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R. Coxeter

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Life science news & startups. Producer. Editor. New Yorker.

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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“It’s not yet a breakthrough,” said Philip Kranzusch, a microbiologist at Harvard Medical School. “It’s a wrinkle on what we know in the field.”
nytimes.com
Anthropic’s A.I. Is Teaching Itself Biology. Now It’s Made Its First Discovery.
Scientists at the company announced their first finding: a group of enzymes whose function is unknown.
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Strolling with Central Park’s blue herons. Far from UN Week gridlock.
A blue heron at sunset A blue heron contemplates dinner in Central Park.
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The full trailer for You Can See Everything is out today. And my first thought is that it should be required that Nathan Fielder film for 48 hrs at every tech CEO’s home.
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“Here, underground, are the swirls of van Gogh’s “Starry Night,” Mark Rothko’s minimalist blocks, Richard Serra’s seemingly weightless steel sculptures.”
nytimes.com
Opinion | Please Stand Clear of the Accidental Art Museum
Under New York’s streets, the subway system corrodes, is fixed — and breaks again. What’s left is art, the M.T.A. Modern.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 17/09/2026
She's a 10, but she corrects people's grammar.
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Frank S. David @franksdavid.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Best. Day. Ever.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Fetterman text to aide: “Why do I have to keep having to meet with [Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia]?” Aide: “Because they are worried about vaccines and Medicaid cuts.” Fetterman: “Well I’m not.” @wsj.com #PAsen www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 26/08/2026
Nature honors Dolly Parton's scientific legacy. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Dolly Parton dies aged 80 – researchers celebrate her contributions to science
The country singer was an advocate for vaccines, public health, literacy and marginalized communities.
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“China’s rise now shows up across every dataset in this report, a 36.2% pipeline surge, roughly $79 billion in out-licensing, and more early-stage clinical trials than any geography analyzed.”
massbio.org
Massachusetts Biopharma Sees Strong Resurgence of Capital Even as Workforce Numbers Lag - MassBio
MassBio 2026 Industry Snapshot highlights renewed opportunity with funding and exits returning to the Commonwealth Challenges of declining employment, weaker seed rounds and intensifying global compet...
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Jesse Dougherty @jessedougherty.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
For Esquire, I wrote about losing a dream job earlier this year in the same month our daughter arrived. About the fear and anxiety of it all. And about the clarity on the other side: www.esquire.com/lifestyle/mo...
esquire.com
What I Learned from Losing My Dream Job at the Worst Possible Moment
Becoming unemployed just two weeks before becoming a father was a nightmare. Until it helped me wake up.
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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Folks, allow me to brag about my wife, Jane. She is the head of a group of scientists working on a personalized mRNA vaccine for melanoma. It was announced that the results of her years-long study showed prevention of the cancer--a huge finding. From today's Wall Street Journal:
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A.I. was used to create nearly half of the posts with more than 50 words on X.”
nytimes.com
AI Slop Is Everywhere. Spotify, LinkedIn and Others Have Had Enough.
Spotify, LinkedIn and others are trying to dig out of a digital sewage heap full of low-quality content made with artificial intelligence.
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“Since 2020, the number of US INDs has declined more than 10%, from 2,182 to 1,960…In China, the number of phase 1 trials has increased from 601 in 2020 to 1,168 in 2025. Australian phase 1 clinical trials listed on clinicaltrials.gov have increased 21% over the same period.”
lifescivc.com
Make US INDs Great Again - LifeSciVC
By Alex Harding, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Atlas Venture, as part of the From The Trenches feature of LifeSciVC What will and will not work to regain US strength in phase 1 clinical trials “I don’t...
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
In the bright summer forests of my island home. Central Park in August.
A classic pink & orange ensemble or monarch butterfly on pink zinnia.
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Talking A.I. with the chair of Ropes & Gray: “It’s my 5 a.m. buddy. It helps me go really deep in creative matters. And it actually reduces the isolation of the job of C.E.O.” 😶
nytimes.com
Robinhood Bets Again on a Public Venture Capital Fund
The trading platform raised $200 million for a second publicly traded vehicle to let ordinary investors buy into privately held start-ups.
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Matthew Herper @matthewherper.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Every time the Merck MMR vaccine goes into an arm, it is a father’s lasting revenge against a virus that made his daughter sick. Why Trump's move to split up the MMR shot could be dangerous: www.statnews.com/2026/08/11/h...
statnews.com
How we know that splitting up the MMR vaccine could be dangerous
It's no mystery. History tells us that President Trump’s executive order calling for the MMR to be split into separate shots could do real harm.
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
“Every so often, a reporter gets sent an email by mistake or overhears a conversation at a bar or sits next to someone on a train who just can’t resist opening a PowerPoint draft.”
ft.com
Confessions of a former star M&A reporter
Malice and aspirations at the billion-dollar rumour mill
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It's a healthcare economy, and the rest of us are just living in it.
Line chart titled "Effectively all of the net job creation has been in healthcare and social assistance, and jobs are shrinking in the rest of the economy" shows change in employment since January 2025. Healthcare and social assistance has added 952,000 jobs through July 2026 with consistent monthly growth, while the rest of the economy has lost 362,000 jobs over the same period, meaning all net job creation has come from a single sector in an unusually unbalanced labor market.
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
“I grew up amid Manhattan’s monotonous grid & found the endless boxes, aligned along strict perpendiculars, overwhelming. As a child, the Guggenheim’s round form was my oasis. In a hectic, crowded metropolis, it was a breath of fresh air, a return to nature.”-painter & graphic novelist Eric Drooker
newyorker.com
Eric Drooker’s “Outside Art”
A reprieve from the city’s chaos.
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Only if they are a true operational partner with deep sector knowledge. Unless the chief of staff increases the agency of experts on the leader’s team, it’s another layer and the business will not benefit. Without leadership access, most folks I know will not consider roles in this structure.
nytimes.com
Why So Many C.E.O.s Are Getting a Chief of Staff
The position as a trusted sounding board is in high demand as business gets more complex — and everyone wants to get in on the latest bureaucratic fad.
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The essential weather & vibe-caster @nymetrowx.bsky.social shared this devastating reminder today: “Sunset in NYC on Monday is at 8:00pm. After that, the sun won't set any later than 8:00pm in NYC again until May 9th, 2027.”
A magnificent Central Park fall sunset silhouetting the San Remo and the UWS skyline.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/08/2026
Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
science.org
We Only Know Her as Mei
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I can safely say that I’ll never reference “standing in the foothills of the singularity” at the dinner table. In a blog. Or anywhere.
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Steven Levy @stevenlevy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Here's a shattering Jeff Dean fact: Google's top scientist, along with Sanjay Ghemawat and 2 other top AI researcher are leaving Google to form Discovery Loop, a startup that hopes to automate the scientific method so AI can create breakthroughs in multiple fields. www.wired.com/story/jeff-d...
wired.com
4 of Google’s Top AI Brains Are Leaving—and Launching Their Own AI Startup
Jeff Dean and other high-profile Google executives have founded Discovery Loop, a startup that will seek AI-powered breakthroughs in everything from drug discovery to chip design.
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
“People in Washington are worried that biotech is the next E.V.s,” an American exec told me. “We’ve scared all of this ******* talent back to China. If you look at the guys who are doing this, they used to work for Western pharma giants, or they were running a top university department somewhere.”
newyorker.com
The Future, Made in China
Beijing is competing with the U.S. for tech supremacy. Who wins will have huge political implications.
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
“We’re losing familiarity with the scripts for describing life as more complex, more ironic, more inconsistent and mysterious than what the rules of personal branding allow.” Good read on the “the pressure to communicate as a corporate self.”
thecut.com
Social Media’s Last Taboo
It’s okay to be every kind of person online — except struggling.
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Evan Osnos @eosnos.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
1/5 I went back to China to parse what is real tech from what is hype. The clearest fact: the depth of an alternative technological universe: ubiquitous E.V.s, more clinical trials than the U.S.; A.I. systems reaching into workplaces, schools, and even neighborhood trash bins.
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
“There would also be a pre-wedding colloquium to discuss ideas in panels and breakout sessions. The couple’s only request: no gifts.” This may eclipse manels or 5-person panels as a crime.
wsj.com
His Wedding Guests Were Arriving—Just as His $45 Billion Fund Was Falling Apart
Leopold Aschenbrenner was hailed as the ‘Nostradamus of AI.’ But his Situational Awareness hedge fund took on too much leverage, leading to a crash he never saw coming.
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Revisiting the tallying of ties on Madison Avenue, before the businessmen return to the island of Manhattan.
A sharply dressed man tallying shop sales on a laptop against a backdrop of brightly patterned ties.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
“.. health insurance costs are growing at their fastest rate in almost two decades ..” $XLV
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
“Cities are where all kinds of humans learn to dwell in close proximity to one another, and it’s where unexpected connections are made, like two owlers who became a couple while following Flaco night after night. Living in a city is a group effort; nobody is really going it alone.”
nytimes.com
Flaco on Film (Along With the Community the Owl Inspired) (Gift Article)
“Wild Inside” starts off with the director Penny Lane’s characteristic curiosity and winds up being a collective tribute to a bird and his city.
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
“We have lately realized how interconnected the body’s systems really are. More and more,researchers are starting to see things the way that Peter Libby, a professor at Harvard Med School & a cardiologist at MGB, put it to me:’We all study the same disease’—inflammation is involved with everything.”
nytimes.com
Inflammation Keeps Us Alive. It's Also Making Us Sick.
The discovery that chronic inflammation is a cause of myriad illnesses could be this century's biggest medical breakthrough.
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
When you pop into X and the science discourse is like a good Bravo show.
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Great read: "It's important to find people who will be good neighbors. It sounds old-fashioned. It's a way of life.” True for all sectors and cities.
nytimes.com
A New York Hair Salon, Happily Stuck in 1986
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
On the privilege of agency: “The distinction there…is whether we’re talking about this lifestyle-wellness idea, which I do still think of as basically being in the purview of people who have enough stability in their lives & enough opportunity & resources, to do this optimization stuff.”
nytimes.com
Opinion | The Silicon Valley Health Trend Making Doctors Nervous
Is more data about your body actually good for you?
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Central Park Monarchy
A monarch alights on an orange zinnia in Central Park.
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
“I think we’re going to be moving away from the big, big kitchens. The kitchen may transition to a secondary space rather than the social hub or heart of the home…As more people take these medications, the focus could shift from the kitchens to lounge areas & wellness spaces where people can gather”
architecturaldigest.com
This Is Your Home on Ozempic
As GLP-1s reshape American life, they’re also sparking a surprising behind-the-scenes transformation of our homes, from med-station bathrooms to ghost-town kitchens
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
But working on her new album gave shape to her days, she explained: “It gave me somewhere to go without having to leave the room. It reminded me that illness can change your life without becoming the whole of your life.” Music, Simon said, “has rescued me more times that I can count.”
nytimes.com
Carly Simon Reveals She Has Parkinson’s Disease
The singer-songwriter, 83, has also had surgery to treat basal cell carcinoma on her face, making her “self-conscious about being seen in public,” she said.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Panel 1
Caption: With the windows open in the summer heat, a breeze blows through the punctuation factory, scattering newly-minted marks across the countryside.

Image: a small factory with windows open and punctuation marks coming out 

Panel 2
Caption: Confused locals find their conversations peppered with unexpected pauses and unwanted emphasis.

Image: Two people talking as punctuation marks float around them One says

This, is “very odd”

The other replies 

…(Indeed)*


Panel 3
Caption: Naturalists note that the effect is not limited to human communication. 

Image: A duck on a pond surrounded by punctuation marks says
Qu’ack?

Panel 4
Caption: Fortunately, a cloud of exclamation points drift into a district council meeting which proceeds with unusual efficiency 

Image: Councillors talk in a cloud of exclamation points
Something must be done!!  !
Close the windows! !!
Install air conditioning! !!
Immediately!!! !
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Christopher Michel @christophermichel.com · 23/07/2026
@carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social changed chemistry. She also has a bass guitar in her office. During our photo session at Stanford, she picked it up and played for a minute. It wasn't for the camera. Just another side of one of the world's most creative scientists. explorers.com/carolyn-bert...
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
“You may be fretting over your health insurance premiums going up. They are optimizing their faces with $300,000 worth of microscopic tweaks and buying their way out of the indignities of flying commercial.”
nytimes.com
Opinion | Why ‘Your Friends & Neighbors’ Should Win the Best Drama Emmy
Do only creeps or chumps still believe in the American dream?
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Current status: reviewing the parental library. Love this bright colored gem from Cornell’s Experiment Station.“The printing of this book is the first step in the realization of a fond dream,” reads the forward. Brought it home for my coffee table.
A yellow hardcover book titled ”Bananas” which delves into the science and economics of the crop.
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
“the notice also specifies that OPM retains the right to reidentify the records” 😶
kffhealthnews.org
Trump’s Personnel Agency Says It Will Remove Some Identifying Info as It Sweeps Up Medical Records - KFF Health News
The Office of Personnel Management said it will “pseudonymize” medical records it collects on more than 8 million people —federal workers and retirees, and their family members. Democrats and employee...
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bijan @bijan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
pre-war steel
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
“My patients don’t have time to wait. We will lose a generation.” -Dr. Wendy Chung at Boston Children’s on the mission of new nonprofit, the Center for Therapeutic Genetics, “to develop gene therapy treatments that can be used and reused in disease after disease.”
nytimes.com
‘Too Rare to Care’? A New Center for Rare Diseases Hopes to Change That
A new nonprofit wants to streamline gene therapy for diseases often avoided by pharmaceutical companies — making treatment more like a routine procedure than a bespoke drug.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Page One. @nytimes.com
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
A marvelous read: “How much men would a menswear wear if a menswear could wear men?”
nytimes.com
I Thought ‘Menswear’ Was for Other Men. Then I Touched the Perfect Hat.
Lots of men are geeking out over very expensive clothes — and I became one of them.
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Central Park: butterflies & smoky skies
The monarchs return to Central Park.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
If you visit American city, You will find it very pretty. Just two things of which you must beware: Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air! Pollution, pollution! Wear a gas mask and a veil. Then you can breathe, Long as you don't inhale! youtu.be/JPrAuF2f_oI?...
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Tom Lehrer - Pollution
YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel
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