Ross Andersen
Staff Writer at The Atlantic // Working on a book for Random House // Rep’d by Elyse Cheney // ross@theatlantic.com
- I wrote about Elon Musk’s tightening grip on the future of the internet gift link: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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- He is such a fab callback to a better internet
- I wrote about the new color gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
- Justice for James Fong ✊🏻
- Enjoyed this lovely follow-up on olo from @katykelleher.bsky.social, which includes a riff on the (new to me!) legend of celadon: open.substack.com/pub/colorsto...
- After 35 years, the Hubble Space Telescope still has the power to astonish - grateful to @kokogiak.bsky.social for putting its recent gems all in one place for us to peruse: www.theatlantic.com/photo/2025/0...
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- Thanks so much, Alex
- An important update on this story… bsky.app/profile/ross...
- I wrote about the new color gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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View full threadFor those who were particularly touched and saddened to learn that James still counted olo as his favorite color, despite not having seen it, some good news… (next post)
- As of last night, @roordalab.bsky.social has promised to see what they can do for poor James, vis a vis seeing the color. “We owe it to him,” Roorda says. It sounds like James Fong is going to have his happy ending. bsky.app/profile/roor...
- Many of you were vexed to learn that James Fong still had not seen the new color, despite having named it and served as first author on the paper about its discovery bsky.app/profile/ross...
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- it’s such a bad beat
- I wrote about the science (and media roll out) behind that “possible sign of life on a distant planet” gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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- Loved your @aeon.co piece on this!
- (Sorry to dredge up press release discourse)
- I went to the National Zoo to suss out its ideological transgressions gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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- <3 lucky to catch a supremely fun assignment in this news moment
- A moratorium on “skillfully weaves” and all variations thereof
- Just noting neutrally that Pete Hegseth is the only person I’ve ever seen who uses their official portrait on Signal www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
- Beyond thrilled to learn that my essay ‘Do Animals Know That They Will Die’ will be in this year’s Best American Science and Nature Writing. This was extra meaningful because the piece was chosen by @susanorlean.bsky.social and @jaimealyse.bsky.social, two writers whose work I absolutely adore.
- I have it on good authority that they also picked @sarahzhang.bsky.social’s magnificent story about cystic fibrosis, perhaps the most moving piece that I read last year. As ever, honored to be in Sarah’s company for any reason, but esp this. pre-order link: www.amazon.com/Best-America... )
- Oh and here’s the piece itself: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
- Brian Hughes, the spokesman for the National Security Council, responded two hours later, confirming the veracity of the Signal group. “This appears to be an authentic message chain, and we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
- I wrote about LeBron James, Stephen A Smith, and the gigantic emotions of fatherhood gift link: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
- The case for throwing Elon Musk out of the Royal Society (1/x) www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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View full thread5/ He should really know better:
- 6/ Science has to be able to defend itself (fin)
- 3/ Even Musk’s heresies on vaccines or climate change are not enough to throw him out
- 4/ It is not his beliefs that justify his expulsion, but rather his actions—his willingness to dismantle the institutions of science on Trump’s behalf:
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- 4/ But Musk is not just a climate or vaccine heretic. He is actively dismantling the great institutions of science:
- 2/ Scientific institutions are understandably hesitant to expel people for political reasons
- I wrote about the decline of America’s scientific prestige in Antarctica and across the world gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
- There is no truer or more horrifying glimpse at the self than when you accidentally open your phone’s selfie cam
- As you may have heard, most (not all) of the people who produce Outside magazine (and the website) were laid off on Thursday. The ex-ME has a complete archive of issues going all the way back to the 1970s. If anybody knows of a library that might want to house these, lemme know.
- Sad to hear this, Alex
- I wrote about what might happen if DOGE behaves the way that it has behaving inside the agencies that control America’s nuclear weapons systems gift link: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
- Loved this witty, nuanced dispatch from Greenland by @markleibovich.bsky.social
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- Give it time to sit
- I wrote about smoke and smog and the meaning of an orange sky over Los Angeles gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
- I’m told that if you consume enough Campari, they give you a key to the city, make you an honorary citizen, etc
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- +1
- Joan Didion’s essay about LA’s Santa Ana winds remains the last and best word on the subject www.murrieta.k12.ca.us/cms/lib5/CA0...
- I wrote about what will happen if Trump quickly shrinks Bears Ears again, as expected. A hint: more political whiplash in a region that’s already seen plenty (Featuring chats with Native American tribal leaders, mayors of local small towns, and many others.) www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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- We will find out shortly(ish)
- I’ve spent a lot of time in Southern Utah during the last ~15 years, and it was a real pleasure to hold it in mind, day in and day out, while reporting this story
- Ashamed to admit that I clicked away from this excellent ~2500 word essay on attention and distraction—to my email, to slack, to a gdoc, to this place—at least 5-6 times before finishing
- (Bill Simmons voice) PARADISE LOST, written and directed by Robert Eggers, who says no?
