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Sally James
@jamesian.bsky.social
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Science journalist. Yoga teacher. I'm an "indirect cost" writing for researchers at times.
More at https://seattlesciencewriter.com
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Raise your hand if you peeled 5 lbs of 🥔 today. #feast #family #cooking #maker ahead. Corn pudding + taters done. Green salad + stuffing still on list.
November 26, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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I'm getting a preview of a new play, "Life on the Moon," from playwright Anna Tatelman tonight at ReAct in SODO.
Produced by Baker Theater Workshop.
Will be writing my story for @soseaemerald.bsky.social
#new #play
www.eventbrite.com/e/life-on-th...
A painting of a green house with a red roof and the moon full behind it in the sky at dusk. The words "Life on the Moon" By Anna Tatelman.
November 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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No pressure. A guide to #salmon from Ray Troll.
November 12, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Hey #PNW, the @sciencewriters.org meeting next NOV is in Corvallis, OR. Hosts include @oregonstate.edu
#sciwri26
Travel dream - a "private car" on Amtrak bringing all the #seattle folks south
@nswa.bsky.social
sciencewriters2025.org/next-year/
November 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Everything lined up for my 7-year-old friend to watch #concrete crew in #Seattle. The drama of construction kept her engaged. #transportation
A child with blonde hair sits on concrete stairs of house watching workers prepare to pour new concrete in street.
November 5, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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It is #pear season. #orchard
7 pears are in a bar in a cartoon. The caption is "pear pressure"
November 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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A long time, yes, but now lab-grown #sunflower stars are being introduced by the Samish tribe on Guemes Island. Might mean other areas can grow them. Visited scientists at Friday Harbor labs. Photo shows UW scientist Jason Hodin and some stars set loose Oct. 29th.
October 30, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Scientists needed a way to identify 1 radial creature from another among #sunflower stars. Imagine clock face on each star. Number the legs based on a DOT that each star has. Moving clockwise from DOT, first LEG from is 1, next is 2, and so on. #echinoderms #radial
A tank with sunflower stars (marine creatures) Might be as many as 15. They are bunched together, overlapping each other. Color is variable from deep orange to more crimson.
October 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Huge thanks to Jason Hodin + UW marine laboratory. Now fascinated with madroporite, my new #echinoderm vocabulary word. He is pointing at lab-grown stars headed to Guemes Island. #samish #indigenous #seastar #restoration @fridayharbor.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Here is a sperm #whale, made of pages of "Moby Dick" hanging from a ceiling. @fridayharbor.bsky.social At a marine laboratory.
Where it wasn't on my bingo card.
#research #uw #fridayharbor
Part of a paper mache whale made of pages from "Moby Dick" hanging from a ceiling of research lab in Friday Harbor. Washington.
October 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Yes, it can be October and puffy white clouds. @fridayharbor.bsky.social
Thank you @nswa.bsky.social for our field trip to Friday Harbor labs. #invertebrates #echinoderms #eyes
7 rowboats rest on a dock with open water behind them. The boats are all different colors, including a red one. Beyond the dock is a point of land with trees.
October 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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As a current rehab of TKR, I know some of that complicated ambition. With the new knee, hoping to return to high-impact sports when I wish. Not that I need to ski, but... maybe. Maybe.
#totalkneereplacement #knee #rehab
October 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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You know you are old when someone dies, and you immediately want to call someone about it. And they are also gone. #grief #community
October 18, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Sometimes the dark humor almost compensates for the losses. Below, part of a cartoon by Miriam Jayaratna + Wendi Aarons in @thenewyorker.bsky.social reimagining Disney without #vaccines.
October 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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For my #birding commty. @ebrrh.bsky.social @inaturalist.bsky.social
#birder #pnw
#paleo #dinosaurs
A cartoon shows a pterodactyl flying towards a couple. The woman says " This can't be right - my app says it's an American tree sparrow."
September 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Among the generous + eloquent speakers @wsna.bsky.social president Justin Gill, @meadekrosby.bsky.social on climate, @irahyman.bsky.social on misinformation @seattlescienceguy.bsky.social on journalism and hope.. and many others. Is the ominous sky symnbolic?
A man in khaki pants and blue shirt stands at a lectern in front of a red sign that reads "Stand Up, Speak Out." He is talking at a rally for Stand Up for Science and Mobilize Wallingford and DeFund Musk at the Seattle Waterfront on Sept 14, 2025. His name is Michael Bradbury.
September 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Hooray for @sufsseattle.bsky.social and others Standing for Science today at #Seattle #waterfront
September 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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It sounds sort of like a #seattle cliche, but I have to teach yoga that day at noon. (but think I'll arrive closer to 2 or 2:15 )
September 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Go @soundersfc.com Go fathers. Go brothers. Go babies. #soccer
September 1, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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i just learned about #ForestFriday #bloomscrolling crossover.
A tree full of leaves is highlighted by sunlight coming late in the day, so perpendicular to the tree's trunk. The side of the trunk is lit brightly, but one part left in shadow.
August 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Go see #ice caves near #GraniteFalls. The bowl they sit in is #geologic wonder. Full of sedimentary rock tilted later. And wetland nearby. #hiking
Steep rock cliffs with triangle of snow in center. Three ice caves visible at ice bottom.
August 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Freaking out because a friend says "it's already August. August is the Sunday night of the calendar year."
Is she serious? November is the Sunday night...or Dec. 15th is Sunday night. 📆 Let's torture this metaphor. What is the "sunday night" of your calendar year?
A narrow dirt path leads away from us through tall green grass. A blue sky is visible on the horizon.
August 14, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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We can't know what the fish is thinking, but the 4-year-old knows that someone is on the other side of the glass. @seattleaquarium.bsky.social
Priceless. #ocean #science #education
an orange fish in an aquarium tank looks at a little girl who has her hand pressed against the glass. Girl's hair but not her face are visible.
August 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Being a science #journalist. This resonates. #vibe #spin #yeast
Comic illustration shows two cartoon loaves of bread. "Why does bread rise?" If your mom is Motessori teacher "the dough is breathing happy sighs" and if shes science journalist "we are making tiny creatures reproduce and feasting on their corpses"
August 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Does it feel like you are seeing "experts" quoted as saying opposing things? #health #news #literacy #sciwri
August 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM