Torie Bosch
@thekibosch.bsky.social
Opinion editor at STAT. Send your conversation-starting medicine/life sciences opinion pieces my way! https://www.statnews.com/first-opinion-submission
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
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November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
I'm thinking about getting my 1-year-old a Ms. Rachel doll for Christmas and asked the Amazon AI what songs it sings. How amazing would this be?
November 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I'm thinking about getting my 1-year-old a Ms. Rachel doll for Christmas and asked the Amazon AI what songs it sings. How amazing would this be?
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Many physicians hadn’t seen #measles for years, now we’re seeing outbreaks again.’ @drsethberkley.bsky.social on @statnews.com pod with @thekibosch.bsky.social discussing how complacency and social media fuel vaccine hesitancy.
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A global health expert on Covid’s lessons — and warnings — for the future
“It is evolutionarily certain that we will have more outbreaks, more pandemics, and frankly, they could be significantly worse than Covid,” says global health expert Seth Berkley.
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November 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Many physicians hadn’t seen #measles for years, now we’re seeing outbreaks again.’ @drsethberkley.bsky.social on @statnews.com pod with @thekibosch.bsky.social discussing how complacency and social media fuel vaccine hesitancy.
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FDA’s top drug regulator placed on leave amid investigation www.statnews.com/2025/11/02/f... from @lizzylawrence.bsky.social and @adamfeuerstein.bsky.social
FDA’s top drug regulator placed on leave amid investigation
George Tidmarsh, the FDA's top drug regulator, has been placed on leave after being accused of abusing his regulatory authority, STAT has learned.
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November 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
FDA’s top drug regulator placed on leave amid investigation www.statnews.com/2025/11/02/f... from @lizzylawrence.bsky.social and @adamfeuerstein.bsky.social
On the @statnews.com First Opinion Podcast today, I spoke with Dr. Richard Besser, president of RWJF and former acting director of the CDC, about the "heartbreaking" CDC situation, anger at public health, and the necessity of engaging with people you disagree with. www.statnews.com/2025/10/15/r...
Former acting CDC director on public health changes: ‘absolutely heartbreaking’
“I used to think that I couldn’t be surprised,” says RWJF’s Richard Besser. But this HHS constantly alarms him.
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October 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
On the @statnews.com First Opinion Podcast today, I spoke with Dr. Richard Besser, president of RWJF and former acting director of the CDC, about the "heartbreaking" CDC situation, anger at public health, and the necessity of engaging with people you disagree with. www.statnews.com/2025/10/15/r...
This might be my proudest professional accomplishment
In this week's #FreeFictionFriday feature, "Bigfeet" by @thekibosch.bsky.social , a group of scientists successfully brings an extinct species back from the dead: the elusive Bigfoot. The main problem? It never actually existed in the first place!
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October 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This might be my proudest professional accomplishment
We've updated the opinion submissiong uidelines on @statnews.com to give some more granular information about what we're looking for. You can find them here: www.statnews.com/first-opinio...
Guidelines for writing and submitting essays to First Opinion
First Opinion, STAT’s platform for opinion and first-person essays, welcomes submissions about topics related to the life sciences, including policy,
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October 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
We've updated the opinion submissiong uidelines on @statnews.com to give some more granular information about what we're looking for. You can find them here: www.statnews.com/first-opinio...
On this week's episode of the @statnews.com First Opinion Podcast, I spoke with Joy Lisi Rankin and Samyukta Mullangi about when cancer patients decline treatment--and the way oncologists should respond #STATOpinionPod www.statnews.com/2025/10/08/b...
When patients refuse cancer treatment
“When I think of patients who refuse treatment, I don't automatically assume they're uninformed. I kind of assume that they're just informed by different facts.”
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October 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
On this week's episode of the @statnews.com First Opinion Podcast, I spoke with Joy Lisi Rankin and Samyukta Mullangi about when cancer patients decline treatment--and the way oncologists should respond #STATOpinionPod www.statnews.com/2025/10/08/b...
The @statnews.com First Opinion Podcast is back, baby. For this season's premiere episode, I spoke with Morgan "Dr. Noc" McSweeney, who has become a science communication rockstar on social media. www.statnews.com/2025/10/01/d...
Science social media star Dr. Noc on the value of edutainment
“I'm never going to speak to everyone. We need a much greater diversity of science communicators and researchers and experts making content,” Dr. Noc says on the “First Opinion Podcast.”
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October 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The @statnews.com First Opinion Podcast is back, baby. For this season's premiere episode, I spoke with Morgan "Dr. Noc" McSweeney, who has become a science communication rockstar on social media. www.statnews.com/2025/10/01/d...
Today @statnews.com launches Neurotransmissions, a new opinion column by @pennmemorycenter.bsky.social's Jason Karlawish. Neurotransmissions will focus on the revolution in dementia diagnosis and treatment, and the questions it raises. Read the first column: www.statnews.com/2025/09/29/d...
The way we talk about dementia is about to change completely
“The more we talk, debate, even sometimes argue, the more we can live well with a mind altered by these progressive, disabling brain diseases,” Jason Karlawish writes.
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September 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Today @statnews.com launches Neurotransmissions, a new opinion column by @pennmemorycenter.bsky.social's Jason Karlawish. Neurotransmissions will focus on the revolution in dementia diagnosis and treatment, and the questions it raises. Read the first column: www.statnews.com/2025/09/29/d...
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September 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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If you just cancelled Disney+ and you’re wondering what do to with that extra money, one option: STAT is running a big sale right now, you can get 10 months for $10 marketing.statnews.com/stat-10th-st...
STAT's 10-year anniversary sale
Join us as we mark a decade of health, medicine, and science reporting and access award-winning journalism, discounted event tickets and merch, and more.
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September 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
If you just cancelled Disney+ and you’re wondering what do to with that extra money, one option: STAT is running a big sale right now, you can get 10 months for $10 marketing.statnews.com/stat-10th-st...
I have feelings about the phrase "lived experience." Read more about them in the weekly First Opinion newsletter from @statnews.com www.statnews.com/signup/first...
September 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I have feelings about the phrase "lived experience." Read more about them in the weekly First Opinion newsletter from @statnews.com www.statnews.com/signup/first...
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On the Trump administration's cruel disbanding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium: my op-ed @statnews.com
My 12-year-old son died from brain cancer. This research would have helped children like him
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My 12-year-old son died from brain cancer. This research would have helped children like him
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The Trump admin’s cruel disbanding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium
My 12-year-old son died from brain cancer. The defunding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium will deny treatments to children like him.
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September 15, 2025 at 10:12 AM
On the Trump administration's cruel disbanding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium: my op-ed @statnews.com
My 12-year-old son died from brain cancer. This research would have helped children like him
www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/p...
My 12-year-old son died from brain cancer. This research would have helped children like him
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Early career journalists, consider applying for Fulbright Germany's Berlin Capital Program. I did it back in 2011 and absolutely loved it. The program culminates with a weeklong trip to Germany in September 2026.
Learn more here: fulbright.de/en/grants/pr...
Learn more here: fulbright.de/en/grants/pr...
Berlin Capital Program for Journalists
The Berlin Capital Program is a one-week seminar offering US journalists a closer look at the German media landscape and German and European society.
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September 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Early career journalists, consider applying for Fulbright Germany's Berlin Capital Program. I did it back in 2011 and absolutely loved it. The program culminates with a weeklong trip to Germany in September 2026.
Learn more here: fulbright.de/en/grants/pr...
Learn more here: fulbright.de/en/grants/pr...
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My thoughts on the unpublished study unveiled at today’s hearing on the state of vaccine safety science.
Big thanks to @thekibosch.bsky.social
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Big thanks to @thekibosch.bsky.social
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RFK Jr. ally’s ‘smoking gun’ study on vaccines and chronic illness is fundamentally flawed
Bogus study on vaccines and chronic illness presented at Senate presents “a dangerous precedent for how science is weighed in policymaking,” infectious disease expert writes.
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September 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
My thoughts on the unpublished study unveiled at today’s hearing on the state of vaccine safety science.
Big thanks to @thekibosch.bsky.social
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Big thanks to @thekibosch.bsky.social
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I'm so proud to be part of @STATNews, the definitive source for reporting (and dare I say opinion!) on health and medical news at a time when it is very much needed. Happy birthday, STAT!
STAT is 10!
Join us in reflecting on a decade of reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine.
We’re proud that since 2015 we’ve delivered urgent, authoritative, and impactful journalism.
Celebrate with us: www.statnews.com/stat-10th-an...
#STAT10 🧵
Join us in reflecting on a decade of reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine.
We’re proud that since 2015 we’ve delivered urgent, authoritative, and impactful journalism.
Celebrate with us: www.statnews.com/stat-10th-an...
#STAT10 🧵
STAT 10 Year Anniversary
When we named ourselves “STAT’’ 10 years ago, we conceded, “It takes a bit of chutzpah to name a digital-age life-sciences publication after a buzzword
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September 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I'm so proud to be part of @STATNews, the definitive source for reporting (and dare I say opinion!) on health and medical news at a time when it is very much needed. Happy birthday, STAT!
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RFK Jr’s “evidence” doesn’t support ending mRNA vaccine development. It makes the case for expanding it.
Thanks to @thekibosch.bsky.social @statnews.com
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Thanks to @thekibosch.bsky.social @statnews.com
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Kennedy's case against mRNA vaccines collapses under his own evidence
“This isn't scientific disagreement. It's either staggering incompetence or willful misrepresentation,” writes infectious disease physician Jake Scott.
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August 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
RFK Jr’s “evidence” doesn’t support ending mRNA vaccine development. It makes the case for expanding it.
Thanks to @thekibosch.bsky.social @statnews.com
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Thanks to @thekibosch.bsky.social @statnews.com
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"Over 660 million pilgrims gathered at the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, India, this past February, and I’m now seeing the downstream consequences in my California clinic."
New piece I wrote. Big thanks to @thekibosch.bsky.social and @statnews.com.
www.statnews.com/2025/07/03/m...
New piece I wrote. Big thanks to @thekibosch.bsky.social and @statnews.com.
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Protecting pilgrims from infectious disease without diminishing their faith
Over 660 million pilgrims gathered at the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, India, this past February, and I'm now seeing the downstream consequences in my
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July 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
"Over 660 million pilgrims gathered at the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, India, this past February, and I’m now seeing the downstream consequences in my California clinic."
New piece I wrote. Big thanks to @thekibosch.bsky.social and @statnews.com.
www.statnews.com/2025/07/03/m...
New piece I wrote. Big thanks to @thekibosch.bsky.social and @statnews.com.
www.statnews.com/2025/07/03/m...
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First was "You are Not Expected to Understand This," edited by @thekibosch.bsky.social. This collection provides an enjoyable, whirlwind introduction to different topics in computing history
Full review: bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/... (2/3)
Full review: bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/... (2/3)
"You Are Not Expected to Understand This"
Leading technologists, historians, and journalists reveal the stories behind the computer coding that touches all aspects of life—for better or worse
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June 25, 2025 at 12:56 AM
First was "You are Not Expected to Understand This," edited by @thekibosch.bsky.social. This collection provides an enjoyable, whirlwind introduction to different topics in computing history
Full review: bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/... (2/3)
Full review: bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/... (2/3)
Our A/C died last night, and now I keep thinking about how @rebeccaonion.bsky.social kept thinking about the first chapter of The Ministry for the Future: slate.com/technology/2...
I Can’t Stop Thinking About the First Chapter of This Climate Change Novel
A conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson about The Ministry for the Future and this summer’s extreme heat.
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June 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Our A/C died last night, and now I keep thinking about how @rebeccaonion.bsky.social kept thinking about the first chapter of The Ministry for the Future: slate.com/technology/2...
If I owe you an email, I'm sorry. It's just that I worried it'd be weird if I responded too quickly, and now it's been too long, and now I have to disconnect from the internet forever
June 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
If I owe you an email, I'm sorry. It's just that I worried it'd be weird if I responded too quickly, and now it's been too long, and now I have to disconnect from the internet forever
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Thank you to @thekibosch.bsky.social for letting me highlight this aspect of the Medicaid debate in @statnews.com.
June 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Thank you to @thekibosch.bsky.social for letting me highlight this aspect of the Medicaid debate in @statnews.com.
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If you missed our event on polarization over science with Cary Funk, Emily Garner, M. Anthony Mills, @scipolguy.bsky.social, and @thekibosch.bsky.social, watch the recording (and read the live chat transcript) here: issues.org/event/how-di...
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How Did Science Become So Polarizing?
Join us on May 29, 2025 at 3PM ET for a discussion of why science is so divided, and how it can rebuild trust across the political spectrum.
issues.org
June 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
If you missed our event on polarization over science with Cary Funk, Emily Garner, M. Anthony Mills, @scipolguy.bsky.social, and @thekibosch.bsky.social, watch the recording (and read the live chat transcript) here: issues.org/event/how-di...
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Actual notes a Fox censor sent The Simpsons:
- “This Itchy & Scratchy cartoon goes too far. Please do not show a cat coughing up blood.”
- “Obviously we do not want to show the intimate details of a bris.”
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- “This Itchy & Scratchy cartoon goes too far. Please do not show a cat coughing up blood.”
- “Obviously we do not want to show the intimate details of a bris.”
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When The Simpsons Went to War With Fox
One of the show’s best episodes is based on real behind-the-scenes drama.
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June 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Actual notes a Fox censor sent The Simpsons:
- “This Itchy & Scratchy cartoon goes too far. Please do not show a cat coughing up blood.”
- “Obviously we do not want to show the intimate details of a bris.”
slate.com/culture/2025...
- “This Itchy & Scratchy cartoon goes too far. Please do not show a cat coughing up blood.”
- “Obviously we do not want to show the intimate details of a bris.”
slate.com/culture/2025...