Robin Lloyd
@robinlloyd.bsky.social
editor, science writer, teacher, evidence-y.
"Attempting to immediately extinguish any fire that starts [a flawed solution], ...as Sec. Int. Burgum has ordered, inherently involves fighting those fires from the air. ...Bridger Aerospace is the largest contractor equipped to do that." open.substack.com/pub/wessiler...
Who’s Responsible For Wildfire?
It’s time to stop thinking of wildfire only in terms of ignition source
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🧑💻 Our latest: 4 tips to help you be an eco-friendlier AI user Escalating use of tools like ChatGPT saps more and more power. While the onus is on tech companies to reduce AI’s resource consumption, there are a few simple things individuals can do to lighten the load. ✍️ @katarinazimmer.bsky.social
Using AI chatbots? Here are four ways to reduce the energy drain
Escalating use of tools like Gemini and ChatGPT saps more and more power. Experts offer some tips on how to consume less.
knowablemagazine.org
I JUST read about this guy - the Guardrail Guy - in the latest New Yorker. He knows everything there is to know about guardrail design and why it's like that. He's absolutely correct here.
One Man’s Quest to Fix Every Deadly Guardrail
In 2016, Steve Eimers’s daughter died when she hit a defective guardrail. Then he learned that the country was full of them.
newyorker.com
🐓@werechicken.bsky.social · 2w agoI don’t know if it has happened yet, but people are going to be killed by FLOCK Cameras on Highways because they’re concrete reinforced and often put near barriers meant to slow impacts. youtube.com/shorts/nc7ng...
The brand-new Women’s Professional Baseball League unveiled the identities of its four inaugural teams today, all named for historical figures who advanced women’s rights. Read more at news.sportslogos.net/2026/07/08/w...
In late June, Springer Nature sold Scientific American to LabX Media. I have since decided to step out of my role as a senior graphics editor for the magazine :: #sciart 📊 🧪 :: 🧵 [1/7]
Did you know? Renewables have just overtaken coal as the world's largest source of electricity 34% – global renewable share, up 2x in 20yrs 48% – EU 37% – China 26% – US 24% – India
Rally at 5pm today, for @sciam.bsky.social and @sciamunion.bsky.social. 1 NY Plaza, Lowest Manhattan. Take the 5 to Bowling Green and walk 350 meters (0.2 miles).
Robin Lloyd@robinlloyd.bsky.social · last mo.Employees at Scientific American were told this week that their publication was sold to LabX Media Group. A @sciamunion.bsky.social rally is set for next Tuesday, 5p Eastern, lower Manhattan. Details in link. I'm told it's fine to share this broadly: actionnetwork.org/events/scien...
New from @juanpab.bsky.social, @keertigopal.bsky.social, and me: Chicago has the most lead pipes of any U.S. city... and pays wildly more than anyone else to replace them: ~$31,000 per line, more than 6x the EPA's nat'l est. of $4,700. Officials can't fully explain why. grist.org/accountabili... 1/n
Why is it so unusually expensive to replace lead pipes in Chicago?
The city with the most lead pipes in the nation is paying way above average to fix them. Officials can't fully explain why.
grist.org
Hi hello yes, come work with me (if you're a good human) please and thank you www.sciencefriday.com/associate-pr...
Associate Producer, Audio
sciencefriday.com
Employees at Scientific American were told this week that their publication was sold to LabX Media Group. A @sciamunion.bsky.social rally is set for next Tuesday, 5p Eastern, lower Manhattan. Details in link. I'm told it's fine to share this broadly: actionnetwork.org/events/scien...
Scientific American Union Rally 6/30
On Tuesday, the international scientific publisher Springer Nature sold Scientific American, the iconic 181-year old publication famous for its authoritative coverage of science to LabX Media Group. L...
actionnetwork.org
📢 Heads up science journalists! 🧪 Looking for work in science journalism or #scicomm? 👇 Contact Robin, she can be a great resource!
Robin Lloyd@robinlloyd.bsky.social · last mo.connect with me or see my feed on LinkedIn if you're looking for work in science journalism or sci comms. I frequently repost interesting job opps for pros in our field: www.linkedin.com/in/robin-llo... THREAD 1/x
Meghan is an incredibly smart and versatile science journalist and altogether delightful human and you should absolutely hire her!
Meghan Bartels@meghanbartels.bsky.social · last mo.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 (🧵)
connect with me or see my feed on LinkedIn if you're looking for work in science journalism or sci comms. I frequently repost interesting job opps for pros in our field: www.linkedin.com/in/robin-llo... THREAD 1/x
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Scientific American is being sold to LabX Media, publisher of Discover: group.springernature.com/gp/group/med... They've fired me and other union staff, ahead of June 26 vote ratification. My rates are suddenly more reasonable, if you need editing or reporting - Argonaut2026@gmail.com
Springer Nature to divest its consumer media businesses | Springer Nature Group | Springer Nature
Strategic divestment of consumer media portfolio enables Springer Nature to focus on its core business Transaction supports the long-term development
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Today is my last day at Scientific American, which has been sold to LabX media group. For three decades I've led the magazine's coverage of human origins, archaeology, paleontology, animal behavior, ecology, BIRDS. End of an era. Anyway this feels weird to say, but I'm now available for assignments!
I learned a lot about glow-in-the-dark brains and how neurons 'talk' from @adam-bowman.bsky.social . My story about his cool work is in @sciam.bsky.social profiles of Young American Scientists, just out today! Thanks, Adam, for your patient explanations! 🧪
Scientific American@sciam.bsky.social · 2mo agoAdam Bowman (@adam-bowman.bsky.social) is among the inaugural class of Scientific American's Young American Scientists. Explore his research: spklr.io/6009E3mjD Meet the other honorees on this year's list: sciam.com/youngscientists #SciAmYoungScientists
Good story on ticker tape and tt parades, @jackiefmogensen.bsky.social ! LGK!!
Jackie Flynn Mogensen@jackiefmogensen.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Knicks' first ticker-tape parade is today! I had a blast reporting this piece about the lesser-known history of ticker tape. Among other things, I learned that before the stock ticker was invented in 1867, people were sending stock market information via mail, flag signals, and pigeons!!
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I used to think Bond villains were a ridiculous conceit... theconversation.com/a-million-ne...
A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth
If SpaceX launches one million new satellites, it will increase atmospheric pollution and risk of falling debris. And we will see more satellites than stars.
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Bronx subway: The woman seated next to me just opened a fresh sleeve of Saltines and offered some to me and the guy on other side of her before she started eating. 🥰
lots of cool planet-watching, some with naked eye, is available these days. We watch Mercury set most recent evenings. Here's info on this afternoon's Venus-Moon occultation.
David Dickinson@astrodave.bsky.social · 2mo agoGet ready for ‘The Great North American Daytime Lunar Occultation’ this afternoon, as the Moon blots out Venus. The event is centered on ~20:40UT, & occurs for NE South America under dark skies, and the Caribbean, CONUS, northern Mexico and southern Canada in daytime skies before sunset.
Nice view of Venus, Jupiter, AND little reddish Mercury in West sky, sunset right now, NYC. Castor and Pollux coming into view too, above Mercury.
Incredible!! 💥🏀💥🏀💥🏀💥🏀💥🏀💥 The Knicks FULL 29 Point Comeback! Go Knicks!! 💥🏀💥🏀💥🏀💥🏀💥🏀💥
Down at the Grebe Factory interviewing the new apprentices for the Western Grebe Taxi Service, I'll thread in stills/video as I process them As a primer, here's THE BEST WESTERN GREBE MATING RITUAL FOOTAGE OF MY LIFE Warning on this thread: too cute for doom Skip to :41 for just rushing. 🪶 🐣
Actor Andrew Scott and SciAm's certified weather nerd @andreatweather.bsky.social enjoyed comparing their philosophies on checking the weather in a conversation about Scott's new movie, "Pressure." Watch their full conversation here: www.scientificamerican.com/video/andrew...
Me when people tell me I should stop using em dashes because it "looks like AI" 👇
Dr. Damien P. Williams has to go the way his blood beats@wolven.blacksky.app · 2mo ago…Removing your own stylistic cues & voice for fear they make you "sound like AI" is a sure-fire way to make your work bland & lifeless, to say nothing of what it's gonna do to you psychologically, emotionally, & hermeneutically. Develop your voice, & write how you fucking well want to goddam write.
Unacceptable Morning Show Host Jeff Spurgeon To Retire After Three Decades On WQXR | WQXR Features | WQXR share.google/k1O9zgr2Aw0K...
Morning Show Host Jeff Spurgeon To Retire After Three Decades On WQXR | WQXR Features | WQXR
Beloved morning host Jeff Spurgeon will retire at the beginning of September, following an extraordinary career that has helped define classical radio in New York for decades.
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