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Arielle Duhaime-Ross

@adrs.bsky.social
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Science Journalist, Podcast & TV Host • Past : VICE News, Vox, The Verge, Altered States • They/Them • www.adrs.blog

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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“To be the boss is to sit alone at your desk, haunted by the suspicion that you are not in the driver's seat, but rather, you are in the back seat playing with a Fisher Price steering wheel. AI is sold as a way to wire the toy steering wheel directly into the corporation's drive-train”
pluralistic.net
Pluralistic: But do you use keyboard shortcuts? (14 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Incredible quote: “But I don’t think we’re as bad as the reptile people,” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/u...
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‘Freakish Little Animals’: Ferret Owners Gather to Celebrate Their Charms
At the largest annual ferret show in the United States, a shrinking community fights to survive.
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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
just kinda fucking stupid not to give Lilly Wachowski carte blanche to make whatever the hell she wants after cooking up The Matrix, Bound, Speed Racer, etc. I hate it here.
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
“AI might be a scenic path with no hills or hindrances, but it does not lead to the goal we’re chasing. It leads to a fucking desert.” mass-driver.com/article/from...
mass-driver.com
From human hands.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
1. I am not an AI researcher 2. "Doesn't just repeat back to you what you said" ... isn't what any chatbots do, nor what that metaphor was about. 3. For the millionth time, that paper was about LLMs, not "AI" and definitely not "AI agents" medium.com/@emilymenonb...
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Yes! when I make videos people say "oh you've just got so much talent!" No babe I have so much TRAINING. It really isn't natural to read like you speak it takes work!
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
100 percent yes. I have years of training and I do it like it’s no thing now. But it wasn’t always that way.
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Anyway the point of this thread wasn’t to announce a new service or anything. I just have a hard time understanding why journalists aren’t being given more support for these videos when outlets rely so heavily on them these days.
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I didn’t charge for this. I wanted to see what it was like to coach someone who isn’t a journalist. But tbh I have thought about offering my services to individuals, non-profits, and news outlets.
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Yes! Podcast host have producers, as you know. People who make videos for social and aren’t pros should also get produced. At the very least they should receive a few one on one coaching sessions.
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I coached someone two weeks ago. We reviewed a video they’d put out together. We talked about posture and mindset. He walked away with a whole new understanding of how to approach hosting a video for social. And it took an hour of my time!
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
No shade on the reporter at all. Most people need support to sound like they aren’t reading on mic. I just don’t get why news outlets that are putting out increasing amounts of social video seemingly aren’t investing in that kind of support. This stuff really makes a difference!
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Working in audio has ruined me, I guess I can’t watch social videos like this w/o wondering why a producer couldn’t help the reporter sound better The reporter did fine. But I’ve coached a ton of journalists & there are tricks to making them sound conversational www.instagram.com/reel/DZUfeNN...
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 04/06/2026
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
They are, generally speaking. I won’t be writing off the entire publication because of this but I also think that’s a personal decision that we all have to make.
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Yep
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Sorry meant *misunderstand
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
listen, I like Wired a lot! People I love and respect work there. And They do great work, generally speaking. But this just ain’t it. Anyway, If you’re reading this thread and you want to know more about why that piece so bad, this is a good read: open.substack.com/pub/longcovi...
open.substack.com
Commentary on the Long Covid article by Alan Levinovitz in WIRED magazine
By Dr Elke Hausmann
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
For example, in at least one instance, He uses percentages to mask the reality of the extremely small study he’s citing. the author also seem to understand that we want treatments to be more effective than placebo. The headline is also very bad…
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Listen, anecdotes are powerful. And that’s totally a tool we all use as science writers. But this guy seems to have written this piece with a very specific agenda in mind. And, maybe as a result, he also makes a bunch of rookie science writing mistakes…
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
So I read the @wired.com story about long covid The argument seems to be: “no one wants to believe this minority of patients over here, and that’s hypocritical. But all these other patients over there are *hysterical* & I won’t even bother talking about their experience” Did I get that right?
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Long Covid Advocacy @longcovidadvoc.com · 03/06/2026
We have guest writer Dr Elke Hausmann examining the controversial Levinovitz WIRED article which has sparked significant concern for its portrayal of Long Covid, recovery narratives, and brain retraining approaches. 🎙️Audio available open.substack.com/pub/longcovi...
An abstract, translucent blue and grey spherical structure resembling a complex microscopic organism or digital rendering against a grey background. White text overlaid on the image reads: "Commentary on the Long Covid article by Alan Levinovitz in WIRED magazine By Dr Elke Hausmann." The website address "LONGCOVIDADVOCACY.SUBSTACK.COM" is printed at the bottom left, with a small Substack logo in the bottom right corner.
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
1 in 6 “That’s how many patients with Covid-19 go on to develop long Covid, according to a study of nearly 458,000 patients at 58 hospitals” published in JAMA Network Open. “about twice the rate estimated by federal health officials.” www.statnews.com/2026/05/28/h... via @statnews.com
statnews.com
The latest developments on Ebola, hepatitis B, long Covid
Uganda closes its border, a Christian substitute for insurance, and more health news from Morning Rounds
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This is coercive. Headway Therapy Patients Forced to Scan Their Faces to Keep Getting Care www.404media.co/headway-ther...
404media.co
Headway Therapy Patients Forced to Scan Their Faces to Keep Getting Care
A popular virtual therapy platform is telling providers and patients they'll have to do facial scanning soon, forcing some to choose between handing over their data and continuing care.
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
‘Cracked Oura’ Is an App For Using the Oura Ring Without the Monthly Subscription www.404media.co/cracked-oura...
404media.co
‘Cracked Oura’ Is an App For Using the Oura Ring Without the Monthly Subscription
On Thursday Oura announced the nearly $500 Ring 5. But what if you don't want to pay a monthly subscription to access your health data?
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
“The reader’s attention, behavior, and personal data become a commodity, packaged and resold through a supply chain riddled with fraud, opaque middlemen, and unscrupulous actors.” www.cjr.org/analysis/dep...
cjr.org
The American Prospect decided to do away with programmatic ads. A month later, people are spending twice as much time on the site.
The American Prospect decided to do away with programmatic ads. A month later, people are spending nearly twice as much time on the site.
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
it's not.
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I haven't listened to this episode, but the copy describing it in this newsletter is driving me nuts. "podcasting" does not equal "video talk show"!!!
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Bahahaha
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Though re: proton docs - they really need to add a footnotes feature. I can’t write a podcast script without footnotes!
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I started this process before the Google I/o stuff, but I’m even more motivated now: I’m moving away from Gmail entirely, and transitioning to protonmail for everything. I’ll still have to use Google Docs for collaborative work, but I’m happy to work out of proton docs whenever I can
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
to wit: reading your work to see if you stole it from other writers in the aftermath of you having been shown to steal work from other writers is not bullying nor is it character assassination it is a foreseeable consequence of stealing another writer’s work
Ross barkan shares a screenshot of an NPR reporter subscribing to his substack with the text: “Right now @BobbyAllyn is subscribing to my Substack - six years' worth of essays - to presumably trawl through each piece to commit what, quite frankly, is character assassination at this point. I'm proud of my record, my work, and stand by it. I won't be bullied.”
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Every brand coming out with their “Pride collection” right now and doing literally nothing else for queer folks
static.klipy.com
Rick James Quote: Greed is a Hell of a Drug
ALT: Rick James Quote: Greed is a Hell of a Drug
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 14/05/2026
The lede of our Ben Shapiro story on Saturday and the lede of the @nymag.com story today washingtonpost.com/technology/2... nymag.com/intelligence...
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
How are we still doing this
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
What “distressing” ideas? How are they “cocooned”? It’s amazing how much publicity one can get by reinforcing cliches that accord so little with the experiences of so many of us who actually teach college students.
Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist and author, has been on the front lines of campus battles over free speech for more than a decade, warning that the American education system has poorly served a generation of young people by cocooning them from ideas they might find distressing.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/05/2026
i've said it before but there needs to be serious congressional regulation of clerkships at the federal level
talkingpointsmemo.com
More on the Fancy Lawyers (and the Legal Academy)
From an Anonymous TPM Reader … Apologies for the extremely lengthy response,...
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The Portland Fire played incredible tonight. So much guts. So much... fire! I love them. It's official.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Attention liberals: COVID anti-vaxxers are your fault for being "alienating" www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/o...
The Editorial Board
Measles Is Back. What Comes Next Will Be Worse.
Reversing the new vaccine skepticism will require a dedicated effort.

By The Editorial BoardThe Covid pandemic once seemed as if it might reinstill confidence. The virus was a new and terrifying pathogen for which scientists developed a safe, highly effective vaccine in record time. It offered a case study in the power of vaccination. But Covid, too, soon became subject to political polarization.

Editors’ Picks

You Don’t Have to Be Filthy Rich to Enjoy an Airport Shower

Do You Know Which Lines Were Added to a Book’s Movie Version?

These Are the Very Best Scrambled Eggs
Many conservatives questioned the vaccine in irrational and self-defeating ways. Liberals rightly embraced the vaccine but sometimes went so far as to be alienating — insisting that children needed annual boosters (which most countries did not), calling for the firing of unvaccinated people and more. The combination played into many Americans’ pre-existing uncertainty about how much to trust public health experts. In the years since, vaccination rates for other diseases have slipped further.
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Regardless of what you think of this dinner or its attendees, the fact that the association then decided to resume dinner service is absurd. Go home. Work event over.
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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 24/04/2026
Mr. Beast: Did you finish that employee handbook? Mr. Beast’s Bro Flunky: Sure did boss! Reeeeeallllll incriminating, just like you asked for
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
here for it.
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
(which is wild because just six months ago I didn't know what wood turning was.)
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
thoughts I've had recently: What if I made my own pole lathe? Or should it be a treadle lathe?
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
That's incredibly cool. I have so much respect for furniture makers/cabinetmakers. This has also deepened my resolve to purchase furniture made by local craftspeople. Because now i have a better understanding of the work involved (right down to the wood selection!), and how much longer it lasts
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I suppose this is the opposite of "software brain" @reckless.bsky.social
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
And i got the wood around the corner from a TREE in my neighbor's front yard! (he trimmed his japanese cherry)
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
(don't tell my mom yet, but this is her mother's day gift)
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Yessss - that's perfect. I am not in my gardening phase yet but as soon as I have real yard, I'm excited to make raised garden boxes out of cedar!!!
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Anyway, I'm happy. Actually... I'd love to write an article about the renewed popularity of hand tool woodworking (a trend for which I have evidence, and not just something I'm wishing into existence). So editors, if you're interested hit me up.
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