Ian Coss
@iancoss.bsky.social
Creator of podcasts: The Big Dig, Forever is a Long Time, NEWTS!, Movement with Meklit Hadero
After 20 YEARS of making Xmas albums I’m finally throwing a Xmas CONCERT. 🥁🥁🥁
12 songs spanning the catalogue, with a Full Band! Costumes! Snacks! Prizes! And More! 🎁🎁🎁
Come celebrate with songs of joy, peace, alienation, disillusionment, and other common feelings of the season. 🎄🎄🎄
Details:
12 songs spanning the catalogue, with a Full Band! Costumes! Snacks! Prizes! And More! 🎁🎁🎁
Come celebrate with songs of joy, peace, alienation, disillusionment, and other common feelings of the season. 🎄🎄🎄
Details:
November 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
After 20 YEARS of making Xmas albums I’m finally throwing a Xmas CONCERT. 🥁🥁🥁
12 songs spanning the catalogue, with a Full Band! Costumes! Snacks! Prizes! And More! 🎁🎁🎁
Come celebrate with songs of joy, peace, alienation, disillusionment, and other common feelings of the season. 🎄🎄🎄
Details:
12 songs spanning the catalogue, with a Full Band! Costumes! Snacks! Prizes! And More! 🎁🎁🎁
Come celebrate with songs of joy, peace, alienation, disillusionment, and other common feelings of the season. 🎄🎄🎄
Details:
Before the Big Dig in Boston and before the Embarcadero came down in SF…the original highway teardown was here in Portland, OR. Stop #2 on our Highway Teardown Tour!
October 29, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Before the Big Dig in Boston and before the Embarcadero came down in SF…the original highway teardown was here in Portland, OR. Stop #2 on our Highway Teardown Tour!
I love interviewing former mayors -- as a category -- they have the best politics stories and no need to hold back any more. Greg Nickels, mayor of Seattle was no exception. Photo from @kuow.org
🚧The Highway Teardown Tour🚧 continues tonight in Portland, OR -- 6:30pm @ Literary Arts.
🚧The Highway Teardown Tour🚧 continues tonight in Portland, OR -- 6:30pm @ Literary Arts.
October 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I love interviewing former mayors -- as a category -- they have the best politics stories and no need to hold back any more. Greg Nickels, mayor of Seattle was no exception. Photo from @kuow.org
🚧The Highway Teardown Tour🚧 continues tonight in Portland, OR -- 6:30pm @ Literary Arts.
🚧The Highway Teardown Tour🚧 continues tonight in Portland, OR -- 6:30pm @ Literary Arts.
For our series 'Scratch & Win' we did this bonus ep about why sports betting feels different from all the legalized gambling that came before. It's feeling pretty different right now...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Why does sports betting feel different?
Podcast Episode · The Big Dig · S2, E9 Bonus · 49m
podcasts.apple.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
For our series 'Scratch & Win' we did this bonus ep about why sports betting feels different from all the legalized gambling that came before. It's feeling pretty different right now...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Thanks for coming out!
pumped to get to listen to @iancoss.bsky.social and @kuow.org talk about the Big Dig podcast and the future of roads!
October 28, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Thanks for coming out!
When I was working on The Big Dig story with @gbhnews.bsky.social I would always hear the OTHER city crazy enough to try and replace an elevated highway with a tunnel. Next week I'm going to see for myself....
The Big Dig LIVE @ Seattle Public Library:
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-big-di...
The Big Dig LIVE @ Seattle Public Library:
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-big-di...
The ULTIMATE look at Bertha’s breakthrough
YouTube video by wsdot
youtu.be
October 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
When I was working on The Big Dig story with @gbhnews.bsky.social I would always hear the OTHER city crazy enough to try and replace an elevated highway with a tunnel. Next week I'm going to see for myself....
The Big Dig LIVE @ Seattle Public Library:
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-big-di...
The Big Dig LIVE @ Seattle Public Library:
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-big-di...
If you've ever asked me what my wife does and I tried to explain something about glaciers and forest mice and climbing...this is what I was talking about.
Go prairie mouse go!!! 🐭
Go prairie mouse go!!! 🐭
🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity!
We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have:
(1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs)
(2) better hand dexterity
(3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵
We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have:
(1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs)
(2) better hand dexterity
(3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵
October 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
If you've ever asked me what my wife does and I tried to explain something about glaciers and forest mice and climbing...this is what I was talking about.
Go prairie mouse go!!! 🐭
Go prairie mouse go!!! 🐭
🚧THE BIG DIG is going on tour! 🚧
We'll be LIVE in #Seattle & #Portland next week -- talking about the past & future of America's urban highways. And boy do these cities have some stories...tell your friends!
SEATTLE:
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-big-di...
PORTLAND: literary-arts.org/event/opb-th...
We'll be LIVE in #Seattle & #Portland next week -- talking about the past & future of America's urban highways. And boy do these cities have some stories...tell your friends!
SEATTLE:
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-big-di...
PORTLAND: literary-arts.org/event/opb-th...
The Big Dig and Booming podcasts: Where our roads go next
Join KUOW's Booming & GBH's The Big Dig podcasts for this FREE event on Monday, October 27 in Seattle. RSVP is required to attend.
www.eventbrite.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
🚧THE BIG DIG is going on tour! 🚧
We'll be LIVE in #Seattle & #Portland next week -- talking about the past & future of America's urban highways. And boy do these cities have some stories...tell your friends!
SEATTLE:
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-big-di...
PORTLAND: literary-arts.org/event/opb-th...
We'll be LIVE in #Seattle & #Portland next week -- talking about the past & future of America's urban highways. And boy do these cities have some stories...tell your friends!
SEATTLE:
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-big-di...
PORTLAND: literary-arts.org/event/opb-th...
Our graphic designer at @wgbh.org described this color as "dirty teal." I think that's now my favorite color. The new art is part of our feed overhaul ahead of the next season...
October 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Our graphic designer at @wgbh.org described this color as "dirty teal." I think that's now my favorite color. The new art is part of our feed overhaul ahead of the next season...
In a seasons collide moment: Carmen DeNunzio was forced out of the numbers racket by the state lottery, only to get busted on a bribe for a Big Dig contract. DeNunzio died this week at 68 -- 'the last nice wise guy' in Boston -- lovely obit by Kevin Cullen.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/25/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/25/m...
Requiem for the last nice wiseguy - The Boston Globe
Carmen DiNunzio ran the Mafia in Boston as it, and his health, declined.
www.bostonglobe.com
September 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
In a seasons collide moment: Carmen DeNunzio was forced out of the numbers racket by the state lottery, only to get busted on a bribe for a Big Dig contract. DeNunzio died this week at 68 -- 'the last nice wise guy' in Boston -- lovely obit by Kevin Cullen.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/25/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/25/m...
"We're Doing the Wiz" is coming home to Western MA -- Saturday Oct 4 at @nepublicmedia.bsky.social in Springfield. Sakina and I will be there w behind the scenes details, special guests, and of course...live music. Tickets & details:
www.nepm.org/nepm-events/...
www.nepm.org/nepm-events/...
We're Doing The Wiz Live!
Go behind the podcast that tells the story of the PVPA musical no one saw coming on Saturday, Oct. 4 at 7 p.m at NEPM Studios in Springfield.
www.nepm.org
September 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
"We're Doing the Wiz" is coming home to Western MA -- Saturday Oct 4 at @nepublicmedia.bsky.social in Springfield. Sakina and I will be there w behind the scenes details, special guests, and of course...live music. Tickets & details:
www.nepm.org/nepm-events/...
www.nepm.org/nepm-events/...
You can find me at the @museumofscience.bsky.social tonight at 7pm playing immersive surround sound stories. DM me for a ticket discount...
Obscured Vision
Experience a one-of-a-kind blindfolded sensory performance that invites you to rediscover the world through sound. Only in the Mugar Omni Theater!
www.mos.org
September 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
You can find me at the @museumofscience.bsky.social tonight at 7pm playing immersive surround sound stories. DM me for a ticket discount...
Join me at the @museumofscience.bsky.social next week for a live show in the Mugar Omni theatre -- the only show to use that space without using the screen! It’s audio only, with the room blacked out, in 5.1 sorooooouuuuuund. And come get ice cream at Toscanini's after...
www.mos.org/events/subsp...
www.mos.org/events/subsp...
Obscured Vision
Experience a one-of-a-kind blindfolded sensory performance that invites you to rediscover the world through sound. Only in the Mugar Omni Theater!
www.mos.org
September 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Join me at the @museumofscience.bsky.social next week for a live show in the Mugar Omni theatre -- the only show to use that space without using the screen! It’s audio only, with the room blacked out, in 5.1 sorooooouuuuuund. And come get ice cream at Toscanini's after...
www.mos.org/events/subsp...
www.mos.org/events/subsp...
Feels like so long ago now that 'Scratch & Win' came out, but wow, that too was 2025! If you missed this one, come find out how a mischievous state treasurer and a bottle of Fanta gave the world the first scratch ticket...https://podcasts.apple.com/us/room/6748038412
Best So Far 2025 on Apple Podcasts
Listen to the latest selections from our editors.
podcasts.apple.com
August 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Feels like so long ago now that 'Scratch & Win' came out, but wow, that too was 2025! If you missed this one, come find out how a mischievous state treasurer and a bottle of Fanta gave the world the first scratch ticket...https://podcasts.apple.com/us/room/6748038412
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July 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Scratch & Win is so good!!
July 16, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Scratch & Win is so good!!
I think this is my new litmus test for whether or not someone is an old school Boston pol: how do they pronounce "patronage"?
My favorite detail is that Bob Crane and Bill Galvin say "pat-ronage" like St. Patrick's Day while everybody else says "pay-tronage" like payola. Anyway, you don't need to be obsessed with the relationship between liberalism and machine politics to devour it, but if you are, you certainly will.
July 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I think this is my new litmus test for whether or not someone is an old school Boston pol: how do they pronounce "patronage"?
Reposted by Ian Coss
A strong, if belated, recommendation for @iancoss.bsky.social 's podcast Scratch & Win about the rise of the Mass. Lottery. A total joy with a keen sense of how the old politics actually got played. I found myself talking back to the audio in a Boston accent: www.wgbh.org/podcasts/scr...
Scratch & Win
Never in American history has it been so easy to gamble, legally at least. We’ve got casinos, sports betting, online poker, keno — but it was all made possible by state lotteries, which brought gambli...
www.wgbh.org
July 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
A strong, if belated, recommendation for @iancoss.bsky.social 's podcast Scratch & Win about the rise of the Mass. Lottery. A total joy with a keen sense of how the old politics actually got played. I found myself talking back to the audio in a Boston accent: www.wgbh.org/podcasts/scr...
Down in DC doing interviews for a new WGBH series. This one should be interesting.
July 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Down in DC doing interviews for a new WGBH series. This one should be interesting.
I got the horse right here!
9. We are duly reminded of the small but obvs important role 🐎 🐎 play in the classic theater production "Guys & Dolls," thanks to host @iancoss.bsky.social's early thespian adventures, described in a new pod from him and Sakina Ibrahim for @radiotopia.bsky.social
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podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
We're Doing The Wiz 1 - The Tofu Curtain
Podcast Episode · Radiotopia Presents: We're Doing the Wiz · S16 E1 · 39m
podcasts.apple.com
July 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I got the horse right here!
And Yale too!
Did you know that the lottery used to fund Harvard @iancoss.bsky.social
June 30, 2025 at 11:10 AM
And Yale too!
It's a twofer on the Apple homepage today, get it while you can...
June 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
It's a twofer on the Apple homepage today, get it while you can...
It's 🚀 Day for "WE'RE DOING THE WIZ": the story of a small-town high school trying to stage an iconic Black musical in the midst of bussing, racial integration, and general theater kid drama. Did I mention it was my high school?
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
We're Doing The Wiz 1 - The Tofu Curtain
Podcast Episode · Radiotopia Presents: We're Doing the Wiz · S16 E1 · 39m
podcasts.apple.com
June 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
It's 🚀 Day for "WE'RE DOING THE WIZ": the story of a small-town high school trying to stage an iconic Black musical in the midst of bussing, racial integration, and general theater kid drama. Did I mention it was my high school?
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
We're doin' it!
Trailer is out. Premiere at Tribeca Fest is today. Episode one next week. Welcome to the world of my performing arts high school. @masshumanities.bsky.social @prx.org
Trailer is out. Premiere at Tribeca Fest is today. Episode one next week. Welcome to the world of my performing arts high school. @masshumanities.bsky.social @prx.org
Radiotopia Presents: We're Doing the Wiz
Podcast Episode · Radiotopia Presents: We're Doing the Wiz · S16 Trailer · 3m
podcasts.apple.com
June 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
We're doin' it!
Trailer is out. Premiere at Tribeca Fest is today. Episode one next week. Welcome to the world of my performing arts high school. @masshumanities.bsky.social @prx.org
Trailer is out. Premiere at Tribeca Fest is today. Episode one next week. Welcome to the world of my performing arts high school. @masshumanities.bsky.social @prx.org