Spelunking for brains on a design problem I'm wigging out on, feel the need to emphasize how much of a foundational document this is: bost.ocks.org/mike/constan...

Oof, after just a month of no detections, HPAI is back in the Amish duck-farming region in Northern Indiana. 5 cases reported since May 4, mostly on duck farms. Remind me how this was addressed in another densely duck-farmed region hit by constant waves of H5 2.3.4.4b? www.in.gov/boah/species...

Nextstrain #ANDV trees updated with a few improvements: - 2 outbreaks marked - host scientific/common name added - province now visible on map - date colouring added Here's a quick tour of how to change colours, geography & names! Links to trees here (scroll down): nextstrain.org/groups/hodcr...

🎧 It's launch day! 🚀 Our VERY FIRST EPISODE of "Paper Trail" is now live. You can listen at the link below or subscribe in all the normal podcast places: www.propublica.org/podcast/what...

the west wing is less realistic than battlestar galactica NEXT QUESTION

I'm not particularly worried there will be much onward spread of hantavirus from M/V Hondius passengers. But I am concerned that authorities are making confident statements based on VERY LIMITED data. IMO, there's too little data to say need symptoms to transmit or need close, prolonged contact.

Preliminary analysis shows the sequences from the MV Hondius hantavirus patients are virtually identical. Supports theory of one spillover from rodent to first patient and subsequent human-to-human spread on the cruise ship. virological.org/t/preliminar...

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

i love it when east coast journalists visit www.politico.com/news/magazin...

So proud of data reporters @sophiechou.bsky.social and @harucoryne.bsky.social, who are Pulitzer Prize winners today. They made sense of tens of thousands of scanned, hand written forms to uncover how the Connecticut DMV allows tow companies to sell people’s cars www.propublica.org/article/prop...

Incredibly proud of these people and this work! @sfchronicle.com forever. Thank you @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social! www.pulitzer.org/finalists/cy...

We got our hands on internal ICE records that show how widespread use of force, like punches, kicks, takedown maneuvers, restraint holds, and less-lethal weapons such as Tasers and pepper spray in detention centers has grown wapo.st/4tdgBRA (1/)

SNEAK PEAK

Not me subtweeting every damn unattributed graphic that is accompanied with “🤯”

Making a mental note to outline that 10k word story on weather record vandalism

In great company here for my final year as a “young” journalist 😬😬

iykyk 😭😭😭

Feeling so grateful and excited to join the @nytimes.com investigations team www.nytco.com/press/new-de...

I cannot for the life of me parse this as 3 priorities but maybe it's because just saying "data" doesn't really count as an idea.

Myst (1993)

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April — 1805

One of the most surprising things in this excellent piece: "Veterinarian Edith Marshall, an epidemiologist with the California Department of Food and Agriculture, says a few have had cows that remain infected for more than 1 year." 🤯

Been listening to this album for years and just realized that she’s talking about playing Geoguessr

✊ 92% voted YES on this strike auth vote, with 99% of the unit voting ✊ @propublicaguild.org #solidarity

Thrilled for @caitlingilbert.bsky.social, Craig Whitlock and Lisa Rein for on being named finalists for the Goldsmith Awards for their coverage last year of VA disability fraud: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Congratulations to the @miamiherald.com's Alexandra Glorioso, the @tampabaytimes.bsky.social's Lawrence Mower & Justin Garcia on being named finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for their coverage of Hope Florida! goldsmithawards.org/announcing-t...

Wow, sure would have been a great year for soy exports to not be cratered

Pretty rough month for #H5N1 More than 10M layers have been culled due to HPAI outbreaks in the last month. It's one of the worst months we've seen since H5 2.3.4.4b first started infecting U.S. flocks in 2022. 🧵 on what I'm seeing domestically

This og:image drives me absolutely insane every time I see it

Day 212 of trying to convince the toddler that Whitewater from Bela's 1988 album Drive is, in fact, his favorite song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfqn...

Been trying to write more music lately and hard to shake a sense that so much of music can be described thematically as a version of "Things ( are | aren't ) changing and I (do | don't) like it."

I missed this the other day: USDA NVSL finally updated GenoFlu 🎉 Confirms that D1.1 continues to reign supreme, though there are new EA3 reassortants out there that emerged this fall github.com/USDA-VS/Geno...

Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

We did use lists of names from the excellent PLUM website (woo PLUM Act!), so doing something like this now is much easier than it was 10 years ago, but yes, we need legislation to finish the job.

But this Claude incident highlights another problem with AI: My story and the Post's work are carefully written and reported. We deliberately choose what we can and can't say. Editors review our language and challenge us on facts. AI summaries throw all that work into a copy blender.🫠

@grok is this true?

Polymarket still outdoing everyone making the case that extraterrestrial Polymarkets resolves the Fermi Paradox

Is Chunky Chimp in the Bluey universe cel animated, that unhinged Disney lifelike computer animation, or live action (suggesting another civilization of anthropomorphic chimpanzees that engage in cultural exchange with anthropomorphic dog civilization) Sincerely, the bazillionth snow day of 2026

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is 50 first dates a rougelike

Our members joined the #SaveThePost rally in D.C. today to protest the mass layoffs at the Washington Post. We stand in solidarity with @postguild.bsky.social. Support laid off workers: www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t... + www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo... ✊

one thing i have noticed is a lot of folks do not seem to understand the difference between a presidential election and 435+ legislative elections. i have seen any number of people say that you could subvert the outcome this november by targeting “swing states,” which does not make any sense.

Amid the hundreds of colleagues we’ve lost today, I wanted to highlight the BRILLIANT data/graphics folks who any newsroom should be fighting to hire right now—threading here: