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Youyou Zhou

@zhoyoyo.bsky.social
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Data and visuals journalist at The Washington Post Opinions www.washingtonpost.com/people/youyo… 📍Berkeley, CA • New York City

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Damning new reporting on the breadth of Trump's deportation operation that follows up on two scoops from The Handbasket last year: the State Department's creation of the Office of Remigration and monetary agreements with "third countries" to accept refugees from elsewhere.
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How Trump turned a refugee bureau into a $410 million deportation operation
Inside the secret deals powering the president’s push to deport migrants to countries not their own.
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Youyou Zhou @zhoyoyo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
How the U.S. national debt got this bad, in a giant timeline: wapo.st/3U5w624
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Opinion | The 2030s will bring a fiscal cliff. Here’s how it got so steep.
A timeline of how the U.S. reached its current debt level.
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Frederic Fery @fredericfery.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Have you thought about how you can engage your audience and maximize impact of your data story? We have an exciting webinar planned for Aug 20th The speaker is @zhoyoyo.bsky.social visual and data journalist at Washington Post Opinion who will share real world practical advice. shorturl.at/1xFSj
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Practical Tips to Maximize Impact of Your Data Stories | Data Changemakers
Often our data tells a compelling story, but our audience doesn't care?
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Youyou Zhou @zhoyoyo.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
How much would you pay for a robot that promises to fold your clothes? My dispatch from Palo Alto: 🎁 wapo.st/4fCvVEl
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Opinion | What’s the price of folding laundry? It’s higher than you think.
This is the new hype in Silicon Valley. Should you get on board?
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Youyou Zhou @zhoyoyo.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Where's the decoupling headed? Complete five charts to see if your instinct goes in the correct direction: wapo.st/4dbydZi
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Opinion | Do you know how reliant the U.S. is on China? Take this quiz.
Take this quiz to see how much the relationship has changed since Trump’s last visit to Beijing.
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Andrew Ba Tran @abtran.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
We got our hands on internal ICE records that show how widespread use of force, like punches, kicks, takedown maneuvers, restraint holds, and less-lethal weapons such as Tasers and pepper spray in detention centers has grown wapo.st/4tdgBRA (1/)
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Youyou Zhou @zhoyoyo.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
People often plan financially for having children, but not for the costs that come at the end of life. Dying is costly. I did the calculations for every zip code in America. Here's how you can start preparing for it: wapo.st/4bJqGjE (Gift link)
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Opinion | What does it cost to die in America? Search your Zip code.
Calculate how much you should set aside for the final years of life.
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Youyou Zhou @zhoyoyo.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
A thread of the best data graphics storytellers (+ @sadbumblebee.buzz) with niche skills looking for jobs👇
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nitasha tiku @nitasha.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I wanna keep doing this work, in any form (podcast! newsletter! movie? AI literacy class!). Pls msg me on Signal at nitasha.10 if you need someone who’s well-sourced in AI & SV, worked hard to understand the technology + ideas + players, cares about getting it right and informing the public
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Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
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Donate to Washington Post 2026 layoff fund, organized by Rachel Siegel
On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We ar… Rachel Siegel needs your support for Washington Post 2026 layoff fund
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Youyou Zhou @zhoyoyo.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Still doing the math... wapo.st/4k8mcG0
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Opinion | Trump’s tariffs can’t cover a bill this staggering
Trump’s promises about tariff revenue don’t add up. Here’s the math.
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Jarrett Ley (WashPost) @osviz-jarrett.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
NEW from WaPo visual forensics on ICE shooting: Federal agent secured gun from Minn. man before fatal shooting, videos show 1)Agent approaches empty handed 2)Agent removes gun from Pretti's waistband 3)Pretti is fatally shot
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 14/01/2026
This is an outrage. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... Read @hannahnatanson.bsky.social's work: * www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int... * www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... * www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist for Classified Documents
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Youyou Zhou @zhoyoyo.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Good quick sketches of the situation
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
"How are the 85,000 visa holders selected?" See the interactive from @zhoyoyo.bsky.social: wapo.st/4jf0n74
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Opinion | Which skilled immigrants does America need? You decide.
The government is now prioritizing visas for foreign workers who make higher wages.
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Youyou Zhou @zhoyoyo.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
My last article of the year: A hypothetical think piece asking you to design the selection process for skilled immigrants to the United States. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int... Does making 4x salary make someone more valuable than someone making 1x salary? What do you think?
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Opinion | Which skilled immigrants does America need? You decide.
The government is now prioritizing visas for foreign workers who make higher wages.
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Opinion Today @opiniontoday.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Most Americans think killing survivors of suspected drug boat attacks is not justified. (Taylor Orth, @today.yougov.com) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251210-top...
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FT Visual & Data Journalism @data.ft.com · 10/12/2025
Trump’s immigration data dragnet on.ft.com/4iNTrO9
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Trump’s immigration data dragnet
The US is pulling in vast amounts of personal information in its drive to deport 1mn people this year
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Daniel Wolfe @sadbumblebee.buzz · 09/12/2025
Zillow made headlines pulling climate risk data off their platform. Data on Redfin users, though, shows that potential homebuyers only click a listing's flood, wildfire risk for a short time after catastrophic disasters: More from Ruby Mellen and I here: 🎁 wapo.st/4pX8MhE
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Hurricanes and wildfires influence homebuyers, if only for a minute
Interest in climate risk surges after disasters, according to the real estate platform Redfin, but soon diminishes.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The latest from @zhoyoyo.bsky.social:
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Youyou Zhou @zhoyoyo.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Where in America is THE BEST place to raise kids? Here's what I found: wapo.st/49u64eL (The stork knows!)
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Opinion | What’s the best place to raise kids? See how your county ranks.
Use these four factors to find out.
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Youyou Zhou @zhoyoyo.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Excited to be learning with this amazing cohort and instructors! www.poynter.org/from-the-ins...
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Poynter names 17 journalists to prestigious 2025 Power of Diverse Voices program - Poynter
From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their car...
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Youyou Zhou @zhoyoyo.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Two weddings and one funeral: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... from Yan Wu @postopinions.bsky.social
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Opinion | Two weddings and a funeral show what H-1B chaos costs America
Trump’s H-1B visa fee might never go into effect, but much of the damage is already done.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The Department of Homeland Security released a draft of new rules that would alter the H-1B lottery to favor higher-wage roles. Will the H-1B program buckle under this new policy? @zhoyoyo.bsky.social, @leonkrauze.bsky.social and @cato.org's @davidjbier.bsky.social discuss:
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Opinion | ‘Nativist hysteria’: Trump’s $100K H-1B visa fee
Three writers discuss the future of skilled worker immigration under the administration’s new policy.
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Authoritarianism is like measles: Ignore it and it will go away. I have this guidance straight from Secretary Kennedy. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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A Beautiful Day for Saying Nothing
That chill in the air isn’t Jimmy Kimmel’s show being suspended. It’s just autumn!
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
"An analysis of birth rates nationally showed two forces are pushing Americans away from having children," @zhoyoyo.bsky.social writes. wapo.st/4728boR
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Opinion | Here’s what it takes to encourage Americans to have more babies
How costly is it to have babies in your area? Check yourself.
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Youyou Zhou @zhoyoyo.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
An incredible piece of journalism www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...
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15 teens. 300 miles. One mighty ancestral river, running free.
The removal of four dams finally made a descent of the Klamath possible. These Indigenous kayakers became the first to attempt it.
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Youyou Zhou @zhoyoyo.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Instead of asking the binary question whether AI will replace you, here is a better way of thinking about how AI might affect your job: wapo.st/41bJoe0 (🔸 from me!)
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Opinion | How AI is impacting 700 professions — and might impact yours
Will AI help you work or replace you? Check yourself.
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Chiqui Esteban 🇺🇸🇪🇺 @chiquiesteban.me · 28/07/2025
The tool in this column by @zhoyoyo.bsky.social allows you to check your job and see if AI is more likely to help you on it or replace you. Good news for pediatricians or college teachers. Bad news for credit authorizers, translators and actors. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
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Opinion | Will AI help you work or replace you? Check yourself.
Here’s how AI is impacting 700 professions — and might impact yours.
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Youyou Zhou @zhoyoyo.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
From the best @crampell.bsky.social
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Youyou Zhou @zhoyoyo.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
What a great time I had working with the talented Philip Bump — what's next for him? only the sky is the limited.
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Chiqui Esteban 🇺🇸🇪🇺 @chiquiesteban.me · 02/07/2025
We're kicking off soon the second season of 'Shifts', a newsletter about disappearing jobs in comic format. We just redesigned it, so please sign up to receive it in your inbox as we release the next chapters (you will receive the old ones first) www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | These jobs are disappearing. What can they tell us about the future?
An illustrated history of work.
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Jon Keegan @jonkeegan.com · 12/06/2025
🔮🤖 Some AI folks bold enough to predict when AGI (artificial general intelligence) will arrive — even though nobody can agree on a definition! We’ve seen enough of these, so we decided to track some high-profile public statements with dates. (With @rani.bsky.social ) sherwood.news/tech/gi-arti...
AGI is coming soon... chart showing various date range predictions for when AI will arrivescreenshot of AI predictions from Sam Altman and Elon Muskscreenshot of AI predictions from Geoffrey Hinton and Jensen Huangscreenshot of AI predictions from Demis Hassabis and Eric Schmidt
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
NEW: The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis says that "due to resource constraints," it plans to stop releasing new data tables on new foreign direct investment in the U.S., including statistics on the total sales, net income and balance sheets of new affiliates content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USD...
BEA Announcement: Changes to the New FDI News Release and Related Data Tables

SUITLAND, Md. – The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis’ ongoing modernization and streamlining of news release packages will include changes in the presentation of tables in the July 11 release, "New Foreign Direct Investment in the United States, 2024."

Data previously published as tables within the annual news release on new foreign direct investment (FDI) in the United States will continue to be updated and available simultaneously with the release in BEA’s online Interactive Data. However, tables will no longer be included in the body of the news release.

This will reduce duplication, increase efficiency, and point data users directly to our most complete and flexible data tables, via links in the release. These customizable tables include full time series and can be downloaded as PDFs, in Excel, or in CSV format.

Additionally, some data tables previously produced alongside the news release will be discontinued on July 11 due to resource constraints. The new FDI in the United States tables to be discontinued, currently available in the Interactive Data, cover:

    Total sales of new affiliates
    Net income of new affiliates
    Balance sheets of new affiliates

BEA will continue to publish the tables on investment expenditures and employment of new affiliates, as well as the number of investments. Discontinued tables will be archived.
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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
This isn't good: "BLS is reducing sample in areas across the country. In April, BLS suspended CPI data collection entirely in Lincoln, NE, and Provo, UT. In June, BLS suspended collection entirely in Buffalo, NY." #EconSky www.bls.gov/cpi/notices/...
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Notice of CPI collection reductions
Notice of CPI collection reductions
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erika owens @erikaowens.com · 02/06/2025
"There are many lies told by politicians when it comes to immigration in the UK, but none is bigger than the claim that it’s all too easy." too true! (and same issue with politicians in the US) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I got British citizenship via the five-year route. Labour’s new 10-year rule will cause untold pain | Nesrine Malik
Starmer claims to want integration. Yet denying people safety, belonging and the right to vote for a decade amounts to the exact opposite, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Chiqui Esteban 🇺🇸🇪🇺 @chiquiesteban.me · 23/04/2025
When @chloecolemanmedia.bsky.social found the photo for this topper, I had to spend some time trying to understand it... www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
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Opinion | The new Sun King
Trump’s rococo Oval Office decorations may be old-fashioned, but they are not traditional American.
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 23/04/2025
Via @stuartathompson.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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They Criticized Musk on X. Then Their Reach Collapsed. (Gift Article)
Three users who disagreed with the site’s owner saw views for their posts plummet.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
“We may have, short term, a little pain,” Trump said of his tariffs. How much pain might consumers endure in food prices? @zhoyoyo.bsky.social, @pbump.com & I have a new tracker that allows you to find out, using (close to) real-time price data from Numerator www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
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Opinion | How have food prices changed? Our tracker can give you a sense.
In partnership with Numerator, we’re tracking inflation over more than 30 essential ingredients for your daily food consumption.
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Chiqui Esteban 🇺🇸🇪🇺 @chiquiesteban.me · 03/04/2025
We are and will be tracking change in food prices since Donald Trump, who campaigned on lower food prices, was inaugurated. Kudos to @zhoyoyo.bsky.social @pbump.com @crampell.bsky.social and nice illustrations by @michellekondrich.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
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Opinion | How have food prices changed? Our tracker can give you a sense.
In partnership with Numerator, we’re tracking inflation over more than 30 essential ingredients for your daily food consumption.
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Youyou Zhou @zhoyoyo.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
There's still time to apply! I spoke last year, met a diverse, welcoming group of people in dataviz, connected with old friends, fostered new relationships, and learned a ton from the community. You can take a look at our talks from last year here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Outlier Conference 2024, presented by the Data Visualization Society - YouTube
Outlier 2024 delves into positive disruptions within the data visualization realm, spotlighting those who challenge conventional organizational norms to find...
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Eli Holder @elibryan.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Speaking at Outlier 📊 was an absolute blast! @datavizsociety.bsky.social put on a great show. 10/10 would recommend! You've got until Saturday to apply for Outlier 2025 in Miami! In case you need inspiration for your own talk, these were some of my favorites from last year... 🧵🧵🧵
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Meghan Hoyer @meghanhoyer.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
A Washington Post color analysis of D.C. found shades of gray permeate neighborhoods where the White population has increased and the Black population has decreased, by @jdharden.bsky.social and @marissajae.bsky.social: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/int...
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The house color that tells you when a neighborhood is gentrifying
A Washington Post color analysis of D.C. found shades of gray permeate neighborhoods where markers of gentrification have spiked.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 28/02/2025
There used to be more immigrants to the U.S. who didn’t speak English, but they were mostly White and Trump wasn’t president. Gift link: wapo.st/4blp11U
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Opinion | There’s a reason the United States hasn’t had an official language
This didn’t dissuade President Donald Trump, who plans to formalize English as America’s official language.
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Hannah Natanson @hannahnatanson.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
DOGE is pushing the Federal Aviation Administration to cancel a $2.4 billion Verizon contract and give it to Elon Musk's Starlink instead; this is about to happen www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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FAA targeting Verizon contract in favor of Musk’s Starlink, sources say
Turning the $2.4 billion project over to Musk’s company would be a major test of conflict-of-interest rules in government contracting.
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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
🔬🧪🧬 @sadbumblebee.buzz and I are collecting stories from scientists whose research funding has been halted by the Trump admin. Feel free to share this form with anyone who has been impacted and as always you can reach me on signal at caitlingilbert.24 thewashingtonpost.formstack.com/forms/scient...
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Are you a scientist who has lost funding or grants in recent weeks? - Formstack
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David Nakamura @davidnakamura.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
This data may vanish under Trump, so we charted it www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Column | This data may vanish under Trump, so we charted it
When some of the most valuable datasets in human history briefly vanished from U.S. government websites, it felt like watching the Library of Alexandria go up in smoke.
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Michael Morisy @morisy.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
This afternoon! Join over 1,200 registered transparency lovers to hear from Mark, Jack + two other special mystery guests!
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Chiqui Esteban 🇺🇸🇪🇺 @chiquiesteban.me · 07/02/2025
5. To finish with a non-Trump story. I'm a sicker for fun details in toppers. This one by @zhoyoyo.bsky.social with @michellekondrich.bsky.social illustration in a story about a (maybe) lost Da Vinci is lovely. Kudos also to Sergio Peçanha for his editing. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
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Opinion | Behind a false wall, a lost da Vinci might lurk
A mural commissioned in 1503 for the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence has been the subject of controversy and debate for more than 50 years.
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