Adam Johnston
@onefromadam.bsky.social
Science educator drawn to mountain trails; ambitions in writing and music. Plays well with others.
All press is good press.
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WSU guest opinion: All press is good press
The line, “all press is good press,” has been ringing in my head this week. It’s an expression meant to soften the blow from the attention drawn toward dark corners we might not want illuminated, the ...
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December 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
All press is good press.
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This month’s column, printed the morning after we were treated to aurorae. Maybe a few people will recognize it would have been better without city light.
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November 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
This month’s column, printed the morning after we were treated to aurorae. Maybe a few people will recognize it would have been better without city light.
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The monthly column, this is about Cronk and Nina and all of us. www.standard.net/opinion/gues...
Guest opinion: Lessons from our cohabitants
“Who’s a pretty bird?” This was the typical refrain when my family and I would visit Cronk, the resident raven at the Ogden Nature Center. From his enclosure’s perch, Cronk would reply with a twist an...
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October 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The monthly column, this is about Cronk and Nina and all of us. www.standard.net/opinion/gues...
This month’s column. Weber has some leaders I look up to, but Andrea was the very best of them. I wish there were more examples like her in other positions of power.
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WSU guest opinion: A role model in leadership
Now that Dr. Andrea Easter-Pilcher is no longer employed at Weber State University and is no longer my boss, I can finally say what I really think about her. I’ll begin by stating publicly that I didn...
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September 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
This month’s column. Weber has some leaders I look up to, but Andrea was the very best of them. I wish there were more examples like her in other positions of power.
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This month’s regular due date coincided with our 30th anniversary. I worried a little that this might be a self-indulgent use of my column not relevant to others … and then the editor asked to expand publication to multiple newspapers. Go figure. www.standard.net/opinion/gues...
JOHNSTON: Our lives, hand in hand
I took a dumb fall last week, a hard tumble on rocks of the high Uintas, as if they’d been piling and solidifying for hundreds of millions of years just for the opportunity to throw me down upon the p...
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August 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM
This month’s regular due date coincided with our 30th anniversary. I worried a little that this might be a self-indulgent use of my column not relevant to others … and then the editor asked to expand publication to multiple newspapers. Go figure. www.standard.net/opinion/gues...
This month’s piece, patriotism in a form I can muster.
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JOHNSTON: A country worth defending
Leading into our Independence Day weekend, our legislative branch passed and the president signed a budget reconciliation bill. It’s gotten a lot of press already, and I suspect its effects will conti...
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July 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
This month’s piece, patriotism in a form I can muster.
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I was facing a deadline but tired of my usual axe grinding and notes, so at the last minute I wrote this sketch about our walk: www.standard.net/opinion/gues...
June 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I was facing a deadline but tired of my usual axe grinding and notes, so at the last minute I wrote this sketch about our walk: www.standard.net/opinion/gues...
This month's piece. Life probably abounds in the universe, but living is very rare. www.standard.net/opinion/gues...
WSU: Life in the universe
It seems natural for us to wonder what might live outside of our own neighborhoods. We imagine mythological creatures in deep woods and we search for systems of life in deep ocean trenches. And once w...
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May 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This month's piece. Life probably abounds in the universe, but living is very rare. www.standard.net/opinion/gues...
This month’s piece about politics not being in schools but totally shaping them.
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JOHNSTON: The politics of education
“Let’s do everything possible to make our classrooms one of the last remaining politically neutral places in our state.” So wrote Gov. Spencer Cox in a letter to lawmakers a couple weeks ago when he a...
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April 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
This month’s piece about politics not being in schools but totally shaping them.
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This month’s piece, an astronomy lesson of sorts. I should have confessed that I never took an astronomy course, though it was my first teaching assignment.
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Johnston: Astronomical alignments
We live on an orb that rounds its way around an ever-bending corner on its path about a star, dangling along our companion Moon. All the while, we get a glimpse of other wandering bodies tracing out t...
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March 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
This month’s piece, an astronomy lesson of sorts. I should have confessed that I never took an astronomy course, though it was my first teaching assignment.
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My first post, here's my monthly op-ed in the local paper about how cuts to federal funds affects very real local people. www.standard.net/opinion/gues...
Johnston: On how I’m spending your money
First of all, thank you. Your tax dollars and democratic voice enable my work in the field of science education. You determine government spending by voting for and giving input to your representative...
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February 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My first post, here's my monthly op-ed in the local paper about how cuts to federal funds affects very real local people. www.standard.net/opinion/gues...