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Brittany Trang
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Begley Science Reporting Fellow @statnews | PhD @Dichtelians | AAASMMF @JournalSentinel Buckeye/believer/sad indie rock concertgoer @brittanytrang@newsie.social
May 2, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Many takeout containers have #PFAS. Until recently, using polymeric PFAS to reinforce these paper-based items was considered safe.

But a recent study suggests otherwise: these can also break down into toxic PFAS that could get into food

Me for @statnews:
statnews.com/2023/05/02/pfa… For more info on which restaurants' packaging has #PFAS in it (as of last year), check out @kevloria's @ConsumerReports investigation:
consumerreports.org/health/food-co…
May 1, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Every quote in the story (and even the ones that didn't make it) were gold. Eg:

"We all like to listen to podcasts, so why not lay in an MRI scanner, listening to podcasts?" —Alex Huth, who designed an experiment that involves over 16 hours of listening to podcasts "You get like a nice comfy blanket and it's pretty meditative, I have to say. It's like you're in this box by yourself, but it's calming. It's nice." — study participant, on lying really still in the MRI scanner for hours
Jan 26, 2023 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
Even if it's passed the USMLE, #ChatGPT is not an MD.

LLMs aren't constrained to truth, and ChatGPT's biggest hurdle for #healthcare applications is "AI hallucination" (that is, confidently making stuff up.)

New @statnews:

statnews.com/2023/01/26/cha… Last week Meta's chief #AI scientist called #ChatGPT "nothing revolutionary, although that's the way it's perceived in the public."

Brief explainer of how ChatGPT works in my piece above, with better ones from @OpenAI's site.

Oct 3, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
As I'm fresh from academia, I had a lot of questions when I saw the OSTP's public access mandate.

What is actually going to happen to research publishing? (...ie, will the industry collapse?)

Of course, it's not that simple. My @statnews story: (1/7) statnews.com/2022/10/03/whi… Right now, federally funded research from large US agencies has to be publicly available 12 months after it's published.

This policy, which went into effect in 2016, has let millions of taxpayers read the work they're funding. (2/7)
Aug 18, 2022 • 20 tweets • 7 min read
Today our paper about #PFAS destruction (at much milder conditions than previously thought possible) is out in @ScienceMagazine.

We also present a detailed, evidence-based degradation mechanism.

This paper is my entire PhD and I'm very proud of it. A 🧵:
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… PFAS are environmental pollutants linked to negative health effects at exposure levels so low that the US EPA recently set a drinking water health advisory limit that is lower than we can measure

(a nice way of saying there's no safe level)