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Jennie Erin Smith @jennieerinsmith.bsky.social · 19h

"Supporters of eugenics, the powerful early 20th-century movement for improving human heredity, often attacked that era's dramatic improvements in public health and medicine for preserving the lives of people they considered hereditarily unfit" Am J Public Health. 1997 Nov;87(11):1767–1772.

Politico @politico.com · 22h

Mass firings have hit the CDC.

Mass firings hit CDC

Notices of the Trump administration’s reduction-in-force arrived late Friday, several former and current agency employees told POLITICO.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Jennie Erin Smith @jennieerinsmith.bsky.social · 20h

Pitchbot level

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Murray Carpenter @murray-journo.bsky.social · 1d

So great to see @jennieerinsmith.bsky.social on the neuroscience beat at @science.org!
www.science.org/content/arti...

Perfume scientists tweak cells into having ‘sense of smell’

A study could transform the lab study of olfaction—and may challenge a Nobel-winning hypothesis

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

This is the way

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M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

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Jennie Erin Smith @jennieerinsmith.bsky.social · 1d

so touching and so deserved

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 2d

“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.”

The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

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Emory Human Health @emorycshh.bsky.social · 2d

"What does a clinical trial, especially a very long-lasting one, in this case, literally for generations...what does it owe to its participants?" The question runs through the heart of @jennieerinsmith.bsky.social's book, Valley of Forgetting. Health Storytelling Q&A w/ @marynmck.bsky.social

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Jennie Erin Smith @jennieerinsmith.bsky.social · 2d

That’s why it is important to have steady protest presence in these places, just reminding people they’re not crazy for thinking it

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Jennie Erin Smith @jennieerinsmith.bsky.social · 3d

Would be nice if they were contiguous

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 3d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Jennie Erin Smith @jennieerinsmith.bsky.social · 3d

Nah he knows none of this is true but that his base is eager to believe it

Jennie Erin Smith @jennieerinsmith.bsky.social · 4d

She’s not that smart to begin with

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Jennie Erin Smith @jennieerinsmith.bsky.social · 4d

Have to assume the idea is to shrink govt further

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Jennie Erin Smith @jennieerinsmith.bsky.social · 7d

their ancestors were not slave owners they just like to think so

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Jennie Erin Smith @jennieerinsmith.bsky.social · 7d

she does not ooze contempt. they just have to say this about Black women and some men. They say it about Jasmine Crockett and I doubt there is another rep in Congress who enjoys her job more. Jamelle Bouie gets pegged as "bitter" & he just wants to show you his new cameras and sourdough

Jennie Erin Smith @jennieerinsmith.bsky.social · 7d

she's been conditioned not to complain

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Jennie Erin Smith @jennieerinsmith.bsky.social · 8d

I inhabit a personal multiverse in which this woman does not exist

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 8d

‘A proud sci-fi and fantasy nerd, Amanda Knox inhabits the multiverse. She “fantasises about moving to a remote village in Germany and becoming a seamstress”; “If all else fails,” she jokes, “I can make cuckoo clocks for a living.”’

Jessica Olin on Knox’s new memoir: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Jessica Olin · In the Multiverse: What Knox did next

A proud sci-fi and fantasy nerd, Amanda Knox inhabits the multiverse. She ‘fantasises about moving to a remote village...

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Jennie Erin Smith @jennieerinsmith.bsky.social · 9d

Worse, Bukele will make his life hell there. He will end up having to move to Costa Rica like the rest of El Salvador's responsible press.

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Jennie Erin Smith @jennieerinsmith.bsky.social · 10d

I’m relieved to learn that voting is still a thing they worry about

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 10d

RIP

Jane Goodall Returns From Latest Expedition With Annoying Chimp Accent

BOURNEMOUTH, ENGLAND—Gesturing wildly with her arms and grunting whenever she spoke, Dr. Jane Goodall returned from her latest expedition with an annoying chimp accent, sources confirmed Monday. “She ...

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Jennie Erin Smith @jennieerinsmith.bsky.social · 10d

He needs to get asylum in Spain

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Jennie Erin Smith @jennieerinsmith.bsky.social · 10d

I think about this piece a lot

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

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Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

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Jennie Erin Smith @jennieerinsmith.bsky.social · 13d

You’ve made me hate this guy and I’ve never read a word he’s written

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Jennie Erin Smith @jennieerinsmith.bsky.social · 14d

Right?

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