Kate Travis

@Kate_Travis

Tweets about science news, food, cycling and silliness. Digital director for . Opinions are mine; RTs are not endorsements.

Washington, DC
Joined January 2009

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    29 Dec 2017

    TFW a coworker says, "You'd be Gonzo."

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  2. 30 Dec 2018

    When your sewing machine is still out from Christmas, your fabric collection includes some planets and an illustration of Voyager 1, complete with solar system and Kuiper Belt, and it's eve ...

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  3. 30 Dec 2018

    Keeping an eye on NASA's DSN for tonight's downlink, and there's something about seeing receiving data from Voyager 2 that just takes my breath away.

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  4. Retweeted
    30 Dec 2018

    Think gingerbread cookies were hard? Try baking an exoplanet.

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  5. 28 Dec 2018

    What were the biggest science stories of 2018? is live on talking about it right now!

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  6. 28 Dec 2018

    The writers of have some predictions on what stories will be big in 2019. Check it out (by me)

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  7. 20 Dec 2018

    So many potential holiday dangers! A gem that didn't make it in: Based on miles traveled by sleigh and the likelihood of death on planes, Santa should have died 4 times since his appearance in the 18th century. A Christmas miracle, that. Story by

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  8. 20 Dec 2018

    "Blogs are no longer one single thing where people do one single thing (if they ever were at all)." One of 's many excellent points in her final post for the Scicurious blog. Super proud of so much of the ground she covered on it.

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  9. 17 Dec 2018

    2018 turned out to be a year of impact. Check out what made the list for the top 10 stories of the year!

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  10. 28 Nov 2018

    shout out to for words, for edits, for illustrations, for the front-end work, Erin Otwell for design, and many more on the team

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  11. 28 Nov 2018

    Just got our trophy for best visual digital storytelling for our opioid overdose feature! Think we'll pass it around like the Stanley Cup, because this one took a village. Story here:

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  12. Retweeted
    14 Nov 2018

    Hi people I'm doing a reddit AMA today on this story about a new crater discovered in northwest come ask me things about it

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  13. 6 Nov 2018

    Dear Someone on the orange line: If you find my polka-dotted umbrella, please take it and use it. Don't sentence cheerful polka dots to a lifetime in 's lost and found.

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  14. Retweeted
    29 Oct 2018

    For my first-ever story in I've covered the cryo-EM-for-small-molecules work everyone is talking about. I couldn't include the teams' actual expletives, but they get a nod in my writeup:

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  15. 25 Oct 2018

    Apologies. There will be a pause in news from because we've all stopped what we're doing to look up our birth years in Time Traveler and discuss it on Slack.

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  16. 25 Oct 2018

    that cobras can be cannibals, and was reassured that scientists do have a sense of humor, particularly when naming their subjects. Latest from

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  17. 24 Oct 2018
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  18. 24 Oct 2018

    Wow. I just read it twice. A lot to unpack there.

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  19. Retweeted
    13 Oct 2018

    Yeah well the Kates can play that game too!!

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  20. 13 Oct 2018

    Thanks to everyone who attended at ! We have more resources for you: -- a doc of resources -- and - a newly created facebook group for science journalism editors!

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  21. 3 Oct 2018

    This Nobel week, I'm sad to hear Leon Lederman passed away - he was the first Nobel laureate I ever interviewed, 21 years ago. He was an excellent communicator, great physicist and champion for STEM education.

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