Jennifer Leman
@jlorileman.bsky.social
Features editor at National Geographic. Science journalist and proud WGAE member.
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mRNA 🧬 vaccines - but not other kinds - trigger an innate response that can allow the immune system to 'see' and attack tumours, animal studies suggest 🧪
If true, the covid vaccines should do this - and now we have the first evidence this is so
www.newscientist.com/article/2500...
If true, the covid vaccines should do this - and now we have the first evidence this is so
www.newscientist.com/article/2500...
mRNA covid vaccines spark immune response that may aid cancer survival
An analysis of patient records suggests that mRNA covid-19 vaccines boost the immune response to cancerous tumours when given soon after people start a type of immunotherapy, extending their lives
www.newscientist.com
October 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
mRNA 🧬 vaccines - but not other kinds - trigger an innate response that can allow the immune system to 'see' and attack tumours, animal studies suggest 🧪
If true, the covid vaccines should do this - and now we have the first evidence this is so
www.newscientist.com/article/2500...
If true, the covid vaccines should do this - and now we have the first evidence this is so
www.newscientist.com/article/2500...
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Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
October 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
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🚨Reporters🚨
I'm looking for a reporter who's can zoom into my graduate professional development class and talk about interviewing scientists (e.g., what makes a good interview, how can scientists help reporters, ...).
I'm looking for a reporter who's can zoom into my graduate professional development class and talk about interviewing scientists (e.g., what makes a good interview, how can scientists help reporters, ...).
October 16, 2025 at 1:38 AM
🚨Reporters🚨
I'm looking for a reporter who's can zoom into my graduate professional development class and talk about interviewing scientists (e.g., what makes a good interview, how can scientists help reporters, ...).
I'm looking for a reporter who's can zoom into my graduate professional development class and talk about interviewing scientists (e.g., what makes a good interview, how can scientists help reporters, ...).
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Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...
Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant
www.nytimes.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...
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Happy birthday to #astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979), a trailblazer for women in #astronomy who discovered that hydrogen and helium are the most common elements in the universe.
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#linocut #physics #sciart #printmaking #womenInSTEM #mathyear #astrophysics #astronomer
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#linocut #physics #sciart #printmaking #womenInSTEM #mathyear #astrophysics #astronomer
May 10, 2023 at 12:23 PM
Happy birthday to #astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979), a trailblazer for women in #astronomy who discovered that hydrogen and helium are the most common elements in the universe.
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#linocut #physics #sciart #printmaking #womenInSTEM #mathyear #astrophysics #astronomer
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#linocut #physics #sciart #printmaking #womenInSTEM #mathyear #astrophysics #astronomer
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For #BlackHistoryMonth pharmaceutical chemist Alice Ball (1892-1916) developed 1st effective treatment for leprosy. 👩🏾🔬🧪🐡 #histsci Though her life was cut tragically short, her research saved 1000s from exile & painful, ineffective lifelong treatment for leprosy, & she was a trailblazer for 🧵1/
February 29, 2024 at 1:05 PM
For #BlackHistoryMonth pharmaceutical chemist Alice Ball (1892-1916) developed 1st effective treatment for leprosy. 👩🏾🔬🧪🐡 #histsci Though her life was cut tragically short, her research saved 1000s from exile & painful, ineffective lifelong treatment for leprosy, & she was a trailblazer for 🧵1/
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For #spacetober_challenge day 8 prompt propulsion, my portrait of #mathematician, aeronautical #engineer, philanthropist & Cherokee ‘hidden figure’ of the space race: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008). 🧪🐡🧮🔭👩🏻🔬 #histsci
Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead his people on the
Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead his people on the
October 8, 2025 at 11:52 AM
For #spacetober_challenge day 8 prompt propulsion, my portrait of #mathematician, aeronautical #engineer, philanthropist & Cherokee ‘hidden figure’ of the space race: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008). 🧪🐡🧮🔭👩🏻🔬 #histsci
Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead his people on the
Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead his people on the
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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.
reut.rs
October 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L
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"It was an exciting opportunity to do applied pollinator research, which is what I want to do for my career.... I feel lucky to have my new job, but I’m definitely still in mourning."
This is something I've seen from a lot of former Feds. They LOVED their jobs....
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/s...
This is something I've seen from a lot of former Feds. They LOVED their jobs....
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/s...
She Studied How Logging Affects Pollinators
www.nytimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
"It was an exciting opportunity to do applied pollinator research, which is what I want to do for my career.... I feel lucky to have my new job, but I’m definitely still in mourning."
This is something I've seen from a lot of former Feds. They LOVED their jobs....
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/s...
This is something I've seen from a lot of former Feds. They LOVED their jobs....
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/s...
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ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.
David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.
Here's their story.
David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.
Here's their story.
ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.
A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.
www.mississippifreepress.org
October 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.
David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.
Here's their story.
David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.
Here's their story.
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Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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October 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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Across the country, people keep asking the same question: "What do we do now?"
And my answer is always the same: UNIONIZE.
And my answer is always the same: UNIONIZE.
Great piece as always from @himself.bsky.social, on authoritarianism as a competitive instance of the coordination problem.
Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.
www.nytimes.com
October 9, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Across the country, people keep asking the same question: "What do we do now?"
And my answer is always the same: UNIONIZE.
And my answer is always the same: UNIONIZE.
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Apple has removed Eyes Up, an app that aggregates videos people have published on social media documenting abuses by ICE, from the App Store,
Apple’s ongoing crackdown on anti-ICE apps continues.
Apple’s ongoing crackdown on anti-ICE apps continues.
Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses
Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.
www.404media.co
October 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Apple has removed Eyes Up, an app that aggregates videos people have published on social media documenting abuses by ICE, from the App Store,
Apple’s ongoing crackdown on anti-ICE apps continues.
Apple’s ongoing crackdown on anti-ICE apps continues.
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It's Nobel week! Here's @laurenjyoung.bsky.social with a great explainer on the science of today's winners, who developed our understanding of how the immune system avoids attacking the body: 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/2025...
This Year’s Medicine Nobel Goes to Discovery of Why the Body Doesn’t Attack Itself
Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi shared the Nobel prize for their work on peripheral immune tolerance, a process that is key to organ transplants and treatment of autoimmune disease...
www.scientificamerican.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
It's Nobel week! Here's @laurenjyoung.bsky.social with a great explainer on the science of today's winners, who developed our understanding of how the immune system avoids attacking the body: 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/2025...
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"But months later, the results are in: of more than 160,000 students enrolled, only 43 families chose to opt out of LGBTQ+ education districtwide."
"this crusade is not a mass movement. It’s the obsession of a vanishingly small minority"
"this crusade is not a mass movement. It’s the obsession of a vanishingly small minority"
"99.97 percent of families, even when given the option, chose to let their children learn about LGBTQ+ people."
Nice result, and it reinforces everything Montgomery County said to SCOTUS before its theocrats made their dehumanizing ruling. open.substack.com/pub/erininth...
Nice result, and it reinforces everything Montgomery County said to SCOTUS before its theocrats made their dehumanizing ruling. open.substack.com/pub/erininth...
Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To
After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.
open.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
"But months later, the results are in: of more than 160,000 students enrolled, only 43 families chose to opt out of LGBTQ+ education districtwide."
"this crusade is not a mass movement. It’s the obsession of a vanishingly small minority"
"this crusade is not a mass movement. It’s the obsession of a vanishingly small minority"
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EXCLUSIVE: In her first interview all year, Susan Monarez, CDC director for only 29 days, tells me why Trump/RFK fired her and where this is all headed.
The CDC director is an “inherently political position, but that doesn’t mean that it has to be politically compromised”, she tells @nature.com.
The CDC director is an “inherently political position, but that doesn’t mean that it has to be politically compromised”, she tells @nature.com.
Exclusive: ex-CDC director talks about why she was fired
“I would never do that, as a scientist,” Susan Monarez says of being asked to approve changes to vaccine recommendations without knowing the details.
www.nature.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:15 AM
EXCLUSIVE: In her first interview all year, Susan Monarez, CDC director for only 29 days, tells me why Trump/RFK fired her and where this is all headed.
The CDC director is an “inherently political position, but that doesn’t mean that it has to be politically compromised”, she tells @nature.com.
The CDC director is an “inherently political position, but that doesn’t mean that it has to be politically compromised”, she tells @nature.com.
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If you know other cases where DHS/ICE and other agencies demanded data about an activist's online accounts, I'm still digging. My Signal is shawnmusgrave.82
Scoop: DHS is trying to unmask Instagram accounts that named and shamed federal agents. One activist just filed a motion to quash the subpoena which was sent to Meta in early Sept. theintercept.com/2025/09/18/d...
The Feds Want to Unmask Instagram Accounts That Identified Immigration Agents
StopICE.net filed a motion to quash a subpoena about an Instagram video that identified a Border Patrol agent.
theintercept.com
September 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
If you know other cases where DHS/ICE and other agencies demanded data about an activist's online accounts, I'm still digging. My Signal is shawnmusgrave.82
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Wow! Brilliant for writers!
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Wow! Brilliant for writers!
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🚨 ACTION: The U.S. should welcome foreign journalists—not kick them out.
DHS is trying to gut the journalist I visa program and weaken press freedom at home and abroad.
▶️ Will you join over 13,000 and submit your own comment?:
newsguild.org/action-newsg...
DHS is trying to gut the journalist I visa program and weaken press freedom at home and abroad.
▶️ Will you join over 13,000 and submit your own comment?:
newsguild.org/action-newsg...
ACTION: NewsGuild-CWA joins calls on DHS to withdraw journalist visa proposal | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA
The NewsGuild-CWA calls on DHS to withdraw its proposed rule that would change the I visa program for foreign journalists working in the United States.
newsguild.org
September 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
🚨 ACTION: The U.S. should welcome foreign journalists—not kick them out.
DHS is trying to gut the journalist I visa program and weaken press freedom at home and abroad.
▶️ Will you join over 13,000 and submit your own comment?:
newsguild.org/action-newsg...
DHS is trying to gut the journalist I visa program and weaken press freedom at home and abroad.
▶️ Will you join over 13,000 and submit your own comment?:
newsguild.org/action-newsg...
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1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.
Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.
Thread 👇
Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.
Thread 👇
September 26, 2025 at 1:06 AM
1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.
Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.
Thread 👇
Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.
Thread 👇
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Lots of chemists work in the US on H-1B visas. The new $100,000 fee is likely to prevent many brilliant scientists from coming here, which would be a huge loss.
My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social
cen.acs.org/careers/empl...
My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social
cen.acs.org/careers/empl...
cen.acs.org
September 25, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Lots of chemists work in the US on H-1B visas. The new $100,000 fee is likely to prevent many brilliant scientists from coming here, which would be a huge loss.
My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social
cen.acs.org/careers/empl...
My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social
cen.acs.org/careers/empl...
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• 404 Media
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September 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
For science and health coverage, add @thexylom.com, @sequencermag.bsky.social, @thesicktimes.org to this list.
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My Friday @niemanstoryboard.org newsletter: @greenwell.bsky.social on finding your book's main characters + @mdbell79.bsky.social on dialogue, @skyepillsbury.com talks to @kalilaholt.bsky.social about "Heavyweight"'s return.
niemanstoryboard.org/2025/09/19/f...
#booksky #longreads #podcasts
niemanstoryboard.org/2025/09/19/f...
#booksky #longreads #podcasts
Finding your book's main characters - Nieman Storyboard
Megan Greenwell's “Bad Company,” annotated. Plus: What makes dialogue work on the page?
niemanstoryboard.org
September 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
My Friday @niemanstoryboard.org newsletter: @greenwell.bsky.social on finding your book's main characters + @mdbell79.bsky.social on dialogue, @skyepillsbury.com talks to @kalilaholt.bsky.social about "Heavyweight"'s return.
niemanstoryboard.org/2025/09/19/f...
#booksky #longreads #podcasts
niemanstoryboard.org/2025/09/19/f...
#booksky #longreads #podcasts
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Breaking news: Thirty-one journalists were killed in Israeli airstrikes on a newspaper complex in Yemen last week, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
They say it was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East.”
They say it was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East.”
Israel killed 31 journalists in Yemen strike, press freedom group says
Last week’s attack was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East” ever documented by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Breaking news: Thirty-one journalists were killed in Israeli airstrikes on a newspaper complex in Yemen last week, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
They say it was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East.”
They say it was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East.”
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An illustrated guide to getting the vaccines you need in RFK Jr.’s America www.vox.com/health/46052...
An illustrated guide to getting the vaccines you need in RFK Jr.’s America
The right questions to ask about your family’s vaccinations.
www.vox.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:33 AM
An illustrated guide to getting the vaccines you need in RFK Jr.’s America www.vox.com/health/46052...