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@nancyaverett.bsky.social
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I write about science for journalism outlets and institutions and teach science journalism at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign stories at na-narratives.com. Words in SciAm, Environmental Health Perspectives, The Nation, Sierra and more.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A simple, factual, and effective message.
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nancyaverett.bsky.social @nancyaverett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Good God
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Andrea Thompson @andreatweather.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A pretty rad part of working at SciAm is that Nobelists sometimes write for you. 🧪
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nancyaverett.bsky.social @nancyaverett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Three 🙄
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Dr. Amy Acton @amyactonoh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Public safety isn’t partisan. As governor, I’ll make sure our first responders have the resources, support, and respect they deserve to keep our communities safe. www.cincinnati.com/story/opinio...
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Why this longtime Ohio sheriff is endorsing Amy Acton for governor | Opinion
Opinion: I've spent 40 years in public safety. I'm backing Amy Acton for governor.
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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nancyaverett.bsky.social @nancyaverett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Disgusting
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nancyaverett.bsky.social @nancyaverett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
He held one in a high school gym in Ohio yesterday so sure sold out but not exactly a large venue lol
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
bring back shame
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We are paying CNN and MS NOW to run ads for Donald Trump right before the midterms. You and I are paying for them. And CNN and MS NOW are taking the cash while their hosts and guests say the scheme is illegal. That is the current state of corporate media in America.
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nancyaverett.bsky.social @nancyaverett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Very true
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Why does he look like a racist marionette
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nancyaverett.bsky.social @nancyaverett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I shudder to think that she procreates with this weirdo
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Carolyn Fiddler @cfidd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bruh, you literally JUST SAID "no fatties" and "no weirdos"
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nancyaverett.bsky.social @nancyaverett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thanks! Let me know what you think.
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nancyaverett.bsky.social @nancyaverett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every writer dreams of their New Yorker moment. This was mine: an assignment that sent me to Paris to profile a brilliant French neuroscientist—who turned out to be a social-justice warrior, too. Thanks to @psyche.co and my lovely editor @pamelaweintraub.bsky.social #neuroscience #education #science
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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nancyaverett.bsky.social @nancyaverett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🤢
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Rebecca Leber @rebleber.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
a great new feature from @emdashsanders.bsky.social on the independent Colorado ranchers who want Big Oil to own up for climate damages, rather than leave the burden to local governments. pointsourcenews.org/the-colorado...
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The Colorado ranchers taking on Big Oil
As the Supreme Court considers a climate lawsuit against oil companies, ranchers say their livelihoods are caught in the fray.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In order to thrive in the Black MAGA grift you don’t have to be particularly talented. Any mediocre person can do it. You just have to have a shamelessly high capacity for embarrassment as you perform for the most openly anti-Black President in modern American history. Tim Scott has that.
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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
God I love these guys so much. "Well Tom, how popular is football anyway? More popular than a senile, racist cantaloupe? I think we all know what the American people want to watch."
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nancyaverett.bsky.social @nancyaverett.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Two hours?!!! Aaron deserve the Medal of Honor for sitting through that!
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League of Women Voters of Ohio @lwvohio.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
How to check if your voter registration was purged in Ohio Ohio residents who have not voted in an election for 6 or more years may lose their registration by Michael Neenan www.wfmj.com/news/how-to-...
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How to check if your voter registration was purged in Ohio
Each year, thousands of voter registrations in Ohio are removed by the Ohio Secretary of State’s office for reasons such as inactivity, change of address, or if the voter has
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nancyaverett.bsky.social @nancyaverett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Please let this happen
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nancyaverett.bsky.social @nancyaverett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
226 data centers. BILLIONS in sweetheart tax deals. Ohioans stuck paying thousands more for electricity. Sherrod Brown nails it: John Husted led the damn charge. Big corporations got the sweetheart deal. Ohio families got the bill. THAT is who Husted works for. Not you.
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Nicholas D Carter @nicholasdcarter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Counter doom by: 1. Communicating the threat accurately, 2. prebunk against emotionally manipulative narratives, & 3. pair the problem with credible solutions & agency. Full study & coverage below: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I don’t think Hong’s loss says much about the left being unelectable, per se. It’s that she’s a stereotype of a humorless, strident, condescending Twitter scold. Leftists like El-Sayed, Mamdani, and AOC do just fine because they talk like normal people and have a sense of humor.
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Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
TAX FOSSIL FUEL COMPANIES TO PAY FOR CLIMATE CHANGE SOLUTIONS.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/08/2026
New in PN: Trump uses reporters as human shield, gets feted as guest of honor "The episode highlights the grossly dysfunctional relationship between POTUS & the media, which puts up with ever-escalating abuses as the price of access, & routinely normalizes Trump’s erratic & even criminal behavior."
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Trump uses reporters as human shield, gets feted as guest of honor
Steepest of learning curves.
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Grateful to folks in Akron out knocking doors. Ohioans are fed up with the corruption they see coming out of Washington and are joining me in this fight to stop it.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
🎯
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Jordan Wood @jordanwood.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Susan Collins will vote no on Trump’s own criminal defense lawyer for Attorney General. They let her vote no. They always had the 50th vote. Shame on her. Vote her out.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/08/2026
Lake Mead, the all-important Colorado River reservoir that supplies water to some 20 million people in the Southwest and West, just hit its lowest level in history during an extreme drought that scientists say is worsened by climate change.
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Lake Mead, the nation’s biggest reservoir, hits lowest level on record
The milestone is yet another sign of the escalating water crisis on the Colorado River, which scientists say is worsened by climate change.
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Lynn @lynnf.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social I want a bill passed that requires that East Wing be restored and Trump to pay for the restoration!
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The moment Collins announced she was a no on Blanche, you KNEW they had the votes.
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nancyaverett.bsky.social @nancyaverett.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
He’s not running, just got elected in 2024
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nancyaverett.bsky.social @nancyaverett.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Dude is a 1 percenter, not surprised
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Order now—supplies won’t last long
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
“Do people enjoy the hospital food when they are hospitalized for exploding diarrhea because you dismantled surveillance programs?”
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Tax Private Jets @taxprivatejets.org · 16/07/2026
New data: Private jet carbon emissions in Dallas and Atlanta 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 *𝗱𝗼𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗱* during the World Cup semifinals. 3,560 takeoffs and landings. 11.78 kilotons of *excess* carbon, above the 5-year average for those cities. Tax private jets. 🟥🛩️ taxprivatejets.org
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nancyaverett.bsky.social @nancyaverett.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Ugh, one hopes he gets CPOD or some such
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I’ve been warning about this since the first Trump term. And here we are.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/07/2026
this, for me, is the defining Lindsey Graham statement
If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it.
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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The enduring image I'll have of Lindsey Graham is the angry, hysterical, snarling Graham at the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings threatening vengeance upon every Democrat in Congress if Kavanaugh wasn't approved to sit on the US Supreme Court. That dude was already dead.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
lindsey graham won't hear you mocking him now that he's dead but neither will the Iranian schoolchildren who's murders he advocated for with practically his last breath.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Science magazine has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 'Breakthrough of the Year'. A fantastic article if you like so many have been unaware of the speed and scale and the transformation of so many lives by the #SolarHockeyStickOfHope scim.ag/493Tpgx
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Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy
Clean energy infrastructure is being deployed with unmatched scale and speed—and China is leading the way
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Revenge = Comedy + Time
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Bravo to these judges, who are traveling around the country to educate the public about the importance of the rule of law!
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