PDX-based science journalist writing about climate change, food security, land use, biodiversity loss, and diversity in STEM she/her Signal: ginnyg.04 Stories here: www.virginiagewin.com
📣Journalists--The @ntbgarden.bsky.social journalism fellowship is being held in Miami, Florida for the first time this fall! Get your applications in.
Apply for the National Tropical Botanical Garden's Environmental Journalism Program at The Kampong in Miami - National Tropical Botanical GardenOffered in Miami, Florida November 8-14, 2026 The Hawai‘i-based National Tropical Botanical Garden (NTBG) is […]ntbg.org“People will die if this place isn’t open.” @melissamdaniels.bsky.social has done an amazing job as a @chjreportinghealth.bsky.social fellow covering the California Inland Empire's healthcare struggles. Check out her @cvindependent.bsky.social piece on the efforts to salvage Blythe's only hospital!
Can Blythe’s Only Hospital Be Saved? Inside the Fight to Revive Care and Restore Trust in a Community’s ER - Coachella Valley IndependentThe Palo Verde Healthcare District filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy in September 2025, a last-ditch effort to stay open after years of financial struggles. If Palo Verde closed its doors, the nearest ho...cvindependent.comAs wildfires impacts increase across California, UC Davis Health physicians launched a new effort to identify populations most at risk and tailor medical advice to avoid emergency room visits. A similar initiative is being replicated at Kaiser Permanente. My latest story for @jmirpub.bsky.social
www.jmir.orgFor this @nature.com piece, we held MAHA policies up to scientific scrutiny. Many thanks to @angierasmussen.bsky.social, Christopher Gardner, Walter Willett, Josiemer Mattei, and others for their time and input!
How does Make America Healthy Again hold up against scientific scrutiny?Researchers share their views on the US health policy spanning topics from vaccines to nutrition.www.nature.com"we are not going to take the president’s speech live,” King said. “That’s because of this president’s history of misleading and, in some cases, false statements on the subject of elections and election integrity.”
CNN Host Explains Why Network Won’t Air Trump Speech LiveThe network confirmed its decision on-air one hour before the president’s primetime address.www.thedailybeast.com“as part of population-control efforts, hogs are often trapped and relocated across state lines to be sold for hunting purposes. This scenario could carry a screwworm infestation to a state less equipped than Texas to address it swiftly.”
Two of Texas’s Deadliest Pests Are Bound to Clash. Will Anybody Win? — Texas MonthlyThe New World screwworm could devastate the state’s wide-roaming feral hog population. Experts say we shouldn’t necessarily root for that.apple.newsWow. More climate politics satire please.
DIGGER | Official TrailerYouTube video by Warner Bros.www.youtube.com"Trump’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scaled back a federal-state partnership that monitors foodborne illnesses, including cyclospora, a year before several states began reporting an outbreak of cyclospora infection, a foodborne illness that can cause explosive diarrhea."
Trump's CDC stopped monitoring explosive diarrhea parasite before outbreakFoodNet previously surveilled eight pathogens, for more than three decades. In 2025, monitoring was reduced down to two.www.newsweek.comFor my latest @nature.com piece, I talked to Ryan Rising, who is trying to build a prison-to-academia pipeline, informed by his own experience in incarceration. "At the core of my work is a simple idea: the people who are most affected by a problem are the ones closest to its solution."
I want to see a prison-to-PhD pipelineRyan Rising creates programmes that help people who have been incarcerated to access academic opportunities.www.nature.com"The cuts are perplexing to people involved in prevention work because Mr. Trump is no stranger to gun violence. He has survived 3 assassination attempts, and his close ally Charlie Kirk was gunned down while giving a speech last year." “It is a grand irony” 🎁link
Trump Administration Guts Efforts to Prevent Gun Violence, Suppressing Reportswww.nytimes.com"Last year, the administration stopped requiring states participating in the CDC’s FoodNet surveillance network to report several foodborne pathogens, including Vibrio...Critics argue it is harder to identify outbreaks before they become public health emergencies."
Trump Health Cuts Spark Concerns Over ‘Flesh-Eating’ BacteriaScientists say deadly beach bacteria are expanding just as the Trump administration scales back disease-monitoring programs.www.thedailybeast.com"The Trump administration has yet to directly accept the blame or formally release findings of a Pentagon investigation into the bombing, even though the military possessed evidence almost immediately that the site of the school had been struck, a U.S. official with knowledge of the situation."
As the Pentagon stays quiet, AP reconstructs a US strike that killed over 100 Iranian childrenThe Feb. 28 attack on a primary school in southeastern Iran was the deadliest reported strike in the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. Most of the victims were children.apnews.comCalifornia's Inland Empire has one of the state's worst health care shortages. In this story, @melissamdaniels.bsky.social highlights an effort to "grow their own workforce". Reporting support from @chjreportinghealth.bsky.social.
‘Grow Our Own’: One of the Desert Healthcare District’s New Priorities Is Developing a Health Care Workforce - Coachella Valley Independent“I think it’s important for us to make sure that we really do grow our own, and one of the ways that we're going to be able to attract that workforce is by making it easier for them to go to school,” ...cvindependent.comI'm excited to share my latest piece, on how AI is revolutionizing bird conservation, out now in Audubon magazine. Shout out to illustrator, Sébastien Plassard, for the gorgeous art! Many thx to @jivelasquezt.bsky.social, @annavalbirdgal.bsky.social, @rgibbo3.bsky.social & others for their time!
These 5 Research Projects Show How AI Is Revolutionizing Bird ConservationScientists are using artificial intelligence to analyze troves of images and audio, gaining unprecedented insight into the lives of birds and how to more effectively protect them.www.audubon.org"The world is losing an estimated 324 trillion litres (85.6 trillion gallons) of freshwater each year, enough to meet the needs of 280 million people annually, according to a 2025 World Bank report."
Satellite images show 10 places where water is disappearing globallyFrom lakes to rivers, freshwater is declining worldwide under rising climate and land pressure.www.aljazeera.com
