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Dan Fagin

@danfagin.bsky.social
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Professing science journalism, directing NYU's SHERP. 62-time loser, 1-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. Probably off chasing 🦋 somewhere.

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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I am just so, so tired of this. We all are. www.wgaeast.org/wgae-scienti...
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WGAE-Scientific American Union Statement on Springer Nature’s Sale and Layoffs | Press Room
The following is a statement from Writers Guild of America East members at Scientific American on today’s decision to sell Springer Nature and lay off staff: “Earlier today in an all-staff meeting we ...
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Living on Earth @livingonearthradio.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Monarch butterflies can travel thousands of miles each year using the sun and Earth's magnetic field to navigate. @danfagin.bsky.social speaks on how tiny Bluetooth trackers are giving us a new glimpse into these epic journeys. www.loe.org/shows/segmen...
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Living on Earth: Bluetooth Butterfly Tracking
Monarch butterflies can travel thousands of miles each year between Mexico and North America in an epic relay race of multiple generations. And thanks to new technology, our phones and other Bluetooth...
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Hey, it’s the mako shark specimen at the American Museum of Natural History that inspired you-know-what! No it wasn’t a great white, it was a mako caught in New Zealand in 1939.
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Hi @lizneeley.bsky.social, can you send me an email address and/or phone where I can reach you? Thanks! Dan dan.fagin@nyu.edu
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Talkin' #monarchs @scifri.bsky.social, starting at 16:15. www.sciencefriday.com/segments/bat... The @nytimes.com story is here (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...
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A Toast To Bats That Pollinate Agave, And Tracking Monarchs
How bats, agave plants, and tequila are connected. Plus, tiny trackers on monarch butterflies reveal their migration journeys.
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Do this, people! It's a great award!
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I am an exasperating spouse for similar reasons.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17/11/2025
For the first time, scientists are tracking the migration of monarch butterflies across much of North America, actively monitoring individual insects on journeys. It could provide crucial insights into the life cycles of hundreds of flying insects at a time when many are in steep decline.
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We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation.
Scientists used tiny new sensors to follow the insects on journeys that take thousands of miles to their winter colonies in Mexico.
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Taking a break from book writing to do this fun story! (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...
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We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation.
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Equal justice under slaw. www.reuters.com/world/washin...
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I'm just wondering what job Eric Adams is going to get in the Cuomo administration.
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Love the video. Love SEJ. Support the bylaws changes (with some reservations). But I wish the official SEJ twitter feed had not been used to urge a yes vote, especially in such a non-substantive way. A better message would have been: 1) here's where to educate yourself on the proposal, 2) vote!
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Big day in the NY Times for NYU SHERP. Congratulations William Herkewitz (SHERP 31) and @alexaroblesgil.bsky.social (SHERP 42)! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o... www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/s...
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Jon Sternfeld @jonsternfeld.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
It's incredible how much GOP messaging has been this argument for the last ten years...
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
"Advice" from someone who has insisted on surrounding himself with yes men (and women) his ENTIRE LIFE. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...
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Trump Administration Live Updates: President Tells West Point Graduates Not to Be ‘Yes Men’
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Bravissimo!
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Alex Lando @alexlando.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Went to a science journalism talk from @danfagin.bsky.social, who shared this mind-blowing idea: people are not irrational for ignoring scientific evidence, they're being TOO rational. They recognize that the social cost of going against their "tribe" is just not worth what they gain from the truth.
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Universal message.
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
#Cornell friends, looking forward to seeing you April 24! Thanks for spreading the word! events.cornell.edu/event/univer...
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University Lecturer Professor Dan Fagin
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Slouching toward Mar-a-Lago
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Alison Frankel @alisonfrankel.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
A tragedy
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
"Come on, there is no best moment of watching a vicious kakistocracy be installed in the chamber its followers once desecrated in a coup attempt." @michellegoldberg.bsky.social for the win. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/o...
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Opinion | ‘American Carnage 2: Ultimate Carnage’: Best and Worst Moments From Trump’s Inaugural Address
14 opinion writers assess the substance and style of Trump’s speech.
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
2nd inaugurals then & now: "With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds." "We are going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America."
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social Hi Rob, I don't think we've met, which is surprising, but I've admired your work for years and would like to put you in front of my EJ grad students this spring. Since I don't have your email, can you email me at dan.fagin@nyu.edu so I can explain? Thanks!
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
If this is a dream, don't wake me.
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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep WaterA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof BeatsA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our MoonA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The Big Pedosky.
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
We're here! go.bsky.app/B6LJP7U
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Join the party, Andrea!
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Scienceline @scienceline.org · 22/11/2024
How well do you know the depths of New York City? Dive deep in Scienceline's latest Special Project: NYC Under the Surface scienceline.org/special-proj... #nyc #sciencejournalism #sciencenews #healthnews #environmentnews
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NYC Under the Surface - Scienceline
Plunge into the depths and peel back the surface hiding the city’s secrets: mussels of Newtown Creek, the National Guard stationed in subways, the beavers of Astor Place — and more! Click the icons to...
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
We're here! go.bsky.app/B6LJP7U
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I guess the game here is to extract small concessions, claim they're huge concessions, and then move on to the next outrageous performance. Good timing with overdoses and crossings going down, more "victories" to claim. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11...
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Trump Transition Live Updates: Latest News on the President-Elect
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
would go around defacing 'Shed Fred' bumper stickers. Rest in Power, Fred, the OG Sen. Harris. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/u...
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Fred R. Harris, Senator Who Ran for President, Dies at 94
After eight years in the Senate as a moderate Democrat, he took a leftward turn toward “new populism” in a failed shot at the presidency in 1976.
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
... wrote back in full agreement and told the paper about it, which put the story on page 1 because... actually, I have no idea why. Slow news day, I guess. When Oklahomans really started to hate Fred for his opposition to the war, me and my childhood friend John Mosburg, now sadly departed,...
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
...really got anywhere. As for me, my first Page 1 experience was in the Daily Oklahoman as a 9-year-old when I scrawled a letter to Harris advocating an immediate pullout from Vietnam because "the Vietnamese would not come all the way to America to fight us." Savvy politician that he was, Harris...
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
... thta Humphrey was picking Muskie instead of him as his VP candidate. He didn't take it well. Our family was so sure Fred was going to be president that we had him carve his initials into a post on our porch, just for posterity. But his two subsequent campaigns, in 1972 and 1976, never...
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
... state (the first time with help from the 1964 LBJ landslide... he beat legendary OU football coach Bud Wilkinson!). Fred and his then-wife LaDonna were good friends with my parents; my dad was a delegate to the DNC in 1968 and was in Harris' hotel room in Chicago when Harris got the news...
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Bear with me, it's a thread... Long before Senator Harris of California, there was another Senator Harris who ALSO ran twice for president: Oklahoma's own Fred Harris. He was a very interesting guy -- a liberal(ish) populist who managed to be elected twice to the Senate from an arch-conservative...
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Another win for Jimmy Madison. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11...
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Matt Gaetz Withdraws as Trump’s Pick for Attorney General: Live Updates
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Written 73 years ago: “Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 19/11/2024
Despite a massive head start, BlueSky has now overtaken Threads in the US 👇
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I thought for sure Hulk Hogan was getting this job, but I guess this is close. www.cnn.com/2024/11/19/p...
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Linda McMahon expected to be named Education Secretary, sources say | CNN Politics
Trump transition co-chair Linda McMahon is expected to be named as secretary of the Department of Education, four sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
If there's a hell, Nancy Mace had better be buried in an asbestos pantsuit. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Rep. Mace introduces measure to ban trans women from Capitol’s female bathrooms
The South Carolina Republican’s resolution comes two weeks after the historic election of Democrat Sarah McBride, a trans woman, to Congress.
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Truth.
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Andrea Anderson @andreaanderson.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Today in sentences I never thought I’d write: Is the Onion’s InfoWars hiring science writers?
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Meera Subramanian @meerasub.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Applications now open for the Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award, a grant of $12,500 to support the work of a promising early-career nonfiction writer on a story that uncovers truths about the human condition. Don't be shy. Apply! #journalism #funding
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Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award - NYU Journalism
Matthew Power was an award-winning journalist who reported empathetically on the human […]
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
The measles vaccine has saved 94 million lives over the past 50 years, and it plus vaccines against 13 other pathogens have cut infant mortality by 40 percent and saved 154 million lives. 154 MILLION LIVES 🧪 Anti-vaxxer RFKJ is a menace to global health www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...
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See How Many Lives Vaccines Have Saved around the World
Vaccines are the first step toward health equity in many parts of the world
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
This is a huge loss for science journalism, and therefore the planet, but I have every expectation SciAm will continue to provide superb coverage of our world (and worlds beyond!) even without Laura. Now more than ever, we need great journalism about all aspects of the scientific enterprise.
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Meet your next Postmaster General.
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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Wonderful news.
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