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Emily Mullin

@emilymullin.bsky.social
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Staff writer @wired.com covering health+biotech. Uses em dashes without AI. Author page: www.wired.com/author/emily-mullin Email: emily_mullin@wired.com Signal: emullin.06 (no PR please)

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Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 3h
NEW: Elon Musk has assembled a presidential-level field operation this midterm cycle, underscoring the extent to which he has taken over the get-out-the-vote effort for the Republican party. WIRED's tracking his America PAC funding efforts here - read @hugolowell.bsky.social + @dell.bsky.social:
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Elon Musk Is Almost Single-Handedly Funding the Republican Midterms Push
Elon Musk has assembled a presidential-level field operation this midterm cycle, underscoring the extent to which he has taken over the get-out-the-vote effort for the Republican party.
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Jase Gehring @skyjase.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
AI ppl: omg viruses could be, like, so bad Virologists: YES, WE’VE BEEN SAYING AI ppl: no I mean if AI does it
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Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
In a recent survey of 5,400 Americans, 53 percent of men said that yes, of course they were familiar with AI luminaries Susan Milner and Craig Dalton. The only problem is that those people don’t exist.
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Men Can’t Stop Faking How Much They Know About AI
More than half of the men surveyed in a new Harvard study claimed to recognize AI leaders who were, in fact, totally fictional.
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don't think we can understate the implications of non-invasive brain-computer interfaces and the fact that so many of these startups are popping up. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/bridge...
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A New Neurotech Startup Launches to Rival Sam Altman’s Merge Labs
Bridge Neurotech is planning to build a wearable brain-computer interface that uses ultrasound.
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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I know everything is bad, but check this out: Using miracle material for which its founder won the chemistry Nobel last year, a startup has built a working device that can harvest clean water from air using the heat emitted from a data center. @mollytaft.com and @blkahn.bsky.social have the scoop:
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A Startup Has a Plan to Make Water From Air Using Data Centers’ Waste Heat
Atoco’s new machines use specialized materials that can harvest water from some of the driest air on Earth without using electricity.
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thanks, Melody!
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Measles cases are over 1,000 in Pennsylvania. US hospitals and health systems that haven't seen this disease in decades now have to consider what happens when a suspected measles patient walks through the door. www.wired.com/story/measle...
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Measles Is Forcing Hospitals to Adapt to a New Normal
The US resurgence of measles is forcing hospitals and health systems to adopt new protocols and procedures to deal with a disease they thought was in the past.
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Henry L Niman PhD @hlniman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"When the measles vaccine arrived, and measles cases fell, deaths from other infectious diseases fell along with them" Measles virus infection erases immune memory www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
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Column | Measles can erase up to 73 percent of your immune system’s memory
“Immune amnesia” is a little-known — and potentially devastating — consequence of measles.
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When you have people with measles or suspected measles coming into doctor's offices, it creates absolute chaos for staff and other patients. This is the new normal as measles returns. www.wired.com/story/measle...
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A health system in South Carolina that dealt with a measles outbreak earlier this year didn't have enough negative pressure rooms to isolate patients so staff had to manually convert regular hospital rooms. www.wired.com/story/measle...
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Measles Is Forcing Hospitals to Adapt to a New Normal
The US resurgence of measles is forcing hospitals and health systems to adopt new protocols and procedures to deal with a disease they thought was in the past.
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Something I learned while reporting this story is that most hospitals don't have the ability to test for measles in-house. www.wired.com/story/measle...
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW from me: The resurgence of measles in the US is forcing hospitals and health systems to adopt new protocols and procedures to deal with a disease they haven't seen in decades. www.wired.com/story/measle...
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Measles Is Forcing Hospitals to Adapt to a New Normal
The US resurgence of measles is forcing hospitals and health systems to adopt new protocols and procedures to deal with a disease they thought was in the past.
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Pennsylvania Department of Health just confirmed a 5th measles-related death. This really suggests that the outbreak is a lot bigger than the official numbers. The average case fatality rate for measles is about 1 to 3 deaths per 1,000 reported cases in developed countries.
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"I don’t think we’re going to be able to bring this to an end without a vaccine." www.wired.com/story/organi...
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The World Forgot About Ebola. The Organization Fighting It Has Never Been More Worried
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is on track to be the largest ever.
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
CDC finally updated its stats on measles-associated deaths this year but is only counting two when Pennsylvania has reported four. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...
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Measles Cases and Outbreaks
Find the latest numbers of confirmed U.S. measles cases. CDC updates this page weekly.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“She had bought raw goat milk from a farm recommended to her in a Facebook group run by her chiropractor”. “Marris believed she had done her due diligence. She had researched raw milk…” Her baby ended up in the ICU with a life-threatening E. coli infection.
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“When I was in kindergarten in 1961, I survived a near-fatal case of measles… my clearest memory of that period is my father carrying me to our station wagon & rushing me to the hospital. I stayed for a month, part of it in a coma, my blood pressure dangerously unstable” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
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Measles almost killed me. Now I’m a doctor — and I'm scared of what's happening
Jewel Mullen was in kindergarten in 1961 when she almost died from measles. Now a physician, measles’ return frightens her.
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Reece @thiccreese.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Meta's new AI agent wanted my passport info. Not to help me. To train on me. Actually, it wanted everything: bank accounts, email inboxes, ID info. No surprise coming from Meta. But always worth reminding readers that AI automations come with major privacy risks. www.wired.com/story/metas-...
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Meta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me
The Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information.
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Pennsylvania Department of Health has confirmed two new measles-related deaths, bringing the total to four. www.pa.gov/agencies/hea...
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DOH Confirms Two Additional Measles-Associated Deaths
DOH Confirms Two Additional Measles-Associated Deaths
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 14/09/2026
NEW: The 40-year-old woman who died of probable measles in PA was not vaccinated and had COPD & 24/7 oxygen. She did not appear to die in a hospital. The coroner is "100%" certain she died because of measles. Yet the CDC changed the way it counts measles deaths www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Trump administration changes how it counts measles deaths amid Pennsylvania outbreak
CDC announces changes to how it reports measles deaths as Pennsylvania continues to confirm more cases
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Julia Raifman, ScD @juliaraifman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
How do fewer recommended vaccinations in Denmark affect health? Children in Denmark unfortunately have a high rate of chickenpox In the US, the varicella vaccine has led to ~4 million fewer chickenpox cases, 10-12K fewer hospitalizations, & 100-120 fewer deaths each year
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Evaluating the Impact of Moderate and Severe Varicella Infections on Danish Children Under 18 Years Old: A Comprehensive Analysis From 2015 to 2023
Varicella (chickenpox) caused by varicella-zoster virus (VZV) is a highly contagious pediatric disease. While it typically manifests as a mild disease, complications leading to hospitalization are not...
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Ej Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There is a corner of the internet I had never heard of before I started reporting this story. It’s called the “burnerverse”: a network of anon burner accounts ostensibly discussing college sports. But they have another goal: destroying young girls’ lives.🧵: www.wired.com/story/burner...
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A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work
Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
Not a typo. Four thousand.
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Police Investigator Accused of Making Over 4,000 Illegal Flock Camera Searches
An employee for the Albany County Sheriff's Office was caught conducting over 4,000 unauthorized queries on five people.
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It’s 2026 and getting Covid still sucks. If you think you may be sick (with Covid or something else), please please just stay home.
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
As students head back to school, parents of immunocompromised kids have a new worry: How to deal with the resurgence of measles. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/measle...
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Measles Outbreaks Are Forcing Parents of Immunocompromised Kids to Make Hard Choices
With the risk of infection rising, parents and their children are trying to navigate how safe it is to be out in public as school starts back up.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Anyone else start getting pelted with ads for perimenopause startups recently? (Doesn't help I'm closer to 40 than 30.) I journeyed into this new world of internet hormones and came back with this tale: www.wired.com/story/inside...
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Inside the Perimenopause Industrial Complex
How an alliance of tech startups, MAHA operatives, and actual medical experts made millennial women the new face of hormone therapy.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
New CDC director delays adding Pennsylvania deaths to measles data
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New CDC director delays adding Pennsylvania deaths to measles data
The deaths have been at the heart of a bitter political dispute between RFK Jr. and Gov. Josh Shapiro (D).
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I regret to inform you that the food recalls keep coming. www.fda.gov/safety/recal...
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Panorama Produce Recalls Mangoes Due to Possible Salmonella Contamination
MAMARONECK, NY, AUG. 28, 2026 - Panorama Produce is recalling 302 boxes of size 9 (nine) mangoes because they may be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fat...
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The CDC is not yet counting the measles-associated deaths in PA after Kennedy suggested that the deaths were fabricated in a post on X last week. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
CDC notice says the measles data update scheduled for today has been delayed.🤔 www.cdc.gov/measles/data...
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Measles Cases and Outbreaks
Find the latest numbers of confirmed U.S. measles cases. CDC updates this page weekly.
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Also open to speaking with immunocompromised adults living in areas with active measles cases. emily_mullin@wired.com or emullin.06 on Signal.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 26/08/2026
The FDA just approved daraxonrasib, a breakthrough drug for advanced pancreatic cancer that doubles survival time. This is huge: pancreatic cancer was once thought untreatable. The researchers received a standing ovation when they presented the trial results, unheard of at scientific conferences.
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
What do you do when you've launched a moral panic about transgender athletes in the WNBA, but there has never been an active trans player in the league? Simple: you start a conspiracy theory about every single woman on the court.
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There Are No Trans Women in the WNBA, so Right-Wingers Are Making Some Up
As culture warriors continue to stoke the flames of a gender panic in professional sports, wild conspiracy theories are coming into play.
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Absolutely.
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Would you be interested in speaking with me?
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Would you be interested in speaking with me?
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I'm a staff writer at @wired.com and I'm looking to speak with parents of immunocompromised kids, especially those in areas with measles outbreaks, and how you're dealing with back to school with rising cases. emily_mullin@wired.com
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said he was late to the press conference announcing two measles deaths today because Sec. Kennedy called him to offer help in responding to the state's measles outbreak. Shapiro apparently turned him down. My story for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/us-rec...
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The US Just Recorded Its First 2 Measles Deaths This Year
The fatalities come amidst declining vaccination rates and calls from President Donald Trump to split up the MMR vaccine.
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Pennsylvania has confirmed two deaths from measles—the first the state has seen in 35 years. Both individuals were unvaccinated. www.pa.gov/agencies/hea...
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Pennsylvania Department of Health Confirms Two Measles-Associated Deaths
Pennsylvania Department of Health Confirms Two Measles-Associated Deaths
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 21/08/2026
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Ellis Rosen.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.
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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
First it was diarrhea lettuce. Now, a salmonella outbreak related to contaminated jalapeños has grown to more than 400 cases. www.wired.com/story/salmon...
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Salmonella Is Everywhere
From granola to guacamole, a wide variety of foods have been recalled lately over salmonella risks. Experts say common-sense precautions go a long way.
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Someone in my Buy Nothing group is offering lettuce and eggs. Just those two items. Do I tell her???
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We're now in a situation where drugmakers are working on monoclonal antibodies against measles that could be given to immunocompromised people and babies too young to be vaccinated in active outbreak situations. www.wired.com/story/measle...
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Measles Is Becoming So Common That Treatments May Soon Be Needed
As the US sees its highest number of measles cases in decades and vaccination rates fall, researchers are developing drugs to help those who contract the virus or who are particularly vulnerable.
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Seems like a good time to reup this story from last year. If current vaccination rates remain the same, researchers estimate that the US could see more than 850,000 measles cases and 2,500 deaths over the next 25 years. www.wired.com/story/scient...
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Scientists Find Measles Likely To Become Endemic in the US Over Next 20 Years
A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop.
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