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Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian (non-fiction) The line between humans and nature is beautifully blurred in Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian’s Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature. Kaishian’s training as a mycologist and her lifelong… Read more: Winter 2026 Book Reviews

The flowers of Manhattan kept me sane during the pandemic. Over the 5 months of the lockdown and gradual re-opening of New York City, they were my substitute for company, and I enjoyed myself (as much as one could during… Read more: Looking for Faces in Flowers During the Pandemic

A New Yorker presents and rates seven of their most salient experiences, in no particular order. They call it the city that never sleeps, call it high-energy, say it grows and even eats people alive. Well, as a near-living entity,… Read more: Making Scents of New York City

When ChatGPT was first made public, I amused myself by asking it to combine the styles of disparate authors. I had just finished reading Ficciones, so I asked ChatGPT to rewrite popular films in Borges’s cerebral voice. The mental image… Read more: Borges’s Eleven

“I don’t know how to describe my work, because it’s not always the same thing. It’s like asking somebody, asking Miles [Davis], “How does your horn sound?” I don’t think he could really tell you why he plays this at… Read more: Basquiat: A Griot and His Skulls

It is 9:48 p.m. on June 25, and I am at Fairbanks International Airport. The airport is bright and spacious, much as Alaska itself had been promised to be, and as I struggle to stay awake while waiting to board,… Read more: Bear With Me: A Dispatch From My Photography Trip to Alaska

Would you continue pursuing scientific curiosity if you had to constantly fight for your place at the bench? What if it were highly likely that your work would be overlooked, minimized, or even written out of history? For many women… Read more: Working Towards Gender Equity in Academic Science Requires Addressing Systemic Barriers

I have spent more of my life in a ballet studio than in a traditional classroom, let alone a laboratory. From a young age, I dreamed of a career as a ballet dancer, and ballet consumed my day-to-day life. I… Read more: From Barre to Bench: When Art and Science Converge

In 2020, Women in Science at Rockefeller (WISeR) and the Women & Science Initiative commissioned a portrait by Brenda Zlamany titled “Five Trailblazing Women Scientists at The Rockefeller University.” This portrait, the University’s first depicting women scientists, was installed in… Read more: Celebrating the Fourth Anniversary of Five Trailblazing Women Scientists at The Rockefeller University

During the 2025 New York City mayoral election, social media was filled with videos of the now-mayor, Zohran Mamdani, listing his favorite places to eat in Queens. The recommendations ranged from hidden gems, like a Bangladeshi halal steam table spot… Read more: A (freezing) Saturday afternoon in Astoria, brought to you by Zohran Mamdani

“There’s a ‘cat condo’ on campus!” a co-worker told me a few weeks after our office moved to the Rockefeller campus this summer. I had to go and see it for myself. Inside a safety net, I found a few… Read more: RU’s (un)official cat rescuer, Kristen Cullen

Migration is woven into the fabric of the scientific community. Many scientists move across regions or continents to pursue opportunities for training, education, and collaboration. These journeys affect both an individual’s life and the trajectory of scientific innovation, fostering diversity… Read more: You Can’t Have Science Without Migration: The Rise of Anti-Immigrant Sentiment is Hurting the Scientific Community

In recent years, Svetlana Mojsov has been the most frequently mentioned name in Rockefeller-related news. During her introductory talk at the Historical Reading of Great Discoveries (HRGD) journal club lunch, Dr. Mojsov walked through key data from her landmark papers… Read more: HRGD Journal Club Interviews Svetlana Mojsov

True—anxious—very, very dreadfully anxious I had been and am. Perhaps even insecure, one would accuse me of being. But not mad. Never mad will you deem me once you have heard my tale. For the sharpest has my intuition always… Read more: The Tell-Tale Buzz

As someone who grew up chronically online, I never would have guessed that dance videos and SpongeBob memes could be used as tools for teaching science. Yet here we are. Scientists and medical professionals are breaking down complex concepts through… Read more: Platforms, Podcasts, and Politics

    Postdocs at Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) are fighting to secure our first contract almost two years after voting overwhelmingly to form a union. In November 2023, postdocs voted by 99% to establish Weill Cornell Medicine Postdocs United-UAW (WCMPU-UAW)… Read more: Weill Cornell Medicine Postdocs Fight for a Fair Contract