Terry McGlynn

This is the account that auto-posts my blog posts. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

The 5-year cancer survival rate is up to 70% SIDS deaths have decreased by over 50% 89% decline in tornado deaths All thanks to federal investment in science and OUR tax dollars at work!

My friend had prostate cancer. Caught early with a basic blood test. Treated in one day without surgery, no side effects, has been cancer free and it's like it never happened. The advances in cancer treatment have been nothing short of revolutionary. (and yet - Fuck Cancer, we need more progress)

I am now getting 2-3 different species of spam per day from people who want to share a plan to get more people to buy my book. Like they want me to pay them for a report that they ask AI to produce in a minute, is that the scam? Based on the volume, I suspect it's been a lucrative scam.

i don’t censor our tiktok clips to avoid penalties because that sounds like a lot of work to dilute the content let’s see if they let us keep this one about male fears of consensual activity being reinterpreted after the fact: www.tiktok.com/t/ZPLASpV8K/

How is climate change affecting Californians, what's projected to come, and what can we do about it? Well, the 5th California Climate Change Assessment was just published today! Had the privilege of helping author the San Joaquin Valley regional report: climateassessment.ca.gov/research/reg...

Texas sky update

A new mixtape, I've been gathering links for three frigging months, including a bunch of new peer-reviewed papers about DEIJ in STEM. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/academic-mix...

I'm doing a @storycollider.bsky.social event in DC next month! It's being sponsored by @acs.org. I will rationalize this by pointing out that ants are just ambulatory sacs of chemicals. If you'd like to catch the show, here's where to get tix: www.storycollider.org/tickets/2026... 🧪🌍

Daniel Aguirre wrote this amazing article about accountability in higher ed. He challenges us to "name one thing we will do", and lists pressure points: hiring funding mentorship authorship collaborations committee appointments keynote invitations awards and more www.linkedin.com/pulse/salem-...

"why would I ever need a task to be done faster" come on, guys. Because we're dying. Because we are literally all dying all the time. Because we're running out of time. The fact that it's often hard to measure or stupidly measured doesn't mean "saving time" isn't an important thing to human beings

We do some things slowly because the process is the purpose. Other things might require a slow deliberative process to be done well. But for a lot of other stuff, the product is the purpose and if you can do it faster, that’s great! Each of us gets 4000 weeks or so. Let’s use them well.

"Recognize the clear throughline between the environment that fostered the gang rape at Cornell and the perennial misogyny pervading higher education and the sciences." 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/lets-keep-ta...

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

In reflection, these leaves fallen across a puddle, have found a way back into their parents’ arms.

If you are an MIT alum, and your kid applies to MIT, you promptly get a letter saying “We do not care that you are an alum and do not call us to whine. We do not do legacy admissions so STFU.” It’s glorious.

Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.

Olivia Rodrigo has a concert in DC tonight & the streets are full of pre-teen and teenage girls wearing tiaras and sparkly pink dresses and bows in their hair and they are SO happy & soon they’ll all be old enough to vote.

🧪 “The National Science Foundation, one of the biggest sources of federal research funding, withheld $1.4 billion that Congress had intended for research over the course of the past year, according to internal data reviewed by The New York Times.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...

Remember: Darwin's note of "I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything" was written on Oct 1 (1861). Thus we are free to celebrate Very Poorly And Very Stupid Hatred Day today.

The student got excellent writing instruction--they went to an IB school, one of their parents is a professor, and they got through high school without ever using AI tools. But now, they feel they have to abandon all they learned about good writing, to avoid being accused of cheating with AI.

The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.

I became a biologist because of a museum exhibit. Real artifacts tell stories that are more powerful than anything we can get from scrolling. They are part of our engine for training the next generation of scientists. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/the-awesomen...

A parasitic Apocephalus ant-decapitating fly closes in on her target, a Camponotus chromaiodes carpenter ant. Sand Ridge State Forest, Illinois.

This is very good.

I did an internet search for a zip code. The search engine result provided the correct zip code. The AI-assisted output, which was right above the search engine result, gave a different zip code. Guess which code was correct?

Just got a haircut and the stylist asked A LOT of stuff on MAHA themes. Does beef tallow on your face really reverse aging?? Etc. I responded with no science at all and we really connected. When people talk about trust in science, I think about the patience we need and the results we'll never see

This is the marshmallow man that destroyed Manhattan.

One of the biggest El Niños was 1997, causing a big drought in Costa Rica, when I was doing a big sampling of litter ants in that dry season. I so badly want to replicate coinciding with this El Niño, 30 years later. I just need 2 weeks and a research permit. The hard part is the 2 weeks.

If you were transfixed by THE HOT ZONE when you were young, or then read SPILLOVER and trusted it, then as a career scary diseases reporter, I urge you to read this thread. Science moves on. People discover fresh stuff. The work careers were built on becomes outdated. Be open to the new. Please.