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Max G. Levy

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✍️freelance science journalist: Wired, Quanta, TED-Ed & elsewhere cofounder @sequencermag.bsky.social https://maxglevy.com/ los angeles

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Max G. Levy @maxlevy.bsky.social · Apr 8

Exciting news: My work will appear in the upcoming edition of Best American Science and Nature Writing!! The 2025 editor, Susan Orlean, selected an essay I wrote for Sequencer about trying to train my color vision.

👁️👄👁️

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Christian Elliott @christianelliott.me · 10d

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 · 12d

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

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Hannah Waters @hanner.bsky.social · 26d

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-...

How We Came To Know Earth | Quanta Magazine

Climate science is the most significant scientific collaboration in history. This series from Quanta Magazine guides you through basic climate science — from quantum effects to ancient hothouses, from...

www.quantamagazine.org

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Max G. Levy @maxlevy.bsky.social · 29d

Thanks! Bc no permitting yet from MTA to collect data. But he's working on arranging a more official pilot, and meeting with groups who have relationships with MTA

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Max G. Levy @maxlevy.bsky.social · Sep 11

NY subway platforms feel hot as hell in the summer.

Meet Jack Klein, the guy who stealthily collects data about New York’s hottest days underground.

🚇New in @sequencermag.bsky.social

www.sequencermag.com/the-covert-p...

The covert project to (finally) measure hellish subway heat

Meet Jack Klein, the guy who stealthily collects data about New York’s hottest days underground.

www.sequencermag.com

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · Sep 8

@sequencermag.bsky.social is on Ghost!

They're a writer-owned publication run by science journalists @goesbykim.bsky.social, @maxlevy.bsky.social, @dsamorod.bsky.social, and @maddiebender.bsky.social

www.sequencermag.com

Sequencer

Decode the universe. A writer-owned popular science magazine

www.sequencermag.com

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · Sep 8

I'd love to recommend and follow more science newsletters and publications run with @ghost.org — especially now that they've implemented ActivityPub to put Ghost newsletters on the social web.

So give me your recommendations and shameless self promotions!

I know of a few already:

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Sequencer Magazine @sequencermag.bsky.social · Jul 3

"A couple months ago, while I was thumbing through old magazines at a record shop, I landed on a gem. “Learning To Love the Computer” emblazoned the cover of Nutshell magazine, a now-defunct periodical for college students," writes @maxlevy.bsky.social

www.sequencermag.com/ai-critical-...

What AI can actually do to your critical thinking skills

Chatbots won't obliterate everyone's critical thinking. Lessons from the past tech revolutions and today’s experts signal how to protect your mind.

www.sequencermag.com

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · Jul 2

The flip flopping continues: NIH director Jay Bhattacharya tweeted today that all agency staff will have full access to all scientific journals including those published by Springer Nature.

I've gone back to the WH, HHS, NASA, DOE, USDA to understand what the heck is going on. I am lost.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Jul 2

If the next pandemic starts tomorrow, with the current risk landscape, I think it's still much more likely to be H5N1 - with a spillover somewhere in the southeast or the middle of the continent, just like the 1918 Spanish Flu - than anything else. Trump's actions have paved the way for it. 1/2

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · Jul 1

I went on TV to talk about my book with Rev. Al Sharpton, a sentence that I cannot believe is true
www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/...

Nine ways to feel about our changing planet

Climate scientist Dr. Kate Marvel joins Morning Joe to discuss her new book 'Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet'.

www.msnbc.com

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · Jul 1

Good blog! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It never stopped being birtherism

Donald Trump is repackaging a familiar smear against Zohran Mamdani.

www.motherjones.com

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · Jul 1

This is a catastrophe in the making

gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-says-...

RFK Jr. Says AI Will Approve New Drugs at FDA 'Very, Very Quickly'

gizmodo.com

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · Jul 1

It's not about eggs. Please RT!

Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · Jul 1

Hello, FoodSky! I have a relatively simple question about U.S. grocery supply chains that is not really a google question, it's an ask-an-expert question. Literally just one question, could be answered by email or a five-minute phone call. Can anyone point me to someone who could help? For a story.

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Christian Elliott @christianelliott.me · Jul 1

White House works to ground NASA science missions before Congress can act

“We would be turning off some fabulous missions that are doing extremely well.”…

arstechnica.com

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Max G. Levy @maxlevy.bsky.social · Jul 1

not sure who needs to hear this today but:

you don't hate getting older, you hate how society treats older people

Max G. Levy @maxlevy.bsky.social · Jun 30

Clouds play an important role regulating the climate. To incorporate clouds into climate models scientists are learning more about the *biology* of clouds: studies of plants, plankton & organics flung up by sea spray.

Major thanks @joespring.bsky.social for edits on this

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Scientists Are Just Beginning to Understand How Life Makes Clouds, and Their Discoveries May Drastically Improve Climate Science

Plants, plankton and sea spray all release elements that help the atmospheric blankets form

www.smithsonianmag.com

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Joe Spring @joespring.bsky.social · Jun 26

A growing class of scientists is learning how plants, plankton and sea spray release elements that can shape giant features like clouds. @maxlevy.bsky.social profiles their work, and shares how it will help other researchers more accurately predict climate. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

Scientists Are Just Beginning to Understand How Life Makes Clouds, and Their Discoveries May Drastically Improve Climate Science

Plants, plankton and sea spray all release elements that help the atmospheric blankets form

www.smithsonianmag.com

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Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · Jun 23

SVP: "What has been most satisfying that you gave this team along the way?... Is there one thing you'll take great satisfaction in from this run?"

Jalen Williams: "Nothing is more precious than time..." 🏀📺🎙️ #NBA

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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · Jun 8

I hope this is making national & global news, not just here in Los Angeles where I am.

The federal govt sending in the National Guard and LAPD, seemingly complicit in the ICE raids should worry everyone. While Bass and Newsome claim nothing to do with it, why arern't they protecting LA residents?

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Max G. Levy @maxlevy.bsky.social · Jun 6

Now that people are talking to/about AI as if they're people, is the internet going to have to switch to serif fonts?

Lower case "L" and capital "I" look identical. And people use chatbots for therapy and itineraries.

"I asked AI for advice"

Alex? Claude? Albert? ChatGPT????

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Max G. Levy @maxlevy.bsky.social · Jun 2

In true Sequencer fashion, I wrote something about something that seems silly but really isn't that silly IMO!!

Maybe season 3 of The Rehearsal can be in an operating room...

Read a report from my little field trip here:
www.sequencermag.com/the-innovati...

The Innovative Way Surgeons Rehearse

Surgical simulations are about more than just practicing fine motor skills.

www.sequencermag.com

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Max G. Levy @maxlevy.bsky.social · May 20

potential silver lining: companies have made booking travel such a pain in the ass that I wonder if agent-ifying the internet will require them to unfuck the UI/UX/interoperability mess... which might make it easier for everyone

Max G. Levy @maxlevy.bsky.social · May 20

i just can't comprehend why people insist that it's a good thing to let your computer live your life on your behalf???? If you can't enjoy planning a PARTY or a VACATION then what can you enjoy?

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Max G. Levy @maxlevy.bsky.social · May 14

This series so fun

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Sequencer Magazine @sequencermag.bsky.social · May 8

NEW: "If you then read in a newspaper about human rights abuses happening in Nauru, you're implicated against your will... Your body is a part of that story."

@maxlevy.bsky.social speaks with Jack Lohmann about his book, WHITE LIGHT

www.sequencermag.com/on-fear-deat...

On Fear, Death, and Phosphorus

Author Jack Lohmann speaks to Sequencer about the complicated story of phosphorus: “There might be little pieces of Nauru in your teeth.”

www.sequencermag.com

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