Emily Anthes

@emilyanthes
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• Science reporter at The New York Times, covering human and animal health
• Author of THE GREAT INDOORS and FRANKENSTEIN'S CAT
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Nation’s bosses apparently perturbed that people are asking for more money to do more work.

“Since the onset of the pandemic, several employees have asked for more pay when managers asked that they do more work, she says. ‘It was not like that before Covid at all,’ she adds.” https://www.wsj.com/articles/your-coworkers-are-less-ambitious-bosses-adjust-to-the-new-order-11672441067

Your Coworkers Are Less Ambitious; Bosses Adjust to the New Order

For a growing number of professionals, the days of unpaid overtime and working through weekends are in the past. Firms add people to finish projects, close for holidays and take other steps.

WSJ

“The solution, Warwick decided, was to put the recovered bats in large dog kennels in her attic”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/12/30/houston-bats-rescue-cold-attic/

Hundreds of freezing bats fell to the ground. She took them home to warm them.

“I’m excited to get them out of my attic and send them back into the wild," wildlife expert Mary Warwick says.

The Washington Post
If you have some reading time this weekend, please consider putting this piece of mine on your reading list. I asked a bunch of experts what they hadn't anticipated about the pandemic. The list is long. https://www.statnews.com/2022/12/27/covid19-pandemic-what-most-surprised-experts/
Three years on, the pandemic — and our response — have been jolting. Here's what even the experts didn't see coming

In the hope that lessons for the next pandemic can be found in the things we didn’t anticipate this time, STAT asked 23 experts what had surprised them the most.

STAT
Elliott Downing has the solution
Sorry... (really not sorry at all). I asked ChatGPT to write a Jay-Z song name checking John Mastodon, and the results were so much better than I could have expected.... #JohnMastodon
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True wombat Ramsayia puts all the fake wombats to shame!

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