What it's like sending emails as a freelance journalist in the summer
Freda Kreier (she/her)
@fredakreier.bsky.social
Freelance science writer based in OR.🇨🇭—>🇺🇸
🧪Big development from the science media world. Springer/Nature has sold SciAm to LabXMedia. The new owners promptly fired many of the employees voting for unionization. www.amediaoperator.com/news/scienti...
LabX Media Group Buys Scientific American From Springer Nature, Seeks Unionization Halt
Canadian publisher LabX Media Group acquired Scientific American from Springer Nature, cut 15 roles and moved to halt a staff unionization bid that began in April.
amediaoperator.com
I’m so sad to share that yesterday was my last day at Scientific American. It was an honor to work alongside my incredible colleagues and to speak with researchers across the sciences. If you’re looking to hire staff or freelance, please consider me and my other laid off coworkers (🧵)
🧪 In my latest script for @scishow.bsky.social, what's up with blue roses? why is science unable to make them? and why do we keep making PURPLE roses and saying they're blue? The silly ✨drama✨ of rose science 🌹
We Have Spent Millions of Dollars on Blue Roses
YouTube video by SciShow
youtube.com
bad bunny has such a chokehold on the bluetooth-speaker-in-nature demographic istg
🧪Sarah Trimmer on LinkedIn has created a Google Drive that helps explain what the new OMB proposal is and what we can do about it www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
OMB Comments for Busy People - Google Drive | Sarah M. Trimmer, MPH
Have you heard? The federal government is systematically dismantling the infrastructure that makes American research possible. Not hypothetically. It is happening right now. Grants are being terminat...
linkedin.com
🧪 Hi! Are you overwhelmed at the idea of Vought's new science funding proposal? Does the idea of political appointees being able to cancel any grant at any time sound...bad...to you? Do you value peer review? Then leave a public comment on the proposal at the link below. You have until ✨JULY 13✨
Regulations.gov
regulations.gov
🧪Powerful reporting on the ongoing ebola outbreak from our colleages at The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
False Ebola claims run wild as Congo outbreak worsens
Distrust and violence flare in the Democratic Republic of Congo as false claims spread that the outbreak — and the disease itself — is a hoax.
washingtonpost.com
So, I woke up with a massive migraine this morning and then Boston got hit by a meteor! www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...
Meteor explodes off Massachusetts coast, causing loud boom, meteorologist confirms
A meteor exploded off the coast of Massachusetts, causing a loud boom to be heard throughout the state Saturday afternoon, according to WBZ-TV Chief Meteorologist Eric Fisher.
cbsnews.com
Vought is trying to destroy American science as we know it. Here's what you can do to stop him: 👉 Visit our action center: zurl.co/Hsflw 👉 Donate to Fuel the Fight for Science: zurl.co/mQlwe LINK IN BIO
Please take a few minutes and file a comment against this terrible new plan - not just for science, but for every funding agency in the US. fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/163...
Stand up for Science
Stand up for Science
fight2win.standupforscience.net
"This isn't me being gay, it's science" is a bar and I'm going to steal it.
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 2mo agooh kay!
lots of reasons I love working at Defector but the latest is that we decided to increase our freelance rates, simply because they’ve been the same for 5 years and it felt like we should be paying more now
wow I can't believe EUROPEAN medieval peasents were eating potatoes before the colombian exchange. and could afford tea. amazing, thanks AI!
The Fake History Hunter@fakehistoryhunter.net · 3mo agoOh wow, amazing, thanks for telling us what medieval people had for lunch Al....
Beautiful storytelling and photography from Lynda Mapes, formerly of the @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social (this is from 2022, but it continues to be relevant today) projects.seattletimes.com/2022/first-f...
First Foods: How Native people are preserving the natural nourishment of the Pacific Northwest
Food sovereignty -- the ability to access traditional foods from salmon to roots berries and shellfish -- is at the core of tribal health, wellness and culture.
projects.seattletimes.com
If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)
Support Alex's Emergency Relocation + Next Steps on Give In May
Alex is leaving the US after his work permit renewal was wrongfully denied by Trump's USCIS.
giveinmay.org
Prehistoric Danish people continued to eat fish and hunt even after the rise of agriculture, study indicates. #Archaeology phys.org/news/2026-05...
Prehistoric Danish people continued to eat fish and hunt even after the rise of agriculture, study indicates
Agriculture reached the coast of southern Denmark around 4000 BCE, but these prehistoric Scandinavians continued to fish and hunt too, according to a study published in PLOS One by Daniel Groß from th...
phys.org
🧪 knowing the best way to help a whale in distress is so much harder than social media gives it credit for! I wrote a bit about this too in my story for Undark: undark.org/2026/04/27/w...
How to Euthanize a Whale
Finding ways to ease the suffering of beached whales has been a challenge. Whale experts may have found an answer.
undark.org
Colin Schultz@colinschultz.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe did a really interesting story back at Hakai about what happens _after_ one of these whale rescue attempts, and why we put so much into them in the first place hakaimagazine.com/news/life-de...
It’s official! @springernature.com refused voluntary recognition and is requiring a vote on June 2. 🙄 An overwhelming majority of staff signed union cards, so forcing a vote disrespects our voices. We’re not fooled, we know a union-busting tactic when we see it—but it won’t work! 👊
The result of AI boosters getting booed at commencement will NOT be them getting a wake-up call about AI skepticism. They will just stop speaking at commencements. But that’s a small win!
Just another day in the little treat economy
🧪 Uterine cancer will kill around 14,400 people in the US this year. People who have failed survey and standard chemotherapy have few options for treatment. Could a breast cancer drug be the solution?
Breast Cancer Drug Is Effective for Treatment-Resistant Uterine Cancer
A targeted chemotherapy drug approved for treatment of breast cancer showed clinical benefit in patients with treatment-resistant uterine cancer.
medicine.yale.edu
Look at ‘em! They’re so great. (via Museums Victoria) collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/1318393
Dr Alex Fitzpatrick@animalarchaeology.com · 3mo agoMy love of astragaloi is well documented (they are, by far, the most aesthetically pleasing bone! they look like tiny race cars!) but c’mon, you can’t just put Haribo-looking ones in front of me and not expect me to chomp on them.
Recent work explores whether a commonly assumed source of data–model disagreement in simulations of stellar interiors is really to blame. aasnova.org/2026/05/06/s... 🔭🧪 @colorado.edu
Simulations of Turbulent Mixing Close One Gap but Open Another
Recent work explores whether a commonly assumed source of data–model disagreement in simulations of stellar interiors is really to blame.
aasnova.org
🧪🐳 I’ve been working on something special! In my latest feature for @undark.org, I dig into the complexities of euthanizing the worlds’ largest animals. Thank you to all the amazing vets who spoke to me for this story!
How to Euthanize a Whale
Finding ways to ease the suffering of beached whales has been a challenge. Whale experts may have found an answer.
undark.org
🧪 🐒 Monkeys aren't native to Florida. That doesn't mean some people don't like having wild vervets living in their backyards. Or near their airports. My latest feature for @sciencenews.bsky.social digs into what happens when people love invasive species. www.sciencenews.org/article/wild...
Wild monkeys invaded Florida. Should people protect them?
A colony of African vervets in Dania Beach raises big questions about how humans can and should manage nonnative species.
sciencenews.org