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Hannah Waters
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biology editor @quantamagazine.bsky.social ~ pitch biology stories: hwaters@quantamagazine.org ~ quantamagazine.org/biology
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“It’s like dealing with the Mob“ - How the U.S. derailed global talks on reducing carbon emissions from shipping on.ft.com/4hAl1xy
“They went from delegation to delegation . . . threatening them. Telling them to go back and speak to their capitals, warning what would happen if they didn’t change their minds,” the diplomat said. A second veteran of IMO meetings said the US tactics had left the entire organisation — usually a forum for technocratic discussion and consensus-based decision making — in a state of “complete shock”. “It’s like dealing with the Mob,” the veteran added. “It’s bully-boy tactics. They don’t need to tell you exactly what they’re going to do to you, just make it clear that there will be consequences.”
November 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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A picture of the front cover of the book. It says: Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning by Peter Beinert The back cover of the book with a paragraph description. “Over the last year, I’ve struggled with the way many Jews—including people I cherish—have justified the destruction of an entire society. This book is about the stories Jews tell ourselves that blind us to Palestinian suffering. It’s about how we came to value a state, Israel, above the lives of all the people who live under its control. And it’s about why I believe that Palestinian liberation means Jewish liberation as well. My hope is that even people who disagree fervently with my arguments will feel that it was written in a spirit of Jewish solidarity and love. And that, in some small way, it might contribute to the struggle for Palestinian freedom while also opening a conversation within the Jewish communities and families ruptured by this horrifying war.”
September 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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What started as a college networking website is now the information infrastructure by which Israel/U.S. run their Hunger Games-style “aid distribution” sites in Gaza on.ft.com/46ednp8
GHF operates four sites concentrated in southern Gaza and staffed at least in part by US security contractors, working under Israeli military supervision. The signal for Gazans to set off from their tents or the ruins of their homes often comes from GHF’s Facebook page, where it announces the opening times of its distribution sites. These posts sometimes appear in the middle of the night and can give less than 30 minutes notice, an FT analysis found. A second post, often published only minutes after the scheduled opening times, announces the site is closed, with all aid distributed. In some cases, GHF has declared the site closed even before it was due to open. Frequent internet outages in Gaza can also make it difficult for Palestinians even to access Facebook to see the posts. But for aid seekers, who must walk for kilometres along barely discernible routes whose landmarks have been flattened by Israel’s 21-month offensive, there is little room for miscalculation. “You don’t see where you are going in the dark,” said Jihad. “The route is provided as a map on your phone screen but on the ground the roads are all destroyed and you have to take a chance. So either you are on the right route, or you die.”
July 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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I am fascinated by this idea that a color signal on a plant or animal is evidence of life — it takes work to evolve structures or organize pigments, it is a sign of work against the forces of entropy.

From this excellent story by @mollyherring.bsky.social: www.quantamagazine.org/when-did-nat...
June 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Back in town and back at it. Apr 29, 8:37 am. 22 sp. FOY black-throated green warbler and actually saw (as well as heard) a warbling vireo. Big push last night. ebird.org/checklist/S2...
April 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Apr 24, 8:30am. 16 sp. I have seen spring warblers in this area (FOY palm and pine last week!) but not this morning. I have to wake up earlier/wait for a front to come through. Nice trees though. ebird.org/checklist/S2...
April 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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New by Veronique Greenwood on nanotube bridges connecting bacteria: "[Cyanobacteria] may be holding conversations across wide distances ... linking what we thought were their private, inner spaces with the interiors of other cells." www.quantamagazine.org/the-ocean-te...
January 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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a picture on your phone with your energy. not a selfie.
July 9, 2023 at 12:54 PM