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ok I'm back this time 🚨 for an article in The Guardian 🚨

I'm looking to speak to couples of diverse ages + ethnic backgrounds who have semi-recently done, decided on, or are contemplating/debating contraceptive surgery — so either a vasectomy or bilateral salpingectomy.

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'We should not make it harder for people to access abortion.'

Excellent article by Meghan Bartels for Scientific American with Diana Foster from ANSIRH about the scientific impacts of denying abortion care. scientificamerican.com/article/aborti…

'Of the 3,400 species of cicadas in the world, only nine species are known [for] disappearing underground for years at a time and then emerging en masse.' A solid primer by Meghan Bartels for those of us who have been surrounded by Brood XIX. Scientific American
tinyurl.com/BroodXIX

Ok internet, anyone know who this bust is of?

Love this piece on massive telescopes in an era of climate change Seven Machina Rasmussen scientificamerican.com/article/has-th…

Thinking about joining the cicadas this summer and just screaming for six weeks straight. You?

The anticipated Fashion-Fungus crossover of 2024 has arrived, whilst the celebs were serving high fashion, we are serving high diversity; we’re giving you Ascos, Basidios, Myxos and more.
Brace yourself for myco-magnificence! #MetGala2024

First up Zendaya as Microglossum viride

you should get a certain number of “reading days” per year along with your allotted sick days, so that you can phone your boss and say “I can’t come in to work today, I’m reading in bed” and then you spend the day reading in bed

🚨 for an article for Vox 🚨

I'm looking for people of all/any age who have thought about or actually succeeded in reconnecting with old friends after losing touch (or even people who have considered trying but got intimidated). If this is you please let me know!

Call for sources: I'm working on a new NIH RECOVER story for The Sick Times (a follow-up to last year's pieces). You can be anonymous and/or on background if needed. Email me (betsyThe Sick Times.org), DM, or ask for my number for texts/Signal. #LongCovid

Attention freelancers! Newly revised and updated High Country News submission guidelines are live. Same rates for print and web. Help us illuminate the wonders and challenges of living in the West in the 21st century. hcn.org/about/submissi…

Wanna get mad let's get mad scientificamerican.com/article/aborti…

Happy May Day, bread and roses.

“forty five thousand dead, you're arresting kids instead' is an extremely effective new chant

Columbia University's student radio station WKCR-FM NY has a 'wildly unprecedented' online listenership right now as its field reporters offer updates on the campus protest. Listen to the coverage: cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/#

Have questions about H5N1? We all do. Attempted to explain what we know and don’t know and some challenges in this Q&A for Scientific American with the brilliant Megan Bartels.

Read here: scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-ne…

How worried should we be about bird flu in cattle? Only a little, for now (but there's lots of room for it to get worse): scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-ne…

As a different kind of 34-year-old observatory, I would also like to pause operations and enter safe mode