Joanna Thompson

New York! Don’t forget to vote!

I’m pretty sure I have more “aunts”, “uncles” and “cousins” than actual aunts, uncles and cousins

Double schism!

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.) ❤️

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? 🧪🌏 My latest for Quanta: www.quantamagazine.org/shark-data-s...

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

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

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.

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

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

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Also lawns must be destroyed

Trying to quantify intelligence is an inherently eugenicist exercise.

Sliwa on transportation: “I 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.

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)

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

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

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

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-...

Getting Killed is the best Radiohead album of the decade

Newsletter Sept. 25, 2025: Tylenol misogyny “To 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.

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

Hey this is a great read.

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 🌎🧪

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

Holy shit this new Wednesday album!

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.

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.

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...

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 🧪

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