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4 years

the moment you find out!!!! the mood!!!!!!!

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Per the NYT there’s a 135 percent increase in positive cases from the average 2 weeks ago in NYC. You’re not imagining that suddenly every friend group has a breakthrough case. It sucks but we know: get boosted, get tested, and then be real about your results w/ your network.

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News to think about this Labor Day weekend: The strike by Kaiser mental health clinicians is now the longest mental health strike in U.S. history. This should be a bigger story than it is.

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scene outside @hadestown while we wait to see how the #Blackout plays out

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@RandallOtisTV It is 100% "Eye to Eye" from A Goofy Movie

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3 years

Some personal news… Friday was my last day at Inverse! I’m stepping down from my role as senior science editor and am excited to say I’ve decided to go freelance. The decision wasn’t easy: I’ve been with Inverse for six years and am so proud of what this team has accomplished.

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normalize tiny tortoise bites instead of scissors

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4 years

Some professional news: I'm happy to say I'm now the Senior Science Editor at @inversedotcom , guiding our coverage of science, health, and innovation.

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the fact that publications are divesting in science journalism at a time when science journalism has never been more important makes me real queasy

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2 years

a different type of personal news… had the best time getting engaged to @sam_raim this weekend!!!

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3 years

People with cats, how has your life changed — for better or worse — since you have adopted the cat? (This is not for an article, this is because I want a cat.)

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3 years

not my mom telling me she wants to watch Cowboy Bebop because she “heard there was a corgi in it”

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2 years

I've honestly tried to avoid this trial as much as possible but now it's time to look squarely at the ugliness of it and how passiveness (in part) allowed it to spiral. Essential reading here from @kattenbarge :

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2 years

For people who have been studying the misinformation campaign around the Depp v Heard trial, this verdict is chilling. The success of Depp’s “redemption arc” narrative reveals a lot about our social media platforms and ourselves. A thread of things I learned during Depp v Heard:

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4 years

I'm looking to expand my Rolodex of science writers available to cover breaking news and studies. Rates are typically between $200-$300 per article. If this interests you, please shoot a DM with the topics you cover/links to clips.

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3 years

who else has memories of trying to stump this thing? honestly I’m still so impressed by it and wanna write an ode

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2 years

Welp after 2 years of reporting on and avoiding it, I have Covid. My advice — that scratchy throat? That negative test? If you have the means, stay home for a day then test again. It's better to know for sure. I'm glad to be boosted & thankful to get to stay home and be cared for

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5 years

Some personal news — delighted to say that I’m now the Mind & Body editor at @inverse 🤘. This section is and will continue to be an exploration of the weird world of health, a fact-check, and a guide. Soo ... 👇

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Sarah Sloat

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3 years

Hello! I'm looking to commission 1-2 stories that combine superheroes and science. If you have a unique idea/reporting plan, grounded in research, please email me at sarah.sloat @inverse .com

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3 years

please enjoy this photo series of my mom’s dog posing with various Halloween houses

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3 years

Hi health journalists! @inversedotcom is hiring for a PT writer who'll report on nutrition, fitness, mental health, and everything in between. Looking for someone who can explain the science behind trends and is game to write about the weird. You can be remote and pay is $25/hour

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7 years

I wonder if Jazz Johnson-Merton is mad because she realized her name is actually just a very popular name for horses

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4 years

Hi! Inverse is hiring for a Mind & Body staff writer. It’s a full-time, remote position. We’re a smart, weird team who helps our audience navigate their health/mental health via sharp science reporting. Join us! DMs are open if you have questions.

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3 years

Don’t usually tweet at brands but @united you need to give Vanessa at Newark whatever we she wants— diamonds, rubies — Vanessa who told me she got Hugh Jackman’s wife her laptop back she could get mine too and then DID

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3 years

this should be the new slogan for 23andMe

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3 years

you ever think about how some of your grandpas were probably fuckboys

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3 years

science is good

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3 years

A surprising number of sea monster sightings can be explained by whale boners (quick thread, sources here: )

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2 years

If you want to read that article in full, here it is:

Mental Health Care Should Be Available for All, Not a Luxury

The stress of COVID fractured a system that was already cracked

www.scientificamerican.com

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2 years

@rachsyme Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke! The right mix of Napoleonic Wars and magicians for fall

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2 years

@MarkLevineNYC People aren't wearing masks b/c there is zero effort to enforce these policies. In practice, a mask is a request, not a requirement. So how are y'all going to fix this?

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3 years

my pharmacist told me my Pfizer vaccine is “the best one they got” like he was selling me slab of pastrami and that’s why I love New York

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2 years

Me, a journalist, sowing: basically my job is doing homework!! yes!! Me, a journalist, reaping: well basically my job is doing homework. wtf.

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2 years

When I spoke with one clinician earlier this year, who is now leaving Kaiser, she said: “My community has been decimated. My colleagues are devastated. They can't work for a company who doesn't value them and who wants to harm their community by depriving them of what they need.”

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4 years

Today I turned 30 and visited this giant spider and it’s the sort of energy I’m trying to carry into the next year

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4 years

Celebrate and listen to #BlackBirdersWeek . Thank you @bellzisbirding for talking to me about this important movement:

Black Birders Week responds to racism with a celebration of Black naturalists

#BlackBirdersWeek is an initiative that takes place until June 5. It invites people to amplify the voices of Black birders, explorers, and naturalists.

www.inverse.com

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3 years

Hi! I'm officially open to writing/editing assignments, as well as any other creative opportunities involving research and storytelling. If you're interested in working together, please check out my site and reach out!

Sarah Sloat

www.sarahsloat.net

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4 years

@SaraJBenincasa I thought these the height of luxury as a tween

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3 years

got a safe haircut that makes me feel fly n free, getting the second vaccine dose tomorrow, what is this serotonin??

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2 years

For @damemagazine I reported on the current state of women's health in the U.S. — spoiler, it's not great! I hope you read, that you feel angry, and you demand more.

The Annual Physical: Analyzing the State of Women’s Health | Dame Magazine

Our understanding of women’s health usually relies on an interpretation of the past. Experts collect and analyze large amounts of data, hoping to describe an extremely complex assemblage of experie...

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4 years

Extremely proud and happy to announce we have unionized! We are committed to creating a more equitable and transparent workplace, and are looking forward to working with management to make that happen.

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4 years

Sources claim BDG is forming a union. (It’s us. We’re saying it.) #BDGUnion Read our full letter here:

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1 year

Vacation responder is officially on—I'm getting married tomorrow!

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4 years

in choosing what media news to obsess about today, choose the story about *exposing* a union instead 😎 #BDGUnion

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2 years

Perhaps you saw the news about the ancient wooden Roman dildo. But did you ask yourself...where are all the other ancient dildos?? I did and @TheAtlantic let me write about it. Ultimately, archeology is better when it's rated R.

Are Ancient Phallic Objects ... Exactly What They Look Like?

Archaeology has long shied away from describing artifacts as sexual. But things may finally be changing.

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6 years

today in Peru I met an extremely good archeologist dog

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2 years

It’s been a year since I started freelancing, and I’m reflecting on what I’m proud of and setting goals for 2023. Here are a few highlights✨🧵

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3 years

vaccine appointment made!! 😭 midnight refresh of the CVS site is where it’s at

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4 years

I’m typically hesistant to share something like this but, some days, the job is harder than others, and it’s just so nice to receive a message like this and lean on a considerate stranger

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3 years

I can feel anxious about pitching something related to an idea that someone else mentioned once, almost, that one time — and then I remember there are two Pinocchio movies coming out in 2022

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@morninggloria Piranesi by Susanna Clarke!

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Eldest daughters, project leaders extraordinaire, have kickstarted an important conversation about family roles, responsibilities, and assumptions. I reported on why they’re onto something:

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5 years

Merry Christmas to me and this memory with Jon Hamm

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2 years

I'm excited to make my @TheAtlantic debut with this article on the sacred and profane aka pigeons!!

TikTok Told Me to Adopt a Pigeon

#PigeonTok is rebranding the unloved birds as pets, not pests.

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2 years

I struggle with needing to log off and guilty for doing so. It can make you feel awful, but isn't it better to know? To witness? But you also can't help if you're in emotional paralysis. Here's me on how to navigate this time of cascading trauma:

This is Your Brain Under Constant Trauma | Dame Magazine

We’re drowning in cascading collective traumas—gun violence, racial injustice, climate catastrophe, an ongoing pandemic—and without moments of healing, the perfect storm of stress is altering the...

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3 years

in a year transformed by vaccines and sustained by hospital workers/first responders it’s hard to see the M*sk “person of the year” thing as anything more than a SEO play

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3 years

It's a day of action for the @bdgunion ! I support the bargaining committee and I'm proud to be a member of the @BDGUnion . I care about accountability measures to increase the hiring, retention, and promotion of underrepresented employees.

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3 years

we're actually mostly known for our fictional dick series jeez Glenn don't you read the site

Glenn Greenwald

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3 years

Inverse is a site known for poisonous anti-Semitic and anti-LGBT content. That is especially true of the sources on whom it relies such as @CullyHamner . Please be advised:

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6 years

happy hump day — here’s my corgi, who can’t get these leaves off his belly

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3 years

I'm just a tired science journalist, standing in front of Twitter, asking you to read my story about Vikings and space and changing history: @inversedotcom

Viking discovery changes history and supports ancient lore

Scientists extract wooden fragments and used new technology to detect cosmic ray signals, revealing the earliest presence of Vikings in the Americas.

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6 years

bob the answer is no

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3 years

Are you in the process of unionizing or have you recently unionized? Was mental health one of your primary reasons for organizing? Then I'd like to talk with you for an article. DMs are open!

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2 years

The pandemic has exacerbated inequities known to drive and sustain poor mental health among the most vulnerable. It is beyond time to rethink what care should look like. Here is how we can move forward — I’m excited to share my first article for @sciam :

Mental Health Care Should Be Available for All, Not a Luxury

The stress of COVID fractured a system that was already cracked

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Sarah Sloat

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3 years

I meant to do this at 2,000 but I blinked and now I've written 2,026 articles for Inverse. Time — it flies! My little gremlins all live here:

Sarah Sloat

Sarah Sloat is a former senior science editor at Inverse. She managed the Innovation, Science, and Mind and Body verticals. Sarah also writes Sunday Scaries, a mental health newsletter that's the...

www.inverse.com

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5 years

It’s taken 20 minutes of a Celine Dione concert to prove that the only celebrity I care about is Celine Dion

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6 years

owned by chyron

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4 years

Inverse is looking for its next health science reporter. You'd be working with yours truly, writing a mixture of enterprise articles, study coverage, & features + covering a buffet of topics: mental health, relationships, nutrition, genetics, Covid-19, etc

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2 years

merry Christmas, my mom and I got each other the same corgi pizza cutter

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2 years

@KateClancy Meanwhile, people are told to "trust the science," but the science doesn't always include them. It seems that we don't have a chance of combatting misinformation if institutional science/medicine doesn't change how it views/treats the people it is trying to serve.

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7 years

. @MAPS is working to legalize MDMA as a treatment-adjacent for PTSD, and @DrBronner is helping. My feature here:

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2 years

Few things as humbling as reading the cover letters you wrote when you were 21. We must abolish the cover letter for at least this reason.

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2 years

Feels cringe to share a compliment but a Viking researcher emailed to say this is "the best popular written piece I have read about the Viking Age ever" and after putting in the work to make this as fun and fair as possible that felt pretty great!!

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6 years

the horrifying feeling that you're on the wrong train, it's gone express, and now you have to start life over in Queens with a new family

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4 years

the latke wanter

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3 years

tonight I said “good show!!” to David Byrne and watched him ride away on a bicycle and that’s why I’m still paying to live in NYC

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3 years

my latest for @NBCNews will make you feel better about lapses in memories — "cluttered memoryscapes" may make it more difficult to remember something specific, but they can also help with decision making + creativity:

Older adults can blame ‘clutter’ for difficulties with memory

Can you run out of brain space? That’s the wrong way to visualize memory, scientists say. Instead, older people face the challenge of sifting through more information.

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3 years

🌺happy halloween🌺

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3 years

Here's my latest, on the relationship between mental health and the immune system, and the quest to find a therapeutic for treatment-resistant depression:

Why scientists are rethinking the most effective way to treat depression

Scientists found histamines are an important link between depression and inflammation because of their effect on serotonin.

www.inverse.com

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2 years

I think I've fully pivoted from a "nothing matters" person to an "everything matters" person. On the downside, this makes me way less cool. But on the downside, I'm incredibly anxious.

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4 years

BDG is full of passionate people who care about their fellow workers and I'm so proud of our union 💛

BDG Union

@bdgunion

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We’re thrilled to announce the voluntary recognition of the BDG Union by Bustle Digital Group! This is a huge step forward to a more stable, equitable, and inclusive workplace.

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3 years

Here's your Friday read: @msmacb reports on why the happiest show on television needed to get real about mental health, and what actual therapists think about how therapy is used as plot on Ted Lasso.

Ted Lasso's greatest gift to the brain comes off the pitch

Psychologists say Ted Lasso's skepticism of therapy helps address mental health, mental illness, and questions about therapy.

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3 years

taking my little rapid tests, also known as waiting to see if the forbidden lollipops are pregnant or not

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@sarah_sloat_

4 years

Hi freelancers! @inversedotcom is accepting science and health pitches relating to #Pride and #LGBTQ and can pay 50 cents a word. You can pitch me at sarah.sloat @inverse .com. Please do!

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3 years

I'm so excited to share my first story for @DigitalTrends , a profile of @TheVTran , an expert in designing and facilitating kind gaming communities. There's incredibly useful lessons here for anyone who interacts with anonymous people online.

Victoria Tran's game-changing idea for changing video games | Digital Trends

Victoria Tran, community director of Innersloth, has some big ideas on how video game design can foster kindness, community, and positive relationships

www.digitaltrends.com

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5 years

The good people of Reddit/science voted a post with an article of mine the third "most significant submission" of 2019. The study I covered is tragic, and I'm glad it spurred conversation. You can read it, and the full list here:

From the science community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the science community

www.reddit.com

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4 years

I love science

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4 years

@BenMullin Next time feel free to reach out for comment 😘

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3 years

spring mood: hydrated, vaccinated, and unionized

BDG Union

@bdgunion

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The second BDG bargaining session has arrived!

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Boosted, baby! If you’re in NYC you should get your booster now. Nurses are working 12hr shifts to make it as easy as possible to get everyone vaccinated. When asked how many shots she had given that day, one nurse couldn’t name a number and said “....beyond”

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2 years

Here's my big feature on Viking women and the awesome/enticing/messy/meditative journey to understand who they really were — and what this effort says about ourselves.

A maiden king? Dust and bones may reveal the true power of Viking women

While the allure of female warriors and maiden-kings is obvious, this view of power shown in pop culture doesn’t tell the whole story.

www.inverse.com

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Sarah Sloat

@sarah_sloat_

4 years

Have you found that your pet has had an especially profound effect on your mental health during the pandemic? Has lockdown been emotionally possible because of your lizard, dog, or guinea pig? If you want to share your thoughts for a story I'm working on, let me know! DMs r open

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5 years

happy to say I'm back on my bullshit

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4 years

Every time I write an article on a conspiracy theory study, or one of those articles get reposted, I get inundated with messages from conspiracy theorists. They are often creepy/mean but there is something particularly LOL about using LinkedIn to share the word.

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3 years

It's my turn to experience the heartbreak of the climate crisis. Watching friends and family evacuate, homes & beloved refuges in danger or already gone, is excruciating. It's beyond time for radical change.

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Today marks four years of dating @sam_raim and he gave the gift of telling me, a 30yr old 5'2 woman, "yes, you are getting taller." Folks, that's what we call commitment.

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say goodbye to your Old Gods

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4 years

my snow melt is actually a council of Yodas

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5 years

I'm so happy that today @alipattillo is officially a staff writer at @inversedotcom ! Ali is a smart, empathetic reporter and we're lucky to have her. She also has an incredible feature coming out soon so watch this space. Please give her a follow!

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4 years

Tony can have a little science, as a treat

The Recount

@therecount

4 years

Fauci moods: Biden briefings vs. Trump briefings

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I wrote about a question that's been driving me crazy: How can people be convinced to wear masks? A big thank you to all the experts who took the time to walk me through this.

How to convince someone to wear a mask: Experts weigh in

Experts explain what it will take to convince anti-mask people to cover up.

www.inverse.com

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Sarah Sloat

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4 years

The Inverse team continues to expand: We now have an opening for a remote, part-time Mind & Body staff writer. This is a great opportunity for an early-career science writer who's stoked on our flavor of health journalism:

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1 year

this month I've been editing some very fun stories over at @PopSci including this treatise on one of my favorite topics ✨bears ✨

Bears can count, take selfies, use tools, recognize supermodels, and even open car doors

Scientists are starting to realize that bears are smarter than previously realized, even though they are solitary, not social animals.

www.popsci.com

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