As a reminder, I'm also on Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon. I'm currently most active on Threads but hope to ramp up Bluesky and Mastodon as we go.

This book was a massive lift. Huge thank-you to my coauthors @NinaStrochlic and Patricia and to our incredible editor Maya Myers as well as to the whole team at WonderLab and National Geographic, with a special shoutout to Kate Olesin and Jennifer Emmett.

Join millions who have switched to Grok.

Personal news: I wrote ~3/8 of a book that's out today! If you want a visually rich, historically grounded look at magic thru the millennia, this book's for you. The National Geographic Book of Magic and the Occult is available wherever books are sold:

Personal news: On March 10 I will be joining the staff of.@ScienceMagazine as an associate news editor! I’m thrilled to be supporting such an amazing group of staff and freelance writers, during this critical moment for both science and journalism.

RT @jackmjenkins: People sometime forget that DC is a real place where hundreds of thousands of people live and work every day.

On the eve of the 2024 election, I’m reminded of my coverage of the immediate aftermath of 2016. Through the lens of climate change — and the living conditions of people now and centuries hence — the stakes of this election are enormous.

It took me until I started reading my copy this evening to realize that my story "Up and Away" was included as a Notable in this year's Best American Science and Nature Writing! A huge thank-you to @jaimealyse and @billmckibben!. The story in question:

Good on her for repping Diplocaulus.

And yet, my Triceratops emoji proposal got axed by Unicode after years in limbo. Someday, ornithischians will have their day in the sun. But that day isn’t today.

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Deviations is, among other things, a learning exercise. I'm keen to try out @ghost, the nonprofit blog/newsletter platform that powers @404mediaco, @HellGateNY, @Sequencermag, and other amazing publications.

I'm still going to be freelancing and working on other projects. But in Deviations, I'm going to fall down the rabbit holes and try unusual stuff that would otherwise be hard to pitch. We're going to have some fun!.

The information ecosystem is changing rapidly, and we journalists have to learn new systems and new technologies. I want to experiment with how I get my writing out there and with how I write.

Exciting news! I'm delighted to announce that I'm starting a free ~biweekly newsletter, which I'm calling Deviations. 1/

RT @ScolesSarah: So thrilled and honored to say that @SciCommAwards has given me a surprise prize this year for stories about nuclear weap….

To sum all of this up, here's a shareable card with the chart and a summary of this whole thread. Let me know what you think of this and whether you think you'd want this sort of thing in a newsletter, if I started one!

Something that may be of interest to @mattbelloni and others: This analysis also gives us a way to standardize viewership rankings in Netflix's six-month totals. (I've done this reranking, and it doesn't change things much, because again, most viewership accumulates quickly.).

In some respects, this analysis puts numbers on the feeling I've seen some Netflix subscribers express: that they to get their beloved show renewed, they have to binge a series immediately upon release. These shows take years to make. Cutting them after a few weeks is brutal.

This viewership curve is a direct result of how Netflix works as a platform, not least of all the strategy of dropping all of a show's episodes at once. I'm not saying Netflix "should have" canceled KAOS. I'm trying to reverse-engineer the trends Netflix sees on its end.