Josie Glausiusz
@josiegz.bsky.social
Science journalist writing for Nature, Scientific American, National Geographic, Guardian Books, BBC Future, Washington Post Opinions, Prospect Magazine.
Passionate reader. #PoetryIsMedicine #ClimateCrisis She/Her
Passionate reader. #PoetryIsMedicine #ClimateCrisis She/Her
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Josie Glausiusz
@josiegz.bsky.social
· Oct 7
The Israel–Hamas conflict one year on: researcher resilience in the face of war
Scientists, tech entrepreneurs and educators on both sides of the border describe the devastation of lost homes, destroyed laboratories and slain colleagues.
www.nature.com
My latest article for @natureportfolio.bsky.social, in which I spoke to researchers, entrepreneurs and scientists in Gaza, Israel, and the West Bank about their determination to continue their work amid the destruction and devastation of war.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Reposted by Josie Glausiusz
Are you a scientist?
Is your research cool?
Do people not adequately appreciate how cool your research is?
I'm looking for researchers to feature in Q&A-style interviews on my blog and would love to hear from (or about — embarrass your friends!) scientists interested in sharing their work. 🧪
Is your research cool?
Do people not adequately appreciate how cool your research is?
I'm looking for researchers to feature in Q&A-style interviews on my blog and would love to hear from (or about — embarrass your friends!) scientists interested in sharing their work. 🧪
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Are you a scientist?
Is your research cool?
Do people not adequately appreciate how cool your research is?
I'm looking for researchers to feature in Q&A-style interviews on my blog and would love to hear from (or about — embarrass your friends!) scientists interested in sharing their work. 🧪
Is your research cool?
Do people not adequately appreciate how cool your research is?
I'm looking for researchers to feature in Q&A-style interviews on my blog and would love to hear from (or about — embarrass your friends!) scientists interested in sharing their work. 🧪
Reposted by Josie Glausiusz
Natalie’s on fire 🔥
Perfect response.
If you can’t / won’t do those things why ARE you here?
Perfect response.
If you can’t / won’t do those things why ARE you here?
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Natalie’s on fire 🔥
Perfect response.
If you can’t / won’t do those things why ARE you here?
Perfect response.
If you can’t / won’t do those things why ARE you here?
"It’s nice to see, even if for a moment, a billionaire get destroyed in his own grubby little playroom. So thanks, Joyce."
lithub.com/elon-musk-ge...
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Elon Musk gets roasted on his own platform by Joyce Carol Oates.
Like an ancient cyborg culling through the ruins of a post-apocalyptic planet (twitter, derogatory), Joyce Carol Oates recently fired her full-power death ray at aspiring trillionaire Elon Musk, wh…
lithub.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:50 AM
"It’s nice to see, even if for a moment, a billionaire get destroyed in his own grubby little playroom. So thanks, Joyce."
lithub.com/elon-musk-ge...
lithub.com/elon-musk-ge...
When Aleksandra Skochilenko affixed five bogus price tags bearing antiwar slogans to the shelves in her grocery store in St. Petersburg, Russia, she did not anticipate receiving a seven-year jail sentence.
She says she would do it again.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/w...
She says she would do it again.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/w...
Seven Years for Antiwar Stickers? Russian Activist Would Do It Again.
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:46 AM
When Aleksandra Skochilenko affixed five bogus price tags bearing antiwar slogans to the shelves in her grocery store in St. Petersburg, Russia, she did not anticipate receiving a seven-year jail sentence.
She says she would do it again.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/w...
She says she would do it again.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/w...
‘Strung Up and Tortured’: Hostage Recounts 2 ½ Years of Captivity
Elizabeth Tsurkov, a citizen of Israel and Russia, recounts a harrowing story of cruelty, survival, U.S. diplomatic pressure and, finally, release from the grip of a group backed by Iran.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/w...
Elizabeth Tsurkov, a citizen of Israel and Russia, recounts a harrowing story of cruelty, survival, U.S. diplomatic pressure and, finally, release from the grip of a group backed by Iran.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/w...
‘Strung Up and Tortured’: Hostage Recounts 2 ½ Years of Captivity
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:35 AM
‘Strung Up and Tortured’: Hostage Recounts 2 ½ Years of Captivity
Elizabeth Tsurkov, a citizen of Israel and Russia, recounts a harrowing story of cruelty, survival, U.S. diplomatic pressure and, finally, release from the grip of a group backed by Iran.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/w...
Elizabeth Tsurkov, a citizen of Israel and Russia, recounts a harrowing story of cruelty, survival, U.S. diplomatic pressure and, finally, release from the grip of a group backed by Iran.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/w...
Reposted by Josie Glausiusz
"Dick Cheney is an EVIL ROBOT."
Photographed (by me) at a protest marching past the 2004 Republican National Convention, New York City.
Dick Cheney, January 30, 1941 – November 3, 2025, Vice-President of the United States, "considered by many to be the architect of the Iraq War."
Photographed (by me) at a protest marching past the 2004 Republican National Convention, New York City.
Dick Cheney, January 30, 1941 – November 3, 2025, Vice-President of the United States, "considered by many to be the architect of the Iraq War."
November 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
"Dick Cheney is an EVIL ROBOT."
Photographed (by me) at a protest marching past the 2004 Republican National Convention, New York City.
Dick Cheney, January 30, 1941 – November 3, 2025, Vice-President of the United States, "considered by many to be the architect of the Iraq War."
Photographed (by me) at a protest marching past the 2004 Republican National Convention, New York City.
Dick Cheney, January 30, 1941 – November 3, 2025, Vice-President of the United States, "considered by many to be the architect of the Iraq War."
Reposted by Josie Glausiusz
Ms Rachel says The New York Times asked her if she’s funded by Hamas
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Ms Rachel says The New York Times asked her if she’s funded by Hamas
On the Tapajós river, women of the Munduruku Indigenous people experience the unspeakable: their bodies condemn their children in utero because of the high mercury contamination caused by illegal gold mining.
--Eliane Brum
@prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/enviro...
--Eliane Brum
@prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/enviro...
The Amazon will speak at COP30
Indigenous people have arrived at the first climate summit held in the planet’s largest rainforest. They are fighting to postpone the end of the world...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
On the Tapajós river, women of the Munduruku Indigenous people experience the unspeakable: their bodies condemn their children in utero because of the high mercury contamination caused by illegal gold mining.
--Eliane Brum
@prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/enviro...
--Eliane Brum
@prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/enviro...
"Post your snails," an invitation I cannot resist.
Here's a snail slithering along, January 2021.
Here's a snail slithering along, January 2021.
November 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
"Post your snails," an invitation I cannot resist.
Here's a snail slithering along, January 2021.
Here's a snail slithering along, January 2021.
On Sudan, @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social writes: "I can assure you, lots of people care. I’ve been working with them for decades. Conflict analysts, human rights researchers, humanitarians, and activists – both Sudanese and international."
www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/no-one-cares...
www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/no-one-cares...
“No One Cares about Sudan”
It’s not easy to write about Sudan’s latest round of mass murder. And it’s hard to hear how some people dismiss it.
The recent fall of the city of El Fasher, following an 18-month siege, to the Rapid...
www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu
November 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
On Sudan, @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social writes: "I can assure you, lots of people care. I’ve been working with them for decades. Conflict analysts, human rights researchers, humanitarians, and activists – both Sudanese and international."
www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/no-one-cares...
www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/no-one-cares...
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This is, quite, remarkable in France.
“Until now, rape under French law was defined as penetration or oral sex using “violence, coercion, threat or surprise.” France has taken other steps in recent years to toughen punishment for sexual misconduct, including setting 15 as the age of consent.”
“Until now, rape under French law was defined as penetration or oral sex using “violence, coercion, threat or surprise.” France has taken other steps in recent years to toughen punishment for sexual misconduct, including setting 15 as the age of consent.”
France’s Senate gave its final approval to a bill defining rape and other sexual assault as any non-consensual sexual act, a move that comes after the landmark drugging and rape trial that shook France and turned Gisèle Pelicot into a global icon.
apnews.com/article/fran...
apnews.com/article/fran...
France adopts consent-based rape law in the wake of landmark Gisèle Pelicot case
France's Senate has definitively approved a bill defining rape and sexual assault as any non-consensual sexual act.
apnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM
This is, quite, remarkable in France.
“Until now, rape under French law was defined as penetration or oral sex using “violence, coercion, threat or surprise.” France has taken other steps in recent years to toughen punishment for sexual misconduct, including setting 15 as the age of consent.”
“Until now, rape under French law was defined as penetration or oral sex using “violence, coercion, threat or surprise.” France has taken other steps in recent years to toughen punishment for sexual misconduct, including setting 15 as the age of consent.”
“If they’re walking too fast, they’re suspicious. If they’re walking too slow, they’re suspicious. They’re plotting something."
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
“If they’re walking too fast, they’re suspicious. If they’re walking too slow, they’re suspicious. They’re plotting something."
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
France’s Senate gave its final approval to a bill defining rape and other sexual assault as any non-consensual sexual act, a move that comes after the landmark drugging and rape trial that shook France and turned Gisèle Pelicot into a global icon.
apnews.com/article/fran...
apnews.com/article/fran...
France adopts consent-based rape law in the wake of landmark Gisèle Pelicot case
France's Senate has definitively approved a bill defining rape and sexual assault as any non-consensual sexual act.
apnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
France’s Senate gave its final approval to a bill defining rape and other sexual assault as any non-consensual sexual act, a move that comes after the landmark drugging and rape trial that shook France and turned Gisèle Pelicot into a global icon.
apnews.com/article/fran...
apnews.com/article/fran...
Trump’s rhetoric [on Nigeria] is in keeping with his longstanding efforts to play to his domestic political base, which includes significant numbers of evangelical Christians.
Why is Trump Threatening a Humanitarian Intervention in Nigeria?
@crisisgroup.org
www.crisisgroup.org/africa/niger...
Why is Trump Threatening a Humanitarian Intervention in Nigeria?
@crisisgroup.org
www.crisisgroup.org/africa/niger...
Why is President Trump Threatening a Humanitarian Intervention in Nigeria? | International Crisis Group
Relations between the U.S. and Nigeria have soured dramatically amid the Trump administration’s allegations that Nigerian Christians are being slaughtered en masse. In this Q&A, Crisis Group expert Nn...
www.crisisgroup.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Trump’s rhetoric [on Nigeria] is in keeping with his longstanding efforts to play to his domestic political base, which includes significant numbers of evangelical Christians.
Why is Trump Threatening a Humanitarian Intervention in Nigeria?
@crisisgroup.org
www.crisisgroup.org/africa/niger...
Why is Trump Threatening a Humanitarian Intervention in Nigeria?
@crisisgroup.org
www.crisisgroup.org/africa/niger...
“China is coming up with [clean energy] solutions that are for everyone, not just China,” said Cop30 chief André Corrêa do Lago. “Solar panels are cheaper, they’re so competitive [compared with fossil fuel energy] that they are everywhere now."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rich countries have lost enthusiasm for tackling climate crisis, says Cop30 chief
Brazil’s André Corrêa do Lago says countries should follow China’s lead on clean energy as conference begins
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
“China is coming up with [clean energy] solutions that are for everyone, not just China,” said Cop30 chief André Corrêa do Lago. “Solar panels are cheaper, they’re so competitive [compared with fossil fuel energy] that they are everywhere now."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Thank you @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social for noting that the conventional belief that women ovulate once a month is wrong, according to Canadian researchers. They have found that women can potentially ovulate two or even three times a month.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
November 10, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Thank you @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social for noting that the conventional belief that women ovulate once a month is wrong, according to Canadian researchers. They have found that women can potentially ovulate two or even three times a month.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The US Department of Health and Human Services last month laid off almost the entire office that administers Title X, the nearly $300 million government program providing birth control and other family planning services to 2.8 million low-income patients a year.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
The MAHA-Fueled Rise of Natural Family Planning
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The US Department of Health and Human Services last month laid off almost the entire office that administers Title X, the nearly $300 million government program providing birth control and other family planning services to 2.8 million low-income patients a year.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
The UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports a spike in attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinian villages in the West Bank. There have been more than 120 attacks across at least 70 villages since the start of the olive harvest on Oct 9.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_gQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_gQ...
Israel deports foreign activists who were helping Palestinians with olive harvest | DW News
YouTube video by DW News
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports a spike in attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinian villages in the West Bank. There have been more than 120 attacks across at least 70 villages since the start of the olive harvest on Oct 9.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_gQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_gQ...
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Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism
have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant
but neglected, a heroine t...
www.thelancet.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Although Raymond Gosling credits Watson as having “a very lively mind,” it is Rosalind Franklin whom he remembers as “a great experimentalist”: "She was very workmanlike in the laboratory & had fierce powers of concentration.”
My essay, The American Scholar:
theamericanscholar.org/double-stand...
My essay, The American Scholar:
theamericanscholar.org/double-stand...
Double Standard? - The American Scholar
In feverish pursuit of determining DNA’s double helix
theamericanscholar.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Although Raymond Gosling credits Watson as having “a very lively mind,” it is Rosalind Franklin whom he remembers as “a great experimentalist”: "She was very workmanlike in the laboratory & had fierce powers of concentration.”
My essay, The American Scholar:
theamericanscholar.org/double-stand...
My essay, The American Scholar:
theamericanscholar.org/double-stand...
Same.
Hard same.
Someone asked me the other day about something and said “you know in chatGPT when you click on…” and I stopped them, because, my dude, I have never even SEEN ChatGPT, let alone used it.
Someone asked me the other day about something and said “you know in chatGPT when you click on…” and I stopped them, because, my dude, I have never even SEEN ChatGPT, let alone used it.
Never have. Never will. Not interested in going anywhere *near* a crap app built out of countless millions of hard-won words stolen from my colleagues, the use of which will (bonus!) begin progressively to degrade my cognitive skills and blunt the edge of the tool I’ve spent half a century honing. 🤨
November 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Same.
"Dick Cheney is an EVIL ROBOT."
Photographed (by me) at a protest marching past the 2004 Republican National Convention, New York City.
Dick Cheney, January 30, 1941 – November 3, 2025, Vice-President of the United States, "considered by many to be the architect of the Iraq War."
Photographed (by me) at a protest marching past the 2004 Republican National Convention, New York City.
Dick Cheney, January 30, 1941 – November 3, 2025, Vice-President of the United States, "considered by many to be the architect of the Iraq War."
November 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
"Dick Cheney is an EVIL ROBOT."
Photographed (by me) at a protest marching past the 2004 Republican National Convention, New York City.
Dick Cheney, January 30, 1941 – November 3, 2025, Vice-President of the United States, "considered by many to be the architect of the Iraq War."
Photographed (by me) at a protest marching past the 2004 Republican National Convention, New York City.
Dick Cheney, January 30, 1941 – November 3, 2025, Vice-President of the United States, "considered by many to be the architect of the Iraq War."
Reposted by Josie Glausiusz
Facial prosthesis, c.1917. THREAD for #RemembranceSunday🧵
From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. /1
From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. /1
November 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Facial prosthesis, c.1917. THREAD for #RemembranceSunday🧵
From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. /1
From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. /1
More than 100 nations were poised last month to approve a historic deal to slash pollution from cargo ships.
The deal was effectively killed after what foreign diplomats called “nasty” and “very personal” threats made by State Department officials.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/c...
The deal was effectively killed after what foreign diplomats called “nasty” and “very personal” threats made by State Department officials.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/c...
Trump Officials Accused of Bullying Tactics to Kill a Climate Measure
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
More than 100 nations were poised last month to approve a historic deal to slash pollution from cargo ships.
The deal was effectively killed after what foreign diplomats called “nasty” and “very personal” threats made by State Department officials.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/c...
The deal was effectively killed after what foreign diplomats called “nasty” and “very personal” threats made by State Department officials.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/c...
Reposted by Josie Glausiusz
In 1958, peering through her microscope at tissue she had cultured from children with Down syndrome, Dr. Gautier saw that every cell had an extra chromosome.
“I was alone, but I shouted out, ‘Yes!’” she told New Scientist magazine in 2014.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/h...
“I was alone, but I shouted out, ‘Yes!’” she told New Scientist magazine in 2014.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/h...
Marthe Gautier, 96, Dies; Had Key Role in Down Syndrome Breakthrough
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:58 AM
In 1958, peering through her microscope at tissue she had cultured from children with Down syndrome, Dr. Gautier saw that every cell had an extra chromosome.
“I was alone, but I shouted out, ‘Yes!’” she told New Scientist magazine in 2014.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/h...
“I was alone, but I shouted out, ‘Yes!’” she told New Scientist magazine in 2014.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/h...