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Science+Tech evangelist. Now: news @semafor Then: @NatGeo @TheMessenger @inversedotcom @Spectrum @NautilusMag . Glaswegian. All views my robot's.

Brooklyn, New York
Joined April 2009
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Claire Helen Cameron
4 months
I will just add: Media is a volatile place and 99% of us stick it out not because we make bank or have an agenda or fancy lives but because we care about telling stories no one else is telling, no matter how silly or painful or consequential or fun. Protect it. Lift it up.
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Claire Helen Cameron
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Thrilled to say I'll be @NatGeo for a spell editing science stories for the website. If you have an enterprising/timely/news pitch — especially in the areas of space science, paleontology or the physical sciences — hit me #journojobs
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Claire Helen Cameron
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Some good news! I've joined the excellent news team @semafor as a deputy news editor. I'm thrilled to be working with some of the best in the biz and grateful for it.✌️
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Claire Helen Cameron
2 years
*JOURNALISTS!* it's a New Year. If you don't already write for @inversedotcom and you have a track record of covering science, innovation, and health, then pls get in touch. We're looking to expand our roster of regulars. Email me (in bio). 🙏
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Claire Helen Cameron
11 months
💥Some MORE Professional News: I'm joining @TheMessenger as a Breaking News Editor where I'll be working on the Science + Tech desk alongside @dewalt and co. Truly excited about where we're going. More TK!✌️
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Claire Helen Cameron
3 years
Looking for science/health feature pitches. Fresh angles, weird but true tales, definitive histories, debunks... here for it all. Rates vary, but we can pay as much as $1000 for a feature. Email claire at inverse dot com, "FEATURE PITCH" in subject line pls.
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Claire Helen Cameron
4 months
The last six months have been a rollercoaster with many highs covering science and tech with a team full of determination and dynamic ideas. We didn't get to finish what we started @TheMessenger . I just wish it hadn't ended so soon. 1/N
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Claire Helen Cameron
3 years
Personal news: I'm thrilled to say I am taking on the role of Managing Editor at @inversedotcom . Considering everything we managed to do in 2020, I cannot *wait* to see what we can achieve in 2021.
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Claire Helen Cameron
11 months
💥Some Professional News: Today is my last day at @inversedotcom . Working alongside the team has been an honor and a privilege. Together, we punched well above our weight, and I am excited I get to watch that continue from a new perch... 🧵
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Claire Helen Cameron
1 year
Hi science/tech/health freelancers: Send me pitches for reported enterprise, profiles, and features on the future of Earth for @inversedotcom . Email me claire @inverse .com. No study stories or PR, please. Rates range up to 50 cents/word for great reporting. Thanks!
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Claire Helen Cameron
19 days
Bittersweet: I am leaving @NatGeo after a short, fun, and galvanizing stint with the team there. Special thanks and s/o to @cdellamore Amy McKeever and Ryleigh Nucilli, and all the NatGeo crew for giving me a temporary and very welcoming home. On to the next!
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Claire Helen Cameron
3 months
Thrilled to share my first story @thedailybeast ! Thanks @TonyHoWasHere for aiding and abetting my deep enthusiasm for solving mysteries — and in this case, the illuminating work being done at @scrollprize
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Claire Helen Cameron
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Space has a trash problem (perhaps, we are the problem?) and NASA is determined to do something about it. Fun to work with @raminskibba on this one!
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Claire Helen Cameron
3 months
I’m so sad for . Vice was one of the first and few places willing to publish genuinely weird, great and undercurrent stories, including those written by Kim. Read one of her stories here: Support journalism. Lift it up ✌️
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Claire Helen Cameron
3 years
Hello: @inversedotcom is hiring a summer science intern! This person will write ~a lot~ of stories, work with a tight-knit team, and receive training and coaching that will help them wherever they end up. @culturedish @ScienceWriters @WritersofColor
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Claire Helen Cameron
5 years
When journalism gets results: Scott Gottlieb responds to @KHNews and @FortuneMagazine story on the serious problems with electronic health records and their impact on patient safety.
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Claire Helen Cameron
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I'll be OK. The Messenger was staffed with journalists who wanted to do something incredible, and barely got the chance. Hire us. I am open to work, freelance, full time, editing, writing and otherwise. My DMs are open, my email is c.h.cameron28 @gmail .com. --30--
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Claire Helen Cameron
4 months
We need journalists willing to interrogate the bleeding edges, the hidden figures, the undercurrents, the money (SO MUCH MONEY) in tech and science and take it seriously. Hire @AdamJKovac Hire @davelevitan Hire @ericgeller Hire @ChelleEhrhardt Hire @aliszewski Hire @dewalt
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Claire Helen Cameron
4 months
One of the suspended journalists, Steven Monacelli of @TexasObserver told us that he found out from other reporters, and believes he may have been suspended due to criticism of Musk and a joke about Bill Ackman.
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Claire Helen Cameron
1 year
At @inversedotcom , we think of ourselves as the ultra-enthusiasts — whether it be about space science, fantasy movies, classic gaming, EVs... and everything in between. In that spirit, may I present: The Inverse Awards, 2022! 🧵
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Claire Helen Cameron
3 years
Fun fact: I have lucid dreams. Now, a study shows two-way, real-time communication between a lucid dreamer and researcher is possible. So I had to write about it.
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Claire Helen Cameron
8 years
Loved working on this illustration with @lianafinck and @lenpsmall for the latest @NautilusMag issue! #Identity
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Claire Helen Cameron
3 years
I moved from Scotland to NYC 9 years ago today. I thought I'd maybe stay a year or so, but then I got a job at a wonderful magazine right out of grad school. Three magazines, N freelance gigs, at least 2,000 bagels, one baby, and many offerings to USCIS later, I'm still here. 🙏
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Claire Helen Cameron
2 years
"There’s a singularity about the weirdness of it all. It’s a big crazy confection. Does it all work? I have no clue." @DannyDeVito , Danny Elfman, Tim Burton, and more try to explain the unexplainable on @inversedotcom >>>>
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Claire Helen Cameron
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10 years ago, I was a newly minted journalism grad in NYC, full of story ideas, and desperate to stay. TK clips, hustles, freelance gigs, late nights, edits, green cards, tears, a life partner, cat, and a kid later, I'm still here. ✌️
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Claire Helen Cameron
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@NatGeo @cdellamore Science journalists in my feed: Pitch NatGeo! They are in need of stories about space and paleontology, in particular, but anything that is in the conversation and has a science angle is also their jam. Editor emails follow the Firstname.Lastname @natgeo .com convention ✌️
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Claire Helen Cameron
2 years
Coming to an @inversedotcom near you on Monday! So excited to work with @camaldarelli as our new Sr Science Editor. I can't wait to see what we will do together.
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Claire Maldarelli
2 years
Hello, hello! Exciting ✨ personal news ✨Today is my last day as Science Editor at Popular Science Magazine after an incredible six years @popsci ! Soon, I'll be joining @inversedotcom as their senior science editor. Can't wait for the new journalism adventures that await.
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Claire Helen Cameron
2 years
The future of treatments for psychiatric conditions may lie in part with psychedelic-assisted therapy. If you care about these things, and about consent in medical practice and more broadly, then you need to read this story.
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Katie MacBride (@msmacb on bluesky)
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NEW: For years, I’ve heard rumors about sexual misconduct in an underground community practicing psychedelic-assisted therapy & training ‘guides.’ Until September, I’d never been able to get anyone on record about the community. CN: sexual abuse 1/
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Claire Helen Cameron
3 months
Media might be a bit *in flux* but so many of the people in the industry are just genuine people. If you have the price of a coffee to spare, consider donating it to a fund set up to help some of my former colleagues at The Messenger find their feet.
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Claire Helen Cameron
3 years
Hey friends! @inversedotcom is hiring! We are looking for a part-time writer who wants to delve into the weird and wonderful world of health, psychology, nutrition, and more. Rate is $25/hour, can be remote.
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Claire Helen Cameron
2 years
@Hello_Tailor In the year of our being 2022, it continues to amaze me when Hollywood/anyone actually is like "this seems fine" with this BS. Never ceases to surpass expectations.
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Claire Helen Cameron
3 years
Hello! @inversedotcom is hiring a part-time space news writer! Come join us. Job posting here: @ScienceWriters @culturedish @WritersofColor
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Claire Helen Cameron
9 years
I interview a woman who has aphasia & for a time had no internal monologue to learn more about language & identity.
@NautilusMag
Nautilus Magazine
9 years
An internal monologue is considered a fundamental aspect of being human. What happens when a person loses it? http://t.co/l1T5DzNciO
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Claire Helen Cameron
1 year
Do you wonder what our lives in space may be like? @ariel_ekblaw does. Her vision is distinct from others who love the idea of humans venturing into space — an expansion of our ecosystem, rather than a pure frontier. My latest:
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Claire Helen Cameron
3 years
Sometimes I lie on the floor and let my daughter stack her toys on top of my chest like it is a game, but really I just need to lie on the floor.
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Lucy Huber
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How do people write w/ kids. I’m so tired. He never sleeps. He never stops moving but we can’t go anywhere indoors. Our nanny quit. We have no family here. Every time I have a free hour when Im not cleaning, cooking, or working, which is like once a week, I just want to lie down.
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Claire Helen Cameron
6 years
Thank you Meryl Streep and @pressfreedom for raising awareness of my friend Kim Wall and the female journalists who deserved so much more. To keep Kim's legacy of reporting on 'the undercurrents of rebellion' going, please donate to the @TheKimWallFund
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Committee to Protect Journalists
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Claire Helen Cameron
6 years
Female journalists with a passion for untold stories: Consider applying to this grant. Everyone: Tell your friends to apply to this grant.✌️
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The Kim Wall Fund✌🏻
6 years
Applications for the Inaugural Kim Wall Memorial Fund, administered by @IWMF , are due February 2. More info:
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Claire Helen Cameron
3 years
Hey science journalism folks, pitch me. Here's how to do it---> @ScienceWriters @culturedish
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Claire Helen Cameron
1 year
Re-upping this. I want your pitch for an ambitious story, profile, reported essay, you name it, that gets at what will drive life on our planet forward. Send by Mar 10.
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Claire Helen Cameron
1 year
Hi science/tech/health freelancers: Send me pitches for reported enterprise, profiles, and features on the future of Earth for @inversedotcom . Email me claire @inverse .com. No study stories or PR, please. Rates range up to 50 cents/word for great reporting. Thanks!
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Claire Helen Cameron
11 months
In particular, I want to shout out @jacobkleinman @camaldarelli @johnwenz @hellojenglen @htranbui @raywongy and @jamestpero — some of the best folks I have ever worked with and true partners in making Inverse great then and now. Follow them!
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Claire Helen Cameron
4 years
Hello friends — Inverse is hiring a PT science reporter (focus on climate change and nature writing). Check out the job and how to apply here: #journalismjobs @culturedish #journojobs
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Claire Helen Cameron
2 years
*JOURNALISTS* @inversedotcom is hiring! Space news reporters looking for a new challenge, please apply --> #journojobs
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Claire Helen Cameron
8 years
I wrote about how Ötzi the Iceman's 5,300yo gut bacteria is helping refine our knowledge of early human migration.
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Claire Helen Cameron
3 years
Oh hey, the new @inversedotcom Superhero Issue 2021 is dropping... stay tuned on this.
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Claire Helen Cameron
6 years
Great feature by @LinaZeldovich on one of the many forgotten female pioneers in science and medicine — Grunya Sukhareva, the woman who defined autism. #womeninSTEM 👩🏽‍🔬
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Spectrum (Autism Research News)
6 years
How history forgot the woman who defined #autism : Grunya Sukhareva. #WomeninSTEM
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Claire Helen Cameron
6 years
A3. Brain-like organoids seem to be gaining fans every year I have been at #SFN ! Our reporter @HannahFurfaro broke a story on some new 'mini-🧠' research at #SFN18 #SFN2018 : #SFNChat
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Spectrum (Autism Research News)
6 years
Q3: What do you think a major trend in the research at #sfn18 #SFN2018 is? #SFNChat
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Claire Helen Cameron
4 years
PUFF, PUFF, PASS: A NEW VAPE WITH HAZY ORIGINS TAKES JUUL'S PLACE — fabulous and dogged investigative reporting on how a mysterious company has risen where #JUUL has fallen, by @emmakbetuel
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Claire Helen Cameron
10 years
Just found out @voguemagazine has a Sunday #foodporn feature. My mid-afternoon urge to drown in dark chocolate just tripled.
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Claire Helen Cameron
3 years
“If there is a theme for this issue, it is incredible Black women offering their own expansive interpretations of who superheroes are and who, if our imaginations are powerful enough, those superheroes can be.” @rgay on @inversedotcom and I’m not dreaming
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Jake
3 years
I'm exhilarated to announce that the guest editor of Inverse's 2021 Superhero Issue is Roxane Gay! Check out her Letter from the Editor and stay tuned for more essays and interviews assembled by the one and only @rgay all week
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Claire Helen Cameron
2 years
“Some small impacts from micrometeorites will happen. You know, over the lifetime of the mission there will be some damage to the mirrors of the telescope.” My latest on a rocky road ahead for #JWST : for @inversedotcom
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Claire Helen Cameron
9 years
The @NautilusMag "Identity" issue is here! Cover art by @hello_jackieee tells the story.
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Claire Helen Cameron
3 years
The same neurons that help us face our fears may also tip some people toward drinking even when they know it will hurt them. latest for @inversedotcom
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Claire Helen Cameron
9 years
I write about languages where time flows east to west and where you aren't the center of everything for @NautilusMag http://t.co/zUQSq9LUnx
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Claire Helen Cameron
2 years
Hello. I'm just here to bask in the ethereal glow of Neptune, honestly.
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Claire Helen Cameron
4 years
Trump is poised to sign a government spending bill that will avoid another holiday shutdown. In doing so, the federal tobacco purchasing age will go up to 21. @emmakbetuel explains why that's great news for teens' brains:
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Claire Helen Cameron
4 years
Love writing stories about incredible science? We're looking for a spring intern to join our team at @inversedotcom ! Application deets here 👇 #journojobs cc @culturedish
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Claire Helen Cameron
9 years
I spoke to a neuroscientist/illusionist about why we may never see anything as it really is—and how to change that. http://t.co/U3hK14Z5m9
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Claire Helen Cameron
3 years
This is the story of how Indiana Jones met C-3PO, and how he may have discovered an entirely new genre of video game along the way. via @inversedotcom
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Claire Helen Cameron
1 year
Brought together expertly by @szmaniac and sent out into the world by @radhamely , @itsashleyoh + @ramyzab + @evanmeredith . Designed by @DeweySaunders and team. With help from @katstoeffel and the team and so many more. And a special thanks to @jiwilde for steering us all.🤩
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Claire Helen Cameron
8 years
First piece for @DiscoverMag up! In which I explain the (counterintuitive) difference between bar and liquid soap.
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Claire Helen Cameron
9 years
Two years ago today, @thePeerJ started publishing #openaccess #science . Happy anniversary guys! #STEM #opendata #openscience
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Claire Helen Cameron
4 months
I don't know if I love feeling vindicated.... but! Great reporting and context from @AdamJKovac on NASA's (unsurprising) announcement delaying the next Artemis missions to return humans to the moon.
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Claire Helen Cameron
4 years
@JoAnnaScience that they can't be petted (ka, my cousin's snake, loved to sit on your lap and get petted).
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Claire Helen Cameron
9 years
I can't believe @NautilusMag celebrates its 2-year #bday today! Proud to be a part of such a brilliant mag. :D http://t.co/Vzd2NCMjgo
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Claire Helen Cameron
8 years
I'm hosting the @Spectrum #sfn16 Twitter chat today @ 11am PT on all things autism+neuroscience. Join with the hashtag #SFNChat ! @SfNtweets
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Claire Helen Cameron
1 year
I am fascinated by the weight-loss drug Ozempic. Between the reporting and anecdotes, one mystery stands out: It appears to affect people's brains — but not by just quelling hunger. @so_dendritic dives in for @inversedotcom
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Claire Helen Cameron
8 years
The answer may not be what you expect. My latest for @DiscoverMag !
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Discover Magazine
8 years
What does the universe look like?
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Claire Helen Cameron
4 years
The strange psychology of @reddit r/RoastMe: Incredible deep dive into one of the odder corners of the internet, by @emmakbetuel #longreads
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Claire Helen Cameron
9 years
If you have ever wondered why music gets stuck in your head, now is the time to find out. http://t.co/jTGZJjb966 http://t.co/DxraJ5RpFC
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Claire Helen Cameron
4 years
Last week, NASA remotely fixed a 40-year-old spacecraft, 11.5 billion miles from Earth (aka outside the Solar System). Meanwhile, my phone can't cope with sustaining a local call in my kitchen. 🙃
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Claire Helen Cameron
2 years
Beyond proud to feature the leading women of #TheRingsOfPower on @inversedotcom ! @karenyhan ’s interview is a must-read for any #LOTR fan.
@inversedotcom
Inverse
2 years
The female stars of ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ open up to @karenyhan about their experiences on set and in Middle-earth for Inverse's digital cover story. #TheRingsOfPower
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Claire Helen Cameron
9 years
My latest for @NautilusMag explores life with, and beyond aphasia. @AphasiaAnswers @aphasianyc @Speechlessdoc
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Nautilus Magazine
9 years
Life after aphasia—communication and identity is defined by more than language. by @clarabell8 http://t.co/l1T5DzNciO http://t.co/FHsN66yyv9
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Claire Helen Cameron
6 years
A2: I went to this presentation yesterday on #MDMA and sociability — the researchers found that the drug's pro-social effects may be driven by distinct brain circuits to that which drives the 'high.' @nzeliadt got the story: #SFNChat
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Claire Helen Cameron
3 years
The only Henry Golding profile you need to read now. By @EricFrancisco24 for @inversedotcom
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Claire Helen Cameron
5 years
Nice to know that my sloth-like sleep schedule means that, if nothing else, I am not in danger of this...
@inversedotcom
Inverse
5 years
Getting fewer than seven hours of sleep may be aging you prematurely:
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Claire Helen Cameron
11 months
I'll also take this moment to share one of the last stories I edited at Inverse, on how long it'll be before a fully AI-generated blockbuster movie hits the silver screen (by the great @stokel !) Read it! --30--
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Claire Helen Cameron
3 years
Incredible discovery of a new ancient Homo morphotype in the Levant —  @elanaspivack explains the profound significance of the "X population" for @inversedotcom . .
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Claire Helen Cameron
6 months
SpaceX Starship made it almost 15 minutes into its flight before it experienced a "rapid unscheduled disassembly" (it exploded)...
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Claire Helen Cameron
3 years
To which end: We are hiring an Associate Science Editor and a reporter to join our Mind+Body team.
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Claire Helen Cameron
5 years
Spoiler alert: the future is bleak.
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Claire Helen Cameron
5 years
"It felt like such a big slap in the face... I was pretty disgusted. It just makes it harder for people who actually have a diagnosed learning disability to be believed.”
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Spectrum (Autism Research News)
5 years
New on Spectrum: How the college admissions cheating scandal hurts students with disabilities. #disability #CollegeCheatingScandal
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