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Sally James

@jamesian.bsky.social
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Science journalist. Yoga teacher. I'm an "indirect cost" writing for researchers at times. More at seattlesciencewriter.com

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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social · 18h
See you in Arizona! #SciWri26 and 27.
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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
He thanked you by name in his speech, and since interviewing you for @theopennotebook.bsky.social it was especially resonant to hear this. #editing #editor @sciencewriters.org @sciencewriting.bsky.social #SciWri26
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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So many winners took time in speech to say how hard it is in this career. #SciWri26
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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Already loved Castor (downtown restaurant) with roasted cauliflower and chile. Thanks for sharing your spot with us! #SciWri26
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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Looking up at #SciWri26 (guess the hotel lobby) But there is no prize. See you all later, after #book workshop from @cragcrest.bsky.social (and others) and see some of @nswa.bsky.social peeps at 8 p.m. tonight, after reception.
About 13 pendulum chandeliers hang in a hotel lobby, but they register almost as eyes looking down. Chandeliers are oval globes with yellowish color.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The cuts in staff across federal health agencies are staggering. Great analysis from @ourpublicservice.bsky.social. 1 in 5 people gone from NIH. More than 1 in 4 gone from CDC. Nearly 7 in 10 gone from AHRQ. ourpublicservice.org/resource/the...
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The Cost of Cutting American Science: How Federal Cuts Diminish Public Health Capacity
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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The collapse of #journalism (about #science)? @chriscmooney.bsky.social and Bruce Lewenstein try to measure it. #SciWri26 theconversation.com/is-science-j...
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Is science journalism dying? Comparing a ‘science crash’ 40 years ago to today
While science journalism layoffs pile up and publications shutter, more science communication than ever is available via other online venues.
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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Come say hello in Corvallis at #Sciwri26 the burning man for #science writers. But...we don't light anything and more librarian culture than rock and roll. @nswa.bsky.social @sciencewriters.org
A red badge shows face of Sally James, going to conference for National Association of Science Writers in Sept 2026
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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Come to Corvallis, Oregon, to hear expert panels and schmooze and tour laboratories, and schmooze. Pitch editors and schmooze. @nswa.bsky.social #SciWri26 #journalism #science #facts
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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Komorebi. #light #forest #sunday #nature
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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
So good @thisisindexed.com Her caption: I would prefer not to do what pays possibly well while what does real good goes undone.
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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Who knew I would find #seattle music nerd reference in review of novel "The Disappearers?" A character turns away from Reggae to grunge and says “Sad Seattle white boys,” he deposes, “are teaching me how to live.” Hello @dwightgarner.bsky.social #grunge www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/b...
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This Masterpiece Is the Novel of the Decade, if Not the Century
Marlon James’s story of gay experience and murderous homophobia in Jamaica is a maximalist’s banquet — and the Booker Prize winner’s finest book yet.
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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
From #minnesotastatefair
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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Dear Universe, My friend's kid (grown up and Dad to teens) is staying with me to see @noahkahanmusic.bsky.social Feels like some sort of #circular #music
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Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
My son forgot his keys on his second day of high school so he was locked out of the house, and he solved this problem by... getting Frankenstein from the Little Free Library down the street and then hanging out in our lobby reading it until someone came home
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Attention Ecologists! We are going to need *a lot* of ecologists. The First Lego League Teams need to speak with a scientist about their projects every year. Every year it's a different type of scientist. Last year was archaeologists. This year, ecologists! Sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
A fish is a teacher, wearing a button-up shirt with a collar. He says "Volunteer to speak with classrooms in front of a chalkboard that says "Skype a scientist needs YOU!". A snail on his desk says Help! And a shrimp says "Lego league is coming!" and a nervous seahorse says "this year's theme is ecosystems"
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I proudly endorse this message from my grandparents ❤️
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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Two small people were in my care today. This was top of mind for me. #climate #smoke #pollution #future
More than 20 small red circles on a map of north Seattle show the unhealthy readings on instruments measuring air. Smoke from forest fires is making it unhealthy to breathe in Seattle.
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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
My husband and myself are raising money for 2 charities - LA food bank and @oceana.bsky.social by being in a contest called "America's Favorite Couple." Vote for us at this link americasfavcouple.org/2026/sally-a...
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Vote for Sally And Richard as America's Favorite Couple!
One couple will share their love story in a Variety Magazine advertorial, take home $20,000, and enjoy a triple date with Jeff & Emilie Goldblum, plus Charlie Day & Mary Elizabeth Ellis.
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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Registration opens 8-4 for the @sciencewriters.org conference in Corvallis, OR in Sept. Insiders know - all the best field trips are FULL within hours. So read program - use your keyboard trigger fingers. #research #comms #sciwri26 @oregonstate.edu 🧪🌳🦠🐟
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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Manzanita, Oregon has a hierarchy of needs. #counseling #food #yoga #beach
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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Not surprised. #research #science #medicine apnews.com/article/cali...
apnews.com
White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants
Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...
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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Be sure to take photos for #mothweek. See this special link at @inaturalist.bsky.social for the details. www.inaturalist.org/pages/mothweek #bugsky #diversity
An orange colored moth with a few spots at the bottom of each wing, and a line of spots down the back. Known as Isabella tiger moth.
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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Kids in camps are being rushed around. Swimming cancelled. No soccer. #camp #kids #emergency
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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 16/07/2026
If only a dedicated group of scientists had warned us about the record heat, torrential flooding, continental scale wildfires, and apocalyptic orange skies
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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Juvenile barred #owls in #seattle's Ravenna Park. #nature
Two owls on a branch in dense forest. Sword ferns in foreground.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 12/07/2026
Here’s the research showing the importance of attribution to garner public support for climate policy: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world - Nature Climate Change
Literature produced inconsistent findings regarding the links between extreme weather events and climate policy support across regions, populations and events. This global study offers a holistic asse...
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 12/07/2026
Scan your local news today. How many stories are about something climate change is making worse...without saying so? I counted 8 of those in my feed today, vs just 1 that named climate change directly. Why does this matter? Research shows that making this connection changes how people see it.
Nine screenshots of my google news page today, each describing issues that are directly impacted by climate change, from more dangerous wildfire to changing flood policies.
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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
"In 1975, about half of 20-somethings said they read the newspaper every day. Today less than 10 percent do," writes @rosehorowitch.bsky.social in "The End of Reading." Link below. As #journalist, it pains me. Photo below - reporter myself using phone books to find people's home addresses.
 A woman faces the camera in a white shirt and glasses and has phone books open in front of her.
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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Registration opens 8-4 for the @sciencewriters.org conference in Corvallis, OR in Sept. Insiders know - all the best field trips are FULL within hours. So read program - use your keyboard trigger fingers. #research #comms #sciwri26 @oregonstate.edu 🧪🌳🦠🐟
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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
My first sweat bee. #bugsky #beesky #bees www.inaturalist.org/observations...
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Fine striped sweat bee (Agapostemon subtilior)
Fine striped sweat bee from 25th Ave NE & NE 60th St, Seattle, WA 98115, USA on July 7, 2026 at 02:02 PM by sally james
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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
If you have the chance, I recommend the @northcascades.bsky.social nonprofit Environmental Learning Center. You can learn a lot, do some canoe time with many others. #nature #retreat
About 18 people in different colors of clothes and hats in a long canoe, with a mountain and snow in the background. This is at North Cascades National Park in Washington state.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I will say that the thing that finally got us to install air conditioning here in (until recently) largely AC-free Seattle was smoke: being unable to safely open your windows to cool your house is something else entirely, and this sort of compounding risk will become more common.
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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Why OMB changes could hurt everywhere. By @drjudystone.bsky.social
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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
If you are following layoffs + sale of @sciam.bsky.social ...please check out worker's union perspective. #writing #union
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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Beautiful writing in essay about both #grief and #neuroscience: "in the months immediately following my husband’s death I often yearned for a place ... (1,2) #writing By Amanda Petrusich @thenewyorker.bsky.social
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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 23/06/2026
Thousands of biomedical studies are stuck in limbo as NIH drags out renewals months after annual budgets expire. Since 2025, the rate of overdue renewals has TRIPLED. This leaves scientists unable to plan, keep staff employed, or maintain long-term research. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NIH 🧪
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Overdue Grant Renewals at NIH and AHRQ – Grant Witness
The government’s delays renewing in-progress research are leaving researchers in limbo.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/06/2026
We have a new entry in the climate dictionary under “irony”
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Science Magazine @science.org · 22/06/2026
Exclusive: The National Science Foundation is trimming this year’s budgets for hundreds of its traditional basic science programs by roughly 20% to 30%, even though its overall budget is down just 3%. scim.ag/4xY2KCm
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Exclusive: NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say
Unexpected shift in funds has meant sharp drop in grants this fiscal year
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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
My brother is on a fishing boat in Alaska right now. Here is the #showyourstripes temperature results, showing the climb in temps since 1850. He sees the impact in many ways. Alaska suffers more extreme temp shifts than the lower 48. #climate #science #warming showyourstripes.info/l/northameri...
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Show Your Stripes
Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe
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John Ryan @heyjohnryan.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
“To return to shore and hear this news is quite exciting,“ @osubeaversnews.bsky.social oceanographer Jack Barth said after completing a cruise that removed the NW’s last floating ocean observatory funded by the National Science Foundation. www.kuow.org/stories/trum...
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Northwest’s yanked observatories to return to ocean after Trump administration backs down
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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Congressional pushback halts dismantling of ocean monitoring. #ocean #science #fedcuts NSF retreats on ocean monitoring cuts after Capitol Hill revolt - E&E News by POLITICO share.google/IrlllDVHBmJm...
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NSF retreats on ocean monitoring cuts after Capitol Hill revolt
The Senate passed legislation Wednesday to protect the Ocean Observatories Initiative.
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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Thank you @kuow.org for the wonderful panel at Seattle Central Library. The podcast, Adults in the Room, was brilliant investigation of #sexual #abuse by teachers. Panel shared the "how we did it" behind journalism.
5 people seated in chairs discuss podcast from KUOW radio about high-school scandal. Among them is Isolde Raftery, who led the investigation.
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Seth Fletcher @sethfletcher.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Great @deborahb.bsky.social piece on what the past tells us about the current science-policy nightmare. "Maybe it could be seen as an opportunity,” one scientist tells her. "It’s like the opportunity you have to build a better house when yours burns down.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...
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Scientists weathering Trump’s attacks on research can look to the past
It’s a complicated time to be a young scientist in America. Lessons from history can tell us what the future might hold
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I just want to say: American science was always in this fight. Just a lot of the time a lot of scientists didn’t know it, pretended they weren’t, or were on the other side.
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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Props to high-school student Alice Prokop for her well-reasoned essay in favor of WHOLE BOOKS in school and not just excerpts. #seattle #books #publishing #neuroscience #EdSky www.seattletimes.com/education-la...
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Students need more books, not fewer
Students are rarely required to read full books anymore, leaving them unprepared for the future, Student Voices contributor Alice Prokop writes.
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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Whew. Took a #tidepool break in #Seattle and hit nudibranch jackpot.
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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Get your name spelled out in images from NASA satellite images of earth rivers, mountains, etc. My Ls are great, not sure about A. #science #art science.nasa.gov/specials/you...
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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
As an advocate for #Science and facts, I beg to differ with headline. But...there is a conspiracy to wipe away science, like NIH, CDC. But not centered on those people. Beware of grocery store science. #fedcuts
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