jenna newman phd
@jennanewman.bsky.social
fed govt: public health, public safety. deep breaths, long horizons.
+ science comms + strategic comms + public sociology
+ science comms + strategic comms + public sociology
@annnapolitano.bsky.social ‘s *Dear Edward* utterly wrecked me — wrenched my heart wide open. An astonishment, frankly, amidst these precious, precarious days, when I find myself all too often fighting the inclination to harden and snap it shut.
#booksky
#booksky
December 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
@annnapolitano.bsky.social ‘s *Dear Edward* utterly wrecked me — wrenched my heart wide open. An astonishment, frankly, amidst these precious, precarious days, when I find myself all too often fighting the inclination to harden and snap it shut.
#booksky
#booksky
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“The [immunity debt] theory landed in the public consciousness at the right moment. A simple idea that sounded like science, it soothed a public seeking answers just as the world was returning to a semblance of normality. & it served a policy function, allowing govts to focus on economic recovery.”🧪
Immunity debt's "...explanatory power has faded as the number of non-covid infections has kept rising each year...
A growing number of scientists believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may instead be subtly altering our immune systems." 🛟😷medsky
A growing number of scientists believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may instead be subtly altering our immune systems." 🛟😷medsky
Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2
“Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports
Myco...
www.bmj.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
“The [immunity debt] theory landed in the public consciousness at the right moment. A simple idea that sounded like science, it soothed a public seeking answers just as the world was returning to a semblance of normality. & it served a policy function, allowing govts to focus on economic recovery.”🧪
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"come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me & has failed." --Lucille Clifton
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
"come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me & has failed." --Lucille Clifton
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"because it is bitter and because it is my heart" is a banger.
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 2:44 AM
"because it is bitter and because it is my heart" is a banger.
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Well not for a good reason. "chilling and killing"? Come on Edgar
December 7, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Well not for a good reason. "chilling and killing"? Come on Edgar
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Watch to the end. Mother Nature is not messing around
Stunning footage from earlier today, when the new Kilauea eruption covered the USGS Webcam 3, which is situated in the Halemaʻumaʻu crater near the southern rim of the much larger Kilauea caldera.
This *isn't* what the people of Pompeii saw.
But it's not very far off.
This *isn't* what the people of Pompeii saw.
But it's not very far off.
December 7, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Watch to the end. Mother Nature is not messing around
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"when i watch you
you wet brown bag of a woman
who used to be the best looking gal in georgia
used to be called the Georgia Rose
i stand up
through your destruction
i stand up"
Lucille Clifton, miss rosie
poets.org/poem/miss-ro...
you wet brown bag of a woman
who used to be the best looking gal in georgia
used to be called the Georgia Rose
i stand up
through your destruction
i stand up"
Lucille Clifton, miss rosie
poets.org/poem/miss-ro...
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 11:38 PM
"when i watch you
you wet brown bag of a woman
who used to be the best looking gal in georgia
used to be called the Georgia Rose
i stand up
through your destruction
i stand up"
Lucille Clifton, miss rosie
poets.org/poem/miss-ro...
you wet brown bag of a woman
who used to be the best looking gal in georgia
used to be called the Georgia Rose
i stand up
through your destruction
i stand up"
Lucille Clifton, miss rosie
poets.org/poem/miss-ro...
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“they ask me to remember
but they want me to remember
their memories
and i keep on remembering
mine.”
Why some people be mad at me sometimes
– Lucille Clifton
but they want me to remember
their memories
and i keep on remembering
mine.”
Why some people be mad at me sometimes
– Lucille Clifton
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
“they ask me to remember
but they want me to remember
their memories
and i keep on remembering
mine.”
Why some people be mad at me sometimes
– Lucille Clifton
but they want me to remember
their memories
and i keep on remembering
mine.”
Why some people be mad at me sometimes
– Lucille Clifton
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On Turning Ten by Billy Collins
December 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
On Turning Ten by Billy Collins
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Kim Addonizio, To the Woman Crying Uncontrollably in the Next Stall
December 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Kim Addonizio, To the Woman Crying Uncontrollably in the Next Stall
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Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
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This poem is framed on my wall, but it doesn't need to be, because it also lives in my brain.
December 6, 2025 at 2:02 AM
This poem is framed on my wall, but it doesn't need to be, because it also lives in my brain.
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My slightly more serious answer:
I learn by going where I need to go
The rest of the day was quite easy
I did all of the things on my list
You must change your life
I, too, dislike it
Practice losing farther, losing faster
I learn by going where I need to go
The rest of the day was quite easy
I did all of the things on my list
You must change your life
I, too, dislike it
Practice losing farther, losing faster
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
My slightly more serious answer:
I learn by going where I need to go
The rest of the day was quite easy
I did all of the things on my list
You must change your life
I, too, dislike it
Practice losing farther, losing faster
I learn by going where I need to go
The rest of the day was quite easy
I did all of the things on my list
You must change your life
I, too, dislike it
Practice losing farther, losing faster
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I discovered this poem shortly after losing my grandmother (who had mostly filled the mom role in my life), and it has profoundly shaped the way I think about life and death and grief and mortality.
December 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I discovered this poem shortly after losing my grandmother (who had mostly filled the mom role in my life), and it has profoundly shaped the way I think about life and death and grief and mortality.
Life is short, though I keep this from my children.
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine
in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I’ll keep from my children.
@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social ❤️
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine
in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I’ll keep from my children.
@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social ❤️
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
December 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Life is short, though I keep this from my children.
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine
in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I’ll keep from my children.
@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social ❤️
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine
in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I’ll keep from my children.
@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social ❤️
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
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So so so many, but one that comes up more frequently than you might think is
Yes
YES
The tiger is out
Yes
YES
The tiger is out
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
So so so many, but one that comes up more frequently than you might think is
Yes
YES
The tiger is out
Yes
YES
The tiger is out
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This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:
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NEW: xAI's Grok chatbot readily generated in-depth stalking instructions, down to lists of spyware apps + install ideas.
Grok also drafted plans for surveilling + approaching real people, even sharing links to real locations where it said we could "stake out" a celeb.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Grok also drafted plans for surveilling + approaching real people, even sharing links to real locations where it said we could "stake out" a celeb.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
December 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
NEW: xAI's Grok chatbot readily generated in-depth stalking instructions, down to lists of spyware apps + install ideas.
Grok also drafted plans for surveilling + approaching real people, even sharing links to real locations where it said we could "stake out" a celeb.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Grok also drafted plans for surveilling + approaching real people, even sharing links to real locations where it said we could "stake out" a celeb.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
“You know, I’m not unaccustomed to people being confidently wrong at me. I’m a woman with a PhD. I’ve been training for this my whole life.”
— @cfiesler.bsky.social 🧪
— @cfiesler.bsky.social 🧪
I finally cut a clip of what multiple people told me was their favorite joke from this set.
December 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
“You know, I’m not unaccustomed to people being confidently wrong at me. I’m a woman with a PhD. I’ve been training for this my whole life.”
— @cfiesler.bsky.social 🧪
— @cfiesler.bsky.social 🧪
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If you read/cite/teach from journals, read this thread. We need librarians more than ever. ⬇️
Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist.
I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵
I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵
December 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
If you read/cite/teach from journals, read this thread. We need librarians more than ever. ⬇️
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“Librarian’s dividend” is a great phrase. we talk a lot about how LLMs eviscerate expertise and knowledge, perhaps not enough about how they may reinvigorate demand for experts who actually know wtf they’re talking about. 1/2
I used this as a framing example in a recent talk I gave about the "librarian's dividend" which is my probably-far-too-positive spin on this absolute garbage fire -- that at least maybe we're forced into more appreciation and value for the people and institutions who help us evaluate information.
December 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
“Librarian’s dividend” is a great phrase. we talk a lot about how LLMs eviscerate expertise and knowledge, perhaps not enough about how they may reinvigorate demand for experts who actually know wtf they’re talking about. 1/2
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*stopping a wedding guest
LIBRARIANS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER NOW! LISTEN TO MY TALE OF WOE!
LIBRARIANS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER NOW! LISTEN TO MY TALE OF WOE!
December 6, 2025 at 12:33 AM
*stopping a wedding guest
LIBRARIANS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER NOW! LISTEN TO MY TALE OF WOE!
LIBRARIANS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER NOW! LISTEN TO MY TALE OF WOE!
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I used this as a framing example in a recent talk I gave about the "librarian's dividend" which is my probably-far-too-positive spin on this absolute garbage fire -- that at least maybe we're forced into more appreciation and value for the people and institutions who help us evaluate information.
December 5, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I used this as a framing example in a recent talk I gave about the "librarian's dividend" which is my probably-far-too-positive spin on this absolute garbage fire -- that at least maybe we're forced into more appreciation and value for the people and institutions who help us evaluate information.