Stephanie Nolen
@stephanienolen.bsky.social
Global health reporter, The New York Times. Former correspondent in South Asia, Africa, Latin America and the MidEast. Author, 28 Stories of AIDS in Africa; Promised the Moon. Baker. Canoe tripper. Disease nerd. Lover of a fat novel and Earl Grey tea.
... got myself a measles booster recently because I'm often surrounded by babies with measles eg. on my recent reporting trip to Somalia. But apparently also need to be worried about storytime at my local library back home ...
November 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
... got myself a measles booster recently because I'm often surrounded by babies with measles eg. on my recent reporting trip to Somalia. But apparently also need to be worried about storytime at my local library back home ...
A thing that struck me, when @carloschaccour.bsky.social first told me the story, was how lucky it was that it was his work – which is a rare approach in an understudied field, so the LLM coughed up a mangled version of his own research ... if it had been work on, say, statins, instead ...
November 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
A thing that struck me, when @carloschaccour.bsky.social first told me the story, was how lucky it was that it was his work – which is a rare approach in an understudied field, so the LLM coughed up a mangled version of his own research ... if it had been work on, say, statins, instead ...
I'm branching out from my usual spot on the venn diagram of just, horrifying
November 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I'm branching out from my usual spot on the venn diagram of just, horrifying
U.S. aid was about $500 million a year, over the past decade, for a country battling crippling drought and brutal insurgencies. So far the Trump administration has approved $15 million. I saw the impact, in the lives of the women I met, and their very sick children.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/h...
‘You Could Treat a Child for a Few Dollars.’ Now Those Clinics Are Gone.
www.nytimes.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
U.S. aid was about $500 million a year, over the past decade, for a country battling crippling drought and brutal insurgencies. So far the Trump administration has approved $15 million. I saw the impact, in the lives of the women I met, and their very sick children.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/h...