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Jen Connic

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Social media, @natureportfolio.nature.com Former Storyful, NJ.com, Patch. Long-suffering Mets/Rangers fan. Foo Fighters fan. Gardener. New England raised, Jersey living

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Jen Connic @jenconnic.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Thinking about the journalists at the Washington Post today.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 21/11/2025
I was expecting a Showdown with Socialism.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in. Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A glorious selfie with the official MAHA lanyard seconds after I made it past Secret Service screening.
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Jen Connic @jenconnic.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
My love for science origin story is that my dad was an engineer on the primary mirror project for the Hubble Space Telescope. So I was super interested in this feature from @natastron.nature.com about the next space telescope! It'll be to hunt for life on other worlds.
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NASA’s bold new telescope will do more than just hunt for life
Nature Astronomy - The Habitable Worlds Observatory will look for inhabited worlds beyond our Solar System in the 2040s and scientists are dreaming of what else it might do.
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 21/10/2025
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero
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Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
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Jen Connic @jenconnic.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
This video on AI slop is a must watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1dW...
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SORA: the all Ai TikTok Clone. will slop end creativity?
YouTube video by CaseyNeistat
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Jen Connic @jenconnic.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Social media managers: Is anyone having issues with LinkedIn today?
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
literally every time I talk to friends
three panel cartoon by @emilyscartoons.bsky.social … in the first panel one person says "let's not talk about politics any more, I can't bear it" and the other person replies "same." in the second panel, they say nothing. in the third panel, the first person yells "THE THING IS THOUGH" and the second person yells back "THOSE FUCKING IDIOTS"
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Helen Pearson @helenpearson.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Now might be a good time to repost this story about what scientists actually know about the complex causes of autism, and what's behind the increasing prevalence. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Autism is on the rise: what’s really behind the increase?
RFK Jr has vowed to find out what’s responsible, but scientists say he is ignoring answers from decades of research.
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Jen Connic @jenconnic.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I really wish we could tag people in photos on here. I don't even know where to aim that request. But it would be super helpful!
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Jen Connic @jenconnic.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
It never ceases to amaze me that Americans believe there is clean water in every community in this country. Flint, Michigan, and Newark, New Jersey, would like a word.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 09/09/2025
In Florida alone, a 15% decline in vaccinations against measles over 25 years would lead to 1 million measles cases. www.cnn.com/2025/09/09/h...
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Florida’s surgeon general said he didn’t calculate the costs of ending vaccine mandates in the state. But scientists have. | CNN
Florida’s surgeon general said Sunday that he had not weighed the cost – in terms of infections, hospitalizations or deaths – of ending vaccine mandates in the state. But scientists who have done thos...
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I'm Here Live I'm a Kat @katsharki3.bsky.social · 04/07/2023
New social media, 4 years later, and time for an update of my shark emoji review! Twitter manages to be the WORST, twice this time. @whysharksmatter.bsky.social Please help me spread this again 🦈🦈🦈
A screenshot of various cartoon emoji sharks and a review of each. The review text will follow in thread.
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Jen Connic @jenconnic.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
This is upsetting.
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Jen Connic @jenconnic.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Today in things I did not expect with work: A discussion about dino sex on Facebook (It is pretty scientific in a sense of "how did these guys procreate? This must be why they went extinct/evolved")
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Jo French @gothinkdexign.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Some wholesome Trek content to start the week right #startrek #tng #voyager #ds9
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Jen Connic @jenconnic.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
I came back from vacation today, and I've had to piece things together like a puzzle because other colleagues who covered for me are off today
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Jen Connic @jenconnic.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Today is a sad day. I had to put up the worst looking fence ever on my community garden plot because the deer eats keeping my tomatoes (and already ate all my bean plants). Soap isn't cutting it this year 😭 We had some fencing and stakes available to us, so that's what I used 🌱
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
We need about 300 more scientists before we let teachers loose on the database! Tell your colleagues, we need ya!
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Jen Connic @jenconnic.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
I was trying to find a gif that summed up the face I was making after I read this.
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a close up of an owl 's face with the words `` but why '' below it .
ALT: a close up of an owl 's face with the words `` but why '' below it .
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Jen Connic @jenconnic.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
I feel like "according to AI" is the new "according to Wikipedia," but that is a giant slap in the face of Wikipedia. I'd trust Wikipedia has a general source a billion times over AI. Wikipedia editors are amazing, and I'm sure the work is a lot harder now than it's ever been.
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Jen Connic @jenconnic.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
My phone just blared and vibrated and then read me the National Weather Service alert for a flash flood warning.
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Jen Connic @jenconnic.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Today I learned that anti-vaxxers are blaming the COVID vaccine for Long COVID.
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a man in a suit and tie is saying " i can 't do this "
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is saying " i can 't do this "
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Jen Connic @jenconnic.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Just saw someone mention that Big Yogurt is sponsoring scientific research and I cannot 😂
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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 10/07/2025
We love America, and love keeping Americans safe, so we introduced the Visible Act. It requires ICE agents to wear identifiable badges and conduct their duties unmasked. Policies centered around transparency and accountability are effective in making communities, and law enforcement safer.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Rep. Andy Ogles, a Republican from Tennessee, has sent a letter to Pam Bondi calling for Zohran Mamdani to be stripped of his citizenship and deported.
Andy Ogles: Zohran "little muhammad" Mamdani is an antisemitic, socialist, communist who will destroy the great City of New York. He needs to be DEPORTED. Which is why I am calling for him to be subject to denaturalization proceedings.
Attached is my letter to @AGPamBondi.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Probably not a coincidence Trump cancelled the Senate classified briefing for this afternoon.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
This Nature article about the legacy of Jaws quotes me www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Happy birthday Jaws! How the movie changed shark science
Half a century after its cinematic release, Jaws is still shaping how we view — and protect — the ocean’s top predators.
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Jen Connic @jenconnic.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Someone who can post to the Science feed should send this to the Science feed. 😆
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Jen Connic @jenconnic.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
As a social media manager, I beg of you, please read the article. Most of your questions are answered there.
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Jen Connic @jenconnic.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I want to put a hold on Libby for "Mark Twain" (I'd be 12th in line, apparently), but the audiobook is 45 HOUR LONG. I cannot listen to a 45-hour book in two weeks. 😭 #booksky
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
This scenario is precisely why the Founders created the Article I branch and gave them the power of impeachment and removal
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Jen Connic @jenconnic.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
People who make jokes at the expense of marginalized people shouldn't be allowed to limit their replies on social media.
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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 09/06/2025
In serving up one of the best and most dramatic matches in tennis history, this felt like the moment Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz announced themselves to the world at large. Sunday's drama at Roland Garros catapulted them into the mainstream spotlight. dlvr.it/TLFh8c
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Amazing. Respect the lede.
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Which one’s Joan and which one’s Bette?
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Jen Connic @jenconnic.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Just had to mitigate an attack of climate deniers on FB. How's everyone else's day going so far?
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a little girl is standing in front of a shelf and the words take me now please are above her
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Jen Connic @jenconnic.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Tomato season is near 🌱
A tomato is forming on the plantA tomato is forming
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Jen Connic @jenconnic.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Never a dull moment with NJ public transportation.
Due to police activity resulting from a deer off the tracks near Newark Broad Street, NJ TRANSIT rail service into and out of Penn Station New York is subject to up to 15-minute delays.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it" by Colette Delawalla (@cdelawalla.bsky.social), Victor Ambros, Carl Bergstrom, Carol Greider, Michael Mann and Brian Nosek for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it | Colette Delawalla
The new executive order allows political appointees to undermine research they oppose, paving the way to state-controlled science
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Are you a scientist and not sure what to do to help with all the awfulness all around us? Inspired by Vietnam era activism, @standupforscience.bsky.social is hosting a series of "teach ins," in which scientists share a bit about their area of expertise and why it's important with the public. 🧪🦑🌎
Flier for my talk Friday 5/30 at 7 p.m.
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Jen Connic @jenconnic.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I spoke to the person who AI-generated the Chicago Sun-Times reading list. Says he's very embarrassed. This was part of a generic package inserted into newspapers and other publications, so likely to run elsewhere. He didn't know it'd be in Chicago Sun-Times www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...
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Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist
"I can't believe I missed it because it's so obvious. No excuses," the writer said. "I'm completely embarrassed."
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Jen Connic @jenconnic.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The amount of rage bait on social media is out of control
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Jen Connic @jenconnic.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
This is a great article from @matthewfacciani.bsky.social about fact checking and using lateral reading. In a former journalism life, I was doing things like this for work. Tracing things back to its origin is important in today's media world
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Think Like a Fact-Checker: The Skill Most People Don’t Use
Most people judge online info by how it looks—but expert fact-checkers do something totally different. Here’s the skill they use—and how you can learn it too.
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
filling time on air until the new pope is announced is known as "pontiffication"
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
With NIH director Jayanta Bhattacharya dismissing my reporting as "false" and "spreading rumors" hours before releasing a policy that confirmed said "rumors," I feel compelled to respond. Here's an inside look into how this story was reported. It was a weird one. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
On a Nature news article reporting that NIH planned to suspend subawards for foreign collaborations:
“No, that’s false. There’s going to be a policy on tracking subawards. The NIH and the government should be able to see where the money’s going.”

“I’m really uncomfortable with this conversation, because you’re like, actually spreading rumors that you don’t know anything about. … Nature also is spreading rumors. Halt foreign collaborations, that’s not true.”

“We’re working on the policy, Jocelyn. You shouldn’t be reporting rumors. I know there’s leaks all over here, but the leaks don’t actually reflect what’s happening. Don’t write about rumors. It actually makes the things that you and I care about worse. Like it spreads panic.”

Later that day, NIH released a policy that halted future subawards to foreign scientists and said they will need to apply directly for money under a system still in development.
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Jen Connic @jenconnic.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Well. This is shitty
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Longtime NJ Advance Media reporter Matt Arco dies at age 39
Matt Arco, 39, covered New Jersey and national politics for NJ Advance Media.
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Nature @nature.com · 30/04/2025
The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team. go.nature.com/44gQIHO
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Did a tardigrade get the world’s tiniest tattoo? April’s best science images
The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/04/2025
REPORTER: Amazon will soon display a number next to the price of each product that shows how much the Trump tariffs are adding. Isn't that a perfect demonstration that it's the American consumer who is paying for these policies? LEAVITT: This is a hostile and political act by Amazon.
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