Butte, Montana residents persist despite a century of setbacks.

If you are an NC resident and voted in November, please check if your name or the names of any family areone of the 60K votes being challenged. If so, confirm ASAP with your Board of Elections. You only have two weeks. The website to check linked in the reply. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

For my fellow infectious disease and desert nerds 👇🏻

The Trump administration's cuts in science funding will likely lead to an exodus of scientific expertise, the research community warns. "That beacon of research that the US was for several decades — it’s just not going to be there.” www.statnews.com/2025/02/12/t...

🧪 A $4B cut to to NIH funding will have a seismic impact on science & medicine in the US. What's at stake? Our competitive edge in biomedical innovation, access to high quality health care (including for kids w/cancer), local economies...It's a big deal. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (🎁 link):

On Friday evening, the Trump administration slashed NIH grant "indirect costs" in a change set to massively undercut university & hospital budgets on Monday. @statnews.com explains what indirect costs are, how this will decrease American scientific dominance, & whether this is illegal: 🧪🧬🧫

I need 10 seasons of The Pitt and I need them now.

There are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see

Bit of a different landscape for today’s morning run

Bill Belichick did you know you can get a Cook Out tray with two quesadillas and then order a quesadilla for each of your two sides and then swap your drink for a quesadilla? So five quesadillas for the price of one tray. It’s an incredible deal

U.S. officials moved Tuesday to protect the monarch, an iconic orange and black butterfly famous for its marathon migration across North America, under the Endangered Species Act.

It’s not AZ but this will do

To say: my profile pic is a LiDAR image showing the river-ghosts—historical meanders—of the Lower Mississippi. Water, wandering, wilfully. It’s by Daniel Coe, who has deep-mapped the pasts of many rivers. See more of his work at dancoecarto.com/work & below. What wild, wondrous beings rivers are.

I have something to write that’s hard so I read a lot of books and articles to get ready to write and anyway my garage is now organized for winter.

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/...

Hi! I handle marketing and communications for Duke BME, which means I get to work with very talented faculty, staff and students and share stories about their work. Since we're doing introductions, here are a few of the stories I've worked on over the years:

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