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1 year

One of the scariest thing about being a journalist is that every time you finish writing an article, you're going to have to write another one

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3 years

some professional news: this week I've joined @WiredUK as staff science reporter!! super excited to be working with an amazing team, covering a subject that has literally never been more important. hmu at grace.browne @condenast .co.uk

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I wrote about the lack of evidence-backed and standardised protocols in the psychotherapy component of psychedelic-assisted therapy, and how it's muddling the research and may even potentially cause harm to patients.

The Therapy Part of Psychedelic Therapy Is a Mess

There’s little evidence to prove how necessary or helpful many of the accepted norms in psychedelic-assisted therapy are—and some could even harm patients.

www.wired.com

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I was one of the many affected by the recent layoffs at @WIRED . baby's first media layoff! I joined WIRED when I was 22, and I was very lucky to land at a place where I was given so much room to grow as a journalist.

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2 years

If Roe is rolled back, legal scholars I spoke to warned that pro-life politicians could leap on the opportunity to push for further restrictions; they could try to outlaw contraception methods such as IUDs and the morning-after pill, which they deem to be abortifacients (untrue).

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2 years

In 2016, a woman reached out to some MIT scientists, and asked them if they wanted to study her unique brain. EG, who is in her fifties, had been missing her left temporal lobe all her life, something she only learned when she was 25 years old.

She Was Missing a Chunk of Her Brain. It Didn’t Matter

A woman grew up without her left temporal lobe, which highlights how amazingly plastic the brain is.

www.wired.com

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2 years

It also raises a ton of questions about the future of IVF. The entire process of IVF is predicated of *some* embryo disposal, and thousands of people across the US have frozen embryos in storage—what happens to them? Will IVF clinics be charged for destroying them?

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2 years

“If you have embryos that are frozen in a state that either has a trigger law or that you know is very conservative, and you have the resources to move them elsewhere, I would move them,” @ProfessorMutch told me.

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2 years

New from me: I wrote about what could happen post-Roe in states where the laws define life as beginning at the moment of fertilization:

The Ramifications of Roe v. Wade’s Fall Won’t Stop at Abortion Bans

In certain states, politicians could leap on the opportunity to push for the criminalization of certain methods of birth control and to impair access to IVF.

www.wired.com

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2 years

Ukraine is a big hub for clinical research—there's about 250 active trials ongoing in the country today. What happens to those trials, and more crucially, their patients, during a war? My latest:

The War Puts Ukraine's Clinical Trials—and Patients—in Jeopardy

Hundreds of trials have been disrupted in the medical research hub. Some patients are at risk of losing their last chance at survival.

www.wired.com

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2 years

I wrote about how hard it is to get your tubes tied in the US. A wild thing I learned while reporting: In the 70s, doctors would only grant you a tubal ligation if your age multiplied by the number of children you had equaled the number 120 or greater (!!)

Permanent Birth Control Is in Demand in the US—but Hard to Get

After the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling, more people are seeking to get their tubes tied—assuming they can find a sympathetic doctor.

www.wired.com

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@gracefbrowne

2 years

Many frontiers of basic reproductive healthcare could soon be under attack in the US. Read the rest of the story here:

The Ramifications of Roe v. Wade’s Fall Won’t Stop at Abortion Bans

In certain states, politicians could leap on the opportunity to push for the criminalization of certain methods of birth control and to impair access to IVF.

www.wired.com

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@gracefbrowne

4 years

If anyone can bear to stomach non-COVID-related news, here's a piece I worked on for many months for @undarkmag . A medical device, called an inferior vena cava filter, has been a source of controversy and strife within the medical community for years.

Some doctors are calling for the boycott of inferior vena cava, or IVC filters — and patients are suing manufacturers.

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@gracefbrowne

2 months

the perfect encapsulation of the journalism industry right now is my recommended jobs section on LinkedIn, inundated with roles that entail forming "the ‘voice’ for future AI"

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@gracefbrowne

7 months

fantastic and infuriating story from @annabarryjester on the inherent mismatch between the interests of Big Pharma and global health, shining a blinding light on how broken the system is

How a Big Pharma Company Stalled a Potentially Lifesaving Vaccine in Pursuit of Bigger Profits

A vaccine against tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest infectious disease, has never been closer to reality, with the potential to save millions of lives. But its development slowed after its corpor...

www.propublica.org

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@gracefbrowne

10 months

remember that paper last year that denounced the serotonin story of depression—and was twisted into antidepressants being useless? 35 scientists have just published a new paper calling its conclusion overstated, pointing out big holes in its methodology

A leaky umbrella has little value: evidence clearly indicates the serotonin system is implicated in...

Molecular Psychiatry - A recent “umbrella” review examined various biomarkers relating to the serotonin system, and concluded there was no consistent evidence implicating serotonin in...

www.nature.com

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@gracefbrowne

4 years

Don’t really know how to react. Over the summer, I pitched a major science news outlet (a dream pub) a story about a study that was still a preprint at the time. They accepted the pitch, I interviewed a bunch of people, and wrote it, with a really quick turnaround time.

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4 months

WIRED is choosing to deprioritise science coverage; much has been said in recent times about why this is a worrying trend that's playing out across the industry right now. I echo that concern! @aznfusion eloquently elaborated on the issue here:

In May 2022, Popular Science celebrated 150 years of the magazine: 1,747 issues, alongside a stream of stories and videos published online. The magazine’s staff compiled a special anniversary...

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@gracefbrowne

3 years

my story on what is to happen to Covid-19 as the pandemic recedes. right now, it seems likely that it will become endemic, a disease that is in constant circulation — and we will learn to live with it

This is what will happen to Covid-19 when the pandemic is over

It’s likely that Covid-19 is never going away for good. In time, humans will get used to living alongside the virus

www.wired.com

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@gracefbrowne

4 years

Today, the same editor has written an article about that very study (which has now been published in a journal). First time this has happened to me, and it does not feel good :(

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2 years

nobody talks enough of the plight of the health journalist—being the "actually, that's not true..." person at a party is such a downer!!! I've stopped telling women that the period syncing thing is a myth, bc I was NOT put on this godforsaken Earth to take away female joy

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@gracefbrowne

3 years

I wrote about a bizarre phenomenon unfolding in Germany: in the last couple of years, a rush of young people have begun to present with tic-like movements. and they all look the exact same.

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@gracefbrowne

4 years

LGBTQ+ people in STEM, would appreciate if you could answer this quick survey on your experience! (For a MSc Science Communication project) And please share!! 🏳️‍🌈 #LGBTSTEM #QueerInSTEM #TransInSTEM #BiInSci @500QueerSci @PrideinSTEM

Experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals working in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths)

Turn data collection into an experience with Typeform. Create beautiful online forms, surveys, quizzes, and so much more. Try it for FREE.

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@gracefbrowne

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@rosemarieho_ not specific to women but this hits on a lot of the same notes!

Everyone needs to grow up

Whether it’s people who mention their Hogwarts house on their Hinge profile or literal white supremacists, culture is awash with adult babies

www.dazeddigital.com

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@gracefbrowne

2 years

Genomics England, a UK government-owned company, will be running a nationwide research pilot to sequence the genomes of up to 200,000 newborns. I wrote about the various ethical minefields it will have to navigate

The UK Government Wants to Sequence Your Baby’s Genome

Genomics England plans to test a program that will offer whole genome sequencing to newborns—opening a Pandora’s box of ethical concerns.

www.wired.com

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@gracefbrowne

2 years

my role at @WIRED is changing slightly! my beat is narrowing to focus in on health, which I'm very excited about. so do please send me tips and stories — my email is grace_browne @wired .com, or shoot me a DM

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@gracefbrowne

3 years

that mRNA is cursing through my body and it feels goooooood

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@gracefbrowne

2 years

I wrote about the worryingly low vaccine uptake for pregnant people, and how we get how here (hint: shoddy public health messaging and bogus, fear-mongering rumours)

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3 years

I wrote about the fascinating and mysterious trend that is people with long Covid reporting an improvement in their symptoms after receiving a vaccine, a story I've been following for months

Vaccines are making some long Covid sufferers feel better

After months of recurring symptoms, some long Covid patients are reporting that their symptoms ease after getting a jab. This might not be as unlikely as it sounds

www.wired.com

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@gracefbrowne

4 months

onwards! I'll be on the hunt for journalism work, as well as other non-journalistic writing gigs. I <3 writing about public health, drugs, medicine, and mental health, among other stuff. if you're willing to fork money over for my words, my deets are at

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1 year

Grateful to sources including @EikoFried , @GillBedi , @mcguireamy , and @NeseLSD and @Sarah_Mc_Name , who co-authored a recent viewpoint in JAMA related to this topic, along with former MAPS trial participant Meaghan Buisson

Avoiding Harm in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy

This Viewpoint discusses serious adverse events linked to interactions between therapists and patients in trials of psychedelic-assisted therapy.

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2 years

And EG's brain is also a perfect example of how astonishingly plastic our brains are; many of us could be strolling around with chunks of our brains missing with little difference to our lives, "which is—engineering-wise—a pretty good way to build the system," Fedorenko told me.

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@gracefbrowne

3 years

Recently in Norway, over 30 people died after receiving the vaccine. I wrote about why this should not be a cause for concern

Norway’s elderly Covid-19 vaccine deaths aren’t what they seem

33 elderly people in Norway died shortly after receiving their Covid-19 vaccine, but a quick look at the numbers will tell you why this shouldn't be surprising

www.wired.com

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@gracefbrowne

2 years

Learn more about EG's fascinating story in the rest of the piece:

She Was Missing a Chunk of Her Brain. It Didn’t Matter

A woman grew up without her left temporal lobe, which highlights how amazingly plastic the brain is.

www.wired.com

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9 months

coming back to the uk from Ireland makes me realize how many of this country’s ills could be healed by the Irish tradition of smiling and saying hello to absolute strangers. nothing heals my mental health more than mouthing “hi” at every randomer I pass, it’s like drugs

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2 years

a shower is my cure for everything. midday slump? shower. feeling hopelessly depressed and spiralling into a pit of despair? shower. kinda smelly and need to shower? SHOWER!

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2 years

The missing lobe—thought to be involved with language processing—had had remarkably little effect on EG's life: she had a graduate degree, led a very successful career, and spoke Russian, a second language, so well that she has dreamed in it.

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2 years

The first paper documenting EG's brain was recently released, which explored how language processing regions emerge in the brain, and Fedorenko and her lab have several more studies on the way, some of which include EG's sister who also (!!!) is missing her right temporal lobe.

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@gracefbrowne

2 years

And so when she met @ev_fedorenko and her team, they recognised EG's brain presented an invaluable opportunity to understand how certain cognitive functions readapt in an atypical brain—and EG was more than happy to lend her brain over to be studied.

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@gracefbrowne

1 year

In my latest, I explored the phenomenon of the therapist-cum-influencers that you've been seeing on your FYP

Help, My Therapist Is Also an Influencer!

Counselors have moved from beside the chaise longue and into users’ TikTok feeds, fueling debates about client privacy and the mental health profession.

www.wired.com

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@gracefbrowne

2 years

just how my abuela made them

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2 years

Every time I open the app lately it’s just more bad news

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@gracefbrowne

9 months

giving my tasty new edition of the @The_Fence_Mag a whizz around the hallowed halls of Vogue House before tucking in

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@gracefbrowne

3 years

for my first piece at @wireduk , I wrote about the test positivity rate in the UK, and its value as a metric of how bad the country's covid situation is right now

The UK can’t even keep track of its spiralling Covid-19 case numbers

The proportion of Covid-19 tests coming back positive is higher than any point after April, which means the UK is losing sight of where the virus is spreading

www.wired.com

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@gracefbrowne

2 years

The insights gleaned from EG underscores the value that case studies still hold in neuroscience, as the general trend towards bigger studies equals better has taken a firm grip on research. But much of the fundamental basis of neuroscience can be traced back to case studies.

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1 year

perhaps the reason why so many people suspect they have ADHD is because we've set up society in a way where we're expected to do 8+ hours of intense cognitive work five days a week on the same devices that offer hyper-entertaining, addictive content at a click's notice

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@gracefbrowne

3 years

"This is not flipping a coin. This is not something that we just have to wait and see how it shakes out — we can shape the future that we want." For @inversedotcom , I had the most wonderful opportunity to chat with the inimitable @DrKateMarvel

Climate scientist Kate Marvel: "With science plus action, things can get better."

NASA climate scientist Kate Marvel harbors a reserved optimism about the future of Earth and the climate crisis. She tells Inverse why she believes it's just “a problem with a solution.”

www.inverse.com

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@gracefbrowne

4 years

extremely glad I decided back in January to write my masters thesis on coronavirus. yes, good choice, excellent. really loving having to read extensively about it everyday

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@gracefbrowne

9 months

I wrote about how this scorching summer is harming one specific group: pregnant people and their unborn babies

Extreme Heat Threatens the Health of Unborn Babies

Exposure to excessive heat during pregnancy has been linked to everything from preterm labor to low birth weight, and those risks are rising as the world warms.

www.wired.com

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2 years

Since finding out, EG had suffered experiences with doctors that had left a bad taste in her mouth: they told her she should have seizures, or that she should have the vocabulary of a 5th grader. (EG tested in the 98th percentile for vocab.)

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@gracefbrowne

3 years

the constant bashing of PRs on here by other journalists is so tired. okay yeah someone sent you an irrelevant pitch — just ignore it or delete it! journalists need PR/comms people, and they're just doing a job, just like you when you spam a source repeatedly. we're ALL annoying!

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@gracefbrowne

2 years

But many roadblocks remain today: you could be refused because you're too young, because you don't have any or enough (yes) children, or because you haven't got the sign off of your partner.

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2 years

After reading my piece about @ev_fedorenko 's lab (), @helenwsantoro , who is also missing her left temporal lobe, got involved with Ev's research and wrote this much better essay about the experience!! yay brains <3

She Was Missing a Chunk of Her Brain. It Didn’t Matter

A woman grew up without her left temporal lobe, which highlights how amazingly plastic the brain is.

www.wired.com

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@gracefbrowne

2 years

so very many of my calls with American sources start with a 5-minute-long guessing game of where my accent is from, in which they basically just rattle down a list of every non-British English-speaking country

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@gracefbrowne

3 years

A new startup in the US, called Orchid, is offering couples the chance to find out the likelihood of their future children developing common conditions like heart disease, diabetes, schizophrenia. But how accurate — and ethical — is the test? My latest:

This startup says it can predict the health of your future child

Orchid says its spit tests can tell prospective parents how healthy their future child might be. Scientists aren’t so convinced

www.wired.com

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@gracefbrowne

2 years

Also—the racist, classist, ableist (and so on) history of sterilisation lives on today, with doctors more likely to approve a sterilisation for women of colour and poorer women than their white and/or rich counterparts.

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2 years

if I don’t laugh, I’ll cry

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@gracefbrowne

5 years

Wahoo!! Just got offered a place in the @imperialcollege MSc Science Communication programme 🥳 it's over for u bitches

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2 years

a satisfying and thorough look beyond the myopia of the DSM, from @elliepses (whose pieces I always immediately bookmark and always make me extremely jealous)

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3 years

I wrote about the ongoing quest to develop a universal coronavirus vaccine — a vaccine that not only targets Sars-CoV-2, but other coronaviruses like SARS and MERS, and even viruses that haven't spilled over from animals to humans yet

A universal coronavirus vaccine could stop the next pandemic

Coronaviruses have been responsible for three major pandemic threats, and it's likely many more are waiting in the shadows. A vaccine that protects against them all could stop a pandemic before it...

www.wired.com

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@gracefbrowne

3 years

the unjustness of the patriarchy has bested me today...was able to fit an entire multipack of penguin bars in my boyfriend’s northface jacket’s inside pocket. sobbing

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@gracefbrowne

2 years

I want someone to write an essay mapping out when multiple exclamation marks (e.g. !!!) became the norm, particularly among women and myself included, to denote a certain casualness that a single exclamation mark fails to convey (! = dry, serious)

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2 years

I wrote about a new paper that argues that the psychedelic hype bubble is on the brink of bursting—and why that's probably a good thing

Is the Psychedelic Therapy Bubble About to Burst?

A new paper argues that excitement has veered into misinformation—and scientists should be the ones to set things straight.

www.wired.com

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2 years

off the back of my story on EG, @helenwsantoro , who is also missing her left temporal lobe, is going to meet @ev_fedorenko to get her brain scanned too!!! SO COOL

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3 years

sometimes I respond to an email straight away because I just wanna knock it out, BUT I hate looking really eager so I schedule the email to send in 10-15 minutes time please sir, my brain...the worms...

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@gracefbrowne

9 months

Looking forward to hosting this panel on the advances in space medicine at the @sciencemuseum on Sept 13 👽💊 get tickets here:

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1 year

no movie hits as hard as the one you randomly find playing on tv at 4pm on a Sunday

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5 years

I can't celebrate when I get a commission bc I'm too nervous about writing the damn piece, and then I can't celebrate when it's actually published bc I'm too nervous about a scientist coming along and saying everything in it is completely wrong... so I celebrate 2-3 months later

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1 year

I for one actually prefer to maintain this American idea of Ireland bc it makes me look much more impressive to my US contemporaries that I became a journalist despite having no electricity

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Ireland is so funny because I couldn’t tell from the commercials that it was set in the past

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4 years

After submitting the draft, the editor decided the results of the study weren’t robust enough, and they also weren’t happy with how I wrote it (am always happy to receive criticism, I’m still learning!). They decided to kill the story.

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1 year

this story from @llaurieclarke is WILD: a Peter Thiel-backed startup is using the lax regulations of the crypto-libertarian haven Próspera, Honduras to conduct gene-therapy clinical trials—you even have to buy an NFT to sign up for the trial

This biohacking company is using a crypto city to test controversial gene therapies

Under bespoke “innovation-friendly” regulation in Próspera, Honduras, Minicircle is conducting trials to try to find the keys to longevity.

www.technologyreview.com

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@gracefbrowne

3 years

I swear half my time is spent trying to figure out the time difference between me and a source in order to set up an interview

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2 years

wow, look how many TKs the editor left in by mistake in this paper!! (ha ha ha haaaaaa)

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4 years

How far back in the food chain does the plastic problem reach? I found out! My first for @bbc_future

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3 years

I am in utter disbelief that journalists used to have agents who could negotiate for them (from @eleanorhalls1 's great newsletter, where she interviewed Suzanne Moore)

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3 years

scientists are vulnerable to human biases like the rest of us — not limited to being drawn to pretty things. but in botany, this becomes an issue when researchers have a tendency to study the beautiful plants over the more boring, "uglier" plants.

Scientists keep ignoring ugly plants. That’s a big problem

Research is biased towards good-looking plants and animals, leaving their uglier cousins out in the cold

www.wired.com

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@gracefbrowne

2 years

The r/childfree subreddit has great resources and tips on how to procure the procedure

r/childfree

**Discussion topics and links of interest to childfree individuals. ["Childfree" refers to those who do not have and do not ever want children (whether biological, adopted, or otherwise).](http://b...

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2 years

if I put a question mark next to something on my to-do list, it means that thing is 100% not getting done that day, if ever

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10 months

@ameliargh Sliced white bread supremacy

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4 years

why am I staring at your face? oh, I'm just guessing how fast your heart is beating 🙂 I wrote about a new study for @newscientist

We may be able to tell someone's heart rate just by looking at them

Researchers asked volunteers to match an on-screen heart rate to videos of people's faces, and the participants were able to guess better than chance. It could be that this ability helps us judge...

www.newscientist.com

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hobbies, yeah I have hobbies! I love reading, going for walks, cooking new recipes, listening to music and looking at who's viewed my LinkedIn profile without privacy mode turned on

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the "I'm on deadline" to “on Facebook trying to figure out when the person you went to primary school with broke up with her fiancé” pipeline

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2 years

the dinosaurs to the meteor just before it hit them

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2 years

people keep calling the BA.2 subvariant the "sister" of the omicron BA.1 version...so we're saying BA.2 is a woman?? and on international women's day?? yas gurl, werk! 💅

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1 year

I would like to know whose bright idea it was to call a scale to estimate how suicidal someone is the 'SAD PERSONS scale'

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9 months

exercise boosts your mood—right??? this new paper in @NatureHumBehav found the evidence to support that claim pretty scant, and now I fear I may become even lazier

A systematic review of the strength of evidence for the most commonly recommended happiness...

Nature Human Behaviour - A systematic review examines the happiness-promoting strategies most commonly recommended in the media. This review suggests that the scientific evidence underlying some of...

www.nature.com

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5 months

always getting caught in what I call the sweet-salty doom loop. ate dinner, had a smoothie, needed a savoury hit so now I'm eating crisps. will I eat chocolate after? chances are high

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3 years

thanks so much to the people who spoke to me for this piece, including @darrenabrown , who generously shared his long Covid story with me, @dianaberrent of @Survivor_Corps , @DanielGriffinMD , @gushamilton and the inimitable Akiko of course!

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2 years

someone needs to write an essay about Ryanair's new social media strategy of just leaning into the fact that they're total shite and everybody knows it, it's fascinating and honestly working for me

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@Ryanair

2 years

are you new here?

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4 years

Microbes are HOT right now, plants are NOT, haven't you heard? My (first) piece for @ozm

Microbe Scientists Are Preparing Us to Eat in a Post-Plant World

‘We are bringing a completely new harvest to the humankind’

onezero.medium.com

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3 years

i wondered if the chaos of a pandemic meant that doctors were incorrectly diagnosing patients with Covid-19, when in fact they were suffering from something different, perhaps even more pernicious

Doctors were sure they had Covid-19. The reality was worse

When the pandemic hit, doctors were primed to spot Covid-19 wherever they looked. Sometimes that meant they missed other potentially fatal diseases

www.wired.com

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2 years

I'm just confused about where outlets draw the line on "opinion" in op-eds; surely publishing a full-blown scientific inaccuracy—that an ectopic pregnancy can ever be delivered—crosses this supposed line?

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3 years

best pr pitch I've ever received

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2 years

Russia's invasion means many participants are fleeing, some of which—such as Stage IV cancer patients—may be forgoing their last hope for treatment. "For oncology patients, this is also a matter of survival,” one source told me.

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2 years

“Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory" I whispered to my 9-year-old self as I slipped my candy watch off my wrist before going to school

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7 months

one of the more sobering kickers I've ever read

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3 years

This looks to be an outbreak of mass sociogenic illness — also known as mass psychogenic illness or historically called mass hysteria — in which symptoms spread by unconscious social mimicry to vulnerable people, and is thought to be triggered by emotional distress.

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3 years

are men okay

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3 years

oh dear, the bouncebacks have begun......the scientists are on holidays

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5 months

I wrote about my personal pet obsession, disposable vapes, and interviewed the until-now-mysterious Chinese company that owns most of the market

The Precarious Rise of Disposable Vapes

Disposable vapes from brands like Elf Bar and Lost Mary have taken over the ecigarette market and become a hit among young people. Governments are trying to figure out what to do.

www.wired.com

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Grace Browne

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2 years

no no no I keep misspelling it 'omnicron' on purpose, I just think it sounds better okay

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