David Quammen @quammen.bsky.social · 17/02/2026I hadn't realized until the Olympics began ten days ago that NBC stands for Nothing But Curling. 1140
David Quammen @quammen.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Hello NBC? You're covering "Olympic" curling. Rerun of "The Last Dance" on ESPN. Which is sports?? Duh. Goodbye. 020
David Quammen @quammen.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Hello, NBC? Are you insane? What's is it that makes you think we want to watch HOUR after HOUR after HOUR of prime time Olympic coverage of . .. CURLING?? We don't. It's not an athletic activity, a sport. It's a nice pastime for seniors. 190
David Quammen @quammen.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Bradley (lurking blackly in his kennel box) is my sidekick, and Oscar is Bradley's. 0141
David Quammen @quammen.bsky.social · 24/09/2025So, I heard about the world leader who got stuck on a sabotaged escalator at the UN. He was trapped for two hours, waiting for rescuers. Then his wife pointed out that a stuck escalator is still a stairway, and she walked away. 1172
David Quammen @quammen.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Chainsaw babe sighted at Tre Cime. @betsygainesquammen.bsky.social 091
Reposted by David QuammenBK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 15/09/2025We do not talk enough about how much vaccines have transformed Ebola outbreaks. The country stock pile of 2000 vaccines was immediately deployed to respond to the outbreak in the DRC and 45,000 additional doses have been approved for shipment to the DRC. www.afro.who.int/countries/de...afro.who.intEbola vaccination begins in the Democratic Republic of the CongoVaccination of frontline health workers and contacts of people infected with Ebola virus disease has begun in Bulape health zone in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Kasai Province where an outbr... 521861
David Quammen @quammen.bsky.social · 17/09/2025These two hombres lay claim to Dave's chair when he's on the road. Partners in crime. @betsygainesquammen.bsky.social 1253
Reposted by David QuammenJack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Everyone parrots the line, “They’ll just replace Trump with another figurehead.” Bullsh*t. Later today in my latest JHN Newsletter I’ll break down why Trump is the one irreplaceable piece of this machine. When he’s gone...the whole thing starts to crack. 2442161419
David Quammen @quammen.bsky.social · 31/08/2025One of the things that amazes me about the English Civil War (roughly 1642-1651), as I'm reading of it in David Hume's great history, vol. 5, is that this was essentially a ferocious, murderous, ruthless religious war—fought between Episcopalians and Presbyterians. 052
David Quammen @quammen.bsky.social · 12/08/2025OH, DEAR!! open.substack.com/pub/ejeancar... Go, E. Jean!open.substack.comOH, DEAR!!. 040
David Quammen @quammen.bsky.social · 06/08/2025I had a fine time talking with Jacob Watson-Howland for his podcast. We went deep into the weeds of zoonotics and much else. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0wW...youtube.comDisease Expert: I Predicted COVID in 2010! Contagious Cancer & The Next Global PandemicYouTube video by Jacob J. Watson-Howland 0132
David Quammen @quammen.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Good job, Jaju. Let's all not serve pierogi to Dershowitz. 030
David Quammen @quammen.bsky.social · 01/08/2025I love this. Who doesn't love walking-stick insects. I've seen a huge one in New Guinea scare the bejeezus out of a local lady, on whose shoulder it alit. But, god bless and comfort her, it was harmless. 091
Reposted by David QuammenKristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Our research has been engulfed by an endless torrent of lab leak conspiracy theories about the origin of the pandemic - even as the evidence for zoonosis has only grown stronger. This fuels anti-science agendas and erodes public trust. Now, we respond 👇 theconversation.com/how-conspira...theconversation.comHow conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemicThe COVID pandemic likely began when the virus jumped from animals to humans, and didn’t start in a lab. But false narratives continue to circulate. 10358170
Reposted by David QuammenKate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Her name was Diana. She was 23 years old and 7 months pregnant. Russia murdered her today in an attack on the maternity hospital in Kamyanske. 792156315088
Reposted by David QuammenAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 29/07/2025Some generations were asked to storm beaches. Ours is being asked to stay engaged. That’s not too much to ask. I wrote this piece not just as a veteran or former congressman but as a dad. We are not the generation that lets this flame die. Not on my watch adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/we-are-not...adamkinzinger.substack.comWe Are Not the Generation That Lets This DieAfter 250 years of sacrifice, we won’t let apathy be our legacy. 426128243892
Reposted by David QuammenThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 28/07/2025When ICE agents questioned a group of 11- to 14-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, their coach, Youman Wilder, stepped in. “I’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.newyorker.comICE Agents Invade a Manhattan Little League FieldYouman Wilder has coached local kids for twenty-one years—including four who have gone pro. When masked agents tried to interrogate his players, he told them, “You don’t have more rights than they do.... 21176672122
Reposted by David QuammenThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 29/07/2025A Korean-born researcher and longtime U.S. legal permanent resident has spent the past week detained by immigration officials at the San Francisco International Airport without explanation and has been denied access to an attorney, according to his lawyer.washingtonpost.comScientist on green card detained for a week without explanation, lawyer saysA Korean citizen studying in Texas on a green card was detained in San Francisco after a trip overseas. His lawyer says authorities won’t give a reason. 39177163711
David Quammen @quammen.bsky.social · 27/07/2025As things get weirder, I keep expecting Trump's body to split open suddenly, like a character in "Men in Black," to reveal that there's nothing inside the skin but a tower of nibbling maggots. I say this with all due respect. 0207
David Quammen @quammen.bsky.social · 26/07/20253/2 He gets some well-deserved outside time after the cleaning of his tank, Bootsville. 020
David Quammen @quammen.bsky.social · 26/07/2025One guess what summer reading Boots has embraced. 1/2 071
David Quammen @quammen.bsky.social · 26/07/2025I wrote this story as a young man in Montana, forty years ago, struggling to understand, struggling to survive, and I am very glad and grateful to see that it has legs. We all have fathers. Mine was a wondrous man. This story is not about him. It's fiction. Your father? 2144
David Quammen @quammen.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Who knew? This is edifying and good to see. www.netflix.com/title/82048609netflix.comWatch Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan | Netflix Official SiteEd Sullivan broke barriers by booking Black artists on his Sunday night variety show. This documentary spotlights the TV pioneer's legacy of equality. 181
David Quammen @quammen.bsky.social · 15/07/20252/2 David Hume: I always pictured him as a sort of wiry, wry Barry Fitzgerald-type character, but Dennis Rasmussen ("The Infidel and the Professor") suggests he more closely resembled a Scottish Sydney Greenstreet. 040
David Quammen @quammen.bsky.social · 15/07/2025It's very pleasant, if you have a week of down time in midsummer, to sit in the backyard in an Adirondack chair reading abt (and reading) the great David Hume. 1/2 090
Reposted by David Quammenjoe positive @joepositive.wtf · 08/07/2025The days grow shorter by millimeters, but Fortnight Tuesday continues to bring us new episodes of The Bad Piano Player Podcast, and thank heaven for that! Today's delightful surprise: one Benny Davis, whose lyrics won me over after a hard-fought battle. Get it while it's hot! (and it's always hot)podcasts.apple.comBenny DavisPodcast Episode · The Bad Piano Player · 07/08/2025 · 35m 011
Reposted by David QuammenThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/07/2025The United States has recorded its highest annual measles cases in 33 years. The milestone marks a public health reversal in defeating a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease as the anti-vaccine movement gains strength.washingtonpost.comU.S. measles cases reach 33-year record high as outbreaks spreadJohns Hopkins University data reflects the public health reversal in defeating the vaccine-preventable disease since measles was officially eliminated from the U.S. in 2000. 68872583105
Reposted by David QuammenAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Freedom from kings. Freedom from fascism. Power to the people forever. ♥️ Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸 999587369053
Reposted by David QuammenAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 05/07/2025Regarding the flooding: GOP doesn’t want to fund the programs that predict these things, but they still want to blame the federal government for not predicting this. DOGE has consequences 38595832223
Reposted by David QuammenForbes @forbes.com · 04/07/2025Losses in service jobs sparked the first negative job growth in two years.forbes.comThe Most Americans Are On Unemployment—Nearly 2 Milllion—Since PandemicLosses in service jobs sparked the first negative job growth in two years. 36475153079
Reposted by David QuammenChris Nagano @charliesaito22.bsky.social · 04/07/2025SECDOD Hegseth stopped transfer of weapons based on belief disputed by U.S. Military leaders that it would lower U.S. weapons stockpile www.nbcnews.com/news/militar... 073
Reposted by David QuammenCrawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Texas’ immigration law is unconstitutional, appeals court rules www.texastribune.org/2025/07/04/t... via @texastribune.orgtexastribune.orgTexas’ immigration law is unconstitutional, appeals court rulesThe Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling means that Senate Bill 4, which allows local police to arrest suspected undocumented immigrants, continues to be blocked. 033
David Quammen @quammen.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Listening to the great Harry James band, as I cook, after cocktail hour reading about Henry James the novelist, and brother William, in the great RWB Lewis family bio, "The Jameses." There's a weird pairing; Harry James musician and Henry James novelist. Love it. 030
David Quammen @quammen.bsky.social · 31/05/2025Very good memory. Harper's Magazine, 2007. I've been incubating this book since then. Thanks, Derryl. 050
David Quammen @quammen.bsky.social · 31/05/20252/2 Yesterday at the bank a young man said to me, "You're still working? I saw that you're 77!" Yeah but I have a non-job too fun to quit. 2110
David Quammen @quammen.bsky.social · 31/05/2025 There is nothing more exciting and satisfying for a writer than writing the last sentence of a book. Especially if it goes, "click." Just finished my 19th, for Simon & Schuster. Titled "Speak of the Devil." To appear sometime next year. 1/2 3302
Reposted by David QuammenCarl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/05/2025"During his confirmation hearings, Kennedy assured lawmakers he would not take away anyone’s vaccines. But removing the vaccine from CDC’s recommended list will have a similar impact." thehill.com/policy/healt...thehill.comRFK Jr. ends COVID-19 vaccine recommendation for healthy children, pregnant womenThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will no longer recommend routine COVID-19 shots for healthy children and pregnant women, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy J… 23334138
Reposted by David QuammenGeneral The Senegal @genthesen.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Is there anyone out there in Sydney Australia? Could you please repost this? 336
Reposted by David QuammenBrian Creek, Photographer @briancreekphoto.bsky.social · 22/05/2025For all of us who love Americas public lands, those national, natural treasures held in public trust for now and forever, here’s some good news from the Greater Yellowstone Coalition today! 1174
David Quammen @quammen.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Salgado goes, may he travel onward in peace. An amazing photographer with a vast heart for humans and the world. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/a...nytimes.comSebastião Salgado, Acclaimed Brazilian Photographer, Is Dead at 81 0122
David Quammen @quammen.bsky.social · 23/05/2025A sweet Saluki named Ossip, in Piazza del Duomo, Pistoia, Italy, makes one think of home. 2222