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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 22/07/2026

INBOX: the last dedicated science reporter at The Wall Street Journal, @aylinwoodward.bsky.social, has left the newsroom. This came after the Murdoch-owned newspaper dissolved its Health and Science Bureau last October. NPR, CBS, and WaPo also gutted their climate desks in the last eight months.

After nearly five incredible years, The Journal's last remaining dedicated science reporter (that's me!) has left WSJ. Following the dissolution of the miraculous Health & Science Bureau last October, myself and a small numbers of others worked hard to continue our former team's legacy, but the time has finally come for me to move on.

I am deeply grateful for all of the opportunities this publication -- and the journalist community I met there -- has given me. From stories about T. rex lips to primate booze problems to shrinking brains, to Nobel Prize and NASA mission coverage, Jane Goodall's obituary, winter storm, volcano and wildfire smoke stories, I left no scientific stone unturned, working constantly to inspire curiosity and wonder in Journal readers during times of increasing turmoil and challenge. I met some of my closest friends, wrote for two of the most phenomenal editors I'll ever have the privilege of working with, saw Evan come home, and learned (in retrospect, naturally) the gift it is to be on a team of professional nerds who drive the cutting edge of health and science journalism in America while uplifting each other and their craft.

Well, this is your counterprogramming kid signing off. Not sure where I'll end up next, but don't be strangers y'all. In the meantime, I'll be coaching roller derby across the U.S., South America and Europe!

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Pamela Colloff @pamelacolloff.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

If you're in NYC, come join me and my writing hero -- the incomparable @davidgrann.bsky.social -- at the @92ndstreety.bsky.social this Thursday, July 22. www.92ny.org/event/pamela...

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I'm heartbroken to share that Marvin (known to readers of There Is No Place for Us as Maurice) died earlier today in a workplace accident. He was 43. Natasha (Natalia in the book) asked me to share this news because she is too devastated to do so herself. We are all in shock.

Marvin, Natasha, and their newborn child

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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026

A statement from WIRED leadership.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I like how every far right party has realizes all they need to do is weaponize the mid life crisis bsky.app/profile/core...

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(Un)Dead Carl 🎃 @deadcarl.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I think this case is one where—paradoxically—the larger the reform, the more moderate it appears. A small change to just the Supreme Court is much more easily dismissed as a partisan power grab.

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Josh Fischman @jfischman.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

An eventful week at Scientific American. Owner Springer Nature rushed to sell SciAm 3 days before the staff overwhelmingly voted to form a union, and laid off a lot of people. Including me. I got to work with amazing writers during my time, people who made me better. Thank-you list in comment below:

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 20/05/2026

The longer you look at this, the worse it gets

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Pamela Colloff @pamelacolloff.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

A stellar review by @aviatrixkim.bsky.social in Pursuit Magazine of my forthcoming book, CATCH THE DEVIL. I'm not sure there's any tougher audience than private investigators, so I'm particularly grateful. pursuitmag.com/catch-the-de...

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"Catch the Devil": Pamela Colloff's Masterful Debut

A storied criminal justice reporter's first book tracks how a serial liar conned the courts — and sent dozens of people to prison — by telling prosecutors

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Wrote entire books about how people who believe fairies live in gardens are idiots only to fall in love with a calculator that calls him smart

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Great list

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Jess House @jesshouse.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The TikTok girlies (gender neutral) are hatching a plan to all buy copies of communion by hooks on Vance's release date. I will be participating.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I know we can be disappointed and have been many times, but right now this guy seems to single-handedly be deflating the bullshit balloon that says we aren’t allowed to expect good things from politicians.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

This is why the "just don't talk about..." strategy is absolutely ridiculous. Voters are wearing headphones where, in one ear, is an unrelenting tirade about the evil of "those people" (take your pick) and in the other - silence. You're allowing the hate-o-rade to be the only thing heard.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

GREAT new resource from us: You can now flip through the financial disclosures of Trump officials. See what they own --and how much they're worth. See who's worked where-- and how much they banked. Want the folks connected to Palintir? Please enjoy. projects.propublica.org/trump-team-f...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/03/2026

Are you a current or former Education Dept. employee? Have information about civil rights investigations or discrimination in schools? Reach out to @jsmithrichards.bsky.social on Signal at jsmithrichards.93 or @jodiscohen.bsky.social at jodireporter.88 👇

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Andrea Joy Campbell @ajcampbellma.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

just read a story about a little boy in SC who just learned to ride a bike but he was unvaxxed and got measles and got really sick and got a spinal tap and then pumped with medicines and then his brain swelled anyway and now he won't ever walk or eat on his own and he definitely won't ride a bike

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/02/2026

i‘m using it for a column but i want to share here this line from lincoln on jefferson because it is applies to our situation as well. you can find it in his april 6, 1859 letter to henry l. pierce.

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 04/02/2026

The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/02/2026

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 30/01/2026

Those who oppose ICE in Minnesota are battling not for a political agenda but for the goal of dissidents throughout history: a normal life, @galbeckerman.bsky.social argues.

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The Way to Beat Back Trump Was Just Revealed

There is a word for what ICE’s opponents in Minneapolis represent, and it has a long, successful history: dissidence.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Such a waste. The Post was hiring so aggressively for five or ten years that they had one of the very best stables of journalists in the country. Now hollowed out and about to get slashed completely

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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

As @washingtonpost.com international & local correspondents, we have risked our lives, side by side, because we believe reporting from the ground serves the public good. To choke that engine of brave, committed colleagues would be devastating. If you value our work, tell Jeff Bezos to #SaveThePost.

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 23/01/2026

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I’m tired of being talked down to by people like this. They are doing the Elon Musk Mars In 2 Years bit but have tied the entire U.S. economy to a bespoke compliment generator. It’s time to start talking about these AI mutants like delusional babies.

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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 04/12/2025

Note to NYT employees from the publisher. "We will not be intimidated or deterred in this important work." Proud to be one of the worker bees here.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Not coincidentally this is a pretty good list of Most Important Companies to Unionize.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

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Hayden Center @haydencenter.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

A message from former CIA analyst and current US Senator Elissa Slotkin and her congressional colleagues ⬇️

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

Marc Lobliner post on X: "Why the hell are we giving food stamps to 40 million people?

Does anyone work anymore?"

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Among the nested set of fallacies built into Pollingism (for that, indeed, is the most apt moniker) perhaps the most absurd is that what people think about Democrats is made out of what Democrats say, not what is relentlessly said about them.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Every poll is like: "Should we eat our own shit?" 31% yes 39% no 30% don't know but there are still people getting paid to argue for how Democrats can finely tailor an eat-some-shit message to win over the median moderate voter, of which there are zero.

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

The optics of Trump building a ballroom that 99.9% of Americans will never set foot in while millions line up for food banks are worth more than any policy paper or economic proposal. This image is a visceral punch in the mouth that needs no words. It should haunt the GOP for a generation.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Well into the season of life where I don’t keep up with pop culture, and it’s great. You don’t need to get annoyed that The Kids like different stuff. Are Addison Rae and Tate McRae different people? Who cares! There’s jazz to listen to and you have plantar fasciitis.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I find it amazing too that Republicans’ boycott of Washington isn’t the biggest story of them all. The shutdown can’t end if they refuse to show up for work.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

a lazy cynical affect is one of the worst things you can do to yourself as a reporter or analyst, it will corrode not only your work but your soul.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I own too much physical media bc I loved meeting fellow fans so much. Geeking out about comics at SPX, bullshitting about sci-fi with Greg at Between Books, my friend Kenny renting two Shaw Bros movies from the store he worked at for Ninja Night. The fellowship was the point, not the content.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 19/10/2025

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states. See if you can spot it! /s Then you can find today's story on p A23

Front page of NYT on September 22, 2025, with large top-of-page photo of a Charlie Kirk memorial service, and the lead page-one story on the same topic.

Front page of today's NYT, Oct 19, with no story about the nationwide protests, and a "below the fold" montage of two photos, and a link to a story on page 23.

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