Jen Connic
@jenconnic.bsky.social
Social media, @natureportfolio.nature.com
Former Storyful, NJ.com, Patch.
Long-suffering Mets/Rangers fan. Foo Fighters fan. Gardener.
New England raised, Jersey living
Former Storyful, NJ.com, Patch.
Long-suffering Mets/Rangers fan. Foo Fighters fan. Gardener.
New England raised, Jersey living
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I was expecting a Showdown with Socialism.
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I was expecting a Showdown with Socialism.
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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...
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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...
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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.
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.
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.
rdcu.be
November 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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.
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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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
- 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
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...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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
- 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
SORA: the all Ai TikTok Clone. will slop end creativity?
YouTube video by CaseyNeistat
www.youtube.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Social media managers: Is anyone having issues with LinkedIn today?
October 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Social media managers: Is anyone having issues with LinkedIn today?
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literally every time I talk to friends
March 1, 2025 at 6:15 AM
literally every time I talk to friends
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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...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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.
www.nature.com
September 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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!
September 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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!
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.
Flint, Michigan, and Newark, New Jersey, would like a word.
September 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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.
Flint, Michigan, and Newark, New Jersey, would like a word.
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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...
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...
www.cnn.com
September 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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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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 🦈🦈🦈
Twitter manages to be the WORST, twice this time.
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social Please help me spread this again 🦈🦈🦈
July 3, 2023 at 11:57 PM
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 🦈🦈🦈
Twitter manages to be the WORST, twice this time.
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social Please help me spread this again 🦈🦈🦈
This is upsetting.
Teens calling Idaho's suicide hotline are being told they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up.
Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year.
idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...
Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year.
idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...
September 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
This is upsetting.
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")
(It is pretty scientific in a sense of "how did these guys procreate? This must be why they went extinct/evolved")
August 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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")
(It is pretty scientific in a sense of "how did these guys procreate? This must be why they went extinct/evolved")
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
August 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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
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 🌱
We had some fencing and stakes available to us, so that's what I used 🌱
August 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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 🌱
We had some fencing and stakes available to us, so that's what I used 🌱
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We need about 300 more scientists before we let teachers loose on the database!
Tell your colleagues, we need ya!
Tell your colleagues, we need ya!
Scientists!
@skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, libraries, & more for virtual Q&As! It's easy and fun!
We are looking for 750 more volunteers by 8/15
If you're down to chat with 1-5 classrooms this semester, sign up here
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
@skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, libraries, & more for virtual Q&As! It's easy and fun!
We are looking for 750 more volunteers by 8/15
If you're down to chat with 1-5 classrooms this semester, sign up here
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
August 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
We need about 300 more scientists before we let teachers loose on the database!
Tell your colleagues, we need ya!
Tell your colleagues, we need ya!
I was trying to find a gif that summed up the face I was making after I read this.
August 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I was trying to find a gif that summed up the face I was making after I read this.
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.
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.
August 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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.
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.
My phone just blared and vibrated and then read me the National Weather Service alert for a flash flood warning.
July 31, 2025 at 6:42 PM
My phone just blared and vibrated and then read me the National Weather Service alert for a flash flood warning.
Today I learned that anti-vaxxers are blaming the COVID vaccine for Long COVID.
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 "
media.tenor.com
July 31, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Today I learned that anti-vaxxers are blaming the COVID vaccine for Long COVID.
Just saw someone mention that Big Yogurt is sponsoring scientific research and I cannot 😂
July 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Just saw someone mention that Big Yogurt is sponsoring scientific research and I cannot 😂
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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.
Policies centered around transparency and accountability are effective in making communities, and law enforcement safer.
July 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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.
Policies centered around transparency and accountability are effective in making communities, and law enforcement safer.
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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.
June 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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.