Colin Schultz
@colinschultz.bsky.social
Newsy guy @ bioGraphic https://www.biographic.com/story-type/news/
Pitch me a story: Someone doing something for a reason.
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Don't send me press releases.
Pitch me a story: Someone doing something for a reason.
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Don't send me press releases.
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Colin Schultz
@colinschultz.bsky.social
· Oct 25
Doing News the Hakai Magazine Way
If ever a blog post deserved a “Sorry I haven’t posted in a while,” this might be it. In December, I wrapped up nearly a decade of work as the news editor at Hakai Magazine. We ha…
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For years, I've been using these same resources to explain to writers what made Hakai Magazine's admittedly odd news section tick. It's the same viewpoint I've carried over to @biographic.bsky.social, and I'm happy I finally put it somewhere permanent
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Here's that link. The money will go directly toward helping us report, edit, and publish stories and photographs about under-appreciated species, incredible places, and the people protecting them both.
Thank you!
Thank you!
Donate to bioGraphic
Support our cause by donating to bioGraphic.
give.calacademy.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Here's that link. The money will go directly toward helping us report, edit, and publish stories and photographs about under-appreciated species, incredible places, and the people protecting them both.
Thank you!
Thank you!
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Remember last year, when bioGraphic and Hakai Magazine were both facing uncertain futures? Your donations saved the day--we raised $140,000 and lived to publish another day!
Now we need help balancing our 2026 budget. Please donate via the link below, and snag some cool stickers to boot!
Now we need help balancing our 2026 budget. Please donate via the link below, and snag some cool stickers to boot!
November 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Remember last year, when bioGraphic and Hakai Magazine were both facing uncertain futures? Your donations saved the day--we raised $140,000 and lived to publish another day!
Now we need help balancing our 2026 budget. Please donate via the link below, and snag some cool stickers to boot!
Now we need help balancing our 2026 budget. Please donate via the link below, and snag some cool stickers to boot!
Because my wife has been working outside of the house more, I stole her studio monitors. And reader, let me tell you, it is an _experience_.
November 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Because my wife has been working outside of the house more, I stole her studio monitors. And reader, let me tell you, it is an _experience_.
Conceptualising the “Newsfluencer”: Intersecting Trajectories in Online Content Creation and Platformatised Journalism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Conceptualising the “Newsfluencer”: Intersecting Trajectories in Online Content Creation and Platformatised Journalism
Journalists and other news content creators are negotiating with participatory platforms and entrepreneurial business models. This conceptual article defines and traces the rise of “newsfluencers”:...
www.tandfonline.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Conceptualising the “Newsfluencer”: Intersecting Trajectories in Online Content Creation and Platformatised Journalism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Every year around Thanksgiving, I see tons of grad students post heartbreaking messages on social media about how their loved ones don’t understand or support their decision to study what seems like something pointless or silly.
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
“Why Are We Funding This?”
Long-standing myths about “silly science” have contributed to the reckless slashing of government-supported research.
www.americanscientist.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Every year around Thanksgiving, I see tons of grad students post heartbreaking messages on social media about how their loved ones don’t understand or support their decision to study what seems like something pointless or silly.
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
At The Drive-In - Quarantined
YouTube video by ElHajjMalikElShabbaz
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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For @biographic.bsky.social, I reported from across rural Illinois on an environmental crisis unfolding in the Midwest: herbicides drifting off millions of acres of crop fields are slowly killing oaks and other native tree species. #longreads
The Scourge of Native Oaks is Blowing in the Wind
Scientists and conservationists in the U.S. Midwest are working to stop herbicides from industrial agriculture from drifting onto the region’s remaining hardwood trees
www.biographic.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
For @biographic.bsky.social, I reported from across rural Illinois on an environmental crisis unfolding in the Midwest: herbicides drifting off millions of acres of crop fields are slowly killing oaks and other native tree species. #longreads
"Our contribution ... is a case study of a less-noticed phenomenon — the aiding and abetting of attacks on media freedom by sections of the press itself"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Enemies Within: Entrepreneurial Agents of Media Autocratisation in Hong Kong’s Press System
The press is described as a pillar of democracy, a generalisation that glosses over the existence of anti-liberal media organisations that actively undermine press freedom and contribute to democra...
www.tandfonline.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"Our contribution ... is a case study of a less-noticed phenomenon — the aiding and abetting of attacks on media freedom by sections of the press itself"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"After [Trump] was reelected, left-leaning and queer-focused firearms organizations and classes like the Liberal Gun Club and the Pink Pistols told me they were seeing major spikes in interest and attendance." www.wired.com/story/the-ha...
The Hard-Left Shooters Leading a Gun Culture Revolution
Earlier this year, I attended a shooting competition for queer, often trans, very online misfits. Then Charlie Kirk was killed.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
"After [Trump] was reelected, left-leaning and queer-focused firearms organizations and classes like the Liberal Gun Club and the Pink Pistols told me they were seeing major spikes in interest and attendance." www.wired.com/story/the-ha...
"As [frogs] have declined across Central America, scientists have witnessed a remarkable chain of events: With fewer tadpoles to eat mosquito larvae, rates of mosquito-borne malaria in the region have climbed, resulting in a fivefold increase in cases."
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
First, the frogs died. Then people got sick.
An emerging area of research is uncovering hidden links between nature and human health.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"As [frogs] have declined across Central America, scientists have witnessed a remarkable chain of events: With fewer tadpoles to eat mosquito larvae, rates of mosquito-borne malaria in the region have climbed, resulting in a fivefold increase in cases."
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Autistic dogs? Neurodiversity in our pets and what it might mean for us theconversation.com/autistic-dog...
Autistic dogs? Neurodiversity in our pets and what it might mean for us
Have you ever wondered whether your pet has ADHD? Research is showing the answer is complicated.
theconversation.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Autistic dogs? Neurodiversity in our pets and what it might mean for us theconversation.com/autistic-dog...
"the Egyptians didn’t just indulge occasionally: ... opiate use may have been a fixture of daily life." arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Ancient Egyptians likely used opiates regularly
Study identified several trace chemical signatures of opium in ancient Egyptian alabaster vase.
arstechnica.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
"the Egyptians didn’t just indulge occasionally: ... opiate use may have been a fixture of daily life." arstechnica.com/science/2025...
The more that people use AI, the more likely they are to overestimate their own abilities www.livescience.com/technology/a...
The more that people use AI, the more likely they are to overestimate their own abilities
Researchers found that AI flattens the bell curve of a common principle in human psychology, known as the Dunning-Kruger effect, giving us all the illusion of competence.
www.livescience.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The more that people use AI, the more likely they are to overestimate their own abilities www.livescience.com/technology/a...
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Please join Michael Barnard, Lyle Trytten, and I for a public webinar to discuss their new report on whether seabed mining in the American Samoa region is economically viable and technically achievable. Tues 12/2 at 3 PM ET/12 PM PT/9 AM SST. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Please join Michael Barnard, Lyle Trytten, and I for a public webinar to discuss their new report on whether seabed mining in the American Samoa region is economically viable and technically achievable. Tues 12/2 at 3 PM ET/12 PM PT/9 AM SST. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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"SpaceX's secretive "Starshield" government-operated intelligence satellites are deliberately emitting radio signals ... [that] overlap with protected frequencies and could disrupt other nearby spacecraft"
www.livescience.com/space/space-...
"SpaceX's secretive "Starshield" government-operated intelligence satellites are deliberately emitting radio signals ... [that] overlap with protected frequencies and could disrupt other nearby spacecraft"
www.livescience.com/space/space-...
Secretive SpaceX satellites operated by US government are shooting disruptive radio signals into space, astronomer accidentally discovers
An amateur astronomer has accidentally uncovered a series of puzzling radio signals coming from SpaceX's government-operated "Starshield" network. The signals overlap with protected frequencies and co...
www.livescience.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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"SpaceX's secretive "Starshield" government-operated intelligence satellites are deliberately emitting radio signals ... [that] overlap with protected frequencies and could disrupt other nearby spacecraft"
www.livescience.com/space/space-...
"SpaceX's secretive "Starshield" government-operated intelligence satellites are deliberately emitting radio signals ... [that] overlap with protected frequencies and could disrupt other nearby spacecraft"
www.livescience.com/space/space-...
"Fujita and his team developed a model that suggests the moss spores could actually survive for up to 5,600 days in space, or around 15 years" www.livescience.com/space/scient...
Scientists put moss on the outside of the International Space Station for 9 months — then kept it growing back on Earth
A species of moss survived for 9 months on the outside of the International Space Station, new research reveals — and 80% of the samples kept reproducing when returned to Earth.
www.livescience.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
"Fujita and his team developed a model that suggests the moss spores could actually survive for up to 5,600 days in space, or around 15 years" www.livescience.com/space/scient...
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Campi Flegrei and Vesuvius in the Bay of Naples area are extremely hazardous. Millions of people live in or near restless volcanoes. Not sure if we're looking at a catastrophic eruption in our lifetime, but a repeat of 1538 Monte Nuovo would still be dramatic.
"today, hundreds of thousands of people live right on top of this volcano — in the eight-mile-wide crater left by past eruptions." www.npr.org/2025/11/25/g...
Italy's Campi Flegrei supervolcano is stirring. Could this seismic giant soon erupt?
The volcano near Naples is shaking the ground in a way that scientists say it hasn't for centuries, posing risks for hundreds of thousands of people living in the 8-mile-wide crater left by past erupt...
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Campi Flegrei and Vesuvius in the Bay of Naples area are extremely hazardous. Millions of people live in or near restless volcanoes. Not sure if we're looking at a catastrophic eruption in our lifetime, but a repeat of 1538 Monte Nuovo would still be dramatic.
New insult just dropped www.sciencenews.org/article/butt...
‘Butt breathing’ could help people who can’t get oxygen the regular way
Takanori Takebe’s strange investigation into whether humans can use the gut for breathing has surprisingly sentimental origins: helping his dad.
www.sciencenews.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
New insult just dropped www.sciencenews.org/article/butt...
First Human Dies of Rare H5N5 Bird Flu Strain. Here’s What You Need to Know www.scientificamerican.com/article/firs...
First Human Dies of Rare H5N5 Bird Flu Strain. Here’s What You Need to Know
H5N1 bird flu has been circulating in U.S. wildlife since late 2021 but has caused only one human fatality. Now a different type of bird flu has also caused a death
www.scientificamerican.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
First Human Dies of Rare H5N5 Bird Flu Strain. Here’s What You Need to Know www.scientificamerican.com/article/firs...
"today, hundreds of thousands of people live right on top of this volcano — in the eight-mile-wide crater left by past eruptions." www.npr.org/2025/11/25/g...
Italy's Campi Flegrei supervolcano is stirring. Could this seismic giant soon erupt?
The volcano near Naples is shaking the ground in a way that scientists say it hasn't for centuries, posing risks for hundreds of thousands of people living in the 8-mile-wide crater left by past erupt...
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"today, hundreds of thousands of people live right on top of this volcano — in the eight-mile-wide crater left by past eruptions." www.npr.org/2025/11/25/g...
"past hunter-gatherers traveled less than we archaeologists thought. Many groups hunted a broader variety of nonmigratory animals close to their camps." www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...
Do Africa’s Mass Animal Migrations Extend Into Deep Time?
Isotopes in fossil teeth suggest ancient animals traveled less—making researchers rethink past human societies and future conservation.
www.sapiens.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"past hunter-gatherers traveled less than we archaeologists thought. Many groups hunted a broader variety of nonmigratory animals close to their camps." www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...
'Hot knives and brute force': King Tut's mummy was decapitated and dismembered after its historic discovery. Then, the researchers covered it up. www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
'Hot knives and brute force': King Tut's mummy was decapitated and dismembered after its historic discovery. Then, the researchers covered it up.
Irreversible damage was done to the pharaoh’s body.
www.livescience.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
'Hot knives and brute force': King Tut's mummy was decapitated and dismembered after its historic discovery. Then, the researchers covered it up. www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
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"Earlier this year, scientists discovered a cell so severely stripped of essential functions that it challenges biologists’ definitions of what counts as a living thing." via @quantamagazine.bsky.social www.realclearscience.com/2025/11/25/a...
November 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
"Earlier this year, scientists discovered a cell so severely stripped of essential functions that it challenges biologists’ definitions of what counts as a living thing." via @quantamagazine.bsky.social www.realclearscience.com/2025/11/25/a...