Rant
Pluto is MAGA's favorite "planet" for a reason
Jared Isaacman's Pluto push is a master class in science populism
Elise Cutts
Elise Cutts is a science journalist and former geobiologist. She is the author of Reviewer, too.
I want to do more than write science entertainment
Let's talk about science, science communication, and how knowledge matters
TLDR
Who gets the job? Here's how computers could help catch unfair rankings
I am weirdly hopeful that it could be easier to notice biased AI than biased humans?
Science Communication
About "to" and "around" the Moon
Technically correct is not, in fact, the best kind of correct in scicomm
TLDR
AI-generated science is now "good enough"
The "AI Scientist" is mediocre and uninspired. Don't dismiss it.
Q&A
How do social movements win?
Timo Damm blends qualitative and quantitative research to understand how small groups push for change
TLDR
You and a frog might have the same taste in music
Citizen science revealed a shared "taste for the beautiful" across species
Science in Society
Are the Stardew Valley wiki authors scientists?
Science is the generational project of finding out true things about the real world — and that project needs catalogers
TLDR
The asteroid Ryugu contains every letter of the genetic alphabet
This is awesome, but does not mean life fell to Earth from space
TLDR
Stingers and spikes across nature have the same shape. Here's why.
Not everything in biology evolved for a purpose.
Artificial Intelligence
Networks are math squares disguised as drawings
This is why neural networks are linear algebra under the hood
TLDR
A tiny scrap of the genetic molecule RNA can *almost* copy itself.
Here's what it means for the origin of life