Jennie Erin Smith
@jennieerinsmith.bsky.social
Write about science and people, now for @science.org. Corazón colombiano. My book, VALLEY OF FORGETTING, is on sale from @riverheadbooks.
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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair
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How Chiropractors Became the Backbone of MAHA
Why they love Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — and he loves them.
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December 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair
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One woman had no family left in Guatemala. Some men were snatched from their jobs. Every deportee was distraught, confused, or angry. When Guatemalans flip the coin of abandonment, they often find brutality on the other side. beta.elfaro.net/en/letter-fr...
Irrefutable Images
One woman had no family left in Guatemala. Some men were snatched from their jobs. Every deportee was distraught, confused, or angry. When Guatemalans flip the coin of abandonment, they often find…
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December 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
One woman had no family left in Guatemala. Some men were snatched from their jobs. Every deportee was distraught, confused, or angry. When Guatemalans flip the coin of abandonment, they often find brutality on the other side. beta.elfaro.net/en/letter-fr...
i concur
WSJ Books section is simply miles ahead other legacy national outlets. They read more widely and deeper, and don’t echo expensive marketing campaigns.
The Wall Street Journal’s Top 10 Books of 2025 are up! Gift link: www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
December 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
i concur
Valley of Forgetting just made Wall Street Journal's Top 10 books of 2025. 10 books. 2025. You can barely find it in a bookstore (I stopped looking, too painful), NYT didn't review it, and it's practically remaindered on Amazon but IT IS STILL A VERY, VERY VERY GOOD BOOK www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
The 10 Best Books of 2025
Ten works of fiction and nonfiction that stood out among those our reviewers read this year, selected by the Journal’s books editors.
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December 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Valley of Forgetting just made Wall Street Journal's Top 10 books of 2025. 10 books. 2025. You can barely find it in a bookstore (I stopped looking, too painful), NYT didn't review it, and it's practically remaindered on Amazon but IT IS STILL A VERY, VERY VERY GOOD BOOK www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
New York Public Library named Valley of Forgetting a best book of 2025 - and it’s not so long a list !
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November 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
New York Public Library named Valley of Forgetting a best book of 2025 - and it’s not so long a list !
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If there was any doubt at all that the CDC is fully destroyed, this page on autism and vaccines on its website confirms it. It's now just another vessel of dangerous health misinformation. I have no words. This is beyond sad.
November 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
If there was any doubt at all that the CDC is fully destroyed, this page on autism and vaccines on its website confirms it. It's now just another vessel of dangerous health misinformation. I have no words. This is beyond sad.
This is the type of person being picked up by my local collaborating sheriff’s dept - it all goes unnoticed except by followers of a mugshots page, a lot of them racists who come on to laugh. Nobody protests, nobody records. It just quietly happens.
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
This is the type of person being picked up by my local collaborating sheriff’s dept - it all goes unnoticed except by followers of a mugshots page, a lot of them racists who come on to laugh. Nobody protests, nobody records. It just quietly happens.
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If these people are ever thrown out of power, I hope we all understand there is no reformist pathway for institutions like this as much as Dems might desperately wish and claim there is.
November 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
If these people are ever thrown out of power, I hope we all understand there is no reformist pathway for institutions like this as much as Dems might desperately wish and claim there is.
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
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Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
Watching a Central American mom drop her little boys off about 5 blocks from school looking nervously ahead so she doesn’t have to get in the car line and risk God knows what
November 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Watching a Central American mom drop her little boys off about 5 blocks from school looking nervously ahead so she doesn’t have to get in the car line and risk God knows what
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Thank you to Johns Hopkins for the discussion with author @jennieerinsmith.bsky.social tonight about her book on #alzheimers and the Colombian families who have been studied since the 1980s. #journalism #books
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Book title - Valley of Forgetting.
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Book title - Valley of Forgetting.
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Author Talks Presents: Jennie Erin Smith
Join MA in Science Writing program alum Romila Santra as she hosts freelance science and medical reporter Jennie Erin Smith.
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November 4, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Thank you to Johns Hopkins for the discussion with author @jennieerinsmith.bsky.social tonight about her book on #alzheimers and the Colombian families who have been studied since the 1980s. #journalism #books
(will archive be shared?)
Book title - Valley of Forgetting.
hub.jhu.edu/events/2025/...
(will archive be shared?)
Book title - Valley of Forgetting.
hub.jhu.edu/events/2025/...
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The ongoing federal government shutdown is beginning to spur larger rent struggles and more food pantry visits among U.S. military members in Japan.
Shutdown spurs food pantry visits, rent struggles among US military in Japan
Food pantries von U.S. military bases in Japan climbed in October during the government shutdown, according to an informal survey by Stars and Stripes
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November 1, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The ongoing federal government shutdown is beginning to spur larger rent struggles and more food pantry visits among U.S. military members in Japan.
Languages are a bitch.
October 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Languages are a bitch.
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What you're seeing in Florida will be what hits the federal level in a year or two. Don't look away or write it off as Florida. This is THE blueprint.
McCarthyism was good, actually, is the new historical story.
McCarthyism was good, actually, is the new historical story.
Florida’s Social Studies standards are getting another update next month.
No, those terrible African American History standards will stay, but there’s a huge update to our Anti-Communism education.
This is just one page.
No, those terrible African American History standards will stay, but there’s a huge update to our Anti-Communism education.
This is just one page.
October 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
What you're seeing in Florida will be what hits the federal level in a year or two. Don't look away or write it off as Florida. This is THE blueprint.
McCarthyism was good, actually, is the new historical story.
McCarthyism was good, actually, is the new historical story.
I'm not a fan of Petro, I think he's a blowhard, but he does seem to be the one leader in all Latin America taking anything resembling a stand against the US torturing and killing its poorest citizens for fun?
Trump and Colombian President Trade Digital Attacks Over Boat Strikes
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October 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I'm not a fan of Petro, I think he's a blowhard, but he does seem to be the one leader in all Latin America taking anything resembling a stand against the US torturing and killing its poorest citizens for fun?
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you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
October 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
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There is simply no equivalent, not even close, of this anywhere on the center or far left. There is no ‘both sides’ here, media.
"Together, the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely — and where the Trump-era loosening of political norms has made such talk feel less taboo among those positioning themselves as the party’s next leaders."
Can't call them fascists?
Can't call them fascists?
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
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October 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
There is simply no equivalent, not even close, of this anywhere on the center or far left. There is no ‘both sides’ here, media.
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Because being cruel without any purpose is the Leitmotif of Trump 2.0.
So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.
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October 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Because being cruel without any purpose is the Leitmotif of Trump 2.0.
"Supporters of eugenics, the powerful early 20th-century movement for improving human heredity, often attacked that era's dramatic improvements in public health and medicine for preserving the lives of people they considered hereditarily unfit" Am J Public Health. 1997 Nov;87(11):1767–1772.
October 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"Supporters of eugenics, the powerful early 20th-century movement for improving human heredity, often attacked that era's dramatic improvements in public health and medicine for preserving the lives of people they considered hereditarily unfit" Am J Public Health. 1997 Nov;87(11):1767–1772.
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BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
October 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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So great to see @jennieerinsmith.bsky.social on the neuroscience beat at @science.org!
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Perfume scientists tweak cells into having ‘sense of smell’
A study could transform the lab study of olfaction—and may challenge a Nobel-winning hypothesis
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October 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
So great to see @jennieerinsmith.bsky.social on the neuroscience beat at @science.org!
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M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment
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October 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM