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In @quantamagazine.bsky.social today! a nice highlight of our work on chloroplast dynamics and packing inside plant cells. Thanks @maxlevy.bsky.social :)

Nico Schramma@nicoschramma.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Our work on chloroplast packing was featured by @quantamagazine.bsky.social in @maxlevy.bsky.social's article. It was a fun colab with @mazi1.bsky.social and Eric Weeks during my PhD that led to this work. Article: www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-m... Paper in @pnas.org: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Our work on chloroplast packing was featured by @quantamagazine.bsky.social in @maxlevy.bsky.social's article. It was a fun colab with @mazi1.bsky.social and Eric Weeks during my PhD that led to this work. Article: www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-m... Paper in @pnas.org: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

The Hidden Mathematical Dance Inside Plant Cells | Quanta Magazine

The sunlight-collecting organelles known as chloroplasts solve a packing problem: how to optimize photosynthesis without sustaining damage from dangerously intense rays.

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Chloroplasts move. 🌱 “Light is the best friend and worst enemy of chloroplasts,” biophysicist Mazi Jalaal told me. “They need it for photosynthesis. But the moment the light intensity goes too high, they have to run away from it.” @quantamagazine.bsky.social

Journey with writer @maxlevy.bsky.social and a team of researchers through the Arctic tundra as they sample some of Earth’s rarest and most restricted fungal species — underground wisps that govern life aboveground. www.quantamagazine.org/an-arctic-ro...

An Arctic Road Trip Brings Vital Underground Networks into View | Quanta Magazine

A vast meshwork of soil-bound fungi governs life aboveground. In Alaska, and at field sites around the world, researchers are racing to understand exactly how, with critical stores of carbon at stake.

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"There’s a reason we describe artists who operate outside of the mainstream as “underground.” We’re surface dwellers biased toward the aboveground world. Like underground artists, mycorrhizal fungi steadily influence your world." - @maxlevy.bsky.social www.quantamagazine.org/an-arctic-ro...

An Arctic Road Trip Brings Vital Underground Networks into View | Quanta Magazine

A vast meshwork of soil-bound fungi governs life aboveground. In Alaska, and at field sites around the world, researchers are racing to understand exactly how, with critical stores of carbon at stake.

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On Alaska’s North Slope, SPUN’s team recoded 253 ectomycorrhizal fungal species not previously documented, revealing an incredible biodiversity under the seemingly barren landscape. Thank you @maxlevy.bsky.social & @quantamagazine.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/u5D9ciX #mycorrhizalfungi #fungi #alaska

Excited to finally share this story Last year with support from @pulitzercenter.org, I went to the Arctic to follow scientists yanking soil on a journey down Alaska's tundra. Looking for what? Undiscovered species of fungi that form unique partnerships with plants. @quantamagazine.bsky.social

And now: It's been nominated for an ASME for Best News and Information Design! 💫 Don't sleep on visiting this jewel box of a special issue with design by @markabelan.bsky.social and art director Samuel Velasco!

Hannah Waters@hanner.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Hii! Last week Quanta published a project I've been working on all year — a special issue about climate science, or what research into climate change is revealing about how our planet works www.quantamagazine.org/how-we-came-...

Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...

Sick fourth-grader among 4 Columbia Heights students held by ICE

Columbia Heights Public Schools says four students remain detained by ICE after Liam’s return, including 10-year-old Elizabeth, who has fallen ill.

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It's been quite a year for Quanta biology! In this year-end post I highlighted some favorite stories by @yaseminsaplakoglu.bsky.social @theuniverse.bsky.social @peterbrannen.bsky.social @mollyherring.bsky.social and Ariel Bleicher - and I want to share more of our great work from the year below!

Quanta Magazine@quantamagazine.org · 8mo ago

Read about this year’s biggest moments in biology.

Here's why yesterday's @nytimes.com article on rusting rivers misses the boat. For Nat Geo earlier this fall, I reported on how thawing permafrost is exposing bedrock, releasing sulfuric acid and oxidizing iron into a toxic cocktail remarkably similar to acid rock drainage.

Why are Alaska’s rivers turning bright orange? Scientists have a theory.

The dramatic shift is a warning sign—and scientists say the changes that aren't yet visible to the naked eye are just as troubling.

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SAPIENS was my dream job, but it didn't pay enough. I worked nights/weekends as a Lecturer & freelance writer so that I could afford to work full time days at SAPIENS. On my last day, I'm in tears reviewing the 60 some stories I developed as editor. Every story was an adventure. A sample below...

Bioelectricity is a potent lever for controlling health. What would it look like to treat the body electrically, rather than chemically? My latest for DDN, featuring scientists who study vagus nerves. www.drugdiscoverynews.com/a-more-elect...

A more electric language for biology

Bioelectricity is a potent lever for controlling health. What would it look like to treat the body electrically, rather than chemically?

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Congratulations @maxlevy.bsky.social for winning the Gold award in the Magazine category of the International @aaas.org Kavli Science Journalism Awards! 🎉 Max was a #MassMediaFellow at @wired.com in 2020, sponsored by the @apsphysics.bsky.social. Check out the award winning piece: bit.ly/3Y9qrGW

The Hidden World of Electrostatic Ecology | Quanta Magazine

Invisibly to us, insects and other tiny creatures use static electricity to travel, avoid predators, collect pollen and more. New experiments explore how evolution may have influenced this phenomenon.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science@aaas.org · 9mo ago

Congratulations to the 2025 winners of the international AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards! Read the full list of this year's winners – including journalists from Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United Kingdom. bit.ly/4oCwZtq

So freaking proud of @maxlevy.bsky.social for his AAAS Kavli Gold 🏆 award for his feature about electrostatic ecology — how small creatures interact with electrostatic forces. Quanta's first Kavli Gold! Thanks to the whole team! www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-w...

The Hidden World of Electrostatic Ecology | Quanta Magazine

Invisibly to us, insects and other tiny creatures use static electricity to travel, avoid predators, collect pollen and more. New experiments explore how evolution may have influenced this phenomenon.

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A million billion trillion thanks to @hanner.bsky.social for editing and truly helping craft this piece with me from the ground up. We published this in 2024 and it remains one of my personal favorites 💗

Quanta Magazine@quantamagazine.org · 9mo ago

Quanta contributing writer @maxlevy.bsky.social has received a Kavli Gold Award from @aaas.org and @kavlifoundation.org for “The Hidden World of Electrostatic Ecology,” a detailed account of how small organisms use static electricity to their advantage. www.quantamagazine.org/quantanews/q...

Quanta contributing writer @maxlevy.bsky.social has received a Kavli Gold Award from @aaas.org and @kavlifoundation.org for “The Hidden World of Electrostatic Ecology,” a detailed account of how small organisms use static electricity to their advantage. www.quantamagazine.org/quantanews/q...

Quanta Contributor Max G. Levy Wins AAAS Kavli Gold Award for Science Journalism | Quanta Magazine

Judges from the American Association for the Advancement of Science and The Kavli Foundation recognized Quanta Magazine contributing writer Max G. Levy with a Gold Award in the Magazine category for “...

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Happy pub day to this year’s edition of Best American Science & Nature Writing, out now from @marinerbooks.bsky.social. Thanks to editors extraordinaire Susan Orlean and @jaimealyse.bsky.social for including my @smithsonianmag.bsky.social feature on the art and science of wildlife tracking.

And to submit work to be considered for next year's anthology, go to jaimegreen.net/basn

Wrote a bit about this year's edition of The Best American Science and Nature Writing - and posted the Notables jaimealyse.beehiiv.com/p/basnw25

It's pub day!! The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2025 is out. I'm thrilled to appear with @sequencermag.bsky.social alongside many talented writers whose work I revere. Including the pieces in this anthology Get a copy from an indie store to support the series bookshop.org/a/114150/978...

It's pub day for The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025, and the whole Best American series. I'm so proud of this book and all the brilliant, beautiful writing @susanorlean.bsky.social selected for it. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025

Check out The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025 - <p>&#8220;The best science and nature writing&#8212;which these stories represent&#8212;reminds us of the wide world and our connection to...

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🧪Hello friends! I'm working on a piece about putting together the best tenure/promotion package, and I'd love to hear from STEM folks who have recently done this or have experience evaluating these types of proposals. Please RT for reach, and feel free to reach out with any Qs!

Today on the site we have three new pieces all about wolves, led by an essay from @maxlevy.bsky.social that weaves together two notable books. www.sequencermag.com/what-we-lear...

What we learn in the footsteps of wolves

Up close and personal with nature's notoriously elusive carnivore.

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Next, an interview with Adam Weymouth, author of Lone Wolf "It was quite clearly a love story. If it were about two people, it would be two people that defied odds and walked across the continent and somehow found each other in thousands of square miles" www.sequencermag.com/the-eerily-f...

The Eerily Familiar Politics of Europe's Wolves

Why wolves are such a potent political tool. Author Adam Weymouth on carnivores and scapegoats.

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And an excerpt from L. David Mech's The Ellesmere Wolves, about a surprisingly tame population of High Arctic wolves Mech studied for decades. "Greeted by seven barking and howling wolves, elated that I had finally located an active den"

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What we learn in the footsteps of wolves

Up close and personal with nature's notoriously elusive carnivore.

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Honored to have made it into this always fantastic anthology as a "Notable" for my piece in Hakai Magazine (one of the last features the magazine published) about cold-water coral research in Chile. @pulitzercenter.org @biographic.bsky.social

Jaime Green@jaimealyse.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Wrote a bit about this year's edition of The Best American Science and Nature Writing - and posted the Notables jaimealyse.beehiiv.com/p/basnw25

Hi! Today @quantamagazine.bsky.social published a special issue on climate science, featuring stories about how Earth's climate fundamentally works that I needed to read after covering climate impacts for so many years. I hope you'll check it out! <3 www.quantamagazine.org/how-we-came-...