Freelance science journalist & fact-checker. Words in @thewalrus, @tvo, @newscientist etc. Former fellow @thewalrus & UofT's fellowship in global journalism.
London, England
Joined August 2014
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I’m slowly migrating over to Bluesky. Find me at @tinakwrites.bsky.social
For @macleans, I got to tell the story of the first solar sidewalk in North America through the eyes of a professor at @thompsonriversu who made it happen
macleans.ca/society/environm…
Check out this story—and Louf—if you're in Toronto!
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Please please please read this investigation on Uber Eats by @GhadaaSharif who has been working for months to figure out how gig workers are paid. Phenomenal work!
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Are you a subject matter expert interested in a career in #journalism? Join us Dec. 12 at 12 noon EST for our next LIVE videoconference open house with the Director of the #Fellowship in Journalism & Health Impact at @UofT_dlsph to learn about the program! dlsph.utoronto.ca/journalism…
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The Ford government's attack on bike lanes also now includes threats to pedestrian space. globalnews.ca/news/10882715/…
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You may have heard the exciting news...
We are pleased to announce a partnership with the team from @hakaimagazine, an award-winning publication based in Victoria, British Columbia, that covers coastal and ocean stories from around the world.
SUCH good news for the team at @hakaimagazine and @bioGraphic, who are joining forces to tell more science stories!! Donate if you can biographic.com/hakai-magazin…
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We were months into reporting this story when we were tipped that the priceless photo of Winston Churchill had been found. Here’s the definitive read on the wildest art heist in 21st century Canada. My latest via @thewalrus
How the brazen theft of an eighty-three-year-old photograph of Winston Churchill became the most mysterious art heist in twenty-first-century Canada: thewalrus.ca/churchill-portr…
Good to read if you feel like crying: newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…
Obsessed with this @thewalrus story about how scientists study the chemistry of old paintings. thewalrus.ca/a-scientists-qu…
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Three individual years of high global average temperatures will be enough for scientists to conclude the 1.5°C climate goal is lost. newscientist.com/article/243…
New cat just dropped!!!
A new coat colour pattern has emerged in cats across Finland, and scientists have identified the genetic mutation responsible for it. newscientist.com/article/243…
SUCH a good interactive by @jbernstien and @mle_chung on Canada's lost rivers. If you care about things like clean air, a flooded basement, urban heat islands--read read read!
newsinteractives.cbc.ca/feat…
Gems in this pants story:
"...straight-leg vintage Levi’s 501s—something like the Greenwich Mean Time of modern pants."
"There are some reasons to be bullish about the chances of mainstream big-pants hegemony."
"Your capacity for stupidity is how you know you’re still alive."
My new @nytmag cover story is about
“the binoculars into the soul”
My pitch was one word long
PANTS
nytimes.com/2024/03/03/magaz…
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For reference, here's a four-storey building in Toronto next to a three-storey house. What do we think, is the one on the left a tower?
To confuse matters even more: Premier Doug Ford says "you have to differentiate between putting 4 units in an existing house, or your neighbour tearing down a house and putting a 4-storey tower."
#onpoli
Still absolutely wild how we treat old people in Canada: tvo.org/article/nearly-300-o…
