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Jenna Jakubisin

@heyjennajay.bsky.social

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Science editor and writer in Chicago. Books, dogs, whiskey, comedy. (she/her)

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Jenna Jakubisin @heyjennajay.bsky.social · 4d

Ever wonder about the #science behind public speaking anxiety? I wrote about it for the HuffPost! Big thanks to @noahmichelson.bsky.social.

HuffPost @huffpost.com · 4d

"Whether it’s five people or 50, my nervous system floods with adrenaline like I’m facing Hannibal Lecter instead of some barely interested coworkers."

I Was Terrified Of Public Speaking For Years. Here's How I Finally Conquered My Debilitating Fear.

"Whether it’s five people or 50, my nervous system floods with adrenaline like I’m facing Hannibal Lecter instead of some barely interested coworkers."

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Jenna Jakubisin @heyjennajay.bsky.social · 4d

Ever wonder about the #science behind public speaking anxiety? I wrote about it for the HuffPost! Big thanks to @noahmichelson.bsky.social.

HuffPost @huffpost.com · 4d

"Whether it’s five people or 50, my nervous system floods with adrenaline like I’m facing Hannibal Lecter instead of some barely interested coworkers."

I Was Terrified Of Public Speaking For Years. Here's How I Finally Conquered My Debilitating Fear.

"Whether it’s five people or 50, my nervous system floods with adrenaline like I’m facing Hannibal Lecter instead of some barely interested coworkers."

www.huffpost.com

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Jenna Jakubisin @heyjennajay.bsky.social · Sep 4

Mentally I am here. #Ireland

Innisheer, Aran Islands, County Galway, Ireland

Jenna Jakubisin @heyjennajay.bsky.social · Jul 15

Stay safe, troopers!

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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · Jul 15

Apropos of nothing, you can always reach ProPublica with anonymous tips, files, and information that you think could hold powerful people and institutions accountable via this link: www.propublica.org/tips/

How to Contact ProPublica or Send a Tip Securely — ProPublica

Our job is to hold people and institutions accountable. To do that, we need evidence.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jul 3

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

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Jenna Jakubisin @heyjennajay.bsky.social · May 20

MA in Science Writing: check! 🎓

Master's graduation stage at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD

Jenna Jakubisin @heyjennajay.bsky.social · May 9

Imagine living in Italy but preferring deep dish.

Jenna Jakubisin @heyjennajay.bsky.social · May 6

My master's thesis was accepted by the Johns Hopkins #ScienceWriting program. After 3 years of grad school + a full-time job, having free time feels bizarre. See you soon, Baltimore! 🎓

Jenna Jakubisin @heyjennajay.bsky.social · Apr 30

I'm so excited to hear this! Second City, best city. #SciWri25

National Association of Science Writers (NASW) @sciencewriters.org · Apr 30

BIG NEWS: #SciWri25 has a new location and dates! Get ready to gather in Chicago Nov 7-9. The virtual portion will take place Oct 22-24. Thank you to everyone for your support during this journey.

Details: www.nasw.org/article...

ScienceWriters2025 to be held in Chicago November 7-9

The National Association of Science Writers and the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing are excited to announce that ScienceWriters2025 will take place in Chicago, November 7–9, at the Marriott Chicago O’Hare.

www.nasw.org

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Jenna Jakubisin @heyjennajay.bsky.social · Apr 26

An incredibly valuable and absolutely sickening timeline. Thank you, STAT.

STAT @statnews.com · Apr 25

We’re tracking, day by day, what’s happened in the worlds of science and health.

Day by day, how Trump is roiling science and health

STAT is tracking, day by day, what's happened in the words of science and health during the first months of the Trump administration.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Mar 31

There are trans Americans right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist.

Well, I am. We are. We will.

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Jenna Jakubisin @heyjennajay.bsky.social · Mar 27

By this time next month, my master's thesis will be submitted.

Package of Quick Spirals pasta with the text "For when you don't have time for a complete breakdown"

Jenna Jakubisin @heyjennajay.bsky.social · Mar 18

Over 3500 signatories and growing, including 91 organizations. Have you checked this out? #DefendResearch #Science #Journalism

Jenna Jakubisin @heyjennajay.bsky.social · Feb 20

Scicomm and scholarly publishing friends: I've signed this declaration to #DefendResearch from #Censorship and I hope you'll consider it, too.

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/02/19/d...

Declaration To #DefendResearch Against US Government Censorship - The Scholarly Kitchen

In response to US government efforts to censor research and researchers, a small group of scholarly communications professionals have launched a Declaration to defend research. Learn more in today's p...

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Mar 10

"But what Trump is doing is not reform, it is subversion. And it could not come at a worse time."
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social @newyorker.com

Trump’s Agenda Is Undermining American Science

Research funded by the federal government has found useful expression in many of the defining technologies of our time. This Administration threatens that progress.

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Jenna Jakubisin @heyjennajay.bsky.social · Feb 28

a woman wearing a black sweater and a necklace is making a face .

Alt: a woman wearing a black sweater is saying YES!

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Feb 20

The court ordered that NIH grant funding be unfrozen, so The Regime found a way around it. For NIH grants to be funded, a review panel must rank them. In order for a review panel to meet, they must post it on the Federal Register. Submissions to the Federal Register are now on hold “indefinitely”.

Angie Voyles Askham @avaskham.bsky.social · Feb 18

I just covered this for @thetransmitter.bsky.social — will keep following! www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...

Federal Register hold makes ‘end run’ around court pause on NIH funding freeze

www.thetransmitter.org

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Jenna Jakubisin @heyjennajay.bsky.social · Feb 20

Scicomm and scholarly publishing friends: I've signed this declaration to #DefendResearch from #Censorship and I hope you'll consider it, too.

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/02/19/d...

Declaration To #DefendResearch Against US Government Censorship - The Scholarly Kitchen

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

Jenna Jakubisin @heyjennajay.bsky.social · Feb 11

"The accurate, timely and transparent communication of scientific, health and environmental information is essential to creating a just, healthy, safe, and prosperous society." 👏👏

CASW @sciencewriting.bsky.social · Feb 11

CASW, along with @healthjournalism.org, @sciencewriters.org, @sejorg.bsky.social, and @uprootproject.bsky.social, objects to the removal of public data and information from more than a dozen federal U.S. websites.

Read our full letter: casw.org/news/journal...

An osprey perches on a wind direction pole in front of the American flag on the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Feb 4

The RFK hearing is telltale of our new era: white men will prevail irrespective of merit or qualification. Unless we stop it. CALL YOUR SENATORS!

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Jenna Jakubisin @heyjennajay.bsky.social · Jan 30

I did it. I submitted my first draft master's thesis. 😵‍💫 #ScienceWriting
#GradSchool
#LeTired

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · Jan 29

yyyyyeah maybe we shouldn’t just “relax”

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · Jan 29

Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including:
- Holocaust Remembrance Day
- MLK Day
- Juneteenth

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Jenna Jakubisin @heyjennajay.bsky.social · Jan 27

Chicago appreciation post.

View overlooking Lake Michigan, Chicago, in winter.

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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · Jan 25

Is the communications pause that's been imposed on the US government's health agencies affecting you? @statnews.com would love to hear about it. Please let us know. www.statnews.com/2025/01/25/t...

Are you affected by the Trump administration’s pause on health communications, science meetings, and reviews?

Have you been affected by the Trump administration’s pause on communications, science meetings, and reviews? @statnews would like to hear from you.

www.statnews.com

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Jenna Jakubisin @heyjennajay.bsky.social · Jan 25

"Text and language is alive so it’s always changing. To me, there is no end point and that is a joy."—Tina Chang via lithub.com/12-contempor...
#Writing
#Revising

12 Contemporary Writers on How They Revise

“Writing is rewriting,” says everyone all the time. But what they don’t say, necessarily, is how. Yesterday, Tor pointed me in the direction of this old blog post from Patrick Rot…

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Jenna Jakubisin @heyjennajay.bsky.social · Jan 21

My family uses Slack for our group chats and it's great!