Hi folks! I'm back to work after maternity leave (and a big move! I'm based in Golden, Colorado, now). I'm also excited to share that I've stepped into a new role as Editorial Director at @vox.com
Paige Vega
@paigeblank.bsky.social
Editorial director @vox.com | Science, climate, health, culture, and the big ideas shaping our future.
Hi folks, consider this my away message: I recently had a baby! For the next few months, I’ll be on maternity leave from @vox.com I’ll be back in late July and will be slowly ramping up our climate, biodiversity, health and science freelance projects after that time.
New story from me exploring complicated feelings around skimo's Winter Olympic debut, backcountry skiing, rural mountain lifestyles and climate change ✨ *Gift link* www.vox.com/climate/4795... @vox.com @coveringclimatenow.org @climatedesk.org @sejorg.bsky.social @uprootproject.bsky.social
In a study published today, researchers reported that the ideal conditions for major wildfires are now aligning across different parts of the world at more than double the rate they did 50 years ago. @umairfan.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4795...
Scientists have found another alarming pattern in wildfires
Around the world, the conditions that brew massive blazes are...syncing up?
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A baby bat getting a bubble bath might be the cutest thing we’ve ever seen 🥹🦇 That’s just a normal day at Tolga Bat Hospital, a treatment center for Australia’s injured and orphaned flying foxes.
At Australia's bat hospital, volunteers bottle-feed flying foxes injured by heat waves, ticks, barbed wire. It’s too cute (PHOTOS!) — and a reminder that protecting wildlife is inseparable from protecting the ecosystems *we all* depend on. @benjij.bsky.social /@vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4780...
Meet the unbearably cute patients at this one-of-a-kind hospital for bats
See inside Tolga Bat Hospital, a place for Australia’s injured and orphaned flying foxes.
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Here's a gift link to the @vox.com piece I wrote explaining eight of the biggest, cultural, "if you know, you know" moments of Bad Bunny's halftime show www.vox.com/culture/4784...
Bad Bunny’s knockout halftime show, explained by a Puerto Rican
All of the cultural Easter eggs you might have missed.
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Government risk maps are too coarse for the way wildfire works now. But new tools powered by AI are giving us a clearer picture. @umairfan.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4769...
America’s wildfire risk data quietly puts millions of homes in danger
Federal models keep missing homes that burn. A new AI tool zooms in.
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New research reveals a wrinkle of hope for polar bears in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. @benjij.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4768...
Something very unexpected is happening to Norway’s polar bears
Scientists are baffled by the results from new Arctic research.
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"Spawning on the Great Barrier Reef has been called the largest reproductive event on Earth, and, in more colorful terms, 'the world’s largest orgasm.'" @benjij.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4754...
Australia is doing absolutely everything to the Great Barrier Reef — except the one thing that matters
An exclusive look inside the largest effort ever mounted to keep an iconic ecosystem alive.
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Icy spells sneak up on us, posing a greater challenge to forecasters and leaving little time to prepare compared to slower-moving extremes like heat waves. @umairfan.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4761...
Why forecasters struggled to see this extreme winter storm coming
The tricky science behind why cold snaps sneak up on us.
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💥 Big feature out today from @benjij.bsky.social — an exclusive look into the most ambitious effort humanity has ever launched to save an ecosystem, sourced from his field reporting at Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Don't miss this one. (No paywall) www.vox.com/climate/4754... @vox.com
Australia is doing absolutely everything to the Great Barrier Reef — except the one thing that matters
An exclusive look inside the largest effort ever mounted to keep an iconic ecosystem alive.
vox.com
💥 Big feature out today from @benjij.bsky.social — an exclusive look into the most ambitious effort humanity has ever launched to save an ecosystem, sourced from his field reporting at Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Don't miss this one. (No paywall) www.vox.com/climate/4754... @vox.com
Australia is doing absolutely everything to the Great Barrier Reef — except the one thing that matters
An exclusive look inside the largest effort ever mounted to keep an iconic ecosystem alive.
vox.com
We have to stop freaking out about every new microplastics study www.vox.com/health/47530...
We have to stop freaking out about every new microplastics study
Microplastics are bad for us. But scientists are still figuring out the rest of the story.
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In the eyes of Trump’s EPA, human health is now literally worthless [via @vox.com]
In the eyes of Trump’s EPA, human health is now literally worthless
How the agency’s new math favors polluters over people.
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The EPA is taking a major step toward changing its math to favor polluters over people. @umairfan.bsky.social spoke w/ several experts, including former EPA officials, and indeed, the change will likely lead to worsening air quality and harm public health. www.vox.com/climate/4751... @vox.com
Trump’s EPA is setting the value of human health to $0
The agency’s new math to favor polluters, explained.
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The race to publish results may have produced weak evidence — and unnecessary panic — about plastics inside the human body. From our friends at @climatedesk.org and @theguardian.com www.vox.com/climate/4750... @vox.com
So our brains aren’t full of microplastics after all?
The research on microplastics in our bodies is terrifying. It might also be wrong.
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Ahead of the release of the new dietary guidelines, the Trump admin buried a government study that provided the clearest evidence yet of the harms of alcohol. Now, the the official guidance yanks any limits on alcohol consumption. @dylanlscott.bsky.social @vox.com: www.vox.com/health/47472...
Dr. Oz claims there’s no data to support reducing alcohol consumption. That’s not true.
RFK Jr.’s new dietary guidelines ignore his own government’s findings on the harms of alcohol.
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Is inflammation really the root of all of our health problems? What's the difference between "good" inflammation and "bad inflammation"? Join @dylanlscott.bsky.social on Reddit right now as he answers all of your questions about inflammation 👇🤖
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Some early takes said the new food guidelines weren't too bad, but you always gotta dig deeper to really understand what MAHA is doing. So much going on here is chaos but most notably the new guidance makes an aggressive turn toward centering animal-based foods www.vox.com/future-perfe...
The new food pyramid is lying to you
It’s also a contradictory mess.
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Ahead of the release of the new dietary guidelines, the Trump admin buried a government study that provided the clearest evidence yet of the harms of alcohol. Now, the the official guidance yanks any limits on alcohol consumption. @dylanlscott.bsky.social @vox.com: www.vox.com/health/47472...
Dr. Oz claims there’s no data to support reducing alcohol consumption. That’s not true.
RFK Jr.’s new dietary guidelines ignore his own government’s findings on the harms of alcohol.
vox.com
Hey! I'll be hanging out over on Reddit in 15 minutes, talking about our newsletter (sign up!), the health care beat, and anything else you'd like! Check it out: www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comme...
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Hi friends! Some news! Today, @dylanlscott.bsky.social and I launched Good Medicine, a weekly newsletter for anyone trying to make sense of their health in a moment of shaky science, viral wellness claims, and political whiplash. Sign up! www.vox.com/pages/good-m...
It seems like wherever you look, someone is telling you how to reduce your inflammation, from influencers on your TikTok feed or Instagram reels to even US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 🧵
Inflammation is on everybody's minds these days. But the social media remedies miss the complex biology underneath. I tried to get a picture of what the real, evidence-based future of managing inflammation looks like. Here's what I found: www.vox.com/health/47438...
The problem with blaming everything on inflammation
What your favorite TikTok influencer gets right — and wrong — about this widespread concern.
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