Dan Fagin

Living on Earth: Bluetooth Butterfly Tracking Monarch butterflies can travel thousands of miles each year between Mexico and North America in an epic relay race of multiple generations. And thanks to new technology, our phones and other Bluetooth...

Monarch butterflies can travel thousands of miles each year using the sun and Earth's magnetic field to navigate. @danfagin.bsky.social speaks on how tiny Bluetooth trackers are giving us a new glimpse into these epic journeys. www.loe.org/shows/segmen...

Hey, it’s the mako shark specimen at the American Museum of Natural History that inspired you-know-what! No it wasn’t a great white, it was a mako caught in New Zealand in 1939.

Hi @lizneeley.bsky.social, can you send me an email address and/or phone where I can reach you? Thanks! Dan dan.fagin@nyu.edu

A Toast To Bats That Pollinate Agave, And Tracking Monarchs How bats, agave plants, and tequila are connected. Plus, tiny trackers on monarch butterflies reveal their migration journeys.

Talkin' #monarchs @scifri.bsky.social, starting at 16:15. www.sciencefriday.com/segments/bat... The @nytimes.com story is here (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...

Do this, people! It's a great award!

I am an exasperating spouse for similar reasons.

We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation. Scientists used tiny new sensors to follow the insects on journeys that take thousands of miles to their winter colonies in Mexico.

For the first time, scientists are tracking the migration of monarch butterflies across much of North America, actively monitoring individual insects on journeys. It could provide crucial insights into the life cycles of hundreds of flying insects at a time when many are in steep decline.

We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation.

Taking a break from book writing to do this fun story! (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...

Equal justice under slaw. www.reuters.com/world/washin...

I'm just wondering what job Eric Adams is going to get in the Cuomo administration.

Love the video. Love SEJ. Support the bylaws changes (with some reservations). But I wish the official SEJ twitter feed had not been used to urge a yes vote, especially in such a non-substantive way. A better message would have been: 1) here's where to educate yourself on the proposal, 2) vote!

Big day in the NY Times for NYU SHERP. Congratulations William Herkewitz (SHERP 31) and @alexaroblesgil.bsky.social (SHERP 42)! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o... www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/s...

It's incredible how much GOP messaging has been this argument for the last ten years...

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Tells West Point Graduates Not to Be ‘Yes Men’

"Advice" from someone who has insisted on surrounding himself with yes men (and women) his ENTIRE LIFE. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

Bravissimo!

Went to a science journalism talk from @danfagin.bsky.social, who shared this mind-blowing idea: people are not irrational for ignoring scientific evidence, they're being TOO rational. They recognize that the social cost of going against their "tribe" is just not worth what they gain from the truth.

Urge Dartmouth College to fight federal government attacks on higher education Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

I signed. Beilock's stance is both wrong and witless. If your policy of "institutional restraint" doesn't exempt the greatest threat to higher education in memory, then your policy is actually institutional silence. And if you give in to the bully once, then he'll take your lunch money every day.

Universal message.

University Lecturer Professor Dan Fagin

#Cornell friends, looking forward to seeing you April 24! Thanks for spreading the word! events.cornell.edu/event/univer...

Slouching toward Mar-a-Lago

A tragedy

Opinion | ‘American Carnage 2: Ultimate Carnage’: Best and Worst Moments From Trump’s Inaugural Address 14 opinion writers assess the substance and style of Trump’s speech.

"Come on, there is no best moment of watching a vicious kakistocracy be installed in the chamber its followers once desecrated in a coup attempt." @michellegoldberg.bsky.social for the win.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/o...

2nd inaugurals then & now:

"With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds."

"We are going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America."

@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social Hi Rob, I don't think we've met, which is surprising, but I've admired your work for years and would like to put you in front of my EJ grad students this spring. Since I don't have your email, can you email me at dan.fagin@nyu.edu so I can explain? Thanks!

If this is a dream, don't wake me.

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep Water

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof Beats

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our Moon

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember

I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!

Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚

Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

The Big Pedosky.

We're here! go.bsky.app/B6LJP7U

Join the party, Andrea!

NYC Under the Surface - Scienceline Plunge into the depths and peel back the surface hiding the city’s secrets: mussels of Newtown Creek, the National Guard stationed in subways, the beavers of Astor Place — and more! Click the icons to...

How well do you know the depths of New York City? Dive deep in Scienceline's latest Special Project: NYC Under the Surface scienceline.org/special-proj... #nyc #sciencejournalism #sciencenews #healthnews #environmentnews