Professing science journalism, directing NYU's SHERP. 62-time loser, 1-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. Probably off chasing 🦋 somewhere.https://bsky.app/profile/danfagin.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/danfagin.bsky.social/post/3mfpk6ungfk2hHey, it’s the mako shark specimen at the American Museum of Natural History that inspired you-know-what! No it wasn’t a great white, it was a mako caught in New Zealand in 1939.25 Feb 2026 20:42 +0000at://did:plc:2ciamv6ibdolrlhkgwt446wx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfpk6ungfk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/danfagin.bsky.social/post/3mehl6rrwks2uHi @lizneeley.bsky.social, can you send me an email address and/or phone where I can reach you? Thanks! Dan dan.fagin@nyu.edu09 Feb 2026 23:13 +0000at://did:plc:2ciamv6ibdolrlhkgwt446wx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mehl6rrwks2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/danfagin.bsky.social/post/3m75ztqjogk2wTalkin' #monarchs @scifri.bsky.social, starting at 16:15. https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/bats-agave-pollinator-monarch-migration-tracking/ The @nytimes.com story is here (gift link): https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/science/monarch-butterfly-migration-tracking-sensor.html?campaign_id=34&emc=edit_sc_20251118&instance_id=166624&nl=science-times&regi_id=1391996&segment_id=210821&user_id=1afad343703727897fdf7d269009d0cb&fbclid=IwY2xjawOeZexleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETE0dGNXZmhqRUVTTTJzWXlFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHmKPeWa3zOG9PJqjHzCPmQEzgbKVj1jjpmBAftMtJHs0KMA2vskv37c8TcEH_aem_snlenBRb6eGkkS8q5KYq7g04 Dec 2025 13:03 +0000at://did:plc:2ciamv6ibdolrlhkgwt446wx/app.bsky.feed.post/3m75ztqjogk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/danfagin.bsky.social/post/3m6k4mijwqs2kDo this, people! It's a great award! [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Nov 2025 14:59 +0000at://did:plc:2ciamv6ibdolrlhkgwt446wx/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6k4mijwqs2khttps://bsky.app/profile/danfagin.bsky.social/post/3m5tqxyuhok2fTaking a break from book writing to do this fun story! (gift link) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/science/monarch-butterfly-migration-tracking-sensor.html?unlocked_article_code=1.108.w18T.8m0O7fbF7NXR&smid=url-share17 Nov 2025 17:32 +0000at://did:plc:2ciamv6ibdolrlhkgwt446wx/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5tqxyuhok2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/danfagin.bsky.social/post/3m4ypd2d4ok2jEqual justice under slaw. https://www.reuters.com/world/washington-sandwich-thrower-cleared-assaulting-us-agent-2025-11-06/06 Nov 2025 23:21 +0000at://did:plc:2ciamv6ibdolrlhkgwt446wx/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4ypd2d4ok2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/danfagin.bsky.social/post/3m4u5urbll22aI'm just wondering what job Eric Adams is going to get in the Cuomo administration.05 Nov 2025 03:58 +0000at://did:plc:2ciamv6ibdolrlhkgwt446wx/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4u5urbll22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/danfagin.bsky.social/post/3lsvvu237dk23Big day in the NY Times for NYU SHERP. Congratulations William Herkewitz (SHERP 31) and @alexaroblesgil.bsky.social (SHERP 42)! https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/opinion/usaid-ending.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/science/jaws-sharks-research.html01 Jul 2025 14:28 +0000at://did:plc:2ciamv6ibdolrlhkgwt446wx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsvvu237dk23https://bsky.app/profile/danfagin.bsky.social/post/3lpwsblvxn22l"Advice" from someone who has insisted on surrounding himself with yes men (and women) his ENTIRE LIFE. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/24/us/trump-news24 May 2025 18:41 +0000at://did:plc:2ciamv6ibdolrlhkgwt446wx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpwsblvxn22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/danfagin.bsky.social/post/3lo4di5x5hs2oBravissimo!01 May 2025 12:42 +0000at://did:plc:2ciamv6ibdolrlhkgwt446wx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lo4di5x5hs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/danfagin.bsky.social/post/3lnxc25d3lk2jI signed. Beilock's stance is both wrong and witless. If your policy of "institutional restraint" doesn't exempt the greatest threat to higher education in memory, then your policy is actually institutional silence. And if you give in to the bully once, then he'll take your lunch money every day. https://chng.it/qy6Gxf2ZHy29 Apr 2025 12:32 +0000at://did:plc:2ciamv6ibdolrlhkgwt446wx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnxc25d3lk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/danfagin.bsky.social/post/3lnnibzywfk2nUniversal message.25 Apr 2025 14:58 +0000at://did:plc:2ciamv6ibdolrlhkgwt446wx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnnibzywfk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/danfagin.bsky.social/post/3lmuded4rpk2u#Cornell friends, looking forward to seeing you April 24! Thanks for spreading the word! https://events.cornell.edu/event/university-lecturer-professor-dan-fagin15 Apr 2025 14:53 +0000at://did:plc:2ciamv6ibdolrlhkgwt446wx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmuded4rpk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/danfagin.bsky.social/post/3lg7gfjvnn22p2nd inaugurals then & now: "With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds." "We are going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America."20 Jan 2025 22:50 +0000at://did:plc:2ciamv6ibdolrlhkgwt446wx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lg7gfjvnn22phttps://bsky.app/profile/danfagin.bsky.social/post/3lftcir3fm226@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social Hi Rob, I don't think we've met, which is surprising, but I've admired your work for years and would like to put you in front of my EJ grad students this spring. Since I don't have your email, can you email me at dan.fagin@nyu.edu so I can explain? Thanks!16 Jan 2025 03:08 +0000at://did:plc:2ciamv6ibdolrlhkgwt446wx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lftcir3fm226https://bsky.app/profile/danfagin.bsky.social/post/3lctrne7vh22kIf this is a dream, don't wake me. [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Dec 2024 03:24 +0000at://did:plc:2ciamv6ibdolrlhkgwt446wx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lctrne7vh22khttps://bsky.app/profile/danfagin.bsky.social/post/3lbxm7iwk7s24The Big Pedosky. [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Nov 2024 22:32 +0000at://did:plc:2ciamv6ibdolrlhkgwt446wx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbxm7iwk7s24https://bsky.app/profile/danfagin.bsky.social/post/3lbt4ben5js25We're here! go.bsky.app/B6LJP7U [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Nov 2024 03:36 +0000at://did:plc:2ciamv6ibdolrlhkgwt446wx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbt4ben5js25https://bsky.app/profile/danfagin.bsky.social/post/3lbt4ben5js25We're here! go.bsky.app/B6LJP7U [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Nov 2024 03:36 +0000at://did:plc:2ciamv6ibdolrlhkgwt446wx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbt4ben5js25https://bsky.app/profile/danfagin.bsky.social/post/3lbszigfzck2kI guess the game here is to extract small concessions, claim they're huge concessions, and then move on to the next outrageous performance. Good timing with overdoses and crossings going down, more "victories" to claim. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11/25/us/trump-news?campaign_id=190&emc=edit_ufn_20241126&instance_id=140610&nl=from-the-times&regi_id=86305506&segment_id=184135&user_id=3bed5977398771b5fc21a7ce850077f026 Nov 2024 02:46 +0000at://did:plc:2ciamv6ibdolrlhkgwt446wx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbszigfzck2khttps://bsky.app/profile/danfagin.bsky.social/post/3lbse4i6nck2qBear with me, it's a thread... Long before Senator Harris of California, there was another Senator Harris who ALSO ran twice for president: Oklahoma's own Fred Harris. He was a very interesting guy -- a liberal(ish) populist who managed to be elected twice to the Senate from an arch-conservative...25 Nov 2024 20:24 +0000at://did:plc:2ciamv6ibdolrlhkgwt446wx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbse4i6nck2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/danfagin.bsky.social/post/3lbie6gs6bk2rAnother win for Jimmy Madison. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11/21/us/trump-gaetz-news?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare21 Nov 2024 20:58 +0000at://did:plc:2ciamv6ibdolrlhkgwt446wx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbie6gs6bk2r