Stephanie Pappas

@sipappas.bsky.social

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Freelance science writer - Scientific American, Live Science, APA. I will be on my deathbed still looking up whether it's "Proceedings of the National Academies of Science" or "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences"

I’m not a scientist. I’ve admittedly been inconsistent in getting my yearly COVID and flu boosters, confused about their benefits. Now the most powerful public-health official in the U.S. was asking me, a political reporter, to referee a medical debate with life-and-death stakes.
A map of Oz from Frank L Baum's books showing a rectangle split diagonally into four parts surrounded by desert. On the upper right outside of the desert and the dominion of something called the "nome king" is a bit of ocean.
Elon Musk tweet reading 'Watching Trump slash federal programs knowing it doesn't affect you because you're not a member of the parasite class" over an image of a smiling young blonde woman by the DOGE logo.
A screenshot of five thumbnails for You Tube shorts. A young man talks over a cartoon graphic of two men and the caption "signs you have low testosterone." A second talking head advertises "the best food for high testosterone." A woman in medical scrubs answers the question "do you prescribe testosterone" with a snippet of dialogue reading "I understand there is no clinical evidence whatsoever." A bald man talking into a mike over the title "how to naturally increase your..." And a photograph of a young teen male overlays the title "four years on testosterone." All videos have hundreds of thousands to millions of views.
A large yellow-and-black spider perches under a leafy branch with two egg sacs attached to it.