nellgreenfieldboyce

@nellgreenfieldboyce@mastodon.social

General science correspondent at NPR…I report on a wide range of subjects such as #astronomy #biology #geology #zoology #NASA #planetaryscience etc plus #diversity in #science and science policy. My print stories appear on NPR.org and audio on All Things Considered and Morning Edition, plus the podcast Short Wave. My first book, Transient and Strange, was published by W. W. Norton in January 2024 and is available for ordering now from many retailers.

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nellgreenfieldboyce, to history

It’s weird to be riding on a cable car in San Francisco, a method of transport developed here in the 1870’s, and see a fully autonomous self-driving taxi pull up right next to you. #history #transportation #science #cars #robots

nellgreenfieldboyce, to Astronomy

Today my “work” was reporting on the total solar eclipse—such a surreal, spectacular 3+ minutes on the shore of Lake Erie with other umbraphiles…I love huge shared experiences like this

nellgreenfieldboyce, to science

The U.S. is a month away from seeing a total solar eclipse…on April 8, unlike 7 years ago, the path of totality will go through a lot of urban areas. Around 32 million live in this path, but more live nearby….& the difference between seeing a “meh” partial eclipse and an OMG total eclipse may be just driving across town. Experts say, get into totality if you can—as even a 99.9% partial eclipse is nothing like a total one.

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/08/1236617960/2024-april-8-total-solar-eclipse-vs-partial-get-to-path-of-totality

#science #astronomy #nasa #poetry #magic

nellgreenfieldboyce, to random

Today I’m mourning Flaco, the NYC owl who inspired so much concern, sympathy, inspiration, and love. RIP

nellgreenfieldboyce, to MountainBiking

I recently got to ride this fun trike at the math museum in NYC. Reading about it further, I learned that “for just about every shape of wheel there’s an appropriate road to produce a smooth ride, and vice versa,” as one article put it.

#biking #math #science

nellgreenfieldboyce, to science

❤️ this personality quiz: “What kind of wetland are you?”
It’s a hard pick for me but maybe wet meadow

Credit goes to
@calacademy

nellgreenfieldboyce, to books

My 1st book launched a couple weeks ago and people have been sending me photos of it out in the wild, which is a thrill to see. It’s weirdly separate from me now, out there living its best life

#books #libraries #publishing #bookstores #nonfiction #science

nellgreenfieldboyce, to Cat

Oh sure you say you ❤️ your 🐈 but would you save its little dead paw and make a taxidermy letter opener, like Charles Dickens did for his poor departed Bob in 1862?

nellgreenfieldboyce, to journalism

Combined with earlier layoffs, these LA Times layoffs = the loss of about a third of their newsroom within 1 year. Last year the U. S. news business as a whole saw thousands of layoffs. Over the last decade, tens of thousands of journalism jobs have been lost… that means so many stories we never see. I know so many colleagues, good reporters, who have lost their livelihoods. 🙁

#journalism #news #layoffs #latimes

nellgreenfieldboyce, to science

Here’s a study taking on the idea that snakes can’t hear sounds through the air. (I talk to my 🐍. ) So many myths about reptiles out there. In another life maybe I’d be a snake cognition researcher.

#biology #reptiles #cognition #evolution #science #snakes

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/snakes-can-hear-you-scream-new-research-reveals/?fbclid=IwAR0TtukQ6PjAnwoWvA-AkQCMH_d--0IAfM-a8jbos62cqSmxaPS2yVLUEH0#:~:text=Our%20study%20further%20debunks%20the,versions%20of%20what%20we%20do

nellgreenfieldboyce, to books

If you’re in the Boston area come by Harvard Bookstore for this book chat and say hi!
#books #science

nellgreenfieldboyce, to books

I’m honored that Science reviewed my new book of science history and memoir, “Transient and Strange”… finding it “wry, charming, informative, and, indeed, sometimes strange”

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl5502

nellgreenfieldboyce, to space

Houston, we have a 🍅 .
A tomato went missing on the international space station, sparking accusations and mystery: "A proud moment of harvesting the first tomato in space became a self-inflicted wound of losing the first tomato in space."

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/10/1218418262/missing-tomato-international-space-station

#space #nasa #science #food #gardening

nellgreenfieldboyce, to Astronomy

On this hot gas giant planet, sand acts like water does on Earth, forming sand clouds and raining down...this direct observation of weird clouds is just a first glimpse of how the JWST could reveal a bevy of strange clouds beyond our solar system...

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/15/1213159944/clouds-made-of-sand-make-for-a-strange-kind-of-rain-on-this-hot-planet

#exoplanets #astronomy #space #NASA #JWST

nellgreenfieldboyce, (edited ) to random

Medical masks, gowns, and gloves—the U.S. struggled to get these essentials from overseas at the height of the pandemic, so the gov’t has spent more than $1 billion to develop domestic manufacturing. But some companies now say they need more help to finish the job and find customers. And would-be glove makers showed me huge, unfinished factories that sit idle…

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/11/03/1198434566/medical-gloves-china-u-s-makers-personal-protective-gear-struggle

#medicine #doctors #nurses #manufacturing #hospitals

nellgreenfieldboyce, to Birds

The American Ornithological Society says it will give new English-language names to all American birds currently named after people, in an effort to make birding more welcoming for all communities and to focus attention on the birds rather than historical namesakes.

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/01/1209660753/these-american-birds-and-dozens-more-will-be-renamed-to-remove-human-monikers

#birds #ornithology #diversity #DEI #racism #history

nellgreenfieldboyce, to twitter

NPR left Twitter on April 4. “Six months later, we can see that the effects of leaving Twitter have been negligible. A memo circulated to NPR staff says traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter“

https://niemanreports.org/articles/npr-twitter-musk/

#twitter #birdsite #npr #socialmedia

nellgreenfieldboyce, to space

This weekend is the return of an asteroid sample NASA collected about 200 million miles away in 2020. Getting the 8 ounces or so of asteroid rock will be historic, if all goes as planned…and the stress is giving the lead scientist strange, vivid dreams….

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/22/1200803124/nasa-osiris-rex-mission-bring-home-asteroid-rocks-returns-utah

#space #asteroids #nasa #dreams #astronomy #biology #geology

nellgreenfieldboyce, to journalism

NPR is hiring a global health correspondent to do news and features for our many platforms (print, podcast, radio), here's the ad for any journalists out with an interest in overseas travel, infectious disease research, etc.

https://boards.greenhouse.io/nationalpublicradioinc/jobs/4315834005

nellgreenfieldboyce, to writing

The 2021 literary controversy that had people debating who was the “Bad Art Friend” has reached a legal conclusion…

https://lithub.com/two-years-later-a-federal-judge-has-ruled-on-the-bad-art-friend-case/

#writing #art #ethics

nellgreenfieldboyce, to journalism

“It’s like a fire hose of hatred to the face”
A reporter is just doing her job, and then this…Imagine how scary this is, when you’re working at a newspaper where a year ago one of your fellow reporters was stabbed to death

https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2023/a-reporter-made-sure-a-retired-police-chiefs-death-didnt-go-uncovered-then-social-media-attacked-her/

#misinformation #journalism #socialmedia

nellgreenfieldboyce, to Rats

Every once in awhile you read an article that is like "Wow, that is a kick in the head," and for me today it was this one in the Washington Post on organized groups of people in my home city, the U. S. capital, who take their dogs out rat hunting at night. I was not aware this was a thing.

#rats #animals #journalism #dogs

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/interactive/2023/rat-hunters-dc-dogs/?itid=hp-top-table-main_p001_f005

nellgreenfieldboyce, to books

My first book is coming out in January from WW Norton, it's a collection of essays about the intersections of science and everyday life called TRANSIENT AND STRANGE....if anyone would like to preorder, Barnes and Noble is having a 25% off sale on not-yet-published books between 9/6 and 9/8...Use code PREORDER25 at checkout. #BNPreorder25
#books #science #essays #writing

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/transient-and-strange-nell-greenfieldboyce/1143468346?ean=9780393882346

nellgreenfieldboyce, to Geology

It’s a relief to me to learn the annual Mineral Cup has its own website for voting/mineral fandom and is not dependent on any particular social media platform….32 minerals duke it out and may the best mineral win! Will the victor be another newcomer like quetzalcoatlite in 2021 ? Or the controversial winner, ice ?
https://www.mineralcup.org/

(photo credit: Christian Rewitzer, https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quetzalcoatlite-77801.jpg#mw-jump-to-license)

nellgreenfieldboyce, to science

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Why do thousands of deep-sea octopuses congregate two miles below the surface, at the base of an underwater mountain off California? Researchers now think they know the secret behind this real-life octopus garden, the largest known gathering of deep-sea octopuses on Earth....

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/23/1195028955/heres-why-6-000-octopuses-like-to-be-under-the-sea-at-an-octopus-garden

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