Profile avatar
dsamorod.bsky.social
i'm an editor and science writer. i cover biology, genetics, the environment, stuff like that. i live in Minneapolis. my pronouns are he/him. i am a cofounder at @sequencermag.bsky.social dansamorodnitsky.com
368 posts 1,974 followers 277 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 23 Comments 26

Look, can everyone just stop harping on goose-stepping, seig heiling, far-right politicians, and remember that *these* are the true antisemites?

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

A hockey locker room is actually where humanist politics go to die

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I don't think this guy has even read Mein Kampf!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine how evil, truly evil, a man this insensitive to peoples' needs, and how the government fills those needs, must be. All for the richest man on Earth to make more money. Absolutely vacuous, totally banal. An insectoid man not worth the smear he'd be on the sole of a shoe if not for his money.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Has your organization been affected by the federal funding freeze? High Country News wants to hear about it! Please reach out: ✉️ [email protected] Signal: @shienkim.1721 I'm especially interested in local environment/decarbonization/climate-related efforts in the Western US. Retweets appreciated!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Mourning all the loss that is to come

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

We love to talk about going back in time to shoot baby Hitler but another stop on the train should be shooting baby Andrew Wakefield

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Wrote about my boy Bill Fay!! open.substack.com/pub/thingsun...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

@sequencermag.bsky.social is looking for #scicomm beginners (researchers, science students etc.) to write for Sequencer via our inaugural mentorship program! Read more and apply here: sequencermag.com/scicomm-ment... Support our mentorship program here: www.sequencermag.com#/portal/supp...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

When the unfinished album version of Wolf Like Me leaked it lit the message boards ON FIRE in a way I feel like only I remember

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

WE HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT SEQUENCER'S SCIENCE STORYTELLER MENTORSHIP PROGRAM We are launching a mentorship program for new science writers. Get published @sequencermag.bsky.social! Learn about science writing at the funniest, coolest popsci magazine around! www.sequencermag.com/scicomm-ment...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

ANNOUNCEMENT: SEQUENCER'S SCIENCE STORYTELLER MENTORSHIP PROGRAM We @sequencermag.bsky.social are launching a mentorship program for new science writers. Want to learn about science writing at the funniest, coolest popsci magazine around? Let us know: www.sequencermag.com/scicomm-ment...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

do i contradict myself? very well then i contradict myself, (i am large, i contain committee meetings.)

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Today is a good day to read "The Social Function of Science" by J.D. Bernal

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Time for every 40-something conservative commentator dude to out themselves as the biggest squares on the planet lmao

submitted 13 days ago • 35 comments

“Hahaha, let’s make those rich private universities spend their endowments.” Actually bankrupts a bunch of rural, state universities. 🤦‍♂️

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

I wonder how many people this is going to instantly put out of work. A few hundred thousand?

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

When Scientific American endorsed Harris, many scientists and science-friendly people were supportive and grateful, but some said: stick to science, science isn’t political, etc. But reality-denying right-wing fanatics will absolutely come for the scientists www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

submitted 15 days ago • 36 comments

Excited about this one. And many thanks to @colincarlson.bsky.social for comments and his team for their work in the area.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

OUT NOW: @maxlevy.bsky.social on preparing for the *inevitable* next pandemic locally, at work, and scientifically. We're honored to co-publish this with our friends at @thesicktimes.bsky.social who have really led the way on COVID/LC reporting www.sequencermag.com/inevitable-p...

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

Today @thesicktimes.bsky.social & @sequencermag.bsky.social! Great piece by @maxlevy.bsky.social about the drivers of pandemics and how we can better prepare for the next one, even when federal institutions seem to go backward. thesicktimes.org/2025/02/07/w...

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

We won't avoid the next pandemic, but we can prepare. Yet another @maxlevy.bsky.social and @sequencermag.bsky.social banger , in partnership with @thesicktimes.bsky.social thesicktimes.org/2025/02/07/w...

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments