Trent Knoss
@tknoss.bsky.social
Sr. Director, Communications & Development | Nova Institute for Health
(@novaforhealth.bsky.social)
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Nova Media Fellow Rowan Jacobsen's quest to cure his insomnia led him to spend a month in the desert with no nighttime artificial light. Read about it in his latest piece for @harpers.bsky.social ☀️
In our November issue: a Harper’s Forum on media’s crisis of trust, Rowan Jacobsen on a good night’s sleep, Daniel Kolitz on porn’s new frontier, Joy Williams on Gene Hackman’s last days, Nick Pinkerton on Abel Ferrara and a new story by David Wingrave.
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October 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Nova Media Fellow Rowan Jacobsen's quest to cure his insomnia led him to spend a month in the desert with no nighttime artificial light. Read about it in his latest piece for @harpers.bsky.social ☀️
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A new technique for detecting unknown and unlooked-for chemicals is revealing dozens of contaminants in alligators, sea lions and condors
knowmag.org/3KNLXOe
knowmag.org/3KNLXOe
October 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A new technique for detecting unknown and unlooked-for chemicals is revealing dozens of contaminants in alligators, sea lions and condors
knowmag.org/3KNLXOe
knowmag.org/3KNLXOe
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CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else.
#USAnotRFK
Lets gooooo
#USAnotRFK
Lets gooooo
August 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else.
#USAnotRFK
Lets gooooo
#USAnotRFK
Lets gooooo
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This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
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Cosign this & the whole thread; I would just add that saying, "I liked/hated it" is the least interesting thing criticism does; the value is in explaining why, placing it in cultural context, bringing history to bear, showing you what you didn't notice (or did notice yet couldn't put a finger on) &c
The devaluation of skill, experience, and expertise is a crisis across cultural journalism right now--it's being felt profoundly in theater. It's great that anyone can post a review, but that does not, even in the smallest way, replace what's being thrown away.
August 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Cosign this & the whole thread; I would just add that saying, "I liked/hated it" is the least interesting thing criticism does; the value is in explaining why, placing it in cultural context, bringing history to bear, showing you what you didn't notice (or did notice yet couldn't put a finger on) &c
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Last month, I spent 11 days in Ukraine—my third reporting trip there for Science since Russia launched its full-scale invasion three years ago. This time around, with the support of the Pulitzer Center, I was investigating the vast mobilization of civilian scientists for Ukraine’s war effort.
Civilian scientists are helping make Ukraine’s military more tech savvy
War with Russia is reshaping research on everything from exotic drones to trauma care
www.science.org
August 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Last month, I spent 11 days in Ukraine—my third reporting trip there for Science since Russia launched its full-scale invasion three years ago. This time around, with the support of the Pulitzer Center, I was investigating the vast mobilization of civilian scientists for Ukraine’s war effort.
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@virginiagewin.bsky.social writes about terminated federal grants, including one on which I was PI
"The funding had been helping a multi-institutional team working with community advocates and citizen scientists to analyse air quality around the Salton Sea,
"The funding had been helping a multi-institutional team working with community advocates and citizen scientists to analyse air quality around the Salton Sea,
How your research can survive a US federal grant termination
Researchers in the United States are filing appeals, seeking court remedies, turning to philanthropy and starting GoFundMe campaigns.
www.nature.com
July 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
@virginiagewin.bsky.social writes about terminated federal grants, including one on which I was PI
"The funding had been helping a multi-institutional team working with community advocates and citizen scientists to analyse air quality around the Salton Sea,
"The funding had been helping a multi-institutional team working with community advocates and citizen scientists to analyse air quality around the Salton Sea,
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I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
July 16, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
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The MAGA energy agenda is pretty simple.
It's about combining the energy policy of the 1980s with the trade policy of the 1880s. And it's about trying so hard to own the libs at any cost, you raise electricity prices everywhere.
derekthompson.substack.com/p/american-e...
It's about combining the energy policy of the 1980s with the trade policy of the 1880s. And it's about trying so hard to own the libs at any cost, you raise electricity prices everywhere.
derekthompson.substack.com/p/american-e...
American Energy Policy Cannot Afford to Be This Dumb
While China builds the economy of the future, Trump’s agenda combines the energy policy of the 1980s with the trade policy of the 1880s.
derekthompson.substack.com
July 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The MAGA energy agenda is pretty simple.
It's about combining the energy policy of the 1980s with the trade policy of the 1880s. And it's about trying so hard to own the libs at any cost, you raise electricity prices everywhere.
derekthompson.substack.com/p/american-e...
It's about combining the energy policy of the 1980s with the trade policy of the 1880s. And it's about trying so hard to own the libs at any cost, you raise electricity prices everywhere.
derekthompson.substack.com/p/american-e...
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Just to underscore--the president is attending the opening of an immigrant tent city that was purposely built (in one week) on an abandoned airfield in the middle of the Florida Everglades because it's surrounded by alligators and pythons to deter people from fleeing, or kill them if they do.
Uhh...last week NYT reported construction on "Alligator Alcatraz" would start today. Now NBC News reports it's *opening* tomorrow with Trump likely in attendance "set up quickly — in roughly one week — by the DeSantis administration."
Trump expected to visit the 'Alligator Alcatraz' detention facility this week
The immigration detention facility in the Florida Everglades has drawn protests and faces a lawsuit.
www.nbcnews.com
June 30, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Just to underscore--the president is attending the opening of an immigrant tent city that was purposely built (in one week) on an abandoned airfield in the middle of the Florida Everglades because it's surrounded by alligators and pythons to deter people from fleeing, or kill them if they do.
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Children clung to life in Sudan by the slenderest of threads, supported by community soup kitchens. Then the USAID funding cuts came, and their mothers watched them starve to death one by one. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal
The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 30, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Children clung to life in Sudan by the slenderest of threads, supported by community soup kitchens. Then the USAID funding cuts came, and their mothers watched them starve to death one by one. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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In the @nytimes.com, Nova Scholar Steven Woolf details the dire consequences of federal changes that are dismantling American health care infrastructure.
"Physicians like me know from the data that lives will be lost."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
#Medicaid #Medicare #HealthCare #HealthPolicy
"Physicians like me know from the data that lives will be lost."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
#Medicaid #Medicare #HealthCare #HealthPolicy
Opinion | How to Wreck the Nation’s Health, by the Numbers
The administration's cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services are going to do irreparable harm to the nation’s health.
www.nytimes.com
June 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
In the @nytimes.com, Nova Scholar Steven Woolf details the dire consequences of federal changes that are dismantling American health care infrastructure.
"Physicians like me know from the data that lives will be lost."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
#Medicaid #Medicare #HealthCare #HealthPolicy
"Physicians like me know from the data that lives will be lost."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
#Medicaid #Medicare #HealthCare #HealthPolicy
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Republicans are now suddenly planning to TAX renewable energy, transforming the repeal of the IRA from a challenge to a full-blown crisis for American solar and wind.
I spent the last 24 hours putting this story together to explain why.
Please share! This is really important!!!
@heatmap.news
I spent the last 24 hours putting this story together to explain why.
Please share! This is really important!!!
@heatmap.news
How the Senate GOP’s New Tax on Renewables Could ‘Kill’ the Industry
As bad as previous drafts of the reconciliation bill have been, this one is worse.
heatmap.news
June 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Republicans are now suddenly planning to TAX renewable energy, transforming the repeal of the IRA from a challenge to a full-blown crisis for American solar and wind.
I spent the last 24 hours putting this story together to explain why.
Please share! This is really important!!!
@heatmap.news
I spent the last 24 hours putting this story together to explain why.
Please share! This is really important!!!
@heatmap.news
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Modern miners are contracting black lung at younger ages and at rates not seen since the 1970s. Federal cuts risk putting a solution further out of reach.
How Black Lung Came Roaring Back to Coal Country
Once nearly eradicated, the “old man’s disease” is back and suffocating younger miners. Federal cuts risk putting a solution further out of reach.
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June 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Modern miners are contracting black lung at younger ages and at rates not seen since the 1970s. Federal cuts risk putting a solution further out of reach.
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There are way too many things to be upset about these days, but I believe the destruction of public lands should be near the top of the list: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Trump to strip protections from millions of acres of national forests
The USDA announced it would begin the process of rolling back protections for nearly 59 million roadless acres of the National Forest system.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
There are way too many things to be upset about these days, but I believe the destruction of public lands should be near the top of the list: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Fortunato (coughing): You’re certain the Criterion Closet is down here
Montresor (picking up a trowel): Definitely. Have you thought about your picks yet
Montresor (picking up a trowel): Definitely. Have you thought about your picks yet
June 23, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Fortunato (coughing): You’re certain the Criterion Closet is down here
Montresor (picking up a trowel): Definitely. Have you thought about your picks yet
Montresor (picking up a trowel): Definitely. Have you thought about your picks yet
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Congress, Now More Than Ever, We Need Your Cowardice
June 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Congress, Now More Than Ever, We Need Your Cowardice
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Minnesota has exceptional local news. @mprnews.org and @startribune.com know their communities and will steer you right.
June 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Minnesota has exceptional local news. @mprnews.org and @startribune.com know their communities and will steer you right.
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Shout out to KEXP www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
KEXP hosts 27-hour marathon broadcast to protest potential public media cuts
The local radio station is holding the marathon broadcast to bring awareness to the public funding it, as well as many other stations, rely on from being cut as part of a Republican-led rescission pac...
www.seattletimes.com
June 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Shout out to KEXP www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
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Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
People are having very strange conversations with ChatGPT, in which they discover secret cabals or conspiracies or that we are all in fact living in The Matrix.
It sends these people into delusional spirals.
Then ChatGPT tells them to email me about it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
It sends these people into delusional spirals.
Then ChatGPT tells them to email me about it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
www.nytimes.com
June 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
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The head of the fema command center quit. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/c...
Head of FEMA Command Center Quits After Trump Says He’ll Phase Out the Agency
www.nytimes.com
June 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The head of the fema command center quit. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/c...
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Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.
June 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.
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My latest @bloomberg.com: Trump's FEMA keeps denying state requests for resiliency funds. As of June 10, the total number of rejections is up to at least 7. States can only apply for this $ after disasters & it helps them better prepare for future ones.
Full story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Full story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
June 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM
My latest @bloomberg.com: Trump's FEMA keeps denying state requests for resiliency funds. As of June 10, the total number of rejections is up to at least 7. States can only apply for this $ after disasters & it helps them better prepare for future ones.
Full story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Full story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...