Reposted by Shradha DineshSusan Merriam @semerriam.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Thank you @ire.org for recognizing Killer Train from @miamiherald.com and @wlrnnews.bsky.social. A massive team effort behind this reporting—the list of names reflects it. 172
Reposted by Shradha DineshSusan Merriam @semerriam.bsky.social · 04/05/2026This was a collaborative effort across journalists, editors, photographers and graphic teams across two newsrooms. Reporting: @brittanywallman.bsky.social, @danielrivero.bsky.social, @aaronleibowitz.bsky.social, @joshceb.bsky.social, @shradhadinesh.bsky.social, @beckreports.bsky.social and myself 112
Reposted by Shradha DineshSusan Merriam @semerriam.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Honored that @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social recognized our @miamiherald.com / @wlrnnews.bsky.social investigation into the country’s deadliest major passenger train www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...miamiherald.comPulitzer Prizes honor Miami Herald’s Julie K. Brown and Brightline investigationMiami Herald investigative reporter Julie K. Brown on Monday was honored by the Pulitzer Prize Board for her groundbreaking and impactful investigation into sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. 123
Reposted by Shradha DineshMiami Herald @miamiherald.com · 06/11/2025Darren Brown was drawn to Florida by Brightline to be a part of something exciting, a new, fast train, privately owned, luxury on wheels. He was incredibly proud to be, as he called it, a “badass bullet train conductor.” Until the deaths started happening. 🧵 174
Reposted by Shradha DineshSusan Merriam @semerriam.bsky.social · 06/11/2025“There’d been a communication breakdown. The second Brightline train ‘suddenly approached’ at maximum speed, an official record of the incident recounted. Everyone ran for their lives. The train ran over Conrad a second time.” — @brittanywallman.bsky.social www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...miamiherald.comHaunted by Brightline: A conductor got his dream job. Then people started dying.“What’s your body count?” someone asked the conductor on Instagram. “16,” he responded, like he was providing his shirt size. 001
Reposted by Shradha DineshSusan Merriam @semerriam.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Latest from Killer Train: FECR is suing Brightline for “clandestinely” negotiating with county governments to add more trains to its rails in violation of a contract agreement between the two companies. Story by @joshceb.bsky.social + @aaronleibowitz.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/miam... 122
Reposted by Shradha DineshMiami Herald @miamiherald.com · 01/08/2025The move could derail a long-awaited commuter train service in South Florida.bit.lyFEC Railway sues Brightline over commuter rail expansion planThe move could derail a long-awaited commuter train service in South Florida. 013
Reposted by Shradha DineshMiami Herald @miamiherald.com · 18/07/2025After an investigation by the Miami Herald and WLRN, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said he would work “to drive down the number of deaths.”bit.lyKiller Train: U.S. transportation chief commits to reducing Brightline deathsAfter an investigation by the Miami Herald and WLRN, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said he would work “to drive down the number of deaths.” 144
Shradha Dinesh @shradhadinesh.bsky.social · 15/07/2025New Miami Herald/WLRN investigation: Brightline trains kill someone every 13 days of service, on average. 182 people have died, and 99 people have been injured. In at least 101 cases, the train crashed into vehicles, but no one was hurt. 140
Reposted by Shradha Dineshmolly taft @mollytaft.com · 21/05/2025SCOOP from me: the mass exodus of employees from NOAA is decimating a tiny office that literally keeps our measurements of latitude and longitude accurate — and, former employees tell me, endangers the science of how the US understands global measurements:wired.comTrump Cuts Are Killing a Tiny Office That Keeps Measurements of the World AccurateA tiny but crucial agency that maintains physical coordinates like latitude and longitude in the US is struggling as the Trump administration forces out federal employees. 511558699
Shradha Dinesh @shradhadinesh.bsky.social · 05/03/2025so excited to be in snowy minneapolis for #NICAR25! say hi if you’re around, i’d love to connect 050
Shradha Dinesh @shradhadinesh.bsky.social · 03/02/2025"Short of sitting by the tracks and scrutinizing hazardous material placards, they have no way of knowing what's on every railcar passing through." NEW data story w/ the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at UMD: www.npr.org/2025/02/03/g...npr.orgTwo years after derailment, toxic chemicals still roll through East PalestineTwo years after derailment, toxic chemicals still roll through East Palestine. 030
Shradha Dinesh @shradhadinesh.bsky.social · 10/12/2024regretting all decisions that led me to understand every single word of this piece 020
Shradha Dinesh @shradhadinesh.bsky.social · 04/12/2024it’s wild that just a couple weeks worth of abysmal music habits/taste during college finals took over all other data for the year on my spotify wrapped 110
Shradha Dinesh @shradhadinesh.bsky.social · 03/12/2024who is going to write the explainer on how the tiktok fyp has been taken over by livestreams peddling QVC channel-esque teleshopping slop content!! who is watching this stuff? (I personally see more of this now than any other labeled advertising! and the app has felt unusable for weeks now) 000
Reposted by Shradha DineshCarl Churchill @cchurchili.bsky.social · 03/12/2024To all a happy 🎇🎇🎇 International Shapefile Day 🎇🎇🎇🎇 May your colleagues never send you just the .shp when you ask for their data. (thanks to Gabriel Zanlorenssi for reminding me) 152
Shradha Dinesh @shradhadinesh.bsky.social · 03/12/2024in anticipation of my new computer arriving, I've endured almost nightly dreams where I'm stuck in a groundhog day-type eternity debugging a flood of nonsensical python environment errors 110
Shradha Dinesh @shradhadinesh.bsky.social · 01/12/2024finally my favorite time of the year — got offline and accomplished some of my own recipe testing this week need to add some cookie week recipes to the rotation asap! 010
Shradha Dinesh @shradhadinesh.bsky.social · 01/12/2024my password manager, of all things (!!!), got bought out a few years ago and this perfectly sums up my feelings about finding another (still haven’t) (and more broadly how the constant need to replace tech with other ~better~ tech feels like such a waste of time & energy) 010
Reposted by Shradha DineshTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 16/11/2024My cartoon for this week’s Guardian books… 433534904
Shradha Dinesh @shradhadinesh.bsky.social · 11/11/2024hello! here’s a random map i made a long time ago 📊 trying to find other folks working on interesting *data science-y* /computational social sci projects and writers on internet culture and tech/AI & society beats say hi if that sounds like you :) 181
Shradha Dinesh @shradhadinesh.bsky.social · 10/11/2024microdosing this app until it stops feeling like every post in my feed was written in 2012 internet 3170