R. Coxeter
@ruthcoxeter.bsky.social
Life science news and startups. Producer. Editor. New Yorker.
Another gorgeous rainy day in Central Park.
November 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Another gorgeous rainy day in Central Park.
“This should definitely be an episode of ‘Silicon Valley. Reboot the show!”
SF tech founders go to finishing school — and Garry Tan does not approve
The founders learned how to shake hands and bump caviar at Slow Ventures’ “Etiquette Finishing School.”
sfstandard.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
“This should definitely be an episode of ‘Silicon Valley. Reboot the show!”
😶 PSA: Reading this op-ed is time you can’t get back.
November 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
😶 PSA: Reading this op-ed is time you can’t get back.
“The worst advice people get when they're being interviewed is to show up with these 3 points that they're supposed to repeat over and over and over again. But the best interviews, the ones that you like the most, are the ones where it feels like the person is actually grappling with the question.”
ReThinking: The art of the interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin
Podcast Episode · Worklife with Adam Grant · 10/21/2025 · 37m
podcasts.apple.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
“The worst advice people get when they're being interviewed is to show up with these 3 points that they're supposed to repeat over and over and over again. But the best interviews, the ones that you like the most, are the ones where it feels like the person is actually grappling with the question.”
My kind of longevity story:“somewhere where every subject in the world can come up, and any type of person in the world might walk in.”
One Bookstore, 3 Sisters and 100 Years
www.nytimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
My kind of longevity story:“somewhere where every subject in the world can come up, and any type of person in the world might walk in.”
NYC Marathon Sunday countdown…
October 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
NYC Marathon Sunday countdown…
“The vast majority (96%) of investors believe AI will have a net positive impact on worker productivity. However, only 47% of the public say AI will result in a net positive impact on productivity.”
New JUST Capital Survey Shows American Public and Investors Disagree on Key AI Issues. One Area Of Alignment? More Spending on Safety. — JUST Capital
As executives race to deploy AI's transformative potential, another urgent question looms: What do the people who determine a company's success — employees, consumers, communities, and investors — ac...
justcapital.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
“The vast majority (96%) of investors believe AI will have a net positive impact on worker productivity. However, only 47% of the public say AI will result in a net positive impact on productivity.”
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Just out: @wsj.com op-ed I wrote on why I see such hope in the longevity movement, despite often dubious science & frequently exaggerated claims; in short: we're embracing agency, recognizing that we have a measure of control over our long-term health. wsj.com/opinion/nobo... (gift link).
Opinion | Nobody Ever Got Younger, but It May Be Worth a Try
The science behind the longevity movement is dubious. But the trend is promoting healthy habits.
wsj.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Just out: @wsj.com op-ed I wrote on why I see such hope in the longevity movement, despite often dubious science & frequently exaggerated claims; in short: we're embracing agency, recognizing that we have a measure of control over our long-term health. wsj.com/opinion/nobo... (gift link).
“It is a head trip to think that this very sentence you are reading, and maybe even my willingness to share personal medical details, may, in some minor way, be informed by demyelination in my frontal lobe, an area believed to affect planning, decision-making, and memory.”
On My Last Leg
An illness returns after a quarter century.
www.newyorker.com
October 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
“It is a head trip to think that this very sentence you are reading, and maybe even my willingness to share personal medical details, may, in some minor way, be informed by demyelination in my frontal lobe, an area believed to affect planning, decision-making, and memory.”
Fall games. Washington Square Park.
October 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Fall games. Washington Square Park.
“Women must now live in a world in which phone manufacturers think we have hands the size of bears and jeans manufacturers think we have hands the size of pixies.”
Why can’t I buy a small smartphone?
Capitalism is not giving me what I want, but I’m not behaving like a good free market consumer myself
www.irishtimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
“Women must now live in a world in which phone manufacturers think we have hands the size of bears and jeans manufacturers think we have hands the size of pixies.”
“Mismanaging HHS endangers America’s health, undermines national security and damages our economic resilience and international credibility.”
Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans
It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:40 PM
“Mismanaging HHS endangers America’s health, undermines national security and damages our economic resilience and international credibility.”
When you search the Anthropic database on a lark and find your great aunt’s novels along with a relative’s math books. 😶
October 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
When you search the Anthropic database on a lark and find your great aunt’s novels along with a relative’s math books. 😶
Same. “She has developed a habit of texting her daily Wordle score to a selection of friends, including Allison Janney, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Charlize Theron. Burnett doesn’t use a regular starting word, as many players do, but plucks a new guess each day ‘from the universe.’”
Carol Burnett Plays On
The ninety-two-year-old comedy legend has influenced generations of performers. In a string of recent TV roles, she has been co-starring with some of her closest comedic heirs.
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September 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Same. “She has developed a habit of texting her daily Wordle score to a selection of friends, including Allison Janney, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Charlize Theron. Burnett doesn’t use a regular starting word, as many players do, but plucks a new guess each day ‘from the universe.’”
Great Q&A with Lisa Suennen, managing partner at AHA Ventures, which oversees $200M in assets: “Inherent in the mission is to reduce barriers to care and to try to make things more accessible. If this is going to make it a lot more expensive to get the same outcome, that is not a good investment.”
As investor for AHA, ‘Venture Valkyrie’ argues ‘good medicine is good business’
Lisa Suennen: "If this is going to make it a lot more expensive to get the same outcome, that is not a good investment."
www.statnews.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Great Q&A with Lisa Suennen, managing partner at AHA Ventures, which oversees $200M in assets: “Inherent in the mission is to reduce barriers to care and to try to make things more accessible. If this is going to make it a lot more expensive to get the same outcome, that is not a good investment.”
“There will be preventable deaths that result from these decisions,” said Dr. Panagiotakopoulos, who oversaw the CDC’s work group on the Covid vaccine before she resigned in June. “Having people without vaccine and clinical expertise having the power to harm so much of the public is unbearable.”
Kennedy’s Vaccine Panel Votes to Limit Access to Covid Shots
www.nytimes.com
September 19, 2025 at 11:58 PM
“There will be preventable deaths that result from these decisions,” said Dr. Panagiotakopoulos, who oversaw the CDC’s work group on the Covid vaccine before she resigned in June. “Having people without vaccine and clinical expertise having the power to harm so much of the public is unbearable.”
Sunday’s NYT cooking newsletter is always a comfort read, including Sifton’s listening and reading recs — like this Dorothy Parker piece in the London Review of Books.
Kasia Boddy · Pretty Garrotte: Why we need Dorothy Parker
While she always insisted that she wasn’t a ‘real’ critic, Parker is more astute than most on matters of style,...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Sunday’s NYT cooking newsletter is always a comfort read, including Sifton’s listening and reading recs — like this Dorothy Parker piece in the London Review of Books.
Central Park edit bench. Bright-winged flyer.
September 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Central Park edit bench. Bright-winged flyer.
“We are great in science. Why would we want to destroy one of our greatest assets?” -Harold Varmus, former NIH director and Nobel-winning cancer researcher
Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer
www.nytimes.com
September 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
“We are great in science. Why would we want to destroy one of our greatest assets?” -Harold Varmus, former NIH director and Nobel-winning cancer researcher
Just remarkable: “Recorded life expectancy of a person with CF was generally months to a few years when Dorothy Andersen first described the disease; today, the estimated median age of survival for persons with CF who were born between 2020 and 2024 and have access to treatment is 65 years.”
Transformative Research in Cystic Fibrosis | NEJM
Michael Welsh, Jesús González, and Paul Negulescu have won the 2025 Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for their roles in developing treatments for cystic fibrosis.
www.nejm.org
September 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Just remarkable: “Recorded life expectancy of a person with CF was generally months to a few years when Dorothy Andersen first described the disease; today, the estimated median age of survival for persons with CF who were born between 2020 and 2024 and have access to treatment is 65 years.”
“You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now. You start building your private New York the first time you lay eyes on it.”
The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01; Lost and Found (Published 2001)
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
“You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now. You start building your private New York the first time you lay eyes on it.”
Central Park: New Yorker with a strong sense of personal space.
September 9, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Central Park: New Yorker with a strong sense of personal space.
Dealbook on cancer research megamerger: Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation & Mark Foundation for Cancer Research (founded by the hedge fund billionaire Alex Knaster) “create a new initiative to research how aging affects cancer risk.”
The Stakes of the Murdoch Family’s Peace Deal
www.nytimes.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Dealbook on cancer research megamerger: Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation & Mark Foundation for Cancer Research (founded by the hedge fund billionaire Alex Knaster) “create a new initiative to research how aging affects cancer risk.”
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The photographer Gilles Peress reached the World Trade Center just before the second tower collapsed. @pgourevitch.bsky.social reflects on Peress’s photograph of first responders at the scene. “There it is: ashes to ashes, dust to dust, no metaphors.” #NewYorker100
Philip Gourevitch on Gilles Peress’s Photo from September 11th
Peress reached the World Trade Center just as the second tower collapsed.
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September 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The photographer Gilles Peress reached the World Trade Center just before the second tower collapsed. @pgourevitch.bsky.social reflects on Peress’s photograph of first responders at the scene. “There it is: ashes to ashes, dust to dust, no metaphors.” #NewYorker100