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Sabrina Imbler
@sabs.bsky.social
14K followers 420 following 940 posts
charismatic megafauna at Defector
books How Far the Light Reaches & Dyke (geology)
newsletter Creatures NYC 🤙 https://buttondown.com/simbler/
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sabs.bsky.social
this essay is just as good as everyone says it is, and imo is a good piece of blanket advice
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM
sabs.bsky.social
an incredible obituary for an odious man
brittanytrang.com Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 2d
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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brandyjensen.bsky.social
lmao
November 6, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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tuck.bsky.social
Happy pub day to my beautiful daughter!!!!!! she is so smart and funny and weird and thoughtful and I am so excited for you to meet her!!!!
Tuck holding up a copy of sex change and the city, which features an illustration of Carrie Bradshaw with an irreversible damage hole
November 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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junlper.beer
everybody transgender
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
sabs.bsky.social
this week proving once again that I have never met an anesthesiologist that was not an absolute smokeshow
November 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
sabs.bsky.social
auditioning a new mitski song to spiral to on loop….any suggestions?
November 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
sabs.bsky.social
ate a weed gummy and am cracking open a book about an onion who unites the underclass in a fight against oppression and injustice
October 31, 2025 at 3:14 AM
sabs.bsky.social
Defector nabbed an EXCLUSIVE, no-holds-barred interview with the two-headed worm of the moment.
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Exclusive! A Revealing And Not Made-Up Interview With A Two-Headed Worm | Defector
The freshwater flatworm Stenostomum brevipharyngium is, by all accounts, a simple fellow. The worm is small and entirely soft. It has no eyes, only sensory pits that control balance and orientation. T...
defector.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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For this year’s Tip Jar drive, we invite you to travel to Philadelphia to either judge (easy mode) or bake along with (chaos mode) Kelsey McKinney and Chris Thompson as they take on another timed baking challenge. defector.com/help-secure-...
Help Secure Our Financial Independence By Infiltrating The Great Blogger Bake Shop | Defector
Last year, Defector’s operations geniuses submitted our annual Tip Jar drives for consideration in the Online Journalism Awards category of “Innovation in Revenue Strategy” for mid-size newsrooms. We…
defector.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
sabs.bsky.social
I wrote about an absolute diva
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Fat AND Sassy? A Three-Legged Lizard Really Can Have It All | Defector
Decades ago, the evolutionary biologist Jonathan Losos found himself chasing a lizard around an island in the Bahamas. The island was little more than mound of craggy limestone the size of a baseball ...
defector.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
sabs.bsky.social
in this amazing life situation where I'm seeing four (4) therapists at the same time but don't worry they all know about each other
October 29, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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seankuhn.bsky.social
NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is: defector.com/products
When the FBI arrested Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billups, the basketball-watching public turned to sports media to help make sense of the story. What explanations were on offer? Before disclosing its own BetMGM partnership, The Athletic called “all of sports” complicit in the scandal. Bill Simmons dismissed the episode as ”a couple bad apples,” growing pains typical of a growth industry. Zach Lowe had ESPN's betting guy on his podcast; together they concluded that these issues can be tinkered out of existence by limiting prop bets and changing how teams report injuries. Lowe's podcast, like Simmons's, began with a FanDuel ad. The takeover of sports media by gambling companies imposes hard boundaries on the domain of these conversations. Most importantly, these captured discussions always obscure the social and political choices that enable the gambling industry to entrench itself. Allowing people to gamble on their phones and allowing sports gambling companies to spend untold sums on lobbying and advertising are choices. These choices, not some law of nature, are why millions of people have started gambling in recent years. Likewise, other sports media companies have chosen to offer up their audiences as prey to gambling outfits. Defector has chosen something else: We never have and never will take money from gambling companies. Subscribers fund our operations, which allows us to remain independent, critical, and uncompromised. Consider making that choice.
October 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
sabs.bsky.social
if I were a fish I would simply not be swimming that much. I would be loitering in river systems, feeling the current through my gills and just enjoying each day as it passed.
October 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
sabs.bsky.social
more like degenerative AI !
October 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
sabs.bsky.social
obsessed with the spider whose webs look like CDs
(credit: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen)
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two Spiral orb webs in Karijini, Western Australia, they are each iridescent in the sun and look exactly like CD roms
October 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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rosebroderick.bsky.social
gender-affirming care is everywhere for those with the eyes to see it

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‘I’m on Fire’: Testosterone Is Giving Women Back Their Sex Drive — and Then Some
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October 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
sabs.bsky.social
"All of it, in the end, becomes a question of what you will settle for, and how much you are willing to bear in ex
change for a chance at making things less unbearable."
good @davidjroth.bsky.social blog
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What Job Is A Guy With A Nazi Tattoo Qualified For? | Defector
The man that my wife and I found ourselves talking to at the bar of a restaurant in Rockland, Maine in the summer of 2019 had arrived in town as your fancier visitors do, which is by boat. He told us ...
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October 22, 2025 at 7:51 PM
sabs.bsky.social
obsessed with this vaguely shitposty graphic explaining something about optics that I will never be smart enough to understand

(credit: Renmin Ma et al.)
a scientific illustration of a computer-generated narwhal with a red light beaming from its tusk above a sparkly ocean. the words "Local power-law enhancement" and "Global exponential decay" and "narwhal-shaped wavefunctions" are behind the narwhal. a caption of the narwhal image that reads: image: Figure 1 | Narwhal-shaped wavefunction. The mode volume characterizes the spatial confinement of an electromagnetic eigenmode and directly determines the strength of light–matter interactions. It is defined as the ratio of the total electric energy density integrated over all space to its peak value. Achieving strong confinement requires designing eigenmodes whose field distributions decay rapidly across space, thereby enhancing the energy density per unit volume. Narwhal-shaped wavefunctions, which combine local power-law enhancement with global exponential decay, enable light to be focused and compressed far beyond conventional limits under lossless conditions.
October 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
sabs.bsky.social
reading polysecure in the callen-lorde waiting room like a cliche of a cliche
October 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM
sabs.bsky.social
deleting streeteasy from your phone >>>>>>>>
October 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
sabs.bsky.social
as expected @izdaramola.bsky.social's tribute to D'Angelo knocked my socks off

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Waiting On D'Angelo | Defector
“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.” This is from Psalms 23:4, a classic prayer about God...
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October 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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asherelbein.bsky.social
In 2010, a scientist argued that 2.1 billion-year-old African specimens showed complex life appearing 500 million years ahead of schedule. His critics say they are — literally — fool's gold. At stake? The question of when and how complex life arose at all.

My cover story (!) for @sciam.bsky.social!
These Enigmatic ‘Fossils’ Could Rewrite the History of Life on Earth
Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought—and possibly more than once
www.scientificamerican.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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hughryan.bsky.social
It's official: MY BAD: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE QUEER 90S AND BEYOND has a cover! I love how the yellow feels like a run over hazard sign, and the mixtape is perhaps my personal 90s icon. As for those sexy statues? You'll have to read it to find out...
October 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM