Josie Glausiusz
@josiegz.bsky.social
Science journalist writing for Nature, Scientific American, National Geographic, Guardian Books, BBC Future, Washington Post Opinions, Prospect Magazine. Passionate reader. #PoetryIsMedicine #ClimateCrisis She/Her
Which vaccines have had the biggest impact on preventing deaths and keeping people healthy? Researchers compared 14 vaccine programmes across 117 countries, and found that HPV and measles vaccine programmes came out on top in terms of deaths and disease prevented. Read more: bit.ly/4xd1Al4
More space debris is raining down on Earth than ever before — one effect of the frenetic race among governments and companies like SpaceX to reign over the skies. Last year, the U.S. Space Force issued alerts for nearly 820 objects entering the Earth’s atmosphere. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/w...
A Ton of Space Junk Tumbles Unpredictably to Earth Every Week
Flaming chunks of metal crash into homes, farms and parking lots. Who’s to blame? And who pays for the damage?
nytimes.com
Under new proposals, British couples could legally marry almost anywhere - from a castle, to a hot-air balloon or a beach - but not on a rollercoaster because it's not "serious" or "dignified". www.bbc.com/news/article...
From gardens to riversides: experts back wedding reforms
Wedding planners and celebrants say marriage law reforms could offer couples more choice.
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The idea that bc I’m of Palestinian, Arab descent and therefore reduced to some box of an existence with a limited humanity, isn’t just offensive, it’s ignorant at its core. I vehemently detest that kind of “identity” nonsense, reject it, completely. It’s ludicrous and insulting, as well.
Liechtenstein’s archaic abortion laws need to be modernised. Women have to travel outside the Alpine micro-state for abortion and pay steep fees. 58-year-old hereditary Prince Alois says he will veto any changes. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Liechtenstein’s archaic abortion laws need to be modernised. But a prince is standing in the way | Gabriella Alvarez-Hummel
Substantial hurdles are faced by women who have to travel abroad to access abortion, but Hereditary Prince Alois says he will veto any changes, says writer and campaigner from Liechtenstein Gabriella ...
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“If you ask women about ‘period poops’ they’ll tell you they’re having menstrual cramps and those GI cramps at the same time,” said Taylor Judkins, a nutrition researcher at the University of Florida who has spent more than a decade studying the phenomenon. www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
The monthly scourge of ‘period poop’ is real. Here’s why your gut acts up
Menstrual and digestive discomfort often coincide, and a researcher who has been looking in to it for a decade tells us what she learned
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Small point but this is England and Wales only - believe the only thing currently preventing you getting married on a rollercoaster in Scotland is the lack of any rollercoasters worthy of the occasion
'rare books experts are increasingly worried that these artefacts may be under threat of destruction by generative AI companies seeking to feed their ravenous technology with new texts.' First they came for your monograph, then for rare books. Where next: wholesale destruction of archives?
‘More than just objects’: Australian booksellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI
Secondhand booksellers believe they may have been caught up in the AI supply chain that sees old books scanned then destroyed
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Under new proposals, British couples could legally marry almost anywhere - from a castle, to a hot-air balloon or a beach - but not on a rollercoaster because it's not "serious" or "dignified". www.bbc.com/news/article...
From gardens to riversides: experts back wedding reforms
Wedding planners and celebrants say marriage law reforms could offer couples more choice.
bbc.com
You say, “put your jumper on”. They say, “I’m not cold”. Do kids really not feel the cold like adults do? Or are they just expressing their independence? And when should you insist? Great article by Joshua Pate, on why kids refuse to wear jumpers theconversation.com/kids-do-feel...
Kids do feel the cold. So why won’t they wear a jumper?
When you say ‘but aren’t you cold?’ what are you really asking? Kids will answer how they feel now; parents are planning ahead.
theconversation.com
“The city [London] is not built for heat,” said Josie Ashdown, a lead manager at the homelessness charity Thames Reach. “You can feel that the concrete makes it hotter here than probably anywhere else in the country at points, and there’s hardly any tree cover.” www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
‘The city isn’t built for heat’: how extreme weather puts London’s rough sleepers at risk
As heatwaves make the capital increasingly dangerous, outreach workers warn that vulnerable people face barriers to finding water and cool spaces
theguardian.com
Ernst Haeckel was a biologist, evolutionist, artist, philosopher and physician. He was also a racist who ranked “the diverse types of mankind” according to their relative “value”. My review @natureportfolio.nature.com of The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A fever dream of jellies and slugs
A celebration of Ernst Haeckel’s sketches of life forms, from microscopic to majestic.
nature.com
PODCAST: Inside Meta’s war on Palestinian content A new report by @7amleh.bsky.social examined over 3,500 cases of digital censorship relating to Palestine. Nadim Nashif explains what they discovered. www.972mag.com/podcast-meta...
PODCAST: Inside Meta’s war on Palestinian content
A new report by 7amleh examined over 3,500 cases of digital censorship relating to Palestine. Nadim Nashif explains what they discovered.
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Book review 📚 A celebration of Ernst Haeckel’s sketches of life forms, from microscopic to majestic go.nature.com/3RB5Njh
A fever dream of jellies and slugs
A celebration of Ernst Haeckel’s sketches of life forms, from microscopic to majestic.
go.nature.com
Salman Rushdie also said he was tired of being everyone’s “free speech Barbie”, adding: “It’s a subject I’m anxious to change.” “I don’t feel symbolic … I feel actual. I feel like I’m a working writer trying to make his work,” he said. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
Man who stabbed Salman Rushdie in 2022 convicted of federal terrorism charges
Jury finds Hadi Matar, who is already serving a 25-year New York state prison sentence, guilty of all charges against him
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No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.
news.com.au
The child Zaid Nawfal was killed in an airstrike that targeted a home this morning in the Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip. Zaid was his mother's only and last child, born to her during the war, after the IDF also killed her three other sons, Amin, Hamza, and Ahmed, at the start of the war.
This is some incredible in-the-room reporting from @elitan.bsky.social and Maureen Farrell on how Meta got its vast, six-square-mile data center cooking in Louisiana www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...
How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal (Gift Article)
A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles.
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Bill Johns, 70, now has 445 books for sale on Amazon. The books are roughly organized by topic: sports, eccentric geniuses, famous bridges, alcohol, the Chesapeake Bay. They're all written by AI. "I Got Slopped," by @kashhill.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...
I Got Slopped
Someone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel?
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Ernst Haeckel was a biologist, evolutionist, artist, philosopher and physician. He was also a racist who ranked “the diverse types of mankind” according to their relative “value”. My review @natureportfolio.nature.com of The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A fever dream of jellies and slugs
A celebration of Ernst Haeckel’s sketches of life forms, from microscopic to majestic.
nature.com
Haeckel, was a biologist, evolutionist, artist, philosopher, and physician. He was known, among other things, for his defense of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution during a lecture in 1863 in Stettin (now Szczecin, Poland). His ideas ranged from eccentric to eugenic. By @josiegz.bsky.social
A fever dream of jellies and slugs
A celebration of Ernst Haeckel’s sketches of life forms, from microscopic to majestic.
go.nature.com
This is terrifying. Huge wildfires devastating parts of France and Spain, and still much of the UK press and political establishment is arguing that we need to ditch Net Zero. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
France evacuates Cap Ferret peninsula as Spain battles to prevent wildfires merging near Madrid – Europe live
Evacuees have been told to leave using hundreds of mobilised boats or the only road linking the area with the mainland
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Here's my Year in Books 2025, with translated books written originally in Catalan, Yiddish, Hungarian, Italian, German: medium.com/@josieglz/my...
My Year in Books 2025: Bibliophilia, in Memory of Sophie Kinsella
On December 10, 2025, the novelist Sophie Kinsella, who wrote books “full of wit, resilience and warmth,” died at the age of 55 from…
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The New York Times found hundreds of A.I.-generated doctors, healers and wellness influencers on social media touting the health benefits of supplements to American consumers. Many of these hyperrealistic looking ads promise medical miracle. www.nytimes.com/video/techno...
Video: The Fake Influencers Selling Wellness on Your Feed
The New York Times found hundreds of A.I.-generated doctors, healers and wellness influencers on social media touting the health benefits of supplements to American consumers. Many of these hyperreali...
nytimes.com
Amfar surveyed 166 organisations across 46 countries that had been due to receive Pepfar funding in 2025. More than half of the respondents had at least one terminated award, resulting in more than 1,700 closed clinics, drop-in centres or other sites. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Trump’s HIV funding cuts having ‘severe and devastating’ impact around the world
The President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief has saved 26m lives globally, but slashing of funds and dismantling of USAID have forced clinics to shut in dozens of countries
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You say, “put your jumper on”. They say, “I’m not cold”. Do kids really not feel the cold like adults do? Or are they just expressing their independence? And when should you insist? Great article by Joshua Pate, on why kids refuse to wear jumpers theconversation.com/kids-do-feel...
Kids do feel the cold. So why won’t they wear a jumper?
When you say ‘but aren’t you cold?’ what are you really asking? Kids will answer how they feel now; parents are planning ahead.
theconversation.com
"Perhaps the worst blow to food safety science was the administration’s elimination of the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods, a group of experts whose recommendations have informed many major food safety programs." gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/o...
“The Israeli military is quietly but quickly building a giant earthen barrier separating the over 50% of the Gaza Strip it controls from the rest of the territory…”
Israel is building a miles-long earthen barrier inside Gaza, entrenching its division
The Israeli military is rapidly constructing a large earthen barrier in the Gaza Strip, further entrenching the division of the tiny Palestinian enclave.
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8. Of all the many interdimensional portals to be found in the British countryside, the 'Green-Lane-As-Tunnel-To-Paradise' type of interdimensional portal is definitely one of my favourites.
