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AAAS Mass Media Fellowship @aaasmassmedia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Are you ready to try something new and work in #SciComm? Apply now to be a part of the 2027 cohort of @aaas.org #MassMediaFellows! Spend the summer using your STEMM background as a journalist writing the news. English and Spanish language placements available. bit.ly/3KugH6D

The 2027 AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship Application opens on October 1 and closes January 4, 2027.

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Anna Funk🌻 @itsdrfunk.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Why have I watched this six times 🤣

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Anna Funk🌻 @itsdrfunk.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Bahaha great advice. Also realizing: No, I don't think anyone has ever told me I'm funny. DEVASTATED

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Anna Funk🌻 @itsdrfunk.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Announcement!!!!! The first cohort of my new course, Strategic Communication for Participatory Science Practitioners, launches April 17. (My birthday!) Share this with someone in #CitizenScience or #CommunityScience! Learn more and register here: participatorysciences.org/resources/st...

Selfie of Anna sitting at her laptop, outside in the early spring sunshine.

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Anna Funk🌻 @itsdrfunk.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

YOU GUYS. Come work with me! Holden Forests & Gardens is hiring! 🧵

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Anna Funk🌻 @itsdrfunk.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

the feeds are very UGH today but "Birds! 🦉" remains pure #birds

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Anna Funk🌻 @itsdrfunk.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

"I'm raising awareness!" you tell me, as you divert some of your limited bandwidth into "public outreach." OK, but: Awareness that accomplishes what? With which specific audience? Without those answers, "raising awareness" won't work. Here's why (and how to fix it): ampliflora.com/public-outre...

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Beyond Events and Newsletters: Why Traditional Public Outreach Isn't Enough | Ampliflora

Your science or conservation organization hosts events and sends newsletters, so why isn't anyone new showing up? Learn why traditional public outreach falls short and what strategies you actually nee...

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 11/11/2025

Your windshields should be absolutely covered in a sticky mess of bug splats/insect carcasses every time you drive across open country forcing you to stop periodically at gas stations to use their wet squeegees to try and clean up your view of the road at night

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics" guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation

Basic light pollution diagram showing four different streetlight set ups ranging from more light pollution on the left to less light pollution on the right. The most pollution option, labelled "very bad" is a street lamp with a round uncovered bulb on top, making a sphere of light in the air. The next option, labelled "bad" has a tiny cap on top, that limits the upward pollution a bit. The "better" option is mostly uncovered on top, limiting pollution above the streetlight. The final option, labelled "best" has a full shroud overtop, limiting the light to only below the streetlight, where it is needed for pedestrians and vehicles.

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Anna Funk🌻 @itsdrfunk.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Letttttt’s talkkkk abouttttt old growth forests. Depending on where you live, you may have never actually set foot in an old growth forest. (I mean, I’m pretty sure *I* never have, and I was a field ecologist for a number of years.)

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

"I allow spiders the run of the house. I figure that any predator that hopes to make a living on whatever smaller creatures might blunder into a four-inch square bit of space in the corner of the bathroom where the tub meets the floor, needs every bit of my support." -- AD, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

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Anna Funk🌻 @itsdrfunk.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Even before I was a writer, I was always certain that if you could say the exact same thing in way that is more accessible and more engaging to read, you should. Scientists are also humans, so why wouldn't scientists want to enjoy reading manuscripts instead of slogging through them? Be the change!

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 12/11/2025

You thought the pictures from last night were incredible? Look at this!

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Anna Funk🌻 @itsdrfunk.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

If you want to impress a small child, I highly recommend a headstand.

Anna stands on her head in the lawn while a small child looks on, impressed.

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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I'd like to share a personal anecdote that underscores just how entrenched the myth of the "welfare queen" has become. Because all sorts of people have bought into it. I'll be as concise as possible.... 🧵

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Not a hard question, except for the culture that pretends it's not the answer 1) right-wing media lies incessantly, so anyone truth-based doesn't trust it, and anyone who trusts it doesn't trust anything else 2) other media treats those lies as legitimate, for "fairness," getting trust from no one

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Anna Funk🌻 @itsdrfunk.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

1. No such thing as overdoing Halloween 2. 😂😂😂😭

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Archaeologists 200 years from now are gonna be SO confused.

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Anna Funk🌻 @itsdrfunk.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

A couple years ago, my colleague Rebecah Troutman found an aphid munching on garlic mustard that turned out to be the first documented sighting of the insect *ever* in the U.S. (I admit I'm a little jealous, that's so cool!!)

Close up of a blackish-brown aphid that would turn out to be the first-ever U.S. sighting of a European garlic mustard aphid (Lipaphis alliariae).

Snapshots from the field of garlic mustard plants found affected by aphids. The leaves and stems appear wrinkly, stunted, deformed.

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Anna Funk🌻 @itsdrfunk.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Did I ever tell you about how I almost killed my lawn trying to save the insects? Maybe you’ve heard of “Leave the Leaves” — don’t rake your leaves; create critical overwintering habitat for lots of insects. Sounds easy, no? (And way better than raking…)

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Anna Funk🌻 @itsdrfunk.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Oh no, this makes me sad. The Yellowstone trophic cascade was my, uh, "spark" ecological theory 😅 I still tell people about it.

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Anna Funk🌻 @itsdrfunk.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Incredibly fun thread to read even if you don't have a good question for Matt 👇

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

This is what you get when exceptionally wealthy Hobbits hire Dwarven architects (complimentary).

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Anna Funk🌻 @itsdrfunk.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Oooh! This is super interesting. "If you want someone to remember the story you’re telling, details of any kind tend to help...It gives you more potential ‘hooks’ for you to find that memory later on”

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Anna Funk🌻 @itsdrfunk.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Oh good I needed a new fun fact to share at parties

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Anna Funk🌻 @itsdrfunk.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

If you've asked me lately what my job is, I probably said something vague like "marketing." I used to say, "writer," and people's eyes would light up, but I always assumed they were then disappointed to learn I was writing articles and not romantasy novels. Thus, "marketing." 🧵

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Anna Funk🌻 @itsdrfunk.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Short 🧵: The Working Woods Hub has it all. It's a place: a woodland where they demonstrate different forestry management practices and landowners can come see the results. 📷: Forest management plots with (R) and without (L) non-native shrub removal. (Cred: Jessica Miller Mecaskey)

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Anna Funk🌻 @itsdrfunk.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Sometimes I'm in the mood to (attempt to) write something deep and meaningful. But sometimes I want to be like "look I found this movie house I've been obsessed with since age 5 on Zillow LOOK AT IT" thefunkyard.substack.com/p/its-big-wh...

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🌻 It’s big white Victorian mansion season!

An ode to my favorite movie houses

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Sadie Witkowski, PhD @sadiewit.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

To celebrate the end of In Defense of Fandom S3, @itsdrfunk.bsky.social & I answered some of your parasocial questions! m.youtube.com/watch?v=v6ap... You can also find the audio here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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Sadie and Anna answer your parasocial questions (In Defense of Fandom S3 Bonus)

YouTube video by GeekscapeTV

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Anna Funk🌻 @itsdrfunk.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

If you live in the U.S. west (or south, for that matter) of Ohio, you may not have heard of beech leaf disease. You’re more likely to have heard of — or lost trees to — Dutch elm disease, or emerald ash borer, or if you’re collecting social security, chestnut blight. 🧵

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Anna Funk🌻 @itsdrfunk.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

She’s quirky. She’s chaotic. She’s unfiltered. She’s taking you on an adventure. She’s changing your life. Is she a manic pixie dream girl? Yes. She is also Anne of Green Gables. Discuss. thefunkyard.substack.com/p/anne-of-gr...

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🌻Anne of Green Gables was the first, and best, Manic Pixie Dream Girl

I'm sorry in advance for this post

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Anna Funk🌻 @itsdrfunk.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Here's a story for you about Americans doing GOOD things together #FourthOfJuly #TimelineCleanse The Flint Hills of Kansas are home to some of the biggest and best prairie lands that still exist in the US. They’re also almost entirely privately owned by cattle ranchers.

Landscape shot of Kansas' Flint Hills -- prairie rangeland as far as the eye can see under a hazy blue sky.

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Anna Funk🌻 @itsdrfunk.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Another day, another magazine for you! One of my favorite publications to write for is the Marquette University Alumni Magazine. (Pictured: Photos of the cover and inside pages of the magazine)

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

If I won the lottery I wouldn’t tell anyone But there’d be signs

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Anna Funk🌻 @itsdrfunk.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

My latest story is out in Public Garden magazine! Got my copy in the mail just last week. It's a feature on how ecologists and #communityscientists teamed up to study #climatechange and #phenology at wildflower gardens at botanic gardens across the country.

Photo of the cover of Public Garden, the journal of the American Public Gardens Association, volume 40, issue 2, 2025. One of the headlines is "climate change research."

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Anna Funk🌻 @itsdrfunk.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

A normal convo with Hercule Poirot: “Yes, but this [murder investigation] is more important.” HP: “And how do you know that these fine begonias are not of equal importance?” I shrugged my shoulders. There was really no arguing with him if he chose to take that line. HP: “You do not agree?"

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Anna Funk🌻 @itsdrfunk.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I've been hearing these NON-stop in #TheFunkyard this spring and I love it so much. I will never forget: Their call (rrreap!) was the only question I missed on my Field Ornithology final in college 😅

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

A gentle reminder that the reason most people don’t read past the headline isn’t because they’re terrible but because we all see an ungodly amount of headlines every day online and only have the time, interest, and bandwidth to read so many of their corresponding articles. You do it too! We all do!

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Anna Funk🌻 @itsdrfunk.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Every server, to me during the worst of my (real! devastating!) onion sensitivity:

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

When planning out science communication workshops for scientists I feel like I'm the kooky art teacher with sticks in her hair going into the Very Serious Science Department and asking them all to look at the clouds and share their hopes and dreams on a vision board and whisper a secret to a rock.

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Anna Funk🌻 @itsdrfunk.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Once upon a time my blog was gonna be a native garden blog until I remembered there was lots else to talk about in the world. People still ask me about the Funkyard, tho. It's hobbling along beautifully! Here's an update: thefunkyard.substack.com/p/may-garden... #TheFunkyard

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🌻May garden update

Checking in with the blog’s namesake

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Tyler Ford @tyfordfever.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Have question about #proteomics, it's applications, and the future of the field? Send them over to us, and we may answer them on the Translating Proteomics podcast!

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Sadie Witkowski, PhD @sadiewit.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I hope y’all enjoyed this little sojourn into the fame-adjacent. I know it was one of my favorites to pull together. Thanks to: @itsdrfunk.bsky.social for editorial support @lizhand.bsky.social for cover art Chris & August Hotel for music

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Tyler Ford @tyfordfever.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

A perennial favorite from @itsdrfunk.bsky.social!

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Anna Funk🌻 @itsdrfunk.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I happen to be reading 'Let Them' right now, and it is clear this author did not read a single chapter of the book. In fact, this straw man is why there's a whole book in the first place— why the book-jacket summary alone doesn't cut it. 🙄 I'm annoyed www.fastcompany.com/91322349/mel...

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Mel Robbins's 'Let Them' philosophy doesn't always work in the workplace

When to use Mel Robbins 'Let Them' philosophy — and when not to

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Kay Havens @kayrihavens.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

The Chicago Botanic Garden’s McDonald Woods are a little slice of paradise right now…come enjoy the spring wildflower show!

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Eric R. Eaton @bugeric.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Got my advance copy of my new book, “Bugwatching: The Art, Joy, and Importance of Observing Insects.” You can preorder now from Princeton University Press. Shoutout to @samanthagallagher.bsky.social for the amazing illustrations!

Me, older White man, gray hair and beard with wire frame glasses, smiling, wearing long sleeve gray shirt, and holding my new book. Book is softcover, green, with magnifying glass, titled “Bugwatching: The Art, Joy, and Importance of Observing Insects.” Background is a pegboard screen with a cross stitch sign reading “Bug Eric.”

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