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Michelle Booth
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lawyer/(sometimes missing) former life in cultural studies of science/ animal lover/ lost but still hopeful
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What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.

lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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That reminds me. CANADIANS: don't forget to get your bread money!

www.canadianbreadsettlement.ca
September 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Explore how medicine has – and still is – failing women. (MIS)Treated, a new TVO Today podcast hosted by @namshine.bsky.social, shares real stories of mistreatment and misdiagnosis, and speaks to the people looking to make a difference. Listen Sept. 30. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/m...
September 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Detained hospital patients. Crushing debt. "Profit before life." How World Bank-backed, for-profit hospitals have destabilized the finances of families across East Africa, co-published with our friends @icij.org

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How the World Bank left African hospital patients "detained" and in crushing debt
It promised to improve health care for the poor through its investments with private equity firms.
www.motherjones.com
July 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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welp I sent an email
May 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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"If you show people pictures of a pointy star-like shape and a puffy cloud-like shape, and you say one is a kiki and one is a bouba, more than 90 per cent of people around the world ... will say the pointy thing is the kiki and the puffy cloud is the bouba" magazine.utoronto.ca/research-ide...
The Hidden Power of Words - University of Toronto Magazine
How verb tenses, word sounds – even abbreviations – shape perceptions, behaviour and trust in a digital world Read More
magazine.utoronto.ca
February 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Today's Missing Middle: @carastern and I talk to @VassB and @denisehearn_ about corporate consolidation, the kayfabe nature of grocery store product competition and their new book 'The Big Fix'.

Episode is free, as always, on YouTube: youtu.be/Uz5DkpZPH2k
January 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Outraged by Jan 6, he spent two years getting inside the top ranks of militias like the Oath Keepers. He was stunningly successful. He penetrated a new generation of militia leaders, which included doctors, cops & government attorneys.

This is his story. www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...
A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....
www.propublica.org
January 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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A devatasting piece of writing by a journalist who becomes homeless. www.esquire.com/news-politic...
My Life As a Homeless Man in America
An extraordinary firsthand account.
www.esquire.com
November 28, 2024 at 3:42 PM
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The best girl there ever was. I’ve been writing this for months in the background.

It’s mainly a love story but also how one dog or person can change the world.

You can pre order here lnk.to/TinaTheDogWh...

Every penny I make goes to building Tina’s hospital 🙏🥰
November 24, 2024 at 4:58 PM
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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, ...
xoxofest.com
October 10, 2024 at 10:08 PM
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It is always deeply charming when the science people on the livestream get all emotional while watching the eclipse 🥹 www.youtube.com/live/LlY79zj...
The Ring of Fire: 2023 Annular Solar Eclipse (Official NASA Broadcast)
Watch live with us as a “ring of fire” eclipse travels across the United States on Oct. 14, 2023, from Oregon to Texas. This event occurs when the Moon passe...
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October 14, 2023 at 4:59 PM
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www.nytimes.com/2023/09/30/s...
#science #feministsky #STS #academicsky #philsky #psychscisky #womeninstem
Evelyn Fox Keller, Who Turned a Feminist Lens on Science, Dies at 87
Trained as a physicist and biologist, she argued that science had become gendered, with a narrow masculine framework that distorted inquiry.
www.nytimes.com
October 3, 2023 at 1:10 AM
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Does something feel off to you?

We’re living through a time of extreme insecurity — pandemic, climate change, affordability crisis, war, and more.

The way through it is together.

www.davidmoscrop.com/p/does-somet...
Does Something Feel Off To You?
We are living through a time of insecurity as we face persistent and overlapping crises. Things bad and could get worse. The way out is through collective action and community.
www.davidmoscrop.com
October 3, 2023 at 3:05 PM
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The September edition of my newsletter, WATCH THIS SPACETIME, is out now! 🎉

Featuring: Aliens! Quantum superposition! Airplane physics! And more! mackkatie.activehosted.com/index.php?ac...
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September 28, 2023 at 2:38 PM
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Wrote about the resurgence of racist pseudoscience on the American right, and the very transparent lies about what its proponents want and believe. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Young Conservatives Trying to Make Eugenics Respectable Again
The pseudoscience of race provides both a justification of hierarchies and an enemy to rail against.
www.theatlantic.com
September 16, 2023 at 1:38 PM