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Congrats to all of this year’s fellows! This fellowship was life-changing for me back in the day and we need skilled science journalists more than ever today

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If you time traveled back to 2018 and told me that the Food Babe would be one of the faces of White House health policy in 2025, I would have accused you of being high This is a woman who once claimed that when you fly on planes, your organs shrink, and that having nitrogen in the air is unhealthy.

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60 Minutes will never recover from this. Deeply-reported news magazine shows are already facing extinction-level challenges in the influencer era, and when you compromise your standards and independence (two of the few competitive advantages traditional media still has) you hasten your demise

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You probably don't know that in 1995, a small volcanic island in the Caribbean was basically turned into Pompeii. The island holds a great story full of hope and interesting science, and we went there to tell that story for my @pbs.org series Overview youtu.be/FYOD7lLJa1k

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Holy moly! This is the first confirmed sighting of a living colossal squid* in its native, deep water habitat! 🦑 Everyone's talking about aliens on other planets when we've got them right here on Earth (*it's just a baby) www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzPo...

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If you're wondering how scientists could possibly look at light from a far-off exoplanet and conclude there's chemicals in its atmosphere that hint at life… Here's a video I made about if we'd even be able to tell if EARTH had life if we looked at it from far away www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7wB...

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✅ Extraordinary claims 🤷‍♂️❓ Extraordinary evidence www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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You know, someday Benson Boone is going to be too old to do flips off a piano without hurting his knees and this will be the point that Gen Z realizes it's their turn to start getting AARP ads www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxD1...

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I mean, find the lie? - Male clownfish often change sex if female dies - Banana slugs have both male and female sex organs - Antlered does are real (though very rare) Sucks that real, true (interesting!) things are controversial now

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If you’re feeling down about the world these days, extend your index finger and pinky while holding down your other two fingers and become a fan of the #1 ranked Texas Longhorns 🤘

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Certainly the best thing to come out of this period of economic volatility is that my Texas Longhorns baseball team is very, very, very good. Now is a great time to buy 🤘 #HookEm

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If you put one of every animal species in a hat, and randomly picked one out, there's a 1 in 4 chance it would be a beetle If you put one of every mammal species in a hat, there's a 1 in 5 chance you'd pick out a bat Something interesting to think about instead of… all of THAT

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I hear the president is signing executive orders to hype up coal mining and energy Why would we want to force people to use a more expensive and increasingly obsolete form of energy? Doesn’t make much sense www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...

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I think a good way to get those answers would be to have a well-funded and adequately staffed agency that administers guidance and regulations on things like food and drugs, or even an entire national institute dedicated to health

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The average information consumer has turned over so much of their choice, attention, and thought to advertising algorithms. Until you take back your time, you can’t take back your thinking

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You have no idea how many YouTube videos I watched trying to learn how to pronounce “axolotl” in the correct Nahuatl way. American mouths are not meant for this Anyway, we went looking for the last wild axolotls of Mexico City and here’s what we found youtu.be/z_lOASkYvjM?...

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It smells like spruce and lichen, in case you're wondering. The aroma of pure, unfiltered, Canadian wilderness. I'd wear it as cologne if I could, but it risks smelling too manly to be safe

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"I held and smelled a 4 billion year old rock" sounds like something someone would say as an April Fools joke, but it is actually something I did, for science. Here's my newest video, about how the world's oldest, rarest rocks are changing our ideas of early Earth youtu.be/c4GRLFuTyQY

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My hot take is that a population’s adaptation to high levels of UV radiation is not a useful way to categorize human biological variation. Feel free to come at me, weirdos

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I haven't played golf in like 20 years but I will watch every Bryson Dechambeau video that the algorithm puts in front of me. This is like… PERFECT YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpai...

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I would think that an administration focused on stopping waste and fraud would choose to not commission a study on a question definitively debunked more than a decade ago (and that led its main proponent to lose his medical license) but hey, life is full of surprises!

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As a scientist I can confidently predict that only about 1 in 4,000 people who attend one of Mr. Longevity's biohacking summits will live past the age of 100 www.dontdiesummit.com

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Since we're all Ghibli-ing the memez thanks to the new nifty AI image tool, it's a good time to remind ourselves what tech co's refuse to accept: Art is not an output to be optimized IN ART, THE FRICTION IS THE POINT Humans have made art since cave times BECAUSE of the process, not in spite of it

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I need all the marine biology and plastic cleanup people to find this post and tell me if Ocean Cleanup has actually solved all their ocean cleanup problems like he claims here www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFMS...

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I'm reading this news as "creators want to be able to artificially inflate their reach when they ask for money so now watching 7 frames of a short will count as a view" I care how many people watch my videos, not how many people catch a few accidental photons techcrunch.com/2025/03/26/y...

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Obviously, as Plato taught us, a gentle "fire" is emitted from the eyes and illuminates whatever we look at. This is why you can see a cat's eyes glow at night. Really looking forward to the TikTok generation discovering spontaneous generation!

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We really don't talk enough about how uniquely strange human lives are compared to other species, even our closest relatives. I started looking into that and it led to me trying to figure out why menopause exists: youtu.be/iKLwzmjfcW4

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It pains me to say this, but the research community must accept that some of the distrust in science & scientists in the wake of COVID is their own fault Hiding facts, misleading journalists, conflicts of interest… this is not how science should be done (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...

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Someone told me we can post videos up to 3 min long here now so I’m dropping this important bite of 🍌 science

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When they picture DOGE, they see a glowing pool of floating precogs with their cerebral cortices hardwired into Grok AI servers When I picture DOGE, I see this. We are not the same.

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