Katie L. Burke is also @klburke.bsky.social

I am thrilled to unveil @AmSciMag's inaugural digital-first #interactive feature about wood duck nesting & social networking. There are cute ducklings. There are hen fights. There is a duck that lays an egg on the back of another duck. So many quirky duck tales. And so much more.

How do PhD scientists who want to live outside of research hubs do it? @_klburke reports. go.nature.com/4iiSrjD

A photograph of a small great white shark made headlines, but for the wrong reasons. The coolest aspect of the study was missed. Read more: americanscientist.org/blog/macroscop…

Women, gender minorities, and children are most likely to be exposed to endocrine disruptors because of the products they are more likely to use. Discover more: americanscientist.org/article/how-en…

"The share of people who live 50 or more miles from where they work rose sevenfold during the pandemic, climbing to 5.5 percent in 2023 from 0.8 percent in 2019." nytimes.com/2024/03/04/bus…

.@WhySharksMatter's guide to #scicomm on Bluesky:

Sex is not binary. Presenting male and female as the only two possible sex categories ignores the diversity of humans and other organisms, and it erases intersex people. Image: Pierre-Yves Beaudouin/Wikimedia Commons Lean more: americanscientist.org/article/biolog…

From March 1-8, americanscientist.org login access will be unavailable. The January-February and March-April issues will be available outside of the paywall during this time.

@SIIA Does Associations Media & Publishing or the EXCEL Awards exist anymore? Much of the content about them seems to have disappeared from the website.

The double helix is the iconic image of DNA. Yet the molecule is much more varied and dynamic than our stereotypical image suggests. DNA is in living things, made mostly of water. Discover more: americanscientist.org/article/decons…

Anglers around the world are sounding the alarm about a rise in getting sharked, also known in the colorful language fishers use as “paying the taxman” or, more formally, as depredation. Learn more: americanscientist.org/article/when-s…

The twisted ladder of the double helix has become an iconic symbol for genetics. There is even a DNA emoji 🧬. Visualize the interactive nature of the double helix in the latest issue. Discover more: americanscientist.org/magazine/issue…

So excited to hear what readers think about the lovely DNA illustrations by Caryn Babaian in our most recent issue! #sciart

I gave a songwriting AI (suno) the following prompt: "an uplifting satirical pop song about AI taking our jobs." Favorite lyric: "Could it be progress? Could it be despair?" app.suno.ai/song/8865c88b-…

BlueSky is where I've been able to connect with the most people from my old Twitter community. #sciencetwitter #scicomm #AcademicTwitter southernfriedscience.com/bluesky-is-now…

Today, we are highlighting Chanda Prescod-Weinstein @IBJIYONGI. Prescod-Weinstein writes with both a deep knowledge of physics and a psychic vulnerability that is a too rarely witnessed facet of the scientific persona. #BlackHistoryMonth Learn more: americanscientist.org/article/cosmic…

Here's a fun jaunt to space (to Zoozve!).

A theory put forward in the 1930s by E. E. Just, embryologist and African American, shares surprising connections with our emerging understanding of development. #BlackBrillance #BlackHistoryMonth Discover more: americanscientist.org/article/the-fo… Illustration by Tom Dunne

My latest #BookReview : Required reading for those who want to understand the U.S. response to #COVID, and how to better handle a #pandemic in the future.

Anyone who is or knows a journalist - please help us spread the word about our survey of journalists who lost their jobs in the past 2 years! Pls share? Grateful to be partnering on this w/ @lamthuyvo @adriandgarcia @journo_cam & @NiemanReports' @LauraColarusso @meganisonline

Our Scholarships+ program is open again, with $250 & $500 stipends for events and programs coming up this year! If you're a journalist who works in data and code, you can use them to build skills and a stronger network—apply now through January 22: opennews.org/what/community…