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vschpr.bsky.social
Writer, reader, #journalist. Ex-@bloomberg #science and #health reporter. Hosted a #podcast about disinformation. Now interested in anything #neurodiversity. Living the Swiftie-mom to #Swiftie pipeline.
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get it gen x Why Gen X Women Are Having the Best Sex www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/m...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Tomorrow, my public health/politics class will cover misinformation, conspiracy theories, and the politics of raw food/milk, as well as this article. On Wednesday, we cover similar ground related to COVID. Grateful to do this work, even in our current context.

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

I regularly get asked if there’s a directory specifically for autistic therapists and it doesn’t seem to exist so I’m buying a domain and making a directory wooooo

submitted 22 days ago • 45 comments

The RFK Jr confirmation hearings take me back to when we (cc: Daiva Repeckaite) learned how anti-vax movements pull parents in, to then expose them to right-wing ideologies. Here's the podcast episode for anyone who's interested: www.podbean.com/eas/pb-ut3eh...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

The head of the FAA, Mike Whitaker, resigned on January 20 — one year into his 5 year term — after facing relentless criticism from Musk for not approving SpaceX missions quickly enough. The Senate confirmed him unanimously in 2023. No acting FAA head has been appointed.

submitted 24 days ago • 259 comments

tired just thinking about the updates reporters have been pushing out over the past few days

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it's going to be so much worse this time around www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/t...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Life is open.spotify.com/album/54eLc8...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

ugh

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well life is full of surprises www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11...

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

little too loud right now, moby dick

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

This is really getting quite remarkable • BlueSky user numbers have doubled in the past week and now total 3.5 million across US & UK 🚀 • Number of people deleting their X/Twitter account remains way up And the next chart is particularly notable...

submitted 95 days ago • 136 comments

Post you from a different era? lovely picture -- especially the little baggie of poo hanging on the fence

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Yet another plea to people who are using or following people off follow-farming hashtags like #NoDemUnder1K, #NoDemUnder5K, #BlueCrew, #FBR, etc etc: please do not do that, it's how disinformation operations work. I'm already seeing accounts in those hashtags that are likely disinformation ops. 1/

submitted 100 days ago • 174 comments

it's official — 1,000,000 people have joined Bluesky in just the last day!!! welcome and thank you for being here 🥳

submitted 100 days ago • 2365 comments

The Sick Times--a digital long-COVID newspaper--is 1 yr old today. I couldn't be prouder of what Betsy, Miles, and their team have accomplished. thesicktimes.org/2024/11/14/p... If you have the means, pls join me in supporting their end-of-year fundraiser. the-sick-times.fundjournalism.org/donate/

submitted 101 days ago • 23 comments

we are so back

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Overlooked for the Booker Prize AGAIN. Apparently you have to “first write a book”. Nepotistic literary establishment setting insurmountable barriers against me, the extraordinary man in the street, entering. Makes me sick.

submitted 102 days ago • 54 comments

I've been off Twitter since 2022. Coming here feels like a high school reunion.

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment