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@brookeborel.bsky.social
Articles Editor @undarkmag • Instructor at NYU • Books: Infested (2015) & The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking (2016 & 2023) • She/Her • 🏳️‍🌈
At 1pm ET today, @annarothschild.bsky.social and I are heading over to Reddit for an AMA about AI doom for @undark.org. Swing through!

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November 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The Entanglements podcast @undark.org is back for season 2! Up first, @annarothschild.bsky.social digs into gain-of-function research. What a delight to be working together again on this project: undark.org/2025/08/20/p...
Podcast: Should We Make Viruses More Dangerous – For Science?
Kicking off Entanglements Season 2, our hosts talk to a microbiologist and a virologist about gain-of-function research.
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August 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Congrats, Esther! A well-deserved prize for a very thoughtful piece
The physicians who trusted me with their painful, complicated journeys deserve this award!

Shout-out to @brookeborel.bsky.social & Jane Reza @undark.org for terrific editing & fact-checking

Fuller thoughts on LinkedIn:
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April 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Over the past few years, my work has orbited one central question: What does it mean to live at the cutting edge of science, experiencing a disease researchers don't fully understand? This story, my latest for Undark, probably comes closest to describing what that's like: undark.org/2025/03/03/m...
As Adults Age With MS, Should They Shed Their Meds?
The risks and benefits of immunosuppressive drugs for multiple sclerosis shift with age, but who should quit — and when?
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March 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Don't miss this @undark.org longform by Fletcher Reveley: undark.org/2025/02/19/h... (Thx for the shout out @longreads.com !)
February 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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We're thrilled to be finalists for @ASME1963's National Magazine Awards in the General Excellence, Literature, Science and Politics category. Being recognized alongside journalism's finest is an incredible honor.
ASME ANNOUNCES NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARDS 2025 FINALISTS
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February 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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(1/5) Gain-of-function research involves altering organisms to study risks and benefits, especially for pandemic threats. Its value and risks are widely debated.
December 23, 2024 at 3:15 PM
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🚨 Just about a month left to get your application in for this 11-week PAID opportunity with @science.org this summer!

Budding science journalists, take a look at our requirements and if you fit the bill + are interested, please apply 👇🏽!
Apply for the 2025 Diverse Voices in Science Journalism internship with Science's news team!
Students:
-from a community historically underrepresented in journalism
-with a demonstrated interest in covering science topics for general audiences
This could be for you ⬇️ www.aaas.org/programs/div...
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December 11, 2024 at 7:17 PM
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“But now that human-caused climate change has accelerated, and with devastating effects already underway around the world, what previously appeared to be a risky Hail Mary technofix has gained respectability.”@raminskibba.bsky.social @undark.org #longreads

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Geoengineering Could Alter Global Climate. Should It?
Scientists and companies increasingly support blocking some sunlight to avoid the worst impacts of global warming.
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December 6, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Tired of the widespread discord? Looking for something to listen to over the long holiday weekend? May I suggest @undark.org's new podcast Entanglements, where @annarothschild.bsky.social and I try to cut through the rancor in various thorny scientific debates...?
#science #journalism

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November 27, 2024 at 3:38 PM
Ok, so this is where ya'll have been hanging out???!
November 21, 2024 at 3:09 PM
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Amid sluggish NIH #LongCovid efforts, could
this bottom-up approach yield treatment answers faster?

My latest for Undark undark.org/2023/10/23/l...

Thanks @brookeborel.bsky.social for great editing, and @julierehmeyer.bsky.social for inspiring the story
From a Grassroots Survey to Long Covid Treatment Trials
A pharmacist polled patients on their dozens of medications and supplements. Could these efforts help fight long Covid?
undark.org
October 23, 2023 at 4:47 PM
If you read anything this week, please make it be this deeply reported, months-long Undark investigation into the previously hidden history of the first #rsv vaccine trials, which took place in the 1960s.

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October 10, 2023 at 3:33 PM
Ok are more people here or on the other new one??
July 6, 2023 at 7:40 PM