screenshot of a NYT page that says: Sabrina Imbler was a reporting fellow for The New York Times, covering science. She left The Times in May 2022.
lmao sorry this is so fucked up??? I was using they/them pronouns when I started at the NYT in 2021 and when I left in 2022.
Josie Huang, one of the nicest and most talented people in L.A journalism, lost her home in the Eaton Fire.
She, her husband Kevin (also a lovely and talented journo) and their two children will be picking up the pieces. Please consider helping them out:
www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...
Map showing the number of times a location has burned in SoCal and which kind of fire it was: one burning under Santa Ana winds, or one that was a summer, fuel-driven fire without Santa Ana winds. Malibu area had burned at least 8 times from 1900-2017, and has burned twice now since. Image from Kolden and Abatzoglou (2018): https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/1/2/19
Here's the reality about the #LAFires this week: this isn't the first time ANY of these places have burned. Not even close. In 2018, we mapped CA fire history to look at fire frequency across SoCal. Santa Monica Mtns area burns more than anywhere else -- up to once per decade in a given spot. 🧵
In my dream last night, I was asked to pitch the next big reality TV show. Then I literally woke myself up by talking in my sleep, saying out loud: “Ten women. Ten gay guys.” I have no idea what the premise is beyond that, but someone turn this into a hit!
So glad the producers of Bake Off understood that what we wanted from the finale was as much B-roll of Nelly as possible