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jenna newman phd
@jennanewman.bsky.social
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fed govt: public health, public safety.
deep breaths, long horizons.

+ science comms + strategic comms + public sociology
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chowleen.bsky.social
a new small post on 柏舟 ("Cypress Boat") from the Book of Songs (c 600 BCE).

My heart is not a mirror
To reflect what others will

My heart is not a stone
It cannot be rolled

My heart is not a mat
It cannot be folded away

我心匪鑑 不可以茹
我心匪石 不可轉也
我心匪席 不可卷也

#everynightapoem chowleen.substack.com
My heart is not a stone. How to say "I would prefer not to," from three millenia ago. - image is a film still of two stones, from Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) CHOWLEEN.SUBSTACK.COM
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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burgessev.bsky.social
News: Senate reaches agreement to finish funding deal TONIGHT
November 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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ericmgarcia.bsky.social
Romantic Comedy pitch: A House D and House R staffer have to carpool after their flight is canceled and they draw up a plan to end the shutdown and fall in love.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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ronnieftw.bsky.social
thirty minutes ago I heard the words "this science experiment is too wet, I'm going to have to take all my clothes off" from the kitchen and now there is water all over the floor and paint splatter on my dining table
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 AM
jennanewman.bsky.social
Ring ring ring — calling @ericklinenberg.bsky.social

“During my research, I learned that libraries are not only important for providing books, films, internet access, and other vital information, but also for ensuring a neighborhood’s vitality and promoting stronger social ties.”🧪
November 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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nathankhensley.bsky.social
The Rose Reading room at the NYPL, for instance, is a place where literally anyone can have access to world class research materials— a universe of ideas— and, if they use them right, and stay at it, they can become a genius
Photograph of Rose reading room NYPL
November 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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burrowingowl.bsky.social
Good morning! 🪶
Pair of burrowing owls peeking out of their burrow-- the female is directly behind her mate with one eye showing.
November 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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pronounced-ing.bsky.social
"Did Women Ruin Men Blaming Women For Ruining Things?"
November 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
jennanewman.bsky.social
“Critical gains in reducing firearm-related harm are now in jeopardy.
Recent fed admin actions &funding withdrawals threaten to dismantle the foundational infrastructure that undergirds public safety…the US faces a grave risk of backsliding into patterns of preventable violence &inequitable harms”🧪🛟
“Critical gains in reducing firearm-related harm are now in jeopardy. Recent federal administrative actions and funding withdrawals threaten to dismantle the foundational infrastructure that undergirds public safety in the United States. These actions encompass the termination of crucial research funding, the curtailment of gun law enforcement, and possible repeal of evidence-informed firearm regulations, all of which pose a direct risk to the public's collective safety and are likely to undermine the progress achieved in recent years. Absent continued intervention, the United States faces a grave risk of backsliding into patterns of preventable violence and inequitable harms.” “The implications of this reversal are far reaching. Firearm violence, including suicide, remains the leading cause of death among children and adolescents and contributes significantly to racial, geographic, and socioeconomic health disparities. .12 Exposure to firearm violence-whether direct, witnessed, or anticipated—is linked to psychological distress, chronic illness, functional impairment, and premature mortality. 13 These harms disproportionately affect communities of color, and firearm suicide places a particularly heavy burden on residents of rural areas.14 The dismantling of firearm violence prevention systems jeopardizes the capacity of communities across the United States to respond effectively to these risks, and consequently the likelihood of preventable firearm-related harm will almost certainly rise.”
November 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
jennanewman.bsky.social
“What we should be calling for is for our elected officials to use the tools that we know work to render these drills obsolete…. The burdens we are putting on our schools & our kids to prepare for the potential of this kind of violence is, frankly, unacceptable.” — @sonalirajan.bsky.social 🛟
sonalirajan.bsky.social Sonali Rajan @sonalirajan.bsky.social · 3d
The discourse on active shooter drills, particularly in K-12 schools, is complex. Thank you to Time for this piece, for referencing our recent NASEM consensus study findings, and for including myself and many of my wonderful colleagues in this reporting:

time.com/7331491/less...
How to Make Active Shooter Drills Less Traumatizing
Research shows there are best practices for how to prepare students for active shooters in schools.
time.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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aaron.bsky.team
Hopefully I've done this correctly in terms of the leaflet setup this time. Here's a first post in a series on T&S on Bluesky.
Moderating With Humans, For Humans
aaron.leaflet.pub
November 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
jennanewman.bsky.social
“as the…administration has rescinded its support for scientific research, restricted vaccine access, dismissed expert advisers, attacked doctors & scientists, & worked to curtail health-insurance coverage, researchers & health-care workers have had a surge of interest in running for office.”🧪🛟
The Epidemiologists Are Running for Office
Instead of trying to depoliticize their field, a swell of scientists want to become politicians.
www.theatlantic.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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jayvanbavel.bsky.social
I see this same pattern in psychology—there is a huge desire among early career scholars to do applied work

This is very important, but including basic science perspectives still improves the research quality
markrubin.bsky.social Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 2d
"Basic scientists consistently enhance scientific output quality, yet research and newly joining researchers have shifted toward applied orientations."

Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.01530

#PhilSci #MetaSci #AcademicSky 🧪
Despite broad acclaim for basic research, science is undergoing an applied shift that marginalizes basic scientists. This gap reflects an incomplete understanding of their distinctive roles, which prevents translating philosophical appreciation into effective support. We introduce a scalable metric--the application score--to position research along the basic-applied spectrum and apply it to 62 million publications (1970-2023) to reveal the distinctive contributions of basic scientists. We find a structural asymmetry: involvement of basic scientists substantially increases citation impact, even more so in applied contexts, while applied scientists show no such effect in basic domains. This asymmetric effect arises from their intellectual leadership in conceptualization, writing, and experimental design, amplified in large, multidisciplinary, and intermediate career teams. Yet basic scientists remain concentrated in historically prestigious institutions, while new entrants shift toward applied work, indicating critical undersupply. These findings provide large-scale evidence for the indispensable role of basic scientists, guiding policy and institutional strategy to sustain the foundations of discovery and innovation.
November 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
jennanewman.bsky.social
“we find that papers involving basic scientists are 38% more likely to become top-1% cited works, an effect that doubles in applied domains….

Basic scientists appear to enhance projects by reframing problems in generalizable terms & connecting disparate literatures”🧪
markrubin.bsky.social Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 2d
"Basic scientists consistently enhance scientific output quality, yet research and newly joining researchers have shifted toward applied orientations."

Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.01530

#PhilSci #MetaSci #AcademicSky 🧪
Despite broad acclaim for basic research, science is undergoing an applied shift that marginalizes basic scientists. This gap reflects an incomplete understanding of their distinctive roles, which prevents translating philosophical appreciation into effective support. We introduce a scalable metric--the application score--to position research along the basic-applied spectrum and apply it to 62 million publications (1970-2023) to reveal the distinctive contributions of basic scientists. We find a structural asymmetry: involvement of basic scientists substantially increases citation impact, even more so in applied contexts, while applied scientists show no such effect in basic domains. This asymmetric effect arises from their intellectual leadership in conceptualization, writing, and experimental design, amplified in large, multidisciplinary, and intermediate career teams. Yet basic scientists remain concentrated in historically prestigious institutions, while new entrants shift toward applied work, indicating critical undersupply. These findings provide large-scale evidence for the indispensable role of basic scientists, guiding policy and institutional strategy to sustain the foundations of discovery and innovation.
November 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
jennanewman.bsky.social
“It suited the feminism of the 1960s & 1970s to portray her as a victim of male dominance, but she would have thought of herself simply as a scientist whose achievements should have been judged on their own terms, not as a ‘woman scientist’ striking a blow for the rights of women.”🧪
“Now a sometimes almost unrecognisable Rosalind has been put on an unrealistic pedestal. She is no longer a warning, but has become "the forgotten heroine". Her story has been adopted by feminists as a symbol of a woman struggling and unacknowledged in a man's world. This would, I think, have embarrassed her almost as much as Watson's account would have upset her. It suited the feminism of the 1960s and 1970s to portray her as a victim of male dominance, but she would have thought of herself simply as a scientist whose achievements should have been judged on their own terms, not as a "woman scientist" striking a blow for the rights of women.”
November 8, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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hoperhenderson.bsky.social
live your life such that, when you die, your obit doesn't need a whole section on how you didn't credit your colleagues in general or how you stole data from a female scientist in particular
November 7, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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lottelydia.bsky.social
am reminded of the old joke: what did James Watson discover?

Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
November 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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baddestmamajama.bsky.social
It’s a good day to look up Rosalind Franklin.
November 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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oldenoughtosay.com
So anyway, Rosalind Franklin
November 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
jennanewman.bsky.social
Rosalind Franklin’s DNA research was foundational to “the 1st accurate model of DNA's chemical structure….
Franklin died from ovarian cancer in 1958, a few yrs before Watson, Crick, & Wilkins won the Nobel Prize, which is not awarded posthumously & can only be shared by 3 living scientists.”🧪
“Franklin died from ovarian cancer in 1958, a few years before Watson, Crick, and Wilkins won the Nobel Prize, which is not awarded posthumously and can only be shared by three living scientists. Because Franklin died so early, she never knew that Watson portrayed her in an unkind and sexist way in the influential book he wrote about the discovery, The Double Helix, which was published in 1968. "Rosy," as Watson called her in the book (although she never used this nickname), got painted as an inexplicably hostile shrew, the lipstick-less comedic villain of the story who "did not emphasize her feminine qualities." For a long time, this popular book shaped the public's entire understanding of how the structure of DNA was uncovered.”
November 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
jennanewman.bsky.social
“Watson's penchant for making prejudiced & scientifically unfounded remarks about Black people, women, & others eventually forced even the institution that he had long directed…to cut all ties w/him in 2019.

This fall from grace was remarkable given the heights he had achieved.”🧪
November 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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markhisted.org
There is an amazing book on misinformation, “Killer Underwear Invasion.” It is incredible how much of an impact it’s made on my kids.

Just a few days ago my kid saw something on TV and said proudly, “that’s man is like the puppy pinchers!”
K u I cover K u I page
November 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
jennanewman.bsky.social
“Public health efforts have been esp caught up in red tape, since many focus on pops bearing an unequal burden of death, disease,& injury….

For ex, …the head of a MS nonprofit, said officials asked her to defend the exclusion of men from a prgm to shelter women who experienced domestic violence.”🛟🧪
November 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
jennanewman.bsky.social
2021 study: “3,446 census-matched high school students were tasked w/ investigating a website, CO2 Science, & evaluating whether it provided reliable info about human-induced climate change.

Only 4% of students discovered that the site’s chief sponsor was ExxonMobil.”🧪🛟
[APA article in prev post]
November 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
jennanewman.bsky.social
ps.
2nd grader yesterday: “Mommy! [Teacher] says not everything on the computer is telling the truth.”

—> Footstomping the urgency of building media literacy skills *as-early-as-possible* to identify mis-/dis-information online 🧪🛟

[aka w/o a baseline of some semblance of skepticism, we’re cooked]
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM