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Johanna Prugger @johanna-prugger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Last month, I had the pleasure of talking to @kristenfrench.bsky.social from @nautil.us about our recent paper with Simone Kühn, @cen-mpib.bsky.social, on how nature not only restores tired minds, but can also fortify already happy ones through its instorative effects.🌳😊 nautil.us/can-nature-b...

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Can Nature Benefit You If You’re Already Well? - Nautilus

A conversation with a neuroscientist about how nature can fortify the strong and support resilience

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Dr. Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly Parton was so cool that even scientists praise her. We all have the choice to leave an impactful legacy. She used her influence & money to help science. What a legacy she left. 🧪 archive.today/sIAzq

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Dolly Parton dies aged 80 – researchers celebrate her contributions to science

The country singer was an advocate for vaccines, public health, literacy and marginalized communities.

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

How did Penelope's dream in The Odyssey shape later traditions of dream interpretation? @kristenfrench.bsky.social speaks with Mirjam E. Kotwick, author of The Ancient Interpretation of Dreams, in this @nautil.us interview: nautil.us/how-the-anci...

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How the Ancient Greeks Interpreted Their Dreams

How the Ancient Greeks Interpreted Their Dreams: Certain concepts such as metaphor may derive from early dream interpretation

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Really nice piece by Kevin Berger in @nautil.us on the new biography of Tennyson by the master biographer of the Romantics Richard Holmes. nautil.us/a-poet-of-sc...

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A Poet of Science Who Shook Faith in God

A Poet of Science Who Shook Faith in God: Eminent biographer Richard Holmes reveals how Tennyson predated Darwin and speaks to us today

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Kristen French @kristenfrench.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Come on a surfin safari with me...to the stars! You can expect lazy ankle biters in a sea of lava and 16-foot heavies in a liquid methane lake. PlanetWaves from @mit.edu and @whoi.edu models waves in space for the first time. #surf #astronomy #science #extremetravel nautil.us/what-it-woul...

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What It Would Be Like to Surf Five Distant Planets

What It Would Be Like to Surf Five Distant Planets: A surfing safari of the cosmos

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Interesting discussion. This para gets it right, I think. observer.co.uk/news/science...

The urge to cast Altman as Faust or Frankenstein risks obscuring the less glamorous, more structural realities of AI development. Our governments who fund it, the investors who shape it, the technical uncertainties, the effect on the climate. We need to hold it all to account, and resist replacing a messy, collective process with a singular, legible dramatic person. So many people and systems have given Altman the keys to our future. It’s harder to turn them into characters and harder still to hold them responsible too.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 14/04/2026

"The Vatican is in desperate need of criminal justice reform. As of today, any criminal can walk into the Vatican, confess to any crime, immediately be forgiven, and walk out with zero consequences." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/vat...

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Vatican City is Overrun with Crime Thanks to Its Woke Pope

“The Vatican is in desperate need of criminal justice reform. As of today, any criminal can walk into the Vatican, confess to any crime, immediately be forgi...

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 13/04/2026

Thank you #NobelLaureate Jack Szostak for sharing these thoughts, which many US scientists and physicians resonate with newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-a-nobel...

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I’m a Nobel Prize-winning immigrant. I can no longer recognize this country.

Attacks on science and immigrants are destroying America.

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Here's an engaging & accessible introduction to our studies of individual differences in how people respond to poetry, art, & music. @kristenfrench.bsky.social interviewed @giacomobignardi.bsky.social about the research he's leading to decipher the mysteries of “aesthetic chills”. @nautil.us 🎶🎨🧬🧪

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Were You Born to Love Music?

Were You Born to Love Music?: How you respond to art—from poetry, to visual art, to music—may be partly written in your DNA

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Giacomo Bignardi @giacomobignardi.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

You were (very likely) born because your parents mated 😅 Title and sub-heading aside, great piece by @kristenfrench.bsky.social on the genetics of individual differences in sensitivity to music and art

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Giacomo Bignardi @giacomobignardi.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

"If I say something, if I say something, if I say something after three times, you get irritated. But in music, we do that. You do that all the time. It’s always repetition. It’s nice." Another great Q&A with @musiccognition.bsky.social by @kristenfrench.bsky.social

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Kristen French @kristenfrench.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

It was such a pleasure talking with Kathryn Paige Harden ‪@kph3k.bsky.social‬ about the stories we tell about vice and blame, and her new book Original Sin, for @Nautil.us magazine.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 09/02/2026

"People think of the USA as a nation of immigrants and the land of opportunity, but the truth is, this country can’t afford to welcome all the migrants who want to live here. In fact, we barely have any money at all, because destroying the lives of immigrants is very expensive."

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There Is Limited Money in Our Big, Beautiful Budget, So We Need to Spend as Much of It as Possible to Keep Ruining Immigrants’ Lives

“The $170 billion price tag for immigration enforcement eclipses other law enforcement expenditures at the federal, state, and local level…. The la...

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 09/02/2026

Unidos somos América.

Bad Bunny holds a football that says Together, we are America.

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Lisa S Gardiner @lisasgardiner.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

After writing a book about very young fossil reefs, I got to learn about very old fossil reefs while reporting this story for @nautil.us featuring ⚒️🧪science by @phoebefossil.bsky.social and her collaborators and edits by @kristenfrench.bsky.social nautil.us/in-search-of...

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In Search of the First Animals

A fossilized ocean reef on a mountaintop may hold clues to the evolution of complex life

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Longreads @longreads.com · 08/01/2025

"The airy scent that follows rain is known as petrichor, and there are many forms. The petrichor in Singapore, for example, will be quite different from that of Reykjavik." @katykelleher.bsky.social @nautil.us #longreads nautil.us/scent-makes-...

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Scent Makes a Place

How the desert taught me to smell

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Longreads @longreads.com · 23/12/2024

"The rights-of-nature philosophy shifts the value of nature away from its ability to provide resources for extraction to its capacity to sustain life." @kristenfrench.bsky.social @nautil.us #longreads

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This Ocean Wave Has Rights

The true meaning of legal protection for nature.

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Nautilus Magazine @nautil.us · 17/12/2024

After a devastating ecological disaster, locals passed a law to recognize the waves at the mouth of the Rio Doce in Brazil as a living being with intrinsic rights to existence, regeneration, and restoration.

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This Ocean Wave Has Rights

The true meaning of legal protection for nature.

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