Eva Amsen

Mixture | Eva Amsen | Substack Where science meets everything else. Click to read Mixture, by Eva Amsen, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

I bookmark interesting links like these when I come across them, and I save them to send out in the Mixture newletter every other Friday. (The free tier gets you all the links! Paid tier is more of my own writing and full archive/comment access) mixture.substack.com

The Community Group Rethinking LA's Approach To Wildfires One year after the LA fires, the Community Brigade is equipping residents to prepare for, fight, and recover from wildfires.

And this @scifri.bsky.social episode about a community-driven, science-backed way to prevent homes from being destroyed in wildfires. www.sciencefriday.com/segments/la-...

The academic community failed Wikipedia for 25 years — now it might fail us Artificial-intelligence systems are feeding on Wikipedia without giving back, and academic indifference is threatening the survival of what is arguably the most widely used reference work on the plane...

If you missed the newsletter, you also perhaps missed the link to @jemielniak.bsky.social 's Nature piece about what @wikipedia.org means for academics (and why it needs help) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Ann Druyan on How NASA’s Golden Records Got Made Ann Druyan on How NASA’s Golden Records Got Made: A comic about humanity’s love letter to interstellar space.

And Mikael Angelo Francisco's comic about Ann Druyan and the Voyager Golden Records in @nautil.us nautil.us/ann-druyan-o...

Why sinking cities may now be a bigger climate crisis than rising seas | BBC Science Focus Magazine A hidden force is causing highly populated river deltas to sink. In many cases, the subsidence is happening faster than the sea is rising

For example, in last week's issue, I linked to this article about sinking cities by @tomhowarth.bsky.social in www.sciencefocus.com/news/deltas-...

Mixture | Eva Amsen | Substack Where science meets everything else. Click to read Mixture, by Eva Amsen, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Every 2 weeks I publish a science newsletter called Mixture. If you only ever glanced at the headlines in passing when I post it, you might have missed that the newsletter also always features interesting links from around the web. #scicomm mixture.substack.com

From Science to SciComm From Science to SciComm is a guide and workbook for scientists who want to move into a science communication career. The first few chapters will also be of interest to researchers who want to get invo...

In the nine years since I created the "From Science to SciComm" workbook (for researchers who want a #scicomm career), I sold hundreds of copies. But the last update was in 2020, so it was a *bit* outdated. I've now done a full overhaul for 2026, so you can get a fresh new ebook! payhip.com/b/zSQ0

Will do when I’m home! I’m just on the bus so don’t have the examples in front of me

Is there anyone at Altmetric who I can chat to about this? I'm a science journalist, so my concern is twofold: First, I use Altmetric to see what people have been saying about papers (not what AIs summarize), and second, I worry that articles by actual journalists are under the same tab as AI slop

@altmetric.com I noticed that often when a paper only has one item under "news" coverage on Altmetric, it's often from the same site that seems to cover *every* paper in certain journals. I strongly suspect that these are AI generated and question whether they should be highlighted as media coverage

Too bad about the winter but just look at his (lack of) neck in that photo! He’s so smooshed 😆

If you've previously bought a copy, you should have received an email with a new download link so you can get the new edition for free. I think the email comes from Payhip. Check your spam!

If you didn't get it (but bought one before), drop me a line and I will manually send you one.

From Science to SciComm From Science to SciComm is a guide and workbook for scientists who want to move into a science communication career. The first few chapters will also be of interest to researchers who want to get invo...

In the nine years since I created the "From Science to SciComm" workbook (for researchers who want a #scicomm career), I sold hundreds of copies. But the last update was in 2020, so it was a *bit* outdated. I've now done a full overhaul for 2026, so you can get a fresh new ebook! payhip.com/b/zSQ0

It's a distraction from the fact that musicians are now refusing to perform there and nobody wants to buy tickets anymore. Closing it for a few years makes it seem like THAT is why there are no performances/visitors.

An orchestra at rehearsal, as seen from the violin section

London Euphonia Orchestra has started rehearsals for our March 7 concert, and tickets are extra cheap for another few days. (After Feb 7 they go up in price).

It's a rare chance to hear a Louise Farranc symphony! www.londoneuphonia.com

Nobody has ever taken a photo of a train before in the history of trains, so they had no other option.

It's one of the 12 days per year when the US/international dates are written the same way, so if you have a bunch of paperwork to sign, do it all today to avoid confusion!

(I write out the name of the month whenever I have to sign anything from a US company in the first 12 days of the month!)

Peace and science I visited the Nobel Peace Prize museum and it made me think about the link between peace and science.

I was in Norway last weekend and visited the Nobel Peace Prize museum. It got me thinking about the link between peace and science, and why you really can’t have good quality science when there are distracting/displacing conflicts all around. 🧪 mixture.substack.com/p/peace-and-...

Not “less than”, but certainly harder to focus on research!

Peace and science I visited the Nobel Peace Prize museum and it made me think about the link between peace and science.

I was in Norway last weekend and visited the Nobel Peace Prize museum. It got me thinking about the link between peace and science, and why you really can’t have good quality science when there are distracting/displacing conflicts all around. 🧪 mixture.substack.com/p/peace-and-...

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Noooo :(
I just finished rewatching Schitt's Creek, but she was funny in *everything*.

A gold Nobel Peace medal in a display case

A spoiler. This is the image I’ll be using for the next one

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3D images in chemistry and art A look back at 90s 3D art and how chemists showed 3D images before video. Plus: science writing around the web and more

I’m working on a new Mixture issue today, but have to finish something else first, so why don’t you reread the previous one while you wait? open.substack.com/pub/mixture/...

"Luchs speaks five languages: English, French, Italian, and some German and Russian. She approached grasping Gen Z parlance like she was learning another language.

...An Instagram commenter wrote: 'She’s so natural with it too like it’s not even cringe.'"

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Oh no! Hope she’s okay and getting good care ❤️‍🩹

Wait, what happened to your mum? (I was a little bit offline.)

A screenshot of WhatsApp: Ash: Sebastián, I have one very pressing question. Sebastián Di Martino: Let me know Ash: Are jaguar soft? Sebastián Di Martino: They are very soft (two hearts on the answer)

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.