Jeanne Erdmann
@jeanne-erdmann.bsky.social
Independent health and science journalist, Contributor, The Craft of Science Writing, former executive board member Association Health Care Journalists, co-founder, @theopennotebook.bsky.social, dog lover, ice dancer, Official US Figure Skating.
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🎽Check out our merch!
🎁Join us for our Day of Giving on Oct. 24 (our actual birthday!)
🥳Celebrate with us at #SciWri25
#TON15
The Open Notebook Turns 15: A Letter from Siri - The Open Notebook
It's TON's birthday week! Our Executive Director, Siri Carpenter, reflects on TON's humble beginnings as a blog, our current programs serving all journalists who cover science, and our vision for the ...
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October 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I'd buy a plane ticket 🤣
July 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I'd buy a plane ticket 🤣
Reposted by Jeanne Erdmann
The advent of germ theory, vaccines, sanitation, and antibiotics, in this view, indirectly lead to an increase in social services, and a decrease in capital punishment, murder, slavery, and torture. In effect, it raised the value of human life in human eyes.
May 17, 2025 at 2:28 AM
The advent of germ theory, vaccines, sanitation, and antibiotics, in this view, indirectly lead to an increase in social services, and a decrease in capital punishment, murder, slavery, and torture. In effect, it raised the value of human life in human eyes.
Reposted by Jeanne Erdmann
The deeper meaning behind "almost no healthy children die of the measles" is that, when children do die of the measles, it's only ever because they were already ill. And the deeper meaning behind that is "well, we can't save 'em all." And that's just...17th century thinking.
May 17, 2025 at 2:28 AM
The deeper meaning behind "almost no healthy children die of the measles" is that, when children do die of the measles, it's only ever because they were already ill. And the deeper meaning behind that is "well, we can't save 'em all." And that's just...17th century thinking.