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Ed Yong

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    Whew! Popping back here briefly to discuss a very eventful few days.

    On Sat, a SNOW BUNTING appears at Hayward Regional. 😱 The bird is stunning & super-rare in the East Bay. Many birders go to see it. It's living its best life on a white/brown plastic culvert that it maybe thinks is snow? 1/

    Absolutely stunning white bird with brown/black markings. In the background is a wide grey plastic sheet that's streaked with brown.
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    Nov 19, 2024
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    Mountain bluebird 🪶

    📷Cedar Mountain WInery (which is now closed, but remains very birdy)

    A very blue bluebird against a blue backdrop, perched on a rusty metal piling.
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    Dec 4, 2024
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    I was trying to photograph this beautiful glaucous-winged gull when I got unexpectedly photobombed by a harbor seal that had caught a very large fish--presumably a salmon. 🪶

    📷Ballena Bay

    A white and pale grey gull lifts its wings in the air while, a few feet away, a seal emerges from the water carrying a very large fish, whose tail is visible. The gull is chill; the seal is next to it with the fish. The gull has raised its wings; the seal dgaf and is monching on pink presumably-salmon flesh The gull is opening its beak; the seal is right in front of it tearing fish flesh apart
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    Dec 5, 2024
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    This is so real. I’ve reported on this over the years in many forms. Coral reef scientists. Conservationists caring for endlings. Public health workers in the pandemic. Journalists covering all the above. The people bearing witness are not okay.

    Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net
    One unexpected thing in my qualitative study w natural scientists (one-hour interviews) is how deeply, deeply sad the climate scientists are. They say things like "you have enough information from us, why won't anyone act?" -- the psychological distress these people are enduring is very great.
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    Oct 22, 2023
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    The speaker shenanigans are happening because y’all laughed too hard at Britain and the lettuce last year

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    Oct 24, 2023
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    My XOXO talk is online. It's a v. personal look at what it was like to cover the pandemic, live through it, be broken by it, and heal from it. I talk about my approach to journalism, a 7-part code for being a public figure, why I left the Atlantic, and a lot more. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...

    Ed Yong · Videos · XOXO
    Avid birder and Pulitzer-winning science journalist Ed Yong built a devoted audience for his deeply empathetic coverage of the pandemic for The Atlantic, while his two New York Times bestsellers, ...
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    Oct 10, 2024
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    I think we’ve learned an important lesson today, which is: If you ever run a media company, do not ever create a situation where your poetry editor might have cause to write a resignation letter, because it will scorch you from the face of the earth.

    Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social
    Anne Boyer has resigned as the poetry editor of the New York Times magazine: “Because our status quo is self-expression, sometimes all artists have left is to refuse. So I refuse.”
    I have resigned as poetry editor of The New York Times Magazine. The Israeli state's U.S-backed war against the people of Gaza is not a war for anyone. There is no safety in it or from it, not for Israel, not for the United States or Europe, and especially not for the many Jewish people slandered by those who claim falsely to fight in their names. Its only profit is the deadly profit of oil interests and weapon manufacturers. The world, the future, our hearts everything grows smaller and harder from from it. This is not only a war of missiles and land invasions. It is the ongoing devastation of the people of Palestine, people who have resisted throughout decades of occupation, forced dislocation, deprivation, surveillance, siege, imprisonment, and torture. Because our status quo is self-expression, sometimes all artists have left is to refuse. So I refuse. I won't write about poetry alongside the "reasonable" tones of those who aim to acclimatize us to unreasonable suffering. No more g
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    Nov 16, 2023
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    The Threads logo is basically an Ebola virus.

    The Threads logo, or possibly an Ebola virus An Ebola virus, or possibly the Threads logo
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    Jul 7, 2023
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    My immediate plan is to be offline as much as possible and double-down on my community, especially my local one. Grieve, regroup, plan, endure.

    As @lizneeley.bsky.social first said to me in 2016, “There is no wall to put our back against—except each other.”

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    Nov 7, 2024
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    Your regular reminder that pandemics are social problems, which cannot be solved by the products of biomedical research if the social infrastructure necessary for delivering said products is in fucking tatters.

    Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social
    “Unless they are ill, many adults interact infrequently with the medical establishment. When they do, they may get care in a variety of places — making it no one person’s job to ensure they are up to date with their vaccinations… adults often have to figure this stuff out themselves”
    ‘We’re absolutely making it too hard’: The complexity of adult immunization delivery hinders v...
    The process of keeping track of which vaccines are recommended — and avoiding paying for them out of pocket — has grown increasingly convoluted.
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    Oct 27, 2023
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    This burrowing owl I found a few hours ago has the energy that will carry you through this week. 🪶🦉

    📸 Coyote Hills

    A very serious little owl with a furrowed brow
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    Nov 5, 2024
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    United flight attendant: Would you like breakfast? Today we have French toast.

    Me: OMG I would LOVE some French toast. Thank you. But wow, how do you even make that on a pla…

    Two slices of toasted bread and a pot of Smucker’s breakfast syrup.
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    Oct 6, 2023
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    I’ve had a several dozen requests to write or be interviewed about the 5th anniversary of Covid and said no to all of them… except this one with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social. Here’s our chat on the things we’ve memory-holed, and where we go from here.

    www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

    Ed Yong on the Pandemic’s Legacy on Science Research and Reporting | KQED
    As part of our series looking at the legacy of the pandemic five years on, we talk to Ed Yong about how COVID changed our relationship with health news, reporting and research.
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    Mar 24, 2025
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    I just won the Royal Society Science Book Prize! 🥳 royalsociety.org/grants-schem...

    My best to everyone at the award ceremony in London. Sharing a celebratory drink with you all even though it’s 11.30am here.

    2023 Royal Society Science Book Prize, sponsored by the Trivedi Family Foundation | Royal Society
    Find out more about the 2023 Royal Society Science Book Prize, sponsored by the Trivedi Family Foundation.
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    Nov 22, 2023
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    Mountain bluebird 🪶

    He landed on the marker while I was driving, and I ground to a halt and crept forward at 1mph begging him not to move. 📷

    A blue and white bird on a blue and white road marker
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    Mar 24, 2024
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    I’ve been trying to make this point for two years but every surge like this cumulatively erodes the healthcare system. Every time, more healthcare workers hit the limit where they’ve just had *enough*

    Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social
    Sigh: “After COVID hospitalizations climbed nearly 22% this week, the CDC is predicting further increases over the coming month as new variants spread. This replaces previous projections from the agency that admissions would "remain stable or have an uncertain trend."
    Is masking coming back? As new COVID variants emerge, here's what experts say.
    While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have not announced new mask mandates, some experts say you may want to consider it, depending on your situation.
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    Aug 26, 2023
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    I wrote an op-ed for the NYT about what reporting on long COVID has meant to me—how I approached it, the impact it had, and how it taught me to be a better journalist.

    This piece is sort of a manifesto for a journalism grounded in compassion, rigor, and care.

    www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/o...

    Opinion | Reporting on Long Covid Taught Me to Be a Better Journalist
    Covering long Covid solidified my view that science is not the objective, neutral force that it is often caricatured to be.
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    Dec 11, 2023
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    Behold the incandescent fury of… the bushtit. Tremble! Cower! Flee before his terrible works. 🪶

    Terrifying spectre of death or adorable spherical floof, you decide
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    Nov 18, 2023
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    On the cutting room floor is the bit where the host introduced their interview series, The Interview, and I asked how long it took to come up with the name. Anyway, here’s me talking about birds and science and burnout and moving through the world. The photo’s nice! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

    ‘The Interview’: Ed Yong Wants to Show You the Hidden Reality of the World
    The Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer talks about burnout from covering the pandemic and how bird-watching gave him a new sense of hope.
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    Feb 22, 2025
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    I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding.

    It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.

    unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

    Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking
    How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
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    May 30, 2025
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    The Sick Times--a digital long-COVID newspaper--is 1 yr old today. I couldn't be prouder of what Betsy, Miles, and their team have accomplished. thesicktimes.org/2024/11/14/p...

    If you have the means, pls join me in supporting their end-of-year fundraiser. the-sick-times.fundjournalism.org/donate/

    Press release: The Sick Times announces one year of covering the Long COVID crisis - The Sick Times
    “Our reporting on Long COVID remains as vital today as it did when we launched,” executive editor Miles W. Griffis said. “Many of our colleagues in the media continue to minimize the disease and the o...
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    Nov 14, 2024
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    Common raven, getting their passport photo taken 🪶

    Portrait of a raven
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    Nov 21, 2023
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    Extremely judgmental vermilion flycatcher 🪶

    📷 Reid Park, Tucson

    A red bird looks down upon you and questions your recent decisions
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    Mar 17, 2024
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    Whenever I write about long-covid or ME, I get waves of emails from chronically ill folk who say they feel seen and heard.

    But with this piece on fatigue (and PEM), I'm *also* hearing from healthy people saying that they finally get what their loved ones are going through.

    Which feels amazing.

    Fatigue Can Shatter a Person
    Everyday tiredness is nothing like the depleting symptom that people with long COVID and ME/CFS experience.
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    Aug 1, 2023
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    Two photos of the same Anna’s hummingbird, taken a fraction of a second apart. Iridescence is wild. 🪶

    Little hummingbird looking forward, with vivid magenta over its entire face Same bird, now looking sideways, its formerly magenta face now a drab, dark blackish-purple
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    Jan 14, 2024