Andrew Curry
@andrewcurry.com
Journalist covering archaeology, science, culture, politics, business, and cycling. When not on my bike, I'm found most often in Science, National Geographic & Archaeology. WahlBerliner, on Signal at andrewcurry.01 More at andrewcurry.com
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The 2026 Science IRL mini-grant application is NOW OPEN!
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Attention science communicators!
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Submit your creative ideas for connecting people with actionable science information *offline*.
The deadline for this round of grants is March 23, 2026.
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SCIENCE IRL: SciComm mini-grant 2026
Skype a Scientist is offering $300-$1,000 mini-grants to support boots-on-the-ground science communication. The Science IRL mini-grants will support projects that put either 1) important science mess...
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February 18, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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Attention science communicators!
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The 2026 Science IRL mini-grant application is NOW OPEN!
Submit your creative ideas for connecting people with actionable science information *offline*.
The deadline for this round of grants is March 23, 2026.
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Twenty years after moving to Berlin and my German still sometimes just up and abandons me, usually after I've been thinking and speaking in English for days at a time. Bringing my brain around to exchange pleasantries with an officemate on days like that is somehow unreasonably hard. 🤷
February 19, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Twenty years after moving to Berlin and my German still sometimes just up and abandons me, usually after I've been thinking and speaking in English for days at a time. Bringing my brain around to exchange pleasantries with an officemate on days like that is somehow unreasonably hard. 🤷
Today I learned what heteropaternal superfecundation is, and I am going to share my new knowledge with you! It's when a woman has fraternal twins by different fathers, and it's been found in the archaeological record.
Burial of two closely related infants under a “dragon stone” from prehistoric Armenia
“Dragon stones” are prehistoric basalt stelae carved with animal imagery found in Armenia and surrounding regions. These monuments have a complex hist…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Today I learned what heteropaternal superfecundation is, and I am going to share my new knowledge with you! It's when a woman has fraternal twins by different fathers, and it's been found in the archaeological record.
🔥 "This court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims – to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain over historical facts. It does not." 🔥
February 16, 2026 at 6:52 PM
🔥 "This court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims – to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain over historical facts. It does not." 🔥
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This is a Britpop/post punk album cover
February 15, 2026 at 10:53 PM
This is a Britpop/post punk album cover
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(outside of Nazism) the least good look on the internet is complaining about people expecting (or just attempting!) to be paid for their work.
if you can't afford it that is totally legit & disappointing. but complaining at the person who is attempting to get paid is just entitled baby stuff
if you can't afford it that is totally legit & disappointing. but complaining at the person who is attempting to get paid is just entitled baby stuff
February 16, 2026 at 8:08 AM
(outside of Nazism) the least good look on the internet is complaining about people expecting (or just attempting!) to be paid for their work.
if you can't afford it that is totally legit & disappointing. but complaining at the person who is attempting to get paid is just entitled baby stuff
if you can't afford it that is totally legit & disappointing. but complaining at the person who is attempting to get paid is just entitled baby stuff
Super interesting 🧵 on the lessons of archaeology and the Bronze Age for the AI era.
The Bronze Age vs The AI Age
1/ Can archaeology predict the future of Big Tech?
Economists usually look back 50-150 years; archaeologists look back further.
When you look at the Bronze Age Collapse (c. 1200 BCE), are there any parallels to our current AI trajectory?
#AI #TechHistory #Archaeology
1/ Can archaeology predict the future of Big Tech?
Economists usually look back 50-150 years; archaeologists look back further.
When you look at the Bronze Age Collapse (c. 1200 BCE), are there any parallels to our current AI trajectory?
#AI #TechHistory #Archaeology
February 15, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Super interesting 🧵 on the lessons of archaeology and the Bronze Age for the AI era.
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"Smash your thermometer and you won't have a fever" - Lech Wałęsa
Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years thehill.com/homenews/med...
February 11, 2026 at 7:57 PM
"Smash your thermometer and you won't have a fever" - Lech Wałęsa
I, a man, can get lost on the way to the grocery store and am hopeless at puzzles. It takes all kinds.
I, a woman, am excellent at mental rotation and maps (and I don't know why)
There's a lot of great evidence this is mostly socialization and can be easily reversed: nautil.us/men-are-bett...
February 11, 2026 at 5:57 PM
I, a man, can get lost on the way to the grocery store and am hopeless at puzzles. It takes all kinds.
Sure, I guess I have "concerns about @washingtonpost.com content." Like the lack of Metro and Sports, the layoffs that affected multiple friends and former neighbors and colleagues, and the slashing of foreign coverage. Also the terrible, crazypants editorials. I will miss the paper it used to be.
February 11, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Sure, I guess I have "concerns about @washingtonpost.com content." Like the lack of Metro and Sports, the layoffs that affected multiple friends and former neighbors and colleagues, and the slashing of foreign coverage. Also the terrible, crazypants editorials. I will miss the paper it used to be.
"This service is very obviously not about finding your lost dog."
February 10, 2026 at 8:44 PM
"This service is very obviously not about finding your lost dog."
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Safe the date!
Evening lecture on 12 February 2026 by Rick Schulting @leizarchaeology.bsky.social
on an all too timely topic...
Evening lecture on 12 February 2026 by Rick Schulting @leizarchaeology.bsky.social
on an all too timely topic...
January 20, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Safe the date!
Evening lecture on 12 February 2026 by Rick Schulting @leizarchaeology.bsky.social
on an all too timely topic...
Evening lecture on 12 February 2026 by Rick Schulting @leizarchaeology.bsky.social
on an all too timely topic...
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Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
February 4, 2026 at 6:43 AM
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
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Today is a dark day for American journalism. Some of the best reporters and editors around the globe have been laid off by the Washington Post. The news-consuming public will pay the price.
My job wasn't spared. It's been the honor of a lifetime to be Berlin bureau chief, if only for 6 months.
My job wasn't spared. It's been the honor of a lifetime to be Berlin bureau chief, if only for 6 months.
February 4, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Today is a dark day for American journalism. Some of the best reporters and editors around the globe have been laid off by the Washington Post. The news-consuming public will pay the price.
My job wasn't spared. It's been the honor of a lifetime to be Berlin bureau chief, if only for 6 months.
My job wasn't spared. It's been the honor of a lifetime to be Berlin bureau chief, if only for 6 months.
Famously, former @washingtonpost.com editor Len Downie didn't vote because it would be a conflict of interest. washingtoncitypaper.com/article/4887...
February 4, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Famously, former @washingtonpost.com editor Len Downie didn't vote because it would be a conflict of interest. washingtoncitypaper.com/article/4887...
One of my first jobs in journalism was working the late night shift (7 pm to 3 am) as a copy aide @washingtonpost.com. It was so exciting to be a small part of that institution and around all those amazing journalists. It's sad to see bad leadership destroy all that.
February 4, 2026 at 3:33 PM
One of my first jobs in journalism was working the late night shift (7 pm to 3 am) as a copy aide @washingtonpost.com. It was so exciting to be a small part of that institution and around all those amazing journalists. It's sad to see bad leadership destroy all that.
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Here is an obituary for Civil War historian Gabor Boritt, who passed away a few days ago. A remarkable life. gettysburgconnection.org/obituary-gab...
Obituary: Gabor Boritt, Immigrant, Refugee-Turned-Renowned Scholar of Lincoln and American Civil War History, Dies at 86 - Gettysburg Connection
Gabor S. Boritt, renowned author, scholar of Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War, founder of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, and
gettysburgconnection.org
February 4, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Here is an obituary for Civil War historian Gabor Boritt, who passed away a few days ago. A remarkable life. gettysburgconnection.org/obituary-gab...
For a not-brief-enough period, the journalism business model was apparently patronage – Bezos and the @washingtonpost.com, Laurene Powell Jobs and @theatlantic.com, some tech bro and @newrepublic.com. But rich people always get bored, and everyone else suffers.
Bezos fucked the paper and instead of fixing it he’s destroying it despite the fact that he could spend the money to make things right without even noticing its absence.
February 4, 2026 at 12:07 PM
For a not-brief-enough period, the journalism business model was apparently patronage – Bezos and the @washingtonpost.com, Laurene Powell Jobs and @theatlantic.com, some tech bro and @newrepublic.com. But rich people always get bored, and everyone else suffers.
A group of researchers I interacted with recently included a piece of AI-generated art in the packet they supplied to journalists, without identifying it as such. Fortunately the sharp-eyed photo editors @science.org weeded it out.
Just noticed an AI-generated image in a magazine to which I subscribe; if the image was supplied, the editor may not even have realised - but alertness to AI is now an indispensable part of being an editor. People don’t want to pay for slop, and subscriptions will haemorrhage
February 2, 2026 at 2:24 PM
A group of researchers I interacted with recently included a piece of AI-generated art in the packet they supplied to journalists, without identifying it as such. Fortunately the sharp-eyed photo editors @science.org weeded it out.
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Cool new paper on 'Il Principe' (the prince) a famous Upper Palaeolithic buried individual from about 27.5 thousand years ago...turns out the guy had been mauled by a bear! (paper: www.isita-org.com/.../Sparacel... )
January 30, 2026 at 6:52 AM
Cool new paper on 'Il Principe' (the prince) a famous Upper Palaeolithic buried individual from about 27.5 thousand years ago...turns out the guy had been mauled by a bear! (paper: www.isita-org.com/.../Sparacel... )
January 30, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Berlin's sidewalks have been covered in ice for days, and this weekend it's supposed to just get colder and more slippery. It's sort of insane that everyone just shrugs and accepts it. The streets are clear, of course, because cars are the priority.
January 29, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Berlin's sidewalks have been covered in ice for days, and this weekend it's supposed to just get colder and more slippery. It's sort of insane that everyone just shrugs and accepts it. The streets are clear, of course, because cars are the priority.
I feel like the Atlantic is 95% straw man arguments and clickbait these days. It's sort of a bummer. This does not make me want to subscribe.
It never ceases to amaze me how these mediocre writers whose only accomplishment is being consistently wrong about everything manage to fail upward endlessly.
New: David Brooks is leaving the NYT for the Atlantic, where he will be a staff writer and host a video podcast
January 29, 2026 at 3:59 PM
I feel like the Atlantic is 95% straw man arguments and clickbait these days. It's sort of a bummer. This does not make me want to subscribe.
While waiting for @nytwirecutter.bsky.social to weigh in, read this moving essay by @sarahjeong.bsky.social in the form of a product review no one should have to write.
me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...
Best gas masks
“How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.
www.theverge.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:20 PM
While waiting for @nytwirecutter.bsky.social to weigh in, read this moving essay by @sarahjeong.bsky.social in the form of a product review no one should have to write.
"In theater"
It's Minnesota, not occupied territo- oh, wait.
It's Minnesota, not occupied territo- oh, wait.
Q: Can you be specific about how many ICE and CBP agents are currently operating in the state?
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
January 29, 2026 at 2:00 PM
"In theater"
It's Minnesota, not occupied territo- oh, wait.
It's Minnesota, not occupied territo- oh, wait.