Sabrina Imbler

A superb explainer of the ethical transgressions in the proposed RFK Jr-funded trial in Guinea-Bissau—a trial that appears to now be truly dead, but I suspect the researchers & RFK Jr will keep flogging the dead horse & try & find a way to revive it (eg, at RFK Jr’s new NIH vaccine injury center?)

I wrote about the end of Catapult defector.com/catapult-eli...

Last summer, Scientific American's owners were stalking the site, making sure it wasn't being too critical of Trump. This summer, the magazine was sold and gutted. I wrote about it for The Nation www.thenation.com/article/soci...

I wrote an explainer of the evil, terrible thing that almost happened with our tax dollars in Guinea-Bissau defector.com/the-u-s-fund...

10 days left to apply! PLEASE tell your friends — we've received fewer quality applications than previous years, and while that makes our reduced funding easier, I'd rather have MORE great apps and MORE funding! apply & more info: genderpodcast.com/grant donate: genderpodcast.com/donate

In my latest for @science.org, I tackle an ancient crime scene. The verdict: the first direct proof that lizards could shed their tails 99 million years ago. www.science.org/content/arti...

well well well if it isn't the consequences of my actions!!!!!

snakes!!! what can't they do? defector.com/rolling-snak...

almost laughably evil but I'm not laughing www.science.org/content/arti...

sorry but Arabidopsis thaliana is just such a cunty name. like who is this diva!!!!

🧪🐛 is there another example of an insect or arthropod like a cicada that spends nearly all of its life in a juvenile state?

well??? defector.com/would-you-ra...

O, to be a Galapagos marine iguana on top of another Galapagos marine iguana who is on top of another Galapagos marine iguana who is on top of another Galapagos marine iguana who is on top of a rock! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

It's a really sad day here at STAT. www.statnews.com/2026/10/13/h...

dipping my toe back into boots-on-the-ground reporting defector.com/i-met-the-tw...

thinking about getting a tramp stamp of a parasitic wasp

I wrote about the new paper about Jonathan the tortoise's secret to living 194 years defector.com/the-secret-t...

well I finally read Stoner and I loved it

halloween costume idea: anne carson in her reykjavik kitchen picking up the phone to learn she has won the nobel prize

COME

The kicker on this IS a perfect sentence and I don't want to spoil it. But @lifewinning.com needs to see it

wrote about one of the craziest worms of all time defector.com/this-worm-ha...

The 12th(!) Gender Reveal grant cycle is now open for applications! As always, these funds are for organizing / community projects led by trans people of color. We are particularly interested in funding existing projects that materially support trans folks, queer people of color, immigrants, etc.

no....no!!!!!

Los Angeles! this is tomorrow 😎

I blogged about my ongoing, monkish rewatch of Monk defector.com/mr-monk-and-...

the genius Sophie Abromowitz is back with an essay on Resident Evil and addiction

Jesus Christ Cornell

"There is, as it turns out, a reason why writers love New York, and my apartment in Tacoma would have given Julian of Norwich seasonal depression." a real banger of a @groan.bsky.social blog defector.com/how-can-you-...

Every Time A Bell Rings is out today! I'm so excited and honored that I got to write these essays about It's A Wonderful Life alongside such an incredible critic in @emilystjams.bsky.social. www.harpercollins.com/products/eve...

suddenly overtaken by an all-body yearning to play the sims medieval

just got my author copies!!

okay also how is this gall wasp's gall SO Glossier ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall_wa...

it's really fucking depressing that all the emails I get about my book are from AI scammers

if I were still a straight woman I would have gotten married in the lizzie mcguire igloo dress

what’s this? an interview with China Miéville on Defector? that’s right

🧪 & entomology bluesky: I keep encountering this example of the longest-lived insect but can't find an original source (I know it's cited in Guinness World Records). Does anyone know more about this 1983 finding? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buprest...

is there a cut of the missions impossible that removes alec baldwin

the killer // the killed