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Jennifer Johnson

@jajohnson.bsky.social

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Astronomer. Fan of the Galaxy. Member of @sdssurveys.bsky.social. Periodically interested in origin of elements. Still working on triple pirouette.

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Jennifer Ann Johnson is assistant professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University, and one of the chief editors of the journal Sexualization, Media, and Society.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 3d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Jennifer Johnson @jajohnson.bsky.social · 12d

woot woot!

JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 12d

So exhausting..

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 14d

New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

www.nsf.gov

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 16d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Jennifer Johnson @jajohnson.bsky.social · 22d

Being stylish at the Veleros de Columbus game

Three people with three different ballcaps on

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 28d

Process of the commission prize for K'Andra, winner of the @blackinastro.bsky.social Art Contest!
#sciart

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · Sep 10

Okay, astro sky! 🔭 Has anyone successfully started a NSF AAPF application on grants.gov or research.gov? My advisee says it is grayed out/not available, but the program officer confirms that the AAPF should be open!

Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · Aug 23

Hi astro 🔭 sky, I heard that the NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoc Fellowship (AAPF) is not being offered this year. Is that correct? I know it was cut in the PBR, but I wasn't sure what that meant in practice. Typically app would have opened Aug 15. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships (AAPF)

www.nsf.gov

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · Sep 10

Great story about @capricephillips.bsky.social by @tatyanazaria.bsky.social in the OSU alumni magazine! 🔭 alumnimagazine.osu.edu/story/capric...

Caprice Phillips is busy solving cosmic mysteries

Ohio State prepared this two-time graduate to ask and answer big questions in a prestigious NASA fellowship.

alumnimagazine.osu.edu

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Jennifer Johnson @jajohnson.bsky.social · Aug 31

Jeremejevite is not a character in The Broken Earth Trilogy 🙁 nor one of the first minerals to condense out of protoplanetary nebulae, so I may just have to go for silver and its neutron-capture origins....

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Jennifer Johnson @jajohnson.bsky.social · Aug 31

My heart is broken 💔 that corundum doesn't get a chance this year #MinCup25

Mineral Cup #MinCup25 @mineralcup.bsky.social · Aug 29

Behold, the #MinCup35 bracket!

Use it to follow along, plan campaigns to support your favs, or make predictions on how voting will shake out. We start at the top left on September 1st, then alternate left and right as we work our way down.

A sports-style elimination bracket of 32 minerals labeled "Mineral Cup 2025". Text below reads, "Daily voting takes place on www.MineralCup.org in September. Campaign on your favorite social media using #MinCup25."

The starting matches are, in chronological order: chrysotile versus pectolite, stibnite versus okenite, jeremejevite versus haüyne, calcite versus perovskite, silver versus baryte, carpathite versus leucite, sanidine versus hematite, pollucite versus tugtupite, kosmochlor versus azurite, dioptase versus wavellite, titanite versus thortveitite, zunyite versus molybdenite, topaz versus kyanite, cuprosklodowskite versus ikaite, taenite versus nontronite, and paddlewheelite versus mannardite.

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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · Aug 30

I can

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Mineral Cup #MinCup25 @mineralcup.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · Aug 28

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

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Jay @duniagamemaster.bsky.social · Aug 25

It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Aug 24

Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally:

"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."

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Jennifer Johnson @jajohnson.bsky.social · Aug 20

Feel like you should all get a better shot of the hot dog heads in the front

Looking down on four people wearing foam hot dogs on their heads. Two of them are garnished with mustard, one with ketchup and one with relish

Jennifer Johnson @jajohnson.bsky.social · Aug 20

At the ballgame with Jen Pawol behind the plate

Image of home plate area with 2 male ball players and one female umpire

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · Aug 17

She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · Aug 14

Not that anyone is still on this topic, but I worked (it was not insignificant work) w/ my uni’s general counsel to appeal cancellation of my NSF grant. The appeal has been denied. Not a surprise and I’m sure 1000s of others are in the same boat but, hey, we all really wanted to do just do the work.

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Betty Cracker of Florida @bettycrackerfl.bsky.social · Aug 13

Flock of Roseate Spoonbills taking over my crappy boat! #birds

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The Innocence Project @innocenceproject.bsky.social · Aug 11

Texas is preparing to kill an innocent man. Robert Roberson is on death row for a crime that never happened. He’s scheduled for execution on Oct. 16. Time is running out. Read about his story and learn how to help: innocenceproject.org/news/what-to...