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Health correspondent @TIME . Author of Big Vape from @henryholt . Email: jamie.ducharme @time .com

New York, NY
Joined January 2013
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@Jamie_Ducharme
Jamie Ducharme
4 years
When I wrote about long-haul coronavirus, I got a *lot* of messages telling me to look into ME/CFS—a disease that sounds almost identical but gets a lot less attention
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2 years
Long COVID patients, advocates, and doctors say the pandemic is the largest mass-disabling event in history—and argue the government isn't doing nearly enough about it.
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Jamie Ducharme
5 years
In July, Robert Chelsea became the first African American face transplant recipient in history. It was an honor to spend the last year following his story—one that could have an enormous cultural impact on medicine
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Jamie Ducharme
5 years
I spent months talking to executives at Juul, learning about the inner workings of the company and the future of an industry that risks being "regulated out of existence." The result is my first cover story (!) for @TIME
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Jamie Ducharme
4 years
For weeks, I've been struck by how differently people are acting now—with the U.S. outbreak worse than it's ever been—compared to this spring. I wrestled with why that's happening in this week's cover story:
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Jamie Ducharme
4 years
. @ScottGottliebMD kindly took the time to explain his proposals for COVID-19 recovery, and even more kindly did not hang up when I asked multiple questions about his chickens and his old tweets
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1 year
Andrew Huberman's podcast episodes are very long, very dense, and VERY popular. I tried to figure out how a neuroscientist became one of the biggest podcasters in America (spoiler: even he doesn't really know)
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Jamie Ducharme
2 years
I spent some time with the founders of @PartnersClinic , who are doing whatever it takes—including buying a 1990s ultrasound machine on Craigslist—to get a new, open-to-all abortion clinic open in Maryland this fall
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Jamie Ducharme
5 years
Politicians often blame mass shootings on mental illness. But the doctors on the front lines say they're wrong—and should focus on gun control
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Jamie Ducharme
3 years
Some news I've been sitting on since the Before Times: I'm writing a book about Juul and the e-cigarette world for @HenryHolt ! And it's being adapted into a docuseries! Everything is extremely surreal!
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@Jamie_Ducharme
Jamie Ducharme
4 years
Wondering how to exercise/eat well/stay social/de-stress/generally be okay when you're mostly at home? I was too, so I asked a bunch of very smart and thoughtful people!
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Jamie Ducharme
1 year
This is one of the most personal things I've ever written (gross!) so I am promoting it here (also gross!) in hopes that it speaks to someone else even a little bit
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Jamie Ducharme
8 years
Writing about @Aly_Raisman = culmination of low-key obsession with Olympic gymnastics:
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Jamie Ducharme
4 years
Loneliness is not a new problem by any means. Coronavirus lockdowns are both making it worse—and bringing it out of the shadows
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Jamie Ducharme
3 years
The Word document that lived on my computer for a year becomes a real book today! THANK YOU to the many, many people who helped make this wild ride possible. Now, I'm sorry, a little obligatory promotion:
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Jamie Ducharme
4 years
I got a $493 bill for a COVID test I thought would be free. Turns out the lab didn't code it as COVID (??) so my insurance didn't cover it. Get tested—but check your claims! Call your insurer! Don't let them charge $493 for a test that takes 5 seconds! This has been my TED talk
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Jamie Ducharme
1 year
If you've been to the doctor lately, you know that it's often, uh, bad. I wrote about how the slog of long waits, short appointments, and high prices is leaving patients burned out and ready to turn their backs on health care
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Jamie Ducharme
7 years
After 4ish wonderful years and gallons of seltzer, today's my last day @BostonMagazine . Next up: Reporting some news @TIME 😎
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2 years
Almost every single person with Long COVID who I've ever interviewed has described a wildly convoluted path to treatment. That's a big problem, and one that could last years to come
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Jamie Ducharme
5 years
However you want to label it, (sober curiosity, mindful drinking, elective sobriety...) many Americans are drinking less. But the biggest surprise is that Big Alcohol doesn't mind
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Jamie Ducharme
5 years
When they ask you to go on tv before 8am (thanks, @CNN !)
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Jamie Ducharme
5 years
something @CongressmanRaja and I have in common is we never imagined spending so much of our time thinking about vaping. Read my profile of him here!
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Jamie Ducharme
3 years
If you happened to be born after Jan. 1, 2000, you will never be able to buy tobacco in Brookline, Ma.—not when you're 25 or 50 or 100. The goal is to slowly phase out legal tobacco, not just in Brookline, but (someday) everywhere
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Jamie Ducharme
4 years
It's such an honor to be recognized for this story, the most rewarding one I've ever gotten to work on. Thanks, @NYNewswomen !
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NYNewswomen
4 years
Front Page Awards 2020: @Jamie_Ducharme at @TIME is the recipient of our Magazine: Feature Front Page Award for her heart-breaking and heart-warming story, "Face of Change"! #FPA2020
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Jamie Ducharme
3 years
Are people over vaccine selfies yet? Sorry here's one more!!!
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Jamie Ducharme
5 years
there's no feeling quite like returning to a piece of writing you were struggling with, and realizing you were just tired and dumb yesterday and it's actually not that hard today
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Jamie Ducharme
4 years
Telling Robert Chelsea's story, and getting to know him pre- and post-face transplant, was an incredible honor. So is this!!
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Jamie Ducharme
6 years
Personal news: The Brookfield Place Equinox has promised to start stocking hair elastics in the women's locker room because of ME. Chase your dreams, kids
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Jamie Ducharme
7 years
My Tuesday was fine, thanks
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Jamie Ducharme
2 years
In 2020, I learned that @ayshakhoury had been suspended from her medical school teaching role after leading a discussion on racism in health care. This past winter, I got a tip that there was even more to the story. Eight months later, here we are:
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Jamie Ducharme
6 years
happy to report I was supposed to turn this in on Wednesday!
@TIME
TIME
6 years
Psychologists explain why you procrastinate — and how to stop
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Jamie Ducharme
4 years
From today's coronavirus newsletter but also the vibe today, tomorrow, and always
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Jamie Ducharme
6 years
I'm not crying you're crying
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Jamie Ducharme
4 years
live with the confidence of a wellness publicist who thinks her CBD client will break through in this health news cycle
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Jamie Ducharme
4 years
Robert Chelsea is such a kind and special person (even if he does like to roast my driving abilities/snack preferences) and I'm thrilled his story is resonating. Thank you, @deadlineclub !
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The Deadline Club
4 years
In Magazine Profile, the winner is @Jamie_Ducharme of @TIME for “The Face of Change.” #deadlineawards
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Jamie Ducharme
4 years
a teen just politely asked if I know what TikTok is so I guess I just celebrated my ONE MILLIONTH BIRTHDAY
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Jamie Ducharme
4 years
I’m in awe of these bright, engaged and funny students and now I want to go back to high school
@lawrenceacademy
Lawrence Academy
4 years
#TodayAtLA we are pleased to welcome our 2020 J. William Mees Visiting Scholar @Jamie_Ducharme who discussed her background in #journalism , writing for @Time and worked with classes discussing best practices for #writing a story. #WhatWillYouDoAtLA @BostonMagazine #GrotonMA
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Jamie Ducharme
6 years
Shoutout to the good people at Getty, who placed this image on page one of search results for "hotel pool"
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Jamie Ducharme
3 years
Two different doctors I interviewed today about the Delta surge have described our call as "a therapy session." Truly hard to imagine how burnt out they're feeling after 18 months of this.
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Jamie Ducharme
7 years
La Croix in the streets Polar in the sheets
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Jamie Ducharme
7 years
Researcher, to me: Imagine if humans had to eat for 9.5 hours per day to sustain themselves Me, speaking: Mmm yes, very interesting Me, thinking: That is my dream life
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Jamie Ducharme
7 years
At the age where my peers and colleagues are writing books and I'm over here pretty stoked that I finally got curtains
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Jamie Ducharme
4 years
Thanks for inviting me (and giving me an excuse to call myself a scholar), @lawrenceacademy !
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Lawrence Academy
4 years
#LawrenceAcademy ’s 2020 J. William Mees Visiting Scholar has been chosen! @Jamie_Ducharme is a talented, up-and-coming journalist for #TimeMagazine who, most impressively -- and within the last three months -- has authored two covers for @Time . Can’t wait to have her on campus!
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Jamie Ducharme
6 years
me getting ready for work vs. me after spending seven minutes on a 100 degree subway platform
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Jamie Ducharme
4 years
they say to write what you know, so I explored my newfound, debilitating Sims addiction (with a special cameo from @madelinebilis )
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Jamie Ducharme
4 years
The pandemic has made even small decisions—like "should I go for a walk with a friend?"—feel impossibly complicated. It's exhausting! Hopefully this helps a little?
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Jamie Ducharme
4 years
big quarantine mood
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Jamie Ducharme
4 years
frankly it's a miracle I could focus long enough to write this
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Jamie Ducharme
4 years
Truly thought I'd be the "looking nice at home makes me feel good" type. Regretfully, I am in fact the "inconsistent showers and changing from leggings to sweatpants at night" type
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Jamie Ducharme
5 years
Say what you will, but women's magazines made me love journalism. They tell stories that other pubs can't or won't. (They also convinced me that stilettos would be a much bigger part of my adult life, but you can't win 'em all)
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Jamie Ducharme
4 years
Even for young, healthy people with "mild" cases of coronavirus, debilitating symptoms can last months. If nothing so far has made you take coronavirus seriously, perhaps this will finally do it
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Jamie Ducharme
7 years
My last @BostonMagazine story is now online and it is making me very emotional so just read it, okay?
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Jamie Ducharme
3 years
Nobody knows exactly what the future will look like. But at least for the short term, it will likely mean coexisting with COVID-19.
@TIME
TIME
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TIME’s new global cover: We may never eliminate COVID-19. But we can learn to live with it
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Jamie Ducharme
5 years
sometimes when you ramble incoherently about something long enough, @mandyoaklander will shut you up by telling you to write about it. friends, here is that piece
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Jamie Ducharme
3 years
My book is out in roughly two months and I would be delighted if you considered pre-ordering! Critics are calling it "a whole entire book" and "a small miracle that it was finished during a pandemic"
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Jamie Ducharme
1 year
Yale's Laurie Santos built an empire teaching the science of happiness. Then she got burned out. And THEN she let me write about how she's fixing it!
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@Jamie_Ducharme
Jamie Ducharme
8 years
I have never seen this many people in Allston awake before 8 #ElectionDay
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Jamie Ducharme
5 years
Big thanks to @maddie_sofia and co for doing an episode on the always-lovely Robert Chelsea and his path to becoming the first African American face transplant recipient (and also for indulging my ramblings)
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Jamie Ducharme
2 years
the apple watch people probably didn't INTEND for the hourly "stand up" reminder to make me get a snack every single hour, but you know what, that's innovation
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Jamie Ducharme
2 years
We’re planning to walk out on May 23 unless @time management agrees to a fair contract—because three years is too long to wait.
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TIME Union
2 years
TIME Union is prepared to walk out for one day on May 23, the day #TIME100 is released, one of our tentpole franchises that would not exist without our labor—unless @time management agrees to a fair contract.
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Jamie Ducharme
5 years
Me at the bar: let’s get another round! I’ve got it! Me at the grocery store: $6 for apricots? In THIS economy???
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Jamie Ducharme
5 years
A month ago, @madelinebilis described this outfit as “what a cartoon character would wear every day.” Today, after accidentally wearing it again, I am forced to admit I am a cartoon character
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5 years
This is...such a specific question
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3 years
CJ can't read this, but you can in exactly one week!!!
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Jamie Ducharme
5 years
I talked with parents who are desperate to find vaping addiction treatment for their kids — and are learning that it doesn't really exist
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Jamie Ducharme
6 years
Drug of choice: checking work email and finding absolutely nothing that requires a response
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Jamie Ducharme
3 years
Spending a day in pediatric COVID wards gave me new appreciation for health care workers' energy and resilience. But it also made clear that they're exhausted and frustrated by this new—largely preventable—phase of the pandemic
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7 years
Peak Allston Christmas: just had to get off the train in the middle of Comm Ave because a Uhaul got stuck on the tracks 😐😐😐😐😐😐😐
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Jamie Ducharme
5 years
if you look up wholesome in the dictionary, it is this flawless piece of content
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Jamie Ducharme
7 years
Gotta admire the optimism of publicists sending press releases at 2pm on the Friday before Labor Day
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Jamie Ducharme
4 years
PSA: we published this story 10 days ago, when many, many things were different! I will be forcing my roommate @Mollersaurus to do virtual yoga, rooftop calisthenics, laps of our apartment, etc and I suggest you do the same!
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Jamie Ducharme
5 years
Spotify is really playing us by re-packaging songs we already know we like and pretending it's a cool new thing, she thinks as she sits down to listen for the next six months
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Jamie Ducharme
3 years
Last year, I celebrated my birthday by developing chronic heart burn. Today, I celebrated by needing 87 takes to shoot a single TikTok. Like ok I get it world, I'm in my late twenties!!!!
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Jamie Ducharme
7 years
Brought to you by someone whose purse, at any given time, contains: snacks, workout clothes, tupperware, a magazine, a laptop, chapstick, 3-5 pens, and 87 receipts
@TIME
TIME
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Your purse is probably too heavy. Here's why that's bad for your health
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@Jamie_Ducharme
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3 years
These semi-vaccinated times are introducing a whole range of social dilemmas: family drama! vaccine-only weddings! dating app disclosures! I set out to explore a few of them
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Jamie Ducharme
3 years
So honored to receive a @NYPressClub award for my Long COVID reporting! But it really belongs to the many people who pushed through pain, fatigue, brain fog and more to share their stories
@NYPressClub
NY Press Club
3 years
Congratulations to all of the winners in this year’s @NYPressClub Awards for Journalism. We had a record number of entries this year! Here’s the list of winners:
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Jamie Ducharme
4 years
Tip: Quarantine cooking is way better if you pretend you’re on Chopped. WHAT CAN I MAKE WITH 18 GRAINS 4 KINDS OF BEANS AND A SWEET POTATO IN 24 MINUTES QUICK GO
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Jamie Ducharme
5 years
no this is not between two ferns, yes it is real, yes it is @madelinebilis , and yes it is incredible
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@Jamie_Ducharme
Jamie Ducharme
3 years
I'm delighted to tap into my NH roots with a virtual book launch event @GibsonsConcord with the one and only @jeffreykluger ! Come chat about vaping, space, and everything in between
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Jamie Ducharme
7 years
Imagine earnestly Googling the phrase, "happy thanksgiving." It's so good, so pure
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Jamie Ducharme
4 years
Hello, Time is launching a COVID-specific advice column! Would you like me and @TaraLaw27 to ask experts about your very specific pandemic-related problems? Email us at covidquestions @time .com
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Jamie Ducharme
3 years
me each morning, logging on to twitter dot com
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7 years
I wrote about the runner's high for @WomensHealthMag and forced @runmeb to take a selfie with me in the process:
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Jamie Ducharme
3 years
I've never been on this side of the Boston Magazine CMS before. Very cool! I recommend!
@LisaWeidenfeld
Lisa Weidenfeld
3 years
Learn about @Jamie_Ducharme 's BIG VAPE: THE INCENDIARY RISE OF JUUL here and then come to our @booksmithtweets event on June 1 to learn more!
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Jamie Ducharme
6 years
GOOD MORNING it is 9:21am and I have notched my greatest achievement for this day and all days
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Jamie Ducharme
4 years
My friend group's running joke this year has been that we have either zero news to report, or have decided to change our entire lives. I wrote about why we're doing that
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4 years
if you're still asking this....man I don't know
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6 years
Wrote a little thing about the science of addiction and comedy ahead of HBO's Robin Williams documentary tonight
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Jamie Ducharme
6 years
Come for the cute drawings by kids, stay for the slowly shifting gender stereotypes in the sciences!!!
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3 years
I guess I should say it's available for pre-order now if you're so inclined??
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Jamie Ducharme
6 years
Sure fine Trader Joe’s is known for its happy employees and all but the guy who told me “you BETTER have a nice day” needs to chill
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Jamie Ducharme
4 years
It's very hard to thread the needle of communicating that personal choices matter during the pandemic, but the real failures are of leadership. This piece by @JuliaLMarcus does it beautifully
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Jamie Ducharme
6 years
um yes I construct CONTENT
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2 years
Long COVID forces many people to leave their jobs. Helping them get back is going to be a huge challenge—and the U.S. needs to get ready for it
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Jamie Ducharme
7 years
A bird just flew overhead and pooped directly into my purse and honestly ?????!?
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