Jennifer J Brown
@jjunebrown.bsky.social
#Author, #publichealth advocate, #genetics PhD.
Creatively driven & scientifically inspired, Mom of 2 with #PKU.
Latest book: When the Baby Is Not OK: Hopes & Genes
https://jjbrownauthor.com/
Creatively driven & scientifically inspired, Mom of 2 with #PKU.
Latest book: When the Baby Is Not OK: Hopes & Genes
https://jjbrownauthor.com/
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Jennifer J Brown
@jjunebrown.bsky.social
· Oct 25
When the Baby Is Not OK: Hopes & Genes – About the Book
Geneticist’s Memoir of Pregnancy, Birth of Babies with Rare Disease Intimate journey navigates today’s most pressing women’s issues. When the Baby is Not OK: Hopes & Genes, a new memoir of preg…
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A geneticist’s memoir of pregnancy + birth of babies with a rare disease ~ in "When the Baby Is Not OK: Hopes & Genes". For my family, it's #PKU. Our challenges are shared by many with rare conditions. Book details: jjbrownauthor.com/books/when-t... #newbornscreening #raredisease #booksky #Scicomm
December mood: In the skies above our heads, branches compete with bricks for territory.... 1st Avenue, NYC branches against bricks - new at Sophia Alma Art & Photography: www.artpal.com/sophiaalmaar... #photography #NYC
1st Avenue, branches against bricks - Sophia Alma Art & Photography
In the skies above our heads, branches compete with bricks for territory. - 1st Avenue, branches against bricks
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December 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
December mood: In the skies above our heads, branches compete with bricks for territory.... 1st Avenue, NYC branches against bricks - new at Sophia Alma Art & Photography: www.artpal.com/sophiaalmaar... #photography #NYC
A triumphant story, and a true one... "Bring Them Home" narrated by Lily Gladstone is wonderful. Grateful for this work to rewild buffalo. It's streaming free on PBS right now. Good news for troubling times. Have a look: www.pbs.org/show/bring-t... #movies #documentary #environment #gratitude
Bring Them Home
Blackfoot tribe lead triumphant restoration of buffalo, culture & land in BRING THEM HOME.
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November 30, 2025 at 9:59 PM
A triumphant story, and a true one... "Bring Them Home" narrated by Lily Gladstone is wonderful. Grateful for this work to rewild buffalo. It's streaming free on PBS right now. Good news for troubling times. Have a look: www.pbs.org/show/bring-t... #movies #documentary #environment #gratitude
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Today's #poetryprompt:
Friday the poetry group I run is hosting our last Open Mic of the year. The theme is Togetherness. I would love to read some poems from y'all there.
Write a poem about Togetherness, Solidarity or Community!
#MPPrompt
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Friday the poetry group I run is hosting our last Open Mic of the year. The theme is Togetherness. I would love to read some poems from y'all there.
Write a poem about Togetherness, Solidarity or Community!
#MPPrompt
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November 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Today's #poetryprompt:
Friday the poetry group I run is hosting our last Open Mic of the year. The theme is Togetherness. I would love to read some poems from y'all there.
Write a poem about Togetherness, Solidarity or Community!
#MPPrompt
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Friday the poetry group I run is hosting our last Open Mic of the year. The theme is Togetherness. I would love to read some poems from y'all there.
Write a poem about Togetherness, Solidarity or Community!
#MPPrompt
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Thanks to Julie for her insightful analysis of deep symbolic meaning of this trip to DC for those of us excluded from policy for far too long... have a read at the link below. Zohran keeps showing up + surviving, as the good leader NYers like me have been hoping for, for so long. #NYC #Mamdani
Wrote a new Substack about Friday’s meeting between Mamdani and Trump.
Sharing it here.
open.substack.com/pub/juliefra...
Sharing it here.
open.substack.com/pub/juliefra...
A Mayor in the Lion’s Den
Zohran Mamdani, Donald Trump, and the Politics of Meeting Power
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November 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Bird flu, avian influenza, H5N5 contagion and fatality in humans happening... hoping the best for the 100 exposed healthcare workers.
This was the H5N5 patient.
"Public health officials are continuing to monitor anyone who was in contact with the patient — including more than 100 health care workers — for symptoms to ensure that human-to-human spread has not occurred."
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
"Public health officials are continuing to monitor anyone who was in contact with the patient — including more than 100 health care workers — for symptoms to ensure that human-to-human spread has not occurred."
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Bird flu patient dies, marking second U.S. fatality in 2025
The Washington state resident, an older adult with underlying conditions, was infected with a strain that has previously been reported in animals but never before in humans.
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November 23, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Bird flu, avian influenza, H5N5 contagion and fatality in humans happening... hoping the best for the 100 exposed healthcare workers.
Read Samuel Stein's "Capital City" today, and found the chapter 4 on "developer president" sure explains a lot. I had no idea of the history there, esp affecting where I live, NYC. Highly recommend this book! Depressing (glad my bunny Maxi can't read) but honestly, worth it. #Booksky #NYC
November 23, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Fracked gas is a real hazard, not only for New Yorkers, but everyone touched in the process - plants, animals, people. Gratitude to Food & Water Watch for leading the opposition to Hochul's plan. #climate #publichealth #environment
This is unacceptable. By folding to Trump, @governor.ny.gov has helped to fast-track his agenda.
"In granting the certification for this pipeline, Governor Hochul has not only sided with Trump, she’s fast-tracked his agenda,” Laura Shindell, New York State director with @foodandwater.bsky.social
citylimits.org/sided-with-t...
citylimits.org/sided-with-t...
November 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Fracked gas is a real hazard, not only for New Yorkers, but everyone touched in the process - plants, animals, people. Gratitude to Food & Water Watch for leading the opposition to Hochul's plan. #climate #publichealth #environment
A beautiful reminder, thanks to Cristina Mittermeier for this rousing talk on our human place with in Mother Nature on an Ocean Planet! Link in the post below:
At Climate Week NYC, award-winning environmental photographer, conservationist, and SeaLegacy co-founder Cristina Mittermeier joined Atmos to talk about our deep sea relatives, the existential crises facing our ocean, and how we can find hope in the age of collapse.
www.youtube.com/@SeaLegacy
www.youtube.com/@SeaLegacy
November 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
A beautiful reminder, thanks to Cristina Mittermeier for this rousing talk on our human place with in Mother Nature on an Ocean Planet! Link in the post below:
Congrats to Madhu and Stefan for publishing their critical insights (below). Public health protections by access to care for essential vaccinations is our birthright, I believe. Otherwise, the biomedical miracle of vaccination is not being realized... #publichealth #Vaccination #Healthcareaccess
Access to vaccines is not a privilege — it is a human right.
In @statnews.com today, Stefan Peterson and I write about using a human rights-based approach to deal with vaccine denialism and the return of measles, whooping cough and diphtheria
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...
In @statnews.com today, Stefan Peterson and I write about using a human rights-based approach to deal with vaccine denialism and the return of measles, whooping cough and diphtheria
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...
Kids have a right to vaccinations. Let's bring in the lawyers
Children suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is a moral failure. Access to vaccines is a human right.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Congrats to Madhu and Stefan for publishing their critical insights (below). Public health protections by access to care for essential vaccinations is our birthright, I believe. Otherwise, the biomedical miracle of vaccination is not being realized... #publichealth #Vaccination #Healthcareaccess
A book reading + discussion of certain rare genes which allowed survival of epic catastrophic conditions in the past... a positive spin on #raredisease ... www.youtube.com/live/QAIXPuF... From "When the Baby Is Not OK: Hopes and Genes", my mom #memoir published this year. #Booksky #Momsky #genetics
November 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A book reading + discussion of certain rare genes which allowed survival of epic catastrophic conditions in the past... a positive spin on #raredisease ... www.youtube.com/live/QAIXPuF... From "When the Baby Is Not OK: Hopes and Genes", my mom #memoir published this year. #Booksky #Momsky #genetics
Sadly the #eugenics and #racism Watson erroneously attributed to DNA + genes are very much alive today. Watson ran Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory when I worked there... back in my genetics research days with Barbara McClintock, with his unkind, harmful views on full display.
November 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Did you know that 90% of textbook references to Native people stop before 1900?
If a country convinces itself that we've already disappeared, then it can keep taking our land, poisoning our water, & pretend no one real is being hurt.
Pls read & share my latest:
open.substack.com/pub/juliefra...
If a country convinces itself that we've already disappeared, then it can keep taking our land, poisoning our water, & pretend no one real is being hurt.
Pls read & share my latest:
open.substack.com/pub/juliefra...
We Are Still Here:
The History They Don’t Teach
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November 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Did you know that 90% of textbook references to Native people stop before 1900?
If a country convinces itself that we've already disappeared, then it can keep taking our land, poisoning our water, & pretend no one real is being hurt.
Pls read & share my latest:
open.substack.com/pub/juliefra...
If a country convinces itself that we've already disappeared, then it can keep taking our land, poisoning our water, & pretend no one real is being hurt.
Pls read & share my latest:
open.substack.com/pub/juliefra...
Delighted to share that these stories are now also up in ebook editions at B&N, Kobo, Apple books, Everand, Fable + more. Here's the books2read link showing all the distributors: books2read.com/u/47BGOA #writerscommunity #writesky #booksky #fiction #indiepub
Scary Stories for Halloween Reads ~ sharing a few of my books touching on the macabre and psychological horrors and a bit about the reality behind the writing, in my new online journal post: jjbrownauthor.com/scary-storie... #Booksky #Writingcommunity #shortstories #Halloween #books
J.J.Brown Author - Scary Stories for Halloween Reads
“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”― Stephen King Scary stories are a Halloween tradition, and this fall more than ever before I do need some make believe to cope with the wild…
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November 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Delighted to share that these stories are now also up in ebook editions at B&N, Kobo, Apple books, Everand, Fable + more. Here's the books2read link showing all the distributors: books2read.com/u/47BGOA #writerscommunity #writesky #booksky #fiction #indiepub
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The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.
September 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.
1 of many things I love about Zohran Mamdani, his inclusion of factual history + realism in his views - a great reminder in his clip below! Proud to vote for him + finally have a choice of someone I believe in, know + trust as Mayor. #vote #nyc #zohranmamdani
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
November 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
1 of many things I love about Zohran Mamdani, his inclusion of factual history + realism in his views - a great reminder in his clip below! Proud to vote for him + finally have a choice of someone I believe in, know + trust as Mayor. #vote #nyc #zohranmamdani
Happy Halloween! Be safe... I'm heading to our local library for Edgar Allan Poe stories. Watched "The Fall of the House of Usher" on Nflx last PM, so Poe. www.imdb.com/title/tt1556... If you've ever worked in pharma, as I have, it may twist a nerve or two. #Halloween #Fiction #EdgarAllanPoe
October 31, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Happy Halloween! Be safe... I'm heading to our local library for Edgar Allan Poe stories. Watched "The Fall of the House of Usher" on Nflx last PM, so Poe. www.imdb.com/title/tt1556... If you've ever worked in pharma, as I have, it may twist a nerve or two. #Halloween #Fiction #EdgarAllanPoe
Scary Stories for Halloween Reads ~ sharing a few of my books touching on the macabre and psychological horrors and a bit about the reality behind the writing, in my new online journal post: jjbrownauthor.com/scary-storie... #Booksky #Writingcommunity #shortstories #Halloween #books
J.J.Brown Author - Scary Stories for Halloween Reads
“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”― Stephen King Scary stories are a Halloween tradition, and this fall more than ever before I do need some make believe to cope with the wild…
jjbrownauthor.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Scary Stories for Halloween Reads ~ sharing a few of my books touching on the macabre and psychological horrors and a bit about the reality behind the writing, in my new online journal post: jjbrownauthor.com/scary-storie... #Booksky #Writingcommunity #shortstories #Halloween #books
Some cats simply radiate calm... happy National Cat Day! Neighborhood cat amid fallen leaves - a peaceful NYC moment from my daughter's work at: Sophia Alma Art & Photography www.artpal.com/sophiaalmaar... #NationalCatDay #catsky #photography
Neighborhood cat amid fallen leaves - Sophia Alma Art & Photography
Neighborhood cat lounges in a field of fallen leaves, Queens - NYC - Neighborhood cat amid fallen leaves
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October 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Some cats simply radiate calm... happy National Cat Day! Neighborhood cat amid fallen leaves - a peaceful NYC moment from my daughter's work at: Sophia Alma Art & Photography www.artpal.com/sophiaalmaar... #NationalCatDay #catsky #photography
Loving the serene nature photos up at SophiaAlma's new site: www.artpal.com/sophiaalmaart #photography #birdsky #catsky
Sophia Alma Art & Photography
Art gallery of Sophia Alma Art & Photography. Buy Photography.
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October 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Loving the serene nature photos up at SophiaAlma's new site: www.artpal.com/sophiaalmaart #photography #birdsky #catsky
Agreed! Voting early today felt so so good. I wasn't anticipating the rush of positivity I experienced, just after I voted for Zohran. Dopamine I guess, or just plain old hope. My family's known him for 20 years here in NYC. I trust him! #ZohranMamdani
"No longer should we think about our political process as settling for the lesser of two evils. We can demand a greater good.
And in doing so, we can make City Hall a place from which New Yorkers expect change, not failure."
And in doing so, we can make City Hall a place from which New Yorkers expect change, not failure."
October 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Agreed! Voting early today felt so so good. I wasn't anticipating the rush of positivity I experienced, just after I voted for Zohran. Dopamine I guess, or just plain old hope. My family's known him for 20 years here in NYC. I trust him! #ZohranMamdani
“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”― Stephen King
This #Halloween I do need some make believe! A few of my stories touching on the macabre or dark psychological – and the realities behind the writing - in a new post here today: jjbrownauthor.com/scary-storie... #booksky #horror
This #Halloween I do need some make believe! A few of my stories touching on the macabre or dark psychological – and the realities behind the writing - in a new post here today: jjbrownauthor.com/scary-storie... #booksky #horror
J.J.Brown Author - Scary Stories for Halloween Reads
“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”― Stephen King Scary stories are a Halloween tradition, and this fall more than ever before I do need some make believe to cope with the wild…
jjbrownauthor.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”― Stephen King
This #Halloween I do need some make believe! A few of my stories touching on the macabre or dark psychological – and the realities behind the writing - in a new post here today: jjbrownauthor.com/scary-storie... #booksky #horror
This #Halloween I do need some make believe! A few of my stories touching on the macabre or dark psychological – and the realities behind the writing - in a new post here today: jjbrownauthor.com/scary-storie... #booksky #horror
A geneticist’s memoir of pregnancy + birth of babies with a rare disease ~ in "When the Baby Is Not OK: Hopes & Genes". For my family, it's #PKU. Our challenges are shared by many with rare conditions. Book details: jjbrownauthor.com/books/when-t... #newbornscreening #raredisease #booksky #Scicomm
When the Baby Is Not OK: Hopes & Genes – About the Book
Geneticist’s Memoir of Pregnancy, Birth of Babies with Rare Disease Intimate journey navigates today’s most pressing women’s issues. When the Baby is Not OK: Hopes & Genes, a new memoir of preg…
jjbrownauthor.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
A geneticist’s memoir of pregnancy + birth of babies with a rare disease ~ in "When the Baby Is Not OK: Hopes & Genes". For my family, it's #PKU. Our challenges are shared by many with rare conditions. Book details: jjbrownauthor.com/books/when-t... #newbornscreening #raredisease #booksky #Scicomm
Grateful to stand with wonderful people in the "rare" community at NYC's "Lifting the Limits" NPKUA benefit last night with my daughter Lillian, @lillianisabella.com, a #PKUAdvocate. A huge limit right now is access to care.
#PKU #Raredisease #LTLFORPKU #phenylketonuria #LiftingtheLimits #healthcare
#PKU #Raredisease #LTLFORPKU #phenylketonuria #LiftingtheLimits #healthcare
October 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Grateful to stand with wonderful people in the "rare" community at NYC's "Lifting the Limits" NPKUA benefit last night with my daughter Lillian, @lillianisabella.com, a #PKUAdvocate. A huge limit right now is access to care.
#PKU #Raredisease #LTLFORPKU #phenylketonuria #LiftingtheLimits #healthcare
#PKU #Raredisease #LTLFORPKU #phenylketonuria #LiftingtheLimits #healthcare
A heartbreaking, inspiring memoir to read, showed me how important her story is in our world today. Storytelling lives forever and cannot be killed or silenced. #Booksky #Nobody'sGirl #Memoir
In a posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre writes that she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew three times, beginning when she was 17, and was beaten and raped by a “well-known prime minister."
“Nobody's Girl”: Virginia Giuffre's Memoir Details Sex Abuse by Epstein, Maxwell, Prince Andrew
Virginia Roberts Giuffre's posthumous memoir has just been released, detailing how she was groomed by Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, whom she met at Donald Trump's Mar-A-Lago resort. In Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abu...
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October 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
A heartbreaking, inspiring memoir to read, showed me how important her story is in our world today. Storytelling lives forever and cannot be killed or silenced. #Booksky #Nobody'sGirl #Memoir
In case you need a smile... lovely photos from the Guardian gallery on humor in nature. www.theguardian.com/environment/... #Nature #photography
Comedy Wildlife Awards 2025 – in pictures
From a red-throated loon touching down on water, to good and bad hair days, and an airborne squirrel, here is a selection of the finalists in this year’s Nikon Comedy Wildlife awards
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October 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
In case you need a smile... lovely photos from the Guardian gallery on humor in nature. www.theguardian.com/environment/... #Nature #photography