Marina Bolotnikova
@mbolotnikova.bsky.social
editor for Vox thinking about factory farming & animal rights, agriculture, science & its discontents, cities, housing, transit and ✨ideas✨. [email protected]. Skeptical of epistemic authority~
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America’s fastest-growing suburbs are about to get very expensive
Sprawl made the American Sunbelt affordable. Now it’s breaking it.
www.vox.com
Suburbs are as old & varied as human civilization—it was only recently that they became synonymous with a specific, sprawl-oriented development pattern. To solve our housing crisis, Americans will have to rethink what the suburb is, & what it could become🌟
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Two weeks ago, Grindr put on a fashion show of wool from "gay" rams rescued from slaughter. The media and the Internet swooned. But this feel-good story is a window into the dark role of forced reproduction in animal agriculture.
By me & @gnrosenberg.bsky.social.
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
By me & @gnrosenberg.bsky.social.
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
The Internet Loves These “Gay Sheep.” The Real Story Is Much Darker.
A much-hyped fashion show with wool from “gay rams” obscures the brutal reality of an industry that exploits sheep sexuality at every turn.
newrepublic.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Two weeks ago, Grindr put on a fashion show of wool from "gay" rams rescued from slaughter. The media and the Internet swooned. But this feel-good story is a window into the dark role of forced reproduction in animal agriculture.
By me & @gnrosenberg.bsky.social.
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
By me & @gnrosenberg.bsky.social.
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
I am not sure what sort of view of animals I expected from Eliezer but unreconstructed Cartesianism wasn't it
November 27, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I am not sure what sort of view of animals I expected from Eliezer but unreconstructed Cartesianism wasn't it
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well we aren't going to do better than this
you should support liberal currents!
November 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
well we aren't going to do better than this
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Don't miss this new @vox.com project that uncovers the rapidly changing world of fish farming.
Stories from @mbolotnikova.bsky.social + team challenge everything you think you know about the billions of aquatic animals that shape our planet’s future:
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Stories from @mbolotnikova.bsky.social + team challenge everything you think you know about the billions of aquatic animals that shape our planet’s future:
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Eating the Ocean
How underwater factory farms are reshaping our food system.
www.vox.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Don't miss this new @vox.com project that uncovers the rapidly changing world of fish farming.
Stories from @mbolotnikova.bsky.social + team challenge everything you think you know about the billions of aquatic animals that shape our planet’s future:
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Stories from @mbolotnikova.bsky.social + team challenge everything you think you know about the billions of aquatic animals that shape our planet’s future:
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Topics I would love readable and insightful book recs on:
-the scientific revolution
-the industrial revolutions
-the creation of European welfare states post-WWII
-the history of modern psychology and psychiatry
-Jews from the Enlightenment to the present
-the scientific revolution
-the industrial revolutions
-the creation of European welfare states post-WWII
-the history of modern psychology and psychiatry
-Jews from the Enlightenment to the present
November 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Topics I would love readable and insightful book recs on:
-the scientific revolution
-the industrial revolutions
-the creation of European welfare states post-WWII
-the history of modern psychology and psychiatry
-Jews from the Enlightenment to the present
-the scientific revolution
-the industrial revolutions
-the creation of European welfare states post-WWII
-the history of modern psychology and psychiatry
-Jews from the Enlightenment to the present
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I wrote about andrea arnold's cow for @currentaffairs.bsky.social's animals issue, and it's now online for your reading pleasure 🫡
Everyone Should Watch Andrea Arnold’s “Cow”
By showing the lives of cows on their own terms, Arnold’s 2021 film reveals the depth of the dairy industry’s violence.
www.currentaffairs.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I wrote about andrea arnold's cow for @currentaffairs.bsky.social's animals issue, and it's now online for your reading pleasure 🫡
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Turkeys are flavorless and dry, and they want to live. This Thanksgiving, @mbolotnikova.bsky.social encourages you to challenge the status quo and embrace plant-based alternatives, have conversations about ethical food choices, and create more sustainable and compassionate traditions.
8 million turkeys will be thrown in the trash this Thanksgiving
We don’t have to accept all that death and waste for a dry, flavorless bird no one likes.
www.vox.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Turkeys are flavorless and dry, and they want to live. This Thanksgiving, @mbolotnikova.bsky.social encourages you to challenge the status quo and embrace plant-based alternatives, have conversations about ethical food choices, and create more sustainable and compassionate traditions.
until quite recently, I had never thought much about fish, but now they're all I think about
Please read my piece about FISH MINDS! the great fish pain debate, and what it tells us about science and ourselves. gift link in reply!
Please read my piece about FISH MINDS! the great fish pain debate, and what it tells us about science and ourselves. gift link in reply!
November 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
until quite recently, I had never thought much about fish, but now they're all I think about
Please read my piece about FISH MINDS! the great fish pain debate, and what it tells us about science and ourselves. gift link in reply!
Please read my piece about FISH MINDS! the great fish pain debate, and what it tells us about science and ourselves. gift link in reply!
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Vox is now on Patreon! 💛📣
We’re using Patreon’s tools to introduce great new benefits and give you even more insights into our journalism and the people who make it: exclusive videos, live conversations featuring our reporters, new community features, and more.
We’re using Patreon’s tools to introduce great new benefits and give you even more insights into our journalism and the people who make it: exclusive videos, live conversations featuring our reporters, new community features, and more.
November 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Vox is now on Patreon! 💛📣
We’re using Patreon’s tools to introduce great new benefits and give you even more insights into our journalism and the people who make it: exclusive videos, live conversations featuring our reporters, new community features, and more.
We’re using Patreon’s tools to introduce great new benefits and give you even more insights into our journalism and the people who make it: exclusive videos, live conversations featuring our reporters, new community features, and more.
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Is Michael Gordin on here? Saw a good talk where he laid out how post-Soviet Russian science was kinda recovering from the chaos of the 1990s and then Putin's "foreign agents" restrictions just completely suffocated it, because science *is* global collaboration
think about that a lot nowadays
think about that a lot nowadays
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Is Michael Gordin on here? Saw a good talk where he laid out how post-Soviet Russian science was kinda recovering from the chaos of the 1990s and then Putin's "foreign agents" restrictions just completely suffocated it, because science *is* global collaboration
think about that a lot nowadays
think about that a lot nowadays
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Traditionally, the vast majority of fish that people consume has come from the ocean. But in 2022, humanity hit a significant milestone: Seafood companies began to raise more fish on farms than they caught from the sea.
What we’ve done to the salmon
The particular cruelty behind farming America’s favorite fish.
www.vox.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Traditionally, the vast majority of fish that people consume has come from the ocean. But in 2022, humanity hit a significant milestone: Seafood companies began to raise more fish on farms than they caught from the sea.
November 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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sorry but mamdani and cuomo should have worn blue and yellow hats, respectively
November 5, 2025 at 12:24 AM
sorry but mamdani and cuomo should have worn blue and yellow hats, respectively
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> We’re taught that "a boundary…defines you as separate from others" Yet if you believe that we’re all profoundly interconnected and interdependent then that idea of boundaries may feel like it muddies more than it clarifies
Always read @sigalsamuel.bsky.social
www.vox.com/the-highligh...
Always read @sigalsamuel.bsky.social
www.vox.com/the-highligh...
You don’t need better boundaries. You need a better framework.
“Setting boundaries” is broken — but there’s a different way to think about caring for yourself and others.
www.vox.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
> We’re taught that "a boundary…defines you as separate from others" Yet if you believe that we’re all profoundly interconnected and interdependent then that idea of boundaries may feel like it muddies more than it clarifies
Always read @sigalsamuel.bsky.social
www.vox.com/the-highligh...
Always read @sigalsamuel.bsky.social
www.vox.com/the-highligh...
Some really big news dropped in animal rights world last week that was made possible only by extremely competent activism—a top breeder of dogs for lab experimentation will shut down. So I wrote about it and what it means and says about science, etc.
gift link: www.vox.com/future-perfe...
gift link: www.vox.com/future-perfe...
The secretive dog experimentation industry is crumbling
The US experiments on tens of thousands of beagles. After a shocking case, will it come to an end?
www.vox.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Some really big news dropped in animal rights world last week that was made possible only by extremely competent activism—a top breeder of dogs for lab experimentation will shut down. So I wrote about it and what it means and says about science, etc.
gift link: www.vox.com/future-perfe...
gift link: www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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Myths about our ancestors' meaty diets animate modern politics and culture wars about food and identity. But the history of human diets tells a different story about food's past and lets us be more rational about its future.
@gnrosenberg.bsky.social & I for @vox.com
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
@gnrosenberg.bsky.social & I for @vox.com
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
The myth of the carnivore caveman
You are not going to like where our ancestors got their protein.
www.vox.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Myths about our ancestors' meaty diets animate modern politics and culture wars about food and identity. But the history of human diets tells a different story about food's past and lets us be more rational about its future.
@gnrosenberg.bsky.social & I for @vox.com
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
@gnrosenberg.bsky.social & I for @vox.com
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Felony conspiracy for ***taking chickens worth $24***
Jarring to assimilate this news when not 24 hours before, we learned that the 2nd biggest breeder of dogs for animal experimentation in the US will close, which represents maybe DxE's greatest achievement ever
Jarring to assimilate this news when not 24 hours before, we learned that the 2nd biggest breeder of dogs for animal experimentation in the US will close, which represents maybe DxE's greatest achievement ever
Animal rescuer Zoe Rosenberg was just found guilty of felony conspiracy and 3 misdemeanors for her rescue of four chickens from Perdue's Petaluma Poultry. Zoe was represented by Chris Carraway, of Animal Activist Legal Defense Project (@AALDP-DU.bsky.social), and attorney Kevin Little.
October 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Felony conspiracy for ***taking chickens worth $24***
Jarring to assimilate this news when not 24 hours before, we learned that the 2nd biggest breeder of dogs for animal experimentation in the US will close, which represents maybe DxE's greatest achievement ever
Jarring to assimilate this news when not 24 hours before, we learned that the 2nd biggest breeder of dogs for animal experimentation in the US will close, which represents maybe DxE's greatest achievement ever
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In v2 of our preprint on "Adversarial Reanalysis," Kelsey Ichikawa, @nicolecnelson.bsky.social, & added our take on Gold Standard Science as an example of how #OpenData challenges science's existing tools for self-governance
osf.io/preprints/me... #sts #metascience
osf.io/preprints/me... #sts #metascience
October 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
In v2 of our preprint on "Adversarial Reanalysis," Kelsey Ichikawa, @nicolecnelson.bsky.social, & added our take on Gold Standard Science as an example of how #OpenData challenges science's existing tools for self-governance
osf.io/preprints/me... #sts #metascience
osf.io/preprints/me... #sts #metascience
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This is a kindergarten in Kharkiv. Imagine bringing your child there in the morning — and then it’s struck by russia. Imagine the children, the teachers. And know that this is real — it’s happening every single day somewhere in Ukraine.
October 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM
This is a kindergarten in Kharkiv. Imagine bringing your child there in the morning — and then it’s struck by russia. Imagine the children, the teachers. And know that this is real — it’s happening every single day somewhere in Ukraine.
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Terrific explanation by @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social in @vox.com of why you don't have to worry about lead in your protein powder.
Setting unrealistic target levels for contaminants and then testing stuff and claiming it's unsafe has a long and storied history.
Setting unrealistic target levels for contaminants and then testing stuff and claiming it's unsafe has a long and storied history.
October 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Terrific explanation by @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social in @vox.com of why you don't have to worry about lead in your protein powder.
Setting unrealistic target levels for contaminants and then testing stuff and claiming it's unsafe has a long and storied history.
Setting unrealistic target levels for contaminants and then testing stuff and claiming it's unsafe has a long and storied history.
Everything you actually need to understand about the Consumer Reports protein powder report (threading a gift link!) -- plant-based protein powders are fine, and do not, ffs, allow them to push you to get whey protein
October 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Everything you actually need to understand about the Consumer Reports protein powder report (threading a gift link!) -- plant-based protein powders are fine, and do not, ffs, allow them to push you to get whey protein
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A new study from U of Michigan researchers finds that the diet footprint of cities varies by 3x, primarily driven by variation in where & how beef is sourced & produced. I'm skeptical though, and think that their methods exaggerated real world variation 🧵 1/N www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Column | Your diet’s impact on the planet depends on where you live. Look up your city.
What you eat, and where you eat it, can have a big impact on how much you’re contributing to climate change, according to a study published Monday.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM
A new study from U of Michigan researchers finds that the diet footprint of cities varies by 3x, primarily driven by variation in where & how beef is sourced & produced. I'm skeptical though, and think that their methods exaggerated real world variation 🧵 1/N www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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My new NYT essay is about the essence of Trumpism: Bailing out farmers who can’t sell soybeans to China because of his tariffs, while bailing out Argentina so it can sell more soybeans to China. It’s the economic equivalent of pardoning pals and prosecuting enemies.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/o...
Opinion | They’re Small, Yellow and Round — and Show How Trump’s Tariffs Don’t Work
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
My new NYT essay is about the essence of Trumpism: Bailing out farmers who can’t sell soybeans to China because of his tariffs, while bailing out Argentina so it can sell more soybeans to China. It’s the economic equivalent of pardoning pals and prosecuting enemies.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/o...
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"Whether we’re feeding it to pigs and chickens or trucks and tractors... Humans use too much soy, a magnificently productive crop, for perilously unproductive purposes." @mbolotnikova.bsky.social on how we've found the worst uses for the best bean 🫛
🎁 www.vox.com/future-perfe...
🎁 www.vox.com/future-perfe...
How soybeans took over America — and the world
This technology could feed a world of 10 billion. We’re squandering it, and the trade war with China could make it worse.
www.vox.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:18 AM
"Whether we’re feeding it to pigs and chickens or trucks and tractors... Humans use too much soy, a magnificently productive crop, for perilously unproductive purposes." @mbolotnikova.bsky.social on how we've found the worst uses for the best bean 🫛
🎁 www.vox.com/future-perfe...
🎁 www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Y'all will be hearing more from me about this "feminization of society" horseshit
October 16, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Y'all will be hearing more from me about this "feminization of society" horseshit