Natasha Loder

Controversy sells. Careful science journalism is slower, less theatrical and harder work. Channel 4’s The Great ADHD Myth? aims its fire at the pharmaceutical industry but its shot lands on patients.My analysis. #adhd #neurodiversity overmatter.substack.com/p/anatomy-of...

Adam was just ten months out of medical school when he was asked to take over a hospital caught in the crossfire of Sudan's civil war. Soon he was one of the last doctors left

I hate to be a killjoy over this amazing achievement but we will need to wait to see how affordable and accessible it is to know how big a breakthrough it is for the near future. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

this is the future... www.statnews.com/2026/10/21/m...

Clay-pigeon shooting was born in the late 1800s to help hunters improve their aim. In the second world war it was used to train fighter pilots. Today the hope is that it can help prepare soldiers for drone warfare

New deployments of solar power are set to fall in almost every big EU country this year. Register for free to learn how an unlikely green pioneer has emerged

Where is the least liveable city in the world? One region’s score has taken a bigger fall than any other, according to the EIU’s annual index. Find out here

Bipartisan criticism of Donald Trump has grown louder in America. Republican losses in the midterms might allow Ukraine’s supporters to become more assertive

I have bought a transplantation shovel for my garden and the prospect of its arrival is a source of intense and rather unexpected joy.

There's more to the Character AI bankruptcy, and @regret.bsky.social has details: Court filings indicate the Ch11 was a key part of a deal that lets Disney hire most of CAI's staff, potentially acquire most of CAI's tech, and avoid the startup’s many legal liabilities www.wired.com/story/disney...

Starlink, the profit engine of SpaceX, currently helps to offset the losses in its other divisions. That makes Elon Musk’s latest gamble all the more audacious—and risky

Donald Trump is threatening to cripple Ukraine in its survival—and to expose Europe to Russian aggression—seemingly for the pitiful prize of minimising his losses in next month’s midterm elections

There is every chance that Canada’s relations with America will improve when Donald Trump leaves office, but it is not certain. We explain how the country is keeping its options open

Some preset options on my label-making device! 🙄

To be fair on Pangram, when I tried it out about a year ago it sucked really badly, but I'm told by colleagues who have tested it out that it is a lot better than it was.

What world are we in when the death of someone’s mentally unwell child is fodder for a politician? It’s so so sad. I just can’t imagine being a parent and having to go through that.

Wow.

It is time to go home when it is just you and a random mouse--scooting across the floor--in the office.

Finely reported account from the front lines of the vaccine wars. Like the Scopes trial of our era. @rollingstone.com by Katherine Eban www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Why is nobody freaking out about plague on Bluesky when they are on X?

Honestly LLMs right now feel like some intern has been given the corporate credit card and has gone mad. These firms are crazy if they think workplaces can support that kind of spending.

AI prose is distinguishable by word and punctuation choice as well as sentence and paragraph structure. But its hallmarks are not what you might expect. Read our full investigation

This absolutely should not be allowed to happen. Iranians need medicines and it is up to the international community and America to make sure they get them. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Medicines run short in Iran under US sanctions

Really troubling account of the gutting of America’s public health agency. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...

News networks should stick to their principles and pause the pool while any outlet is being excluded. Otherwise they will be next. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/b...

BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Stop eating. It is good for the economy.

Spies and scientists have long been intertwined in coronavirus research. That changes how we view the history of this area of science.

1/4 None of this is particularly new, but most people still don't realise how crucial this is to the COVID origin question, and to understanding the institutional reactions to that question. @natashaloder.bsky.social released a nice little primer.

Further data points that may help this investigation The mysterious "second peak" papers Part 1: Findings www.researchgate.net/publication/... Part 2: Analysis www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Part 2 of a series on the origin of Covid and coronavirus research. overmatter.substack.com/p/the-secret...

For years I've been told that aviation emissions are negligible, so don't worry your little head about them. But I've kept pointing out that there are - and will be - no good technical solutions, and they'll keep growing. Now we know just how big the problem is. www.carbonbrief.org/ccc-heathrow...

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Where did Covid come from? The public scientific evidence points to the Huanan market. But China’s withholding of early-outbreak data, samples and records means the case is not closed. A short, non-technical guide to why reasonable people remain uncertain. overmatter.substack.com/p/in-brief-4...