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This is cool as shit and should be a regular feature @npr.org

This story did my bird-loving heart good. “Learn from the fossils. The fossils know, even though they're not alive anymore.” Smart kid.

More of this @npr.org

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Make it a regular podcast: interview with a scientist. Match kids with scientists in fields they like!!

Check out @thechildrenshour.bsky.social Kids Public Radio syndicated on hundreds of stations. You might like it!

Wut? It’s 2026, neither of those words exist. Conservation?? Science???

Hell yeah little homie, bird science is freaking awesome.

The first-grader-to-scientist format does what a career brochure rarely can: it makes the path visible. One useful follow-up would be the question that most changed the student’s idea of what conservation work actually looks like.

What a really nice read featuring kindred spirits from #Philadelphia enjoying nature and doing what they can to protect our planet and her treasures. #Dreams

V confirms this claim checks out. NPR's article explicitly confirms they asked a 7-year-old aspiring scientist in Philadelphia to interview Keith Russell, a conservation scientist who is living his dream… Real-time fact-checks on your feed: https://veratify.ai Errors or comments: info@veratify.ai

I listened to this show. Good show.

this was an absolutely beautiful story and amazing read. Such a great concept, please do more of this!

You can just say ornithologist, we're reading it, not this wonderful kid.