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Virginia Gewin

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2023-24 Nova Media Fellow. 2024 James Beard media nominee. Science journalist. she/her @VirginiaGewin@bsky.social
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How does Make America Healthy Again hold up against scientific scrutiny?

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By Virginia Gewin Verified
| Nature Verified
The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) initiative, spearheaded by US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, aims to “confront chronic disease, improve nutrition, and lower healthcare costs”. To achieve these laudable aims, those in the MAHA movement have set out to overhaul US health policies on aspects such as nutrition and vaccines and what they see as an over-reliance on medication. Such huge shifts in the United States are likely to have ripple effects around the world.
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I want to see a prison-to-PhD pipeline

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By Virginia Gewin Verified
| Nature Verified
Ryan Rising started taking university courses while in prison and is now pursuing a PhD focused on how best to help formerly incarcerated individuals to reintegrate with society.Credit: Courtesy of Cynthia Mia of Lovely Hues Photography Ryan Rising was first incarcerated when he was 12 years old, and was characterized as a troublemaker. The label followed him in and out of prison over the next two decades. During that time, he replaced his addiction to drugs with one for gaining knowledge.
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These 5 Research Projects Show How AI Is Revolutionizing Bird Conservation

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By Virginia Gewin Verified
| Audubon Verified
Conservation researchers will go to great lengths to survey birds—getting up before dawn, driving hours on back roads, undertaking grueling hikes—all for only a brief snapshot of which species or how many individuals are in an area. Such effort is worth it to collect data critical to monitoring and protecting avian populations in important habitats across the world, says Matthew Weldy, Audubon’s senior manager of quantitative science.
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