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Decode the universe. A popular science magazine, writer-owned forever. From @goesbykim.bsky.social‬ @maxlevy.bsky.social @dsamorod.bsky.social and @maddiebender.bsky.social

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A million billion trillion thanks to @hanner.bsky.social for editing and truly helping craft this piece with me from the ground up. We published this in 2024 and it remains one of my personal favorites 💗
November 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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It's pub day!! The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2025 is out. I'm thrilled to appear with @sequencermag.bsky.social alongside many talented writers whose work I revere. Including the pieces in this anthology

Get a copy from an indie store to support the series
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October 22, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Today on the site we have three new pieces all about wolves, led by an essay from @maxlevy.bsky.social that weaves together two notable books.

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What we learn in the footsteps of wolves
Up close and personal with nature's notoriously elusive carnivore.
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October 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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The story (the essay that accompanies the newsletter) was a labor of love and felt destined to come out at the time. Thanks to Shi En Kim for the edits and @sequencermag.bsky.social
mentorship program!
October 15, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Today on the site we have three new pieces all about wolves, led by an essay from @maxlevy.bsky.social that weaves together two notable books.

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What we learn in the footsteps of wolves
Up close and personal with nature's notoriously elusive carnivore.
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October 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Hey read this @sequencermag.bsky.social piece (and the essay it links to) for some really good insight re: the supposed Tylenol and autism link.
Newsletter Sept. 25, 2025: Tylenol misogyny
“To the woman he said, 'I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.'” - Gen...
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October 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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BONESHAKER BOOKS IS MOVING! And we need your help! After 14 years the stalwart volunteer-run bookstore @boneshakerbooks.bsky.social is moving from Seward to Uptown* and has a fundraiser to get us across town. Perks include prints, totes, and your name on the wall!

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Help Boneshaker Move to Our New Home!
After fourteen years in our current space, we have made the decision that it’s time for Boneshaker Books to move. While we treasure the time we've spent in Seward, and will miss existing as a communit...
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October 3, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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NEWS: Boneshaker Books is moving! And we need your help to pull it off! We are looking to raise $15,000 to get us there and set up. $6,000 of that needs to be raised by 10/17. Please share! Radical bookstores forever! @boneshakerbooks.bsky.social

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Help Boneshaker Move to Our New Home!
After fourteen years in our current space, we have made the decision that it’s time for Boneshaker Books to move. While we treasure the time we've spent in Seward, and will miss existing as a communit...
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October 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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September 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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NY subway platforms feel hot as hell in the summer.

Meet Jack Klein, the guy who stealthily collects data about New York’s hottest days underground.

🚇New in @sequencermag.bsky.social

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The covert project to (finally) measure hellish subway heat
Meet Jack Klein, the guy who stealthily collects data about New York’s hottest days underground.
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September 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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@sequencermag.bsky.social is on Ghost!

They're a writer-owned publication run by science journalists @goesbykim.bsky.social, @maxlevy.bsky.social, @dsamorod.bsky.social, and @maddiebender.bsky.social

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Decode the universe. A writer-owned popular science magazine
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September 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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"How do we connect with nature? Fleeting thoughts for a fleeting summer" was a thoughtful post by Max Levy that I read today in my newsletter from Sequencer Magazine.
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Decode the universe. A writer-owned popular science magazine
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August 22, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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When will the law cover the rights of cyborgs? New piece on Sequencer, live now:

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Cyborg rights depend on new and better legal protections
Law and policy scholars consider whether pacemakers powered by the users themselves can resist corporate control, and how far the augmentation of the human body extends into the law.
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August 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Do cyborgs have rights? When an airline damages a prosthetic, is that bodily harm or property damage? Another fascinating banger from Haley McAllister, up now @sequencermag.bsky.social

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Cyborg rights depend on new and better legal protections
Law and policy scholars consider whether pacemakers powered by the users themselves can resist corporate control, and how far the augmentation of the human body extends into the law.
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August 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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"A couple months ago, while I was thumbing through old magazines at a record shop, I landed on a gem. “Learning To Love the Computer” emblazoned the cover of Nutshell magazine, a now-defunct periodical for college students," writes @maxlevy.bsky.social

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What AI can actually do to your critical thinking skills
Chatbots won't obliterate everyone's critical thinking. Lessons from the past tech revolutions and today’s experts signal how to protect your mind.
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July 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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"A couple months ago, while I was thumbing through old magazines at a record shop, I landed on a gem. “Learning To Love the Computer” emblazoned the cover of Nutshell magazine, a now-defunct periodical for college students," writes @maxlevy.bsky.social

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What AI can actually do to your critical thinking skills
Chatbots won't obliterate everyone's critical thinking. Lessons from the past tech revolutions and today’s experts signal how to protect your mind.
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July 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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maxlevy.bsky.social
Clouds play an important role regulating the climate. To incorporate clouds into climate models scientists are learning more about the *biology* of clouds: studies of plants, plankton & organics flung up by sea spray.

Major thanks @joespring.bsky.social for edits on this

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Scientists Are Just Beginning to Understand How Life Makes Clouds, and Their Discoveries May Drastically Improve Climate Science
Plants, plankton and sea spray all release elements that help the atmospheric blankets form
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June 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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At Standing Rock, the FBI had 10+ inside informants. The pipeline's security company used Iraq War tactics. Modern disinfo tactics were rampant.

For @sequencermag.bsky.social I talked with @alleenbrown.bsky.social of @drilledmedia.bsky.social about misinfo and the legacy of Standing Rock.
"Drilled" goes deep on fossil fuel industry misinformation and the legacy of Standing Rock
Investigative journalist Alleen Brown, the host of the podcast's 12th season, spoke with Sequencer about the how energy companies use misinformation in courtrooms and the court of public opinion.
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June 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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If you've ever read a book review on Sequencer and wondered, "hey, where can I buy this book?" don't worry, we've got you covered: buy it on our Bookshop storefront!

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June 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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If you're not subscribed to @sequencermag.bsky.social's newsletter, you should be! Get another 2,000 words sent directly to your inbox, with a fun picture of me dancing with my friends:
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June 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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New on @sequencermag.bsky.social: medical device makers have a long history of stranding patients or straight up killing them with poorly manufactured batteries. A new kind of pacemaker, powered by the heart itself, could last a lifetime and free patients. From our mentee, Haley McAllister:
A heart-powered pacemaker could free patients from the grips of medical device makers
Engineers in South Korea developed a battery-free pacemaker powered by the beating of the heart that could, potentially, last a lifetime.
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June 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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I wrote about a personal belief of mine for @sequencermag.bsky.social: that life-extension people, and by extension a lot of biofuturists who promise the world but ultimately are just selling something, are hacks. Be a bioluddite instead.

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Who even wants to live forever?
Centuries of scientists, physicians, and con men have tried to sell the idea of radically extending life beyond what medicine and good hygiene can achieve. Don’t believe them.
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June 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Now that people are talking to/about AI as if they're people, is the internet going to have to switch to serif fonts?

Lower case "L" and capital "I" look identical. And people use chatbots for therapy and itineraries.

"I asked AI for advice"

Alex? Claude? Albert? ChatGPT????
June 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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In true Sequencer fashion, I wrote something about something that seems silly but really isn't that silly IMO!!

Maybe season 3 of The Rehearsal can be in an operating room...

Read a report from my little field trip here:
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The Innovative Way Surgeons Rehearse
Surgical simulations are about more than just practicing fine motor skills.
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June 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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NEW: "If you then read in a newspaper about human rights abuses happening in Nauru, you're implicated against your will... Your body is a part of that story."

@maxlevy.bsky.social speaks with Jack Lohmann about his book, WHITE LIGHT

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On Fear, Death, and Phosphorus
Author Jack Lohmann speaks to Sequencer about the complicated story of phosphorus: “There might be little pieces of Nauru in your teeth.”
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May 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM