Chelsea Whyte

Senior Editor at New Scientist. Co-host of the Dead Planets Society podcast.

[Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte]

@inkerley @DownHereOnEarth Life imitates art imitates life imitates...

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@inkerley @DownHereOnEarth A movie we have yet to make about the only logical conclusion to the idea of minting a gigantic coin to save the US economy

https://t.co/BEGUm0U6M9

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@inkerley Or is it Always Be My Baby

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@AGoldmund I think what I mean here is, play?

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@AGoldmund one way I turn off my interviewer brain is to have a kind of collaborative convo. riff on a joke back and forth, talk about something where you're both adding to the outcome (a plan for a bbq or like, if we went to mars, what 2 celebrities should go with us) silly but it works

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@m_c_marshall why is this so upsetting

side note: I can't tell you the number of times I have wondered "what was the first tooth" so thank you for this

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@JHWeissmann The Medill F was so powerful for me. It really reinforced the need for taking care with checking facts. When I was there, the first meant you failed the assignment, and a second meant you failed the class!

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@inkerley One time, for reasons lost to the sands of time, Leah and I wanted to make a custom foam finger and this was the example image on the website

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@inkerley Do you not have raccoons?!?!

[Dr Robin George Andrews 🌋☄️ @SquigglyVolcano]

NEW: Everyone’s hoping asteroid 2024 YR4 doesn’t hit Earth. It probably won’t; the odds are 2.1%.

But, rather awesomely, there’s a (slim) chance that it hits the Moon instead, with the force of 343 atomic bombs. And we’d see it happen!

Me @newscientist https://t.co/6f0j1Kz9h0

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I like the way this makes me think about crosswords. I do them every day and have never before considered how the words fill in like water oozing through a sponge until it's full
https://t.co/MywDYifm4R

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@SciencePunk @m_c_marshall Those are great ones!

[Timothy Revell @timothyrevell]

“Rain drops on Saturn’s moon Titan are the size of tennis balls and fall so slowly you can dodge them — which gives me an idea for a new sport”

@chrislintott at #NewScientistLive

[Richard Fisher @rifish]

If you're a science writer/journalist, I'd highly recommend @hvthomson's newsletter (and I'm not just saying that because I'm in the latest edition!) She's currently running a series on the art of pitching your stories to editors... it's invaluable advice https://t.co/ZA4fcliKI1

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@alicevklein @newscientist @mjauk @alisonge Congrats!!!

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it's me, i'm the editor

[Karmela Padavic-Callaghan (they/them) @kpcallaghan_]

every few weeks an editor will message me something to the effect of "can I talk to you about the nature of reality" and these are the times when I am most aware of how singular my job is

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@SciencePunk I don't think this is the type of thing you mean precisely, but Penny convinced me that the Late Heavy Bombardment didn't happen and I couldn't fully accept it for a few days: https://t.co/tzNhoVlrZo

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@mikerugnetta How is it that for the years I finally made it back to Portland XOXO was on hiatus and now I'm not there and it's back?!

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@jjaron I spent a day this week chanting HELL EGG HELL EGG in my head