Alice Sun
@alicesunreports.bsky.social
science journalist | writes about animals & the human experience | words in Scientific American, Nautilus, Audubon & more
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Researchers are finding out just how different—and adaptive—learning and memory can be early in life. @alicesunreports.bsky.social
Overturning Assumptions in Childhood Learning and Cognition
Researchers are finding out just how different—and adaptive—learning and memory can be early in life.
www.psychologicalscience.org
August 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Researchers are finding out just how different—and adaptive—learning and memory can be early in life. @alicesunreports.bsky.social
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Dispatches from the Last Ice Area
The Arctic is losing ice—fast. To better predict the future, scientists headed to the North’s last bastion of multiyear sea ice.
by @alicesunreports.bsky.social
www.biographic.com/dispatches-f...
The Arctic is losing ice—fast. To better predict the future, scientists headed to the North’s last bastion of multiyear sea ice.
by @alicesunreports.bsky.social
www.biographic.com/dispatches-f...
Dispatches from the Last Ice Area - bioGraphic
The Arctic is losing ice—fast. To better predict the future, scientists headed to the North’s last bastion of multiyear sea ice.
www.biographic.com
May 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Dispatches from the Last Ice Area
The Arctic is losing ice—fast. To better predict the future, scientists headed to the North’s last bastion of multiyear sea ice.
by @alicesunreports.bsky.social
www.biographic.com/dispatches-f...
The Arctic is losing ice—fast. To better predict the future, scientists headed to the North’s last bastion of multiyear sea ice.
by @alicesunreports.bsky.social
www.biographic.com/dispatches-f...
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🚨🧪 We’ve been talking to scientists at rallies today across the country in DC, Boston, Seattle, and NJ. Here’s why scientists are “Dismayed, depressed, disgusted” and what they’re doing about it
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#StandUpforScience #StandUpforScience2025
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#StandUpforScience #StandUpforScience2025
@nature.com
‘Scientists will not be silenced’: thousands protest Trump research cuts
Researchers at Stand Up for Science rallies voice defiance against the policies of US President Donald Trump’s administration.
www.nature.com
March 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
🚨🧪 We’ve been talking to scientists at rallies today across the country in DC, Boston, Seattle, and NJ. Here’s why scientists are “Dismayed, depressed, disgusted” and what they’re doing about it
🧵 ⤵️ for more
#StandUpforScience #StandUpforScience2025
@nature.com
🧵 ⤵️ for more
#StandUpforScience #StandUpforScience2025
@nature.com
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Attending the Stand Up for Science Rally on Friday March 7th?
Download FREE rebellious posters on our website: RebelScienceUnion.com
Are you an artist with a poster design to share? Let us know!
Download FREE rebellious posters on our website: RebelScienceUnion.com
Are you an artist with a poster design to share? Let us know!
March 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Attending the Stand Up for Science Rally on Friday March 7th?
Download FREE rebellious posters on our website: RebelScienceUnion.com
Are you an artist with a poster design to share? Let us know!
Download FREE rebellious posters on our website: RebelScienceUnion.com
Are you an artist with a poster design to share? Let us know!
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📣 Welcome to the Rebel Science Union, a refuge for radical science!
We are furious creatives who believe science won’t be silenced. We’re here to help scientists own their work in the digital space. Check our rebellious resources: RebelScienceUnion.com
Want to learn more? Let’s connect!
We are furious creatives who believe science won’t be silenced. We’re here to help scientists own their work in the digital space. Check our rebellious resources: RebelScienceUnion.com
Want to learn more? Let’s connect!
March 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
📣 Welcome to the Rebel Science Union, a refuge for radical science!
We are furious creatives who believe science won’t be silenced. We’re here to help scientists own their work in the digital space. Check our rebellious resources: RebelScienceUnion.com
Want to learn more? Let’s connect!
We are furious creatives who believe science won’t be silenced. We’re here to help scientists own their work in the digital space. Check our rebellious resources: RebelScienceUnion.com
Want to learn more? Let’s connect!
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Here’s @lizneeley.bsky.social’s latest newsletter, documenting the ongoing attacks on science and higher ed, and figuring out what to focus on: buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
Week 3
Figuring out what to focus on now & what to focus on next in science and higher ed
buttondown.com
February 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Here’s @lizneeley.bsky.social’s latest newsletter, documenting the ongoing attacks on science and higher ed, and figuring out what to focus on: buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
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Today was a day of mass censorship. Sending love & solidarity to all the amazing career scientists in government.
For the rest of us: Now is not the time to self-censor or comply in advance. More than ever we need to stand by the principles of our profession and always keep speaking truth to power.
For the rest of us: Now is not the time to self-censor or comply in advance. More than ever we need to stand by the principles of our profession and always keep speaking truth to power.
January 31, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Today was a day of mass censorship. Sending love & solidarity to all the amazing career scientists in government.
For the rest of us: Now is not the time to self-censor or comply in advance. More than ever we need to stand by the principles of our profession and always keep speaking truth to power.
For the rest of us: Now is not the time to self-censor or comply in advance. More than ever we need to stand by the principles of our profession and always keep speaking truth to power.
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“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house.” Read STAT’s @ericboodman.bsky.social on how the funding freeze at NSF is affecting scientists. www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills
An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills
www.statnews.com
January 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM
“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house.” Read STAT’s @ericboodman.bsky.social on how the funding freeze at NSF is affecting scientists. www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
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Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.
January 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.
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Defeating pseudoscience is not about strategizing a coalition for a particular candidate or particular party every four years. It’s about building up people’s ability to sniff out bullshit.
www.sequencermag.com/tell-me-what...
www.sequencermag.com/tell-me-what...
Tell me what you don’t know
Scientific misinformation is a community problem. We can fight back by embracing uncertainty.
www.sequencermag.com
January 22, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Defeating pseudoscience is not about strategizing a coalition for a particular candidate or particular party every four years. It’s about building up people’s ability to sniff out bullshit.
www.sequencermag.com/tell-me-what...
www.sequencermag.com/tell-me-what...
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I have been thinking a lot about how becoming more informed and aware over the next four years in a way that’s really useful might mean more books about history and less getting sucked into the daily firehose of bad news which is the present
I was raised in a multi-generational organizing family and I can say with firsthand knowledge that 20th century organizers read theory and they studied history and literature quite closely
The need to do that hasn’t changed
If studying history isn’t part of your organizing work, change that
The need to do that hasn’t changed
If studying history isn’t part of your organizing work, change that
January 20, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I have been thinking a lot about how becoming more informed and aware over the next four years in a way that’s really useful might mean more books about history and less getting sucked into the daily firehose of bad news which is the present
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The ineluctable fact is, if you want the most eyeballs, the most clicks, the most "happy users," good journalism is a *terrible strategy*. Truth is expensive to obtain, slow to reveal itself, complicated, nuanced, often orthogonal to neat ideological conclusions.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/b...
The Washington Post’s New Mission: Reach ‘All of America’
This week, The Post began trying out a new mission statement: “Riveting Storytelling for All of America.”
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The ineluctable fact is, if you want the most eyeballs, the most clicks, the most "happy users," good journalism is a *terrible strategy*. Truth is expensive to obtain, slow to reveal itself, complicated, nuanced, often orthogonal to neat ideological conclusions.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/b...
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The media has focused on wealthy, White neighborhoods. But the fire in Altadena--a racially and economically diverse suburb--deserves more attention, because insurance may not cover their rebuilding costs, forcing families out and leading the neighborhood to gentrify.
www.reuters.com/world/us/far...
www.reuters.com/world/us/far...
Far from Hollywood's wealth, Los Angeles fire survivors feel forgotten
Residents say that insurance companies might shortchange less affluent households.
www.reuters.com
January 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The media has focused on wealthy, White neighborhoods. But the fire in Altadena--a racially and economically diverse suburb--deserves more attention, because insurance may not cover their rebuilding costs, forcing families out and leading the neighborhood to gentrify.
www.reuters.com/world/us/far...
www.reuters.com/world/us/far...
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I am a big fan of Atlas Obscura (www.atlasobscura.com/). So it is a huge honor to be featured in one of their articles. www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dar...
Thanks @alicesunreports.bsky.social for the great dark oxygen story. With amazing illustrations by (www.instagram.com/rodolforever/) #deeplife
Thanks @alicesunreports.bsky.social for the great dark oxygen story. With amazing illustrations by (www.instagram.com/rodolforever/) #deeplife
Searching for 'Dark Oxygen' in One of the World's Deepest Mines
A scientist's quest for mysterious sources of underground oxygen may offer clues about the origins of life.
www.atlasobscura.com
December 23, 2024 at 11:45 PM
I am a big fan of Atlas Obscura (www.atlasobscura.com/). So it is a huge honor to be featured in one of their articles. www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dar...
Thanks @alicesunreports.bsky.social for the great dark oxygen story. With amazing illustrations by (www.instagram.com/rodolforever/) #deeplife
Thanks @alicesunreports.bsky.social for the great dark oxygen story. With amazing illustrations by (www.instagram.com/rodolforever/) #deeplife
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Many undocumented people are not eligible for federal financial disaster aid and several remain fearful even when help is offered.
Undocumented people are among most vulnerable to climate-infused disasters
Many undocumented people are not eligible for federal financial disaster aid and several remain fearful even when help is offered.
www.npr.org
December 23, 2024 at 7:24 PM
Many undocumented people are not eligible for federal financial disaster aid and several remain fearful even when help is offered.
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Pantone's color of the year is "Mocha Mousse." Ornithologist Robert Ridgway might have called it "Walnut Brown."
Learn more about Ridgway, and the massive dictionary he created to describe birds' hues, in this delightful read from @alicesunreports.bsky.social!
www.audubon.org/magazine/lon...
Learn more about Ridgway, and the massive dictionary he created to describe birds' hues, in this delightful read from @alicesunreports.bsky.social!
www.audubon.org/magazine/lon...
Long Before Pantone, This Bird-Based System for Describing Color Was a Hit
In the early 20th century, ornithologist Robert Ridgway published a massive dictionary to categorize birds’ hues, from Peacock Blue to Duck Green. His work still resonates for artists and designers...
www.audubon.org
December 19, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Pantone's color of the year is "Mocha Mousse." Ornithologist Robert Ridgway might have called it "Walnut Brown."
Learn more about Ridgway, and the massive dictionary he created to describe birds' hues, in this delightful read from @alicesunreports.bsky.social!
www.audubon.org/magazine/lon...
Learn more about Ridgway, and the massive dictionary he created to describe birds' hues, in this delightful read from @alicesunreports.bsky.social!
www.audubon.org/magazine/lon...
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A 2025 prediction from TON editor-in-chief @siricarpenter.bsky.social: Science journalism becomes plain old journalism.
This and much more from @niemanlab.org. 🧪
This and much more from @niemanlab.org. 🧪
Science journalism becomes plain old journalism
"For too long, science journalism has been treated as something distinct, something <em>extra</em> — the domain of specialists writing for audiences who are already deeply interested in and informed a...
www.niemanlab.org
December 18, 2024 at 10:10 PM
A 2025 prediction from TON editor-in-chief @siricarpenter.bsky.social: Science journalism becomes plain old journalism.
This and much more from @niemanlab.org. 🧪
This and much more from @niemanlab.org. 🧪
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Among the NiemanLab 2025 predictions about the news business (many of them about AI), this one by Meena Thiruvengadam stood out: www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/a-ge...
A generation of journalists moves on
"Instead of rewarding these things with fair pay, job security and moral support, journalism as an industry exploits their love of the craft."
www.niemanlab.org
December 10, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Among the NiemanLab 2025 predictions about the news business (many of them about AI), this one by Meena Thiruvengadam stood out: www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/a-ge...
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When it comes to finding and telling science stories from regions in turmoil, journalists have to dig for unique angles, gather + verify context about conflicts, track down and protect sources, and stay safe in areas where journalists might be targets of violence. More, from Claudia López Lloreda. 🧪
Covering Science in the Context of Conflict - The Open Notebook
Science stories become increasingly important—and complicated—in the face of war and conflict. To find and tell science stories from regions in turmoil, reporters have to dig for unique angles, gather...
www.theopennotebook.com
November 26, 2024 at 5:32 PM
When it comes to finding and telling science stories from regions in turmoil, journalists have to dig for unique angles, gather + verify context about conflicts, track down and protect sources, and stay safe in areas where journalists might be targets of violence. More, from Claudia López Lloreda. 🧪
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I was preparing to pitch an op-ed on the nationwide protests calling for President Yoon's resignation, aiming to provide global context amid the limited international coverage.
Given the urgency, I’m sharing it now. I didn’t expect events to escalate this quickly. #SouthKorea #Democracy
Given the urgency, I’m sharing it now. I didn’t expect events to escalate this quickly. #SouthKorea #Democracy
South Korea Is Fighting for Democracy Again—And the World Needs to Know
Last updated December 3, 10:09 AM South Korea Is Fighting for Democracy Again—And the World Needs to Know Heesoo Jang Assistant Professor of Media Law and Ethics Journalism Department, University of...
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December 3, 2024 at 3:11 PM
I was preparing to pitch an op-ed on the nationwide protests calling for President Yoon's resignation, aiming to provide global context amid the limited international coverage.
Given the urgency, I’m sharing it now. I didn’t expect events to escalate this quickly. #SouthKorea #Democracy
Given the urgency, I’m sharing it now. I didn’t expect events to escalate this quickly. #SouthKorea #Democracy
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fun to chat with @neeldhan.bsky.social at @niemanlab.org about journalism
topics discussed: the humiliation of living in a physical body, chartbeat brain, and how becoming a parent sharpened the way i think about covering health and science
www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/the-...
topics discussed: the humiliation of living in a physical body, chartbeat brain, and how becoming a parent sharpened the way i think about covering health and science
www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/the-...
The Atlantic’s Sarah Zhang on covering the science and emotion of being human
"I've always liked to think of myself as a brain floating through space...[but] our physical condition constrains and expands the way we think about ourselves."
www.niemanlab.org
November 22, 2024 at 2:08 PM
fun to chat with @neeldhan.bsky.social at @niemanlab.org about journalism
topics discussed: the humiliation of living in a physical body, chartbeat brain, and how becoming a parent sharpened the way i think about covering health and science
www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/the-...
topics discussed: the humiliation of living in a physical body, chartbeat brain, and how becoming a parent sharpened the way i think about covering health and science
www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/the-...
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If you’re ever wondering why there are so many annoying takes about something, just remember that journalists are haters. It’s kind of one of our core identities. Sometimes that’s good! Investigations come from finding the hidden bad parts of stuff. But sometimes it’s just fucking annoying.
November 23, 2024 at 3:50 PM
If you’re ever wondering why there are so many annoying takes about something, just remember that journalists are haters. It’s kind of one of our core identities. Sometimes that’s good! Investigations come from finding the hidden bad parts of stuff. But sometimes it’s just fucking annoying.
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“All of North India has been plunged into a medical emergency,” Atishi Marlena, the chief minister of Delhi, said on Monday, adding that many cities were “reeling under severe levels of pollution.”
AQI is >1600. The AQI chart only goes to 500.
AQI is >1600. The AQI chart only goes to 500.
Emergency Declared as Smog Chokes Parts of India and Pakistan
The authorities in New Delhi closed schools and urged residents to stay home. Similar measures have been implemented in Punjab, Pakistan’s largest province.
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2024 at 5:47 PM
“All of North India has been plunged into a medical emergency,” Atishi Marlena, the chief minister of Delhi, said on Monday, adding that many cities were “reeling under severe levels of pollution.”
AQI is >1600. The AQI chart only goes to 500.
AQI is >1600. The AQI chart only goes to 500.
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I wrote about the need to rethink our approach to direct action in changing times.
Collective Survival, Adaption and Direct Action
Defiance must be woven into the fabric of our daily lives, rather than simply proclaimed at marches or on social media.
organizingmythoughts.org
November 14, 2024 at 7:21 PM
I wrote about the need to rethink our approach to direct action in changing times.