Here’s my beautiful mother holding the Sept. issue of @SciAm! Where you can find my first-ever print byline! When my family first immigrated to Nebraska, my teachers told my mom I “wasn’t very good with words” & she shouldn’t speak Mandarin with me at home. How far we’ve come…

The Trump administration will pay to incinerate enough food to feed 1.5 million children for a week. When the packets burn, their labels will read: THIS PRODUCT IS A GIFT FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 500 tons, from us, to no one.

America’s fertility crisis is also a men’s health crisis. You wouldn’t know it from how we talk (or legislate) about IVF and other fertility treatments. My latest for @TheAtlantic https://t.co/gf4qVeKgT5

“In New York, a mother with no history of drug use lost custody of her toddler & newborn for 5 months after she tested positive for fentanyl that the hospital had given her in her epidural.” This state-sanctioned violence inflicts a very specific form of trauma that people don’t

Who is Jared Isaacman, Trump's pick to lead NASA? Find out more in my story for @sciam (link follows below).

Are you ready to try something new and work in #SciComm? Apply by Jan 1, 2025 to be a part of #MMF50th and join an alumni cohort of over 850 as you spend the summer using your STEM background as a journalist writing the news! https://t.co/Sj4uxtuSRw

My first creative writing workshop was with Hana. I remember she always came with thoughtful, detailed comments, and I learned so much from her about science writing, pitching, and working with editors. Can’t recommend her excellent debut piece in The Atlantic enough!

Donald Trump’s pivot to embracing IVF has put him at odds with most of his party—and provided a window into his political calculus as he attempts to retake the presidency, @LucyTTu writes:

I knew very little about cryptography before reading this book…but I learned! And you can too! 🔐🔓

Updating lung-function testing to a race-neutral algorithm is an improvement, but also raises new questions. See @FeliceFreyer's piece for @publichealthmag. https://t.co/VncI5sEzRh

These laws are often disguised under child welfare provisions, tax codes, civil wrongful death statutes, and more. Our report outlines several examples, which can be found in more than 40 states. Here's a gift link: https://t.co/ZyWWWx7HD1

Today, the #RighttoIVF Act again failed to pass the Senate. As reproductive healthcare becomes an increasingly crucial election issue, my latest w/@BhavJain_ & @CarmelShachar in @JAMA_current examines the impact of 'fetal personhood laws' on medicine. https://t.co/Cv2A0QdxUY

In the latest issue of @TheAtlantic, I have wrote about life under one of the most extreme abortion bans in the country.

Last year, I investigated why 36 women struggling to get pregnant were never told of the "forever chemicals" scientists found in their ovaries...at the time, a breakthrough discovery. Today @WHOSTP unveiled a plan to do away with secrecy in #PFAS research:

Researchers found that invoking gratitude can lower cigarette cravings in smokers, data that could transform public health campaigns designed to reduce smoking and other harmful health behaviors.

Thank you to @slaskow for masterful edits! And to @maryrziegler and representatives from @AllAboveAll and @ACLU for their important insights.

With the #DNC in full swing, expect bold promises and plenty of talk on reproductive rights. In my debut piece for @TheAtlantic, I explore a decades-old abortion funding restriction and how it landed on Kamala Harris's chopping block. https://t.co/hzHq4NTn9p

hoping to talk with deaf parents who are expecting / deaf parents who are thinking about having kids — ideally sometime this week! appreciate anyone who can pass this message on #journorequest

Congratulations to the 2024 class of fellows!! You’re in for an unforgettable summer ✍️🧬

On a single day, citizen scientists across the world are going to sample eDNA in lakes to help researchers better understand the state of global biodiversity. I got to dust off my genetics degree for this one! My story for @Nature: https://t.co/wLXZL3On9p

Meet BLOOM: a clinic founded to improve the health outcomes of Black babies and toddlers in Oakland. Patients at BLOOM feel heard, and the anxiety they had felt in previous clinical spaces, dissolve. — It was a privilege to write this story of healing and community in medicine