science and health writer — mostly offline, often off-course they/them @marionrenault.bsky.social
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a dream come true: my @NewYorker piece on imagining a good life w/ Alzheimer's was chosen for this fall's Best American Science & Nature Writing.
thank you to @carlzimmer and @jaimealyse for selecting it—and many, many thanks to my editor @ByDanielAGross
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Half of all plastics production in human history has happened since the launch of Instagram.
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Autonomous robots, sequencers, and machine-learning algorithms are revolutionizing humanity’s ability to catalog Earth’s unstudied species, Marion Renault reports. But many of those species could be lost before we ever meet them: theatlantic.com/science/2025…
"We are too few, studying too many things." Taxonomists are racing to name millions of unnamed species before they vanish, lost before we ever meet them.
My latest — on the burning library of life — for @TheAtlantic : theatlantic.com/science/2025…
Time for a new era in dementia coverage, one where journalists:
— *actually* center people living with dementia
— unpack drug trial science without the hype
— drop the ableist clichés and tragedy tropes
New @Open_Notebook guide, out now:
theopennotebook.com/2025/06/…
Dementia is the disease of our era—not just medical, but existential.
For @TheAtlantic I reviewed Jennie Erin Smith's new book, "Valley of Forgetting," and explored how language betrays our deepest fears about memory and selfhood.
theatlantic.com/books/archiv…
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"In Starr County, Texas. . .escaping dementia can feel impossible. The condition affects about one in five adults on Medicare—more than double the national rate." @MarionRenault 📸: @orr_photo @TheAtlantic theatlantic.com/health/archi…
In Starr County, Texas, Alzheimer’s disease affects about one in five people on Medicare—more than double the national rate.
I unpacked what we know (and what we don't) about one of America's dementia hotspots for @TheAtlantic:
theatlantic.com/health/archi…
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I love these 1936 newsreel clips of Zdeněk Koubek, a Czech track star who publicly transitioned gender
after his transition, he came to New York to perform on Broadway. this seems to be the only surviving video
Koubek is the center of my book, THE OTHER OLYMPIANS — out June 4!
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new: plastic producers have known for 30+ yrs that recycling is not an economically or technically feasible plastic waste management solution. but they promoted it anyway, a new @climatecosts analysis shows.
the report is full of new docs & evidence.
theguardian.com/us-news/2024…
my mamie denise has left us. she died peacefully, accompanied, without pain.
I can't find the words for all that she taught me. I can only say that I would not love the way I do, or conceive of love the way I do, without her. and I will never stop missing her.
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Calls/emails from reporters asking for a comment on last's years temperature are coming earlier than normal this year. Time to dust off my "last year was hot" auto-response.
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It’s easy to treat the media as a punching bag. But look to the nation’s local newsrooms. For little money or recognition, reporters in 2023 stood up to power brokers who tried to bully them into silence, exposed corrupt officials and even saved lives. Proof, from every state:
tonight! i'm staying up late for this one!!
next Monday!
@marynmck, @carlzimmer, @jaimealyse and I will be streaming our A's to your Q's with @scifri, whose book club picked this year's BASNW for their December read.
live! free! 5 p.m. et!
sciencefriday.com/articles/s…
next Monday!
@marynmck, @carlzimmer, @jaimealyse and I will be streaming our A's to your Q's with @scifri, whose book club picked this year's BASNW for their December read.
live! free! 5 p.m. et!
sciencefriday.com/articles/s…
big thank you to @jfballenger — not only for sharing his perspective w/ @99piorg, but for his book, Self, Senility, and Alzheimer's Disease in Modern America
it's a 💡cultural history of Alzheimer's disease in the U.S. since the late 19th century.
press.jhu.edu/books/title/37…
i teamed up with @ChrisBerube and @99piorg for a story on dementia-friendly architecture (and got to check "record in a closet" off my bucket list!).
if you know me, you know this one's close to my heart.
take a listen:
99percentinvisible.org/episo…
i teamed up with @ChrisBerube and @99piorg for a story on dementia-friendly architecture (and got to check "record in a closet" off my bucket list!).
if you know me, you know this one's close to my heart.
take a listen:
99percentinvisible.org/episo…
this piece was inspired by the one I wrote for @NewYorker about a year ago about a dementia village in france:
(which! you can also read in print in this year's Best American series. link in next tweet)
newyorker.com/culture/annals…
my piece ^ on a radical new way of thinking about dementia is featured in the 2023 edition of Best American Science and Nature Writing.
it just came out this month, and it's never too early to buy holiday gifts!
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