Katherine Harmon Courage

Personal-professional news: I've jumped ship from freelancing to join the fine crew at @NautilusMag as Deputy Editor! Related: Pitch me your big-idea science stories. No news hook? No problem. Bring us something amazing to think about: nautil.us/about-us. DM me for details

And grateful to have gotten my start as an editor for @voxdotcom when I jumped on as a freelance editor and reporter at the start of the pandemic

Thrilled to get to work with the incredibly talented and smart group.

Delighted to report I've joined @voxdotcom's Future Perfect team!

@PeterBrannen1 Hooray! And congratulations! I'm so glad we got to publish an excerpt of it at @NautilusMag--just terrific, as always! nautil.us/when-our-world…

Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book/It took me years to write, will you take a look?

As sea level rises faster in the U.S. Southeast, I wondered: How *can* sea levels rise more in some places than others? @DangendorfSonke explained his new @NatureComms findings for me: nautil.us/why-is-sea-lev… Takeaway: The oceans don't behave like a bathtub! In @NautilusMag

A sinkhole is expanding again in one Texas town: npr.org/2023/04/11/116…

Spring is here, the crocuses are emerging from the snow, and @TheWebbyAwards have nominated for best writing @S_Praetorius's incredible story of how the earth is losing its memory. So as the chickadees hop from branch to branch sweetly reminding, do vote vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/…

NPR is not state affiliated media. It is public media. The NYT is not propaganda. It is the most robust news organization in the English speaking world. The bias as to who is being targeted on this site by its leadership is so very clear. And it’s not a small thing.

Does GPT-4 Really Understand What We’re Saying? nautil.us/does-gpt-4-rea…

Of all kids 0-14 years-old worldwide who are injured by guns, 87% live in the US. In fact, gun injury is the leading cause of death among children and adolescents in the US. This is a public health tragedy, why are we not outraged and doing something meaningful about it?

@rachelegross @NautilusMag Quiz: Which early mass-produced book "is chock full of vulvas"? @rachelegross talked with @drzdilla to find out

A fabulous and important story by @rachelegross about the importance of language--and how we can make our way through the fog and clearly define essential female anatomy. Honored to have gotten to work on it with her: nautil.us/why-doctors-ca… in @NautilusMag

Hellloooooo 🦑🐙 It's that time of year again! Are you a #cephalopod expert living in/near the LA, Houston, Miami or Atlanta area? Interested in spreading your tentacles into the outreach world at events? I'm booking for @scifri #CephalopodWeek! DM or email me + spread the word

@yannicrack These look excellent! Thank you! Onto the list they go

@KHCourage Slightly different McPhee, but loved Coming into the Country, all about Alaska. When it comes to general nonfiction also have to recommend The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt if you haven't read it!

Very sad to have finally finished reading Annals of the Former World last night. Just so good. Recommendations for a next book to read?

@tyghe Ooh, thank you! Been meaning to finally get to a KSR book

I am now obsessed with this time I hadn't known about: "when the giant planets went dynamically unstable." Also with the adorable little rocks known as "planetesimals" (which could also absolutely destroy us)

@NautilusMag @KHCourage "Catastrophic forgetting " the best or worst type of forgetting?

It's only Monday, but I challenge you to find a bolder statement from this week: "I am convinced that attending to snail biogeography and evolution is particularly important at our present juncture." -@tvdooren nautil.us/how-snails-cro…