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Dr. Jenny Morber

@jrmorber.bsky.social

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PNW freelance sci journo, PhD nanosci and materials engineering. World traveler, field reporter. Newly focused on probing solutions to our biggest problems, but still interested in whale anuses and poo. I love the weird things. she/her

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · Mar 31

Hello to all my new followers!

I am a former nanomaterials researcher turned science and solutions journalist living and working in the US.

I care about: free press, evidence-based science, accurate info, climate and environment, human rights, democracy, healthcare, poop, death, weird science

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 30m

I just returned from a summit in which people discussed how close we are to nuclear war (quite) and the prospect of boldly increasing nuclear weapon production (staggering) but the issue of how we are to define our reality is the one I worry about the most.

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 30m

I keep pondering what we can do about this. Pivot to paper? A new slew of AI countering apps in a reality parsing arms race? A culture that rejects the idea of an objective reality altogether? AI-free labels provided by some independent source?

Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 30m

With the advent of Sonos video and audio in which reality is (be honest) indistinguishable from reality, I do not know how any of us, and especially the greater public will be able to parse what is real from what is not.

Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 30m

In a recent talk @jbenbradford.bsky.social noted that most communities have 0-1 local news sources, only 10% of households subscribe to a newspaper, website news traffic is ⬇️ 40%, YouTube and social media are the main news source for most Americans

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The Barents Observer @thebarentsobserver.com · 8d

Igor Rudenya is sanctioned by the international community for his involvement in the abduction of Ukrainian children. He now takes over the post as Putin's plenipotentiary in the Northwest Federal District

Putin's new leader of Northwest Russia is staunch supporter of war and Orthodoxy

www.thebarentsobserver.com

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Taylor Barnes @tkbarnes.bsky.social · Feb 29

Love everything from Alicia Inez Guzmán, who covers nuclear weapons and Los Alamos for Searchlight New Mexico. Great piece here will get you up to speed on an issue (plutonium pit aging!) that seems inscrutable but that Alícia makes relevant and comprehensible:

searchlightnm.org/the-reawaken...

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 4h

Trump is shocked at how easy it was to turn the US into a personalist dictatorship (we're squarely on the way but not quite there) & claims to be having a lot of fun

All these actions reflect a buoyed commander-in-chief who feels emboldened to go further after feeling as though he has faced surprisingly little resistance to his ambitious agenda in the first 9 months. He has even remarked to aides that he is shocked how easy it is all proven to be.

While the war in Ukraine continues to bedevil Trump, causing him the most frustrations, he doesn't face the discontent, sniping and disagreements that characterized his first term, said David Urban, a long time ally. " This time, he's having way more fun," Urban said.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 2h

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 1h

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A small (932 people) study published in JAMA Psychiatry found that consuming soft drinks was linked to major depressive disorder, a connection potentially mediated by changes in the gut microbiota.

More research needed, but interesting.

Sugary Drinks May Influence Depression Through Gut Microbiome

Although soft drink consumption is typically associated with poor physical health outcomes, it may also influence mental health. Research published in JAMA Psychiatry found that consuming soft drinks ...

jamanetwork.com

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 3h

Me too!

Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 3h

That’s what this book says!

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 4h

Via Matt Parker’s book Humble Pi, a million seconds is 11 days and 14 hours. A billion is over 31 years. A trillion seconds from now is the year 33700.

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 4h

I have advanced degrees in engineering. I got As in complex calculus and mathematics classes. Yet every time I am confronted with the difference between a million, billion, and trillion, I am blown away.

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 5h

Ladies—do not give up your power. Recently I attended a conference in which an accomplished young woman began her talk with “now is a good time to fall asleep.” She undercut herself before she even started. The man after her said “I want you to listen to me.” Yeah.

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 6h

Want to know how various types of nuclear bombs would affect your city? Who doesn’t?! Hahahaha. Ha. Ahem. Here you go:

Outrider.org/bomb

What would happen if a nuclear bomb went off in your backyard?

Experience the power of a low-yield nuclear weapon in your area

Outrider.org

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TheDesk.net @thedesk.net · 19h

Update: WGN-TV, without naming the employee, said she has been released from Border Patrol custody without charges. WGN-TV says it can't release her identity because of an internal newsroom policy.

TheDesk.net @thedesk.net · 23h

#BREAKING: A video producer for WGN-TV in Chicago was detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents during an enforcement operation early Friday morning.

Debbie Brockman was arrested on suspicion of obstruction, something she denies.

WGN-TV producer detained by Border Patrol during operation in Chicago

A video producer for WGN-TV was detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents during an enforcement operation in Chicago on Friday.

thedesk.net

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Lilia Cervantes @cervantes-lily1.bsky.social · Nov 10

1/15-Migrating w/updated publications

Meet Hilda. I was one of her doctors. When she died, she left 2 sons behind. My grief about her situation brought anger and then determination.

A #skeetorial on outcomes, advocacy, and policy in dialysis access for undocumented immigrants.
#MedSky #NephSky

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 23h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 1d

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

“These results suggest that cuts to emergency Medicaid will produce minimal overall cost savings and will disproportionately harm states with large undocumented populations.”

Medicaid Spending for Undocumented Immigrants

This cross-sectional analysis examines emergency Medicaid spending relative to total Medicaid expenditures and identifies state factors associated with variation in spending.

jamanetwork.com

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

a high armhole allows for freer and more comfortable movement

Joey Mannarino in a dark brown tailored jacket. The low armhole is causing his jacket to lift.

Someone in an inflatable frog costume. The high armhole allows them to raise their arm without disturbing the rest of the garment

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t mean to alarm people but I learned today that we are much closer to nuclear war than I thought. I guess that was always a risk at a nuclear focused conference but I was kinda hoping it would be the opposite.

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, thank you! Kudos.

Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 2d

Friends, the first thing we must think to ourselves, every time we see an image or video now, is “is this AI?”

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