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.
Sometimes the job is a grind, and sometimes the job is grinding my way through several pies in the name of journalism.
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...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@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...
NSF uses staffing cuts to strip Inspector General's office of its ability to investigate research misconduct www.science.org/content/arti...
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.