jendarra
@jendarra.bsky.social
Science + public good. Fam: 🇺🇸 + 🇨🇦+ 🌎🌍🌏
For an ATX where y’all means all, we 🗳+ 💉+🚴🏻♀️
Freedom of speech (while supplies last!)
👩🏻🎓 eng@Rice + datascience@Berkeley 👩🏻💻
For an ATX where y’all means all, we 🗳+ 💉+🚴🏻♀️
Freedom of speech (while supplies last!)
👩🏻🎓 eng@Rice + datascience@Berkeley 👩🏻💻
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jendarra
@jendarra.bsky.social
· Jun 19
Because it needs to be said out loud more often, to “bomb Iran” is to kill families living under one of the world’s most oppressive regimes. Mothers and fathers and children. Violence is the opposite of what is needed here.
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“I was 14… I was 16… this was me when I met Epstein… there are thousands of us… time to let the secrets out of the shadows”
Powerful ad from survivors ahead of a vote to tell us where each House rep stands on protecting kids vs protecting pedophiles.
Powerful ad from survivors ahead of a vote to tell us where each House rep stands on protecting kids vs protecting pedophiles.
November 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
“I was 14… I was 16… this was me when I met Epstein… there are thousands of us… time to let the secrets out of the shadows”
Powerful ad from survivors ahead of a vote to tell us where each House rep stands on protecting kids vs protecting pedophiles.
Powerful ad from survivors ahead of a vote to tell us where each House rep stands on protecting kids vs protecting pedophiles.
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Why do whales and elephants have much lower rates of cancer than expected?
"Species with a lower cancer prevalence and mortality
risk are those with a higher presence of cooperative and caring habits, while the opposite is found....:"
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
"Species with a lower cancer prevalence and mortality
risk are those with a higher presence of cooperative and caring habits, while the opposite is found....:"
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Coevolution of cooperative lifestyles and reduced cancer prevalence in mammals
While cooperative mammals evolve reducing cancer prevalence, oncogenes can be maintained by selection in competitive species.
www.science.org
November 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Why do whales and elephants have much lower rates of cancer than expected?
"Species with a lower cancer prevalence and mortality
risk are those with a higher presence of cooperative and caring habits, while the opposite is found....:"
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
"Species with a lower cancer prevalence and mortality
risk are those with a higher presence of cooperative and caring habits, while the opposite is found....:"
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Journalists who cover race, gender and inequality are often the first to go in layoffs, raising deeper questions about who gets to tell the news.
Teen Vogue changed how a generation saw politics and inclusion. That era could be over.
Journalists who cover race, gender and inequality are often the first to go, raising deeper questions about who gets to tell the news.
19thnews.org
November 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Journalists who cover race, gender and inequality are often the first to go in layoffs, raising deeper questions about who gets to tell the news.
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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PSA for people with NIH grant periods starting January 1st (including most NIGMS MIRAs): your RPPR is due Saturday, but they haven’t sent out the usual automated reminders, presumably due to the shutdown
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
PSA for people with NIH grant periods starting January 1st (including most NIGMS MIRAs): your RPPR is due Saturday, but they haven’t sent out the usual automated reminders, presumably due to the shutdown
The (white, of course) Nazi salute depicted as superior to the (black) fist of worker solidarity here…available with free shipping and free returns from Walmart. Merry Extremist 🎄 to all the worst people, I guess
I wrote a whole book on tshirts like this. Did not expect to see one for sale at Walmart. You can report it (as I have) by scrolling down on the item’s page and reporting it for offensive or prohibited content.
November 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The (white, of course) Nazi salute depicted as superior to the (black) fist of worker solidarity here…available with free shipping and free returns from Walmart. Merry Extremist 🎄 to all the worst people, I guess
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The Army removed the list after German media reported that U.S. troops were using the local foodbanks, a U.S. official said. trib.al/tMeNkQy
The Army listed German food banks for soldiers seeking shutdown help
The Army removed the list after German media reported that U.S. troops were using the local foodbanks, a U.S. official said.
trib.al
November 7, 2025 at 1:22 AM
The Army removed the list after German media reported that U.S. troops were using the local foodbanks, a U.S. official said. trib.al/tMeNkQy
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REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.
November 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.
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A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.
November 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.
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I await the Limu Emu snuff videos.
November 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I await the Limu Emu snuff videos.
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hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue.
we’ll all subscribe en masse
we’ll all subscribe en masse
November 4, 2025 at 2:32 AM
hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue.
we’ll all subscribe en masse
we’ll all subscribe en masse
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ICE grabbed a dad whose teen daughter has stage 4 cancer.
A federal judge just ruled his ongoing detention illegal.
But ICE hasn't let him out yet.
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
A federal judge just ruled his ongoing detention illegal.
But ICE hasn't let him out yet.
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Judge orders bond hearing for Ruben Torres Maldonado, detained immigrant and father of cancer patient
A federal judge has ordered a bond hearing be held for Ruben Torres Maldonado, a detained immigrant whose daughter is suffering from cancer, as his deportation case makes its way through the system.
www.cbsnews.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:24 AM
ICE grabbed a dad whose teen daughter has stage 4 cancer.
A federal judge just ruled his ongoing detention illegal.
But ICE hasn't let him out yet.
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
A federal judge just ruled his ongoing detention illegal.
But ICE hasn't let him out yet.
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
This is the 🇨🇦advertisement that the current administration doesn’t want you to watch. globalnews.ca/video/114929... Because Reagan described the short versus long turn effects of tariffs like the ones Trump champions.
The Ontario anti-tariff ad which lead Trump to end trade talks with Canada | Watch News Videos Online
Watch The Ontario anti-tariff ad which lead Trump to end trade talks with Canada Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca
globalnews.ca
October 25, 2025 at 5:04 AM
This is the 🇨🇦advertisement that the current administration doesn’t want you to watch. globalnews.ca/video/114929... Because Reagan described the short versus long turn effects of tariffs like the ones Trump champions.
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www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...
Just saying - maybe some education here from HHS to the American public about the potential benefits of mRNA vaccines could help people see the whole picture.
@drsforamerica.bsky.social
Just saying - maybe some education here from HHS to the American public about the potential benefits of mRNA vaccines could help people see the whole picture.
@drsforamerica.bsky.social
COVID mRNA vaccines may be able to train immune system to attack cancer cells, boost survival
www.cidrap.umn.edu
October 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...
Just saying - maybe some education here from HHS to the American public about the potential benefits of mRNA vaccines could help people see the whole picture.
@drsforamerica.bsky.social
Just saying - maybe some education here from HHS to the American public about the potential benefits of mRNA vaccines could help people see the whole picture.
@drsforamerica.bsky.social
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Y’all here is a fun fact: Portland has a brand new volunteer organization called “operation inflation” that allows people to borrow inflatable costumes for protests. They just started a couple weeks ago and have like a 160 costume library (and counting because people keep donating).
OPERATION INFLATION
www.operationinflation.com
October 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Y’all here is a fun fact: Portland has a brand new volunteer organization called “operation inflation” that allows people to borrow inflatable costumes for protests. They just started a couple weeks ago and have like a 160 costume library (and counting because people keep donating).
In the pouring rain, Vancouver, BC 🇨🇦 has hundreds show up to protest the spread of fascism/racism/christian-nationalism. Technically the protest here is named “No Tyrants” because - as anachronistic as it seems to this American - they do still recognize a king 🤷🏻♀️ #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
In the pouring rain, Vancouver, BC 🇨🇦 has hundreds show up to protest the spread of fascism/racism/christian-nationalism. Technically the protest here is named “No Tyrants” because - as anachronistic as it seems to this American - they do still recognize a king 🤷🏻♀️ #NoKings
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🚨 PSA: Do you have information to share with news outlets that have lost access to report from the Pentagon?
You can share it while protecting your anonymity using @securedrop.org:
You can share it while protecting your anonymity using @securedrop.org:
October 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
🚨 PSA: Do you have information to share with news outlets that have lost access to report from the Pentagon?
You can share it while protecting your anonymity using @securedrop.org:
You can share it while protecting your anonymity using @securedrop.org:
“border agents segregated arrested residents by race” 👀
This policy is despicable.
This policy is despicable.
Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.
Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race
southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race
southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children
Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.
southsideweekly.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:58 AM
“border agents segregated arrested residents by race” 👀
This policy is despicable.
This policy is despicable.
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Female journalists interested in health reporting: the fellowship I did at @womenjournos.bsky.social last year is open again for next year! Deadline to apply is December 5. www.jaws.org/apply-here
2026 Application & Overview — JAWS
www.jaws.org
October 6, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Female journalists interested in health reporting: the fellowship I did at @womenjournos.bsky.social last year is open again for next year! Deadline to apply is December 5. www.jaws.org/apply-here
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"no more superficial individual expression"
September 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
"no more superficial individual expression"
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#TEXAS (continued):
Avg gross rate change: +32.5% (preliminary)
Avg gross 2026 premium: $759/mo
NET 2026 increase for 64-yr old couple earning $90K/yr if enhanced tax credits expire: +406%
TEXAS already has premium alignment in place, but that only helps so much.
Avg gross rate change: +32.5% (preliminary)
Avg gross 2026 premium: $759/mo
NET 2026 increase for 64-yr old couple earning $90K/yr if enhanced tax credits expire: +406%
TEXAS already has premium alignment in place, but that only helps so much.
October 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
#TEXAS (continued):
Avg gross rate change: +32.5% (preliminary)
Avg gross 2026 premium: $759/mo
NET 2026 increase for 64-yr old couple earning $90K/yr if enhanced tax credits expire: +406%
TEXAS already has premium alignment in place, but that only helps so much.
Avg gross rate change: +32.5% (preliminary)
Avg gross 2026 premium: $759/mo
NET 2026 increase for 64-yr old couple earning $90K/yr if enhanced tax credits expire: +406%
TEXAS already has premium alignment in place, but that only helps so much.
TIL that authorities’ use of tear gas impacts the human reproductive system. I feel like this kind of thing should be printed on the front of my @aclu.org membership card. (TBF maybe it is, in some drawer somewhere)
It's already been studied, and this is known science. Of course, that doesn't stop these fuckers from using chemical warfare on people.
Some results from searching "tear gas abortifacient"
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
www.cdc.gov/breastfeedin...
www.sph.umn.edu/news/new-stu...
Some results from searching "tear gas abortifacient"
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
www.cdc.gov/breastfeedin...
www.sph.umn.edu/news/new-stu...
More than tears: associations between exposure to chemical agents used by law enforcement and adverse reproductive health outcomes
Despite routine law enforcement use of chemical agents for crowd control, the reproductive health safety profiles of these products are unknown. Moreover, limited evidence has documented a link betwee...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
September 20, 2025 at 1:49 AM
TIL that authorities’ use of tear gas impacts the human reproductive system. I feel like this kind of thing should be printed on the front of my @aclu.org membership card. (TBF maybe it is, in some drawer somewhere)