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Sam Jones, PhD

@samjscience.bsky.social
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views mine • science journo • 🎙️exec producer & co-host acs.org/tinymatters and acs.org/chinreaction • words, pod, videos at sjoneswriting.com • she/her/hers

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Sam Jones, PhD @samjscience.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What a treat to chat with Helen! Check us out on @allusionistshow.bsky.social! @okidokiboki.bsky.social
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SciComm Excellence @scicommexcellence.nationalacademies.org · 19/02/2026
In the most recent episode of Tiny Matters, two #SciComm awardees, @samjscience.bsky.social and @fieseler.bsky.social, explore the fascinating science and history of wind power. 🌬️ 🎧 Listen here: www.acs.org/pressroom/ti... #WindPower
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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 13/05/2026
let us tell you about the peptide stack you should be taking to looksmaxx JKJKJK let us tell you about gray market chemicals and how u shouldn’t inject them. feat. @okidokiboki.bsky.social and @samjscience.bsky.social who brought the science to our peptide party !!
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SciComm Excellence @scicommexcellence.nationalacademies.org · 30/07/2026
@samjscience.bsky.social is co-host and producer of Tiny Matters, where curiosity and conversation help make science approachable for listeners everywhere. Take a sneak peek at Sam's work #BTS: Interviewing astronaut Terry Hart, at Podcast Movement, recording a crossover episode with SciShow.
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Sam Jones, PhD @samjscience.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We had the best time! Thanks for having us @profgabriele.com!
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Multitude @multitudeshows.com · 03/09/2026
It’s a great week for Multitude podcast crossovers! Check out @profgabriele.com x @samjscience.bsky.social in this special episode of @americanmedieval.bsky.social pod.link/1849547102/e...
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Turin Shroud (Crossover with Tiny Matters Podcast)
Listen to Turin Shroud (Crossover with Tiny Matters Podcast) from American Medieval wherever you get your podcasts!
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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 08/11/2025
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫
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James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
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The Open Notebook @theopennotebook.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Applications are OPEN through 10/31 for our early-career fellowship program supported by the @bwfund.bsky.social! Work with a mentor to plan, report, and write articles for The Open Notebook and become part of the TON team. 🧪
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Early-Career Fellowship Program - The Open Notebook
Every year, The Open Notebook offers a paid, part-time fellowship program for early-career science journalists. This ten-month program offers fellows the opportunity to explore their career interests ...
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Sam Jones, PhD @samjscience.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
These kids are so cool 🥹
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Sam Jones, PhD @samjscience.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
It hasn’t made it to English-speaking outlets yet but reports from the area are saying that @alecluhn.bsky.social has been found and is receiving medical attention ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ Overjoyed for everyone — I cannot imagine the relief felt by his wife and family www.vg.no/nyheter/i/B0...
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Savnede Alec Luhn (38) funnet i live
Det bekrefter politiet i Hardanger til VG. –⁠ Veldig, veldig glad, sier kona til VG.
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Sam Jones, PhD @samjscience.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
My friend and fellow journalist @alecluhn.bsky.social is missing. If you have any info/sway that could help this situation please send me a message 💛
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Jason Dinh @byjasonpdinh.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
as Syria rebounds from dictatorship, its people are demanding to rebuild with the climate in mind for @atmosmag.bsky.social, @mariannedhe.bsky.social reports on the hopes and dreams for the nation's post-Assad future 🌍🧪
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Syrians Want a Green Future. Can Their New Government Deliver? | Atmos
The fall of the Assad regime has offered the Syrian people a revolutionary moment to rebuild with the environment in mind.
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Dr. Moiya McTier @goastromo.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Tiny matters. Big matters. It’s all space to me! Check out this week’s Pale Blue Pod about the tiniest things in space with @samjscience.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
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Tiny Space Matters with Dr. Sam Jones
Podcast Episode · Pale Blue Pod · 06/09/2025 · 55m
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Sam Jones, PhD @samjscience.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Had a blast on Pale Blue Pod chatting about tiny things in space with @goastromo.bsky.social ! 🔭
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SciComm Excellence @scicommexcellence.nationalacademies.org · 21/04/2025
Feeling stressed? 2024 award winner @samjscience.bsky.social shares how building strong social connections, taking a step back when you feel overwhelmed, and focusing on things you enjoy are some ways to deal with stress contagion. Read more: www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202... #scicomm
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Stress is contagious. Here’s how not to catch it.
Building strong social connections, taking a step back when you feel overwhelmed and focusing on things you enjoy are some ways to deal with stress contagion.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10/04/2025
Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.
RFK Jr. says HHS will determine the cause of autism by September
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American Chemical Society @acs.org · 04/04/2025
🎧 If you want to treat your ears to a science podcast, tune in to Tiny Matters! Dive into the microbes, molecules, and other other tiny things that have a big impact on our world. Not sure where to start? Here are some top episode picks from our award-winning executive producer, Sam Jones.
Top 5 episodes of Tiny Matters, picked by the podcast's executive producer Sam Jones. Episode titles are in the following posts.
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Sam Jones, PhD @samjscience.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Today's episode of Tiny Matters is one I've been mulling over for a while, partly because I wanted to find the perfect guest. (Spoiler: I did). @joelbervell.bsky.social joins us to discuss the ways race science, dating back centuries, still influences medicine today open.spotify.com/episode/0jwQ...
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How 18th and 19th century 'race science' still has deadly medical consequences today
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Multitude @multitudeshows.com · 05/03/2025
NASACORE 👩‍🚀🌌 We are still on cloud nine from our NASA visit last week. Seriously such an honor to be in the presence of the Roman Space Telescope with @goastromo.bsky.social and @samjscience.bsky.social! We probably won't stop talking about this for a while.
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Sam Jones, PhD @samjscience.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
🌟Submissions are OPEN for the awards for excellence in science communication given by @nationalacademies.org & @schmidtsciences.bsky.social to science communicators, journalists, and researchers. I was thrilled to have been one of last year's winners. 🔗 www.nationalacademies.org/awards/excel...
Flier saying that submissions are open for the awards for excellence in science communication given by the National Academies and Schmidt Sciences from February 28 through March 31, 2025.
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Sam Jones, PhD @samjscience.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
This week’s Tiny Matters features @restingdinoface.bsky.social who guides us in exploring the complex and essential relationship between plants and animals across evolution and some of the pivotal moments that led to our world today. Listen anywhere you get podcasts open.spotify.com/episode/3ieM...
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How plants shaped our world: Rising oxygen, blocky bones, and other pivotal moments in evolution
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Sam Jones, PhD @samjscience.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
🧪For science (or dog! or both!) enthusiasts in the DMV area — come see a very cool comparative oncology doc I was a science consultant on, premiering at the AMC Montgomery 16 in Bethesda on Tuesday, February 11th at 7 pm. FREE to attend. Trailer and RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Sam Jones, PhD @samjscience.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
pointing listeners in the right (sometimes cute) direction since 2022 😎
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Sam Jones, PhD @samjscience.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
This is your sign to treat yourself this weekend in preparation for the week ahead, for no reason whatsoever…
a checkered image with a croissant and curled up dog in alternating panels
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Sam Jones, PhD @samjscience.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
🧪I had a blast curating this week's @pocketcasts.com guest list! Check it out and maybe you'll find a new podcast to fall in love with @acs.org @multitude.productions @okidokiboki.bsky.social 🔗 blog.pocketcasts.com/2025/01/16/s...
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sanjana! @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
great starter pack to bring all kinds of science to your feed in all sorts of formats, from writing to podcasting to videos, from award-winning science communicators and journalists! go.bsky.app/R3WZmxy
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Sam Jones, PhD @samjscience.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Such an amazing night with @nationalacademies.org and Schmidt Sciences receiving an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communication. The past few days I’ve been surrounded by the smartest, kindest, most driven people and I am so grateful 💛
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Multitude @multitudeshows.com · 04/12/2024
We're hosting an Instagram takeover with Tiny Matters Host @samjscience.bsky.social! Mark your calendars for December 9th from 1-2 pm EST to get all your burning podcast and science questions answered right on our stories at @multitudeshows. @amerchemsociety.bsky.social
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Will Freund @willfreund.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
One of my favorite mugs from one of my favorite science podcasts! If Tiny Matters isn't on your regular listening, I highly recommend it. @samjscience.bsky.social and the other amazing hosts, producers, and writers do an incredible job.
A mug with the text "Tiny Matters" on it.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
What can government scientists do now to minimize the damage that’s coming over the next four years, and what can we do to help them? I spoke to several experts to write this story for The Revelator Please share widely. 🧪🌎 therevelator.org/scientists-m...
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Advice for U.S. Government Scientists: Lessons Learned From the ‘Muzzling’ of Their Canadian Counterparts • The Revelator
The next four years will be awful for the science and conservation community. By learning from past experiences, we can minimize the damage.
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Sam Jones, PhD @samjscience.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Ahhh no longer a secret! Tiny Matters has joined the Multitude fam! 🎧 ❤️
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Multitude @multitudeshows.com · 28/11/2024
The Support Homegrown Podcasts pins are here! Thank you to the MultiCrew for sharing your pics! We’re also grateful for our new merch partnership with @certifiedcrucial.bsky.social! Shop your favorites from @spiritspodcast.com and @jointhepartypod.com at multitude.certifiedcrucial.com!
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Sam Jones, PhD @samjscience.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
🦃 Around Thanksgiving, we often stop to consider what we’re grateful for. But gratitude is important for our relationships and physical health all year long. It has also been linked to decreased loneliness. So how do we cultivate a practice? Me for @washingtonpost.com 🎁🔗 wapo.st/3Zmq8tM
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Gratitude can improve our mental health. Here’s how to create a practice.
Research shows that gratitude had a significant inverse relationship to loneliness — as gratitude increased, loneliness decreased.
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Sam Jones, PhD @samjscience.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
reason 12,567… to not drink raw milk 🥛
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Sam Jones, PhD @samjscience.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
It feels like momentum is really building here — so hi! I’m Sam, a former scientist turned science journalist and exec producer of the podcast Tiny Matters. It’s early Saturday and I’m tired, so that’s all for now, but here’s a pic of my dogs giving “don’t talk about my child that way” energy
Two dogs, Frenchie and Boston terrier mixes, sitting together in sunlight with one dog’s paw on the other’s, looking at the camera
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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 11/11/2024
Tiny Matters is one of my favorite podcasts and even though @samjscience.bsky.social is not on BlueSky yet, I highly encourage people to submit cool science stories ✨🧪💕
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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
Great Data Sovereignty READ featuring Native BioData Consortium and our cofounders, @kstsosie.bsky.social, Keolu Fox, and Matt Anderson. Thanks, @samjscience.bsky.social Nature journal “We have seen an egregious abuse of power, an egregious culture of extraction.” Keolu Fox, NativeBio cofounder.
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An ethical way forward for Indigenous microbiome research
Science has a history of exploitation and extraction. Microbiologists have the chance to take a different approach. By Sam Jones
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Sam Jones, PhD @samjscience.bsky.social · 17/07/2024
🧬Tiny Matters just launched a new bonus series and we need your stories! Click on the link below and tell us your favorite science fact/news/story for a chance to be featured AND to win a Tiny Matters coffee mug! forms.gle/9TKr4uokFRA1...
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Submit to Tiny Show and Tell Us!
For a chance to be featured on an upcoming episode and have your name entered to win a Tiny Matters coffee mug, tell us about your favorite science fact or some recent science news that you just can't...
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Sam Jones, PhD @samjscience.bsky.social · 03/07/2024
🧪So excited to share that Tiny Matters is launching a newsletter! For updates on new episodes, video snippets from interviews, little blurbs on recent fascinating science discoveries, and maybe the occasional photo of my goofy dogs and Deboki’s far more refined cat…subscribe!🔗 bit.ly/tinymattersn...
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Subscribe to Tiny Matters to get updates on new episodes, video snippets from interviews, little blurbs on recent science discoveries we can’t stop thinking about, and more.
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Sam Jones, PhD @samjscience.bsky.social · 31/05/2024
🦠🧪Long COVID was a big, intimidating (and ever evolving) topic to tackle on Tiny Matters, but I'm so glad we did. Thank you to Abby Koppes, Mike VanElzakker and Ryan Prior for sharing their work and experiences with our listeners #LongCOVID 🎧available everywhere www.buzzsprout.com/2243575/1513...
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Long COVID: What we’re learning about pathogens and chronic illness goes beyond COVID-19 - Tiny Matters
On March 11, 2020, after over 118,000 cases of COVID-19 had been reported in 114 countries, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. The term Long COVID began popping up across the ...
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Sam Jones, PhD @samjscience.bsky.social · 18/05/2024
🧪We’re launching a bonus series on Tiny Matters called ‘Tiny show and tell us’! Email tinymatters@acs.org with your favorite science factoid, a personal science story, science news you’re itching to share…really anything you think listeners would enjoy! open.spotify.com/episode/4AAq...
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Introducing: Tiny show and tell *us*!
Listen to this episode from Tiny Matters on Spotify. Deboki and Sam put out a survey last month asking Tiny Matters listeners for feedback and were overwhelmed by the number of people who asked for mo...
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Sam Jones, PhD @samjscience.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
🧪 I write and podcast about human health, medicine, and disease a lot, so getting to write about new research on the emergence of bioluminescence (and learning it’s almost 300 million years older than we thought!) was so, so cool 🪸 @nytimes.com 🎁 gift link www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/s...
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In Coral Fossils, Searching for the First Glow of Bioluminescence
A new study resets the timing for the emergence of bioluminescence back to millions of years earlier than previously thought.
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Sam Jones, PhD @samjscience.bsky.social · 13/04/2024
🧪Understanding how our brains respond to certain situations and cues allows for the development of real solutions, so we can ditch useless advice like “just eat better.” 🧠My latest for @washingtonpost.com linking the lonely brain to unhealthy eating wapo.st/43UHP4u
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Why loneliness is associated with food cravings in some women
Researchers have found that when exposed to images of food, the brains of women who reported being lonely showed alterations in some regions.
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D.C. Science Writers Association @dcswa.bsky.social · 31/03/2024
🧪This year's Professional Development Day is on Saturday, May 4th (in-person & virtual!). The day includes a keynote talk, panel discussions and workshops for journalists and PIOs, lunch with local scientists, a writer-editor meet and greet, and more! 🦆Register dcswa.wildapricot.org/event-5643066
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Sam Jones, PhD @samjscience.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
🧪anyone know of a DC-based science writer/journalist with an excellent newsletter? Please send suggestions!
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Sam Jones, PhD @samjscience.bsky.social · 04/03/2024
🧪 It’s my birthday! As a gift to me, I would be so grateful if you subscribed, rated and/or reviewed Tiny Matters, the #sciencepodcast I exec produce 🎂 🎙️ Find your preferred listening platform here 👉 tinymatters.buzzsprout.com/share
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From molecules to microbes, Tiny Matters is a science podcast about the little things that have a big impact on our world. Every other Wednesday, join hosts and former scientists Sam Jones and Deboki ...
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Sam Jones, PhD @samjscience.bsky.social · 23/02/2024
🧪 The DC Science Writers Association @dcswa.bsky.social is having our professional development day on Sat., May 4th at George Washington University. I’m helping organize a panel on ethical use of AI in newsrooms and am looking for panelists! 🤖 Any suggestions for people in the DC area? Let me know!
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Sam Jones, PhD @samjscience.bsky.social · 21/02/2024
🧪 Last fall @okidokiboki.bsky.social and I did a Q&A and mug giveaway episode where we answered listener questions about #science and #scicomm. It was a hit, so today we're back with round 2!🔗 open.spotify.com/episode/0Pfm... ☕ Want your very own Tiny Matters mug?🔗 www.eweb.acs.org/eweb/ACSTemp...
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Your questions answered! Methanol poisoning, quantum entanglement, biomimicry, sea foam, our fave tiny discoveries of 2023, and more!
Listen to this episode from Tiny Matters on Spotify. It's happening again! A Tiny Matters Q&A and mug giveaway! Sam and Deboki answer listener questions about science, like, ‘Is it true that when we t...
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Sam Jones, PhD @samjscience.bsky.social · 28/01/2024
🧪Are you in the Washington, DC area and looking to connect with other science writers, producers, and journalists? @dcswa.bsky.social is hosting a pizza social at Sonny’s on Thursday, February 8th. Come mingle and grab a slice on us! 🍕 dcswa.org/event/pizza-...
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Sam Jones, PhD @samjscience.bsky.social · 17/01/2024
DC isn’t experiencing -40, but I’m a wimp and waking up to 11 degree weather ain’t fun 🥶
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