Aatish Bhatia

From 2021 to 2025, I worked as a journalist at The New York Times, where I created articles and interactive graphics visualizing complex topics. I won two publisher’s awards and an Emmy for my reporting. Here’s some of my work:

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine

Aatish Bhatia, Amy Fan, Jonah Smith and Irena Hwang ∙ Dec. 2, 2025
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine

Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled to the U.S. in August

Aatish Bhatia and Amy Fan ∙ Oct. 6, 2025
Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled to the U.S. in August

Your Zodiac Sign Is 2,000 Years Out of Date

Aatish Bhatia, Francesca Paris and Rumsey Taylor ∙ Sept. 7, 2025
Your Zodiac Sign Is 2,000 Years Out of Date

Here Is All the Science at Risk in Trump’s Clash With Harvard

Emily Badger, Aatish Bhatia and Ethan Singer ∙ June 22, 2025
Here Is All the Science at Risk in Trump’s Clash With Harvard

Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades

Aatish Bhatia, Irineo Cabreros, Asmaa Elkeurti and Ethan Singer ∙ May 22, 2025
Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades

Trump’s Astonishing 100 Days, in 8 Charts

Irineo Cabreros and Aatish Bhatia ∙ April 29, 2025
Trump’s Astonishing 100 Days, in 8 Charts

Can You Stop an Outbreak of a Contagious Disease?

Aatish Bhatia and Francesca Paris ∙ April 12, 2025
Can You Stop an Outbreak of a Contagious Disease?

30 Charts That Show How Covid Changed Everything in March 2020

Aatish Bhatia and Irineo Cabreros ∙ March 9, 2025
30 Charts That Show How Covid Changed Everything in March 2020

The Big Government Contracts DOGE Hasn’t Touched

Emily Badger, Aatish Bhatia, Josh Katz, Margot Sanger-Katz and Ethan Singer ∙ March 4, 2025
The Big Government Contracts DOGE Hasn’t Touched

DOGE’s Only Public Ledger Is Riddled With Mistakes

Aatish Bhatia, Emily Badger, David A. Fahrenthold, Josh Katz, Margot Sanger-Katz and Ethan Singer ∙ Feb. 21, 2025
DOGE’s Only Public Ledger Is Riddled With Mistakes

DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million.

Aatish Bhatia, Josh Katz, Margot Sanger-Katz and Ethan Singer ∙ Feb. 18, 2025
DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million.

How Trump’s Medical Research Cuts Would Hit Colleges and Hospitals in Every State

Emily Badger, Aatish Bhatia, Irineo Cabreros, Eli Murray, Francesca Paris, Margot Sanger-Katz and Ethan Singer ∙ Feb. 13, 2025
How Trump’s Medical Research Cuts Would Hit Colleges and Hospitals in Every State

What Happened to Enrollment at Top Colleges After Affirmative Action Ended

Aatish Bhatia, Ben Blatt, Francesca Paris, Alicia Parlapiano and Eve Washington ∙ Jan. 15, 2025
What Happened to Enrollment at Top Colleges After Affirmative Action Ended

They Used to Be Ahead in the American Economy. Now They’ve Fallen Behind.

Emily Badger, Robert Gebeloff and Aatish Bhatia ∙ Oct. 26, 2024
They Used to Be Ahead in the American Economy. Now They’ve Fallen Behind.

The Problem With the Hurricane Category Rating

Aatish Bhatia ∙ Oct. 5, 2024
The Problem With the Hurricane Category Rating

When A.I.’s Output Is a Threat to A.I. Itself

Aatish Bhatia ∙ Aug. 26, 2024
When A.I.’s Output Is a Threat to A.I. Itself

Nights in Las Vegas Are Becoming Dangerously Hot

Ronda Kaysen and Aatish Bhatia ∙ Aug. 11, 2024
Nights in Las Vegas Are Becoming Dangerously Hot

Carbon Dioxide Levels Have Passed a New Milestone

Aatish Bhatia ∙ April 20, 2024
Carbon Dioxide Levels Have Passed a New Milestone

Force of Ship Impact Was on the Scale of a Rocket Launch

Aatish Bhatia and Francesca Paris ∙ March 28, 2024
Force of Ship Impact Was on the Scale of a Rocket Launch

Can You Create a Diverse College Class Without Affirmative Action?

Aatish Bhatia and Emily Badger ∙ March 9, 2024
Can You Create a Diverse College Class Without Affirmative Action?

Seven Things We Learned Analyzing 515 Million Wordles

Josh Katz and Aatish Bhatia ∙ Dec. 17, 2023
Seven Things We Learned Analyzing 515 Million Wordles

‘A Beautiful Place That Has a Dragon’: Where Hurricane Risk Meets Booming Growth

Aatish Bhatia ∙ Nov. 19, 2023
‘A Beautiful Place That Has a Dragon’: Where Hurricane Risk Meets Booming Growth

Explore How Income Influences Attendance at 139 Top Colleges

Aatish Bhatia and Claire Cain Miller ∙ Sept. 11, 2023
Explore How Income Influences Attendance at 139 Top Colleges

Study of Elite College Admissions Data Suggests Being Very Rich Is Its Own Qualification

Aatish Bhatia, Claire Cain Miller and Josh Katz ∙ July 24, 2023
Study of Elite College Admissions Data Suggests Being Very Rich Is Its Own Qualification

Let Us Show You How GPT Works — Using Jane Austen

Aatish Bhatia ∙ April 27, 2023
Let Us Show You How GPT Works — Using Jane Austen

Watch How Arctic Air Blanketed the U.S. Last Week

Aatish Bhatia and Margot Sanger-Katz ∙ Dec. 31, 2022
Watch How Arctic Air Blanketed the U.S. Last Week

See Everything the White House Wanted, and Everything It Got

Aatish Bhatia, Francesca Paris and Margot Sanger-Katz ∙ Oct. 20, 2022
See Everything the White House Wanted, and Everything It Got

‘It’s Super Spectacular.’ See How the Tonga Volcano Unleashed a Once-in-a-Century Shockwave.

Aatish Bhatia and Henry Fountain ∙ April 14, 2022
‘It’s Super Spectacular.’ See How the Tonga Volcano Unleashed a Once-in-a-Century Shockwave.

How Much Snow Will Fall Where You Live?

Aatish Bhatia, Josh Katz, Margot Sanger-Katz and Samuel Jacoby ∙ Jan. 28, 2022
How Much Snow Will Fall Where You Live?

When They Warn of Rare Disorders, These Prenatal Tests Are Usually Wrong

Sarah Kliff and Aatish Bhatia ∙ Jan. 1, 2022
When They Warn of Rare Disorders, These Prenatal Tests Are Usually Wrong

Why We’re Experiencing So Many Unusually Hot Summer Nights

Aatish Bhatia and Josh Katz ∙ Sept. 13, 2021
Why We’re Experiencing So Many Unusually Hot Summer Nights

These Maps Tell the Story of Two Americas: One Parched, One Soaked

Aatish Bhatia and Nadja Popovich ∙ Aug. 24, 2021
These Maps Tell the Story of Two Americas: One Parched, One Soaked

How Weird Is the Heat in Portland, Seattle and Vancouver? Off the Charts.

Aatish Bhatia, Henry Fountain and Kevin Quealy ∙ June 29, 2021
How Weird Is the Heat in Portland, Seattle and Vancouver? Off the Charts.

You can find all my NYT articles at nytimes.com/by/aatish-bhatia

Prior work

From 2019 to 2020, I wrote a climate science newsletter called The Rate of Change.

In 2015, I wrote a science blog with Robert Krulwich called Noticing.

From 2011 to 2015, I wrote an award-winning science blog called Empirical Zeal, which was hosted at WIRED for a few years.