Freda Kreier (she/her)
@fredakreier.bsky.social
Freelance science writer based in OR.🇨🇭—>🇺🇸
Hey, animal people: is this a dog or a coyote?
May 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Hey, animal people: is this a dog or a coyote?
🌱 what it’s like waiting to plant for spring
March 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
🌱 what it’s like waiting to plant for spring
Scientists are like, “my colleagues will never take me seriously if I anthropomorphize my animal subjects!”
Meanwhile Nikola Tesla:
Meanwhile Nikola Tesla:
February 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Scientists are like, “my colleagues will never take me seriously if I anthropomorphize my animal subjects!”
Meanwhile Nikola Tesla:
Meanwhile Nikola Tesla:
This is bucket
January 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
This is bucket
TakaHEY am I right
January 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
TakaHEY am I right
Lake ice in Maine. The world is beautiful. Picture by @meprillaman.bsky.social
January 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Lake ice in Maine. The world is beautiful. Picture by @meprillaman.bsky.social
This is a sperm whale appreciation post (also check out PBS Natures' new show "Patrick and the Whale." You get to watch a grown man cry because he thinks a whale is mad at him. Oh and experience cetacean elation)
January 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
This is a sperm whale appreciation post (also check out PBS Natures' new show "Patrick and the Whale." You get to watch a grown man cry because he thinks a whale is mad at him. Oh and experience cetacean elation)
I don’t need GRRM to write the winds of winter. They’re outside my door.
January 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I don’t need GRRM to write the winds of winter. They’re outside my door.
My therapist: why don’t you just tell them how you feel?
Me:
Me:
January 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM
My therapist: why don’t you just tell them how you feel?
Me:
Me:
when you talk to someone else who grew up in Switzerland and suddenly the inside of your brain looks like this
November 14, 2024 at 7:38 PM
when you talk to someone else who grew up in Switzerland and suddenly the inside of your brain looks like this
Hakai magazine is on the road to safety! They need 1-2 more big donations from large foundations or donors with deep pockets to get through year one. Contact the magazine if this is you!
September 5, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Hakai magazine is on the road to safety! They need 1-2 more big donations from large foundations or donors with deep pockets to get through year one. Contact the magazine if this is you!
This is a Great Lakes appreciation post.
August 23, 2024 at 4:13 PM
This is a Great Lakes appreciation post.
🧪 My earthquake story, in a nutshell. Now republished in the Atlantic! www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
July 29, 2024 at 8:49 PM
🧪 My earthquake story, in a nutshell. Now republished in the Atlantic! www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
🧪🦈 were you personally victimized by the Tula Foundation’s decision to defund Hakai magazine? You can let them know why you think this is a bad idea at info@tula.org. Let’s ensure that Hakai can keep telling✨iconic✨ coastal stories for years to come!
July 27, 2024 at 11:57 AM
🧪🦈 were you personally victimized by the Tula Foundation’s decision to defund Hakai magazine? You can let them know why you think this is a bad idea at info@tula.org. Let’s ensure that Hakai can keep telling✨iconic✨ coastal stories for years to come!
Me and my seven months of reporting on the nuances of seismic science in the central U.S condensed to a slow news day 🥲
July 16, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Me and my seven months of reporting on the nuances of seismic science in the central U.S condensed to a slow news day 🥲
Update from reporting land
May 23, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Update from reporting land
I did a pottery (underglaze is amazing)
May 14, 2024 at 8:27 PM
I did a pottery (underglaze is amazing)
🦑🧪Also just want to shout out the scientists who shared their incredible photos of this magnificent place. Geir Wing Gabrielsen, who has worked in the fjord since the 1980s, shared this shot for the piece of Kittiwakes feeding in front of a glacier.
May 2, 2024 at 7:11 PM
🦑🧪Also just want to shout out the scientists who shared their incredible photos of this magnificent place. Geir Wing Gabrielsen, who has worked in the fjord since the 1980s, shared this shot for the piece of Kittiwakes feeding in front of a glacier.
First draft vs edited final version
April 20, 2024 at 12:32 AM
First draft vs edited final version
TFW you’re reading a molecular biology paper for a story and it’s well written and the science is clear
April 17, 2024 at 3:01 PM
TFW you’re reading a molecular biology paper for a story and it’s well written and the science is clear
Monterey Bae ☀️
April 9, 2024 at 2:32 AM
Monterey Bae ☀️
San Francisco is a girl who is pretty without make up on
April 6, 2024 at 2:28 PM
San Francisco is a girl who is pretty without make up on