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R. Coxeter
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Life science news and startups. Producer. Editor. New Yorker.
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 2d
“Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk. He has rejected science, misled the public and compromised the health of Americans…this is bigger than politics. It’s about putting the health of Americans first.”
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 2d
“Mismanaging HHS endangers America’s health, undermines national security and damages our economic resilience and international credibility.”
Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans
It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 7d
When you search the Anthropic database on a lark and find your great aunt’s novels along with a relative’s math books. 😶
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 10d
Same. “She has developed a habit of texting her daily Wordle score to a selection of friends, including Allison Janney, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Charlize Theron. Burnett doesn’t use a regular starting word, as many players do, but plucks a new guess each day ‘from the universe.’”
Carol Burnett Plays On
The ninety-two-year-old comedy legend has influenced generations of performers. In a string of recent TV roles, she has been co-starring with some of her closest comedic heirs.
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 10d
Great Q&A with Lisa Suennen, managing partner at AHA Ventures, which oversees $200M in assets: “Inherent in the mission is to reduce barriers to care and to try to make things more accessible. If this is going to make it a lot more expensive to get the same outcome, that is not a good investment.”
As investor for AHA, ‘Venture Valkyrie’ argues ‘good medicine is good business’
Lisa Suennen: "If this is going to make it a lot more expensive to get the same outcome, that is not a good investment."
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 20d
“There will be preventable deaths that result from these decisions,” said Dr. Panagiotakopoulos, who oversaw the CDC’s work group on the Covid vaccine before she resigned in June. “Having people without vaccine and clinical expertise having the power to harm so much of the public is unbearable.”
Kennedy’s Vaccine Panel Votes to Limit Access to Covid Shots
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 25d
Sunday’s NYT cooking newsletter is always a comfort read, including Sifton’s listening and reading recs — like this Dorothy Parker piece in the London Review of Books.
Kasia Boddy · Pretty Garrotte: Why we need Dorothy Parker
While she always insisted that she wasn’t a ‘real’ critic, Parker is more astute than most on matters of style,...
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 25d
Central Park edit bench. Bright-winged flyer.
The bright yellow-winged cloudless sulphur, in Central Park.
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 25d
“We are great in science. Why would we want to destroy one of our greatest assets?” -Harold Varmus, former NIH director and Nobel-winning cancer researcher
Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 28d
“Available projections suggest that health and longevity may increase further as modulators begin to be administered at younger ages. “
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 28d
Just remarkable: “Recorded life expectancy of a person with CF was generally months to a few years when Dorothy Andersen first described the disease; today, the estimated median age of survival for persons with CF who were born between 2020 and 2024 and have access to treatment is 65 years.”
Transformative Research in Cystic Fibrosis | NEJM
Michael Welsh, Jesús González, and Paul Negulescu have won the 2025 Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for their roles in developing treatments for cystic fibrosis.
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · 28d
“You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now. You start building your private New York the first time you lay eyes on it.”
The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01; Lost and Found (Published 2001)
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · Sep 9
Central Park: New Yorker with a strong sense of personal space.
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · Sep 9
Dealbook on cancer research megamerger: Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation & Mark Foundation for Cancer Research (founded by the hedge fund billionaire Alex Knaster) “create a new initiative to research how aging affects cancer risk.”
The Stakes of the Murdoch Family’s Peace Deal
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Sep 7
The photographer Gilles Peress reached the World Trade Center just before the second tower collapsed. @pgourevitch.bsky.social reflects on Peress’s photograph of first responders at the scene. “There it is: ashes to ashes, dust to dust, no metaphors.” #NewYorker100
Philip Gourevitch on Gilles Peress’s Photo from September 11th
Peress reached the World Trade Center just as the second tower collapsed.
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · Sep 8
“I’m like, you’re 8 years old,” he said. “What are you talking about, ‘I’m not a math person?’”
The gender gap in math widened in the pandemic. Schools are trying to make up lost ground
Efforts to close the gender gap in STEM education are gaining momentum after setbacks during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · Sep 7
David Baltimore, in his own words (2019).
Sixty Years of Discovery | Annual Reviews
Each of us is a story. Mine is a story of doing science for 60 years, and I am honored to be asked to tell it. Even though this autobiography was written for the Annual Review of Immunology, I have ch...
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · Sep 7
“He discovered a cancer-causing gene in the Abelson leukemia virus, which opened the door to the creation of the cancer drug Gleevec.”
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · Sep 7
“I said it is the responsibility of anyone working in virology to get involved in this problem. It threatens to be the worst public health disaster of our time. But most of the virology community did not respond. They were very involved in their own work and AIDS had gotten very politicized.”
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · Sep 7
Sad news. “Admired and envied, lionized and attacked, Dr. Baltimore spent most of his life in the scientific limelight, a towering figure of modern biology.”
David Baltimore, Nobel-Winning Molecular Biologist, Dies at 87
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · Sep 7
Just look at this gorgeous creature. A veteran guest star of the Dylan movie, Mrs. Maisel and other NYC productions.
A vintage yellow cab on a rainy NYC day. The owner turned on the lights for max photogenic star power and keeps a fleet of six of these beauties!
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · Aug 31
“What’s happened is that the anti-vaccine activists have been shouting from the sideline for decades. Now they’re making public policy. In summary, we’re screwed.”
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · Aug 31
“It’s all confusing, and I think that’s the point. I think Kennedy’s point is to make it confusing.”
How Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,’s Anti-Vax Agenda Is Infecting America
A vaccine expert warns that the Secretary of Health and Human Services is deliberately sowing confusion in order to drive down immunization uptake.
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · Aug 24
A perfect sailing day in Central Park.
Young New Yorkers line Central Park’s boat pond, watching toy sailboats race.
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R. Coxeter @ruthcoxeter.bsky.social · Aug 24
Central Park.
A fleet of white sail boats on Central Park’s conservatory waters, better known as the boat pond. Central park’s tree line with a staccato of skyscrapers in the distance.
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