R. Coxeter
@ruthcoxeter.bsky.social
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Life science news and startups. Producer. Editor. New Yorker.
👑👑👑 = the best traffic congestion on the island of Manhattan
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Mina Kimes
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The line in this courageous essay about her child not remembering her broke my heart. I hope she knows what an impact it had on so many people.
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“There was so much money that the sector got overbuilt,” said Alexis Borisy, founder of Boston-based Curie.Bio, a biotech venture firm that has raised more than $1 B for early-stage biotechs. “If there was a good idea, there’d be 10 companies all built at the same time to go do it.”
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Ph.D.s Can’t Find Work as Boston’s Biotech Engine Sputters
A life-sciences job in Boston used to be a sure path to a high-paying career, but empty labs and unemployed grads now herald tougher times in the city.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/biotech/ph-d-s-cant-find-work-as-bostons-biotech-engine-sputters-729f0036
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Wish Amtrak would scrub the schmutzy train windows so passengers could take better pictures along the Hudson.
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“You may think, as I do, that our society fails to guarantee everyone the level of medical care they should receive.”
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Should I Feel Bad About Joining a Concierge Medical Practice?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/magazine/concierge-medical-practice-ethics.html
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Central Park ❄️ wonderland.
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New Yorker pre-holiday party dinner plans.
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“People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don’t see themselves as storytellers. It’s all the people who are not storytellers who…suddenly now want to be storytellers.”
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Companies Are Desperately Seeking ‘Storytellers’
Brands trying to wrest greater control of their narratives are asking for ‘storytelling’ skill sets—without a campfire in sight.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/companies-are-desperately-seeking-storytellers-7b79f54e?st=N26af3&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Midtown Merry. The island of Manhattan holiday light show.
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The New Yorker
27 days ago
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Adam Douglas Thompson.
#NewYorkerCartoons
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sarah jeong
29 days ago
are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson
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Derek Lowe
about 1 month ago
As with Shakespeare, I always found myself coming out of a Stoppard play feeling more intelligent than when I went in.
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“Nuzzi shows no awareness of Kennedy’s role in cracking consensus reality apart through his anti-vaccine conspiracy mongering. She’s fond of portentous factoids, so here’s one: Last week, Kentucky announced the third infant death from pertussis, or whooping cough.”
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Opinion | A Serious Journalism Scandal Hiding Inside a Frivolous Sexual One
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/opinion/olivia-nuzzi-rfk.html
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Maggie Astor
about 1 month ago
I don't need AI to help me overuse em dashes. I've been doing that on my own since middle school.
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“The Department of Health and Human Services maintains that it is hewing to ‘gold standard, evidence-based science’ —a piece of doublespeak so thick that it might unsettle Orwell.”
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The Undermining of the C.D.C.
The Department of Health and Human Services maintains that it is hewing to “gold standard, evidence-based science”—doublespeak that might unsettle Orwell.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/08/the-undermining-of-the-cdc
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“I went into a room with dark suits and men with gray hair,” she said. “And I sat down and somebody came and told me that these were seats for the doctors, and the drug reps needed to go to the back of the room.” “Oh, I’m sorry, I’m a doctor,” she said she told them. “I’m one of the surgeons.” 😶
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Female Cardiothoracic Surgeons, Unlocking the Male Fortress
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/health/women-surgeons.html
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>10% of US heart & lung surgeons are women: Dr. Kharazi recalled how she once told a male surgeon that she planned to ask for operating privileges at his hospital in order to expand her practice. “And he told me, ‘Well, it’s generally not a good idea to go where you’re not invited.’”
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Female Cardiothoracic Surgeons, Unlocking the Male Fortress
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/health/women-surgeons.html
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Hudson River Run.
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“Companies that offer concierge medical testing often explicitly lean into frustration with the traditional health care system in their marketing.” Reading this as I help friends and family navigate extravagant health premium increases and long waits for basic care is an interesting experience.
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The Rise of the ‘Just in Case’ M.R.I.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/business/dealbook/full-body-mri.html
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“During the CAR-T treatment, a method developed over many decades with millions of dollars of government funding, my cousin, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., was in the process of being nominated and confirmed as the Secretary of Health and Human Services.”
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A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/a-battle-with-my-blood
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A powerful read from Tatiana Schlossberg, JFK’s granddaughter: “I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the NIH.”
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A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/a-battle-with-my-blood
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Your perfect Friday biotech and beyond listen. Tom Hanks should make this movie.
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How to Fix a Typewriter and Your Life (Gift Article)
This is the story of how a man traded steady, grinding corporate security for a dying craft and, in the process, found his soul.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/20/us/typewriter-repair-seattle-bremerton.html?unlocked_article_code=1.208.1Q-z.bFjFBhStsedS&smid=url-share
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Jay Rosen
about 2 months ago
"She’s not trying to rebuild her reputation as a journalist—she’s building a different kind of brand entirely, one where being interesting matters more than being ethical, where attention is the only currency that still spends." The best thing I have read about her.
www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
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The Olivia Nuzzi Comeback Is Everything Wrong With Modern Media
Olivia Nuzzi’s comeback isn’t a personal scandal story—it’s proof that today’s media rewards access, personality, and controversy more than ethics.
https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-olivia-nuzzi-comeback-is-everything-wrong-with-modern-media/
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Revisiting Alison Roman’s piece on the delight and drudgery of social: “While people love to say everyone is ‘a brand’ these days, I would just like to remind everyone that no, they aren’t. They’re humans, people, individuals, and we shouldn’t feel so much pressure to behave as if that’s not true.”
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Carrot Cake Is Better Cold
come for the carrot cake, stay for the existential crisis
https://www.alisoneroman.com/newsletters/carrot-cake-is-better-cold/
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Pretty New York City.
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Here for the 🐱 explainers for remarkable science: “It’s as if, instead of creating ‘a better mousetrap, they invented a cat,’ said Fyodor Urnov, a professor of molecular therapeutics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a gene editor at its Innovative Genomics Institute.”
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New Gene-Editing Strategy Could Help Development of Treatments for Rare Diseases
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/health/gene-editing-rare-diseases.html
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Awkward art direction for awkward art direction sake.
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Melinda French Gates and Her Daughters, Jennifer and Phoebe Gates, Give Their First-Ever Joint Interview
Melinda French Gates has long adhered to the principle, “to whom much is given, much is expected.” Her daughters are carrying that forward. “We’re not people who sit around and eat bonbons,” says Jenn...
https://www.vogue.com/article/melinda-french-gates-phoebe-gates-jennifer-gates-interview
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No pressure. “She staged it the same way she conjured her essays, novels, screenplays and memoirs, with an almost military mustering of planning and ambition.”
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Joan Didion’s Thanksgiving: Dinner for 75, Reams of Notes
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/dining/joan-didion-thanksgiving.html
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Presented in parallel.
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“In dozens of interviews with The New York Times, Americans described using chatbots to try to compensate for the health system’s shortcomings. A self-employed woman in Wisconsin routinely asked ChatGPT whether it was safe to forgo expensive appointments.” 😶
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Frustrated by the Medical System, Patients Turn to A.I.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/well/ai-chatbot-doctors-health-care-advice.html
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From the NYT comment section: Wendy from Irvine is spot on.
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A theatrical Central Park sunset.
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A perfect Central Park cardinal.
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In the spring, Ms. Brous said she asked on the chat group if anyone was giving up something for Lent. The women didn’t miss a beat. “The answers were, ‘Yeah, the use of my arms!’” Ms. Brous said. “‘Feeding myself.’ ‘Walking.’ ‘Talking.’”
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The Young Women Grappling With an ‘Old Man’s Disease’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/health/als-young-women.html
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Another gorgeous rainy day in Central Park.
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“This should definitely be an episode of ‘Silicon Valley. Reboot the show!”
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SF tech founders go to finishing school — and Garry Tan does not approve
The founders learned how to shake hands and bump caviar at Slow Ventures’ “Etiquette Finishing School.”
https://sfstandard.com/2025/11/08/sf-tech-founders-go-finishing-school-garry-tan-does-approve/
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😶 PSA: Reading this op-ed is time you can’t get back.
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“The worst advice people get when they're being interviewed is to show up with these 3 points that they're supposed to repeat over and over and over again. But the best interviews, the ones that you like the most, are the ones where it feels like the person is actually grappling with the question.”
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ReThinking: The art of the interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin
Podcast Episode · Worklife with Adam Grant · 10/21/2025 · 37m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/worklife-with-adam-grant/id1346314086?i=1000732753159
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My kind of longevity story:“somewhere where every subject in the world can come up, and any type of person in the world might walk in.”
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One Bookstore, 3 Sisters and 100 Years
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/nyregion/three-sisters-argosy-books.html?unlocked_article_code=1.x08.xINr.RDOu_vAj3Asl&smid=url-share
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NYC Marathon Sunday countdown…
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“The vast majority (96%) of investors believe AI will have a net positive impact on worker productivity. However, only 47% of the public say AI will result in a net positive impact on productivity.”
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New JUST Capital Survey Shows American Public and Investors Disagree on Key AI Issues. One Area Of Alignment? More Spending on Safety. — JUST Capital
As executives race to deploy AI's transformative potential, another urgent question looms: What do the people who determine a company's success — employees, consumers, communities, and investors — ac...
https://justcapital.com/news/ai-survey-findings/
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David Shaywitz
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Just out:
@wsj.com
op-ed I wrote on why I see such hope in the longevity movement, despite often dubious science & frequently exaggerated claims; in short: we're embracing agency, recognizing that we have a measure of control over our long-term health.
wsj.com/opinion/nobo...
(gift link).
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Opinion | Nobody Ever Got Younger, but It May Be Worth a Try
The science behind the longevity movement is dubious. But the trend is promoting healthy habits.
https://wsj.com/opinion/nobody-ever-got-younger-but-it-may-be-worth-a-try-ab20cc01?st=jDAP3x&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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“It is a head trip to think that this very sentence you are reading, and maybe even my willingness to share personal medical details, may, in some minor way, be informed by demyelination in my frontal lobe, an area believed to affect planning, decision-making, and memory.”
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On My Last Leg
An illness returns after a quarter century.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/on-my-last-leg
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Fall games. Washington Square Park.
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“Women must now live in a world in which phone manufacturers think we have hands the size of bears and jeans manufacturers think we have hands the size of pixies.”
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Why can’t I buy a small smartphone?
Capitalism is not giving me what I want, but I’m not behaving like a good free market consumer myself
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/10/24/why-cant-i-buy-a-small-smartphone/
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“Mismanaging HHS endangers America’s health, undermines national security and damages our economic resilience and international credibility.”
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Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans
It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/07/surgeons-general-rfk-jr-robert-kennedy/
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When you search the Anthropic database on a lark and find your great aunt’s novels along with a relative’s math books. 😶
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Same. “She has developed a habit of texting her daily Wordle score to a selection of friends, including Allison Janney, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Charlize Theron. Burnett doesn’t use a regular starting word, as many players do, but plucks a new guess each day ‘from the universe.’”
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Carol Burnett Plays On
The ninety-two-year-old comedy legend has influenced generations of performers. In a string of recent TV roles, she has been co-starring with some of her closest comedic heirs.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/06/carol-burnett-profile
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Great Q&A with Lisa Suennen, managing partner at AHA Ventures, which oversees $200M in assets: “Inherent in the mission is to reduce barriers to care and to try to make things more accessible. If this is going to make it a lot more expensive to get the same outcome, that is not a good investment.”
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As investor for AHA, ‘Venture Valkyrie’ argues ‘good medicine is good business’
Lisa Suennen: "If this is going to make it a lot more expensive to get the same outcome, that is not a good investment."
https://www.statnews.com/2025/09/29/lisa-suennen-interview-venture-valkyrie-guiding-aha-ventures/
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