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ClutchScience (Jen Phillips)
@clutchscience.bsky.social
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She/her Permadoc @ UOregon zebrafish community
NIH and 501c3 funded scientist Molecular genetics of human diseases

Married to a cute OD
Parent of two awesome grown people
Daughter of a mild-mannered mom in memory care
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It was a foggy morning so we climbed above the cloud bank and found the crisp fall sunshine. Happy humans, happy doggos, happy world, even if only for a moment
A woman wearing black pants and a black long sleeved shirt, walking on a trail with two golden retrievers. All three are facing away from the camera and are bathed in bright hall sunshine. Orange, brown, and yellow leaves are strewn along the path amid green ferns and evergreen boughs A woman wearing a blue fleece jacket and sunglasses is standing on a rocky summit with two golden retrievers under a sunny blue sky streaked with high white clouds. Behind them is a misty valley and a hillside populated with fir trees
November 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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alt text is essential for such incredible photos
A photo taken in the Oval Office today. In the center of the frame, Trump stands behind the resolute desk, arms dangling by his side, wearing his standard poorly tailored navy suit, white shirt too-long red tie, and a listless/ indifferent expression looking straight at the camera. Behind him to his left (right of the frame) a flurry of activity is unfolding as a member of his staff has fainted and is now lying in the floor. Two white male staff members are bent over him while another elevates his legs. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt stands nearby observing and looking concerned.
November 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Navigated away from the donations page before I screengrabbed but here’s the bank record of my Food for Lane County donation today
Card Hold; FOOD for Lane County -$51.55 Oct 26, 2025.
October 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Joao: Foki:
Joao Fonseca holding a large trophy aloft amid a storm of golden confetti. The diminished face of Alejandro Davidovic-Fokina is visible in the lower left corner of the screen A still from the nuclear holocaust gif depicting a skeleton clinging to a chain link fence as the flesh is blasted away
October 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Starting to look for stocking stuffers and this one made me think of @mannyares.bsky.social

(From Grateful-Fred.com)
Photo of a car exterior from the rear. A silver badge reading “CORNELL77” is applied below the taillight. DESCRIPTION For those that attended the legendary show, display the CORNELL ’77 CAR BADGE with pride. For those who didn’t attend, display it with slightly less pride. Available in CHROME and MATTE BLACK 5” X .5” Durable, cold rain and snow proof, chrome-plated ABS plastic Ships directly from USA
October 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Random kitchen snapshot that could pretty much be our Coat of Arms
A burgundy cup with a black travel lid sitting on a beige speckled quartz countertop. On top of the travel mug lid are balanced two stainless steel spoons, crossed at the necks. A used tea bag rests on the right-facing spoon
October 22, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Every line of this made me more furious than the last, to the point where I briefly became ether at the end of it
In Indiana, Republican Rep. Bruce Borders sponsored two bills at the request of the group Hoosiers for Medical Liberty. One would allow people to opt out of employer vaccine mandates; another would require vaccine manufacturers to conduct certain safety studies. Borders, who owns an insurance company and works as an Elvis impersonator, said he's driven by concern about his grandson, who he believes developed autism after getting vaccinated - though there's no credible scientific evidence that's possible. He said these bills aren't anti-science and that he respects doctors but believes some medical questions deserve more scrutiny. "I've done tons of research on this issue because of my grandson," Borders said.' would say that my study on these issues would equal that of many people in the medical field."
October 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Skyline cleanse?
There’s a birch tree outside my window and when it’s dressed in its fall colors it beams sunshine into my bedroom even when the actual sun is not shining. It made me write this poem (🧵), which isn’t very good but I had no choice so take it up with the tree if you have complaints
A birch tree covered in bright yellow leaves with a few boughs of dark green fir peeking through
October 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Moms against MAGA
Three smiling women in sunglasses, hats and colorful attire carrying protest signs. One says “Make U.S. kind again”, another reads “Hey Mike, this is what ‘defending the fundamental truths of the republic’ looks like!”. The third has a drawing of a Frog
October 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Eugene understood the assignment!
October 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Eugene showed up with festive fiery whimsy today
October 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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While it’s a bit ominous to see this all play out,“DEADASS serious” made me snort
The FBI showed up to my house to discuss my TV show exposing Antifa's network,” Beck posted to social media on Monday, referencing the umbrella term for a broad and decentralized grouping of militant far-left activists who say they oppose fascism. “If you are a member of Antifa or providing material or financial support for Antifa, I might be a little concerned because the FBI is DEADASS serious about investigating you.”
October 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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I’ve been doing that thing where I’m absorbing a lot of stress & negativity from people who need to offload it, & am now full to the brim with other people’s toxic emotional waste & feeling pretty frayed. Today is as much of a self care day as I can manage, with as many puppy snuggles as possible.
The fluffy heads of two cream colored golden retrievers. One is lying on her side with her ear unfurled with her nose pointed toward the other, while the other gently sniffs One’s head
October 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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October 11th Game Day in Eugene
A clear backpack containing an emergency poncho and sunglasses
October 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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My dad is one of them
A white marble grave marker at Arlington Cemetery engraved as follows: Robert Kennard Barber COL US ARMY WORLD WAR II KOREA VIETNAM Nov 28 1919 Sep 11 1986 The grave is surrounded by long lush green grass with sunlit leafy trees visible in the background. A bouquet of white roses has been placed in a vase to the left of the marker.
October 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Uuuhhhh
Screenshot of a 404 page(from following the link in the OP) on Fox News website that reads “something has gone wrong…”. “It seems yoh clicked on a bad link and stumbled on a 404 page” Below this is a search box, and below that the message “here’s what you might be looking for” above a ball cap with a Christian cross on the side and a stylized American flag shaped like the continental US above the word “FREEDOM”. The hat is sitting on a wooden surface with a woodsy fall background. This is 100% not what I was looking for.
October 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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It is a glorious fall day so I went over to the memory care and took mom for a walk around the grounds. We sat down in the numerous little courtyard along the way, enjoyed the sunshine and the light playful breeze. Looked at family photos a bit and treasured the beautiful afternoon together…
An old woman sitting in a chair next to a table on a concrete outdoor patio. The woman’s silver hair is pulled back from her smiling face as she relaxes with her arms draped along the arm rests. A wedge of blue sky is visible above the khaki colored building behind her, beside which grow several leafy ornamental plants
October 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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2019 Roland Garros
September 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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It’s silly but oh my goodness it is so therapeutic

It = painting in an outdoor pub with a Bloody Mary and some onion rings at my elbow
Work in progress: two partially completed paintings of a moonlit sky on tabletop easels. The paining on the left uses shades of blue and teal for the sky, the painting on the right is plum and mauve. The table is covered with white plastic and the edges of shade unbrellas can be viewed in the background. Swirled green, blue, white, black and gray paint Finished paintings from the first photo. The moonlit sky in both works is now framed with the black silhouettes of tall fir trees, as if viewed from a prone position looking skyward
September 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Just texted my daughter to say I would keep in touch about the morning’s schedule but miskeyed it as “meep in touch” and was about to make a Beaker reference when I realized she wouldn’t get it so I’m putting it here on the skyline instead please clap
Photo of the muppet named Beaker who has a wild shock of ginger hair and an open mouth through which he only says “meep”. He is wearing a collared green ad white gingham shirt underneath a pea green lab coat. His hands are held out in front of him, presumably in gestures that amplify the “meep”
September 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Reposting with alt text
Statement from Mayor Keith Wilson "President Trump has directed 'all necessary Troops' to Portland, Oregon. The number of necessary troops is zero, in Portland and any other American city. Our nation has a long memory for acts of oppression, and the president will not find lawlessness or violence here unless he plans to perpetrate it. Imagine if the federal government sent hundreds of engineers, or teachers, or outreach workers to Portland, instead of a short, expensive, and fruitless show of force."
September 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Hey, everyone using RFK Jr’s drug use history to insult him—stop it!

The myriad reasons he is a terrible human grossly unsuited to the position he holds have nothing to do with heroin. By stigmatizing drug use, and users, you are DOING HIS EVIL WORK FOR HIM

How? Take a look:
Ending disorder on America's streets CDC grants will prioritize evidence-based programs and deprioritize programs that fail to achieve adequate outcomes, including so-called "harm reduction" or "safe consumption" efforts that only facilitate illegal drug use and its attendant harm, consistent with SAMHSA guidance issued on July 29, 2025. CDC will deprioritize support for "housing first" policies that fail to ensure accountability and fail to promote treatment, recovery, and self-sufficiency. CDC will increase competition among grantees through broadening the applicant pool and hold grantees to higher standards of effectiveness in reducing homelessness and increasing public safety. CDC will ensure that its funds reduce rather than, promote homelessness by supporting. t the maximum extent permitted by
September 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Earlier today:
Screenshot of a series of Bluesky posts. The top is a skeet from Jimmy Kimmel featuring a photograph of him with his arm around Norman Lear. The caption reads “missing this guy today” I (clutchscience) responded “fight the good fight, Jimmy. And please consider using alt text!” An account called Boo Radley replied “this is the most Bluesky reply I’ve ever seen”
September 24, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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For real though, this was just delightful. Perfectly synchronized line music including vocals, playing to several thousand fans who know the movie by heart and reacted to it with laughter, screams, and applause. It just felt good to be surrounded by that kind of joy ❤️
Musicians on a stage surrounded by hundreds of candles. A blond male vocalist stands center stage at the microphone. Behind them, the final scene of the movie Twilight is playing, with Edward and Bella dancing in the gazebo at Prom
September 20, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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My dude, may I present Twilight with live orchestral score and 1000 CANDLES

(My daughter loves the series and this is for her)
A concert stage, pre-concert, illuminated with blue stage lights. musical instruments and literally one thousand candles are arranged across the stage. a screen projecting an image from the movie Twilight reads “twilight in concert” along with a QR code for the digital program
September 20, 2025 at 3:10 AM