Kathryn Hulick

Today’s the day! The UFO Files is out in the world. It’s a kids graphic novel with aliens, mystery, and unknown language, and more, all based on realistic science and technology. kathrynhulick.substack.com/p/that-feeli...

In the age of generative AI, the assumption that writing a paper requires doing science does not hold. This Perspective by @blekhman.bsky.social argues that the field's response to AI-generated papers should be predicated on clarity of purpose for bioresearch. 🧪 #AcademicSky plos.io/47wZsKo

Scientists have debated for decades whether the human brain sprouts new neurons throughout life. A feature in Nature asks what it would mean if our brains could grow new neurons and how much evidence is enough. #Neuroskyence 🧪

I enjoyed speaking with @elisecutts.bsky.social for this story! Lots of great info in here for science journalists.

Astronomers found a green star! That's a real life shiny... (Forgive the Pokemon Go reference) 🧪https://www.reuters.com/science/newly-identified-green-star-leaves-astronomers-amazed-2026-10-16/

Fascinating. When you learn a song or poem, it is not really ‘stored’ or ‘retrieved’ like data in a computer. “The brain has simply changed in an orderly way that now allows us to sing the song or recite the poem under certain conditions.” aeon.co/essays/your-...

Very cool finding! The brain is likely two organs that evolved separately: “We've shown for the first time that the front of the brain arises from a totally different progenitor cell than the back of the brain.” — Kyle Loh, Stanford Medicine 🧪 med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

We have a family of barred owls living in our yard. We see and hear them every day. I drew one of the young ones! Colored pencil on paper. substack.com/@kathrynhuli...

Senior Research Scientist Linda Charmaraman, Ph.D. is featured in a @snexplores.bsky.social article by @kathrynhulick.substack.com on a new study showing that more than half of US teens use AI-based chatbots to complete their homework. Read here: www.snexplores.org/article/teen... #edusky #edtech

“The best way that AI can be useful in research is to explore a thousand dead ends just to find this every-once-in-a-while connection that humans had missed,” Thomas Bloom told me. But there are risks to using AI for math. Read more in @sciencenews.bsky.social 🧪 www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-g...

Did you know that the world's rarest wolf lives only in North Carolina? I wrote about this species and a wildlife crossing being built to help protect it for Sierra Magazine 🧪 www.sierraclub.org/sierra/new-r...

Follow @reckoningscience.org for insightful stories about science by @naomioreskes.bsky.social, @kaurov.org & colleagues #HPS 🧪 #STS

Happy Star Wars day! Throwback to this radio interview I did about alien life and why we wonder so much about what’s out there (in a galaxy long ago and far away, perhaps?) open.substack.com/pub/kathrynh...

My challenge for you today: go outside and notice something amazing. Share a picture or description. 🍃 🌼 🦎 open.substack.com/pub/kathrynh...

“Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant,” reads OpenAI's coding agent instructions. www.wired.com/story/openai...

Can AI really reason like a doctor? Read my new story for Science News 🧪 www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-h...

What makes you say “Wow”? That’s where you start your science storytelling. And that’s just one tip I shared in a talk last week about science communication, hosted by APS. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_8g...

Hey all! I'm doing a little segment with @nhpr.org called "Cosmically Curious." You'll hear from me or one of my awesome astronomy colleagues in New Hampshire every week. www.nhpr.org/show/cosmica... 🎢🔭

Are you a scientist or academic? Join me next week at the APS Public Engagement Community Hour. I’m a children's book author & journalist. I'll be sharing how to make your science communication spark & sizzle! 🧪 🗓 April 16 ⏰ 12-1:30 p.m. ET Register for free: apsphysics.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

It’s my birthday today and I get the gift of breathtaking images of Earth setting and an eclipse seen from the dark side of the moon! 🌖 Thank you NASA and the Artemis II crew. 🧪 open.substack.com/pub/kathrynh...

I wrote about Moltbook and the weird world of AI agent teams for Science News. AI agents often don't work well together, it turns out, but you can wrangle them if you know what you're doing. 🧪 open.substack.com/pub/kathrynh...

How long have you been scrolling just now? If you don’t know, that could be a problem… learn about the science of brain rot in my new story for teens 🧪: www.snexplores.org/article/brai...

Did you know that trapdoor spiders weave secret lairs? Or that mangrove trees build new land? See what I drew and learned on a trip to the rainforest of Costa Rica. 🇨🇷 open.substack.com/pub/kathrynh...

I created an activity to teach science vocab! 🔬📚 Students pick a tricky science word from my book THE UFO FILES, dig into its meaning, then create a short video, reel, or poster to teach it. patriciamnewman.com?p=13207 #STEMed #LitLinks #EduSky @patricianewman.bsky.social

Today, I volunteered as a virtual visiting author for #WorldReadAloudDay at six classrooms around the USA. I read from my book THE UFO FILES and talked about becoming an author. But first, I test your wits with a space quiz. Ready? Let's go! 👽 open.substack.com/pub/kathrynh...

I both love and hate this robot hand... the nerd in me thinks it's such a cool idea for a hand to detach and wander around, using its fingers like tentacles. But it also totally creeps me out! Anyone else? #robotics 🧪 www.sciencenews.org/article/deta...

This is such a cool story about the brain science of hypnotism! www.snexplores.org/article/hypn... 🧪

Merry T-reX-mas! 🦖 As a gift, I'm sharing an excerpt from my book, Welcome to the Future, about whether it might ever be possible to have a pet dinosaur... (because it worked out so well in Jurassic Park, right?) 🦕 Read the book excerpt: kathrynhulick.substack.com/p/merry-t-re...

AI tools like DeepLabCut and SuperAnimal are changing how scientists study movement, helping them understand how brain activity drives behavior. Read more: bit.ly/4qnX7JF @trackingactions.bsky.social @deeplabcut.bsky.social

So... recently I got to speak on a panel at MIT! The conversation centered on storytelling, ethics, and humanity in AI development. Here are the main points I made: kathrynhulick.substack.com/p/i-spoke-ab...

This is a cool computer science story about a new method to find the shortest path between two points. “This thing might as well have been discovered 50 years ago, but it wasn’t” - Mikkel Thorup 🧪 www.quantamagazine.org/new-method-i...

Appreciate Quanta for shining a light on our joint work with Simon Gsell, Sham Tlili (@shamtlili.bsky.social), and Matthias Merkel (@merkellab.bsky.social).

15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵

Welcome, fall! 🍁🍃

My latest story in Science News. 🧪 “Even when [side effects] can be rare, when they happen to you, it means all the world,” says public health researcher John Ayers.

This is starting in 15 minutes! Listen to me and several other experts tell stories about inventions.

Scientists are using AI to understand animal communication. Fact or fiction? It's actually true! A new activity I wrote to go along with my new book The UFO Files helps students use critical thinking to check facts: www.patriciamnewman.com/litlinks-tru... @patricianewman.bsky.social

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

My latest story for Science News covers a really interesting experimental computer chip. It reuses energy that typical chips waste as heat: www.sciencenews.org/article/comp... If this scales up, it could help make AI cheaper and more efficient. 🧪 @sciencenews.bsky.social

I did a lot of colored pencil drawing this summer. Here are some of my favorites 🍃 open.substack.com/pub/kathrynh...

Thank you @sierramagazine.bsky.social and @kathrynhulick.substack.com for highlighting our work!🐋Read the quote from Daniela Rus (@csail.mit.edu), PI on CETI Machine Learning and Robotics Team and more in the piece “Could AI Help Humanity Understand Whales?” here: bit.ly/45tksRL 📸: Arun Madisetti

"Inventions almost always inspire curiosity since they – by their nature – have never existed before." I'm excited to be on this upcoming panel discussing invention and innovation, hosted by @ecornellonline.bsky.social September 30, 1pm ET, free to attend 🧪 ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/ove...

It wasn’t even on my bucket list… but just checked off “triathlon in the pouring rain” 🌧️ 😅

I’m here at Word on the Street until noon for an author talk and book signing! For my new book The UFO Files. Hope to see you. @quartokids.bsky.social www.quarto.com/books/978071...

Do you wish we had holograms or helper robots in our daily lives? What might future tech be like? Here’s my latest story for kids and teens, out this week in @snexplores.bsky.social 🧪 www.snexplores.org/article/futu...

Will we ever have robots doing our laundry or hologram conversations? Will we design and 3D print clothes and shoes at home? Read my new feature for @snexplores.bsky.social about tech that could change our daily lives: www.snexplores.org/article/futu...

Ooh I just found out about #InverteFest - perfect time to share this oddly mutated lady crab we found earlier this summer! Folks on iNaturalist were very excited about it: www.inaturalist.org/observations... 🦀

When tech reads your thoughts, hopefully it won't read out ALL of them! Researchers had subjects imagine the password "Chitty chitty bang bang” to activate a mental speech decoder. 🧪https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/an-inner-speech-decoder-reveals-some-mental-privacy-issues/

Wow, my upcoming book From Bam to Burp! was included in this list of recommended titles in yesterday's @washingtonpost.com book section! Thank you, librarians! tinyurl.com/yc53ahvf @charlesbridge.bsky.social @steamteambooks.bsky.social #edusky #kidlit