Dr. Jenny Morber
@jrmorber.bsky.social
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
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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I cannot stress enough how much these kinds of notes mean to teachers.
Or anyone, really. If someone has made a positive impact on your life, reach out and let them know. It'll make their week.
Or anyone, really. If someone has made a positive impact on your life, reach out and let them know. It'll make their week.
Sometimes a former student emails and reminds you that you don't suck at your job.
February 13, 2026 at 1:39 AM
I cannot stress enough how much these kinds of notes mean to teachers.
Or anyone, really. If someone has made a positive impact on your life, reach out and let them know. It'll make their week.
Or anyone, really. If someone has made a positive impact on your life, reach out and let them know. It'll make their week.
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if you haven't snorted cocaine off toilet seats
if you haven't visited epstein's island
if you aren't getting sued by kids sexually abused while working for your company
if you haven't shot your puppy
if you aren't an alcoholic accused of sexual assault
do you even BELONG in Trump's cabinet?
if you haven't visited epstein's island
if you aren't getting sued by kids sexually abused while working for your company
if you haven't shot your puppy
if you aren't an alcoholic accused of sexual assault
do you even BELONG in Trump's cabinet?
February 13, 2026 at 12:37 AM
if you haven't snorted cocaine off toilet seats
if you haven't visited epstein's island
if you aren't getting sued by kids sexually abused while working for your company
if you haven't shot your puppy
if you aren't an alcoholic accused of sexual assault
do you even BELONG in Trump's cabinet?
if you haven't visited epstein's island
if you aren't getting sued by kids sexually abused while working for your company
if you haven't shot your puppy
if you aren't an alcoholic accused of sexual assault
do you even BELONG in Trump's cabinet?
Epstein-Barr is also linked to several types of cancer
If Moderna is no longer bringing vaccine trials for Epstein-Barr virus (good evidence that EB causes Multiple Sclerosis), herpes, and shingles because of Trump appointees, I want prison time for those appointees.
This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.
This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.
February 13, 2026 at 4:14 AM
Epstein-Barr is also linked to several types of cancer
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Department of Homeland Security Blanket
The details of the Kristi Noem blanket incident are just fucking perfect
February 13, 2026 at 4:05 AM
Department of Homeland Security Blanket
To those of you spreading kindness and taking care of people right now, thank you from the bottom of my heart.
February 13, 2026 at 4:04 AM
To those of you spreading kindness and taking care of people right now, thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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Cricket 🏏 and Donald Trump – yes, you read right – this is great 😆 ⬇️
February 13, 2026 at 1:42 AM
Cricket 🏏 and Donald Trump – yes, you read right – this is great 😆 ⬇️
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More than a year after its formation, I continue to track DOGE's activities and try to shed light on their staffing based on what limited information I can find.
dogetrack.info
dogetrack.info
DOGE Track
An automatically-generated and frequently updated site for presenting data on DOGE’s rampage across government, designed to work on large screens and mobile phones.
dogetrack.info
February 13, 2026 at 1:50 AM
More than a year after its formation, I continue to track DOGE's activities and try to shed light on their staffing based on what limited information I can find.
dogetrack.info
dogetrack.info
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Young darlings, this is what Twitter used to be
This is an accurate endorsement of Bluesky. The core user base are the kids who would whisper "wanna see a weird bug?"
And then proceed to show you the weirdest bug/thing/idea you have ever seen.
Welcome, #NewSkies
And then proceed to show you the weirdest bug/thing/idea you have ever seen.
Welcome, #NewSkies
Someone told me lately "Bluesky is just like Twitter." I argued that was untrue on the basis that last time I had a Twitter account most times I got a new follower their bio said "single & looking for fun" & here when I get a new follower it tends to say something like "professor of rare moths".
February 12, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Young darlings, this is what Twitter used to be
I know dozens of repudabe health researchers, scientists, and journalists, all of whom are super upset at what is happening at the federal level because of all the unnecessary pain and suffering and death and pestilence it will cause. Fair.
February 12, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I know dozens of repudabe health researchers, scientists, and journalists, all of whom are super upset at what is happening at the federal level because of all the unnecessary pain and suffering and death and pestilence it will cause. Fair.
Middle southern journos take note:
The contest is open to residents of AR, LA, MS, MI, OK, TN, and TX, and entries can be submitted through March 16.
$15,000 in cash will be distributed to reporters and their newsrooms.
arkansasspj.org/category/dia...
The contest is open to residents of AR, LA, MS, MI, OK, TN, and TX, and entries can be submitted through March 16.
$15,000 in cash will be distributed to reporters and their newsrooms.
arkansasspj.org/category/dia...
arkansasspj.org
February 12, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Middle southern journos take note:
The contest is open to residents of AR, LA, MS, MI, OK, TN, and TX, and entries can be submitted through March 16.
$15,000 in cash will be distributed to reporters and their newsrooms.
arkansasspj.org/category/dia...
The contest is open to residents of AR, LA, MS, MI, OK, TN, and TX, and entries can be submitted through March 16.
$15,000 in cash will be distributed to reporters and their newsrooms.
arkansasspj.org/category/dia...
WHOA!
People talk about working out to get gains.
But to get those gains? The BRAIN must gain first!
When scientists "turned off" a specific set of cells in the ventromedial hypothalamus, mice failed to gain endurance after exercise. www.nationalgeographic.com/health/artic...
But to get those gains? The BRAIN must gain first!
When scientists "turned off" a specific set of cells in the ventromedial hypothalamus, mice failed to gain endurance after exercise. www.nationalgeographic.com/health/artic...
Want to get stronger? Your brain may matter more than muscles, new research shows
Studies on the neurons of mice suggest our own human endurance may have more to do with the brain than our physique.
www.nationalgeographic.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:11 PM
WHOA!
Sci/energy #journalists -> a #fellowship:
"offers journalists the opportunity to learn about the intersecting disciplines shaping the global energy sector, including finance and markets, climate change, science and technology, policy, and geopolitics."
www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/programs/ene...
"offers journalists the opportunity to learn about the intersecting disciplines shaping the global energy sector, including finance and markets, climate change, science and technology, policy, and geopolitics."
www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/programs/ene...
Energy Journalism Fellows - Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA | CGEP
Energy Journalism Fellows program: Reporters explore finance, markets, climate, tech, policy, and geopolitics shaping global energy.
www.energypolicy.columbia.edu
February 12, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Sci/energy #journalists -> a #fellowship:
"offers journalists the opportunity to learn about the intersecting disciplines shaping the global energy sector, including finance and markets, climate change, science and technology, policy, and geopolitics."
www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/programs/ene...
"offers journalists the opportunity to learn about the intersecting disciplines shaping the global energy sector, including finance and markets, climate change, science and technology, policy, and geopolitics."
www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/programs/ene...
I hearby repeal cancer!
February 12, 2026 at 9:40 PM
I hearby repeal cancer!
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Let me repeat what Katie says: YOU. CAN'T. REPEAL. A. SCIENTIFIC.FINDING. That's not how it works.
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
February 12, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Let me repeat what Katie says: YOU. CAN'T. REPEAL. A. SCIENTIFIC.FINDING. That's not how it works.
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Just a reminder that I'm hiring! Looking for an engineer/research for some fun projects (some building! some designing!)
Come build spectrographs at UW.
Come build spectrographs at UW.
Research Scientist/Engineer 2 (E S UAW Research)
Job Description The University of Washington (UW) Astronomy Department has an outstanding opportunity for a researcher who will have responsibilities in the design, development, construction, and test...
wd5.myworkdaysite.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Just a reminder that I'm hiring! Looking for an engineer/research for some fun projects (some building! some designing!)
Come build spectrographs at UW.
Come build spectrographs at UW.
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Every woman should be honored to be this man's enemy. Come at me, bro
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Every woman should be honored to be this man's enemy. Come at me, bro
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Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now.
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
February 12, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now.
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
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Part of what the authoritarian does to reaffirm their place in the hierarchy is to kiss up to those above them and shit on those below them.
This is crucial: inflicting cruelty on those weaker than them, lower than them, is how the authoritarian self-soothes, cements their place in the universe.
This is crucial: inflicting cruelty on those weaker than them, lower than them, is how the authoritarian self-soothes, cements their place in the universe.
February 12, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Part of what the authoritarian does to reaffirm their place in the hierarchy is to kiss up to those above them and shit on those below them.
This is crucial: inflicting cruelty on those weaker than them, lower than them, is how the authoritarian self-soothes, cements their place in the universe.
This is crucial: inflicting cruelty on those weaker than them, lower than them, is how the authoritarian self-soothes, cements their place in the universe.
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Godspeed.
“We will see them in court, and we will win,” said Manish Bapna, the president of the Natural Resources Defense Council. “The science and the law are crystal clear, and E.P.A. is issuing a rushed, sloppy and unscientific determination that has no legal basis.”
“We will see them in court, and we will win,” said Manish Bapna, the president of the Natural Resources Defense Council. “The science and the law are crystal clear, and E.P.A. is issuing a rushed, sloppy and unscientific determination that has no legal basis.”
February 12, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Godspeed.
“We will see them in court, and we will win,” said Manish Bapna, the president of the Natural Resources Defense Council. “The science and the law are crystal clear, and E.P.A. is issuing a rushed, sloppy and unscientific determination that has no legal basis.”
“We will see them in court, and we will win,” said Manish Bapna, the president of the Natural Resources Defense Council. “The science and the law are crystal clear, and E.P.A. is issuing a rushed, sloppy and unscientific determination that has no legal basis.”
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Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together.
I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.
I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.
February 12, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together.
I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.
I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.
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BREAKING
Judge Boasberg ORDERS the Trump admin to facilitate the return of the more than 100 men spirited out of the country last year without notice or a hearing.
Plaintiffs may also submit habeas petitions from abroad, he says.
Doc buff.ly/rccakD7
Judge Boasberg ORDERS the Trump admin to facilitate the return of the more than 100 men spirited out of the country last year without notice or a hearing.
Plaintiffs may also submit habeas petitions from abroad, he says.
Doc buff.ly/rccakD7
February 12, 2026 at 4:04 PM
BREAKING
Judge Boasberg ORDERS the Trump admin to facilitate the return of the more than 100 men spirited out of the country last year without notice or a hearing.
Plaintiffs may also submit habeas petitions from abroad, he says.
Doc buff.ly/rccakD7
Judge Boasberg ORDERS the Trump admin to facilitate the return of the more than 100 men spirited out of the country last year without notice or a hearing.
Plaintiffs may also submit habeas petitions from abroad, he says.
Doc buff.ly/rccakD7
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The plate carriers they wear are for propaganda purposes. No one’s shooting at these uniformed cowards. They’re the ones shooting, gassing & pepper-spraying unarmed people.
Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
February 12, 2026 at 2:46 PM
The plate carriers they wear are for propaganda purposes. No one’s shooting at these uniformed cowards. They’re the ones shooting, gassing & pepper-spraying unarmed people.
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Right-wing paramilitary rounding people up by race at government behest. No amount of quibbling over due process or "policing standards" or whether or a person is "legal" can address this, much less begin to heal it. It must be stopped, and those responsible must face consequences.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 3:33 AM
Right-wing paramilitary rounding people up by race at government behest. No amount of quibbling over due process or "policing standards" or whether or a person is "legal" can address this, much less begin to heal it. It must be stopped, and those responsible must face consequences.
Morning walk, a couple weeks ago
(Grand Canyon National Park, South Rim basin, South Kaibab and Tonto trails)
(Grand Canyon National Park, South Rim basin, South Kaibab and Tonto trails)
February 12, 2026 at 4:06 AM
Morning walk, a couple weeks ago
(Grand Canyon National Park, South Rim basin, South Kaibab and Tonto trails)
(Grand Canyon National Park, South Rim basin, South Kaibab and Tonto trails)