Sabrina Imbler @aznfusion Twitter profile

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@aznfusion

2 years

looking up from my computer at 5:20 pm to take in the view of the pitch-black sky

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a few weeks ago at a straight wedding I was approached by a mom who asked if I knew her nonbinary child, Nico, who lives in Bushwick, and I did not know how to say that this was an impossible question to answer

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stumbled upon this picture of this monkey and suddenly, unexpectedly, have found something close to inner peace

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2 years

me, flipping through my rolodex of nonbinary Nicos living in/around Bushwick: does your Nico make experimental films?

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5 years

good morning this is your daily reminder that pikas—the tiny bear-rabbits of the Himalayas—eat flowers and also love to scream 💐

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2 years

WE WERE ONLY A FISH! WE WERE ONLY A FISH!!! (it's my last story for the NYT! 🥲)

Started Out as a Fish. How Did It End Up Like This? (Published 2022)

A meme about the transitional fossil Tiktaalik argues that although we did come out of the sea, we aren’t doing just fine.

www.nytimes.com

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5 years

when I try to hide my seasonal affective disorder with a bold lip

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6 years

this Alaska Air gate attendant just said they are boarding group A as in "apple-bottom jeans" and group B as in "boots with the fur" and group C as in "club looking at her" and this makes me feel equal parts happy and dead inside

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4 years

the essay I wanted to write vs. the essay I actually wrote

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6 years

important announcement: this is a 100% real picture of a hydrothermal vent polychaete worm and it is making me lose my whole shit!!!!!

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6 years

middle school me underlining the words "My Journal" in a notebook I would never open again

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2 years

simply obsessed with this newly described moth (Ivela yini) with gorgeous skeleton vibes

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5 years

me showing my editor the draft I promised them yesterday

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3 years

some big news that is still, for now, very small

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2 years

I wrote about the tiny pumpkin toadlet, which is too tiny (😍) to land any of its jumps (😔)

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1 year

elizabeth holmes pivoting to liz is like the dark lord sauron pivoting to ron

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5 years

good morning from the horrifying new shower curtain at my parents’ house

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5 years

good morning this is an ultra-niche thread about dating in nyc told through hieronymus bosch's 'the garden of earthly delights'

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5 years

me telling my friends why we hate that person

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1 year

thinking about Terry the tuna who crossed the Pacific Ocean three times in 600 days and the unnamed Herzegovinian olm who stayed in the same spot without moving for 7 years. the stories they could tell!

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4 years

came back from outside to find him waiting

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5 years

today, in one of the biggest flexes I have ever witnessed, the person at the bodega shook my kombucha for 20 seconds while making sustained eye contact before giving it to me, a hapless serf, who paid for it and walked outside and opened it and yes, yes it did explode

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1 year

waiting for my therapist to join the zoom room

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2 years

ok time for some personal news 🤠 in June, I'll be joining @DefectorMedia as a staff writer covering the creature beat — all our weird, cute and gross roommates on Earth. it's going to be so much fun!!!!!

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2 years

what a reminder of the farce of journalistic objectivity, how an “objective” editor moving to opinion simply means she can now be open about her biases & transphobia that, for years, influenced whose books were reviewed & by whom, whose work and lived were valued & whose were not

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3 years

Hey! Today is my first day on the @NYTScience desk. I don't have a beat, but some of the things I'm interested in writing about: all things oceans, marginalized communities doing science, and uncharismatic life! Please send tips to sabrina.imbler @nytimes .com 🪱

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2 years

lmao this is so rude!

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5 years

huge news

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4 years

he bake

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4 years

when I get sad I always think about the scale worms named after two queer women who are deep-sea scientists and also married to each other 🥺

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2 years

oops I forgot to do a fancy cover reveal but here is the cover of my book!!!! preorder it here 🐠

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5 years

one time I was in the bathroom at the Seattle lesbian bar someone gently kicked the door & said "is anyone in there?" & I said "yes, someone's in here!" & then when I opened the door it was Megan Rapinoe & YES I went back to pee in that stall again so I could savor! that! moment!

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2 years

obsessed with these subheds in a paper about how isopods try to avoid being eaten by predators......maybe I will repeat them every morning in the mirror

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1 year

And paleontologists will say they were close friends 💔

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2 years

cowabunga! it’s my pub day! my book, HOW FAR THE LIGHT REACHES, is out now. I can’t believe it! this thing took me four freaking years to write!

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4 years

me, attempting to start the workday whilst paralyzed by dread

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2 months

two weeks ago I got high and customized a tote at land’s end dot com…and now she’s here 🥲

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3 years

recently went to a new primary care doctor who told me if I was so worried about my anxiety, I should simply stop having anxious thoughts. wanted to pass that along in case anyone needed to hear 💛

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5 years

I'ᴠᴇ ʙᴇᴇɴ ʙɪɢ ᴀɴᴅ sᴍᴀʟʟ ᴀɴᴅ ʙɪɢ ᴀɴᴅ sᴍᴀʟʟ ᴀɴᴅ ʙɪɢ ᴀɴᴅ sᴍᴀʟʟ ᴀɢᴀɪɴ Aɴᴅ sᴛɪʟʟ ɴᴏʙᴏᴅʏ ᴡᴀɴᴛs ᴍᴇᴇᴇᴇ

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1 year

now why is this paleoart giving enemies-to-lovers romance book cover

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2 years

This essay about insects and molting might be my favorite thing I wrote all year, and it's a dream to see it in @harpersbazaarus .

My Metamorphosis

"I have always been disillusioned with the limits of human growth," Sabrina Imbler writes. "But insects have a much more fantastic notion of growing up."

www.harpersbazaar.com

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4 years

some news: I have been using they/them pronouns in my private life, and it has felt sublime. please use they/them for me moving forward! relieved for this to no longer be a secret I think about every day for the past -redacted- years lmao.

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2 years

I'm deeply honored and humbled to receive this award, which has spotlighted so many of my favorite science journalists over the years. I'm grateful to the judges for recognizing stories about all kinds of life, big and small!

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@ScienceWriting

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Congratulations to Sabrina Imbler @aznfusion winner of the 2022 #ClarkPayneAward ! Their writing went beyond the judging criteria, "expressing a joy and empathy that made the science very human" Can't wait to celebrate w you in Memphis at #SciWri22 !

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4 years

the grief of this pandemic, personal grief, ambient grief, world-grief, is so unimagineable and I feel incapable of holding a conversation with anyone who does not feel this heaviness in some way

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3 years

some news: I'm very excited to be joining the NYT health & science desk as a fellow 😎🦑

Introducing the 2021-22 New York Times Fellowship Class | The New York Times Company

www.nytco.com

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@aznfusion

5 years

this is an OPALIZING appreciation thread, aka a fossilization process in which the mineral of an organism's hard parts are converted into opal.

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5 years

😭 some personal news: I'm writing a book!💫

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29 days

I’m starting a newsletter! It’s called Creatures of NYC, and it’s gonna be a monthly round-up of free events in the city centered around our wildlife: dragonfly walks, oyster tours, horseshoe crab counts, bat strolls, moth vigils, & more! sign up here :)

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4 years

some news: @AtlasObscura laid off a handful of people today, including me! I'm really sad! I loved my time at Atlas, and was proud of much of the work I did there.

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5 years

happy pride from the the Mindanao gum, scientifically known as the gayest tree in the world. it's a species of eucalyptus whose bark ranges from maroon (gay) to lavender (even gayer!!!!)

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3 years

The laborer who discovered this skull in 1933 hid it in a well (!) for 85 years (!!) rather than hand it over to the Japanese authorities occupying China because he might have been ashamed of his job (!!!)

Discovery of ‘Dragon Man’ Skull in China May Add Species to Human Family Tree (Published 2021)

A laborer discovered the fossil and hid it in a well for 85 years. Scientists say it could help sort out the human family tree and how our species emerged.

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5 years

@nicalexiac reader....I said nothing...

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5 years

me, tweeting into the void

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4 years

some news: I'm starting today as an associate editor for print at @AtmosMag ! am very excited to start taking your pitches on all things climate, and will share more details/rates once in the swing of things (we pay!)

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5 years

idea: iso pods

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@aznfusion

4 years

does anyone else have a coping/grieving mechanism where they listen to the same song on repeat for....a week? anyway it's been 8 days and I cannot imagine playing a new song & what strange world that could open up

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2 years

🦌 some news 🦌 this is my last week at @nytimes ! I loved working with the science and health desk, and I wanted to share some of my favorite stories from the past year...

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4 years

I don't have a printer but I will be writing out all of @edyong209 's advice to journalists by hand and sticking it on my wall. a master class in a paragraph!

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4 years

will never bring their family honor 😔

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2 years

I wrote about my new favorite roommate: the house centipede 😇

How I Learned To Stop Worrying About Their Many Tiny Legs And Love The House Centipede | Defector

If I were a medieval monarch, the house centipede would be my tiniest champion, swiftly dispatching intruders in the still of the night.

defector.com

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@aznfusion

4 years

the only thing better than talking to a scientist about a creature they love is talking to a scientist about a creature they find ridiculous

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@aznfusion

3 years

ty @michaelroston (the editor) and Benjen (the eel)

When an Eel Climbs a Ramp to Eat Squid From a Clamp, That’s a Moray (Published 2021)

Moray eels can hunt on land, and footage from a recent study highlights how they accomplish this feat with a sneaky second set of jaws.

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@aznfusion

2 years

I profiled the new all-invertebrate crew of the shipwreck Endurance! 🦀

The New Captain of the Endurance Shipwreck Is an Anemone (Published 2022)

A who’s who of the new invertebrate crew steering Ernest Shackleton’s sunken ship in the Weddell Sea.

www.nytimes.com

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4 years

some personal news

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when u try to be a chill girl in the midst of a climate crisis

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3 years

the unread email lurking at the bottom of my inbox

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3 years

I wrote about some of the systemic barriers that young trans people encounter when trying to access healthcare of any kind.

For Transgender Youth, Stigma Is Just One Barrier to Health Care (Published 2021)

Discrimination, delays and systemic hurdles prevent young trans people from reaching the care they need, a new study finds.

www.nytimes.com

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5 years

when ur love language is gifts

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2 years

if I were a renaissance patron I would commission a painting of my two cats admiring a sweet potato in the afternoon sun 👼👼

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4 years

@Nicole_Cliffe we watched the sound of music every christmas but my mom would always turn it off after the captain and maria get married which meant when I saw the sound of music on broadway I thought the production had *added the nazis*

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3 years

after a year of struggling to write an essay collection while the world is burning, I've learned the only essays that are worth writing are the ones that still matter to me while the world is burning

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@aznfusion

5 years

let's make this niche even smaller!!!!!

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5 years

me: unbothered, glowing skin, at peace, minding my own business

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6 years

this is your daily reminder that lumpsuckers are tiny round bois that have adhesive discs on their tummies so they can stick to all kinds of things

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@aznfusion

2 years

got my first solo A1 yesterday 🫠

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4 months

just learned I earned out my advance 😭

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2 years

it’s been two weeks and I can’t stop thinking about her 🫡 my gelatinous queen!

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@aznfusion

1 year

gobsmacked to have won the LA Times book prize in science and technology at @latimesfob 🥲

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2 years

I wrote about how Freya should still be alive and sinking boats, and the series of selfish decisions that led to her death

Freya The Walrus Should Still Be Alive | Defector

RIP Freya, you did nothing wrong!

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@aznfusion

5 years

in a related bit of personal news, I'll be joining @atlasobscura as a staff writer starting next week! and I am so excited I could scream!! ahhhh!!!

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4 years

hello this is my first story for @NYTScience ! a small story about a small and fluffy wasp, and why humans need to remember that animals perceive much more of the world than we do

How a Velvet Ant (Which Is a Wasp) Got Its White Fluff (Published 2020)

The thistledown velvet ant, which is actually a wasp, resembles creosote fuzz. But mimicry isn’t the reason, a new study suggests.

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5 years

(hi grandma)

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4 years

He was a stick. She was a leaf. Can I make it any more obvious??!!! (I wrote about the suprising answer to a century-old 🍃 insect mystery)

He Was a Stick, She Was a Leaf; Together They Made History (Published 2020)

A surprise clutch of eggs has solved a century-old leaf insect mystery.

www.nytimes.com

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3 years

big day for this guy!

In The New York Times, A Story on Eels Achieves Headline Perfection

Two weeks into their science fellowship with The New York Times, Sabrina Imbler wrote what media Twitter has unofficially but overwhelmingly deemed the world's best headline. the perfect headline...

www.niemanlab.org

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@aznfusion

5 years

no one tells you how much of journalism is going back and replacing "all" with "many," and "many" with "some"

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2 years

the other day I asked some friends who they identified with most in Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights and was shocked to learn many people do not think about this.....but if you do, which little guy are you?!

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1 year

as a former NYT fellow & freelancer, I'm proud to have signed this open letter condemning the paper's surge of unethical anti-trans bias. I encourage anyone unfamiliar with these critiques to read the letter & consider adding your name.

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@aznfusion

3 years

this weekend I went to home depot and saw the most beautiful peach-colored rose on a high shelf, and when I tried to grab it, two other roses fell on top of me and their thorns stabbed my little hands so much that I began crying, like a little Victorian boy who desired too much

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@aznfusion

5 years

This feels surreal to say, but I have a new essay up in @rgay 's new magazine, @GayTheMagazine ! It's about acne, stigma, and the worst seven months of my life. I'd be grateful if you gave it a read 💫

My Queer Skincare Secrets

Taking Accutane as a queer woman means being doubted and disbelieved.

gay.medium.com

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I wrote about how fireflies synchronize their precious little blinking butts, for @NYTScience

How Swarms of Fireflies Sync Their Flashes (Published 2021)

You can believe your eyes because lightning bugs really are coordinating their nightly glows.

www.nytimes.com

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5 years

is this logic internally consistent

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4 years

in this miserable year I got laid off, blew my deadline for my book, fell into a depressive funk, and had to move apartments with 60 author copies of a chapook that was supposed to launch in March. I also started freelancing! and here are some things I wrote that I liked:

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5 years

before/after

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I loved this I loved this I loved this. I—and I cannot stress this enough—loved this.

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3 years

me and the boys, transcending

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4 years

me (26f) and my substack pod (499more) are unionizing

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4 years

the prints / the paws

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4 months

I find this statement by PEN president Jennifer Finney Boylan gross. a distracting, writerly attempt at animal metaphors that dodges the actual criticisms against PEN, an anti-war protest Boylan misrepresents as "authors silencing themselves"

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5 years

tonight at dinner my niece informed everyone that she is a hyena and refuses to eat any food off her own plate because, as she keeps reminding us, hyenas are scavengers

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