sara m. b. simon
@sarambsimon
phd student in us history (quantification & govt data, esp. vital statistics) • former newsroom software engineer & data journalist • she/her • chicago smbsimon.github.io
earlier this week, i used pout pout fish goes to school to teach our kid that in some cases, it's ok to take a sharpie to a book
your suggestion that i use old journal pages to monitor leakage is how i was introduced to the AHR
we have been loving philip c. stead books from the library lately so had these two in my bookshop cart and figured hey, why not add a pre-order. thank you for the nudge! address incoming
all good things must come to an end. goodbye perfect yellow cup, out of which i drank my coffee nearly every day, smashed into a few beautifully tragic pieces in the kitchen sink today. perhaps a sign i've been away from the pottery studio too long
found another stack of books in our place and now get to tell the baby about mommy and daddy's former careers
great piece by zeb, which unlocked a memory: two careers ago, in 2016, i gave a conference talk on the need to write thorough git commit messages. commits tell the story of your software!
here's a photo of the nyt's 2026 pulitzer prize winning investigative team, shared yesterday on instagram by one of the reporters
this cover i'm actually writing about in forthcoming publication