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Sean B. Carroll is the Balo-Simon Endowed Chair and Distinguished University Professor of Biology at the University of Maryland. He founded and led HHMI Tangled Bank Studios from 2018 to 2023.

Sean B. Carroll

Communication

More Than a Feeling

Katherine Harmon Courage is the executive editor at Nautilus.

Katherine Harmon Courage

The Periscope: Book Weeding, Fact-Checking, and Imperiled Fruit Fly Data

Arts, science, and travel writer Nick Hilden contributes to the likes of the Washington Post, Scientific American, Esquire, Popular Science, National Geographic, and more. You can follow him on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/nickhilden">@nickhilden</a> or Instagram at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nick.hilden/">@nick.hilden</a>.

Nick Hilden

Scientists Are People, Too

Laura Spinney is a writer and science journalist. Her writing on science has appeared in The Guardian, The Economist, Nature and National Geographic, among others. She is the author of two novels, The Doctor (2001) and The Quick (2007), and a collection of oral history, Rue Centrale (2013). Her bestselling non-fiction account of the 1918 flu pandemic, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World (2017), was translated into more than 20 languages. Her latest book, Proto: How Once Ancient Language Went Global, the story of the Indo-European languages, appeared in 2025. She lives in Paris.

Laura Spinney

Chasing Lost Languages

Molly Glick is the newsletter editor of Nautilus.

Molly Glick

The Octopus Propaganda Hidden in Modern Maps

Nautilus Editors

The Most Beautiful Science of the Year

John Steele is the publisher and editorial director of Nautilus.

John Steele

The Sean Carrolls Explain the Universe

The Kinship Issue

Julie Sedivy has taught linguistics and psychology at Brown University and the University of Calgary. She is the author of Language in Mind: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics and most recently, Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love.

Julie Sedivy

I Was Made of Language

What Language Reveals About Us

Michael Akinwumi is an Eagleton Civic Science Fellow who is using large language models to help state legislators evaluate AI-related bills. He has served as the chief AI officer of the National Fair Housing Alliance; he also has a background in financial technology, insurance, and retail banking.

Michael Akinwumi

Science for the People

George Musser is a science writer and editor based in New Jersey. He is the author of several books on fundamental physics, most recently Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation, about observer effects in physics and cosmology. <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/georgemusser.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Follow him on Bluesky</a>.