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Dr. Jenny Morber

@jrmorber.bsky.social

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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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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 2h

Your dog is adorable

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George Musser @georgemusser.com · 2h

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 · 2h

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 · 1d

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 · 2h

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 · 2h

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 · 3h

You had me at y’all

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 4h

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 · 4h

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

Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 7h

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.

Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 7h

Ahhhhh!!

Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 7h

They will pay if we do nothing and water floods our house, but not if we fix it before water floods our house. Please send thoughts and well placed falling trees.

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 8h

Why do we even pay insurance? They won’t pay for preventative maintenance (earlier this year) and they won’t pay when shit goes wrong (now). We should have taken those monthly payments and stuffed them into investment accounts. 🤦🏼‍♀️

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 8h

Every republic is full of queers.

(Thank god)

Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 8h

Yes they were the people fighting the Nazis

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

"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 · 8h

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 · 8h

This is so wholesome and sweet

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Jay @kakapojay.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 8h

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 · 8h

Portland this summer

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 8h

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

Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 11h

Illegal deportations or undocumented people? Because we have both.

Jazmine Ulloa @jazmineulloa.bsky.social · 16h

A majority of voters favor deporting those in the U.S. illegally, but say President Trump’s tactics have gone too far, a new Times/Siena poll found. w/ Ruth Igielnik
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Voters Favor Deporting Those in U.S. Illegally, but Say Trump Has Gone Too Far

www.nytimes.com

Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 12h

Would love to chat!

Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 12h

I also wrote and published a story on energy production for latrine lighting from urine in several areas of Africa which intersects with health. I continue to check in on and remain interested in this

Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 12h

They could! I have extensive reporting in Senegal on efforts to reduce schistosomiasis that never produced a published story due to the beginning of the US wave of the COVID pandemic.