Turning 39 today and spent the day reflecting on the many many things to be grateful for in this crazy short/endlessly long past year of my life.
Seems like a good day to say a few Thank Yous here on twitter as well…
Seems like a good day to say a few Thank Yous here on twitter as well…
The last year has been all about #covid19, of course. So thank you to everyone who has been working in whatever way big or small to understand this pandemic, inform the public, treat patients or get people vaccinated!
On bad days it gave me so much hope and strength to see that!
On bad days it gave me so much hope and strength to see that!
More personally, thanks to everyone who helped me do my job as a science journalist:
The researchers and doctors who took a lot of time out of busy days to talk to me.
And the fellow science journalists around the world who made me proud to be part of this professional community.
The researchers and doctors who took a lot of time out of busy days to talk to me.
And the fellow science journalists around the world who made me proud to be part of this professional community.
And, most importantly, thanks to my editors and colleagues at @NewsfromScience (especially @martinenserink, @GretchenVogel1 and @joncohen and so many others) who help me in so many ways that go beyond reporting together, making stories look nicer, read better and be more accurate
This pandemic is not over. It is still taking a terrible toll with almost 70,000 deaths reported last week (up 20%).
We don’t know what else #SARSCoV2 might have in store. And there will be so much more research to delve into and stories to write.
We don’t know what else #SARSCoV2 might have in store. And there will be so much more research to delve into and stories to write.
But the pandemic has also reinforced the importance of another topic is: how degraded our information ecosystem has become.
It feels sometimes like the floor that we walk on, our shared sense of what is real, is crumbling.
There is so much to talk about and do on that front.
It feels sometimes like the floor that we walk on, our shared sense of what is real, is crumbling.
There is so much to talk about and do on that front.
And that is a job for all of us. We are all a part of that information ecosystem and whether good information wins out in the end is down to all of us.
So thanks also to everyone who shared my stories, motivated me with kind words or helped support our @pandemiapodcast.
So thanks also to everyone who shared my stories, motivated me with kind words or helped support our @pandemiapodcast.
Back to work tomorrow…
That‘s @sciencecohen of course 🤦♂️😂
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