Monday Edition
In the last 2 weeks, 4 science magazines shut down, sold, or lost funding
Also: Avi Loeb to head White House UFO committee, overworked ERC peer reviewers, Anthropic's push for AI in science, and more from last week
Rant
Pluto is MAGA's favorite "planet" for a reason
Jared Isaacman's Pluto push is a master class in science populism
Science Communication
About "to" and "around" the Moon
Technically correct is not, in fact, the best kind of correct in scicomm
Science Communication
Pop science doesn't reach a "general audience"
Pop sci readers are wealthy, educated, and left-leaning
Opinion
True fictions
The storytelling instinct conjures illusions of consensus in science
Satire
The Loeb Scale for science PR disasters
The Loeb Scale measures the severity of science PR disasters from typos to fraud