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Lauren Jenks

@laurenbjenks.bsky.social
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Public Health Leader. Environmentalist. Recovering Climate Pessimist. I write about overcoming climate despair to find hope and a real path towards a just and sustainable future. seekers.substack.com

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 15/07/2025
The 1 train on the NYC subway tonight
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 30/05/2025
Breaking news: Contradicting HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC continues to recommend the coronavirus vaccines for healthy children, according to new documentation posted to the agency's website.
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Contradicting RFK Jr., CDC keeps recommending covid vaccine for kids
While RFK Jr. said coronavirus vaccines would be removed from the CDC schedule for healthy children, it’s still recommended in consultation with doctors.
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Lauren Jenks @laurenbjenks.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Hands Off!
Protest sign: Protect the Constitution
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Lauren Jenks @laurenbjenks.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
FINALLY stores have the good trail mix ingredients again!
Bowl full of Easter candy
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Lauren Jenks @laurenbjenks.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Three pies for Pi Day
Three pies
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Lauren Jenks @laurenbjenks.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Best thing I heard today: “You can’t just go around saying “the sky is falling!” The sky IS falling. Now what?”
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/03/2025
I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.
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CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel
It’s just the latest “Orwellian” crackdown on government scientists.
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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
After my #StarterPack of writers seeking an #agent I made a waiting list. It got huge. So instead I've done Pack 2, adding other people #querying Please repost to help them out. If you want one of the few places left, please follow the instructions at the end of the thread #booksky #writingcommunity
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Lauren Jenks @laurenbjenks.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Many thanks to my Valentine for clearly separating the sprite from the rolling rock in the fridge so I don’t keep grabbing the wrong one every time no matter which I’m going for.
Sprite Zero and Rolling Rock cans that look really, really similar.
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Progressive Christianity @jonpaulsydnor.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
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Lauren Jenks @laurenbjenks.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
OK. One thing we know for sure, is that none of *these* notebooks has gotten my life together and my book written. But don’t worry—there are lots more notebooks out there. One of them has to work. #writing
Large pile of notebooks
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Lauren Jenks @laurenbjenks.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
‘BACK TO PLASTIC!’: Why Trump is coming after paper straws again What if we just give this one to him? Tell you what, Mr. President—you put the federal government back, and you never have to use a paper straw again.
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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 27/01/2025
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Lauren Jenks @laurenbjenks.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
“Everybody sing!” Thank you, Pete. youtube.com/watch?v=wnvC...
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Lauren Jenks @laurenbjenks.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
A Seussian, Orwellian moment
Quote from New Yorker
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Lauren Jenks @laurenbjenks.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
@laracp-oly.bsky.social Thanks for telling me about #fungifriday
A mushroom in the woods
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Lauren Jenks @laurenbjenks.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Wait. I have to make all those TikTok recipes right now? Rice paper noodles and clementine cake for dinner it is!
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Lauren Jenks @laurenbjenks.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Come, children! Take all the joy, all the happiness, all the light! Wrap it in newspaper, and put it in these dusty boxes.
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Lauren Jenks @laurenbjenks.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Guess I’ll be here on the couch for a while
Large dog sleeping with head on a lap
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Lauren Jenks @laurenbjenks.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
If you make eggnog this season, do not shove the shells of a dozen eggs down your garbage disposer. And that, my friends, is $1300 worth of advice
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
mewy cwismis
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Lauren Jenks @laurenbjenks.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
“We’ve begun to feel the effects of climate change in communities across the country….At the same time, the decarbonization agenda has driven investment and created jobs….And yet, the U.S. climate movement is without a central animating message.”
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Lauren Jenks @laurenbjenks.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
My 15yo just told me her friend’s fish are named Swim Shady and Swimothy and it gives me so much hope for the next generation
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Lauren Jenks @laurenbjenks.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
All these scary climate projections--are they the shadows of the things that Will be, or are they shadows of the things that May be only? A Christmas Carol meets Climate Science open.substack.com/pub/seekers/...
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Shadows of What May Be
“Before I draw nearer to that stone to which you point,” said Scrooge, “answer me one question.
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Lauren Jenks @laurenbjenks.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Me: would you help me sort the laundry, please? Kid: aaargh. I don’t want to. I know *eye roll* you don’t want to either, but you got to choose for yourself to start this task. Me: That’s true. And why do you think I chose for myself to start this task? Kid: The patriarchy?
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Exactly! Should we be worried about climate change? Heck, yes. (But let’s make sure we get the facts right, and skip the most extreme doomer yarns — which aren’t based in science…) Should that freeze us into inaction? Heck, no! It should lead to agency and action!
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Fascinating, hopeful case: legally enforceable rights just granted to the Snohomish River watershed in Everett City, Washington State. “Voters in Everett…enshrined the watershed’s rights to exist, regenerate and flourish.” insideclimatenews.org/news/0512202...
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A River in Washington State Now Has Enforceable Legal Rights - Inside Climate News
Voters in the city of Everett chose to grant the Snohomish River watershed rights to exist, regenerate and flourish as part of a November ballot initiative.
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Washington State Department of Ecology @ecology.wa.gov · 05/12/2024
Good news! You’ve got more time to share your feedback on the Safer Products for Washington’s Draft Report to the Legislature. Share your thoughts on reducing harmful chemicals in everyday products from now to Dec. 31, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. ecology.wa.gov/events/hwtr/...
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Safer Products Draft Report Public Comment - Washington State Department of Ecology
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
#Scurvy in Canada Is a Symptom of Our Sick Politics, by @crof.bsky.social thetyee.ca/Analysis/202... via @thetyee.ca #sdoh
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Scurvy in Canada Is a Symptom of Our Sick Politics | The Tyee
And it reveals much about how we approach fairness and human rights.
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Lauren Jenks @laurenbjenks.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
There’s never four horsemen of anything good
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Dr. Laura Carter Robinson • Humanity&Planet @humanityandplanet.com · 30/11/2024
An important read by @bradstulberg.bsky.social in the NYT. Viktor Frankl’s “tragic optimism,” described so well here, is a central tenet of the work I do in climate therapy.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
On #WorldAIDSDay, we remember and thank all the inspiring activists who helped turn the tide on this deadly pandemic www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...
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AIDS Activism, A Playbook For Global Health Advocacy
AIDS activism was exceptionally successful. Other areas of global health can and must use the AIDS activism playbook.
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Jake Reynolds @jakereynolds.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Climate psychologists are often the first to say: ‘information alone doesn't change green behavior’ ❌ Particularly where big cost/convenience barriers exist But 85% of us report knowing little about how to be green 📉 🔁 Follow this 🧵 for 11 climate comms hacks ⬇️ My blog on this ➡️ bit.ly/3VdcFlO
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Scientist Rebellion @scientistrebellion.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
"This will make it likely that the limit of 1.5C will be surpass in this century". In Germany, scientists are publicly reading the @ipcc.bsky.social AR6 synthesis report at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social . You can contact your local group to organize a reading.
A scientist in a labcoat reading the IPCC report
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Lauren Jenks @laurenbjenks.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Cleaner energy AND more wine!
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Ben Sanderson @benmsanderson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Mitigation costs in perspective
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Rebecca Nestor @rebeccaclimate.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
If the work is traumatic, what can we do about that? Well, we can't make the trauma go away. It is probably here to stay. But we can offer meaning-making spaces in organisations. We can allow, indeed encourage, time off (Yes! Even you! Take your annual leave! Take your duvet days!). And...
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