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Nautilus

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

Zoology

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

Rosa JH Berland is a historian and curator of modern and contemporary art and design. She has contributed writing to books, academic collections, peer-reviewed scholarly journals, art magazines, and museum and gallery publications, including Atomic Kid, edited by J. Boyer and G. Marmalade.

Rosa JH Berland

Arts

The Art of the Atomic

Elise Cutts is one of those ex-researchers who realized that writing about science is much more fun than doing it herself. Previously a geobiologist, she now writes about physics, geoscience, and space research in Europe and beyond from her home in Graz, Austria.

Elise Cutts

Astronomy

Searching for Alien Life Along the Cosmic Shoreline

Paul M. Sutter is a research professor in astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at Stony Brook University and a guest researcher at the Flatiron Institute in New York City. He is the author of Your Place in the Universe: Understanding our Big, Messy Existence.

Paul M. Sutter

Neutron Stars Hint at Another Dimension

Liz Lindqwister is a writer originally from Peoria, Illinois. Her reporting on tech, culture, and history has appeared in the San Francisco Standard, STANFORD Magazine, the Library of Congress, and Vox’s Today Explained. A historian by training, Lindqwister holds degrees in early American studies from Stanford University and Cambridge University.

Liz Lindqwister

Health

A Closer Look at the Woolly Devil

Brian Gallagher is an associate editor at Nautilus. Follow him on X (formerly known as Twitter) <a href="https://twitter.com/bsgallagher/" rel="noopener">@bsgallagher</a>.

Brian Gallagher

Philosophy

We Are a Part of Infinity

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

Tom Metcalfe is a science journalist based in London, where he writes mainly about space, energy, archaeology, Earth, and the oceans. He has written for Scientific American, National Geographic, Live Science, NBC News, BBC News, and others.

Tom Metcalfe

How Pebbles Form Planets

Amanda Heidt is an award-winning freelance science journalist and editor covering topics across the life sciences, from ecology and the environment to artificial intelligence and the nitty-grittiest cell and molecular bio.

Amanda Heidt

Geoscience

What Caused the Devastating Earthquake in Myanmar?

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.

Katharine Gammon

History

The Surprising History of Scientific Ballooning in 11 Missions

Ashley Braun is an award-winning freelance science and environmental journalist based in Seattle, Washington. Her reporting has taken her from the United Nations climate summit in Morocco and Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to California’s redwood forests and Washington’s salmon rivers. In her work, she enjoys exploring the dynamic relationships between humans and other species, as well as the intersections of science and society.

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