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Caty Enders @catyenders.bsky.social Journoscientist interested in the effects of social media, AI, and our digital infrastructure on the brain and behavior 🧠 Words in @nytimes @theguardian @outside @NPR and elsewhere https://standinginthecurrent.substack.com
melanie d.g. kaplan @melaniedgkaplan.bsky.social author of LAB DOG
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Jason Dearen @jasondearen.com Investigative Journalist | criminal justice, extremism, environment, public health.
Watch Emmy-winning doc: "Grand Knighthawk” on Hulu.
Read my book: "Kill Shot: A Shadow Industry, A Deadly Disease"
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Anil Ananthaswamy @anilananth.bsky.social Journalist with bylines in Nature, Quanta, Scientific American, New Scientist, and many more; former deputy news editor at New Scientist Author of 4 popular science books, including WHY MACHINES LEARN: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI; TED speaker
Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social Journalist and author. Ex-Business Insider, ex-Wired. Hosted a podcast about an Alien TV show. Wrote a book about booze and a book about colors.
Signal: @jetjocko.15
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Karen Brown @karenstella.bsky.social Journalist (health, mental health, and stories of the human condition). On staff at New England Public Radio in western Mass, plus freelance for NYT, NPR, etc. Have a couple of grown-ass kids (their term) and most quoted movie is This is Spinal Tap.
Lila Guterman @lguterman.bsky.social Science journalist with long covid. Former staff at Science Magazine, Science News, C&EN, Chronicle of Higher Education. Now full-time patient.
Dan Charles @dancharles.bsky.social Telling stories about climate, food, land. Former NPR. Urbanist and ruralist and bicyclist. Science Magazine contributor.
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VivienM @vivienm.bsky.social Journalist. Nature journals and blog, pieces also in New Scientist, The Economist, Science, Lancet. Science, tech; arts and culture on occasion. Ex-MIT KSJ fellow; sr producer at arte. Articles, podcasts, videos. https://www.vivienmarx.com Signal: vam.60
John Higgins @jhigginswriter.bsky.social Science writer, Fred Hutch News, covering the Basic Sciences and Human Biology research divisions of Fred Hutch Cancer Center @fredhutch.bsky.social. Frmr @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social, Akron Beacon Journal, soljourno.bsky.social, @ksjatmit.bsky.social.
Angela Posada-Swafford @angelapswafford.bsky.social A voice for science & exploration. Creative writer, author, lecturer, facilitator, expeditions. Science diplomacy, education, inspiration. USA and Latin America. Alumna #MIT; Fellow #TheExplorersClub; words for #NatGeo
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George Musser @georgemusser.com contributing editor, Scientific American, Nautilus; contributing writer, Quanta; author, Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation, Spooky Action at a Distance, Complete Idiot’s Guide to String Theory; planetary scientist, local historian, bassist, salsero
Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social Journalist. Contributing Ed, Scientific American. Senior Fellow, Emory Univ Center for the Study of Human Health. Books: BIG CHICKEN, SUPERBUG, BEATING BACK THE DEVIL. Stories: https://authory.com/marynmckenna. Location: points on the 44th parallel.
Jane Qiu, PhD @janeqiu.bsky.social Globe-trotting, award-winning independent science writer in China | Words in @nature.com, @sciam.bsky.social, National Geographic and more | Writing a book on emerging diseases for @scribnerbooks.bsky.social | Ex: @ksjatmit.bsky.social, @nature.com
Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd
latest books: A Wall Is Also a Road, Automatic Noodle, We Will Rise Again
bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc.
pronouns: they/them
all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com
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Andrada Fiscutean @andradaf.bsky.social Freelance Science & Tech journalist.
Bylines: BBC World Service, CSO Online, Ars Technica, Motherboard & more. KSJ at MIT Fellow 2020
#cybersecurity #science #retrotech
Richard Fisher @richardfisher.bsky.social Senior Editor, Aeon | Author of non-fiction book The Long View | Honorary professor in science communication, UCL | Formerly: BBC Future, MIT Knight Science Journalism fellow, New Scientist | https://richardfisher.carrd.co
Yves Sciama @ysciama.bsky.social Journaliste spécialisé en sciences et en environnement vivant près du 45ème parallèle. Heureusement, il y a de belles personnes, de bons livres et des forêts.
Wojtek Brzezinski @wojtekbrzezinski.pl Polish science journo, 2023 Knight Science Journalism @ MIT Fellow. Writes about climate, AI, social media and space. Will talk your head off about scuba diving.
www.wojtekbrzezinski.pl
www.tygodnikpowszechny.pl
Meera Subramanian @meerasub.bsky.social 🌏Journalist. Author. Earthling.
🍃 A Better World Is Possible: Global Youth Confront the Climate Crisis (March 2026)
🖋️ Bylines: New Yorker, Nature, VQR, Orion contributing ed.
📚 Creative Nonfiction prof at Sewanee School of Letters
🌿 www.meerasub.org
Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
Lisa De Bode @lisadebode.bsky.social journalist
Alister Doyle @alisterdoyle.bsky.social Freelance environmental reporter, author of “The Great Melt”, formerly Reuters environment correspondent, MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellow
Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social Book author, toxicology journalist, fascinated by poison and murder (current book project), and, oh yeah, I'm the former director of the Knight Science Journalism program at MIT.
Jason GRIZZLED Bittel @bittelmethis.bsky.social Wild animal, science writer, & author of GRIZZLED: Love Letters to 50 of North America's Least Understood Animals (National Geographic Books). He/him. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804002/grizzled-by-jason-bittel/
Tasmiha Khan @tasmihakhan.bsky.social Mother, writer, student for life.
Pakinam Amer @pakinamamer.bsky.social Emmy-winning journalist. Aspiring screenwriter & filmmaker. Immersive storyteller @ MIT Virtuality. Former KSJ fellow. Board @ Imagine Science Films. Words & podcasts: SciAm, Nature, Science, The Boston Globe & others.
Tim De Chant @dechant.bsky.social Climate reporter at TechCrunch, lecturer at MIT. Previously at KSJ@MIT, NOVA, and Chicago Tribune. https://de-chant.com/tim
Rebecca Boyle 🌕 @rboyle31.bsky.social Journalist, selenophile, hiker, Coloradan. Friend of dogs, foe of AI. I speak for the Moon.
Life is short but sweet for certain.
Author of award-winning national bestseller OUR MOON!
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@lvaligra.bsky.social @lvaligra.bsky.social Investigative environment reporter at Bangor Daily News in Maine; writer; traveler; log cabin lover
Julia Rosen @1juliarosen.bsky.social Journalist. Working on a book about grass.
Lisa Grossman @astrolisa.bsky.social Science journalist (current: Science News; past: New Scientist, Wired). 2023-24 Knight Science Journalism fellow. Lifelong astronomy nerd. Queer Jewish mom 🏳️🌈 she/her/hers
Barbara Moran @moranwriter.bsky.social Science journalist, swimmer, mom of two boys. I work at WBUR in Boston but all posts are my own (especially the funny ones).
Steve Mirsky @stevemirsky.bsky.social Retired layabout. ❤️🇨🇦 Former staffer, current contributor at Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/acknowledging-reality-is-an-excellent-way-to-function-within-it/
Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social PDX-based science journalist writing about climate change, food security, land use, biodiversity loss, and diversity in STEM she/her
Signal: ginnyg.04
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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of Becoming Earth (Random House) ✵ Contributing writer, New York Times Magazine ✵ Naturalist, wildlife gardener & photographer, baker ✵ 🇱🇧🇺🇸🏳️🌈 ✵ Surname rhymes with neighbor ✵ https://www.ferrisjabr.com
Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social Sci journo, author of Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains. Highly caffeinated. All bad takes mine. She/her
Thiago Medaglia @thiagomedaglia.bsky.social Journalist, founder of Ambiental Media, KSJ at MIT fellow 2020, master in History of Science at Harvard, former editor at NatGeo Brazil
Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social science journalist. author. molecular biologist. curious.
interested in #microbes, #misinformation and all things #blue
contributing correspondent at @science.org
co-host of @pandemia.bsky.social
2024 KSJ fellow at MIT
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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com Health tech / AI reporter @ STAT News
AAAS MMF '21
PFAS PhD/water nerd
Buckeye/believer/sad indie rock concertgoer
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social Award-winning public health reporter at KFF Health News. Bylines at Nature, New York Times, National Geographic & more. AmyM@kff.org Signal: AmyMaxmen.25 www.amymaxmen.com & https://kffhealthnews.org/news/author/amy-maxmen
Mary-Rose Abraham 🌹 @maryroseabraham.bsky.social Multimedia Journalist / bylines: BBC News, Civil Eats, Deutsche Welle, Guardian, NatGeo, NPR, Undark
past: Knight Science Journalism at MIT, ABC News producer
alum: Columbia University Journalism, UCLA, Harvard-Westlake School
Pagan Kennedy @pagankennedy.bsky.social Author of "The Secret History of the Rape Kit" and 11 other books. Contributor to NY Times, Atlantic, New Yorker, etc. Former "zine queen" of the 1990s.
Colman Andrews @colman.bsky.social A "suave, Francophile food-and-wine know-it-all" and yellow dog Democrat who would rather be back home in Southern California.
I'm writing as fast as I can.
Zack Colman @zcolman.bsky.social POLITICO climate & energy reporter
SIGNAL: zcolman.75
Roberta Kwok @robertakwok.bsky.social Author of LOST IN CURIOSITY: Field Notes From Scientists' Adventures into the Unknown (available now from Sourcebooks): https://www.robertakwok.com/book. MIT Knight Fellow '20. Bylines in NYT, NewYorker.com, Nature, Audubon, etc.
@karenhopkin.bsky.social @karenhopkin.bsky.social
David Ansley @dansley.bsky.social Hanging out in the PNW woods, preserving the values that matter, for the duration.
#photography
#fungi
#forestbathing
Justin O'Neill @jjoneill.bsky.social senior editor @wamu.org covering local politics
Previously: researching environmental toxins @ksjatmit.bsky.social / Smithsonian's Sidedoor pod / Nat Geo / NPR
📍 🍁 in D.C.
Reto U. .Schneider @ruschneider.bsky.social engineer ETH | knight fellow MIT | science writer | deputy at NZZ Folio | expert in weird experiments | www.retouschneider.ch
Jared Whitlock @jaredwhitlock.bsky.social features editor @endpts.com / fall 2021 fellow
@ksjatmit.bsky.social
Writing (and editing) stories on rare disease medicine, diagnostics and China
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Eva Wolfangel @ewo.name cyber cyber journalist
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Matrix: @wolfangel:matrix.org
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David Baron @dhbaron.bsky.social Science writer, eclipse chaser, ardent Coloradan, and author of THE MARTIANS, AMERICAN ECLIPSE, and THE BEAST IN THE GARDEN. More at davidbaronauthor.com.- H Hanno Charisius @hannocharisius.bsky.social Journalist
Lynne Peeples @lynnepeeps.bsky.social Seattle-based science journalist, keynote speaker, and author of THE INNER CLOCK (Sept 2024, Riverhead Books). Former biostatistician. www.lynnepeeples.com
Hillary Rosner @hillaryrosner.bsky.social Science journalist, editor, author, professor, mom, dog person. Book about wildlife connectivity forthcoming in 2025 from Patagonia Books. Definitively anti-kakistocracy.
Federico Kukso @fedkukso.bsky.social Science writer • 2016 @KSJatMIT/ @Harvard fellow • 📖 #FRUTOLOGIAS: Historia política y cultural de las frutas • #ODORAMA Historia cultural del olor (Odorama: Cultural History of Smell) • IG: @fedkukso • linktr.ee/fedkukso • 🇦🇷🏳️🌈
Chris Mooney @chriscmooney.bsky.social Climate and science journalist and Julia G. and Alfred G. Hill Chair of Excellence in Science, Technology, and Medical Writing at @utknoxville.bsky.social. Former WaPo climate writer. Views are my own. For my latest: https://reportearth.substack.com/
Natasha Mitchell (she/her) @natashamitchell.bsky.social Australian journo. NOW: host of ABC Radio National's BIG IDEAS, THEN: Founding presenter/creator of All in the Mind & Science Friction podcasts, host of Life Matters, MIT Knight fellow, World Federation of Science Journalists board. Owned by a wolfhound-x.
Sora Song @songsora.bsky.social
W. Wayt Gibbs @wayt.bsky.social Science writer & editor. Contributing writer, IEEE Spectrum; Editorial director, Climate Parables (Anthropocene magazine) and Intellectual Ventures. Writing a book on climate change and the global energy transition.
Rafael Garcia @rafagarc.bsky.social science journalist
Emily PhD 🎓 @ejwillingham.bsky.social I’ve angered famous men. Scribe @thinkingautism.com: https://tinyurl.com/TPGA-NL. Books: PHALLACY+TAILORED BRAIN+. Journalist, words@ SciAm++. Biologist: embryos/gonads+. Human-crafted work. Pro-woke/antifascist. Very Texan 🤠 https://tinyurl.com/526jrcuv
Fabio Turone @fabioturone.bsky.social Science Journalist • Director @cesj.bsky.social • WP leader #FRONTIERS project – ERC Science Journalism Initiative • Alumnus of KSJ@MIT • President SWIM • former board member EFSJ
Corinna Wu @corinnawu.bsky.social Science journalist | Senior Editor at Undark Magazine | she/her | Views expressed are my own
https://www.linkedin.com/in/corinnawu/
https://undark.org/meet-our-team/
Cynthia Graber @cagraber.bsky.social Co-host of Gastropod (entertaining podcast about food science/history). Instructor at MIT grad program in science writing. Lover of brassicas. Somervillain for life.
Christoph Drösser @cdsf.bsky.social Journalist in San Francisco
Laura Bliss @mslaurabliss.bsky.social Editor and writer at Bloomberg Businessweek. Pulitzer finalist 2024. Cities, science, climate and maps. lbliss2@bloomberg.net
Betsy Mason @betsymason.bsky.social
Dyna Rochmyaningsih @rochmyaningsih.bsky.social Journalist based in rural Sumatra. Covering the intersection of science and society in Indonesia and the Global South. MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellow 2023/2024
Molly Segal @mollyaudio.bsky.social Journalist covering climate change for CBC Radio’s What On Earth
MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellow 2019-2020
Vancouver, B.C.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whatonearth/author/molly-segal-1.6518000- D David Ropeik @dropeik.bsky.social retired Harvard Instructor in the psychology of risk perception, author, potter
Mark Ellis Harris @meharris.bsky.social Writing a book on OceanGate "Deep End" published 1/27. Tech investigations for IEEE Spectrum, Wired, MIT Tech Review, TechCrunch. Senior Editor at Anthropocene Magazine. Always interested in tips! None of my writing includes generative AI/LLM.
Madeline Ostrander @madelinevo.bsky.social Climate journalist, author, AT HOME ON AN UNRULY PLANET
http://madelineostrander.com
KSJ at MIT Fellow 2023-2024
Mastodon: @madelineostrander@journa.host,
@madelinevo on Insta
Ann Gibbons @evoscribe.bsky.social Science Writer, Author
Contributing Correspondent for Science Magazine
Writes about human evolution, molecular evolution, and primate evolution
Teaches science writing, Carnegie Mellon University
Aleszu @aleszu.bsky.social Data Scientist, Advance Local • Fmr director of dataviz, Urban Institute • Alum USA TODAY Investigations, Undark magazine, Esquire, Science Friday • Knight Fellow at MIT ‘14 • Taught @ Northeastern • Built Storybench.org • Peruano-gringo • Cleveland OH
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Dan Falk @danfalk.bsky.social Hi! I write about #science for Smithsonian, Discover, Quanta, Nautilus, Undark, National Geographic, CBC Radio, & many other outlets. Books include The Science of Shakespeare and In Search of Time. Co-host of BookLab podcast. 🔭🪐⭐️⚛️
Ingfei Chen @ingfeichen.bsky.social Freelance scribe of science stories for http://newyorker.com & others. NYC native who defected to California
Sabin Russell @sabinwiki.bsky.social Retired observer, word-stacker
Pamela Ferdinand @pamelawrites.bsky.social Journalist. Editor. Author. Environmentalist.
MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellow.
Sarah Gilman @sarahmgilman.bsky.social Writer & illustrator @ The Atlantic, Sierra, Audubon, etc. Edits @ High Country News. Subscribe to Terra Affirma for comics and visual essays @ https://sarahmgilman.substack.com Art @ http://etsy.me/3llAmpO and www.instagram.com/hiddendrawerdesigns/
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Rod McCullom @rodmccullom.bsky.social Science and technology writer | Foodie | Globetrotter | AI and neuro blerd
Senior contributor Undark @undark.org |
Bylines: Scientific American | MIT Technology Review | Harvard Public Health | The Atlantic
Alum: MIT KSJ | MIT | University of Chicago
@peterwhoriskey.bsky.social @peterwhoriskey.bsky.social Investigative reporter @washingtonpost.com
jonathan sahula @sahula.bsky.social filmmaker, musician, maker of things
Rachel Ehrenberg @rachelscience.bsky.social Journalist. Editor @KnowableMag, @KSJatMIT, @ScienceNews alum; lapsed botanist, Vermont ex-pat
Kelly Servick @kellyservick.bsky.social Philly-based journalist, editor at Science Magazine, musician, gardener, connoisseur of cheap candy (she/her)
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