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michael roston @michaelroston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Our journalists tried to answer "why is this so gross" and also "why are restaurants doing this." The question I'm still stuck on is what was the origin story for this bizarre brand of food imagery? Like who saw this first and said "I want that in my shop, too?" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Why A.I. Food Slop Looks So Gross
Is anything even real anymore?
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michael roston @michaelroston.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wanna feel old? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/a...
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‘Double Dare’ Debuted 40 Years Ago. Children’s TV Was Never the Same.
The host of the celebrated Nickelodeon children’s show reflects on the decades since slime and slop first lovingly enveloped our youth.
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michael roston @michaelroston.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Perhaps he was charged with breaking and entering in the 2nd degree www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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A Driver Desperate to Use the Bathroom Plows Into a Kroger in Texas, the Police Say
The driver, James Mansell Lancaster Jr., was upset to find the supermarket in Rosenberg, Texas, closed early Sunday morning, the police said.
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emmett lindner @emmettlindner.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I stood in 50-person lines in New York to find out why so many hungry locals were spilling into the streets for late-night meals. The answer? They wanted their sushi, and they wanted it for half-off. (I did not go hungry on this assignment.) www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/n...
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New Yorkers Can’t Stop Lining Up for This Sushi
At a proliferating number of stores, discounts on sushi and other items are offered after 8 p.m. To get the best meals, you have to be there early.
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michael roston @michaelroston.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Who amongst us did not stay up until the wee hours of Sunday night to sneakily watching MTV's 120 Minutes when our parents thought we were asleep? RIP Dave Kendall, you gave us a great show. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/a...
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Dave Kendall, Creator and Host of MTV’s ‘120 Minutes,’ Dies at 63
With his English accent and ubiquitous leather jacket, Mr. Kendall was the face of alternative music on MTV from 1989 to 1992.
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michael roston @michaelroston.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
would steal watch
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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I DID NOT KNOW HE WAS A BUSINESSMAN
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michael roston @michaelroston.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
"Cloacal diving" thank you @bittelmethis.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/s...
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A Fish That Hitches Rides Where the Sun Doesn’t Shine
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michael roston @michaelroston.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
All of this has happened before and all of it will happen again www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/t...
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Meditating or Rebooting? A Robot Buddhist Monk Comes to Korea.
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michael roston @michaelroston.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Hello NYPD I'd like to report an invasion of privacy theonion.com/overambitiou...
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Overambitious Man Wants To Get 2 Things Done Today
AKRON, OH—Saying the expectations he had set for himself were completely unrealistic, friends of local man James Chao expressed skepticism this morning after the 25-year-old announced plans to get two...
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michael roston @michaelroston.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Here is Gina Kolata's story www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/h...
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The Day the Food Noise Died
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michael roston @michaelroston.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
This is my last-ever story I edited for The NYT Science desk. I could have headlined it "Where Has All the Food Noise Gone" for the @tedleo.bsky.social fans, but I went with the Don McLean
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michael roston @michaelroston.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
But what happens when COCAINE BEAR eats COCAINE SALMON? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/s...
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These Salmon Got High on Cocaine. That Wasn’t the Craziest Part.
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Joel D. Parker @j-d-parker.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Bat shit is good for the environment. They help trees spread far and wide. I'm always amazed to see over and over around the world how biodiversity is a good thing. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/s...
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We’ve Been Underestimating Flying Foxes
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
maybe YOU have been but i have not… www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/s...
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We’ve Been Underestimating Flying Foxes
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Who is “we” mfer
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We’ve Been Underestimating Flying Foxes
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michael roston @michaelroston.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Still, a fun one www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/s...
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michael roston @michaelroston.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Rejected headline
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Jason Dinh @byjasonpdinh.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
NEW: for @nytimes.com, I wrote about a new study showing that queen bumblebees can breathe underwater, surviving submerged for a week the “remarkable” study stems from a lab snafu, when a co-author thought she accidentally drowned several bees—but later found that they were alive 🧪 gift link 🎁
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Bumblebee Queens Can Breathe Underwater
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Michele Hanks @michelehanks.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I’m devastated that this (very interesting) article isn’t about chimpanzees getting into New Age spirituality. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/s...
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Chimpanzees Are Really Into Crystals
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michael roston @michaelroston.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
The Buster Bluths of the Galapagos Islands www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/s...
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The Sea Lions of the Galápagos Are Not Ready to Give Up Mother’s Milk
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Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
“You and your sister live in a—“ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/s...
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Lemon-Shaped World Is the Most Stretched-Out Planet Ever Seen
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Dr Robin George Andrews @squigglyvolcano.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
NEW: In 2023, twin earthquakes devastated parts of southern Turkey and Syria. All eyes are now on Istanbul, which has its own worrying fault system—one that will, inevitably, produce a large and tremendously devastating earthquake. Me @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/s...
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Turkey’s Largest City Is Threatened by a Lurking Seismic Catastrophe
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michael roston @michaelroston.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
With apologies to @rdzombak.bsky.social who wrote a very nice story www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...
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Parasitic Queen: Now She’s Stealing an Ant Fief
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michael roston @michaelroston.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Sometimes I worry I'm trying too hard, and then other times I decide you know what, just let the Billy Ocean-inspired headline rip, even if 2 out of 3 colleagues didn't get the reference:
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
First of all, rude
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
The sculptor Jim Sanborn has sold the secret to his Kryptos sculpture for nearly a million bucks — here's the story. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...
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Anonymous Bidder Pays Nearly $1 Million for Secret to Decode C.I.A. Sculpture
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Dr Robin George Andrews @squigglyvolcano.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
NEW: Not long after Earth formed, it received a giant sucker punch when an object named Theia crashed into it, unleashing debris that made the Moon. But where did Theia come from—the outer solar system? Nope. The Moon-making impact was an inside job. Me @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...
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The Moon Was an Inside Job
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michael roston @michaelroston.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I did a little research and I think under some circumstances, jet fuel can melt regolith
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David Gofman @dgofman.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
This is incredible. 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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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
If you're looking to launch Dark Pixar, here's your plot: "Experts discovered an unusual form of regicide in which a parasitic ant queen tricks workers in a colony into turning on their own mother." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...
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Parasitic Queen: Now She’s Stealing an Ant Fief
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Pete Myall @dudekiller.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
ME (sobbing, folorn, bereft of hope): I don't think I'll ever know what a vindicated iguana looks li- THE NEW YORK TIMES:
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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
That iguana DOES look vindicated I have to say 😂
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Caroline Dohack @carolinedohack.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Take your victory lap, girlfriend.
A screenshot from The New York Times website shows a portrait of an iguana in profile and the headline "This is What a Vindicated Iguana Looks Like."
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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
when you’re mean to me but it turns out I’m right this is who you’re being mean to that turned out to be right
Nyt says “this is what a vindicated iguana looks like” and includes a photo of an iguana looking incredibly smug
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michael roston @michaelroston.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
we need @darthbluesky.bsky.social out here exclaiming that "the iguana IS INNOCENT"
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Alexander C. Kaufman @alexckaufman.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Hard to think of anything in media that regularly brings me as much pure joy anymore as the headline in The New York Times' Trilobites section.
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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 04/11/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/s... “The rise of artificial intelligence has produced serial writers to science and medical journals, most likely using chatbots to boost the number of citations they’ve published.”
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The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors.
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michael roston @michaelroston.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Just occurred to me that “6,7” yields the answer to life, the universe and everything, Gen Alpha is profound
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Jason Dinh @byjasonpdinh.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
NEW: this genetically engineered fungus lures mosquitoes to their death—by smelling absolutely divine my latest in @nytimes.com, with sharp edits from @michaelroston.bsky.social 🧪
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This Genetically Engineered Fungus Could Help Fix Your Mosquito Problem
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
My latest for @nytimes.com! For 40 years, paleontologists have grappled over whether a small tyrannosaur — named Nanotyrannus — was its own animal, or simply a teenage T.rex. The debate has been ... contentious. Which is why it's so fun to finally be able to say this: Folks? Nanotyrannus is real.
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The Case of the Tiny Tyrannosaurus Might Have Been Cracked
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
This story rules www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...
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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
This story is BONKERS, and I’m so happy to see @jswatz.bsky.social ‘s byline on it www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...
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A C.I.A. Secret Kept for 35 Years Is Found in the Smithsonian’s Vault
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Great story that takes a lot of turns but the top part, about how the solution was found, reminds me of a 1990s @ajjacobs.bsky.social article where he brought a police detective to a murder mystery weekend at a hotel, and while the other guests were playing by the rules...
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A C.I.A. Secret Kept for 35 Years Is Found in the Smithsonian’s Vault
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Holy guacamole, this could be the weirdest story I ever worked on. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...
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A C.I.A. Secret Kept for 35 Years Is Found in the Smithsonian’s Vault
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Jack Tamisiea @jack-tamisiea.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
The ‘golden’ rule of the deep-sea: if you want to survive near hydrothermal vents, be prepared to fight poison with poison! My latest for @nytimes.com about an incredible worm that uses biomineralization as a detox strategy! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/s...
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This Golden Worm Fights Poison With Poison
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this
A book titled "Outdoor Pigs: How to Make them Pay."
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michael roston @michaelroston.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
YOU ARE BUGS www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/s...
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Possible Planet Is Spotted Around Neighboring Sunlike Star
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History Clippings @historyclippings.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
I can finally reveal why this account has been on hiatus for the summer... I've been working on a piece for the New York Times on the 1980s cola space race! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/s... Its been a great experience working with the Times editors on this. #nasa #space #coke #pepsi
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When Coke and Pepsi Fought for Soft Drink Supremacy in Space
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Katy Huff @katyhuff.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I've had a lot of questions about fission surface power this week. The delightful Ken Chang @kchang.bsky.social summed it up well in this piece: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/s... . On moon reactors, I'm bullish. On setting unrealistic timelines in a race to moon reactors, not so much. [1/2]
A screenshot from the article at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/science/nasa-nuclear-reactor-moon.html in which I suggest the timeline might be too aggressive.
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