Katherine Bourzac
journalist covering earth science, chemistry, physics, neuroscience, microbes, computing, etc.! for Nature, IEEE Spectrum and others 🏳️🌈🧪⚛️
- Thanks to this bunny for peeking around the corner of all the bad news in the feed
- Check if your work has likely been used to train the meta AI. Um... 84 results... Hello world? 😬 #booksky
- Doomscroll break! Researchers made 2D sheets of metal by squeezing metal droplets in a tiny press. Guangyu Zhang told me he was inspired by watching a video of copper forging. Like graphene, these 2D sheets have exotic properties. And it should now be much easier to make and study them.
- Cutest critter cuddling for science in the San Francisco sun #standforscience2025
- Please read this and help out science journalists! We're really having a year. The host for our annual conference has withdrawn. This is a crucial meetup where journalists and science writers find jobs, meet new freelance clients, learn new skills, and make friends.
- UPDATE: We remain committed to organizing a conference this year after #SciWri25 hosts withdraw. More than ever, providing an opportunity for the professional science writing community to convene, learn, and support each other is critical. READ MORE+HELP OUT: www.nasw.org/article...
- Thanks to @denadubal.bsky.social and @bucklr01.bsky.social for talking to me for this story about the fascinating X chromosome!
- “It’s a paradigm shift to know that the silent X doesn’t stay asleep,” says Dena Dubal, a neuroscientist and neurologist at the University of California School of Medicine in San Francisco, who led the study. go.nature.com/4ksThvP
