Alexandra Witze

@alexwitze.bsky.social

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Science journalist and correspondent for Nature (she/her). Opinions = my own. Reach me at alexwitze.01 (Signal), witzescience (@gmail.com), or awitze (@protonmail.com).

Two planets glimmer in the western sky after sunset
A gray cat looks away from a television screen on which the Artemis II capsule is floating in the ocean. Oh Fiona.
A woman stands in front of a large window with multiple consoles of Mission Control behind her
A white board that reads “good luck Artemis II crew and lunar science team” and a doodle of a Snoopy.
Earth as viewed from space, a curving globe on the left side of a spacecraft camera feed.
An astronomer stands silhouetted against a multicolored cosmic blast of gas and dust
A sign in a convention center reading Puppy Yoga Press Camp AGU Prayer Room With an arrow indicating to the right
A floofy gray cat, stoned on catnip, rests in feline amazement inside a large box with a picture of a cacao bean on the lid.
A blurry white fuzz in the center of a black frame.
Two bright “stars” in the pinkish predawn sky with a foreground of pine trees
A young Robert Redford extending his hand towards the viewer in a black and white photo inside a building. He is Death.
A gorgeous Siamese cat regards the camera
Left: a tissue box, with a multicolored diagram of Layers of the Earth on its side. Right: a tissue box, 3D printed in the shape of Mount St Helens
Video of a crowd holding #nokings signs, with the Alaskan mountain of Denali in the background, chanting “Denali forever”
A gray cat stares pensively, or perhaps vacantly, into the distance.
A gray fluffy cat lying in sunlight on a red and blue patterned rug. This is Fiona the floofmonster.
Words including resilience and Greenland, on a poster. The word “ethical” is crossed out.
Two gray cats curled up on a blue chair
A hand colored picture of a Gila monster with the words "You're welcome for the Ozempic!" in a word bubble coming out of its mouth.
A Capitol building with pro-science signs
A sign reading We Need NOAA
A woman holding a sign showing a polar bear and a melted iceberg and the words Science shouldn’t be polarizing
A woman holds a sign that says Colorado Loves Science
Handwritten notes on a metal table at the National Science Foundation, 2/18/25. The messages include "You deserve better! Thank you!"; "Thank you colleagues! This RIF is WRONG. These orders are immoral & illegal"; and "Your service will forever be remembered and deeply valued - ENG directorate".
Two gray cats snoozing on a rug in the sun
A large blue and white inflatable drillship. The side of it says “in search of earth’s secrets”.
A comet in the sky above a landscape of forested mountains
A woman points to a distant flaming rocket in the blue sky above her.
A woman standing in front of a sign that reads Europa Clipper, in a grassy Florida landscape with a rocket in the distance.
Brilliant pink and green aurora above a tree lined horizon
An array of gelato flavors on display in a case
A man in sunglasses and a skinny red tie standing in front of a flowering bush.
A pillar of purplish light reaches skyward above a dark horizon. This is the aurora borealis.
A woman holds up a copy of a hardback book: OUR MOON by Rebecca Boyle. A black-and-white globe of the Moon is in the background.
A powerpoint slide showing a map of southwest Iceland, with prior volcanic eruptions marked in shades of purple and circles indicating areas of hazard. Hazards listed on the slide include tephra fall, gas pollution, lava flows and littoral (coastal) eruptions.
A square tissue box decorated on the outside with the layers of the earth, from crust to core
A text summary of the ongoing Icelandic volcanic unrest, with a side blurb promoting my book ISLAND ON FIRE, about the 1783 eruption of the Icelandic volcano Laki
A gray tabby cat lounges atop a small white gas fireplace.
A perfect light golden ring (the Sun nearly completely eclipsed by the Moon) on a black background.
A helicopter carrying a package (asteroid) on a long line hovers over a building in the desert
A bearded man walks in front of a helicopter with a NASA logo on a desert morning.
Three helicopters on a runaway at dawn
Caffeine snacks and a reporters notebook
A gray cat curled up snoozing solidly