🏜️ Southwest National Parks Editor, SFGate |✨ Freelance Science Journalist |👩🔬 Once-Upon-A-Time Scientist | 📰 Clips in Nature, Science, The New York Times, Nat Geo, NPR, et al. | Signal: aheidt.16 | 🏳️🌈 She/Her | amandaheidt.com
Amanda Heidt
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Sometimes the job is a grind, and sometimes the job is grinding my way through several pies in the name of journalism.
Amanda Heidt
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"I started saying no to anything that paid less than $500."
Science journalist Amanda Heidt (@scattercushion.bsky.social) turned a layoff into a thriving freelance business.
Full interview here: howimakemoneywriting.substack.com/p/interview-...
EXCLUSIVE
A year ago, the Trump administration announced it was creating an Office or Remigration—named for a racist plan to expel immigrants, popularized by European far-right groups
It has since said nothing about it.
But @wired.com found out what it's doing...
www.wired.com/story/the-st...
@scattercushion.bsky.social was on the danger beat last week.
Two people died in Zion National Park in a week last month: www.sfgate.com/national-par...
And someone is missing at Grand Canyon: www.sfgate.com/national-par...
In this interview, Amanda talks about the financial boundary she set in her second year of freelancing: saying no to any assignment under $500.
howimakemoneywriting.substack.com
The office was created a year ago and seemingly named for a far right European plan to expel minorities and immigrants from Western nations. It now works, a source says, with little to no oversight.
Two bodies have been recovered in Zion National Park in the span of a week.
www.sfgate.com
A refurbished homestead in Capitol Reef's heart slings out 600 pies a day.
I really, really hate to sharing this, but last week, we @biographic.bsky.social learned that the California Academy of Sciences will no longer be providing the magazine with financial support, including money we were expecting to receive this year.
We're in a real bind.
It's a double pub day! For @sfgate.com, I wrote about new fishing regulations in Yosemite, and for @nature.com, the discovery of a new type of explosive immune cell in regenerative flatworms. If you've never seen a planarian, now's a good time to look them up.
