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Jennifer Davis

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I live in Chicago. I work in a lab. Sometimes I bike. Views are my own.

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Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · May 2

Collection of websites I've seen highlighting the impact of federally funded research at various institutions

First is Chicago's very own Northwestern University, which ended FY2024 with $>1 billion in research funding

Northwestern University: Research Impact
www.northwestern.edu/research-nu/...

Research Impact : Northwestern University

www.northwestern.edu

Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 3h

Morris

Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 4h

Good morning

Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 4h

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

View looking east from the Skydeck at top of the Sears Tower towering over the Loop, Millenium Park, Chicago Harbor and Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2025-10-08 13:37:18 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Chicago: 57.09 F | 13.94 C // Precip: few clouds // Wind: N at 4.608 mph | 7.41 kph // Humidity: 75%

Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 16h

Boy do I feel sorry for journalists

Google Maps screenshot showing, among other places, Joliet, Elwood, and Manhattan

Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 16h

I thought this was a joke about Chicago Style and was too confused for too long

Reposted by Jennifer Davis

Abundant Housing Illinois @abundanthousingil.bsky.social · 17h

Greatest city in the world 🌇

Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 19h

The other one

Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 19h

🥁

Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 20h

Five years of alumni donations and I still don't get the magazine smh

Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 1d

Robot Wars (1993)

Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 1d

This hardly seems inclement

Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 1d

I think they reschedule the test if that is a possibility

Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 1d

It's that what the kids are calling it?

Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 1d

Fall fell

Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 1d

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

View of the Chicago Harbor Lighthouse from one of the cribs located in Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2025-10-07 13:20:01 UTC (about 17 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Chicago: 58.87 F | 14.93 C // Precip: light rain // Wind: N at 2.997 mph | 4.82 kph // Humidity: 96%

Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder, it's tornado siren testing day

Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 1d

this is the second largest city in Illinois

Google Maps view of Aurora showing municipal boundaries

Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 1d

oh man Chicagoland geography was already hard enough, I mean have you even seen the municipal boundaries of some of the outer suburbs

Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 1d

We needed this gentle mist

Skyscrapers lit up for awareness and team spirit brushing the clouds

Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 1d

😩

Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like seasonal events that match their seasons are remembered more fondly

Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 2d

*sideways glance at Active Transportation Alliance*

Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 2d

But if the primary complaint was that it was too cold (and I think there was a lot of that afterward) then the only fix is don't have a big semi outdoor event in May

Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 2d

No idea but I have science to do

Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 2d

This was the 2007 version

Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 2d

After that I didn't go again

But the Loop was already turning into a place where people live instead of ghost-towning after evening rush so I had thought maybe it had served its purpose and wasn't so needed anymore

Then 2020 happened of course

Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 2d

I remember the first one, I remember it being cold and all the indoor spaces being too crowded so I left early and the next day my friends told me how unimpressive it was, too many events that had seemed to close too early or unexpectedly and too cold to enjoy just hanging around outside