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Science journalist writing for Nature, Scientific American, National Geographic, Guardian Books, BBC Future, Washington Post Opinions, Prospect Magazine. Passionate reader. #PoetryIsMedicine #ClimateCrisis She/Her
Out of all this evil, it might be revealed: renewables make us (+ people in the Middle east) safer, are more price stable & (side-benefit) denies successive US presidents excuses to blow-up a region trying to recover from previous efforts to blow them up. Grim watching.
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In Texas, abortion is banned in nearly all circumstances, including rape and incest.
When a pregnant child is moved to Texas, “as long as she is in Texas, she can’t access an abortion."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Appalling. All unaccompanied immigrant children who are pregnant, many by rape, are being moved to a single facility in Texas in order to avoid providing abortion services in a significant human rights violation, critics say.
Some are as young as THIRTEEN.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Israel's High Court has granted an interim injunction preventing the deportation from Israel of 37 international aid organizations operating in Gaza/West Bank.
The petition says the groups have invested approximately $500 million to provide emergency aid to Gaza.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
I don’t know what to say to monarchist relatives texting me asking me why I am not celebrating. How does one celebrate this? One replied to me, “You have to crack a few eggs to make an omelette.” I’m just not going to reply.
02.03.2026 02:52 — 👍 71 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 1
In June, Benjamin Netanyahu declared “a historic victory, which will stand for generations” after the 12-day war on Iran.
Few prominent Israelis have asked questions about why the legacy of one historic victory is another war.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
I'm going to keep banging this drum for the foreseeable future.
On 5 February 2026, the New START treaty between the United States and Russia expired. For the first time since the early 1970s, there is no arms control agreement *at all* limiting the world’s two largest nuclear arsenals.
In Australia, the endangered quoll is making a comeback.
Conservationists have trapped and re-released 27 eastern quolls in a protected pastoral property near Dunkeld in western Victoria.
The species's only original wild population remains in Tasmania.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
“This is a holy war for [Iran's leadership] — and they seem willing to burn down the country and region before surrendering,” said Ellie Geranmayeh. “If this air campaign succeeds in toppling Iran’s leadership, years of chaos probably lie ahead.”
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/w...
FYI The US experienced a chemical accident that harmed humans or the environment every other day on average between 2004-2025.
Also, this: The Trump Environmental Protection Agency is stacked with former industry lobbyists.
The Trump administration is slowly dismantling the federal disaster management system that protects the nation from chemical catastrophes, such as fires and explosions at high-risk facilities.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"Let's prove that it's possible to feel compassion for all."
'Children No More: Were and Are Gone' focusses on a small group of Israeli women who protested against the killing of children in Gaza and earns an Academy Award nomination.
Gift Link:
www.haaretz.com/life/2026-02...
“There are people who are extremely fearful of what this war [...] is going to bring to Iran,” Bahareh Ebne Alian said, “in terms of civil war, in terms of the disintegration of Iran, or in terms of just another failed state in the region.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/w...
"Let's prove that it's possible to feel compassion for all."
'Children No More: Were and Are Gone' focusses on a small group of Israeli women who protested against the killing of children in Gaza and earns an Academy Award nomination.
Gift Link:
www.haaretz.com/life/2026-02...
Amen, I agree.
01.03.2026 09:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In the midst of this war - when millions of civilians are in the crosshairs - safety is effectively defined by structural inequalities.
Some reflections from my time in Israel during the Israel-Iran war in June on what privilege means at times of crisis: medium.com/@idoliven/an...
Thank you for pointing out these basic truths about Gaza, Israel, and interminable war, which truths so many choose to ignore.
01.03.2026 09:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Russia and the United States hold 87% of the world's nuclear weapons.
When legal limits disappear these two countries will be free to build and deploy more nuclear weapons.
Explainer by Melissa Parke of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ0r...
New START is the last remaining nuclear arms treaty between the United States and Russia.
It puts legally binding limits on their deployed strategic warheads and the missiles and bombers that carry them.
New START has expired and no treaty replaces it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ0r...
Just popping up here to remind people that New START treaty, which limited U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear weapon arsenals, expired on February 5, 2026 and has been replaced by....nothing.
www.icanw.org/new_start_ex...
Israel's High Court has granted an interim injunction preventing the deportation from Israel of 37 international aid organizations operating in Gaza/West Bank.
The petition says the groups have invested approximately $500 million to provide emergency aid to Gaza.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Good for you.
26.02.2026 13:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I have experienced plenty of overt sexism in my career as a science journalist, and at times sexual harassment too.
Reading about the Epstein files and the *covert* sexism and misogyny in which his pals engaged, I now wonder if my public experience was just a sliver of what was said in private.
I have experienced plenty of overt sexism in my career as a science journalist, and at times sexual harassment too.
Reading about the Epstein files and the *covert* sexism and misogyny in which his pals engaged, I now wonder if my public experience was just a sliver of what was said in private.
“We have this narrative that explicit misogyny is something from the ’50s and ’60s" said Lauren Aulet, a neuroscientist. “I think this made clear that explicit misogyny is still out there in science and in academia, it’s just perhaps behind closed doors.”
19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...
"For the boys in the club, the arrangement worked to their benefit. Epstein donated millions of dollars to their research, hosted them at networking dinners at his home, invited them to visit his island or his ranch in Santa Fe, and connected them to potential funders to further their work."
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“This is not just the worst mass killing in the contemporary history of Iran,” said Payam Akhavan, now a human rights lawyer and a co-founder of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center. “It is one of the worst mass killings in contemporary world history.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
A network of free private schools for war orphans and other children has sprouted in Gaza. The schools, called Academies of Hope, are the brainchild of a Palestinian American neurosurgeon, Dr. David Hasan, who visited Gaza on relief missions.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/w...
You can read about Dr. David Hasan in this gift link from Haaretz:
Neurosurgeon Dr. Hasan was a member of the first medical team – consisting of 18 physicians from the United States, Canada and England – to enter Gaza after the start of the war.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
