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Through deep time and space, the possibilities of life are endless. Writer, Ross Andersen (@rossandersen.bsky.social) challenges the past as we look to the future.

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 "A Cosmic Voyage Through Deep Time" is streaming now. Listen and subscribe to Futurology podcast 🎧

Atlantic Writer Ross Andersen (@rossandersen.bsky.social) asks the questions shaping the future. 

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In this episode, Andersen speaks with Futurology Producer Grant Slater (@grantslater.bsky.social) about time defining  the evolution of intelligent life.

Delighted to have snuck this phrase into The Atlantic

Wrote about some of my faves (black holes)

www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

An unusually vivid look at the state of the art in drone warfare in Ukraine

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

"We can’t say what dogs’ preferences might be under different circumstances. But we do know that they have not chosen all of the intimacies that we impose upon them." go read @rossandersen.bsky.social's latest

www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

Thank you @rossandersen.bsky.social for a gorgeously written (alternately funny and distressing) story that has created a new intrusive thought for me: Does my dog have enough privacy???? www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

Had the great pleasure of reviewing @peterbrannen.bsky.social’s extraordinary new book (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...

"The reasons monstrously abusive relationships persist between people are as complex, I think, as the mathematics of turbulence."

harpers.org/archive/2013...

The AI doomers are not alright. Is it time to listen?

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

If you're in DC next Wednesday, August 27, I'm very excited to be talking about the book with my friend @rossandersen.bsky.social at the Wharf Politics & Prose

"Not since the Red Scare .. has American science been so beholden to political ideology." I'm late to this brilliant @rossandersen.bsky.social piece, but it's a must-read (gift link): www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

20 years ago this month, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans. For so many New Orleanians, our lives are demarcated by this moment. If someone ask you about an event or memory from the past, we say “was it before or after the storm?” On this twentieth anniversary, I wrote about going back home.

This reads a bit like an obituary for American science. Or a murder story from the crime beat.
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Indeed: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

The attack on our universities, the lack of respect for education and expertise, the attack on medical research to keep us healthy, what purpose does it serve? It makes our country weaker.

"Every scientific empire falls, but not at the same speed, or for the same reasons."

Fascinating article on the history of scientific empires. Soviet science, at its zenith in the mid-1950s, collapsed entirely in the late 1980s. And now American science has begun its collapse.

Gift link.

“The future of Soviet science was looking grim…One by one, he watched them start new lives elsewhere. Many…went to the U.S. At the time, America was the most compelling destination for scientific talent in the world. It would remain so until earlier this year” www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

The rapid decline of American science has few precedents in history, writes @rossandersen.bsky.social. We are witnessing an unparalleled act of self-sabotage: https://theatln.tc/6OLrjo4V

Terrific piece. A must-read for academics:

"Not since the Red Scare...has American science been so beholden to political ideology."

www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

Such a smart and important one from @rossandersen.bsky.social

Insightful article by @rossandersen.bsky.social