Head to our YouTube channel to check out additional shorts 🔗 youtube.com/@tinymatters...

🌟Submissions are OPEN for the awards for excellence in science communication given by @nationalacademies.org & @schmidtsciences.bsky.social to science communicators, journalists, and researchers. I was thrilled to have been one of last year's winners.

🔗 www.nationalacademies.org/awards/excel...

🧪For science (or dog! or both!) enthusiasts in the DMV area — come see a very cool comparative oncology doc I was a science consultant on, premiering at the AMC Montgomery 16 in Bethesda on Tuesday, February 11th at 7 pm.

FREE to attend. Trailer and RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This is your sign to treat yourself this weekend in preparation for the week ahead, for no reason whatsoever…

🧪I had a blast curating this week's @pocketcasts.com guest list! Check it out and maybe you'll find a new podcast to fall in love with @acs.org @multitude.productions @okidokiboki.bsky.social 🔗 blog.pocketcasts.com/2025/01/16/s...

Such an amazing night with @nationalacademies.org and Schmidt Sciences receiving an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communication. The past few days I’ve been surrounded by the smartest, kindest, most driven people and I am so grateful 💛

It feels like momentum is really building here — so hi! I’m Sam, a former scientist turned science journalist and exec producer of the podcast Tiny Matters. It’s early Saturday and I’m tired, so that’s all for now, but here’s a pic of my dogs giving “don’t talk about my child that way” energy

🧪Are you in the Washington, DC area and looking to connect with other science writers, producers, and journalists? @dcswa.bsky.social is hosting a pizza social at Sonny’s on Thursday, February 8th. Come mingle and grab a slice on us! 🍕 dcswa.org/event/pizza-...

Save the date! @dcswa.bsky.social’s 2024 professional development day will be on Saturday, May 4th at George Washington University in DC and will also be offered virtually 💫registration and more info to come at DCSWA.org

My latest from @washingtonpost.com is about how researchers are using non-invasive, low-intensity ultrasound to treat substance use disorder. It’s early days for this work, but it could be a total game changer 🧠

gift link 🎁 wapo.st/3sntFu7

“There’s only one way to be positive. I’d have to see the dinosaur’s droppings.”

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In my latest for @washingtonpost.com, I chatted with researchers to unpack the importance of play in the animal kingdom and how tickling rats (it’s truly very cute, scroll for photo) is teaching us a lot about the regions of our brain that control play www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

For those in the DC area:

*Tomorrow* from 12:00 - 2:00, grab an ice cream with me and the DC Science Writers Association at Ice Cream Jubilee Navy Yard.

The first 25 people to show up get a free cone! more details here: dcswa.wildapricot.org/event-5403324

not artistic enough to have staged this photo ☀️

real 📸 credit: my dogs

🍦Summer’s the best but sometimes it brings bummers like mosquito bites, poison ivy and brain freeze. In this yesterday’s New York Times for Kids I shared some tips and tricks from experts on how to make those bummers better ☀️

🎨 art by Dan Whitehouse (aka Super Freak)