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Jeannette Sutton PhD

@suttonj.bsky.social

1.5K followers 690 following 260 posts

Alert and warning researcher currently located in the NE but willing to move. My side hustle is thewarnroom.com I like quilts, cats, and birding.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2d

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

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Jeannette Sutton PhD @suttonj.bsky.social · 3d

lies. shame on him for the lies he tells.

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Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 5d

Is to understand in a very visceral, very human way the profound cruelty of a policy that seems to interrupt and complicate and brutalize the lives of ordinary people for the sheer sadistic pleasure of it. Each detention radiates out in its harm and disruption: the two-year-old traumatized, ...

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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 5d

Trump is saying if Democrats don't bend the knee and let him take health care away from millions, he's just going to turn around and inflict pain by firing American workers and withholding funding from our communities.

That’s not governing. That’s a wannabe king taking hostages.

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SciLine @sciline.org · 10d

@sejorg.bsky.social @morelatinosinnews.bsky.social @nabjlaofficial.bsky.social @transjournalists.org @nlgjaofficial.bsky.social @aajaofficial.bsky.social @pmja.bsky.social @inn.org @ire.org @journalists.org @spj-posts.bsky.social

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 20d

Dutch late night TV has its take

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 22d

National Academies is releasing their fast-tracked review of the science of the endangerment finding in about 1 hour, with a webcast in about 2 hours.

www.nationalacademies.org/event/45701_...

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Jeannette Sutton PhD @suttonj.bsky.social · 29d

"Guess Stop O"

Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 29d

"Welcome to your first day on the job as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer. We hope you enjoyed your $50,000 signing bonus and were finally able to pay off your legal fees related to January 6 and/or your divorce." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ice...

ICE’s Training Manual for Determining Who to Terrorize

“The Supreme Court on Monday lifted a federal judge’s order prohibiting government agents from making indiscriminate immigration-related stops in t...

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 29d

ICE’s Training Manual for Determining Who to Terrorize

“The Supreme Court on Monday lifted a federal judge’s order prohibiting government agents from making indiscriminate immigration-related stops in t...

www.mcsweeneys.net

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Jeannette Sutton PhD @suttonj.bsky.social · Sep 8

American Meteorological Society is where EM and Met intersect - there are sessions dedicated to this.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 7

TAPPER: Hepatitis A, whooping cough, & chickenpox cases are rising in Florida. Before you made this decision to lift vaccine mandates, did your dept do any analysis of how many new cases there will be?

LADAPO: Absolutely not

T: You didn't even do a projection?

L: It's an issue of right & wrong

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · Sep 7

The gentleman from Kentucky is right.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · Sep 7

Senator Rand Paul directly and forthrightly takes on JD Vance:

"What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial."

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Franca (Ph.D.) 🇨🇦 @francaqc.bsky.social · Aug 26

False. www.scientificamerican.com/article/whal...

No, Offshore Wind Isn’t What’s Killing Whales

Politicians and nonprofit groups have blamed offshore wind turbines for whale deaths, but the science doesn’t support those claims—at all

www.scientificamerican.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Aug 22

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout.

On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.

This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.

Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

Photo of DOGE staffer Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old white man in a blue pullover, carrying a black backpack.

Photo of 53-year-old Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi. He is sitting, wearing white pants and shirt with a brown vest.

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Sharon Lerner @fastlerner.bsky.social · Aug 21

a heartbreaking - gutting - overview of the scientists we have lost so far under this administration by my colleagues @bxroberts.org @anniewaldman.bsky.social and @pratheekrebala.bsky.social

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Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies

More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform...

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Jeannette Sutton PhD @suttonj.bsky.social · Aug 21

It’s basically correlation - a WEA amber alert is just one way the public are alerted about abducted children.

Jeannette Sutton PhD @suttonj.bsky.social · Aug 18

Do other academics have the pleasure of attending an annual retreat where you hear about all of the problems facing the dept, college, university, nation and leave feeling more 😔 than when you arrived? We’re only slide 10 into 80 and wow, this is gonna be a long morning.

Jeannette Sutton PhD @suttonj.bsky.social · Aug 18

Ahahaha. The provost at my university decided to centralize post award support in her office. My college has asked for this kind of college level support for 5 years. Nope. 😂

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Aug 17

📽️ WATCH: Student Kenneth Santizo captured ICE and FBI officers stopping a family on their way to church in the Boston suburbs.

Agents broke the window, forced Daniel Flores-Martinez to his knees and slammed him to the ground while his children and his wife, a U.S. citizen, sobbed in the car.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Aug 13

New Zealand woman and six-year-old son detained for three weeks by Ice in US enduring ‘terrifying’ ordeal
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

New Zealand woman and six-year-old son detained for three weeks by Ice in US enduring ‘terrifying’ ordeal

Sarah Shaw, who has a US visa and lives in Washington state, was detained after attempting to re-enter US from Canada

www.theguardian.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Aug 12

This is dark. The far-right whitewashing of history and indoctrination of kids is well underway.

www.vox.com/today-explai...

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Andrew Rumbach @andrewrumbach.bsky.social · Aug 11

Already seeing hallucinated references in peer-reviewed papers with otherwise good quality, i.e. researchers using AI for literature review portions. Add it to the already massive pile of problems with our publishing norms.

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Jeannette Sutton PhD @suttonj.bsky.social · Aug 6

We’ve got a lot of work to do across the entire warning system to improve. The tools to write effective messages have decades of research to back them. What and how to reduce alert fatigue needs attention now. Thanks for your work!

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Jeannette Sutton PhD @suttonj.bsky.social · Aug 6

As you’re working on this, I’m working on how to better define and measure over alerting and warning fatigue. It’s been studied extensively in the aviation industry and healthcare but we have limited knowledge about it in public safety. Since alerts moved to our phones, it’s different.

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Jeannette Sutton PhD @suttonj.bsky.social · Aug 5

I have that class too! My approach so far has been ‘here’s what the published literature says, now tell me what you’re seeing in the real world this week.’

Jeannette Sutton PhD @suttonj.bsky.social · Aug 3

We are loving your updates about Jeff. Please keep them coming.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · Aug 3

People in NYC/NJ seem — yes that was an earthquake. A small one, but still. Tell USGS if you felt it here:

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

M 3.0 - 0 km NE of Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey

Plus a map of where it hit near NYC

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · Aug 2

The witch hunts of 1400-1780 and today's misinformation crisis have striking parallels.

Both were fueled by new media technologies that allowed false information to spread rapidly and widely. buff.ly/6RFALyJ By Julie Walsh @wellesley.edu

From printing presses to Facebook feeds: What yesterday’s witch hunts have in common with today’s misinformation crisis

Who bears responsibility when false information leads to real harm?

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Jeva Lange 🫎 @jeva.bsky.social · Jul 30

Just a few months ago, I did an entire piece about how the Trump administration is completely gutting our tsunami warning infrastructure and endangering lives… heatmap.news/adaptation/t...

Now Is a Really Bad Time for the Really Big One

Job and funding cuts to federal emergency programs have the nation’s tsunami response experts, shall we say, concerned.

heatmap.news

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