Science, food, & climate
This is a highly personal eclectic list of some of the people I enjoy and learn the most from. I've been afraid to make it because I'm going to leave people out, but I love other people's starter packs so I hope this is useful.
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@tamarhaspel.bsky.social
@pdxoliveoilguy.bsky.social
he, him old fart seller of olive oil & salt bean & cabbage lover recovering food writer Portland, Oregon sign up for our newsletter at https://wellspentmarket.com/ @jamesedixon on IG more recipes at https://www.wweek.com/food/
@stuartgillespie.bsky.social
Nutrition, food justice, health, cycling | writer, freelance Non-resident senior fellow, IFPRI, honorary associate IDS New book 'Food Fight' out now (Canongate) https://stuartgillespie.substack.com/
@mossmichael.bsky.social
#1 NYT bestselling author of Salt Sugar Fat, Pulitzer Prize for some bad burgers, have killer keynote will travel. More about me at MossBooks.us
@ranchogordo.bsky.social
Heirloom beans, etc www.ranchogordo.com
@dancharles.bsky.social
Telling stories about climate, food, land. Former NPR. Urbanist and ruralist and bicyclist. Science Magazine contributor.
@kennytorrella.bsky.social
Writing about factory farming and the future of meat at Vox.
@hbottemiller.bsky.social
I write a must-read newsletter on all things food policy - for consumers and insiders alike. Get on the list: foodfix.co
@willmasters.bsky.social
Prof. at the Friedman School of Nutrition & Dept. of Economics at Tufts University @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social. Open-access book on Food Economics: Agriculture, Nutrition and Health. Details: http://sites.tufts.edu/willmasters
@rachellaudan.bsky.social
Freelance these many years after quitting academia early (history and philosophy of science and technology,From Mineralogy to Geology); then food history (Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History). www.rachellaudan.com
@naomiduguid.bsky.social
Curious about the world, especially food, agriculture, homecooking, history of all kinds, human nature. Author of cookbooks including BURMA, TASTE OF PERSIA, and The MIRACLE OF SALT.
@alanlevinovitz.bsky.social
Professor: religion, science, dao. "Natural" on how to love nature without worshipping it: tinyurl.com/y75tpmog. Opinions my own.
@kendrawrites.com
What's the opposite of apocalypse? Trying to chronicle that. Climate reporter based in NYC. Only speaking for myself. Tips? Reach me on Signal kendrawrites.04
@jennifermolidor.bsky.social
Writing about nature, food, climate, rewilding, wildlife and wild places. Senior campaigner @biologicaldiversity.org. 📚 🌲 🐺 West of the West JenniferMolidor.com
@thehonestbroker.bsky.social
undisciplined scholar and recovering academic @AEI @DNVA1 @CUBoulder @UCL | Subscribe to The Honest Broker ➡️ http://rogerpielkejr.substack.com
@ckummer.bsky.social
Executive Director, Food & Society at the Aspen Institute, senior editor of The Atlantic, senior lecturer at Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
@kcklatt.bsky.social
#Metabolism Researcher, #Dietitian. Associate Editor, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 🎙️Host, 'AJCN In Press' 🎙️ Current: UC Berkeley Alum: Cornell, NIH, Baylor College of Med Kcklatt.substack.com
@meerasub.bsky.social
🌏Journalist. Author. Earthling. 🖋️ Bylines: New Yorker, Nature, VQR, Orion contributing ed. 🍃 FRONTIERS fellow at BC3 📚 Creative Nonfiction prof at Sewanee School of Letters 🌿 www.meerasub.org
@lisamargonelli.bsky.social
Maine resident. Books: Underbug, Oil on the Brain. Fan of termites, mushrooms, clams, and phylogenetic trees. EIC: Issues in Science and Technology. Opinions are my own.
@zoeschlanger.bsky.social
Climate reporter at The Atlantic. Into chemicals, climate, cool plants. THE LIGHT EATERS, a plant book, out from Harper Books. I'm zoeschlanger.99 on Signal
@eaterofsun.bsky.social
Author, Editor @ The Economist, Chair @ The Degrees Initiative. Climate change, planetarity, critical zones, tv, burdens of life, etc. Reposts are not endorsements
@cragcrest.bsky.social
Best-selling author, journalist, podcaster, outdoor adventurer. My parties have dancing. Western Colorado. www.scientificamerican.com/uncertain
@jamesheathers.bsky.social
please science correctly if you do i will buy you a small cake and we can be friends the book: forensicmetascience.com
@jennysplitter.bsky.social
Editor-in-Chief of @sentientmedia.org, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news outlet reporting on the impacts of factory farming, including climate change, animal welfare, water pollution, labor conditions and more. Tips to sentientmediatips@proton.me
@mikegrunwald.bsky.social
Pre-order my food and climate book here: WE ARE EATING THE EARTH: https://www.amazon.com/We-Are-Eating-Earth-Climate/dp/1982160071?dplnkId=e83f890b-e76d-49a6-9e43-4c4688bc59b7&nodl=1 Florida residence ≠ endorsement.
@ryankatzrosene.bsky.social
Professor at the University of Ottawa studying contentious CLIMATE POLITICS. Especially interested in aviation/high-speed rail; nuclear debate; green/de-growth; meat production/consumption; and all things Canada🇨🇦. Co-Host http://EcopoliticsPodcast.ca
@tomchivers.bsky.social
"Far too nice to be a journalist," per Terry Pratchett. Lead writer on Semafor's Flagship newsletter. DMs open; chiversthomas(a)gmail. Latest book, Everything is Predictable: geni.us/EIPBook Podcast, The Studies Show: https://www.thestudiesshowpod.com
@globalecoguy.bsky.social
- Executive Director, Project Drawdown drawdown.org - Climate scientist, working on solutions - Passionate about science, communication, and hope - Minnesota based, Maine born - Personal account / My views
@hildabast.bsky.social
Scientist (PhD; she/her), writer, cartoonist. Blogging & Newsletter: Living With Evidence https://hildabastian.wordpress.com/ Mastodon enthusiast: @hildabast@mastodon.online
@tomkimmerer.bsky.social
I am a forest scientist, botanist, tree physiologist writing about relationships between trees and humans including climate change. Author of Venerable Trees, more books in progress. SciComm, Fulbrighter, nature photographer, violinist, Kentuckian, he/him
@scottlincicome.bsky.social
@CatoInstitute Vice President (Econ/Trade), @DukeLaw adjunct, @TheDispatch newsletter-er. CH❤️RTS. You didn't read the article, did you?
@revkin.bsky.social
40 years of prize-winning sustainability journalism, mostly @nytimes, #sustainwhat webcaster https://revkin.substack.com, #Anthropocene Working Group member, solution seeker, songwriter https://j.mp/revkinlinks
@ourworldindata.org
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems. Based out of Oxford University (@ox.ac.uk), founded by @maxroser.bsky.social.
@ramez.bsky.social
Author of the Nexus trilogy. Climate tech investor, author, and activist. Optimistic about the future.
@deborahb.bsky.social
Book author, toxicology journalist, fascinated by poison and murder (current book project), and, oh yeah, I'm director of the Knight Science Journalism program at MIT.
@charlescmann.bsky.social
Author of "1491, "1493," and, most recently, "The Wizard and the Prophet." Working, inefficiently, on another book. The background image is pretty old by now, but I like the pig. The avatar photo is only a couple years old, though, so that's something.
@bradplumer.bsky.social
Reporter, NYT Climate. email: brad.plumer@nytimes.com signal: bradplumer.54
@ferrisjabr.bsky.social
NYT Bestselling Author of Becoming Earth (Random House, 2024), being translated into 10+ languages ✵ Contributing Writer, New York Times Magazine ✵ Gardener, baker, naturalist ✵ 🇱🇧🇺🇸🏳️🌈 ✵ Surname rhymes with neighbor ✵ https://www.ferrisjabr.com
@phylogenomics.bsky.social
Prof at #UCDavis Interests: evolution, ecology, function & phylogenomics of host-microbe/microbiome symbioses; #openscience; #birds; baseball; T1D Lab phylogenomics.me Pics jonathaneisen.smugmug.com Links linktr.ee/jonathaneisen TED go.ted.com/6WPm
@gidmk.bsky.social
Epidemiologist. Research Fellow. Doctor of Spreadsheets. Writer (Slate, TIME, Guardian, etc). PhD, MPH. Host of senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him. Find my writing on Substack and Medium.
@waiterich.bsky.social
Director, Agriculture Initiatives, World Resources Institute. Interested in sustainably feeding 10 billion people by 2050. Likes food, agriculture, land use, nature, numbers, climate solutions. DC-based. Own views.
@statsepi.bsky.social
Epidemiologist + Statistician | Clinical Research Facility - University College Cork | UCC School of Public Health | #ClinicalTrials #Epidemiology #Statistics #RStats #WBE #IDSurveillance Views mine -> https://statsepi.substack.com/
@kencaldeira.com
Mostly mentoring a group of postdocs at Stanford. Senior Scientist at Gates Ventures. climate / energy / etc https://sustainablesolutions.stanford.edu/people/ken-caldeira Posts imperfectly represent the views of my former self and not my employer.
@billmckibben.bsky.social
Founder 350.org and Third Act, author The Crucial Years on substack https://billmckibben.substack.com/ Author of 21 books, beginning with The End of Nature
@petergleick.bsky.social
Climate, water, environmental security scientist, birds, mandolin. Member US National Academy of Sciences, MacArthur Fellow, Carl Sagan Prize, author of The Three Ages of Water (2023). Also on Mastodon. @petergleick@fediscience.org
@dave.bzky.team
Children's drawings, mainly <PFP: Nicolas Cage in Valley Girl, with hair honestly a lot like mine when i wake up>
@maggiek.bsky.social
Editorial Lead at CarbonPlan. Columnist at Star Tribune. Sometimes news at Science Friday. Nieman Fellow '15. Previously: Science journalist with FiveThirtyEight, NYT Magazine, BoingBoing, mental_floss, and etc. My views are not my employer's.
@drjengunter.bsky.social
Doctor, writer, Canadian Spice, lasso of truth, I speak for no one but me. 2X NYT bestsellers. More thoughts at TheVajenda.com
@leahstokes.bsky.social
Professor of climate + energy policy at UCSB. Alumni of MIT, Columbia and UToronto. Hosts "A Matter of Degrees" podcast. Cuts carbon pollution! Proudly 🇨🇦 Gardener 🌱 leahstokes.com
@scientificdiscovery.dev
Science writer and chart maker. Researcher at Our World in Data. Co-founder of Works in Progress. Newsletter: https://scientificdiscovery.dev https://twitter.com/salonium 🏳️🌈
@conradhackett.bsky.social
Demography nerd at Pew Research Center Global religious change, sociology
@hausfath.bsky.social
"A tireless chronicler and commentator on all things climate" -NYTimes. Climate research lead @stripe, writer @CarbonBrief, scientist @BerkeleyEarth, IPCC/NCA5 author. Substack: https://theclimatebrink.substack.com/ Twitter: @hausfath
@marynmck.bsky.social
Journalist. Contributing Ed at Scientific American. Senior Fellow at Emory Univ's Center for the Study of Human Health. Books: BIG CHICKEN, SUPERBUG, BEATING BACK THE DEVIL. All my stories at https://authory.com/marynmckenna. DMs don't work, don't know why
@maxroser.bsky.social
— Founder of Our World in Data — Professor at the University of Oxford Data to understand global problems and research to make progress against them.
@kakape.bsky.social
science journalist. author. molecular biologist. curious. interested in #microbes, #misinformation and all things #blue contributing correspondent at @science.org co-host of @pandemia.bsky.social 2024 KSJ fellow at MIT Signal: kakape.93
@hannahritchie.bsky.social
Deputy Editor, Our World in Data Senior Researcher, University of Oxford Climate, energy, environment, all things data.
@shannonosaka.bsky.social
climate *zeitgeist* reporter for @washingtonpost.com past: proudly @grist, @UniofOxford.
@costasamaras.com
Climate, energy, emerging tech, resilience, & policy professor. Carnegie Mellon Univ. Institute for Energy Innovation Director. Former Biden-Harris White House OSTP Chief Advisor for the Clean Energy Transition. Personal account. He/Him. costasamaras.com
@akshatrathi.bsky.social
- Senior climate reporter, Bloomberg News - Newsletter http://bit.ly/bbg-zero - Podcast http://bloomberg.com/zero-podcast - Book https://akshatrathi.com/book - akshat.rathi@pm.me
@jtemple.bsky.social
Climate and energy editor, Reno bureau chief, MIT Technology Review. Ski bum. Please send tips (not PR pitches) through Signal: jtemple.50
@elisabethbik.bsky.social
Science integrity consultant and crowdfunded volunteer, PhD. Ex-Stanford University. Maddox Prize/Einstein F Award winner NL/USA/SFO. #ImageForensics @MicrobiomDigest on X. Blog: ScienceIntegrityDigest.com Support me: https://www.patreon.com/elisabethbik
@daveweigel.bsky.social
National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”
@epiellie.bsky.social
Epidemiologist and science communicator | newsletter: epiellie.substack.com | cohost @casualinfer podcast | Causal inference for public health #epitwitter | Canadian in US 🇨🇦 | she/her/Dr
@jessedjenkins.com
Macro-energy systems engineering, optimization & policy. Assistant professor at Princeton University. Leads the ZERO Lab. Co-hosts SHIFT KEY podcast. Time100 Next & TIME100 Climate honoree. More at linkedin.com/in/jessedjenkins & zero.lab.princeton.edu
@carlbergstrom.com
UW biology prof. I study how information flows in biology, science, and society. Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk I don't like fascists. he/him
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author. https://sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/ http://brightlinewatch.org
@volts.wtf
I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at http://volts.wtf!
@davidho.bsky.social
Climate scientist; ocean carbon cycle and climate solutions. Founder, Bamboo Bike Project; Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, @cworthy.bsky.social; Professor, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. https://linktr.ee/david_ho
@mattyglesias.bsky.social
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com
Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com 📝 ft.com/jbm
@hels.bsky.social
“Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches” New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication 🍉
@tamarhaspel.bsky.social
James Beard winning WaPo columnist writing about food & science, author of TO BOLDLY GROW, gentleman oyster farmer.