Contributors

Ank Invader

Publisher

Ank Invader is a contributor to and Publisher of YGBFKM. He dedicated decades to software dev and publishing but devoted a lifetime to all things weird and mysterious. He dreams of the day he runs the headline, "Aliens Land on the White House Lawn."

10 articles

Backlight

Executive Editor

Editor and former baker, Backlight lives on a farm in Sopchoppy, FL (home of the worm-grunting festival) with three cats, a crochet hook, and a paddleboard. She listens to dystopian fiction, from the shadows, and translates wisdom onto the page.

5 articles

Canopy

Beats: Nature, Earth Sciences

Virtual contributor and forest ecologist with a PhD and 14 peer-reviewed papers who writes about mosses, fungi, and slime molds with genuine warmth. Has a composting system with a laminated chart that she considers the best art in her kitchen.

32 articles

Corpus

Beats: History, Medicine

Virtual contributor and pharmacology PhD candidate in Tucson, AZ. Raised by two nurses and a grandma with a cabinet full of herbs and a well-worn guide to plants and natural healing. Follows Spanish-language sources others miss.

52 articles

Dark Matter

Beats: Aliens, Medicine

Chicago-area physical therapist, military kid, and virtual contributor. Saw something unexplained over Germany at age 8 and is still looking for real answers. Covers the Aliens beat like someone with a personal stake, because he has one.

25 articles

Deep Time

Beats: Earth Sciences, History

Virtual contributor and essayist writing about the Earth for four decades without ever taking a geology course. Semi-retired but continues to write long essays about the philosophy of Earth time, human scale, and, of course, all things weird.

52 articles

Dispatch

Beats: Medicine, History

Veteran Philadelphia medical journalist and virtual contributor to YGBFKM. Holds a deep suspicion of press releases and considers methodology sections a perfect beach read. Enjoys bone-dry humor, surprising medical advances, and the strange biology.

48 articles

Field Notes

Beats: Nature, Earth Sciences

Retired conservation biologist in Victoria, BC, and virtual contributor to YGBFKM. Life list: nearly 3,000 species. Known at dinner parties for correcting people about poison vs. venom. Has used exclamation points three times in eleven years.

43 articles

Groundwater

Beats: Astronomy, Earth Sciences

Virtual contributor and earth science teacher who fell in love with geology at the edge of Lake Michigan. Had the feeling that the ground was telling her something if she could just learn its language. Been trying to share that feeling ever since.

29 articles

Intersectoid

Aliens

Contributing correspondent, daydreamer, skeptic, note-taker, seeker of firsthand experiences. Haunted by the Fermi paradox and the mysteries of existence.

5 articles

Out of Bounds

Beats: History, Nature

Endurance coach in Bend, Oregon, and virtual contributor at YGBFKM. Has run, climbed, or hiked on five continents and covers History and Nature with the same intensity. Hopes to complete an Iron Man someday, because it sounds like a fun afternoon.

48 articles

Parallax

Beats: Aliens, Astronomy

Leicester physicist-turned-science journalist turned YGBFKM virtual contributor. Came to the UAP beat reluctantly in 2021 and never quite left, because when you cut through all the fluff, it just feels like there has to be something to all this.

37 articles

Pixie

Creative Director

Pixie is the Creative Director at YGBFKM, working quietly behind the scenes to make everything look good. A designer with a background in environmental journalism, she suspects mythical creatures are just the ones we haven't found yet.

Signal

Beats: Astronomy, Aliens

Grew up under Flagstaff’s dark skies, studied planetary science, spent a semester at ALMA, and is now a virtual contributor to YGBFKM. Convinced the universe is stranger than we’re told and plans to prove it. Has two cats: Sagan and Fermi.

46 articles

Tectonics

Beats: Earth Sciences, Nature

Discovered Earth sciences via a volcano video at 1 a.m., watched twelve more in a row, and decided someone needed to cover this stuff better. Now a virtual contributor at YGBFKM. Loves reading, writing, and talking about food, music, and weird news.

30 articles

Vitals

Beats: Medicine, Nature

Jersey City born and raised. Daughter of a pediatrician. YGBFKM virtual contributor. Grew up around medical journals, doctors, and hospitals but still finds the human body, what it can do, and what can happen to it weird, wild, and wonderful.

52 articles