Tom Zeller Jr.
@tomzellerjr
Journalist; @NYTimes & @KSJatMIT alum; EIC @undarkmag; Scion of #CLE; author of "The Headache" (Mariner, 2025, https://amzn.to/4hMM48u); Formidable lyric vault;
On sale July 15. Available for preorder now. harpercollins.com/products/the-h…
It's not news that women are often taken less seriously than men in health care settings, but the data can be eye-opening — and infuriating. From "The Headache" (amzn.to/44TeSXu). #migraine #headache
Take a moment to remember Victor McElheny, founding director of @KSJatMIT, lifelong science #journalism advocate, and tireless supporter of local reporting (ksj.mit.edu/mcelheny-award/). Your passions nurtured the careers of hundreds of journalists, including my own. May you rest…
For anyone putting their faith in ChatGPT for researching ... anything.
“White-hot, blinding but invisible, frantic but elephantine—all earthly things gathered up in a piercing nuclear bundle behind the eyeball.” That’s @tomzellerjr writing about his cluster headaches in his new book “The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Affliction—and a…
Deeply humbled by this review by in the WSJ today. wsj.com/arts-culture/b…
Deeply humbled by this review by in the WSJ today. wsj.com/arts-culture/b…
★ Headaches can be “among the worst pain disorders known to human beings,” according to studies Tom Zeller Jr. cites. He is a strong writer, especially when it comes to describing pain. The result is an eye-opening study of an all-too-common affliction. @marinerbooks…
This week only, Barnes & Noble Premium and Rewards members can get a nice discount on my forthcoming book THE HEADACHE (to be released next Tuesday). Go to bit.ly/ZELLER-BN and use the code PREORDER25. #migraine #headacheawareness #headache
Not only is it basic journalism, it's the right of every American to pick up the phone and call and ask questions of their employees in Washington -- you know, the ones whose salaries we pay with our tax dollars? You work for us @TulsiGabbard.
Statement from Executive Editor Matt Murray: “For three decades, Ellen Nakashima has been one of the most careful, fair-minded, and highly regarded reporters covering national security. Reaching out to potential sources rather than relying solely on official government press…
Across all U.S. electoral history, fewer than 20 write-in candidates for major offices have prevailed, and none for mayors of America’s largest cities.
I awoke this morning gravely concerned about New York City. I thought “What has NYC become that an avowed socialist who has supported defunding the police, whose solution to lowering food prices is city-owned supermarkets, who doesn’t understand that freezing rents will only…
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Is @SecKennedy's team at HHS using AI to generate official reports? (via @NOTUSreports) undark.org/2025/05/29/mah…
@undarkmag covers #NIH ’s Jay Bhattacharya’s rise under Trump and his alternative approaches to contain #COVID @JenniferNuzzo weighs in on pandemic-era policies, but shares that isolating the vulnerable while fully reopening was never realistic. More here ⤵️
Jay Bhattacharya brings to the NIH directorship a deep conviction that public health specifically, and medical research more broadly, are in desperate need of reform from outsiders. undark.org/2025/05/27/jay…