Sarah Laskow

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Wrote about how climate change is bad www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

HHS put dozens of high ranking officials on administrative leave and then just ignored them www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...

Seems like a good time to re-up this one www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

NOAA Atlas 15 Vol 2, which would have focused on downscaled precip projections, is being held up, @sarahkaplan48.bsky.social reports.

Come on out NYC! We'll talk deep time and, indeed, MUD.

The nine-person board was already down to three members. Then, on Monday, the White House sent them an ultimatum: Fire the CEO, or be fired. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

I will be hanging out with the excellent @laurapoppick.bsky.social next Monday at Books Are Magic to talk about the stories found in the ground. And also MUD. Come by! Tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/in-store-l...

"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" @hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Very much looking forward to being in conversation with the brilliant @slaskow.bsky.social at Books are Magic in Brooklyn a week from today! 🌏🪨🎉 Come on out and join our conversation about deep time + ancient stories in rock. More info + tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/in-store-l...

As a doctor in a hospital that serves the urban poor, Lindsay Ryan's patients already face such a gantlet of obstacles that modest barriers to accessing government programs can effectively screen them out.

“He never said anything about the vaccine being helpful..." Important stuff from @tombartlett.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

My first piece in @theatlantic.com! I wrote about the looming boom in geothermal energy, one of the few renewables generating as lots of excitement among both Republicans and Democrats. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

HHS can make ineffective resources available to states but… no one has to take them www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Who needs a good medical mystery for Friday? www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi... “Why are people going to be willing to contribute to science and enroll in these studies if they feel like the rug can be pulled out from under them at any time?” Fernandez Lynch told me. Answer: They won't.

NIH officials were told this morning that approximately 1,000 more grants would be targeted for termination www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

I talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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Trump and his administration are now deciding how deep a rift to make in America’s scientific firmament. How long it takes to repair the damage, or whether that will be possible at all, depends on the extent of the damage they inflict now.

Read this one by the great @katherinejwu.com www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

CDC data’s “explicit purpose” is to guide researchers toward the places and people who most need attention, Patrick Sullivan, a former CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service officer, said. “It’s hard to understand how this benefits health.” www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

What is the Senate going to ask RFK Jr. tomorrow and is it “how will you handle the outbreaks of disease that will follow a drop in vaccination rates?” www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

related: EV batteries complicate debris removal after wildfires finance.yahoo.com/news/ev-batt...

LA is breathing in burnt plastic www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

The LA fires are sadly an example of what @mikecaulfield.bsky.social and I wrote about in our Justification Machine piece earlier this week. It's not an opportunity to learn anything about how to help people or what needs to be done. it's an opportunity to blame. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

this line from Ethan has been stuck in my head all day. And I felt it most reading my friend and colleague @nancywalecki.bsky.social's beautiful and heartbreaking dispatch from LA this evening. Here's a gift link, I urge you to read it www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

No one totally knows how GLP1 drugs make people lose weight but it is clear that (unlike with older drugs) prescriptions for diet and exercise don’t add much of any additional effect. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

“Any of these projects faltering is just going to keep New York City reliant on an aging and dirty fossil fleet,” @dzarrilli.bsky.social tells @emilypont.bsky.social. How Attentive Energy's offshore wind pause could derail New York's climate plans:

I think if they listened to me and invented Big Rice, it would become a centerpiece of Thanksgiving dinner within five years.

Some people itch for no clear reason, for months or even years. Annie Lowrey is one of them, and explains the strange science behind this maddening condition. theatln.tc/ZVVLdntB

♻️ “If recycling is the answer, what is the question [it’s answering]?”♻️ Adapted from the preface to @finnarne.me #plasticpollution #inc5

Even if CO₂ emissions decreased as much as it did during COVID every year until 2030, we would still miss the 1.5°C target (emissions of 20 GtCO₂/yr by 2023) by a lot.

On one of the busiest travel days of the year in the United States, here's a visualization of the human footprint... (red = flights, blue = ships, green = roads, yellow = lights) Graphic from NOAA's Science On a Sphere: sos.noaa.gov/catalog/data...

People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change

Massachusetts passed a big clean energy law on Nov 14th. Lots of great stuff! @canarymedia.com has details www.canarymedia.com/articles/pol... A quick summary of highlights... 🧵 🔌💡

Good news, everyone, the recent Pew poll has resolved this longstanding debate once and for all. 🧪

Consider which direction the evidence points www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Not everyone has a genetic disease but everyone has a polygenic risk score www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

OpenAI's chief scientist made a tragic miscalculation when he tried to overthrow Sam Altman, Ross Andersen writes. Here's why he may have done it:

The math is still not adding up www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

"As things stand, the United States could be heading into the winter with the fewest people recently vaccinated against COVID-19 since the end of 2020, when most people didn’t yet have the option to sign up at all." www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

It’s always tuberculosis www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

Full sequence of the annular solar eclipse at Shiprock, New Mexico. This was a dream composition of mine. So much time, energy, and money went into making it happen. I'm forever grateful to the Navajo for letting me shoot it from sacred ground. An experience I'll never forget.

I never thought of the insurance industry as a particular climate villain but … www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...