in his statement "cancelling" congestion pricing, sean duffy calls people who ride the subway "an elite few" and i just feel as a communication professional that they gotta decide if they're going with that or crime-ridden drug den homeless shelter

after the overturning of roe, black infant mortality has spiked nearly 11% in states with abortion bans: www.reuters.com/world/us/inf...

"We should keep men out of women’s sports who weaponize Title IX to invoke trans witch hunts instead of utilizing the law to encourage schools provide equal resources and opportunities for girls and women in sports." This is IT, @lindsaygibbs.bsky.social www.powerplays.news/p/yes-we-sho...

Looking for researchers who study the effect of yoga on stress and sleep quality. If that's you, please reach out!

Here’s a strategy: 1) establish the frames, what problems will these changes cause, how will they impact communities; 2) inspire people to use those frames to tell their own stories of their families or communities are impacted; 3) amplify those stories.

“There’s still this idea that news is only ‘real’ once it’s confirmed by big corporate outlets. After all, could one woman with absolutely zero institutional backing in leggings and a sweatshirt in her NYC apartment really be the one to break such an important story? Now we know the answer is yes.”

Help me find some new podcasts? What are you favorite science (life, physical, biomedical) and health related podcasts?

Is the communications pause that's been imposed on the US government's health agencies affecting you? @statnews.com would love to hear about it. Please let us know. www.statnews.com/2025/01/25/t...

"This legislation would change the actual statute of Title IX to explicitly exclude transgender people from a federal civil rights law." If passed, it would revoke fed $ for schools (public K-12 + colleges/universities) that allow trans girls in women's sports 19thnews.org/2025/01/tran...

I didn’t quite finish a draft of my WIP by the end of the year. Combo of family, holidays, travel got the best of me. Thankful for @jamiattenberg.bsky.social and #mini1000 for jumpstarting my writing again and knowing others are too. Feeling excited and energized to finish this thing.

Happy last day of college applications to all who celebrate! 😂🫠

There are plenty of videos promise that the secret to faster running lies in your technique. As Matt Fitzgerald told me, “It reinforces the idea that running form is important and that most people are doing it wrong.” Still, should you change your form? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/w...

I determined to finish a draft of my WIP by the end of the year and have written 3600+ words this week. it's been a long time since I felt this excited (and joyful?) about writing and it feels good to immerse myself in a creative project that's just for me. Just need to figure out that ending! 😅

I'm sure that there are many business reasons for this move but as a fan of the sport, this move by HOKA is incredibly disappointing and feels short-sighted. It misses (ignores?) a huge brand storytelling opportunity esp as more women continue to run and run as they age.

This is why puberty blocker and adolescent healthcare bans are more serious than people realize. If you require trans people transition BEFORE puberty and then ban gender affirming care UNTIL AFTER puberty, you've just effectively banned trans people from a sport entirely.

How do you hold on to something you love, that’s meaningful, without holding on too tightly that it escapes your grasp? That's what I've been trying to figure out lately (always?) and I wrote about some of those shifts in work/identity. christinemyu.substack.com/p/what-i-wou...

Today's writing: 1000 words before work and during "lunch" and I got to write a really fun scene. OK, I'm starting to feel like I'm getting into a grove again. Just need all the other obligations in my life to go away for a bit so I can finish this!

Everyone watches women’s sports, but no one wants to pay people to cover them

OK I've said all year that I'm going to finish this draft of my WIP. Actually I said that last year too. But with a month left in this year, no more futzing around. I'm going to get to THE END. So far today 12/2, I've written 500 words 😅

San Jose State volleyball coach Todd Kress released this statement after his team lost to Colorado State in the Mountain West championship game last night Sad it had to be said but I'm glad it was

New study of 2022 Boston Marathon runners & relationship between fueling + performance 👟42.5% women & 17.6% men had indicators of low energy availability ➡️ Slower times + worse finishing place ➡️ Higher risk of injury/lost training days ❌ No relationship between BMI bjsm.bmj.com/content/earl...

I’d love to expand a bit here- Part of loving someone is holding them accountable for their actions in a respectful and productive way -which is different from shaming them. I believe harassing Shelby isn’t productive. That doesn’t mean I, and many others in this sport, won’t expect accountability.

Great summary of Mace's ghoulish thirst for publicity from @sulliview.bsky.social, with a nice quote from @parkermolloy.com:

“Throughout modern medicine, we’ve considered women just a little bit hysterical” when there isn’t an obvious medical explanation for symptoms, Dr. von Deck said. But “you can’t treat anything if you don’t have a name for it.” www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/w...

This is like my own little Reverse Gamergate.

$30M for girls’ & women’s soccer + more women coaches and refs. “She said the U.S. cannot maintain dominance without major changes to their youth system…’But this is not going to be permanent unless the entire sort of the pyramid structure and the ecosystem is there.’” www.espn.com/soccer/story...

Finally getting set up here - hi! I’m a freelance journlist writing stories about sports, science and health. Work in sci comms. Women’s sports fan. Runner. Book lover & romance reader. Aggressive hand talker. I wrote a book about the gender data gap in exercise phys + sports sci research.

Racist assholes have stopped me on the street, all my life, to tell me to “go back where I came from.” Every Asian I know has experienced this. Now racists will feel even more empowered to go after ANY Asian, with the government’s blessing. Be careful out there, folks.

People who say they care about women’s and girls’ sports are noticeably quiet about how eliminating the Department of Education would end federal oversight of Title IX enforcement of the equal existence of women’s and girls’ sports