Hi Adrian, i’m a freelance journalist who has long followed your work with interest - are you able to say why you’re not allowed to talk about this paper? Sophie dot McBain at gmail dot com or DM any time!

Thanks so much Russell!

Well worth a read on the impact of AI on critical thinking and education

"Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?"

By @sophiemcbain.bsky.social

Boston recovering from a big weekend

@lindastone.bsky.social Hi Linda, I'm a journalist for the Guardian and tried contacting you via your website without luck - I wondered if you might have a few minutes to chat for a piece I'm working on? Can explain more via email - sophie dot mcbain at gmail dot com. Thank you!

Loved interviewing Kiran Desai for @theguardian.com

Such a touching belated birthday gift…

This piece is gut wrenching www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

I think I need to listen to that episode! (Or do I need to wait until my brain is more normal to avoid falling into a pit of despair!?)

Yes - it was the most ridiculously stupid injury, hit my head really hard on a cupboard door over three weeks ago, and am still having problems with vertigo and noise sensitivity, which is ideal with three small kids!

These kinds of pieces are so important - terrifying and very upsetting to think of how much scientific and medical progress is being set back by Trump’s cuts, the lives that could have been saved and now won’t be

observer.co.uk/style/featur...

With thanks to @tomgatti.bsky.social for the super fun commission!

I haven't been able to post this because have been forced off-line thanks to concussion, but I was thrilled to make the cover of @theobserveruk.bsky.social 's The New Review with this piece on miracle survivor stories

I did get tested though (all normal) but my doctor said that perimenopause doesn’t have a precise definition and can last a decade so it might also be diagnostic inflation!

I wondered if I was in perimenopause and then realised I was on the pill for my entire 20s and spent most of my early to mid-30s pregnant or breastfeeding and maybe this was just the hell of my normal hormonal cycle, something I hadn’t experienced since my teens. Wonder if this is a common pattern?

*NEW MONTHLY RECORD*

Boston has moved up to 101F, the hottest June day ever recorded in the city (since at least 1872). #wbz

Sometimes parenthood is realising that you, once a self-respecting and relatively normal individual, now move around the house alone humming "move it like a mango, party like a pear" to yourself

This state only exists in the morning, in the shower, when you remember that thing you said decades ago.

Yeah. You know what you said.

@evaholland.bsky.social hey Eva - I'm working on a story and it made me think of your book Nerve, I wondered if you might be free for a v brief interview about it? Please could you DM me or email sophie dot mcbain at gmail dot com? Thanks so much!

Our rates have increased across the board. For the autumn issue, we've just commissioned a feature for £1,000.

This story is completely chilling

www.newstatesman.com/politics/202... 💥 EXC: For my first edition of the New Statesman as editor, I went on the road with Keir Starmer, discovering a man far more emotional than I expected, struggling to articulate his deepest feelings — and those of the country he leads👇

The eight year old, a propos of nothing: “when I am famous I’m going to have a strict rule of not signing body parts”

“There are no monsters, and all of them are real.” I talked with @sophiemcbain.bsky.social about HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY - about #StarTrek, astrobiology, an #18thCentury “Irish giant,” race, nation, tech, and more. 1/2

💙📚 🧪 🗃 #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #SFF #monsters #politics #HAMH