entity Updated 2026-08-07 Tags: Person, Journalist, Science-Reporting, Podcast, China

苗千 / Miao Qian

EP261 “蜜蜂危机”:如果失去蜜蜂,世界将会怎样? adds Miao Qian’s science-reporting role around bees and insect decline. She distinguishes managed honeybees from the broader wild-bee world, introduces the multi-causal [[WildPollinatorCrisis|wild-pollinator crisis]], and cautions against both the apocryphal “four years without bees” slogan and overly narrow honey-production framing.

Miao Qian is the reporter and [[TalkSanlian|Talk三联]] guest in EP248 在高原与地下,探寻中国“大科学项目”. Her reporting for the [[SanlianLifeWeekly|三联生活周刊]] “大科学时代” cover story took her and photographer Huang Yu across a compressed route that included Lhasa, Ali, Jiangmen, Dongguan, Guizhou, and Wuhan.

Her role in the source is to translate frontier physics into field experience. Instead of presenting [[BigScienceInfrastructure|大科学基础设施]] only as national-scale hardware, she talks through altitude sickness at [[AliPrimordialGravitationalWaveObservatory|阿里原初引力波探测站]], underground water management at [[JiangmenUndergroundNeutrinoObservatory|江门中微子实验]], cleanroom work connected to detector upgrades, and radio-quiet visitor rules at [[FAST|贵州天眼]].

The source also uses Miao Qian to define science reporting as a bridge between knowledge and scene. Her strongest contribution is showing how [[WeakSignalDetection|weak-signal detection]], [[ExtremeEnvironmentPhysics|extreme environments]], and [[ScientistAsProjectOrganizer|scientist-as-project-organizer]] realities can be understood through bodies, routes, machines, and long project timelines.

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