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Thomas Lu

@thomasuylu.bsky.social
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Producer/Story Editor 📻 ✨Currently posting from The Washington Post. 🪩 Past: Vox (Unexplainable), NPR (Hidden Brain, Short Wave), Bloomberg News 🏳️‍🌈 ✉️ thomasuylu.com/contact

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Joe Shapiro @nprjoeshapiro.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I’ve taken a buyout. Feel privileged to work at NPR (since 2001). Proud of my stories, their impact. Grateful for the best audience. Tomorrow, NPR will lay off colleagues. Talented journalists will lose jobs. But fewer laid off, we’re told, for each who takes buyout. 1/2
The book cover for: No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement. By Joseph P. Shapiro Top half in black. Bottom half white. In a rectangle in the middle, a figure floats in space against a blue, yellow and red sky.A man with glasses and a blue coat in a radio studio with microphone and computer monitors
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Thomas Lu @thomasuylu.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
“Growth” in audio is getting the green light to do a podcast episode about “How to talk to aliens” and then asking yourself, “Did I really do that?” Apple Podcast science category trolling me aside, happy to be in such great company as @radiolab.bsky.social and @hiddenbrain.bsky.social. Top 25!
Screenshot of Apple Podcast’s Top Episode page, under the Science category. At number 21 is an episode from Radiolab titled “Growth.” At number 22 is an episode from Unexplainable titled “How to talk to aliens.” And at number 23 is an episode from Hidden Brain titled “did I really do that?”
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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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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Billie Eilish’s NPR Tiny Desk premieres tomorrow at 12 pm EST:
A photo of Billie Eilish at the NPR headquarters in DC.
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Transom @transom.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Sound Fields is packed with original thought and essential commentary on the state and craft of audio doc. In their Transom manifesto, @kallipearl.bsky.social and @audiosand.bsky.social offer hope, reflection AND tidbits about (super) exciting projects in the pipeline! transom.org/2024/sound-f...
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A Sound Fields Manifesto - Transom
A Sound Fields Manifesto - Transom
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Davy Gardner @davygardner.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Friends of Tribeca Audio! With twitter x’d, I need your help spreading the word abt TA and sharing the news that submissions are open! It’s just 20 bucks to submit but if you’re an indie creator deterred by the fee, DM me! 🤙 Q’s? See the website or email entries (at) tribecafilm (dot) com!
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Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Together with my fellow audio makers and a devoted global audience, I urge the BBC to reconsider their cancellation of BBC Radio 4’s Short Cuts. It is irreplaceable. Sign our open letter: tinyurl.com/34pn38m4
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Chris Berube @chrisberube.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Short Cuts has been a platform for many, many producers and sound artists to do their absolute best work. What is the function of a public broadcaster, if not to nurture this kind of program, this kind of talent?
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
After 12 years on the radio, @josielong.bsky.social's Short Cuts will have its last series on BBC Radio 4 this winter. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Against a backdrop of a forest carpeted with bluebells, a block of text reads, “After 12 years on the radio, we’re sad to share the news that BBC Radio 4 has chosen to end Short Cuts. 

The episode on 7th January 2025 will be our last on their airwaves.

We are proud of this audio garden, and what has grown here over the years.”
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Alyssa Jeong Perry @alyssajperry.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
this is so sad. the way they have so many driveway moments of tape 😭
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Shannon Bond @byshannonbond.com · 20/11/2024
and here's a broader public radio starter pack from @micahloewinger.bsky.social go.bsky.app/MWHaGo5
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Shannon Bond @byshannonbond.com · 20/11/2024
oh hey @ericm.cd made a starter pack of our NPR pals go.bsky.app/Ma3zc7T
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Thomas Lu @thomasuylu.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
👀 @soundfieldsjournal.bsky.social … this thread … something here for your next issue? 👀
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
We're always looking for interesting writing about radio documentaries and podcasting - tell us the things you love to read! Slowly building a list... go.bsky.app/UYaCtHu
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Weird Noise @weirdnoisezine.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Weird Noise is a print zine for audio documentaries. The print edition of Issue 1 was published in September 2022 as a hand-stamped box of unbound essays, illustrations and photographs. It's now available for free online at weirdnoise.xyz
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Weird Noise
A print zine for audio documentaries.
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Sandhya Dirks @audiosand.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Some really good, important reporting on RFK Jr. and the impact of his disinfo and dangerous denial of established science: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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How RFK Jr. Falsely Denied His Connection to a Deadly Measles Outbreak in Samoa
He also championed a Samoan anti-vaxxer tied to the 2019 lethal eruption that killed scores of children.
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Mike Madden @mikemadden.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Here's a gift link version wapo.st/3UQwPBY
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How to get started on Bluesky, the app some X users are defecting to
After X owner Elon Musk helped Donald Trump successfully run for office, some X users are jumping ship for the decentralized Twitter clone Bluesky.
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Thomas Lu @thomasuylu.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Annnd it’s back! :)
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Anita Wadhwani @anitawadhwani.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
A 13-year-old with autism got arrested after his backpack sparked fear. Only his stuffed bunny was inside. @wpln.bsky.social & @propublica.org report on the disproportionate # of kids with disabilities being arrested in one Tennessee county under new school threats law wpln.org/post/a-13-ye...
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A 13-year-old with autism got arrested after his backpack sparked fear. Only his stuffed bunny was inside.
Disability rights advocates said kids like Ty should not be getting arrested under Tennessee’s school threats law. And they tried to push for a broader exception for kids with other kinds of disabilit...
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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I can't wait for this:
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Wesley Morris to Host New Culture Podcast For The New York Times (Exclusive)
"This is not a show where people who are making a thing come on to promote the thing they're making," Morris says of the new program.
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