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Jennifer Davis
@jmd5120.bsky.social
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I live in Chicago. I work in a lab. Sometimes I bike. Views are my own.
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Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · May 2
Collection of websites I've seen highlighting the impact of federally funded research at various institutions

First is Chicago's very own Northwestern University, which ended FY2024 with $>1 billion in research funding

Northwestern University: Research Impact
www.northwestern.edu/research-nu/...
Research Impact : Northwestern University
www.northwestern.edu
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Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 1h
oh, that thing
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Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 3h
I have given myself a stupid little quest to distract from current events
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Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 3h
Overjoyed, according to the app
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Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 3h
I thought mine did but I was just there and could not find them
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Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 3h
Whose Jewel is selling those maple leaf sandwich cookies
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Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 5h
Despite all my rage I have somehow become middle-aged
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Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 7h
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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 12h
gift link. unreal to see this happening, but it's unfortunately necessary. wapo.st/46QspkQ
Democratic governors form state public health alliance to counter RFK Jr.
The Governors Public Health Alliance would counter federal health agencies under President Donald Trump as an independent hub to monitor diseases and prepare for emergencies.
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Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 7h
From a distance it looks weird
Trees on Oak Street lit up purple for Halloween, from across the treeless expanse of the end of Michigan Avenue
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Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 8h
www.chicagotribune.com/2002/01/27/h...
How stellar are `starchitects’?
The colors are straight out of a comic book — deep purple, canary yellow and hot pink. Only they’re not in the comics; they’re painted onto a new dorm at the very gray, very serio…
www.chicagotribune.com
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Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 8h
In a few weeks we'll have endless articles about the real reason behind this year's shockingly high turkey prices, see if we don't

www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...
Three large turkey farms in Minnesota hit with H5N1 avian flu
APHIS also noted several outbreaks in backyard flocks.
www.cidrap.umn.edu
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Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 11h
Was gonna say...
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Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 11h
Fall-ass weather
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Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 11h
What does Fiscal Cliff mean for all the other public transit systems throughout the state?
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Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 11h
I know I say this every year and don't, but I'm going to start wearing mine for walking
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Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 13h
Are you kidding, all the suburban retirees who remember the opening are there
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Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 14h
*Hopkins
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Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 23h
There is a terrible new nighttime machinery noise in my apartment
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Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 1d
Diversey
A distant city skyline sparkles and glows on the water and dramatically illuminates patchy clouds
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Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 1d
nice
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Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 1d
The cancer swords will continue until morale improves
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Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 1d
CANCER SWORD

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 1d
October is #BreastCancerAwareness month.

#Breastcancer was seen as an incurable disease.

Women's Field Army was a group that recruited hundreds of thousands of women, mostly from social elite circles, to raise funds to promote cancer detection awareness.

🧪 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Fight Cancer with Knowledge Poster Description: Poster shows an artistically rendered profile of woman with right arm holding up a sword with slogans: "Fight Cancer With Knowledge," "Enlist In The Women's Field Army," "American Society For The Control Of Cancer."
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Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 1d
🎶Take me down to the south Lakefront Trail where the grass is green and the trees are pretty
Take me home🎵
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Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 1d
Is everyone who ran in the Marathon having a reunion on the north Lakefront Trail tonight or is this normal?
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Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 1d
$800 in basic equipment? In this economy?

www.wired.com/story/satell...
Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...
www.wired.com
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Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 1d
Do you think we'll have snow this year
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