Benjamin Ryan
@benryanwriter.bsky.social
🔬Health & science reporter: New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, NBC News, The Guardian, NY Sun, The Nation, NY Post. http://www.benryan.net 🔹 https://benryan.substack.com 🔹Columbia grad🔹
Alejandra Caraballo: “We need to hold people to account, we need to hold systems to account, but try to be kinder to people.”
Also Caraballo:
On a NYT reporter’s work: “absolutely disgusting.”
On me: “He seriously needs help.”
On Simon Bazelon, Deciding to Win author: “legacy student nepo baby.”
Also Caraballo:
On a NYT reporter’s work: “absolutely disgusting.”
On me: “He seriously needs help.”
On Simon Bazelon, Deciding to Win author: “legacy student nepo baby.”
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Alejandra Caraballo: “We need to hold people to account, we need to hold systems to account, but try to be kinder to people.”
Also Caraballo:
On a NYT reporter’s work: “absolutely disgusting.”
On me: “He seriously needs help.”
On Simon Bazelon, Deciding to Win author: “legacy student nepo baby.”
Also Caraballo:
On a NYT reporter’s work: “absolutely disgusting.”
On me: “He seriously needs help.”
On Simon Bazelon, Deciding to Win author: “legacy student nepo baby.”
VACCINE NEWS: A pair of Cochrane Review papers provide the strongest evidence to date that the HPV vaccine is very safe and highly effective.
Girls who are vaccinated before age 16 have an 80 percent lower risk of cervical cancer.
Girls who are vaccinated before age 16 have an 80 percent lower risk of cervical cancer.
November 24, 2025 at 1:10 AM
VACCINE NEWS: A pair of Cochrane Review papers provide the strongest evidence to date that the HPV vaccine is very safe and highly effective.
Girls who are vaccinated before age 16 have an 80 percent lower risk of cervical cancer.
Girls who are vaccinated before age 16 have an 80 percent lower risk of cervical cancer.
In his book Cis White Gay, @benappel.bsky.social , who grew up in a religious cult, was involved in an AA program that was run like a cult, and then went to Columbia and then an MFA program in his 30s, reflects on his academic experiences:
November 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
In his book Cis White Gay, @benappel.bsky.social , who grew up in a religious cult, was involved in an AA program that was run like a cult, and then went to Columbia and then an MFA program in his 30s, reflects on his academic experiences:
Calvin gives Diane her Saturday morning kisses.
November 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Calvin gives Diane her Saturday morning kisses.
Breaking: Marjorie Taylor Greene announces she has had it and will leave Congress on Jan. 5, 2026.
“I believe in term limits and do not believe that Congress should be a lifelong career or an assisted living facility,” she says.
“I believe in term limits and do not believe that Congress should be a lifelong career or an assisted living facility,” she says.
November 22, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Breaking: Marjorie Taylor Greene announces she has had it and will leave Congress on Jan. 5, 2026.
“I believe in term limits and do not believe that Congress should be a lifelong career or an assisted living facility,” she says.
“I believe in term limits and do not believe that Congress should be a lifelong career or an assisted living facility,” she says.
November 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Debunking podcaster Michael Hobbes insists that Yuval Noah Harari, a professor in the Department of History at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, consulted no research in preparation for writing Sapiens: a Brief History of Mankind—a book with 21 pages of footnotes.
November 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Debunking podcaster Michael Hobbes insists that Yuval Noah Harari, a professor in the Department of History at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, consulted no research in preparation for writing Sapiens: a Brief History of Mankind—a book with 21 pages of footnotes.
In retrospect, she said, some transgender advocates may have erred in asserting that children who experienced gender distress should be allowed to transition without rigorously establishing that they were, in fact, transgender.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:11 AM
In retrospect, she said, some transgender advocates may have erred in asserting that children who experienced gender distress should be allowed to transition without rigorously establishing that they were, in fact, transgender.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
As Rights Are Taken Away, a Transgender Trailblazer Seeks Refuge Abroad
Robyn McCutcheon, the first American diplomat to come out as trans, helped to shape personnel and foreign policy at the State Department. The country she served doesn’t feel like home anymore.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
Robyn McCutcheon, the first American diplomat to come out as trans, helped to shape personnel and foreign policy at the State Department. The country she served doesn’t feel like home anymore.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
November 19, 2025 at 12:54 AM
As Rights Are Taken Away, a Transgender Trailblazer Seeks Refuge Abroad
Robyn McCutcheon, the first American diplomat to come out as trans, helped to shape personnel and foreign policy at the State Department. The country she served doesn’t feel like home anymore.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
Robyn McCutcheon, the first American diplomat to come out as trans, helped to shape personnel and foreign policy at the State Department. The country she served doesn’t feel like home anymore.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
I’m happy for Lea Michele that in the end, she was so talented that she outlasted The Great She’s a Mean Girl Cancellation Campaign.
November 17, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I’m happy for Lea Michele that in the end, she was so talented that she outlasted The Great She’s a Mean Girl Cancellation Campaign.
Opening night of Chess on Broadway.
November 16, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Opening night of Chess on Broadway.
The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles predicts that “within 50 years” gay marriage will no longer be legal in the US.
November 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles predicts that “within 50 years” gay marriage will no longer be legal in the US.
In five days, a GoFundMe launched by one of the six Teen Vogue staffers laid off last week has raised nearly $40,000 for the sextet.
November 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
In five days, a GoFundMe launched by one of the six Teen Vogue staffers laid off last week has raised nearly $40,000 for the sextet.
I’m trying to teach Calvin to play Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 on the air harpsichord. We’ve got some work to do on his tempo and phrasing. But I think he’s really coming along in some of the heavier cadences.
November 9, 2025 at 5:29 AM
I’m trying to teach Calvin to play Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 on the air harpsichord. We’ve got some work to do on his tempo and phrasing. But I think he’s really coming along in some of the heavier cadences.
You are mistaking Ellen and Iris Pasternack.
November 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
You are mistaking Ellen and Iris Pasternack.
Mamdani takes a strong initial lead, commanding a majority with 36% of the votes in.
November 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Mamdani takes a strong initial lead, commanding a majority with 36% of the votes in.
Erin Reed @erinreed.bsky.social has complained that I reported her staff reporter, S. Baum, is an activist. Baum publicly identifies as a “movement journalist,” which is a term that means that the reporter pushes for certain activist causes in their reporting.
November 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Erin Reed @erinreed.bsky.social has complained that I reported her staff reporter, S. Baum, is an activist. Baum publicly identifies as a “movement journalist,” which is a term that means that the reporter pushes for certain activist causes in their reporting.
Calvin and Diane are enjoying the great outdoors.
November 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Calvin and Diane are enjoying the great outdoors.
That is incorrect.
November 2, 2025 at 5:39 AM
That is incorrect.
November 1, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Calvin and Diane see no reason not to carry on like every day is Caturday.
October 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Calvin and Diane see no reason not to carry on like every day is Caturday.