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ClutchScience (Jen Phillips)

@clutchscience.bsky.social

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She/her Permadoc @ UOregon zebrafish community NIH and 501c3 funded scientist Molecular genetics of human diseases Married to a cute OD Parent of two awesome grown people Daughter of a mild-mannered mom in memory care

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ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · Nov 12

What was I “known for” on Twitter? Gotta be this one:

ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · Nov 12

For me it’s the time I went viral for a thread about my mom getting the Covid vaccine. It was RTd & shared thousands of times. High profile accounts followed me. NBC’s Today Show called.
Utter chaos. Image of the first tweet attached, also link to full text.
elderhealthandliving.com/mother-of-pe...

Screenshot of a Tweet from January 2021 (see link in body of sheet for the full text) including a photo of my mom

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ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · 10h

My mom & dad divorced when I was 7. She got the furniture (and me), he got an empty 3 bedroom Cape Cod. Within a month the house was filled with a family of 6 Cambodian refugees. He housed them, assisted with jobs, tutors, their first US apartment, remained their champion until the day he died.

Ź🖤🥀 @lalaspeaks.bsky.social · 1d

What’s ONE green flag about your father?

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Nicole Donawho @nicoledonawho.bsky.social · 10h

My dad lived paycheck-to-paycheck. After he died, I was overwhelmed by the number of people who reached out to tell me that he helped them with bills, food, etc. so that their children would be taken care of.

Ź🖤🥀 @lalaspeaks.bsky.social · 1d

What’s ONE green flag about your father?

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the lady from Bluesky @beigewunder.blacksky.app · 11h

My neck doesn't look like it did when I was 23 either but I'm also not terrorizing the world, so.

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ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · 11h

Great pod! Don’t forget that Mensik also managed to fight The Aura and beat Djokovic in Miami!

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ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · 15h

That’s old school

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 16h

He was famous at our church for telling inappropriate and foul mouth jokes at every funeral reception "because we need to laugh"

When it was time for his funeral people came up to tell foul mouth jokes instead of doing a eulogy

Ź🖤🥀 @lalaspeaks.bsky.social · 1d

What’s ONE green flag about your father?

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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield @agdanrayfield.bsky.social · 15h

You can learn more about how Oregon is safeguarding reproductive health care in our Reproductive Health Care Toolkit at www.doj.state.or.us/oregon-depar....

Reproductive Health Care Resources - Oregon Department of Justice

This toolkit includes the following: Abortion in Oregon Free & Confidential Reproductive Rights Hotline What does Oregon law say about abortion care? How does Oregon law protect people seeking abortio...

www.doj.state.or.us

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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield @agdanrayfield.bsky.social · 15h

Oregonians have made it clear: reproductive healthcare is safeguarded in our state.

If access to mifepristone is challenged, we will take action to protect it – and we recently joined attorneys general in 19 other states in reaffirming this commitment.

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 3d

So proud of our Stanford colleague Will Tarpeh, newly named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow! Will is a brilliant and innovative scientist and a deeply committed community builder who helped launch a support network for junior Black faculty at Stanford. We’re all beaming!

news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

Stanford Professor William Tarpeh receives MacArthur Fellowship

The chemical engineering professor was recognized for his advances in recovering valuable materials from wastewater. “This award is a testament to my community,” he says.

news.stanford.edu

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 19h

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · 1d

He’s going to Hell for sure

ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · 1d

a woman with angel wings stands in front of a tree

Alt: a slender white woman with long blonde hair wearing a fitted long sleeved white dress and a pair of angel wings wiggles her shoulders, rises to a standing position and mimes flying away

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ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · 1d

Hahaaaaaaaa Butker

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 5d

I, however,
Have such meagre power,

Clutching at a
Moment,

While you control
An hour.

But your hour is
A stone.

My moment is
A flower.

-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.

I have done so little
For you.
And you have do little
For me.
That we have good reason
Never to agree.

I, however,
Have such meagre power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.
-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"

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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 1d

No honey, we criticize you for free because you lie.

From MAHA Action, "Dr. Eric Berg just REVEALED the real reason behind the sudden wave of anti-RFK Jr. and MAHA content online.

Big Pharma is literally paying influencers $1,000 per post to attack the MAHA movement.

(Video from MAHA ACTION Weekly Media Hub)"

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ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · 1d

I met a really cute baby named Mimi yesterday and we smiled at each other a whole bunch

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ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been doing that thing where I’m absorbing a lot of stress & negativity from people who need to offload it, & am now full to the brim with other people’s toxic emotional waste & feeling pretty frayed. Today is as much of a self care day as I can manage, with as many puppy snuggles as possible.

The fluffy heads of two cream colored golden retrievers. One is lying on her side with her ear unfurled with her nose pointed toward the other, while the other gently sniffs One’s head

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

We are an independent, nonprofit newsroom with more than 150 dedicated journalists.

For those who want to read the facts of our reporting — and the documents on which it is based — here’s the full story:

Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.

The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two...

www.propublica.org

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 1d

There are so few academic jobs, and thousands of excellent scholars are all trying to move at the same time due to location.

‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south

Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

www.theguardian.com

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ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · 1d

I’m so sorry for your loss. May his memory be a balm to help you through your grief.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 1d

Threw away the pellet

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 2d

"The chancellor approved it"

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ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · 1d

So very true

ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · 2d

October 11th Game Day in Eugene

A clear backpack containing an emergency poncho and sunglasses

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 2d

lol gentle reminder that DEI is not illegal. Supporting marginalized groups is not illegal. Anyone reneging on support is making a CHOICE to do so.

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