Paul Tullis
@tullis.bsky.social
journalist creating content since 1992
articles in NYT, Bloomberg, National Geographic, The Guardian, Wired, Scientific American, Nature, The Atlantic...
acknowledged in 7 books!
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Amsterdam
paultullis.net
articles in NYT, Bloomberg, National Geographic, The Guardian, Wired, Scientific American, Nature, The Atlantic...
acknowledged in 7 books!
[email protected]
Amsterdam
paultullis.net
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Paul Tullis
@tullis.bsky.social
· Nov 7
It’s Cool to Have No Followers Now
As social media has become older, more manipulable, and more automated by artificial intelligence, flouting online popularity has gained a new cachet.
www.newyorker.com
I'm totally owning this www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
If your politics are so extreme that only a very limited segment of people will work for you, and then you fire a ton of career experts without actually checking whether what they do is important, it should be pretty obvious that what's going to follow is incompetence.
February 12, 2026 at 9:32 AM
If your politics are so extreme that only a very limited segment of people will work for you, and then you fire a ton of career experts without actually checking whether what they do is important, it should be pretty obvious that what's going to follow is incompetence.
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New must-read @tullis.bsky.social feature @thebulletin.org: Mycorrhizal fungi networks supply plants with essential nutrients and water and help sequester carbon, but they're facing many threats. Why scientists are racing to understand—and protect—the biodiversity under our feet.
The underground network: Prehistoric fungi feed the world’s plants and resist climate change, but face an uncertain future
Trillions of miles of tiny fungal tubes embedded in soil transport nutrients to crops and other plants and fight climate change by storing carbon. Scientists are racing to understand how these fungi—i...
thebulletin.org
January 26, 2026 at 5:23 PM
New must-read @tullis.bsky.social feature @thebulletin.org: Mycorrhizal fungi networks supply plants with essential nutrients and water and help sequester carbon, but they're facing many threats. Why scientists are racing to understand—and protect—the biodiversity under our feet.
So apparently Pres. Dipshit's attempt to colonize a sovereign nation is now a "standoff"
January 17, 2026 at 7:00 PM
So apparently Pres. Dipshit's attempt to colonize a sovereign nation is now a "standoff"
If Nick Reiner is found unfit to stand trial by reason of mental incompetency, he'll go to a psych hospital until declared fit. Unless there aren't any beds-which happens ALL THE TIME, as I wrote for @TheAtlantic Then it's jail, likely w/o treatment www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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December 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
If Nick Reiner is found unfit to stand trial by reason of mental incompetency, he'll go to a psych hospital until declared fit. Unless there aren't any beds-which happens ALL THE TIME, as I wrote for @TheAtlantic Then it's jail, likely w/o treatment www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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I mean this emphasis on "richer" is just baffling. No one who visited Amsterdam and then Philadelphia would conclude that Philadelphia is in a "richer" country
Dissing European stagnation also raises a problem for Trumpist economics: the EU runs a trade surplus, the US a deficit, and Trumpists profess to believe that trade deficits make you poorer. If the US is much richer than Europe (it is!), that would seem to be false (it is!).
Luckily, economists have a way around this, which adjusts for purchasing-power (ie how many baguettes can you buy with that €1).
Do this and the EU looks all of a sudden much better. It's in effect keeping up with America rather well in fact.
Do this and the EU looks all of a sudden much better. It's in effect keeping up with America rather well in fact.
December 13, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I mean this emphasis on "richer" is just baffling. No one who visited Amsterdam and then Philadelphia would conclude that Philadelphia is in a "richer" country
Anticipatory obedience
www.jta.org/2025/12/10/p...
www.jta.org/2025/12/10/p...
December 13, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Anticipatory obedience
www.jta.org/2025/12/10/p...
www.jta.org/2025/12/10/p...
How Impoverished People Selling Their Blood Fuels Drug Profits
My latest, for Bloomberg Businessweek
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
My latest, for Bloomberg Businessweek
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
December 4, 2025 at 11:38 AM
How Impoverished People Selling Their Blood Fuels Drug Profits
My latest, for Bloomberg Businessweek
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
My latest, for Bloomberg Businessweek
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NBER researchers forced to do the work of an Econ 101 midterm to teach numbskull Trump voters what tariffs do to their wallets. "Tariff costs were gradually but steadily transmitted to US consumers" www.nber.org/papers/w34496
November 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
NBER researchers forced to do the work of an Econ 101 midterm to teach numbskull Trump voters what tariffs do to their wallets. "Tariff costs were gradually but steadily transmitted to US consumers" www.nber.org/papers/w34496
Last week was not the first time Tanzania's government violently repressed its people, as I reported for @bw in 2023 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
November 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Last week was not the first time Tanzania's government violently repressed its people, as I reported for @bw in 2023 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
"I'm not responsible for what comes out of my own mouth" should be the slogan of the Republican Party
November 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"I'm not responsible for what comes out of my own mouth" should be the slogan of the Republican Party
Exactly right. The deal they got was almost the same deal that was on the table 40 days ago- a promise from a completely unreliable partner to do something later, and bring back the laid-off fed employees (who wouldn't have been laid off with no shutdown). Oh yay no 50% cut at the GAO. Pathetic.
So after all of this, the Dems got a deal that is just a promise of a vote on ACA subsidies in December that isn't guaranteed to pass. Absolute chickenshit stuff from senate Democrats. They couldn't even get the thing they were asking for.
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Exactly right. The deal they got was almost the same deal that was on the table 40 days ago- a promise from a completely unreliable partner to do something later, and bring back the laid-off fed employees (who wouldn't have been laid off with no shutdown). Oh yay no 50% cut at the GAO. Pathetic.
I'm totally owning this www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
It’s Cool to Have No Followers Now
As social media has become older, more manipulable, and more automated by artificial intelligence, flouting online popularity has gained a new cachet.
www.newyorker.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I'm totally owning this www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
You missed my only newsletter of 2025, and you are despondent. Fret not! You can read it (and subscribe to future editions) here: paultullis.net/so/b1P4JdLx4...
November 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
You missed my only newsletter of 2025, and you are despondent. Fret not! You can read it (and subscribe to future editions) here: paultullis.net/so/b1P4JdLx4...
As I wrote last month in @motherjones.com (with @moranb.bsky.social), Israel is pushing forward a bill to advance govt control of news media www.pressreader.com/israel/jerus...
November 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
As I wrote last month in @motherjones.com (with @moranb.bsky.social), Israel is pushing forward a bill to advance govt control of news media www.pressreader.com/israel/jerus...
I always thought Substack was the new version of magazines asking you to write for free because instead they'd give you "exposure" and now the always brilliant Ana Marie Cox has articulated for me what the newsletter subscription model means for journalists
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patro...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patro...
Patron-Supported Journalism Can’t Be the Future of News
Writing about the failure of patron-supported journalism is itself a kind of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I always thought Substack was the new version of magazines asking you to write for free because instead they'd give you "exposure" and now the always brilliant Ana Marie Cox has articulated for me what the newsletter subscription model means for journalists
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patro...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patro...
A logistics hub under the Champs-Elysees--crazy, right? But if done correctly it could reduce traffic congestion and GHG emissions. Paris is about to find out.
My latest, for Bloomberg CityLab
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
My latest, for Bloomberg CityLab
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
The Retail Storage Hiding Under the Champs-Elysees
As parking lots empty out in Paris's city center, retail logistics hubs are moving in. From there, goods can be transported a short distance by bike.
www.bloomberg.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
A logistics hub under the Champs-Elysees--crazy, right? But if done correctly it could reduce traffic congestion and GHG emissions. Paris is about to find out.
My latest, for Bloomberg CityLab
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
My latest, for Bloomberg CityLab
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Because Israel had achieved its objectives and Putin has not, duh
October 22, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Because Israel had achieved its objectives and Putin has not, duh
Percentage of new electricity capacity installed in 2022 that was renewable:
83
in 2023: 86%
in 2024: 92.5%
column by @christianstoecker.de
www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...
83
in 2023: 86%
in 2024: 92.5%
column by @christianstoecker.de
www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...
Meinung: Energiewende: Diese Fakten werden Ihr Weltbild verändern
Auch gut informierte Menschen in diesem Land haben eine massiv verzerrte Vorstellung davon, wie sich die Welt gerade entwickelt. Gehören Sie dazu?
www.spiegel.de
October 20, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Percentage of new electricity capacity installed in 2022 that was renewable:
83
in 2023: 86%
in 2024: 92.5%
column by @christianstoecker.de
www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...
83
in 2023: 86%
in 2024: 92.5%
column by @christianstoecker.de
www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...
If so many people hated Biden's policies so much, how come they never managed to draw 7 million people to a protest? #nokings
List of protests and demonstrations in the United States by size - Wikipedia share.google/gcZm8Kh8nIXV...
List of protests and demonstrations in the United States by size - Wikipedia share.google/gcZm8Kh8nIXV...
List of protests and demonstrations in the United States by size - Wikipedia
share.google
October 19, 2025 at 9:27 AM
If so many people hated Biden's policies so much, how come they never managed to draw 7 million people to a protest? #nokings
List of protests and demonstrations in the United States by size - Wikipedia share.google/gcZm8Kh8nIXV...
List of protests and demonstrations in the United States by size - Wikipedia share.google/gcZm8Kh8nIXV...
Reposted by Paul Tullis
4. "Israeli Media’s Distorted View of the War in Gaza,"
@moranb.bsky.social @tullis.bsky.social @motherjones.com
"Barkai and Tullis introduce Ronen Argov as a rare voice of dissent against the Israeli media’s dominant narrative of the war."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
@moranb.bsky.social @tullis.bsky.social @motherjones.com
"Barkai and Tullis introduce Ronen Argov as a rare voice of dissent against the Israeli media’s dominant narrative of the war."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Israeli media's distorted view of the war in Gaza
While global news showed a humanitarian disaster, most outlets in Israel remained silent.
www.motherjones.com
October 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
4. "Israeli Media’s Distorted View of the War in Gaza,"
@moranb.bsky.social @tullis.bsky.social @motherjones.com
"Barkai and Tullis introduce Ronen Argov as a rare voice of dissent against the Israeli media’s dominant narrative of the war."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
@moranb.bsky.social @tullis.bsky.social @motherjones.com
"Barkai and Tullis introduce Ronen Argov as a rare voice of dissent against the Israeli media’s dominant narrative of the war."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Reposted by Paul Tullis
When the media blinks first and a government goes unchecked, you can expect the worst.
The piece I wrote, together with @tullis.bsky.social for @motherjones.com about how this disaster looks in Israel and the consequences for Gaza.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The piece I wrote, together with @tullis.bsky.social for @motherjones.com about how this disaster looks in Israel and the consequences for Gaza.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Israeli media's distorted view of the war in Gaza
While global news showed a humanitarian disaster, most outlets in Israel remained silent.
www.motherjones.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
When the media blinks first and a government goes unchecked, you can expect the worst.
The piece I wrote, together with @tullis.bsky.social for @motherjones.com about how this disaster looks in Israel and the consequences for Gaza.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The piece I wrote, together with @tullis.bsky.social for @motherjones.com about how this disaster looks in Israel and the consequences for Gaza.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
As Israel pulls back from Gaza, many are asking: What took so long? One explanation is that Israeli citizens didn't see the war the rest of the world saw
My latest, in @MotherJones
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
My latest, in @MotherJones
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Israeli media's distorted view of the war in Gaza
While global news showed a humanitarian disaster, most outlets in Israel remained silent.
www.motherjones.com
October 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
As Israel pulls back from Gaza, many are asking: What took so long? One explanation is that Israeli citizens didn't see the war the rest of the world saw
My latest, in @MotherJones
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
My latest, in @MotherJones
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Chickens now grow 400% faster than before, causing a lof of suffering. Just two companies – Aviagen & Cobb-Vantress - control the genetics of 95% of chickens worldwide. They downplay or ignore the benefits of slower-growing breeds. Read more: t.ly/hE7fQ
#AnimalWelfare #earthinvestigations
#AnimalWelfare #earthinvestigations
October 9, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Chickens now grow 400% faster than before, causing a lof of suffering. Just two companies – Aviagen & Cobb-Vantress - control the genetics of 95% of chickens worldwide. They downplay or ignore the benefits of slower-growing breeds. Read more: t.ly/hE7fQ
#AnimalWelfare #earthinvestigations
#AnimalWelfare #earthinvestigations
Genetic selection for chickens' fast growth-3x faster than 75 years ago-led to painful lameness, disease & deformity. EU scientists say slower=better & NGOs are pushing for abandoning fast-growth breeds, but industry resists. My latest for @bloomberglp.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
How Generations of Selective Breeding Created Miserable Chickens
Genetic selection has made “probably the biggest animal welfare problem we have in all animal husbandry.”
www.bloomberg.com
October 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Genetic selection for chickens' fast growth-3x faster than 75 years ago-led to painful lameness, disease & deformity. EU scientists say slower=better & NGOs are pushing for abandoning fast-growth breeds, but industry resists. My latest for @bloomberglp.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Great day training training scientists @maxplanck.de Institute for Animal Behaviour with thought leadership writing trainer Rhea Wessel.
As I once heard Branford Marsalis say when he was opening for Sonny Rollins @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, I love it and I get a gig and a lesson on the same day
As I once heard Branford Marsalis say when he was opening for Sonny Rollins @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, I love it and I get a gig and a lesson on the same day
October 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Great day training training scientists @maxplanck.de Institute for Animal Behaviour with thought leadership writing trainer Rhea Wessel.
As I once heard Branford Marsalis say when he was opening for Sonny Rollins @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, I love it and I get a gig and a lesson on the same day
As I once heard Branford Marsalis say when he was opening for Sonny Rollins @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, I love it and I get a gig and a lesson on the same day