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Meghan Bartels

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News reporter at @sciam.bsky.social (posts are my fault). Book person, cat person, etc. Georgetown alumna, SHERP34. In NYC. Signal: mbartels.07. she/her http://meghanbartels.github.io/portfolio/

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Meghan Bartels @meghanbartels.bsky.social · Jul 15

Amid bird flu fears about egg prices, viral milk and human pandemic risks, there's a piece missing--the impact on wildlife, which I covered for @sciam.bsky.social : 🧪 🪶 www.scientificamerican.com/article/bird...

The Bird Flu Story No One Is Telling

Bird flu fears have focused on the poultry and dairy industries and human health. But wild animals are threatened, too—at scales no one fully understands

www.scientificamerican.com

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Meghan Bartels @meghanbartels.bsky.social · 16h

Doctor’s orders!!!

Meghan Bartels @meghanbartels.bsky.social · 16h

It’s the year of our lord 2025. Everyone seeing this post grinds their teeth at night. Probably during the day, too!

Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 16h

Do you grind your teeth at night? Even if you do, you might not know.

Do you grind your teeth at night? Here’s what to do

www.theguardian.com

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Ryan Quinn @ryanequinn.bsky.social · 20h

Hey, I'm an @insidehighered.com reporter writing today about how the ongoing shutdown may be affecting, or about to affect, university research. If you have a story to share, please DM me or email [email protected] today. Thank you.

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 21h

As the guy in the White House has recently insisted, today is Columbus Day. What to do about it, given Indigenous peoples’ entirely merited dislike of the whole thing? A couple-three ideas that I've been thinking about. 1/

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Meghan Bartels @meghanbartels.bsky.social · 22h

Trying to freeze summer as aesthetically as possible.

A square paper towel covered in individual basil leaves arranged tightly together

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Arlyssa D. Becenti @abecenti.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous People’s Day!!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Meghan Bartels @meghanbartels.bsky.social · 1d

Noooooooo

Meghan Bartels @meghanbartels.bsky.social · 1d

16 seconds that your recording hopefully preserved!!!

Meghan Bartels @meghanbartels.bsky.social · 1d

The recording didn’t work.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 3d

Journalist here

I’m interested in talking to a federal agency scientist who was fired, then rehired. I can keep you anonymous. I’m on Signal ginnyg.04

Reposts are appreciated!

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Meghan Bartels @meghanbartels.bsky.social · 3d

What a truly delightful piece of research!! 🧪

Silvia Pineda-Munoz, PhD - Climate Ages @climateages.bsky.social · 3d

A 126,000-year-old butt-drag just made fossil history.
A tiny rock hyrax scooted across the sand of ancient South Africa, and that moment was preserved in stone.

Even the smallest acts can echo through time.
🧪 #SciComm
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The 126,000-Year-Old Butt-Drag That Rewrote What Counts as a Fossil

How a small animal’s odd habit turned into one of the most unexpected stories ever preserved in stone Some discoveries make headlines because they’re dramatic: new...

climateages.com

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Meghan Bartels @meghanbartels.bsky.social · 3d

RIGHT?!? I will 1000% be citing this next time I am called out for bad table manners.

Meghan Bartels @meghanbartels.bsky.social · 3d

My brilliant colleague came up with it!!

Meghan Bartels @meghanbartels.bsky.social · 3d

My favorite quote from my version of the story: “They’re basically screaming with their mouths full”!!! I love them SO MUCH, Bethany!! www.scientificamerican.com/article/this...

Bat vs. Robin—Scientists Capture Real-Life Audio of Midair Hunt

Scientists suspected that Europe’s largest bats snack on migrating songbirds when they can, but a stunning newly published observation proves it

www.scientificamerican.com

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Meghan Bartels @meghanbartels.bsky.social · 3d

Jeffrey Kuhlman has been on the medical team of five different presidents, and in this great interview shares his experience with the White House: 🧪

Lauren J. Young @laurenjyoung.bsky.social · 3d

On today's Science Quickly, I interviewed a former White House doctor about the president's care, aging and more: "It is a fact of science, it's not a political attack, that humans past the age of 60... start to have cognitive decline."

"We have a gerontocracy."

Listen on @sciam.bsky.social 🎧

Transforming Presidential Health Care: Insights from a Former White House Doctor

A former White House physician reveals the medical realities of caring for the president of the U.S.

www.scientificamerican.com

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 3d

1. Scientists flossed mice. And delivered a vaccine through the floss!

2. This could mean people could self administer vaccines, something vital in a pandemic.

3. Ok but wait you want me to FLOSS!? Like let's not get wild here...

www.sciencenews.org/article/flos...