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Apoorva Mandavilli

Apoorva Mandavilli

@apoorva_nyc

Reporter @nytimes on mainly #covid19 Winner 2019 Victor Cohn Prize. Before: Founding EIC @Spectrum, co-founder @CultureDish DMs open OR Apoorva@NYTimes.com

51802 followers

Lens Rankings

Science

#5 0.006897 Epidemiology Journalism
#24 0.006308 Epidimiology Twitter
#81 0.001065 Biotech
#728 0.000006 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1036 0.000006 Philosophy Twitter
#1554 0.000117 ClimateTwitter
#3831 0.000021 EconTwitter

Think Tanks

#117 0.002839 Belfer Center
#121 0.000756 Council on Foreign Relations
#139 0.000928 Earth Institute
#602 0.000006 RAND Corporation
#870 0.000006 Urban Institute
#1027 0.000153 Center for American Progress
#1061 0.000006 Heritage Foundation
#1091 0.000148 Mercatus Center
#1254 0.000121 American Enterprise Institute
#1254 0.000121 National Bureau of Economic Research
#1394 0.000080 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#1441 0.000004 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1518 0.000006 Cato Institute
#2289 0.000013 Adam Smith Institute
#2566 0.000006 Atlantic Council
#2747 0.000050 Brookings
#2999 0.000010 Niskanen Center
#3247 0.000004 Berggruen Institute
#4875 0.000004 Eurasia Group
#5151 0.000004 Hudson Institute
#5491 0.000012 Hoover Institution
#6736 0.000004 Peterson Institute for International Economics

Journalism

#80 0.001294 The New York Times
#109 0.001551 BuzzFeed
#136 0.001153 Stat News
#224 0.000476 The Atlantic
#246 0.000637 Wall Street Journal
#315 0.000599 Wired
#562 0.000006 The Information
#677 0.000202 Recode
#722 0.000118 CNBC
#900 0.000004 Newsmax
#916 0.000004 OANN
#917 0.000139 VICE
#1312 0.000041 The Verge
#1341 0.000108 The Intercept
#1389 0.000081 Ars Technica
#1556 0.000084 The Los Angeles Times
#1663 0.000012 Reuters
#1984 0.000068 Bloomberg Opinion
#2004 0.000006 The Economist
#2058 0.000009 Techcrunch
#2214 0.000054 New Yorker
#2728 0.000006 The Daily Beast
#2999 0.000010 Foreign Policy
#3001 0.000020 Washington Post
#3859 0.000006 Financial Times
#4324 0.000004 Palladium Magazine
#5694 0.000008 The New York Post
#7145 0.000004 The Dispatch

Culture and Political Economy

#99 0.000006 Schumacher Circle
#149 0.000006 Fair Vote
#284 0.000006 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#300 0.000443 Works in Progress
#300 0.000006 Extinction Rebellion
#337 0.000006 Existential Risks
#410 0.000006 Claremont Institute
#431 0.000006 Ecosocialism
#453 0.000006 Sierra Clib
#669 0.000006 350.org
#862 0.000006 Environmental Defense Fund
#903 0.000174 Progress Studies
#988 0.000123 Ecomodernists
#1202 0.000108 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#1472 0.000090 EFF
#1538 0.000048 Populist Libertarians
#1736 0.000004 Environmental Journalists
#1758 0.000059 Persuasion Community
#1892 0.000004 Climate Solutions
#1898 0.000042 Harper's Open Letter
#1997 0.000048 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#2005 0.000046 Heterodox Academy
#2181 0.000004 Bismark Analysis
#2306 0.000043 The Long Now Foundation
#2361 0.000046 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#2733 0.000004 RadicalxChange
#3230 0.000004 Social Epistemology
#3826 0.000004 Anarachists
#3925 0.000004 Effective Altruism
#3935 0.000004 Black Lives Matter
#6081 0.000006 Rationality
#6191 0.000004 Moderate Conservatism
#6239 0.000004 Degrowth

system

#39 0.000289 Reality-Based Community
#63 0.000390 Baseline
#3905 0.000034 Think Tanks

Venture Capital

#142 0.000006 Standard Crypto
#244 0.000006 Founders Fund
#548 0.000327 Homebrew
#694 0.000006 Accel
#1093 0.000006 Sequioa
#1653 0.000006 Y Combinator
#1729 0.000004 Bessemer
#2022 0.000004 Index Ventures
#2235 0.000004 My Climate Journey
#2428 0.000004 Sutter Hill Ventures
#2861 0.000004 Benchmark Capital
#3659 0.000004 Village Global
#4258 0.000004 Initialized Capital
#4862 0.000004 Khosla Ventures
#6006 0.000014 A16Z

Informal Community

#588 0.000202 Founders

Crypto

#146 0.000006 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#316 0.000006 Crypto Political Economy
#345 0.000006 Polkadot
#696 0.000201 Crypto Journalists
#1287 0.000004 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2313 0.000004 Crypto Angels
#2487 0.000004 Public Goods Funding
#2523 0.000004 Cosmos
#2942 0.000004 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3509 0.000004 Ethereum
#3791 0.000004 Decentralized Web
#4569 0.000004 Crypto Investing
#4702 0.000011 Crypto Infrastructure
#6105 0.000008 Crypto VC
#6563 0.000004 IDEO Founder Collective

Software Engineering

#282 0.000006 Rust
#1075 0.000004 Zig

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