Hello!

Maddie is a science journalist. She’s also a doctor of Earth and environmental sciences, an accolade she earned by digging deep into the soils of Puerto Rico’s rainforests and using fancy lab equipment to unspool the biogeochemical mysteries that define the space between forest floor and bedrock. Yes, you can get a PhD in that.

Maddie is the former science editor of the technology website Gizmodo and the founding editor of Earther, Gizmodo’s climate-focused vertical. She has also edited articles for The Verge, Polygon, and Grist. Maddie’s original and award-winning journalism has appeared in National Geographic, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Grist, Vice, MIT Technology Review, and many other outlets. She also did research for the second season of the Peabody-nominated podcast “This Land.”

An avid science fiction fan, Maddie runs “The Science of Fiction”, an email newsletter that explores the real-world science behind fictional monsters and alien planets. She is also the host of Slate’s “Future Tense Fiction” podcast, where she interviews bestselling science fiction authors about how technology will change the future.

Maddie is available for hire as a science journalist, a researcher, a fact-checker, and an editor, or to evangelize about Star Trek. She believes in Oxford commas.

Maddie lives in Philadelphia with her husband, their rambunctious one-year-old, and their two cats.