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Articles Editor @undarkmag • Instructor at NYU • Books: Infested (2015) & The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking (2016 & 2023) • She/Her • 🏳️‍🌈

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brookeborel.bsky.social @brookeborel.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
At 1pm ET today, @annarothschild.bsky.social and I are heading over to Reddit for an AMA about AI doom for @undark.org. Swing through! www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comme...
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brookeborel.bsky.social @brookeborel.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
The Entanglements podcast @undark.org is back for season 2! Up first, @annarothschild.bsky.social digs into gain-of-function research. What a delight to be working together again on this project: undark.org/2025/08/20/p...
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Podcast: Should We Make Viruses More Dangerous – For Science?
Kicking off Entanglements Season 2, our hosts talk to a microbiologist and a virologist about gain-of-function research.
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brookeborel.bsky.social @brookeborel.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Congrats, Esther! A well-deserved prize for a very thoughtful piece
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Jyoti Madhusoodanan @smjyoti.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Over the past few years, my work has orbited one central question: What does it mean to live at the cutting edge of science, experiencing a disease researchers don't fully understand? This story, my latest for Undark, probably comes closest to describing what that's like: undark.org/2025/03/03/m...
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As Adults Age With MS, Should They Shed Their Meds?
The risks and benefits of immunosuppressive drugs for multiple sclerosis shift with age, but who should quit — and when?
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brookeborel.bsky.social @brookeborel.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Don't miss this @undark.org longform by Fletcher Reveley: undark.org/2025/02/19/h... (Thx for the shout out @longreads.com !)
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Grave Mistakes: The History and Future of Chile’s ‘Disappeared'
A brutal regime hid hundreds of people's remains. Can new forensic science help find them — and regain public trust?
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brookeborel.bsky.social @brookeborel.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
🎉🎉🎉
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Undark Magazine @undark.org · 23/12/2024
(1/5) Gain-of-function research involves altering organisms to study risks and benefits, especially for pandemic threats. Its value and risks are widely debated.
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Shraddha Chakradhar @scchak.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
🚨 Just about a month left to get your application in for this 11-week PAID opportunity with @science.org this summer! Budding science journalists, take a look at our requirements and if you fit the bill + are interested, please apply 👇🏽!
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Longreads @longreads.com · 06/12/2024
“But now that human-caused climate change has accelerated, and with devastating effects already underway around the world, what previously appeared to be a risky Hail Mary technofix has gained respectability.”@raminskibba.bsky.social @undark.org #longreads undark.org/2024/12/03/u...
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Geoengineering Could Alter Global Climate. Should It?
Scientists and companies increasingly support blocking some sunlight to avoid the worst impacts of global warming.
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brookeborel.bsky.social @brookeborel.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Tired of the widespread discord? Looking for something to listen to over the long holiday weekend? May I suggest @undark.org's new podcast Entanglements, where @annarothschild.bsky.social and I try to cut through the rancor in various thorny scientific debates...? #science #journalism (1/4)
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brookeborel.bsky.social @brookeborel.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Ok, so this is where ya'll have been hanging out???!
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Esther Landhuis @elandhuis.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
Amid sluggish NIH #LongCovid efforts, could this bottom-up approach yield treatment answers faster? My latest for Undark undark.org/2023/10/23/l... Thanks @brookeborel.bsky.social for great editing, and @julierehmeyer.bsky.social for inspiring the story
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From a Grassroots Survey to Long Covid Treatment Trials
A pharmacist polled patients on their dozens of medications and supplements. Could these efforts help fight long Covid?
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brookeborel.bsky.social @brookeborel.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
If you read anything this week, please make it be this deeply reported, months-long Undark investigation into the previously hidden history of the first #rsv vaccine trials, which took place in the 1960s. undark.org/2023/10/09/r...
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brookeborel.bsky.social @brookeborel.bsky.social · 06/07/2023
Ok are more people here or on the other new one??
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