Meet BLOOM: a clinic founded to improve the health outcomes of Black babies and toddlers in Oakland. Patients at BLOOM feel heard, and the anxiety they had felt in previous clinical spaces, dissolve. — It was a privilege to write this story of healing and community in medicine

On a single day, citizen scientists across the world are going to sample eDNA in lakes to help researchers better understand the state of global biodiversity. I got to dust off my genetics degree for this one! My story for nature: nature.com/articles/d4158…

Congratulations to the 2024 class of fellows!! You’re in for an unforgettable summer ✍️🧬

hoping to talk with deaf parents who are expecting / deaf parents who are thinking about having kids — ideally sometime this week! appreciate anyone who can pass this message on #journorequest

Researchers found that invoking gratitude can lower cigarette cravings in smokers, data that could transform public health campaigns designed to reduce smoking and other harmful health behaviors. harvardpublichealth.org/snapshots/grat…

Last year, I investigated why 36 women struggling to get pregnant were never told of the "forever chemicals" scientists found in their ovaries...at the time, a breakthrough discovery. Today White House Office of Science & Technology Policy unveiled a plan to do away with secrecy in #PFAS research: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews…

In the latest issue of The Atlantic, I have wrote about life under one of the most extreme abortion bans in the country.

Updating lung-function testing to a race-neutral algorithm is an improvement, but also raises new questions. See Felice Freyer's piece for Harvard Public Health magazine. harvardpublichealth.org/equity/lung-fu…

Donald Trump’s pivot to embracing IVF has put him at odds with most of his party—and provided a window into his political calculus as he attempts to retake the presidency, Lucy Tu writes: theatlantic.com/health/archive…

I knew very little about cryptography before reading this book…but I learned! And you can too! 🔐🔓

My first creative writing workshop was with Hana. I remember she always came with thoughtful, detailed comments, and I learned so much from her about science writing, pitching, and working with editors. Can’t recommend her excellent debut piece in The Atlantic enough!

Are you ready to try something new and work in #SciComm? Apply by Jan 1, 2025 to be a part of #MMF50th and join an alumni cohort of over 850 as you spend the summer using your STEM background as a journalist writing the news! aaas.org/mmf

Who is Jared Isaacman, Trump's pick to lead NASA? Find out more in my story for Scientific American (link follows below).

“In New York, a mother with no history of drug use lost custody of her toddler & newborn for 5 months after she tested positive for fentanyl that the hospital had given her in her epidural.” This state-sanctioned violence inflicts a very specific form of trauma that people don’t

America’s fertility crisis is also a men’s health crisis. You wouldn’t know it from how we talk (or legislate) about IVF and other fertility treatments. My latest for The Atlantic theatlantic.com/health/archive…

The Trump administration will pay to incinerate enough food to feed 1.5 million children for a week. When the packets burn, their labels will read: THIS PRODUCT IS A GIFT FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 500 tons, from us, to no one.