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Sarah Derouin

@sarahderouin.com
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Science journalist, writer, editor. Former geologist. Happiest when drinking a coffee, sitting outside, and petting a dog.

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Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A colony of beaver cookies at #sciwri26
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
At least 79 kids have been harmed by tear gas or pepper spray during Trump’s immigration crackdown. In most cases, they were going about their days when officers shot chemical munitions near their homes and schools and into their cars. (Published May)
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Kids Are Being Harmed by Tear Gas, Pepper Spray Under Trump. There Could Be Long-Term Consequences.
In several cities, judges have chastised federal immigration officers, saying they used excessive force. One former DHS leader called ProPublica’s findings a “bright red flag.”
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.
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71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 03/09/2026
feeling unexpectedly emotional as we visit saerbeck, a town of just 7200 in central germany that formed a climate municipality. they produce 4.5x the electricity they need, and have developed a whole array of climate solutions. one of them? a climate action curriculum that starts in kindergarten.
lady presenting about saerbecks climate curriculum
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retrodotcards.com @retrodotcards.com · 31/08/2026
Issue 66 of Return, a German retro gaming magazine, has an article on the e-Reader. They also added a side article about the Series One games. I never thought I'd be in a game magazine 😲
An image of the e-reader article in the magazine. On the left is an article about the e-reader in general and its history. On the right is an article about RetroDotCards Series One e-reader games.

The articles are in German.
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retrodotcards.com @retrodotcards.com · 21/08/2026
Pixel Pup, a #picross style game for the #GBA is now available! There's a demo too. retrodotcards.itch.io/pixel-pup #indiedev #gameboy
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Pixel Pup by RetroDotCards, objetdiscret
A nonogram game for the GBA
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Carmen Drahl @carmendrahl.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Caregivers of kids and adults: At @sciencewriters.org #SciWri26 come listen to @kellydchandler.bsky.social of @oregonstate.edu talk work-family integration. I'll be there with @sarahderouin.com @elandhuis.bsky.social. Early registration rates end tomorrow! sciencewriters2026.org/register/
Caregiver meetup and work-family integration talk promo image.
Shows headshots of the speaker and three organizers/hosts, along with the sciencewriters 2026 logo.
Come share resources and find camaraderie!
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Sarah Derouin @sarahderouin.com · 20/08/2026
So proud of Matt! His game comes out tomorrow— Nintendo fans, get a new Game Boy Advanced game! 🤩
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
If lettuce from Taco Bell hasn't gotten you, jalepeños from Chipotle might. Salmonella outbreak linked to jalepeños has sickened >345 people. Hospitalized 36. AL, AR, CA, CO, GA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, ND, NE, OH, OK, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WY www.fda.gov/food/outbrea...
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Outbreak Investigation of Salmonella: Jalapeño (August 2026)
Do not eat, serve, or sell recalled fresh jalapeños from Sinaloa, Mexico distributed by Coast Citrus Distributors. FDA’s investigation is ongoing.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/07/2026
"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.
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Sarah Derouin @sarahderouin.com · 15/07/2026
How I feel as a former climate geologist, current science journalist, and presently sweating midwesterner:
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This is a tremendous piece by Judy Stone at @forbes.com. This new OMB rule is going to hurt communities from coast to coast. Federal grants are not just about research! www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...
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How The OMB Rule Could Hurt You And Your Town
The OMB proposal threatens scientific research and ALL federal funding for states, cities, and nonprofits. It politicizes ALL funding. Call your reps and write an objection.
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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 12/06/2026
WIN: A court ordered the Trump-Vance admin to stop censoring science and history at national parks – and within three weeks restore any materials it altered or removed. This ruling ensures that America's largest classroom will continue to tell our country's vital stories. #OurParksOurHistory
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/06/2026
Just announced: OpenAI plans to lease a 9.2 gigawatt 100% fossil-fuelled data centre on Ohio. Its emissions will be between 20 - 37 MTCO2-e - somewhere between the total grid emissions of France -> Netherlands As much GHGs as 9.5 average coal plants. Will raise US total emissions by 0.5%
OpenAI in talks to lease 10GW data center from SB Energy in Ohio
Data center project on federal land in the state

June 10, 2026 By Georgia Butler  Have your say
OpenAI is in discussions regarding leasing a proposed 10GW data center being developed by SB Energy in Ohio.

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Sarah Derouin @sarahderouin.com · 06/06/2026
Things are grim, so do what you can in your community. Today, I volunteered at a county conservation district Native plant sale. We are also fostering this sleepy doggo. Do good where you can
Sleeping, brown foster pitty dog (who is actually snoring)
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Eos @eos.org · 05/06/2026
Mangroves cover <1% of Earth’s surface but account for a whopping 15% of global ocean carbon storage. New research by scientists @exeter.ac.uk + colleagues shows rising seas might cause mangroves to lose their grip on carbon storage. 🧪 Words by @sarahderouin.com. eos.org/research-spo...
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Mangroves May Be Losing Their Grip on Carbon Storage as Sea Levels Rise - Eos
Locally, mangroves can sometimes adapt to rising seas, but global trends look troubling.
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Sarah Derouin @sarahderouin.com · 05/06/2026
This is an absolute tragedy that will haunt us for decades (a declaration I make all too often these days).
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The long-anticipated “Schedule F” order strips job protections meant to safeguard federal employees from political interference
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White House reclassifies federal epidemiologists and other scientists from civil servants to “at-will” hires
The long-anticipated “Schedule F” order strips job protections meant to safeguard federal employees from political interference
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
You can: 1) Contact your senators and reps, especially in coastal states. 2) Urge scientific societies and advocacy groups to speak out and mobilize their members. 3) Write op eds, posts, threads, etc. explaining what the OOI actually does and why it matters. 4) Share articles like this:
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Trump Administration to Remove Hundreds of Deep-Ocean Observation Instruments, Dismantling $368 Million Program - Eos
The Trump administration’s National Science Foundation (NSF) has begun dismantling the infrastructure of a $368 million deep-ocean observing program critical to monitoring marine ecosystems, global cu...
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Sarah Derouin @sarahderouin.com · 28/05/2026
Bullshit. Struggling with writing is an important part of the process. We think, try, delete, rephrase, come up with the perfect angle while taking a walk. AI is a scourge
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Sarah Derouin @sarahderouin.com · 27/05/2026
I talked to ASCE's president Carol Haddock about her time as Houston’s acting director of public works during Hurricane Harvey. Hear how she managed emergency services from a hemisphere away, lessons learned during the storm and how they implimented new design standards: www.asce.org/publications...
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Inside Hurricane Harvey: ASCE president-elect recalls navigating Houston crisis
Carol Haddock, who was Houston’s acting director of public works at the time, made key decisions before, during, and after the storm.
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Sarah Derouin @sarahderouin.com · 08/05/2026
Join @miscicom.org in June for a fun talk and discussion of crafting casual science communication! See deets 👇
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Nature @nature.com · 08/05/2026
This is one of the highest-profile battles yet between the US research community and the administration of President Donald Trump go.nature.com/4uCofWP
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World-leading climate centre takes Trump administration to court
Universities that run the National Center for Atmospheric Research want to keep it from being dismantled.
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Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
My big takeaway from reporting this story is that it's not JUST about the Forest Service. The closure of these stations threatens to upend a delicate system of mutually beneficial collaboration and resource sharing, and the impacts will ripple out far beyond the Forest Service itself.
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‘It’s just madness’: Trump administration to close three-quarters of Forest Service research stations
Between funding cuts, facility closures, and the inevitable resignations that will follow, there’s virtually no way for the Forest Service to continue to do research at its current level or quality, w...
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CASW @sciencewriting.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Science journalists: Apply for the $20,000 Sharon Begley Science Reporting Award! The prize recognizes the accomplishments of a mid-career science journalist and includes a grant for a significant reporting project. Deadline: April 30. More information and the submission link at CASW.org
A square graphic with the text "Sharon Begley Science Reporting Award. $20,000 grant honoring a mid-career journalist. Apply by April 30. CASW.org." A logo reading "CASW" is at the bottom of the graphic. The graphic has a headshot of the late science reporter Sharon Begley.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/03/2026
if nothing else, there is something to be said for spending time outside in the sun with thousands of people who share your anger at the state of things
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retrodotcards.com @retrodotcards.com · 22/03/2026
We figured out the monitor disaster and got people playing the game.
At the Ann Arbor Game Fest. A person is playing Pixel Pup on a monitor using a Super Nintendo controller.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
“You should be ashamed of where you work. Not just Grammarly or Superhuman or whatever comically dumb name you come up with next. Almost everyone running tech firms, most people in positions of responsibility … congrats, you’re all making the world a worse place.” - @moryan.bsky.social
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An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants
To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 20/01/2026
Must-read reporting by @virginiagewin.bsky.social on how US federal actions are affecting science. By pairing the scale of the damage with the very human, personal stories behind the numbers, she paints a powerful and comprehensive picture of just how thoroughly US science is being hollowed out.
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‘Shattered’: US scientists speak out about how Trump policies disrupted their careers
Researchers lay bare the human toll of lay-offs, funding cuts and attacks on science one year after the president’s return to the White House.
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Scott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · 20/01/2026
🧪 This is honestly heartbreaking. Over 7,800 research grants were cancelled or frozen in 2025. The Nature visualizes the scale of these terminations at the NIH and NSF, particularly those affecting infectious disease research and clinical trials. #AcademicSky
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US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains
A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.
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Sarah Derouin @sarahderouin.com · 20/01/2026
What's driving the US's Greenland obsession? Likely a combination of geopolitical location and potential resources. But the island is remote, ice-covered, and an autonomous territory- facts that should not be ignored. The BBC updated/reposted a story I wrote last year: www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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The mineral riches hiding under Greenland's ice
The treasures beneath Greenland's icy terrain have been coveted for more than a century. But as Donald Trump becomes the latest to eye this wealth, accessing them remains a challenge.
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Sarah Derouin @sarahderouin.com · 28/11/2025
Happy Pie-For-Breakfast season! 🥧
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in. Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A glorious selfie with the official MAHA lanyard seconds after I made it past Secret Service screening.
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Sarah Derouin @sarahderouin.com · 19/11/2025
I think we have all driven over a bridge that make us nervous— this “temporary’ bridge in Mass. has lingered way past t its original 4-yr lifespan (4 decades!). It’s now being replaced and will be safer, wider, and have walking/bike paths. www.asce.org/publications...
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Prayer-inspiring, ‘temporary’ Massachusetts bridge will be replaced after 4 decades
A wider, more pedestrian-friendly structure will replace a crossing installed in 1983 that has brought trepidation to many over the years.
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Laurel Powell @laurelpowell.net · 10/11/2025
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard. We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions. We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
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Eos @eos.org · 20/10/2025
Excuse you! If humans can reach net negative carbon emissions over the next few centuries, researchers suspect the Southern Ocean will “burp” built-up heat into the atmosphere. eos.org/research-spo...
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The Southern Ocean May Be Building Up a Massive Burp - Eos
Modeled results suggest that if anthropogenic emissions decrease and the atmosphere cools, heat stored in the Southern Ocean could be released abruptly in a few hundred years, kicking off a temporary ...
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Jos Olivier @josolivier.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country. Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the few places in the world without the insects. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country
Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the few places in the world without the insects
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Eos @eos.org · 06/10/2025
Satellites might be able to fill in gaps in understanding about urban greenhouse gas emissions. Story by @sarahderouin.com eos.org/research-spo...
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Satellite Scans Can Estimate Urban Emissions - Eos
As more cities strive to meet climate goals, space-based observations may help fill in the gaps on tracking emissions.
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Sarah Derouin @sarahderouin.com · 06/10/2025
Grim findings from Georgetown scholars on SNAP funding www.georgetownpoverty.org/issues/snap-...
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SNAP Changes Will Upend State Budgets - Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality
SNAP is a lifeline for more than 42 million people, providing food that stabilizes families and strengthens communities, but the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) of 2025 made seismic changes to the ...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/10/2025
BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
A leading Democrat in the Senate just released an important report documenting how NASA has been working to implement the president's proposed budget, not Congressionally approved funds, in slashing missions. Read more ⬇️
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Sarah Derouin @sarahderouin.com · 25/09/2025
I haven’t been a field geologist for more than a decade, yet throwing out these old notebooks is proving hard. There’s a lot of work (and geography) filling these pages 🧪
A stack of old, yellow “rite-in-the-rain” notebooks with labels of locations or projects
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NPR @npr.org · 18/09/2025
The National Park Service faced a deadline this week to address signs that "inappropriately disparage" historical figures. One target is George Washington's house in Philadelphia, where he held enslaved people. n.pr/46rokSO
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Trump moves to scrub national parks sites of signs that cast America in a 'negative light'
The National Park Service faced a deadline this week to address signs that "inappropriately disparage" historical figures. One target is George Washington's house in Philadelphia, where he held enslaved people.
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Zahra Hirji @zhirji.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
New docs obtained via FOIA reveal how the personal attacks to FEMA staff last hurricane season were much worse than previously known, including swatting & doxxing of officials. Story @bloomberg.com, w/ @davey.bsky.social @jasonleopold.bsky.social (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Chaos Inside FEMA as Death Threats Distract From Hurricane Response
Internal documents show how online conspiracies and personal attacks disrupted FEMA during back-to-back hurricanes last year.
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Eos @eos.org · 20/08/2025
Coal production, and its associated greenhouse gas emissions, could drop sharply in the next quarter century, according to new #AGUPubs research. Story by @sarahderouin.com. eos.org/research-spo...
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By 2051, Emissions from Coal Mining on Federal Lands Could Drop by 86% - Eos
Researchers predict that if early 2024 policies hold, emissions related to coal’s extraction, transportation, and combustion will drop over the next 25 years.
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Sarah Derouin @sarahderouin.com · 16/09/2025
I love seeing Matt’s @retrodotcards.com games come to life. But the tributes to our beloved dog Franny makes everything he does so much sweeter.
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