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Sally James
@jamesian.bsky.social
Science journalist. Yoga teacher. I'm an "indirect cost" writing for researchers at times.
More at https://seattlesciencewriter.com
Hey #PNW, the @sciencewriters.org meeting next NOV is in Corvallis, OR. Hosts include @oregonstate.edu
#sciwri26
Travel dream - a "private car" on Amtrak bringing all the #seattle folks south
@nswa.bsky.social
sciencewriters2025.org/next-year/
November 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Everything lined up for my 7-year-old friend to watch #concrete crew in #Seattle. The drama of construction kept her engaged. #transportation
November 5, 2025 at 1:08 AM
It is #pear season. #orchard
November 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
A long time, yes, but now lab-grown #sunflower stars are being introduced by the Samish tribe on Guemes Island. Might mean other areas can grow them. Visited scientists at Friday Harbor labs. Photo shows UW scientist Jason Hodin and some stars set loose Oct. 29th.
October 30, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Scientists needed a way to identify 1 radial creature from another among #sunflower stars. Imagine clock face on each star. Number the legs based on a DOT that each star has. Moving clockwise from DOT, first LEG from is 1, next is 2, and so on. #echinoderms #radial
October 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Huge thanks to Jason Hodin + UW marine laboratory. Now fascinated with madroporite, my new #echinoderm vocabulary word. He is pointing at lab-grown stars headed to Guemes Island. #samish #indigenous #seastar #restoration @fridayharbor.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Here is a sperm #whale, made of pages of "Moby Dick" hanging from a ceiling. @fridayharbor.bsky.social At a marine laboratory.
Where it wasn't on my bingo card.
#research #uw #fridayharbor
October 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Yes, it can be October and puffy white clouds. @fridayharbor.bsky.social
Thank you @nswa.bsky.social for our field trip to Friday Harbor labs. #invertebrates #echinoderms #eyes
October 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
As a current rehab of TKR, I know some of that complicated ambition. With the new knee, hoping to return to high-impact sports when I wish. Not that I need to ski, but... maybe. Maybe.
#totalkneereplacement #knee #rehab
October 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
You know you are old when someone dies, and you immediately want to call someone about it. And they are also gone. #grief #community
October 18, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Sometimes the dark humor almost compensates for the losses. Below, part of a cartoon by Miriam Jayaratna + Wendi Aarons in @thenewyorker.bsky.social reimagining Disney without #vaccines.
October 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
September 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Among the generous + eloquent speakers @wsna.bsky.social president Justin Gill, @meadekrosby.bsky.social on climate, @irahyman.bsky.social on misinformation @seattlescienceguy.bsky.social on journalism and hope.. and many others. Is the ominous sky symnbolic?
September 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Hooray for @sufsseattle.bsky.social and others Standing for Science today at #Seattle #waterfront
September 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
It sounds sort of like a #seattle cliche, but I have to teach yoga that day at noon. (but think I'll arrive closer to 2 or 2:15 )
September 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Go @soundersfc.com Go fathers. Go brothers. Go babies. #soccer
September 1, 2025 at 2:54 AM
i just learned about #ForestFriday #bloomscrolling crossover.
August 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Go see #ice caves near #GraniteFalls. The bowl they sit in is #geologic wonder. Full of sedimentary rock tilted later. And wetland nearby. #hiking
August 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Freaking out because a friend says "it's already August. August is the Sunday night of the calendar year."
Is she serious? November is the Sunday night...or Dec. 15th is Sunday night. 📆 Let's torture this metaphor. What is the "sunday night" of your calendar year?
August 14, 2025 at 11:25 PM
We can't know what the fish is thinking, but the 4-year-old knows that someone is on the other side of the glass. @seattleaquarium.bsky.social
Priceless. #ocean #science #education
August 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Being a science #journalist. This resonates. #vibe #spin #yeast
August 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Does it feel like you are seeing "experts" quoted as saying opposing things? #health #news #literacy #sciwri
August 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
If you want/need an assistant, who creates your power points and fact-checks the links you are sharing, let's do this. (got no grad degree) #naturalist #tour
August 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Ahh. The weekend, 🕓 to enjoy the acerbic humor of @thisisindexed.com
Why, yes, I will make weird little things in obsolete ways.
Obsolete is the new pink.
#luddite #tech #humor
August 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Hurry to see @seattleartmuseum.bsky.social exhibit of Ai Wei Wei.
His transgressive rewriting of what is art, and what is rebellion is fantastic. New audio (with him talking about his own work) is delightful. #art #modern #immigrant #rebellion
August 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM