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Hannah Waters @hanner.bsky.social · Sep 15

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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Hanaa’ Tameez @hanaatameez.bsky.social · Sep 11

This story — which asks what happened to all of those newsroom DEI jobs, committees, and promises from 2020 — is the hardest one I've ever worked on. I hope you'll spend some time with it today.

www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/from...

From reckoning to retreat: Journalism’s DEI efforts are in decline

www.niemanlab.org

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Neel Dhanesha @neeldhanesha.com · Sep 9

Slap that on a business card

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Neel Dhanesha @neeldhanesha.com · Sep 9

One thing that struck me about my conversation with @davejorgenson.bsky.social: I think he's having...fun? With journalism? In this economy?

www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/with...

With Local News International, Dave Jorgenson becomes his own TikTok guy

The former Washington Post video star talks about launching a new company with old colleagues, the importance of media literacy, and building a Daily Show for the internet.

www.niemanlab.org

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Alex Sujong Laughlin @alexlaughs.bsky.social · Aug 25

What it comes down to is: Should beautiful, interesting, entertaining things exist in the world, and should we spend our time making them?

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Alex Sujong Laughlin @alexlaughs.bsky.social · Aug 21

There have been a ton of 20th anniversary "best of" podcast lists lately, and it has started to feel a bit like an obituary for an industry.

[gift link] defector.com/the-future-o...

The Future Of Podcasting Is Here, And It Sucks | Defector

This week, Left Of Dial published its Essential Listening Poll, a compilation of the 100 best podcasts of all time, according to industry creators, writers, and scholars (Disclosure: I was invited to ...

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · Aug 18

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event

Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

www.theatlantic.com

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Zoë Schlanger @zoeschlanger.bsky.social · Aug 18

"workers are not allowed to wear masks on the front line, even if they want to" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/u...

Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying

www.nytimes.com

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · Aug 18

about two months ago, i reached out to @boringstein.bsky.social to ask if they'd be open to talking about the incredible videos they were making for Zohran Mamdani's election campaign

it turned into a much bigger story than i expected

Selling Zohran | Defector

On a cool Sunday in November, a few days after Donald Trump’s re-election, Zohran Mamdani stood on a street corner in Jamaica, Queens, holding up a hastily drawn cardboard sign that read “DID YOU VOTE...

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Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · Aug 11

I have studied the targeting of journalists for many years, but the scale and public display of these killings is truly shocking: “Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital“

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza

Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital

www.theguardian.com

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Neel Dhanesha @neeldhanesha.com · Jul 31

Shannon is one of the most talented reporters I know, I am SO excited for this book!

Shannon Osaka @shannonosaka.bsky.social · Jul 31

So so excited that my book on microplastics and the rise of plastic has been picked up by Harper 🥹🥹

Thank you to agent extraordinaire Alice Whitwham at @cheneyagency.bsky.social, amazing editor Sarah Haugen at Harper, and family & friends for believing in this project.

A deal from Publishers Marketplace that reads:

"Climate reporter at the Washington Post Shannon Osaka's THE MIRACLE MATERIAL: HOW PLASTIC CONQUERED OUR WORLD, TRANSFORMED OUR LIVES, AND ENTERED OUR BODIES, blending reporting, history, and science to tell the hidden story of how plastic, which once promised to transform our lives for the better, has become the most insidious pollutant of all—tracing the 20th century's utopian dreams for the material, research into the health consequences of microplastics, and solutions both local and global; an account of the fossil-fuel based polymer that has built our systems of consumerism, convenience, and disposability, to Sarah Haugen at Harper, in a major deal, in a pre-empt, by Alice Whitwham at The Cheney Agency (NA). Rights:
beniamino@cheneyagency.com"

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Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · Jul 8

i wrote about the texas floods and climate anxiety and mercy defector.com/the-floodwat...

The Floodwaters Are Rising | Defector

It’s easy to forget that God’s covenant is limited. God makes a solemn promise to Noah that He will never flood the whole Earth again … however. “Never again will I let floodwaters destroy all life,” ...

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Neel Dhanesha @neeldhanesha.com · Jul 3

hi, sorry for the late response! You're totally right that it's available on FAST services; I was referring to accessing the TV channel in the traditional (non-streaming) sense, which still requires a cable bundle.

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Zoë Schlanger @zoeschlanger.bsky.social · Jul 2

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Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

Hurricane Science Was Great While It Lasted

The U.S. is hacking away at support for state-of-the-art forecasting.

www.theatlantic.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Jun 25

A story that got less attention was the incredibly cynical primary of my amazing Councilwoman—the first Muslim woman ever elected to the NYC Council—by a billionaire, corporate-backed candidate also lobbing gross accusations of antisemitism. Anyway, the challenger got trounced. Hell yea.

Shahana Hanif @shahanafrombk.bsky.social · Jun 25

Thank you, Brooklyn! Getting to represent the neighborhoods that raised me is the greatest privilege of my life.

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Blue sky nice guy @rajandelman.bsky.social · Jun 25

I'm in touch with a source in Cuomo's camp. They're all screaming and turning back into rats. Not looking good so far

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · Jun 25

A Muslim son of immigrants might become mayor of NYC in part because he cross endorsed and supported a Jewish candidate and Black candidate, and vice versa.

It's a beautiful American story for the rest of us. A nightmare for all the right people ;)

It's so New York.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jun 25

Bill Clinton please endorse my enemies

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · Jun 25

Cuomo conceded New York City baby lets go Mets baby bodega cats pizza pie I love this city

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 24

Just click on this: skyviewer.app/explorer #RubinTelescope

Explorer | Skyviewer

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Matt TK Taylor @tk.gg · May 29

The lovely @neeldhanesha.com talked to me about @project-push.tk.gg for @niemanlab.org!

It was great fun to chat about, and really inspired me to give the project another kick. If you're interested, sign up now, and I'll be in touch soon.

www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/proj...

Project Push creates an archive of news alerts from around the world

"One of the most important people in the newsroom is the person who decides that they're going to press a button that sends an immediate notification to millions of people’s phones.”

www.niemanlab.org

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Micah Loewinger @micahloewinger.bsky.social · May 19

I know that media use the term "big beautiful bill" in quotes but it's unfortunate that this many years into covering this president we are still suckered into leading with his language and framing when covering such consequential stories

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · May 15

Here is the grad speech that NYU is now withholding the student's diploma for:

"As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."

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Neel Dhanesha @neeldhanesha.com · May 14

Between this and the NY Mag piece it sounds like office hours are just two two-chatbots-in-a-trench-coat

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...

The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It

www.nytimes.com

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