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Alex Viveros

@alexviveros.bsky.social

Town and Health Reporter at the Jackson Hole News&Guide. Former intern at Science News, Chemical & Engineering News, and Science Magazine. Reach me on Signal: alexviveros.01 alexgviveros.com

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Thank you for sharing!

14.05.2025 02:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you for sharing, Tina!

30.04.2025 18:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you for sharing, @meghanrosen.bsky.social !

30.04.2025 18:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Itโ€™s โ€˜personal.โ€™ What the Stand Up for Science rally meant for attendees Stand Up for Science rallies in Washington, D.C., and across the United States drew crowds of people worried about cuts to scientific funding.

@meghanrosen.bsky.social and I reported from the Stand Up for Science rally today in Washington, D.C. Check out our story, including my photos, here: www.sciencenews.org/article/stan...

07.03.2025 22:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Here at the Lincoln Memorial with @alexviveros.bsky.social for the #standupforscience2025 rally

07.03.2025 15:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Fired federal workers share the crucial jobs no longer being done Thousands of probationary federal employees received termination notices. Many were doing crucial work at science-related agencies.

Six fired federal employees told me and @alexviveros.bsky.social about their science-related jobs โ€” and what the public could lose without them.

We talked to people from NIH, FDA, FAA, NPS, the Forest Service, and Fish & Wildlife for @sciencenews.bsky.social.
www.sciencenews.org/article/fire...

21.02.2025 23:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 38    ๐Ÿ” 27    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Who are the indirect costs of NIH research? We talked to 3 The funding agency aims to cap โ€œindirect costsโ€ in biomedical research grants. But this behind-the-scenes work is crucial to making research happen.

These people's jobs are "indirect costs" on NIH grants. Here's what science and medicine could lose without them.

@alexviveros.bsky.social and I talked to a pre-award administrator, systems engineer and flow cytometry specialist for @sciencenews.bsky.social. www.sciencenews.org/article/indi...

14.02.2025 20:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Following up here to say that I am also on Signal. You can message me there at alexviveros.01

11.02.2025 18:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Is your job, or the job of someone you know, mostly funded by indirect costs on NIH grants?

If so, Iโ€™d love to chat with you for a story in @ScienceNews.bsky.social. You can DM me or email me at aviveros [at] sciencenews [dot] org. #MedSky #ChemSky

11.02.2025 15:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I wrote about Vertexโ€™s suzetrigine, and the science behind developing nonopioid painkillers more generally, for my latest story @cenmag.bsky.social. This is also my final story as C&ENโ€™s Editorial Fellow โ€” more info about my next steps TK!

30.01.2025 14:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Can confirm, cheesecake was excellent

18.12.2024 22:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

oom ๐Ÿฎ

13.12.2024 19:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Antiviral protects guinea pigs against lethal arenaviruses Compound remained effective even when treatment was delayed

I also covered a recent paper about an antiviral called 4โ€ฒ-fluorouridine that protected guinea pigs against Lassa virus and Junin virus. The compound worked even when treatment was delayed until after the onset of clinical signs of disease in the animals.

06.12.2024 20:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Single mutation to bird flu protein altered receptor specificity in lab Study reports that wild-type H5N1 hemagglutinin preferentially binds avian-type receptors

Two stories in @cenmag.bsky.social this week. I spoke to James Paulson and Ian Wilson at Scripps Research about their new study in Science, which found that one mutation to the hemagglutinin protein of an H5N1 virus switched the proteinโ€™s binding specificity from avian- to human-type receptors.

06.12.2024 20:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m the current Editorial Fellow at Chemical & Engineering News and a recent graduate of MITโ€™s science writing program. I mainly write about infectious diseases and the viruses, bacteria, and other little things that cause them.

Feel free to DM me with any story ideas (or just to say hi).

19.11.2024 22:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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