This is a prolific poster! Showing posts since April 22, 2013.
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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.
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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...1,358 803May 30, 2025 -
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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*
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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.
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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.
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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...1,394 547Dec 11, 2023 -
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“In my life, I’ve never seen anything like this in terms of severity, in terms of scale, and then in terms of speed.” - Arif Husain, United Nations World Food Program, on starvation in Gaza.
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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/...
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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.1,214 423Aug 1, 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...1,491 398Mar 24, 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/1,315 394Nov 14, 2024 -
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Multiple refugee camps. Schools.
UN shelters. An ambulance. Now, a pediatric hospital.643 384Nov 7, 2023 -
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“A death certificate would say he died of sepsis from a bone infection, but my friend and I have a term for the illness that killed him: end-stage poverty.”
An important piece on what healthcare really means, from Lindsay Ryan, one of my fav people.
www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/o...882 348Apr 11, 2024 -
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The speaker shenanigans are happening because y’all laughed too hard at Britain and the lettuce last year
1,793 335Oct 24, 2023 -
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For people now looking to leave Substack, I only have good things to say about my Buttondown experience so far.
Almost worth it just to experience what superb customer service is like in the year of our lord 2023.819 334Dec 21, 2023 -
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"What explains this growing student movement? Sometimes the correct answer is the one right in front of you. The students want an end to a war that has been executed with breathtaking violence and killed more than 34,000 Palestinians, most of them women & children." www.newyorker.com/news/essay/t...
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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 Bay3,013 263Dec 5, 2024 -
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Behold the incandescent fury of… the bushtit. Tremble! Cower! Flee before his terrible works. 🪶
1,379 255Nov 18, 2023 -
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“The work of library defense right now is unapologetically queer.”
Great, rousing piece by @melissagiragrant.com
newrepublic.com/article/1755...674 248Sep 17, 2023 -
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A few people asked why I chose Buttondown over Substack and it’s largely because of stuff like this, and the latter’s history of promoting and platforming reactionaries, transphobes, and other terrible people.
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I wrote a little essay about what birding has done for me in the very short time since I became a birder.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/03/30/o...962 246Mar 30, 2024 -
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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? 1/3,893 244Nov 19, 2024 -
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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...
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Very cool. Betsy Ladyzhets and Miles Griffis have launched THE SICK TIMES--a new digital newsroom devoted to covering long COVID.
Here's the launch letter, and there's a newsletter you can subscribe to: thesicktimes.org/newsletter/
I trust these folks and am excited to see where this goes.388 238Nov 14, 2023
