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Joanna Thompson

@jojofoshosho.bsky.social

Science writer, insect enthusiast, part-time pro runner and coach. (she/her) πŸ’–πŸ’œπŸ’™ https://joannathompson.work/

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New York! Don’t forget to vote!

29.10.2025 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m pretty sure I have more β€œaunts”, β€œuncles” and β€œcousins” than actual aunts, uncles and cousins

28.10.2025 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Double schism!

28.10.2025 10:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Many food banks also accept & distribute cat and dog food.
Many rescues & shelters also have food pantries.
(This is also important, because many people will cut back on quality & volume of food they eat. In order to keep their pets safe at home.) ❀️

27.10.2025 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Shark Data Suggests Animals Scale Like Geometric Objects | Quanta Magazine Despite their wide variety of sizes, niches and shapes, sharks scale geometrically, pointing to possible fundamental constraints on evolution.

New evidence suggests sharks - and possibly other animals - scale like simple geometric shapes. But why? πŸ§ͺ🌏 My latest for Quanta: www.quantamagazine.org/shark-data-s...

27.10.2025 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

On a serious note, consider donating to your local food bank this week.

27.10.2025 12:29 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My partner, very seriously: the K-pop demon hunters have blood on their hands.

27.10.2025 01:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Furloughed feds pick up Seattle beach trash to keep serving the public Furloughed federal employees were out in the rain picking up cigarette butts, bottle caps, and other trash at Seattle’s Golden Gardens Park on Friday.

Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown.

Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.

25.10.2025 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 3300    πŸ” 1027    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 56

If you’re writing β€˜SCOOP’ and then linking to a published news article, I just need you to understand this is not, in fact, a scoop

24.10.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Black and white photo of a woman inter 20s or 30s, with short hair, looking over one shoulder

Black and white photo of a woman inter 20s or 30s, with short hair, looking over one shoulder

Can we just appreciate how stunning young Ursula K Le Guin was

22.10.2025 02:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2311    πŸ” 197    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 22
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20.10.2025 12:02 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 6

Also lawns must be destroyed

20.10.2025 01:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trying to quantify intelligence is an inherently eugenicist exercise.

20.10.2025 01:49 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Sliwa on transportation: β€œI like to avoid yellow cabs. As you know I was shot in the back of a yellow cab in 1992 by the Gambinos.”

You can’t beat at NYC mayoral debate.

17.10.2025 00:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1382    πŸ” 175    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 31

Help support responsible journalists by sharing their work! I know it’s satisfying to dunk on rage-inducing takes, but next time you’re tempted consider uplifting a good take instead (I’m saying this as much to myself as to everyone else)

15.10.2025 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Part of the reason we keep getting all these pieces from inflammatory pundits is because they get engagement - clicks, posts and reposts

15.10.2025 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I am once again begging you, if you see good journalism being done PLEASE share it!

15.10.2025 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is also how I felt when I learned termites are basically a type of really social cockroach

13.10.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

09.10.2025 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1835    πŸ” 983    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 97

Getting Killed is the best Radiohead album of the decade

09.10.2025 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Newsletter Sept. 25, 2025: Tylenol misogyny β€œTo the woman he said, 'I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.'” - Gen...

Hey read this @sequencermag.bsky.social piece (and the essay it links to) for some really good insight re: the supposed Tylenol and autism link.

08.10.2025 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

New Rainbow Kitten Surprise album makes me want to drive around the blue ridge mountains just as the leaves are starting to turn.

02.10.2025 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey this is a great read.

30.09.2025 19:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Insurance Innovations Reward Communities Reducing Climate Risk Fires and floods are scaring insurance companies away from disaster zones, but communities are doing their part to improve outcomes.

The insurance industry is broken, especially in wildfire-prone states like California that have been hit hard by climate change. Could a community-based risk reduction model be the solution? Proud to have gotten to co-write this story for @kneedeeptimes.bsky.social with @megduff.com 🌎πŸ§ͺ

26.09.2025 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

What if the rapture did happen, but it was like 6 people and no one noticed?

23.09.2025 10:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Holy shit this new Wednesday album!

22.09.2025 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is an important point - things weren’t healthier or magically safer in the past, and we’ve known raw milk carries risks for a long time.

03.09.2025 19:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve never been the biggest Korn fan, but I have to say watching Jonathan Davis bop around onstage in a bedazzled kilt was extremely endearing.

28.08.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Next Book Ban Target? Romance: Book Censorship News, August 22, 2025 Where and how romance books will become the next targets of book banners. That, plus this week's roundup of book censorship news.

We knew this would come.

bookriot.com/the-next-boo...

25.08.2025 11:58 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cancelling mRNA studies is the highest irresponsibility The rest of the world is not following the US government’s dangerous path, and will stick with the technology that helped the world out of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A technology that played a key part in saving millions of lives during the pandemic should be celebrated. Yet in the US, research into mRNA vaccines is being cut. While sadly not unexpected, it’s irresponsible as we argue in our editorial this week πŸ§ͺ

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

20.08.2025 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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