Dave Levitan
@davelevitan.bsky.social
Science journalist, bylines all over the place.
Book: NOT A SCIENTIST: How politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science (WW Norton).
Signal: @davelevitan.26
www.davelevitan.com
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Book: NOT A SCIENTIST: How politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science (WW Norton).
Signal: @davelevitan.26
www.davelevitan.com
Sign up: www.gravityisgone.com
The end of King of Comedy only it’s the president hosting a canceled Kennedy Center show making jokes and almost impossibly racist tangents to a gallery of rictus grins of uncertain provenance, the show never starts because every performer bailed, he just keeps going, perfectly content
December 30, 2025 at 2:58 AM
The end of King of Comedy only it’s the president hosting a canceled Kennedy Center show making jokes and almost impossibly racist tangents to a gallery of rictus grins of uncertain provenance, the show never starts because every performer bailed, he just keeps going, perfectly content
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I hate when I am forced to perform a minor surgical procedure on myself using only a small mirror to guide and the subpar tools at hand
September 8, 2024 at 1:30 AM
I hate when I am forced to perform a minor surgical procedure on myself using only a small mirror to guide and the subpar tools at hand
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BREAKING: The National Institutes of Health has agreed to evaluate grant applications that were wrongfully frozen due to the Trump administration’s ideological purge of biomedical research.
December 29, 2025 at 11:14 PM
BREAKING: The National Institutes of Health has agreed to evaluate grant applications that were wrongfully frozen due to the Trump administration’s ideological purge of biomedical research.
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Y’all ever walk into a public restroom and immediately whisper “Jesus Christ”
December 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Y’all ever walk into a public restroom and immediately whisper “Jesus Christ”
I know scheduling posts is a thing but I’m still marveling at the idea of him hunched over a glowing laptop screen to hit publish on this take at 3:02 am
The perfect Yglesias post: declaring “billionaires are good, actually,” as if it was some bold, counterintuitive take.
December 29, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I know scheduling posts is a thing but I’m still marveling at the idea of him hunched over a glowing laptop screen to hit publish on this take at 3:02 am
I have been lured into the world of international espionage, only partially against my will
Well, now I'm an English professor...
December 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I have been lured into the world of international espionage, only partially against my will
I wrote lots of things this year, first for Splinter and then my newsletter. Some were okay. I just wanted to highlight a few of the headlines I was sorta proud of:
UN Report: No One Reads UN Reports
If Anyone Can Put a Functioning Nuclear Reactor On the Moon, It Is the Terrified-of-the-Subway Man
UN Report: No One Reads UN Reports
If Anyone Can Put a Functioning Nuclear Reactor On the Moon, It Is the Terrified-of-the-Subway Man
December 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I wrote lots of things this year, first for Splinter and then my newsletter. Some were okay. I just wanted to highlight a few of the headlines I was sorta proud of:
UN Report: No One Reads UN Reports
If Anyone Can Put a Functioning Nuclear Reactor On the Moon, It Is the Terrified-of-the-Subway Man
UN Report: No One Reads UN Reports
If Anyone Can Put a Functioning Nuclear Reactor On the Moon, It Is the Terrified-of-the-Subway Man
I find the "most people expect cancer to be cured" fascinating, given that this poll was conducted just a few months after one of the most famous cautionary tales in science journalism was published
![Other predictions didn’t hold up as well. About two-thirds of Americans thought the country would have elected a female president by now. [highlight] More than half expected a cure for cancer [/highlight] and 61% expected that “people will routinely live to be 100 years old.” (The world is not quite there yet.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u45hqzk7counfbwyg5edhmvi/bafkreigxbwwwiioyuodad3rcyj5loef3456vkdmjxdlkfiitpadptw34ta@jpeg)
December 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I find the "most people expect cancer to be cured" fascinating, given that this poll was conducted just a few months after one of the most famous cautionary tales in science journalism was published
I have once again made some predictions
A Collection of Critical and Immaculate Predictions for 2026
The planet will continue its lonely journey around the sun, and so here I am again, to explain which things will and will not happen in 2026.
www.gravityisgone.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I have once again made some predictions
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There is impossible wonder in the forests of city state Singapore. I find indescribable magic in the shiny eyes of this beautiful, peaceful Sunda Colugo.
December 29, 2025 at 7:38 AM
There is impossible wonder in the forests of city state Singapore. I find indescribable magic in the shiny eyes of this beautiful, peaceful Sunda Colugo.
The deleted post hours
December 28, 2025 at 3:24 AM
The deleted post hours
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And credit where due this explainer is really helpful if you are trying to talk to people. By @davelevitan.bsky.social
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...
Why it’s so hard to bust the weather control conspiracy theory
www.technologyreview.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
And credit where due this explainer is really helpful if you are trying to talk to people. By @davelevitan.bsky.social
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...
Lots of things to fix out there but a decent argument that a real fix (if such a thing existed) for what can reasonably be called “elite impunity” would cascade out fixes for like 90 percent of the rest of it
December 28, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Lots of things to fix out there but a decent argument that a real fix (if such a thing existed) for what can reasonably be called “elite impunity” would cascade out fixes for like 90 percent of the rest of it
Since I posted this I also really liked The Exterminating Angel, Man On Wire, Brighton Rock, and, yes, I finally watched It’s A Wonderful Life for the first time. I get it; pretty great.
Watched quite a few movies this year. Non-2025 favs: Harakiri, Days of Heaven, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Beau Travail, Running on Empty, La Haine, Nashville, Chungking Express, The Fabelmans, Tampopo, Hud, Melancholia, The Taste of Things, Throne of Blood, Only Lovers Left Alive, The Right Stuff
December 28, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Since I posted this I also really liked The Exterminating Angel, Man On Wire, Brighton Rock, and, yes, I finally watched It’s A Wonderful Life for the first time. I get it; pretty great.
I know some of them were a bit worried about it but in the end the pardon stuff is maybe the clearest possible example of "the Framers didn't really see someone this corrupt coming"
New reporting says Don Jr. directly facilitated the pardon of a crypto whale who had promoted the Trump's family crypto. Jr. brought the pardon lawyer to the White House, and introduced him directly to his Dad. Pardon occurred right after. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...
December 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I know some of them were a bit worried about it but in the end the pardon stuff is maybe the clearest possible example of "the Framers didn't really see someone this corrupt coming"
December 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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My dog and two cats love to throw up on the floor and they represent 60% of the household. As a leader I can't just ignore public opinion so I also throw up on the floor sometimes to stay popular
December 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
My dog and two cats love to throw up on the floor and they represent 60% of the household. As a leader I can't just ignore public opinion so I also throw up on the floor sometimes to stay popular
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Dying between Christmas and new years shouldn’t count
December 30, 2024 at 11:24 PM
Dying between Christmas and new years shouldn’t count
“Would you like me to find you a fucking box?”
The Lord of The Rings movies were rated PG-13. By current rules that means that each film could contain one use of the word "Fuck". Which line are you altering to insert the most useful swear word?
"I can't carry it for you, but I can Fucking carry you"
"I can't carry it for you, but I can Fucking carry you"
December 27, 2025 at 12:41 AM
“Would you like me to find you a fucking box?”
There will be case studies in "how brains get cooked" about him
vance is a genuine lunatic
JD VANCE THINKS BRITAIN & FRANCE ARE AMERICAS LIKELY ENEMIES.
The world is getting bizarrely screwed with this kind of bull being spewed out.
The world is getting bizarrely screwed with this kind of bull being spewed out.
December 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
There will be case studies in "how brains get cooked" about him
I have come to savor the specific feeling of logging on and not understanding what a bunch of people are arguing about. Serene.
December 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I have come to savor the specific feeling of logging on and not understanding what a bunch of people are arguing about. Serene.
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Santa and the Grinch have returned to the shadow realm, where they will murder each other with rusted knives and axes repeatedly until the next Christmas season dawns once more
December 27, 2024 at 3:28 AM
Santa and the Grinch have returned to the shadow realm, where they will murder each other with rusted knives and axes repeatedly until the next Christmas season dawns once more