Hi it's the very beginning of 2023, and if you're a #journalist who's never tracked the #Diversity of your sources before, now is a great time to start!

I track mine with a google form, that feeds directly into a spread sheet. Took 5 min to setup. But but, you say, when do you look this stuff up about a person?

You don't, you ask them. In the interview. Some ask at the end, I ask at the beginning. I mean, I'm getting their name and job and title and affiliation right? Get the pronouns!

I am currently reading the #iliad because I needed a sleep book and wow. Y'all I was not PREPARED.

I thought I knew the story of Helen of Troy and wow I did NOT AT ALL. (🧵/n til I get bored) Keep in mind also I'm only like 60 pages in here.

Versions of the story I learned:

1. Helen married Meneleus and he was ugly/old/boring. She met Paris, became fantastically horny, and ran off with him. 1,000 ships later, here we are.

Thank you @AwesomeCon for such an amazing panel about how to kill all the mosquitoes. The audience had awesome questions and the panel had brilliant answers.

I promised I would tweet links to the panel's work on the subject so...GENE DRIVES GO! First @thsaey is so timely she published her latest feature on gene drives TODAY. sciencenews.org/article/gene-d… on involving people in African countries in gene drive research (which, considering they bear the burden of mosquito-borne malaria, is important!).