🇺🇦 Ukrainian llustrator Olga Shtonda #WomensArt

Congratulations to Bob Herman Elaine Chen and the entire STAT team for winning three top awards (and two honorable mentions) in the SABEW 'Best in Business' writing and editing competition for explanatory, health/science, and general excellence.

News🚨via today's afternoon Playbook:

New York hospitals will be required to waive charges for patients who earn 200% or less of the federal poverty level, thanks to a new policy in the state budget being finalized now.

I was so excited when a major tech publication accepted a pitch I sent them last week. Today, I turned down the $500 assignment because the contract lacked a key clause…

Yesterday, a young architect asked me how architects can contribute to global health

I gave the example of how architects helped design TB sanatoria in the past & how they still design hospitals and healing spaces

wellcomecollection.org/articles/XGQVz…

'Pregnant patients have become radioactive to emergency departments in states with extreme abortion restrictions.

They are so scared of a pregnant patient, that the emergency medicine staff won’t even look. They just want these people gone.”
#EMTALA

fortune.com/well/2024/04/1…

thinking about this woman who recorded this as a workout on strava

Bill Gates, please stay away from the ancient family of grains called millets

Feeling very seen by and grateful for this beautiful review of The Light Eaters by David Haskell in Scientific American, a publication read in my family since my biology teacher great-grandmother first got a subscription🌱 scientificamerican.com/article/how-pl…

I was denied entry at both gates after showing press credentials, begged with guards about the merits of 1st amendment , called a bunch of numbers which nobody answered, had my boss do the same, but ended up having to find my own way in, hopefully that won't happen again!

Love when we update the nonhuman consciousness list. Starts to seem a little silly that we drew those lines in the sand in the first place quantamagazine.org/insects-and-ot…

Still some hidden gems like this in #Bengaluru . When an old home goes, so do all the trees. That is the greatest tragedy in a city that no longer cares (80% of trees from the 1970s have been brought down)

This is so sad

wsj.com/world/china/ch…

'The companies will try to entice us by saying their seeds are ‘better.’ Then we’ll become dependent on seeds that you can’t replant. Our seeds are from this soil. It’s colonialism to say what seeds we can use and how to use them.” - Faustina Banakwoyem thenation.com/article/world/…

Photographer Dorothea Lange with her camera in California, 1938 whose work humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography #WomensArt

Yikes
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I went to the Sargent exhibition at the Tate yesterday. No wonder women loved being painted by him; he made them look like people with active inner lives.

Following the journalism festival from afar with a little envy, I wanted to point out what an amazing feat it is that such an important, relevant festival is organized in Italy, a country where mainstream journalism's standards are depressing at best. Bravo #ijf24

14 (what!) years ago someone recommended I read Following Fish and spoke to Samanth as I worked on an essay to accompany Candace Feit’s gorgeous photo essay on Tamil fishing communities ❤️. The wonder of it all! feitphoto.com/stillness

There have been a lot of changes around here — a new byline after getting married last month, and now a new job title! I am very excited to take on more responsibility to support our incredible STAT D.C. team.
statnews.com/new-leadership…