Haley Weiss
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health/science journalist formerly @time @theatlantic . 4th gen Philadelphian. If you’re thinking about emailing, do it. haleyweissjourno @gmail .com
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I started at Time Magazine exactly one year ago today, and this morning I was laid off along with 12 other journalists.
Myself & other young journalists losing their jobs today just want a chance to put down roots. We have SO many ideas to share with those who invest in us.
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You're welcome, Olds. Millennials may have slaughtered diamonds, tuna fish, and homeownership, but we've spared your precious Wite-Out.
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Me not leaving my apartment all weekend pre-pandemic:
- uncool
- lazy
- friendless
Me not leaving my apartment all weekend now:
- unfathomably mature
- the pinnacle of health
- still no friends though
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I'm back in a newsroom! Yesterday was my first day as a reporter on
@TIME
's health and science team
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I dedicate this article to everyone who called me weird in 8th grade for liking creepy medical stuff so much that I watched myself be operated on.
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My greatest attempt to date at becoming as politically informed as possible
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Wanna learn about an offbeat online community you might not have known existed? My friends
@WolfeyGlick
,
@TBFUnreality
, and
@CybertronVGC
spent more than a year putting together a massive guide to the competitive Pokémon scene (yep) that launched today at
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In August, I found an online community of wellness fanantics who religiously consumed $140 bags of dirt. While reporting a story on the MLM behind the alarming "miracle cure," I ended up witnessing its downfall in real time.
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Back from the woods with news:
Ya girl is a reporter! Wednesday is my first day with
@EENewsUpdates
covering energy and the environment for Greenwire. I’m already missing the talented science writers
@TheAtlantic
, but couldn’t be more excited for this new challenge.
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If you are feeling like getting absolutely WRECKED by a piece of writing might I recommend the 1-year-reflection pieces we have going up, including a piece by
@julieebeck
that nearly made me throw up
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Remember in June when I was all mushy about leaving
@TheAtlantic
? Forget that, because I'm back and I'm writing for our new app! Happy launch day, pals
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My campers used to complain to me about how their parents were making them watch 6 (six) Star Wars films, my question is what are we doing to prevent kids in 15 years from being forced to endure like FIFTY Marvel movies?
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"Blasey Ford had initially decided not to come forward, The Washington Post reported, precisely on the grounds that Kavanaugh would be confirmed despite her claims ... 'Why suffer through the annihilation,' she figured, 'if it’s not going to matter?'"
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For those asking about the arrows in the bronchial cast photo, here's what they are! Blue arrows: three segmental branches in the upper lobe; White arrows: two segmental branches in the middle lobe; Black arrows: five segmental branches in the lower lobe
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If you're bored waiting for other social media to come back, my first story for
@thelilynews
/
@washingtonpost
is up!
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Shabbat is supposed to be a peaceful refuge from the week. These days when Friday rolls around it comes with a tiny pit in the stomach. Please pray for peace inside Beth Israel
BREAKING: A man has apparently taken hostages during services at a synagogue near Fort Worth, Texas, and a SWAT team is on the scene, authorities said.
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Two years after making a 180° jump from pre-med, I'm finally certain that it was the right choice - thrilled to share that I'll be joining
@TheAtlantic
in July as an editorial fellow in DC!
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You: hot girl summer
Me: hot 👩🔬LADY👩🔬 summer 🎉 in which I join a stellar team to edit some of the coolest science history on the internet!
Great news: we have a new crew member!
@haleysweiss
has joined Lady Science as an Associate Editor. Haley will help writers take their ideas from pitches to features.
We are so stoked to have Haley on our team!
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I am nowhere near ready to leave this industry. If you're looking for a freelance journalist specializing in science and health, or have any jobs open, you can find me at haleyweissjourno
@gmail
.com
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It’s been one week since Layoff Tuesday, and every day I’ve been blown away by the incredible empathy and care of my friends and colleagues in journalism. Say the industry is “sinking,” but it’s full of people who never once considered hoarding life vests.
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Whenever I have a bad day, I think about my ex-boyfriend who left his job at Anheuser-Busch 3 months ago to go work at Juul
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Happy Saturday! Our very pet-wary household has undertaken an experiment in fostering. Meet my new pals Butternut and Acorn!
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My dad is not usually a sticker guy but he went right from work to shoveling snow today and has kept this one on the whole time
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The 100% true history of the greatest sports league of all time: the Intercollegiate Goldfish Gulping Association
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"More than ever, it seems, hiring managers are looking for ... an all-consuming horniness for menial corporate tasks." Meanwhile all I have is an all-consuming horniness for
@amandamull
articles.
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Everyone keeps talking about how hard it is to be a mom during the pandemic but I really don’t get the fuss
(officially adopted my boys today🎉)
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Me before: Playing Animal Crossing to impress Tom Nook.
Me after reading
@ibogost
: Playing Animal Crossing to indulge my addiction to bureaucracy while lusting after agrarian ideals and collaborative infrastructural development.
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"If Karl Marx wrote that history repeats itself, 'first as tragedy, then as farce,' then Trump offers the experience of watching farce and tragedy happen simultaneously."
@yayitsrob
on Trump using much-needed wildfire relief funding as political leverage
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Update: I ate the cicadas
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Click the embedded links for extra gross surprises, I promise it's worth it
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My first 2 days of “freelancing” were spent trying to get my computer to turn back on, but I’m finally up and running! Send tips, thoughts, questions about the world to haleysweiss
@gmail
.com
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IT HAPPENED TO ME: my salon accidentally used the wrong shampoo and I have pink hair now - a personal photo essay
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If booze alternatives aren’t alcohol, does it matter who drinks them? For
@TheAtlantic
, I wrote about why the zero-proof movement can’t agree on what it wants to be
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Honestly the 30th street sign board is an essential part of young adult existential angst in Philly
I wrote about how I used to sit at 30th street station and hope for a reset to my life (I am a sad person!!!!) and listen to the clickety clack of the sign board.
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If you've ever looked a 🐶 in the 👀s and wondered how they made you feel so 😍🥰😍, this is for you.
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You know when you read something so elegantly and patiently written that it just makes you stop and THINK for a while?
@elainaplott
wrote your next one
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Only having conversations for the next week with other people who've read this poetic and walloping
@chick_in_kiev
article, as a treat
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TGIF! I wrote a story for
@thisisinsider
about a video that did something really rare on the internet—changed people's minds about vaccination
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You know how some languages have specific words for difficult to capture feelings? I think we need one for what you feel when you see something on the Internet, go purchase it, and then feel uncomfortable that you were successfully influenced.
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Good evening to the dog receiving a haircut in the unmarked sterile white van parked directly outside my office
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Thanks to
@GavittWoodard
for talking with me for
@TheAtlantic
about this eerie, beautiful, awesome case she worked on!
A man coughed up a giant blood clot in the exact shape of the critical airway it had been blocking. Doctors aren't sure how it came out in one piece, writes
@HaleySWeiss
:
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The rituals of Jewish burial and mourning are complex and numerous, but deeply layered with meaning and respect. If the values of a community are revealed in hard times,
@emmaogreen
has captured the essence of Pittsburgh through its shomrim and beyond
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I can't stress enough how humbled I am daily to work alongside such incredible, thoughtful, and generous people at The Atlantic. That our numbers are shrinking is an absolute heartbreak. Please hire my idols
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What’s “facepaint” and why am I banned from my sorority’s composite?
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For all of the buzz surrounding microdosing, there has been zero research until now on the biological effects of small-dose psychedelics. I broke down the findings:
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10 minutes into 5781 and it’s already flaming trash. RIP to a true Jewish queen
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My first feature for
@TIME
is up! I’ve waited years to write this story, about an often-mild disability with devastating emotional consequences.
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Guess the next debate’s going to be over zoom, where participants can be muted
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I have seen CATS. I am generally an unreliable theater guide, prone to love bad musicals, but even I am not insane. CATS is bad. CATS is awful. AND there is a 0% chance you won’t be entertained by it. You will feel more alive than you have in months
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Due to life choices, I’ll be spending my entire weekend at Pokémon Worlds. Twitter, stay tuned for updates you didn’t know you wanted
We're technically not supposed to show you what the 2019 Pokémon World Championships looks like until tomorrow, Trainers...
…but here's a sneak Pikachu. 😉📸
(Sorry, we had to do it.)
Get excited—all the fun begins in the morning!
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My first for
@TheAtlantic
! Sponsored by the bicoastal assistance of
@elcush
, with thanks to the Power of Knowledge for changing my opinion on a topic while writing about it
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Update: Been a pet (foster) parent for 3 days and have already sobbed with joy 3 times. Pandemic talk has decreased 90% in my house. Also Butternut loves Zoom calls.
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About to go eat at an outdoor restaurant for the first time now that I’m fully vaccinated and I’ve spent probably half an hour today using my cats to practice talking to a waiter because I forget how
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It’s been 3 weeks since I turned 25, and it’s already been a big year:
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Cheesy but hands down the best part of your late 20s is seeing friends blossom into true thought leaders and experts before your eyes. This morning my buddy Dr.
@TBFUnreality
defended his thesis on neural networks and it felt like watching a rock concert
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I really just overheard a white girl apologize for slavery to two black women in the crowd at the Lizzo concert surely there is a special police force I can call for this exact situation
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Successfully survived the stress of moving during coronavirus. Here’s a photo of the most important part of the new pad (not pictured: more books)
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I'm also back in DC, after 3 months and over 10,000 miles of car camping around the country. I cannot say enough good things about the flexibility of full-time freelancing and how much I learned from doing it for a year and a half
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It's been a few days since
@emmasarappo
's knitstory was published but I still can't stop thinking about what a perfect example it is of the stories behind things so commonplace, it wouldn't occur to most of us to ask about them
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This is embarrassing but until 3 weeks ago I didn’t know sweet corn was soft enough to eat without cooking it and I’ve just been snarfing it since then. This morning I ate some in the shower like influencers do with oranges and it was lovely
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Think everyone should be aware that there are currently 20 published works of Suez Canal erotica on the major fanfiction site
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For my
@Slate
debut: The taxonomic implications of the gravity-defying (yes, even on Arrakis) Dune worm
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This is a fun and friendly reminder to all my fellow veg-heads that you should always wash your greens and not be a lazy idiot like me, who just accidentally ate a caterpillar
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Bow before the one true millipede. She’s got legs for days
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I can die happy now
“Diplopodologists—people who studied millipedes—were kind of fantasizing about the true millipede.” No millipede had ever been found that actually lived up to its name. That is, until one with 1,306 legs was pulled from the ground,
@haleysweiss
reports:
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Me, hearing all the beautiful Philly accents on the news right now
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Yesterday my mom told me my twenties wouldn't be like a sitcom, but I spend every day with people named Ross and Rachel and my roommate and I just discovered we have a repeat naked offender one window over
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Finally seeing this movie tomorrow & it feels like a safe time to admit I’ve been stashing this unitard in the back of my closet for the better part of a decade
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@abdallah_fayyad
is at it AGAIN (for the millionth day in a row) with the context you need to understand life in DC this week (long live the Metro PCS)
Crowd might be thin but a couple of guys just started blasting chuck brown’s “Bustin’ Loose.” Brown was a DC-native, and is The Godfather of go-go, a funk subgenre that started in DC.
A noise complaint against a metro pcs that sold go-go cds caused anti-gentrifications protests
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Happy spooky! I wrote about some cool new spider research for
@InsideScience
(where, as I’ve somehow forgot to mention for 3 weeks now, I’m also filling in as a staff writer and editor through the end of the year)
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I don't always accidentally say "love you" to sources while hanging up, but every single time I do it's because I decided to conduct an after-5 phone interview from under a blanket on the couch
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Big thank you to Jewish holidays for being one of the only tools I’ve had to mark the passage of time in 2020
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It is weird to be starting a new job while so many people I admire in media are losing theirs. If you are young and trying to find your footing, please reach out—I know some amazing editors with room for freelancers in their rosters
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Love to go to synagogue on the high holidays to see who from preschool got hot this year
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Me writing a story: *agonizes over every pixel*
Me trimming my bangs in the dimly lit Airbnb bathroom with a Swiss Army knife: 👹🪚🧨
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I freed myself from Twitter pressure for like, one week, and my freelance opportunities blew up. Today I’m on a mega fun reporting trip back to Philly!
Trying to build a freelance career means less time for Twitter but more time to constantly stress about whether I need to be on Twitter more to build it
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This pandemic has never heard of the Weiss siblings and it shows
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I’m packing up my apartment to move in with my partner and he has decided to use a precious veto on this pool ball I stole from a frat house in 2016, which he has deemed a “cursed object.”
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Chag Sameach! Tonight is the start of Purim, which means it’s been a full (Hebrew calendar) year since I last set foot inside a synagogue. I tend to forget how long it’s been since we had the things that make us feel ourselves, and that it’s forgivable to not be mentally OK.
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Also I made latkes tonight and set off a fire alarm, chag sameach
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Looking for help with a
@TheAtlantic
story! If you have any plans to go to a synagogue near you this weekend to show solidarity post-Pittsburgh, no matter what religion (if any) you identify with, I'd love to hear from you about it! Email me at hweiss
@theatlantic
.com or DM me
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I spent most of my first paycheck in journalism on hair extensions because I was so scared that someone like this would see my bald spots at work and undermine my professionalism. But it's actually way more unprofessional to be the person making fun of someone for having trich.
I'm not a "legitimate journalist," says the deeply unwell Swiss-boarding-school-educated neurotic who is paid by the New York Times to lurk outside teenagers' TikTok houses and exposes their past transgressions.
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my dad: did people like your article?????
me: ...bit of a tricky metric
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Good morning to everyone but especially to the COUNTLESS ADORABLE DOGS in my replies today. May dog science never end
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Lily byline AND verification and the best part of my day was still this vegetarian Carolina BBQ I’m currently chowing
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