'In the United States, there is, on average, one school psychologist for every 1,119 students'

From this cogent skewering of Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious Generation:

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Gut bacteria can break down cholesterol -- and we know which specific bacteria they are for the first time, thanks to a new technique using a deep language model to get at the 'dark matter' of the microbiome

my reporting for nature
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Let’s stop pretending there are different jobs. There’s only one job and it’s emails.

‘Exhausted and insulted’: how harsh visa-application policies are hobbling global research - essential reading from Sandra Owusu-Gyamfi nature.com/articles/d4158…

Atlas Obscura's and cara giaimo's new book about cool animals, plants, etc is available to pre-order! It's amazing and you're going to want to read bits of it out loud to all the curious kids and grownups in your life. Excited to be a contributor in very excellent company!

Afrori Books | Bookseller of the Year I wrote about the challenges facing Black women in the workplace…and the exhaustion for Nature Portfolio nature.com/articles/d4158…

Inspired by Dune's sandworms, I asked the hard questions: do real worms have teeth? How did real worms fundamentally reshape all life on planet Earth? and more! nature.com/articles/d4158…

Bless the maker and his waters! Meet the real-life versions of Dune's epic sandworms.

Thanks to Julian Anna Nowogrodzki for the chance to talk about two of my favourite things!

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Very good article. Also nice to see the 'firefighting trap' concept discussed - something needed to be considered in a time when fire suppression is going through a popular renaissance. nature.com/articles/d4158…

LEGACY: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine is officially an INSTANT New York Times Best Seller!!!💫💫💫

I’m still on cloud 9 from the news last night! #7 on the HARDCOVER NONFICTION list!!!

the market will not support the news and information ecosystem required of a healthy multiracial democracy

Great, provocative piece by my friend, the incomparable ⁦Ubadah Sabbagh⁩ . The postdoc experience is broken. Funders such as the NIH must help to reimagine it. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Awards are a huge missed opportunity to reward open science practices, says Malgorzata Lagisz nature.com/articles/d4158…

Thoughtful piece written by my colleague Ubadah Sabbagh nature.com/articles/d4158…

This whole column is full of mic drops but my favorite may be:

'How the scientific system treats researchers is a choice.'

Ubadah Sabbagh on the urgency of reimagining the postdoc

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Scientific institutions must create--and sustain--new kinds of roles so that researchers can provide the deep public engagement necessary to respond effectively to the escalating impacts of #climate change. The status quo isn't working. [Thread: 1/n] nature.com/articles/d4158…

.The Washington Post Guild says more than 700 WaPo employees plan to walk off the job Dec. 7 for a 24-hour unfair labor practice strike as they negotiate a contract w management. Interim CEO announced 240 job cuts that are starting as voluntary buyouts but could become layoffs.