Katie Reilly

California, Oakland

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Voices on Addiction: What I Learned About Myself from Watching Intervention

1 month ago | therumpus.net | Katie Reilly

The top of Lauren’s hair is blonde, but the dark roots have grown out. Her hair is pulled up into a bun that is unintentionally messy. She’s a mom to three kids but lives with her partner in their car. Lauren is a heroin addict whose story appeared on A&E’s Intervention. At one point, I admired her. She acted how I wished I could. My mom died fourteen years ago and my dad four years later on her birthday. After his death, the show consumed me. Some days, I’d watch three episodes a day, others just one.
Analysis of nanomaterial biocoronas in biological and environmental surroundings - Nature Protocols

Jul 23, 2024 | nature.com | Peng Zhang |Mingjing Cao |Andrew J. Chetwynd |Fazel Abdolahpur Monikh |Laura-Jayne Ellis |Katie Reilly | +1 more

AbstractA biomolecular coating, or biocorona, forms on the surface of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) immediately as they enter biological or environmental systems, defining their biological and environmental identity and influencing their fate and performance. This biomolecular layer includes proteins (the protein corona) and other biomolecules, such as nucleic acids and metabolites.
Arielle Chambers Has Been Saying ‘The WNBA Is So Important’

Jul 7, 2024 | thecut.com | Katie Reilly

Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photo: Team USA Well before the WNBA started breaking attendance and viewership records this season, sports journalist Arielle Chambers, who goes by Ari, championed the league. “The WNBA is so important,” Chambers first wrote on Facebook in 2016. She continued to use the phrase when she saw players “do dope things in the community” and it caught fire with fans. “It was ingrained in me at a young age that women’s basketball is super important,” Chambers tells me.
Lindsey Vonn on Losing Her Mom to ALS: ‘Never Waste a Chance to Say I Love You’

Jun 18, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Katie Reilly

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There’s Never Been a Better Time to Run a Women’s Sports Bar

Jun 16, 2024 | thecut.com | Katie Reilly

Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photo: Sara Sorbo As ludicrous as it sounds now, with athletes like Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese dominating headlines, “nobody watches women’s sports” was a common refrain just a few years ago. In April 2022, Jenny Nguyen, a former chef, challenged that notion when she opened the Sports Bra, a bar located in Portland, Oregon, that is dedicated solely to women’s sports.
Mothers and daughters fight— but it doesn’t have to be the end of the world

Jun 3, 2024 | vox.com | Katie Reilly

"Just wait until the teen years," a woman at a cafe recently said to me about my daughters, ages 3 and 6, in a serious, foreboding tone. Just minutes prior, she’d remarked how cute the girls were while they played happily nearby throughout our conversation. Her comment had interrupted a moment of happiness with a nebulous dread of the future. Sadly, this isn’t an anomaly. Moms hear comments like this from family, friends, or even strangers in the supermarket.
A template wizard for the cocreation of machine-readable data-reporting to harmonize the evaluation of (nano)materials - Nature Protocols

May 16, 2024 | nature.com | Nina Jeliazkova |Elise Rundén-Pran |Ammar Ammar |Penny Nymark |Katie Reilly |Iseult Lynch | +9 more

AbstractMaking research data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) is typically hampered by a lack of skills in technical aspects of data management by data generators and a lack of resources. We developed a Template Wizard for researchers to easily create templates suitable for consistently capturing data and metadata from their experiments.
What to Expect While Awaiting the Results of a Life Changing Test

May 3, 2024 | autostraddle.com | Katie Reilly

Finally, the moment arrived for my BRCA test — a simple blood draw, almost anticlimactic for something that had the potential to be life-altering and life-saving. But how did I get here? This moment had been something I’d been building up in my head since 2017 when I saw The Bold Type and Jane Sloan’s personal journey as she navigated her mother’s battle with breast cancer and her own subsequent decision to undergo genetic testing to look for BRCA genes.
15 Tips for Creating Accessible Gatherings and Anti-Ableist Spaces

Mar 25, 2024 | autostraddle.com | Katie Reilly

Often when I leave my apartment, my accessibility needs become an instant obstacle. I plan around — and stress about — things like my ability to open a door while navigating a scooter through it, my ability to eat at a restaurant, and my ability to get into and move around buildings. I know that I will inevitably be excluded from things that other people have easy access to and my life will be made more inconvenient and difficult because of it.
What to Expect When You Feel a Lump

Mar 15, 2024 | autostraddle.com | Katie Reilly

I tried to lay on my side at bedtime but I couldn’t do it, it hurt too much and I had no idea why. I wound up sleeping on my back with my arm elevated on a throw pillow to keep it from pressing against me.The next morning the area under my armpit was decidedly swollen. I couldn’t feel any specific lumps but the entire area had just suddenly expanded like a balloon.