Sara Reardon
Science Journalist at Freelance
Science journalist covering all things wild and wonderful for @NewsfromScience. Alum @Nature @NewScientist, 2025 KSJ Fellow. Signal: sara_reardon.59
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4 weeks ago |
science.org | Sara Reardon |Jeffrey Mervis |Phie Jacobs |Erik Stokstad
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4 weeks ago |
science.org | Sara Reardon
Habemus papam! Minutes ago, the Vatican announced that U.S. Cardinal Robert Prevost would be the next pope. Artificial intelligence (AI) made its own prediction earlier this week—but Prevost was not on the shortlist. In a paper posted on the preprint site arXiv, a machine learning algorithm that analyzed the ideological positions of the 133 high-ranking Catholic Church officials who made this decision predicted that Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin would be the next head of the Catholic Church.
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1 month ago |
science.org | Phie Jacobs |Sara Reardon |Erik Stokstad |Jeffrey Mervis
Amid the grant terminations, program cuts, federal firings, disappearing databases, and myriad other disruptions U.S. science has seen during the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s administration, researchers are facing an uncertain future. Those studying hot-button topics such as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), vaccines, and transgender health are squarely in the crosshairs, but the turmoil extends much further.
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1 month ago |
science.org | Sara Reardon
In one of his first public moves as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Jayanta “Jay” Bhattacharya is creating a new office to coordinate efforts to reduce animal testing across the agency and the research that it funds.
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1 month ago |
nature.com | Sara Reardon
A decade ago, Helena Jambor found herself struggling to understand the figures in the scientific papers she was reading during her postdoc. Jambor was studying how fluorescently labelled messenger RNA arranges itself inside embryos of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and wanted to choose the images that would most clearly convey her findings. But she couldn’t find many helpful guidelines — or even good examples in the literature.
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It's a little-known fact that the traditional present for one's 97th birthday is a peer-reviewed article about HAMSTERS EATING YOUR FACE https://t.co/GZFicobE03
The editors and moderators who put out @ProMED_mail have gone on strike amid financial struggles at @ISID_org . I spoke with a few of them about ProMED's importance to global health and their concerns about its future @ScienceMagazine https://t.co/zAHVVXgEDG
Only 40 out of 1736 people in the #donanemab clinical trial were Black. Only 2 were Native. The lack of diversity in #Alzheimers trials has raised concerns about safety and efficacy, but the reason may not be what you think. My story @Nature https://t.co/LENFPTmdGE