swim, ski. Is this really what we are willing to do to our young girls and women? And for what? Most people who participate in sports will never rise to the elite level.

Nancy Armour@nrarmour.bsky.social · last mo.

The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant

This is the story I am following closely up here in Alaska right now.

Eric Stone@eriwinsto.bsky.social · last mo.

If you were busy this weekend, here's what you missed in meetings of the #akleg conference committee working out an Alaska LNG tax bill. Also notable: on Sunday, Dunleavy said he would veto any bill that expanded corporate income taxes to pass-through entities. alaskapublic.org/news/politic...

What makes a great editor? Here's my random thought on this: Last week, at @ire.org's annual conference, my @propublica.org editor supplied me with bananas and left me a protein bar. I felt both understood and appreciated. Journalism is rough. Snacks are necessary. Some editors just know.

The stories about blue paint this week remind me of the time I reported on a contractor’s fraudulent use of government funds and it resulted in a first-of-its-kind reimbursement to FEMA: www.kyuk.org/public-safet...

Company to refund FEMA for botched Yup'ik and Iñupiaq translations

A translation service company that contracted with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to offer disaster relief information to Alaska Natives will reimburse the federal agency for work that has be...

kyuk.org

Journalism is a public service. Here’s proof: this year, AK lawmakers could more than tripled investment in public school infrastructure. Now it’s up to the Governor. This wouldn’t have happened without 2 yrs reporting on a crisis inside public schools statewide. www.propublica.org/article/alas...

Alaska’s Deteriorating Schools Could Receive More Than $148 Million for Repairs. It’s a Fraction of What They Need.

Following reporting by KYUK, ProPublica and NPR, lawmakers tripled the funding the state would allocate toward school construction and maintenance. The budget increase would still only cover about 13%...

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MAJOR IMPACT: Following reporting by KYUK, ProPublica and NPR, Alaska lawmakers tripled the funding the state would allocate toward school construction and maintenance. @emilyschwing.bsky.social

Alaska’s Deteriorating Schools Could Receive More Than $148 Million for Repairs. It’s a Fraction of What They Need.

Following reporting by KYUK, ProPublica and NPR, lawmakers tripled the funding the state would allocate toward school construction and maintenance. The budget increase would still only cover about 13%...

propublica.org

This. This. This.

🔫Scott Martin🛼@youcaughtscott.com · 6mo ago

Journalism as an industry will never recover from this because the managers, investors and power brokers that control it do not want it to recover. Reporters want to do good work but good work requires time, moeny, trust and backing to put it out. All of these are antithetical to making profit.

Gross on so many levels. Journalists are human beings who do very hard work for a greater good.

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 6mo ago

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

We also need a healthier culture and community. The othering, makes this a lonely business. And it’s generally unsustainable. Surviving journalism does not equal success and workaholism shouldn’t be a requirement.

Stephen Thompson@idislikestephen.bsky.social · 6mo ago

It's not, though. To do their best work, amazing reporters need not only stuff like health insurance, but also editors, fact-checkers, IT support, equipment, security and training in hostile environments, lawyers, brilliant colleagues of every stripe... losing that infrastructure is devastating.

This. Also, incisive reporters need legal protection from powerful forces which can sue them out of existence, even if their reporting is accurate.

Stephen Thompson@idislikestephen.bsky.social · 6mo ago

It's not, though. To do their best work, amazing reporters need not only stuff like health insurance, but also editors, fact-checkers, IT support, equipment, security and training in hostile environments, lawyers, brilliant colleagues of every stripe... losing that infrastructure is devastating.

I also have lots of feelings about working in journalism right now, and the bad certainly out number the good. For me, loneliness is also one of them.

Jessica McKenzie@jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 6mo ago

i have lots of feelings about working in journalism rn but feeling alone is not one of them, so that's good!

NEW: It’s been over a decade since Alaska significantly increased its funding for public education. Two school districts are now suing the state for what they say is a long-running failure to give students a “sound basic education.” By @emilyschwing.bsky.social

Two School Districts Sue, Claiming Alaska Is Failing Its Constitutional Obligation to Fund Public Education

The lawsuit points to the effects of the state’s underfunding, including low proficiency-test scores and dangerous building conditions.

propublica.org

Very happy to share our latest work in efforts to help explain the importance of the #Arctic, especially on the North Pacific side: ndupress.ndu.edu/Media/News/N...

Commission again sets Pacific halibut harvest at rock-bottom levels amid U.S.-Canada tensions, writes @halbernton.bsky.social for the Northern Journal, @adn.com and @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social in this article republished by the @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/2026/01/29/c...

Commission again sets Pacific halibut harvest at rock-bottom levels amid U.S.-Canada tensions | Alaska Beacon

The halibut fishery has been in a deep, prolonged downturn that has buffeted sport, commercial and subsistence fishers in Alaska, British Columbia, Oregon, Washington and Northern California.

alaskabeacon.com

The state agency that protects Alaska’s state-owned oil and gas from waste confirmed that a North Slope company deliberately burned off natural gas for almost four months because reinjecting it was inconvenient. via @alaskabeacon.com

State investigation confirms oil company wasted four months of natural gas on North Slope

The state typically issues exemptions only in cases of emergency, or when a company is drilling test wells and capturing gas isn’t feasible.

adn.com

Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history. “There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.” My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...

ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest

Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.

pressherald.com

Finally got around to a bit of research I'd been meaning to explore, and: There is no documented instance of an ICE officer being identified and assaulted while off duty because he wasn't masked. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...

ICE’s excuse for wearing masks has never actually manifested

There have been incidents of harassment and threats. But there are no apparent incidents in which identified ICE officers have been assaulted off-duty.

pbump.net

I've been sent video from the end of the ICE raid at the Zipps on 32nd and Shea. It shows protesters -- on the sidewalk, impeding no one -- getting drive-by maced by an ICE agent from a truck as it rolls away down the road. Hard to see how such tactics are justifiable.

My report from Minneapolis, about the things you'll never see. newrepublic.com/article/2057...

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

I grew up with Alex Pretti

The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

theverge.com

👀 Judge Schlitz, the chief federal judge in Minnesota, has ordered the head of ICE, Todd Lyons, to appeal personally in court Friday and threatened him with contempt for the agency’s repeated violation of court orders. “The court’s patience is at an end.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

‘Our government is out of control,’ Alaska legislator says, calling for end to state aid for ICE, write @corinne-smith.bsky.social and @alaska.bsky.social for the @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/2026/01/26/o...

‘Our government is out of control,’ Alaska legislator says, calling for end to state aid for ICE | Alaska Beacon

Chairs of state military committee ask questions about unconfirmed deployment of U.S. soldiers from Anchorage to Minnesota.

alaskabeacon.com

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune