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Dr. Jenny Morber

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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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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 10h

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 · 10h

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 · 10h

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 · 1d

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 · 12h

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 · 12h

Oh, thank you! Kudos.

Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 23h

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

Your dog is adorable

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George Musser @georgemusser.com · 1d

Tech is depleting not only material resources but also intellectual resources, especially common knowledge. Political polarization erodes agreement on the most basic facts and concepts. "It's almost like seeing the ozone layer deplete before our eyes," said @audreyt.org at #ALIFE2025. ⚙️🧫

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

I mean, I don’t know. But if say two were corrupt as some say they are, such that they vote in their own or others (paid) interests, then close cases in which their votes mattered would be illegitimate, yes? Not human—dangling on a string.

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Tess McClure @tessairini.bsky.social · 3d

a bleak fable www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours

The insects’ brilliant hues evolved in lush ecosystems to help them survive. Now they are becoming more muted to adapt to degraded landscapes – and they are not the only things dulling down

www.theguardian.com

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

I think you are conflating legitimacy and power, likely because usually they are tied. You can see a person holding office as illegitimate for that office, or see a role as no longer a legitimate role, and still acknowledge that they hold power.

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

If they are corrupt such that their rulings are dictated by others, would that make them illegitimate? In close cases one or two justices matter.

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

You had me at y’all

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.

How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?

scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...

Statistics in the era of AI

How do we mentor, teach, and do stats when AI can do so much of the work?

scienceforeveryone.science

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

Y’all I gained an emotional support Canadian tonight. This summit is already worth it.

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

Forgot about that. Makes me feel a little better maybe? Now we get to spend the money we were saving in case my mom needed long term care. Sigh.

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

Ahhhhh!!

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

Every republic is full of queers.

(Thank god)

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

Yes they were the people fighting the Nazis

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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

Things I want before I die:

Definitive proof of alien life

Global collaboration on reversing climate change for a flourishing planet

Parity for women in government and corporate leadership

VR that allows you to realistically explore other planets

Rights for food animals

Pet a baby 🦛

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

This is so wholesome and sweet

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Jay @kakapojay.bsky.social · 1d

I must issue an apology - I have clearly been misinterpreting the data and have resized the Kem Kem fauna accordingly.

I am *definitely* not being held at beak-point by Leptostomia.

The lineup of Kem Kem fauna to scale with our Leptostomia overlord towering above the rest - as it should be

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

Found my spot here in Little Rock at Flying Fish

You can take a lady out of the South but you can never take her love of eating brown food in small weird places

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

Portland this summer

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

Honestly enjoyed this one more than Parable of the Sower. Thanks to a flight across the country, I started and finished in two days.

Cover of Imago, a book by Octavia Butler. It shows a dark skinned person, no hair l, peer out behind dripping stalks of fuchsia and orange