sex & gender:
Youth Gender Medications Limited in England, Part of Big Shift in Europe (New York Times, 2024)
How a Small Gender Clinic Landed in a Political Storm (New York Times, 2023)
Fight or Flight: Transgender Care Bans Leave Families and Doctors Scrambling (w/ Ernesto Londoño, New York Times, 2023)
No One Knows How Many L.G.B.T.Q. Americans Die by Suicide (New York Times, 2023)
How Teens Recovered From The ‘TikTok Tics’ (New York Times, 2023)
More Girls Are Being Diagnosed With Autism (New York Times, 2023)
Texas Youth Gender Clinic Closed Last Year Under Political Pressure (New York Times, 2022) *listen to it on The Daily
More Trans Teens Are Choosing ‘Top Surgery’ (New York Times, 2022)
Trans Swimmer Revives an Old Debate in Elite Sports: What Defines a Woman? (New York Times, 2022)
Doctors Debate Whether Trans Teens Need Therapy Before Hormones (New York Times, 2022)
The US Has Run Out Of Injectable Estrogen For Trans Women — Again (BuzzFeed News, 2016)
American Girl (BuzzFeed News, 2016) *finalist for the National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Award
Born In-Between: Should Doctors Operate On Intersex Babies? (BuzzFeed News, 2015)
sexual harassment in science:
Nobody Believed Neil DeGrasse Tyson's First Accuser. Now There Are Three More. (BuzzFeed News, 2018)
"He Thinks He’s Untouchable”: Sexual Harassment Case Exposes Renowned Ebola Scientist (BuzzFeed News, 2016)
He Fell In Love With His Grad Student — Then Fired Her For It (BuzzFeed News, 2016) *included in 2017’s Best American Science And Nature Writing
Here’s How Geoff Marcy's Sexual Harassment Went On For Decades (BuzzFeed News, 2015)
Famous Berkeley Astronomer Violated Sexual Harassment Policies Over Many Years (BuzzFeed News, 2015) *finalist for the 2015 Livingston Award
sexual + reproductive health:
I.V.F. Threats in Alabama Drive Clinics to Ship Out Embryos (New York Times, 2024)
Promised Cures, Tainted Cells: How Cord Blood Banks Mislead Parents (New York Times, 2024)
After Antidepressants, a Loss of Sexuality (New York Times, 2023)
Women Face Risks as Doctors Struggle With Medical Exceptions on Abortion (w/ J. David Goodman, New York Times, 2022)
Study Raises Questions About Popular Genetic Test for ‘Abnormal’ Embryos (New York Times, 2022)
Grindr Is Letting Other Companies See User HIV Status And Location Data (w/ Sri Ray, BuzzFeed News, 2018) *the day we published this story, Grindr said they’d stop this data-sharing practice
A Study About The "Abortion Reversal" Procedure Was Just Withdrawn For Ethical Issues (BuzzFeed, 2018)
Jasha McQueen Is The Embryo Crusader (BuzzFeed News, 2016)
HIV Testing Is Down And STDs Are Up As New York City Closes Free Clinics (BuzzFeed News, 2015)
After 30 Years, Why Don't We Have An HIV Vaccine? (BuzzFeed News, 2015)
other work:
In Omicron Hot Spots, Hospitals Fill Up, but I.C.U.s May Not (w/ Emily Anthes, New York Times, 2022) *listen to it on The Daily
Studies Suggest Why Omicron Is Less Severe: It Spares the Lungs (w/ Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 2022)
The FinCEN Files (BuzzFeed News, 2020) *finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting
Thousands Say Kratom Cured Their Addiction. The Government Says It’s Just Another Opioid. (BuzzFeed News, 2018)
The Fourteen Who Forgot (BuzzFeed News, 2017)
Conversations With Anne Fausto-Sterling (Method Quarterly, 2015)
Choking to Death in Tehran (Newsweek, 2014) *winner of the 2014 Clark/Payne Award for Young Science Journalists
Sounding the Alarm (East Bay Express, 2013) *winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Kavli Science Journalism Award and the Association of Alternative Newsmedia’s Best Longform News Story
Bio Hackers (East Bay Express, 2013) *winner of the 2014 Clark/Payne Award for Young Science Journalists
Cracking Oakland’s Code (East Bay Express, 2013)
Prozac: What’s Race Got to Do With It? (Mother Jones, 2012)
Can A Company Own Your Genes? (Mother Jones, 2011)
The Brain Is Half Full (Berkeley Science Review, 2011)
Mapping The Brain’s Highways (Seed Magazine, 2009)