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Byrd Pinkerton

@byrdest.bsky.social
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i explain the unexplainable on vox.com/unexplainable moderate to severe williams f1 racing fan (she/her)

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
2025, or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Voice Memo @byrdest.bsky.social was right, y’all
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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Maybe you need a break from *flaps hands distractedly,* perhaps w/some diverting zombie science? Have a listen as @byrdest.bsky.social & I talk about Rise of the Zombie Bugs on @vox.com's Unexplainable podcast, we spent some quality time with the "fly-destroyer" zombifying fungus & now you can too 🧪
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Real-life zombies
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NPR @npr.org · 01/06/2025
Under the Biden administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule barring medical debt from appearing on credit reports. Now, the agency is siding with the credit industry groups suing to have the rule vacated.
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The CFPB wanted medical debt to be left off credit reports. That's changed under Trump
Under the Biden administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule barring medical debt from appearing on credit reports. Now, the agency is siding with the credit industry groups suing to have the rule vacated.
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NPR @npr.org · 21/05/2025
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
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Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
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Byrd Pinkerton @byrdest.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
“I struggle with it. I feel like marine systems especially are pretty complicated to think about restoring. What do you actually do out here? How do you protect things? … But you can’t stop doing it, because then you’ve kind of lost everything.” www.vox.com/down-to-eart...
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At the edge of the ocean, a dazzling ecosystem is changing fast
California researchers grapple with losing a landscape they love in real time.
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Paige Vega @paigeblank.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
You really, really don't want to get measles. @dylanlscott.bsky.social's latest for @vox.com: www.vox.com/health/40470...
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Measles is back — and more dangerous than you think. Here’s what you can do to protect yourself.
The troubling ripple effects of more measles outbreaks, explained.
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Byrd Pinkerton @byrdest.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
it is a lovely lovely time to ride insanely hard for williams racing
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Byrd Pinkerton @byrdest.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
lol
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I wrote about the outbreak of ??? in Congo for Nat Geo (and my fave editor ever, the great @bresnick.bsky.social) www.nationalgeographic.com/health/artic...
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What we do—and don’t—know about the mysterious illness in the DRC
The unidentified ailment has sickened 1,300 people and led to more than 50 deaths. Regardless of the cause, experts say containing the outbreak will be challenging.
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 13/02/2025
The 2% of the planet representing the conterminous United States was quite chilly in January. The rest of the world, not so much! berkeleyearth.org/ja...
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NPR @npr.org · 13/02/2025
After going quiet on bird flu, CDC scientists have published a report on its spread among veterinarians. The findings suggest a need for better surveillance.
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After delay, CDC releases data signaling bird flu spread undetected in cows and people
After going quiet on bird flu, CDC scientists have published a report on its spread among veterinarians. The findings suggest a need for better surveillance.
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NPR @npr.org · 07/02/2025
If the Trump administration continues targeting DEI in science and seeking to slash funding, American science will look fundamentally different.
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'Unprecedented': White House moves to control science funding worry researchers
If the Trump administration continues targeting DEI in science and seeking to slash funding, American science will look fundamentally different.
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NPR @npr.org · 31/01/2025
BREAKING NEWS: Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.
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Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies
Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.
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NPR @npr.org · 18/01/2025
NPR transcribed 2,000 hours of radio communications from the LA fires. It shows hydrants going dry and first responders fighting the fires despite scarce resources.
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'All the hydrants up here are dead.' Radio traffic recounts LA firefighters losing water
NPR transcribed 2,000 hours of radio communications from the LA fires. It shows hydrants going dry and first responders fighting the fires despite scarce resources.
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Coffee and Fingernails @coffeenfingernails.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
This is a perfect sentence: "All we’ve gotten in the past decade is example after example of how little these people know about anything other than making apps that destroy something you previously loved, by hollowing it out into a subscription service that no longer works and everyone hates."
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KrystynT @krystyntully.com · 15/01/2025
Fascinating piece. The research and the writing are gems.
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Byrd Pinkerton @byrdest.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
keren will make you laugh so hard you won’t realize she also made you learn and i am so sad i won’t get to learn with her at work anymore
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Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I just got laid off from @vox.com along with 11 other talented and delightful people. I'm leaving with a deep bench of sources and a million ideas. Editors assigning work on public health, health misinfo, corporate ints/religion in healthcare, please reach out! Gonna go have cookies for lunch now
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Thomas Lu @thomasuylu.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Been hanging out with the fab Unexplainable team @vox.com for a bit. Listen to me be amazed by secret twins from @byrdest.bsky.social 🫂, animal transplant organs from Mandy Nguyen 🫁, and 1-way tickets to Mars from @nhassenfeld.bsky.social 🚀! Link in thread. Oh, PS: Send me science stories/ideas! 🔬
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Byrd Pinkerton @byrdest.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
oops. turns out that blue cross blue shield not paying for anesthesia after a certain time limit was NOT a terrible thing?!? "Anthem’s policy would have cost anesthesiologists, not their enrollees." www.vox.com/policy/39003...
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A big insurer backed off its plan to pay less for anesthesia. That’s bad.
What the fight between Anthem and anesthesiologists was really about.
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Vox Media Union @voxmediaunion.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
We are overwhelmed by and grateful for the support we've received from everyone in the aftermath of Vox Media's awful end-of-year layoffs. If you have some spare cash, please donate. All funds will go directly to those who lost their jobs last week. www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
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Donate to Stand with the Vox Media Union and Thrillist Union, organized by Ashok Selvam
On Thursday, December 5, nearly 40 members of the Vox Media Union, Thr… Ashok Selvam needs your support for Stand with the Vox Media Union and Thrillist Union
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Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
“Naturally, we want answers on who needs our help most. But outsourcing our choices about charitable giving to empirical guides does not cut through the numbness. It may sit, conveniently, alongside it. It can even short circuit the painful process of paying attention.” bsky.app/profile/emma...
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Byrd Pinkerton @byrdest.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
it is the 60th anniversary of the verrazzano narrows bridge it is also the 60th anniversary of the mayor of new york city deciding to say this WILD thing about staten island which—to be clear—was very much already a part of new york city at the time
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Byrd Pinkerton @byrdest.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2023/11...
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
America, before and after vaccines www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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Byrd Pinkerton @byrdest.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
"why is horror so fun?" asks woman starting yet another account on yet another social media platform anyway, here is a fun episode about why we like to spook ourselves out. it is not about social media at all. open.spotify.com/episode/1K26...
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Why is horror so fun?
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