Nell Greenfieldboyce / is on Nostr

General science correspondent at NPR…I report on a wide range of subjects such as #astronomy #biology #geology #zoology #NASA #planetaryscience etc plus #diversity in #science and science policy. My print stories appear on NPR.org and audio on All Things Considered and Morning Edition, plus the podcast Short Wave

Last Notes

2024-08-11 19:25:24

Don’t forget to check out the Perseid meteor shower tonight!!! If there’s clouds just try tomorrow
#astronomy #meteors #science #nature
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/08/g-s1-15805/perseid-meteor-shower-how-to-watch-perseids-peak

2024-07-24 03:11:17

A sudden hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone sent tourists running and damaged the boardwalk—amazing video of the massive black cloud of the debris
#science #geology #nature
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/23/nx-s1-5049944/hydrothermal-explosion-yellowstone-national-park

2024-07-19 14:16:56

Towering freak waves can endanger ships at sea...now researchers show that 3 out of 4 rogue waves can be predicted with 5 minutes warning, using buoy data and machine learning
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/18/nx-s1-5041762/rogue-waves-deadly-computer-program-predicts-advance-warning
#ocean #science #navy #AI #physics

2024-07-06 14:55:00

This fearful alley cat would not let me touch her even though I’d been feeding her for like a year. It was only after I gave up on even trying to pet her that she became trusting and cuddly.
#caturday
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/740/110/838/842/923/original/2fb6c53cb75681ce.jpg

2024-07-01 14:54:56

I was just on a beach vacation and a "baby shark" washed up on shore, causing little children to shriek, and this lady got up from her beach chair, dashed to the shark, grabbed it in her bare hands, threw it back into the water, returned to her chair and picked her book back up and resumed reading. I was deeply impressed at her instant and nonchalant response.
#sharks #beach #ocean

2024-06-21 13:55:00

This is an amazing in-depth story full of astonishing details about that doomed private submarine
#engineering #science #ocean #journalism
https://www.wired.com/story/titan-submersible-disaster-inside-story-oceangate-files/

2024-05-09 12:22:18

The NYT had an interesting article about AI friends and this photo caption—❤️🙂. As a writer I so love photo captions, subheds, the little bits and pieces that someone drafted with love and care and so much humanity—their brevity can encapture pathos, humor, profundity. I assume AI will be writing them soon, if not already. #journalism #writing #ai #newspaper #nyt
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/411/076/900/926/818/original/bed0d540e0aeda3e.jpeg

2023-08-23 19:53:17

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Why do thousands of deep-sea octopuses congregate two miles below the surface, at the base of an underwater mountain off California? Researchers now think they know the secret behind this real-life octopus garden, the largest known gathering of deep-sea octopuses on Earth....
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/23/1195028955/heres-why-6-000-octopuses-like-to-be-under-the-sea-at-an-octopus-garden
#science #octopuses #ocean #marinebiology #conservation #nature #beatles