Freelance science writer working on a funny book about slime molds for @PenguinRandom; author of The Artful Amoeba; Under-Loved Lifeform Enthusiast.
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🤩🥲🤯News: My first book, to be titled "The Slime Mold's Guide to World Domination", has been acquired by @DuttonBooks. It will be a funny natural history of slime molds that’s also a mystery — how can a single cell possibly be intelligent? — with a plot twist ending.
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Jaw on the floor. Stunned to know that Sounds Wild and Broken @VikingBooks @penguinusa is a #Pulitzer finalist.
Congratulations to the winners and finalists, @ToluseO, @newsbysamuels, @tsu_jing, and @lindavillarosa, and deepest thank you to the judges, chaired by @rgay.
The 2023 #Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists were announced today! Read the full list here. pulitzer.org/news/2023-pulit…
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Leptodora has a crystal clear body with a giant eye and mouth. They can be a couple of centimeters in length and are voracious predators, they feed on other crustaceans. And with their Sauron eye, they can see light.
Rusts are what happen when fungi take their own LSD and psilocybin
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My latest at The Artful Amoeba:
Pitcher Plants of Borneo Become Sanitation Engineers theartfulamoeba.substack.com…
Ooooooh ... tough call. It's a tossup between "Find Tardigrades" and "Grow slime molds"!
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My new book, The Slime Mold's Guide to World Domination is finally happening. Read more about how it came to be here: theartfulamoeba.substack.com…
Did the first interview for my new book today. Had to stare at the phone for a while as a I did before my first interview ever. Feels tremendously exciting to kick that monkey off my back and truly begin.
My Latest: What Human Follicle Mites and the Spanish Hapsburgs Have in Common
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This polychaete worm will be coming to a nightmare theater near me very soon. More please! 🙂
OH WOW! an onuphid called Hirsutonuphis gygis!! WHAT A BEAST! #wormwednesday inaturalist.org/observations…
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The Spinyhead Blenny (Acanthemblemaria spinosa) is very common in the shallows here in Guadeloupe. Male and female look very different from each other, and yesterday I spent a long time trying to get both in the same photo. Here is the result! Male is darker. #ichthyology
It is crazy how plants do this. I have seen it also in lancewoods in New Zealand and koa trees in Hawai'i.
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There is just no getting over the Ick factor here, but it only slightly exceeds the WOW factor. These are real and live all over you! I just wrote a long piece about these coming soon.
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• Experiment, Fail, Learn and Repeat.
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I find this Irony Alert painfully ironic: "Study Finds Harmful PFAs Don't Actually Prevent Furniture Stains"
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