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ClutchScience (Jen Phillips)

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She/her Permadoc @ UOregon zebrafish community NIH and 501c3 funded scientist Molecular genetics of human diseases Married to a cute OD Parent of two awesome grown people Daughter of a mild-mannered mom in memory care

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ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · Nov 12

What was I “known for” on Twitter? Gotta be this one:

ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · Nov 12

For me it’s the time I went viral for a thread about my mom getting the Covid vaccine. It was RTd & shared thousands of times. High profile accounts followed me. NBC’s Today Show called.
Utter chaos. Image of the first tweet attached, also link to full text.
elderhealthandliving.com/mother-of-pe...

Screenshot of a Tweet from January 2021 (see link in body of sheet for the full text) including a photo of my mom

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 5h

Show of hands if you’re a Portlander dog-tired from dealing with the fables spun by this Trump disciple

Kristi Noem calls Oregon leaders liars, says feds will ‘double down’ in Portland

The remarks came two days after Noem made an appearance Tuesday at South Portland’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement building, the site of protests since June.

www.oregonlive.com

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ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah please do NOT do this

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 8h

"That's why we should give all babies aspirin," RFK Jr. continued

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · 8h

Next time someone is nominated for this position I guess at least one Senator needs to ask them to describe human reproduction as they understand it.

ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · 10h

I fucking gasped out loud reading this at work and my coworkers were concerned that something went wrong with my experiment.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10h

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ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · 10h

Does the article mention that the protesters were blasting “Yakketty Sax” at her the whole time she was peering over the parapet? Because that was some value added imo

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ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · 10h

THAT’S NOT HOW IT WORKS

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · 10h

Really, at that point, it would be the least of your worries!

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 15h

The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 15h

The acting director of the CDC called for new, separate MMR shots. That would be "remarkably complicated, time-consuming, costly, but more importantly unnecessary," @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social told me:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Alarm as CDC calls for separate MMR vaccines despite measles outbreak

Concerns that three separate shots would be more costly and time-consuming, and keep kids from being vaccinated

www.theguardian.com

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ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · 16h

I’m trying to watch Djokovic objectively but it’s truly off-putting to see him push himself to this ghastly physical limit for what seems like a pretty trivial reason (in the context of his goaty career). It’s like watching someone on a hunger strike to protest the new Tron Movie or something 🎾

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ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · 1d

Y’all, yes, he’s definitely ignorant & delusional but ALSO quite obviously hard of hearing. “oh I’ll be looking into that” or “X will make a decision on that” def broadcasts lack of understanding but I can’t chalk 100% of that up to cognitive disarray when he clearly can’t hear reporter ?’s clearly

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Daisy Shu @eyedaisyshu.bsky.social · 9d

I'm so excited to be hiring my first postdoc! If you love retinal biology and developing new therapeutics to cure blindness, please apply! Thank you to the @brightfocus.bsky.social for supporting my research and enabling me to grow my research team! external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

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UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social · 1d

Teresa Puthussery, a UC Berkeley vision scientist whose insights into the retina could one day help those with vision loss regain their sight, has been named a 2025 MacArthur “genius” Fellow. news.berkeley.edu/2025/10/08/v...

Vision scientist Teresa Puthussery receives MacArthur ‘genius’ award - Berkeley News

Puthussery’s discoveries about the retina are paving the way for new treatments for eye disease and vision loss

news.berkeley.edu

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ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · 1d

It’s an intolerable abomination imo

ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · 1d

“Considering”? Such a will o’ the wisp, that guy. No telling where he’ll turn up

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 1d

I have taken
the freedom of speech
that was in
the Constitution

and which
you were probably
using
for peaceful protest

Forgive me
the courts said they were
so agitating
and so irritating

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Banned Books Week! 🗃️

For more information on Book Bans, check out this recent report from @penamerica.bsky.social

pen.org/report/the-n...

Read Banned Books under a shelf of books.

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ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · 1d

Uuuhhhh

Screenshot of a 404 page(from following the link in the OP) on Fox News website that reads “something has gone wrong…”. “It seems yoh clicked on a bad link and stumbled on a 404 page”
Below this is a search box, and below that the message “here’s what you might be looking for” above a ball cap with a Christian cross on the side and a stylized American flag shaped like the continental US above the word “FREEDOM”. The hat is sitting on a wooden surface with a woodsy fall background. This is 100% not what I was looking for.

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 1d

The center at Duke that I'm fortunate to lead studies the effects of aid cuts; we recently summarized key lessons from our research at www.brookings.edu/articles/nav...

One key conclusion: sudden, poorly planned donor exits, like the one @jamellebouie.net describes, cause disease resurgence & death

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused 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.

apnews.com

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 1d

Today, Senator Kaine and I will force the Senate to vote on the administration’s decision to blow up ships in the Caribbean.

If a president can unilaterally put people or groups on a list and kill them, there is no meaningful limit to his use of force.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Noem’s agenda for the trip has not been announced.

Sen. Wyden had a blunt response: “Kristi Noem is cosplaying as a public official. In reality, she’s been sent by Trump to incite violence."

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/10/kristi-noem-visiting-portland-today-city-officials-confirm.html

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Polarsprite 🧚‍♂️ @polarsprite.bsky.social · 9d

Passive aggressive level 100 this is how we roll in the PNW 🤣 Protesters in Portland are going ice fishing with donuts as bait on fishing polls, holding dance offs in front of ICE barricades in goofy costumes and just being incredibly annoying to ICE there's no violence from protesters whatsoever.

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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 1d

"The disbelief that Trump could rise in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait; it’s a confession."

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

rewirenewsgroup.com

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ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · 1d

They pay the ER less for treating pregnant people because it doesn’t cost much to say “there’s not much we can legally do for you until your fetus dies and you yourself are at death’s door. Please wait in the parking lot”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 1d

If you're a California voter, please vote YES ON 50 and send that ballot back ASAP so the volunteers don't waste any time on you. And maybe volunteer if you have the time.

linktr.ee/cadem

Sweet Californians, send those ballots back ASAP, so the volunteers don't need to bother with you.

TikTok video by LOLGOP

www.tiktok.com

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OPB @opb.org · 1d

The governor spoke with OPB's "Think Out Loud" yesterday about recent events in Portland, where the president wants to deploy National Guard troops. Whether Trump has that authority now rests in the courts. In Kotek's view, it is unlawful and "the rule of law has to hold.”

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek denounces president’s attempts to send National Guard to Portland

Kotek told OPB's "Think Out Loud" that there is "not a factual need" for National Guard troops in Portland.

www.opb.org

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