Alex Bates was lying on her couch on a Friday afternoon when her phone began blowing up. It was a moment she and her colleagues had spent years preparing for: James Watson had died. When she joined the National Human Genome Research Institute in 2019 as the head of its communications office, how the agency should discuss its former director — an icon of biology for his co-discovery of the structure of DNA — was one of the first things she was charged with tackling. Tucked away on a government server were drafts of opinion pieces, talking points its scientists...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
