Elizabeth Preston
@inkfish.bsky.social
Science journalist, humor writer and aspiring cephalopod. Author of THE CREATURES' GUIDE TO CARING, coming in 2026.
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Was this a good use of an hour yesterday? I think yes.
Preorder here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741329...
Preorder here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741329...
Ha, this Kennedy Center Honors singer is my high school classmate who also sang at RFK Jr. campaign events:
December 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Ha, this Kennedy Center Honors singer is my high school classmate who also sang at RFK Jr. campaign events:
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Happy holidays! Pigeons make milk, and I hope this fact fills you with joy and concern during this festive time of year
December 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Happy holidays! Pigeons make milk, and I hope this fact fills you with joy and concern during this festive time of year
I rounded up everything I wrote this year, from squids to lemurs to moldy cheese and back to squids again: elizabethgpreston.substack.com/p/how-to-wra... 🧪
How to Wrap It Up
With a bow, or a reptile sexpocalypse
elizabethgpreston.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I rounded up everything I wrote this year, from squids to lemurs to moldy cheese and back to squids again: elizabethgpreston.substack.com/p/how-to-wra... 🧪
My husband already knew that my favorite garden implement is the scuffle hoe, and when I told him this weekend about a trendy tool called a hori-hori knife, he said, "So...are all garden tools slut-shaming?"
December 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
My husband already knew that my favorite garden implement is the scuffle hoe, and when I told him this weekend about a trendy tool called a hori-hori knife, he said, "So...are all garden tools slut-shaming?"
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You start to get cynical & bitter & then you find out one of your state's snow plows this year is named Clearopathra & you remember there is no limit to human brilliance
December 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
You start to get cynical & bitter & then you find out one of your state's snow plows this year is named Clearopathra & you remember there is no limit to human brilliance
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Also wildly homicidal.
This is wildly irresponsible and exactly what RFK promised Sen. Cassidy he wouldn’t do but I guess they were both crossing their fingers so nothing will happen.
BREAKING: RFKJr directs that the US instantly stop recommending all vaccinations for children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
December 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Also wildly homicidal.
Kids, freelance science journalism is never going to pay well, but if you work hard, one day you may coin a goofy neologism that will show up in people's push notifications 🧪
December 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Kids, freelance science journalism is never going to pay well, but if you work hard, one day you may coin a goofy neologism that will show up in people's push notifications 🧪
"Refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future." Thank you @tressiemcphd.bsky.social for this boost for my soul:
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
"Refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future." Thank you @tressiemcphd.bsky.social for this boost for my soul:
Guys...no. There are no plants down there.
(Here's my story about the camouflaged deep-sea squid: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/s...) 🧪
(Here's my story about the camouflaged deep-sea squid: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/s...) 🧪
December 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Guys...no. There are no plants down there.
(Here's my story about the camouflaged deep-sea squid: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/s...) 🧪
(Here's my story about the camouflaged deep-sea squid: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/s...) 🧪
Delighted that the editors let me keep "sexpocalypse" in the headline of my first ever feature for @sciam.bsky.social! I had a lot of fun writing this: www.scientificamerican.com/article/glob... (You'll need a subscription to read it.) 🧪
How Global Warming Could Trigger a Reptile Sexpocalypse
The sex of many turtles, crocodilians, and other reptiles is determined by the temperature at which their eggs incubate. Global warming could doom them
www.scientificamerican.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Delighted that the editors let me keep "sexpocalypse" in the headline of my first ever feature for @sciam.bsky.social! I had a lot of fun writing this: www.scientificamerican.com/article/glob... (You'll need a subscription to read it.) 🧪
My daughters and I got to pet a tiny 8-week-old Boston terrier (?) who was walking past our house wearing a little jacket, and the puppy's name was Fry
this was a weekend of unrelenting horrors, but if you had a small nice thing happen I would like to hear about it
maybe you read a great book or saw a cute dog walking down the street or your soup turned out really good? please share
maybe you read a great book or saw a cute dog walking down the street or your soup turned out really good? please share
December 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
My daughters and I got to pet a tiny 8-week-old Boston terrier (?) who was walking past our house wearing a little jacket, and the puppy's name was Fry
Attention introverts: If you really want to be left alone, maybe try living 2.5 miles deep in the ocean and posing as a sea sponge? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/s... 🧪
This Squid Is Playing Peekaboo at the Bottom of the Ocean
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Attention introverts: If you really want to be left alone, maybe try living 2.5 miles deep in the ocean and posing as a sea sponge? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/s... 🧪
Now you see squid, now you don't! I wrote about a deep-sea squid that might be mimicking other animals to disguise itself: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/s... 🧪
This Squid Is Playing Peekaboo at the Bottom of the Ocean
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Now you see squid, now you don't! I wrote about a deep-sea squid that might be mimicking other animals to disguise itself: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/s... 🧪
This is DELIGHTFUL and I highly recommend a scroll through the whole thing: neal.fun/size-of-life/ 🧪
December 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This is DELIGHTFUL and I highly recommend a scroll through the whole thing: neal.fun/size-of-life/ 🧪
Best misunderstanding from last night's ESOL class:
Me: "Do you like fast food? What is your favorite fast food?"
Student: "Yes. I like fast food. My favorite fast food is fish, and bananas."
Me: "Do you like fast food? What is your favorite fast food?"
Student: "Yes. I like fast food. My favorite fast food is fish, and bananas."
December 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Best misunderstanding from last night's ESOL class:
Me: "Do you like fast food? What is your favorite fast food?"
Student: "Yes. I like fast food. My favorite fast food is fish, and bananas."
Me: "Do you like fast food? What is your favorite fast food?"
Student: "Yes. I like fast food. My favorite fast food is fish, and bananas."
These scientists gifted themselves a shiny new dataset by digging through TikTok for videos of cats eating bugs. Read more here: elizabethgpreston.substack.com/p/how-to-cro... and subscribe to my newsletter for animal-inspired advice of questionable utility, in the holiday season and all seasons! 🧪
How to Crowdsource the Perfect Gift
But only if it's cat videos
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December 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
These scientists gifted themselves a shiny new dataset by digging through TikTok for videos of cats eating bugs. Read more here: elizabethgpreston.substack.com/p/how-to-cro... and subscribe to my newsletter for animal-inspired advice of questionable utility, in the holiday season and all seasons! 🧪
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I love corvids, thank you for sharing!!
I didn't get any pics of this, but I keep trying to find other people who might find the below info exciting/valuable, so am sharing again 😅
bsky.app/profile/jnxo...
I didn't get any pics of this, but I keep trying to find other people who might find the below info exciting/valuable, so am sharing again 😅
bsky.app/profile/jnxo...
Hey fyi not sure if you already know but there's a bald eagle gathering spot on Scouten Hill(Chenango County)- saw dozens of first and second years there in August 2021, it was surreal.
December 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I love corvids, thank you for sharing!!
I didn't get any pics of this, but I keep trying to find other people who might find the below info exciting/valuable, so am sharing again 😅
bsky.app/profile/jnxo...
I didn't get any pics of this, but I keep trying to find other people who might find the below info exciting/valuable, so am sharing again 😅
bsky.app/profile/jnxo...
Last night I got to visit the massive winter crow roost in Lawrence, MA, where (for unknown reasons) up to 15,000 American crows and fish crows come together each night to sleep. Sound on!! Unless you have a Hitchcock-related phobia. 🧪
December 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Last night I got to visit the massive winter crow roost in Lawrence, MA, where (for unknown reasons) up to 15,000 American crows and fish crows come together each night to sleep. Sound on!! Unless you have a Hitchcock-related phobia. 🧪
I am NOT going to write a holiday gift guide, but I AM going to tell you how scientists used TikTok to learn about the urban ecology of cats murdering arthropods: elizabethgpreston.substack.com/p/how-to-cro... 🧪
How to Crowdsource the Perfect Gift
But only if it's cat videos
elizabethgpreston.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I am NOT going to write a holiday gift guide, but I AM going to tell you how scientists used TikTok to learn about the urban ecology of cats murdering arthropods: elizabethgpreston.substack.com/p/how-to-cro... 🧪
Lord, grant me the confidence of Instagram's AI bot that summarizes videos for Google search. Why 5 life lessons? What are they??
To be clear, this is a video of my book galleys hatching out of a bag like it's an egg.
To be clear, this is a video of my book galleys hatching out of a bag like it's an egg.
December 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Lord, grant me the confidence of Instagram's AI bot that summarizes videos for Google search. Why 5 life lessons? What are they??
To be clear, this is a video of my book galleys hatching out of a bag like it's an egg.
To be clear, this is a video of my book galleys hatching out of a bag like it's an egg.
Was this a good use of an hour yesterday? I think yes.
Preorder here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741329...
Preorder here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741329...
December 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Was this a good use of an hour yesterday? I think yes.
Preorder here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741329...
Preorder here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741329...
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*looks directly at camera*
Pantone’s 2026 color of the year is technically not a color at all — meet Cloud Dancer, the first-ever white shade to receive the designation from the world’s color authority.
Pantone makes a surprising choice for its 2026 color of the year
We did not see that coming.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
*looks directly at camera*
Apparently, to transfer my daughter's wrist x-rays to a new medical practice, I need to go physically to the first doctor's office and ask them to burn me a CD. Afterward maybe I'll put on three shirts and ask my mom to drop me at the mall so I can hang out at Borders.
December 2, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Apparently, to transfer my daughter's wrist x-rays to a new medical practice, I need to go physically to the first doctor's office and ask them to burn me a CD. Afterward maybe I'll put on three shirts and ask my mom to drop me at the mall so I can hang out at Borders.
Why do I feel like this sign is targeted at one guy
December 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Why do I feel like this sign is targeted at one guy