Aatish Bhatia
I'm a journalist, teacher and scientist. I make explainers and interactive graphics.
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- When kids have the moral clarity that many adults lack
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- Brilliant piece. The Upshot doing what it does best, a clear and comprehensive look at the data. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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- "Describing the research process, Baek compared it to repeatedly building and discarding ideas. “You keep holding on to hope, then breaking it, and moving forward by picking up ideas from the ashes”" m.koreaherald.com/article/1064...
- Loved this
- "We're not going to get a better internet by waiting for platforms to become less extractive. We build it by building it."
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- I love how well every step is explained here. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol_Q...
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- This is pretty amazing: poloclub.github.io/transformer-... A basic language model (GPT-2 small) that runs in the browser, with all of its calculations visualized.
- “He was the kind of guy who went up to the chalkboard and started writing out equations and explaining everything” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/u...
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- Very moving documentary filmed over 14 years that follows three kids who grew up poor: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTbo...
- There's some wisdom here: www.joanwestenberg.com/thin-desires...
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- Me too! There's one that comes by my balcony every morning and its so cute and charming.
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- "A squircle is a shape intermediate between a square and a circle." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squircle
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- Why do math diagrams on wikipedia look like this? I can't imagine what the author hoped to communicate here.
- They really don't write textbook introductions like they used to...
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- While the administration has said it is cutting “woke programs” that “poison the minds of Americans", it actually funded fewer grants in every area of science and medicine. “They brought everything to a stop,” said Sarah Kobrin, a branch chief at the N.I.H.’s National Cancer Institute
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- “Displaying the probability of a specific home flooding this year or within the next five years can have a significant impact on the perceived desirability of that property,” said Art Carter, California Regional Multiple Listing Service’s chief executive officer. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
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- "An impossible message is infinitely surprising, and therefore conveys infinite information; an inevitable message is completely unsurprising, and conveys no information at all." www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2025/11...
- Some personal news: I've left my job at @upshot.nytimes.com. Grateful to have spent four and a half years learning from such brilliant and kind colleagues. I'm taking some time to read, learn, and work on my own creative projects.
- Reposted by Aatish BhatiaRelying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
- "Life is fast. Death comes so easily. If I just drift, in no time I’ll be an old man. I want to build a fun lifestyle. That’s what I thought. I want to build it." m.youtube.com/watch?v=4ylH...
- Tomorrow is the deadline to apply for the 2026 NYT fellowship, the Times program for early-career journalists. The Upshot is hiring a fellow, come work with some of the smartest & friendliest people in journalism. (May include ice cream walks to Bryant Park.) job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...
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- Enjoyed listening to this interview, highly recommend. Anil is such a clear thinker and so good at explaining ideas.
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- morning math: trying to understand shallow neural networks
- Relates to a @rhettallain.bsky.social quote I've always liked: confusion is the sweat of learning.
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- Reposted by Aatish BhatiaClimate change DEFINITELY affects hurricane: STRENGTH: Warmer water is hurricane food RAINFALL: Warm air holds more water vapor SURGE: Warmer water expands, warmer ice melts, sea levels rise PREDICTION: hotter seas mean faster intensification
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- Really enjoyed going through this:
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- so good: m.youtube.com/watch?v=greL...
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- "Among articles stating that data was available upon request, only 17% shared data upon request."
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- The number of international students arriving in the U.S. in August fell by 19 percent this year compared with last year — the largest decline on record outside of the pandemic.
- Very interesting podcast episode on how social networks become polarized
- I love this video so much. Classic Minute Physics.
- I enjoyed this game a lot, and am in awe of the creative and technical skill behind it. (Played it fullscreen on desktop, not sure what it's like on mobile) messenger.abeto.co
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