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Nautilus

Stephen S. Hall writes about the intersection of science and society in books, magazine articles, and essays, primarily in The New York Times Magazine. He is the author of five previous critically acclaimed books, including Invisible Frontiers and Merchants of Immortality. He has received numerous awards, including in 2004 the Science in Society Journalism Award for book writing from the National Association of Science Writers. In addition to science, Hall has written extensively about travel, baseball, and Italy. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and two children.

Stephen S. Hall

Zoology

Snakes Break All the Rules

Brandon Keim (<a href="https://brandonkeim.substack.com">Substack</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/9brandon/">Instagram</a> |<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/brandonkeim.bsky.social">Bluesky</a> | <a href="https://mastodon.social/home">Mastodon</a>) is a freelance journalist and contributing editor at Nautilus. His new book, <a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324007081">Meet the Neighbors</a>, explores what the science of animal intelligence means for how we understand and live with the wild creatures around us.

Brandon Keim

How Animals Understand Death

Marina Wang is a multimedia journalist from Calgary, Alberta. Her work has appeared in Hakai, Atlas Obscura, CBC, Science Magazine, Canadian Geographic, and many other publications.

Marina Wang

Destruction for Thee, Habitat for Me

<a href="https://www.evameijer.nl/en/indexen.html">Eva Meijer</a> is a philosopher working at the University of Amsterdam, a writer, and a visual artist. Their books include <a href="https://www.aup.nl/nl/book/9789048564422/multispecies-dialogues">Multispecies Dialogues: Doing Philosophy with Animals, Children, the Sea and Others</a> and <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262044035/animal-languages/">Animal Languages</a>. Meijer is also a member of the <a href="https://themultispeciescollective.cargo.site/">Multispecies Collective</a>.

Eva Meijer

Living with Lab Mice

Kevin Berger is the editor at large of Nautilus.

Kevin Berger

We Could Have Been Warthogs

Katherine Harmon Courage is the executive editor at Nautilus.

Katherine Harmon Courage

We’re All Wild Things

Jude Isabella is the executive editor of bioGraphic. A science journalist for over 30 years, her main interests are the environment, ecology, and archaeology in her own writing. Jude was the founding editor of <a href="https://hakaimagazine.com/">Hakai Magazine</a>, an online publication focused on coastal science and societies that she also steered as editor-in-chief for 10 years.

Jude Isabella

The Birds Eat the Bees

Mike Stark is a journalist and writer based in Tucson, Arizona. He is the author of several books, including Chasing the Ghost Bear: On the Trail of America&#8217;s Lost Super Beast. You can read more about his work at <a href="https://mikestarkwrites.com/">mikestarkwrites.com</a>.

Mike Stark

The Starlings’ Curious Odyssey

Vanessa Minke-Martin is a science writer and former fish biologist who lives on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

Vanessa Minke-Martin

Discovering the First Intersex Southern Right Whale

Avery Schuyler Nunn is a California-based science storyteller. She has contributed words and photographs to National Geographic, Smithsonian Magazine, Popular Science, Grist, Whalebone Magazine, and The Inertia, among other publications.

Avery Schuyler Nunn

The Mystery of the Pregnant Rays

Katharine Gammon is a freelance science writer based in Santa Monica, California, who writes about environment, science, and parenting. You can find her on X (formerly known as Twitter) @kategammon.