Mary Engel

I write stories about global health, cancer, HIV, health policy, climate change. Why the wonky stuff matters. (Did I mention VW vans?)

[Anchorage Daily News @adndotcom]

Democrat Mary Peltola is the apparent winner of Alaska’s special U.S. House race after ranked votes were tabulated Wednesday and is set to become the first Alaska Native in Congress. https://t.co/Gqnk89DDkA

[Mary Engel @Engel140]

@LindaGailBekker I cannot ❤️ this enough!

[Mary Engel @Engel140]

❤️❤️❤️

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

Diane Nash, a leader of the Nashville sit-ins to integrate lunch counters in 1960, a Freedom Rider and a giant of the Civil Rights Movement, was awarded today the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It’s the nation’s highest civilian honor.

🥹 Her courage sets an example for us all.

[Mary Engel @Engel140]

@hanselt @JessieTriceCHS I cannot ❤️ this enough.

[Mary Engel @Engel140]

So beautiful. So heartbreaking. https://t.co/m68WUQlipP

[Dr. Joshua Bennett @SirJoshBennett]

endless patience will never be enough
the only hope is to be the daylight

—W.S Merwin

[Mary Engel @Engel140]

Such a deeply empathetic, magnificently written and heartbreaking look at what surrogate mothers in Ukraine are going through (period), not to mention amid a war.

[Susan Dominus @susandominus]

As I profiled several surrogates for the New York Times Magazine, I acquired a sense of their particular plight, but also a deeper understanding of the inspiring Ukrainian spirit during a time of war. https://t.co/zDShOSooW2

[Mary Engel @Engel140]

Riveting reporting & photography from @seattletimes & @adndotcom takes us readers out on a crab boat into a disappearing world.
https://t.co/5yfPWQOzZp

[Mary Engel @Engel140]

Standing with #Ukraine in the Seattle rain.

[Chris England @RepEngland70]

For folks that are concerned about the Voting Rights Act, today’s SCOTUS decision means that the canary in the coal mine just died. If there were ever a time for Congress to act on voting rights legislation, now would be it. Make no mistake, this is not a good outcome.

[Mary Engel @Engel140]

@CorsIAQ thank you for sharing sweet Chloe with us. So sad for your loss, so happy for all the hugs you shared.

[Mary Engel @Engel140]

Whenever I’m about to give up on Twitter, I come across a 🧵 like this. You don’t have to be an entomologist to be delighted. 🐜

[Rebecca Varney @RebeccaMVarney]

Thinking about biological collections lately I'm reminded of the time that somehow at age 4, I got a personal tour of the @UCBerkeley entomology collection (Essig?) from a kind scientist (anybody know who?!). Asked my parents how on earth THAT happened, and it turns out...🤯

[Mary Engel @Engel140]

A 9th anniversary = pottery & willow. Clay & water transformed by fire/strength & resilience. Thanks for the lessons in both. @outofedenwalk

[National Geographic Society @InsideNatGeo]

Today we’re celebrating the 9th anniversary of the @OutofEdenWalk! In 2013, #NatGeoExplorer @PaulSalopek set out on a 24,000-mile odyssey to retrace our ancestors’ global migration on foot.

Follow this thread as @PaulSalopek shares a lesson from each year on the walk.

[Mary Engel @Engel140]

@AmandaLynGunn @PergamIC Echoing this good advice.

[Mary Engel @Engel140]

@aluaq Beautiful! And to you, my friend.

[Mary Engel @Engel140]

@ArmstrongDrew Thank you for bearing witness, Drew.

[Clint Smith @ClintSmithIII]

I wrote about how the American death toll from COVID-19 is now greater than the death toll of the Civil War (750,000).

Behind these numbers are real people. One of them was Yvonne Brown. I attended her funeral last week. She was 41. This is still with us. https://t.co/LXlccc0HML

[Mary Engel @Engel140]

Such beauty. #sondheim https://t.co/XpAqjkqsoh