@katrinamillerphd.bsky.social
physicist by training, reporter by trade tips: katrina.miller@nytimes.com signal: katrinamiller.04 https://katrinamillerphd.com/
oh thank you!
03.08.2025 03:25 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0thank you!
03.08.2025 01:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Breaking: NSF is suspending roughly 300 grants with UCLA, following a DOJ finding on Tuesday that the university violated Title VI by "creating a hostile educational environment for Jewish and Israeli students."
31.07.2025 17:53 — 👍 353 🔁 232 💬 22 📌 95
a federal judge ruled against an order that would restore all of the funding terminated by the NSF. some context here:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/n...
In 1976, Gaillard, Ellis, & Ross published a paper explaining how to search for gluons (then only theoretical) in e+e- collisions.
In 1979 gluons were discovered at DESY using their method.
"Dr. Gaillard left CERN in 1981 after she was passed over for a senior staff position."
This is definitely worth reading
01.08.2025 13:00 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Mary K Gaillard, a theorist who had a knack for telling experimental physicists where to look, died in her home on May 23 at 86.
Dr. Gaillard was an unpaid scientist at CERN for more than a decade, & the first woman physicist hired & tenured at Berkeley:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/s...
honeybees are harmed by a combination of factors: unpredictable weather, habitat loss, pesticides and disease. but another, potentially worse threat looms: Tropilaelaps, a parasite that could ravage a large part of our food supply. by me & @emilyanthes.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/s...
A good NY Times article about beekeeping, Dr. Sammy, and the Tropilaelaps mites [Gift Link]
Written by @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social and @emilyanthes.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/s...
if you are a federal or federally funded scientist interested in going on the record about losing your job and/or project funding, pls shoot me a DM. looking specifically for non-health scientists doing basic (non-applied) research. thank you!
02.06.2025 15:53 — 👍 16 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 2
My latest for @nytimes.com -- please repost so your followers can see this for free. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
30.06.2025 10:33 — 👍 72 🔁 52 💬 3 📌 4
“We are always constructing a simulation of reality,” a neuroscientist said. “We don’t have direct access to that reality. We live inside the simulation that we create.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/s...
In the past year, only 17% of Americans have paid for news, per Pew
The #1 reason they give is that the information is available free elsewhere
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
how to get in touch w me for science-related NYT coverage:
• katrina.miller@nytimes.com
• signal: katrinamiller.04
the more lead time, the better, & we love exclusives. i’m always happy to answer questions you may have about my process, how the press works, etc. before going on the record, too.
Congratulations to this year's Diversity Summer Fellows! Led by the NASW Diversity Committee, the program provides supplemental income for six trainees to pursue a chosen internship. We're excited to celebrate the fellows and wish you all many summer adventures in #SciWri.
www.nasw.org/article...
Smile, universe! It is time for your close-up with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.
by @kchang.bsky.social and @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social for the @nytimes.com 🧪🔭 #RubinFirstLook
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/s...
Thank you for reading 🙏🏽
22.06.2025 15:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Vera Rubin’s legacy — both how she transformed our understanding of the universe & charted a path for more women in astro — carries on in her namesake, even amid a troubled scientific landscape.
the latest in our @nytimes.com Rubin Observatory package:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/s...
Great article from @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social about the Vera Rubin Observatory, accompanied by a killer photo of the observatory. Rubin will be a game-changer for 'fast, wide, and deep' surveys of the Universe, providing insight into dark matter, dark energy, and how the Milky Way assembled. 🧪☄️
19.06.2025 19:02 — 👍 51 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0
@katrinamillerphd.bsky.social traveled to Chile to check out the magnificent new Vera Rubin Observatory and learn about what it will discover in the sky. Here's her story. Gift link: nyti.ms/3I3gFkN
19.06.2025 18:54 — 👍 56 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 2
Rubin Observatory, like the astronomer it was named after, will transform the way humans understand & explore the cosmos:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/s...
Good article by @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social on the muon experiments and clash between the experimentalists and the theorists. [Gift Link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/s...
dennis wrote a great piece on the potential death of scientific dreams:
“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.” Are we in danger of running out of stories?
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/s...
completely agree!
04.06.2025 02:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0i can’t help but wonder about Rubin and Roman
03.06.2025 22:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
evidence of new types of matter & energy yet to be discovered by physicists *might* be hiding in the deviant behavior of a muon’s tiny wobble. or maybe not:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/s...
Too many books? I think what you mean is not enough bookshelves.
02.06.2025 17:56 — 👍 7669 🔁 769 💬 272 📌 85greatly appreciated 🥹🙏🏽
02.06.2025 17:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0if you are a federal or federally funded scientist interested in going on the record about losing your job and/or project funding, pls shoot me a DM. looking specifically for non-health scientists doing basic (non-applied) research. thank you!
02.06.2025 15:53 — 👍 16 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 2
thank you @scifri.bsky.social for having me on to chat about science funding cuts & where it might lead
open.spotify.com/episode/6GZ6...
