@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!
www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comme...
www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comme...
From the IAmA community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the IAmA community
www.reddit.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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!
www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comme...
www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comme...
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.
undark.org
August 20, 2025 at 4:17 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...
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:
bit.ly/4cRa1tj
Shout-out to @brookeborel.bsky.social & Jane Reza @undark.org for terrific editing & fact-checking
Fuller thoughts on LinkedIn:
bit.ly/4cRa1tj
April 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Congrats, Esther! A well-deserved prize for a very thoughtful piece
Reposted
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?
undark.org
March 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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...
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
Don't miss this @undark.org longform by Fletcher Reveley: undark.org/2025/02/19/h... (Thx for the shout out @longreads.com !)
🎉🎉🎉
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
www.asme.media
February 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
🎉🎉🎉
Reposted
(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
(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.
Reposted
🚨 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 👇🏽!
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...
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...
www.aaas.org
December 11, 2024 at 7:17 PM
🚨 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 👇🏽!
Budding science journalists, take a look at our requirements and if you fit the bill + are interested, please apply 👇🏽!
Reposted
“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
undark.org/2024/12/03/u...
undark.org/2024/12/03/u...
Geoengineering Could Alter Global Climate. Should It?
Scientists and companies increasingly support blocking some sunlight to avoid the worst impacts of global warming.
undark.org
December 6, 2024 at 3:27 PM
“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
undark.org/2024/12/03/u...
undark.org/2024/12/03/u...
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
(1/4)
#science #journalism
(1/4)
November 27, 2024 at 3:38 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
(1/4)
#science #journalism
(1/4)
Ok, so this is where ya'll have been hanging out???!
November 21, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Ok, so this is where ya'll have been hanging out???!
Reposted
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
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
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
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
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.
undark.org/2023/10/09/r...
undark.org/2023/10/09/r...
October 10, 2023 at 3:33 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.
undark.org/2023/10/09/r...
undark.org/2023/10/09/r...
Ok are more people here or on the other new one??
July 6, 2023 at 7:40 PM
Ok are more people here or on the other new one??