Anna Rogers
@jollyette.bsky.social
fellow at @motherjones.com | words in SciAm, Slate, Teen Vogue, Sierra Magazine, Discover, etc. | former NIH employee | she/they | Oakland, CA
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This says a lot to me about the people programming it.
November 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
This says a lot to me about the people programming it.
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Earlier this week, a new page titled “Vaccines and Autism” appeared on the CDC website. The agency's employees are not happy about it.
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page
"The best way I can put it is it feels like we're on a hijacked airplane."
www.motherjones.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Earlier this week, a new page titled “Vaccines and Autism” appeared on the CDC website. The agency's employees are not happy about it.
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
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We finally know the identities of the 9 anonymous authors of the May HHS report on pediatric gender-affirming care. Surprise! It's stacked with people who make money advocating against pediatric gender-affirming care.
Here's our writeup from May: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Here's our writeup from May: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
November 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
We finally know the identities of the 9 anonymous authors of the May HHS report on pediatric gender-affirming care. Surprise! It's stacked with people who make money advocating against pediatric gender-affirming care.
Here's our writeup from May: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Here's our writeup from May: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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TJA is doing amazing things in documenting news coverage. I was on this tool last night and it’s incredible how much can be drawn from it.
This tool analyzes more than 190,000 articles published in the last five years to show how publications have covered trans stories over time.
November 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
TJA is doing amazing things in documenting news coverage. I was on this tool last night and it’s incredible how much can be drawn from it.
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We’re just going to leave this here…
November 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
We’re just going to leave this here…
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Where are the learning loss people? It’s hard to learn at school if you’re afraid to go because the secret police might kidnap you.
November 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Where are the learning loss people? It’s hard to learn at school if you’re afraid to go because the secret police might kidnap you.
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This is embarrassing from Google.
The Nat’l Cancer Institute (part of #NIH) is being torn down from inside, in part by fools who think AI can entirely replace human cancer scientists.
And Google is buying ads that don’t mention the destruction?
That’s cowardice, Google newsfromgoogle.bsky.social
The Nat’l Cancer Institute (part of #NIH) is being torn down from inside, in part by fools who think AI can entirely replace human cancer scientists.
And Google is buying ads that don’t mention the destruction?
That’s cowardice, Google newsfromgoogle.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
This is embarrassing from Google.
The Nat’l Cancer Institute (part of #NIH) is being torn down from inside, in part by fools who think AI can entirely replace human cancer scientists.
And Google is buying ads that don’t mention the destruction?
That’s cowardice, Google newsfromgoogle.bsky.social
The Nat’l Cancer Institute (part of #NIH) is being torn down from inside, in part by fools who think AI can entirely replace human cancer scientists.
And Google is buying ads that don’t mention the destruction?
That’s cowardice, Google newsfromgoogle.bsky.social
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NIH is ramping up efforts to fill a huge slate of vacant leadership positions.
Onlookers worry the process is being rushed and will depart, as it already has in one case, from the long-standing practice of drawing on advice from academic scientists to find candidates. https://scim.ag/47HraVv
Onlookers worry the process is being rushed and will depart, as it already has in one case, from the long-standing practice of drawing on advice from academic scientists to find candidates. https://scim.ag/47HraVv
Is NIH cutting corners as it rushes to fill leadership positions?
Unlike in the past, agency searches appear to exclude help from outside academic researchers
scim.ag
November 14, 2025 at 10:44 PM
NIH is ramping up efforts to fill a huge slate of vacant leadership positions.
Onlookers worry the process is being rushed and will depart, as it already has in one case, from the long-standing practice of drawing on advice from academic scientists to find candidates. https://scim.ag/47HraVv
Onlookers worry the process is being rushed and will depart, as it already has in one case, from the long-standing practice of drawing on advice from academic scientists to find candidates. https://scim.ag/47HraVv
I think about this often with the several pushes to replace experimental work with computation this administration is making. that only works if you have the data, and in many cases we don’t
Same for neuroscience. The lack of ability to measure many neurons’ activity, perturb them, and measure intracellular processes and connections is what limits understanding the brain.
The key barriers are not algorithms or AI.
🧪#neuroscience 🧠🤖 #MLSky
The key barriers are not algorithms or AI.
🧪#neuroscience 🧠🤖 #MLSky
November 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I think about this often with the several pushes to replace experimental work with computation this administration is making. that only works if you have the data, and in many cases we don’t
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It cannot be remembered enough that these were the same people who got worked up about drag brunches
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
It cannot be remembered enough that these were the same people who got worked up about drag brunches
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I have gone to 2 dif concerts at dif venues 2 nights in a row that were bands from out of town (Greensboro, North Carolina and Melbourne, Australia) congratulating New York for Zohran Mamdani and saying NYC politics contributed to people paying attention to their local politics
November 13, 2025 at 3:28 AM
I have gone to 2 dif concerts at dif venues 2 nights in a row that were bands from out of town (Greensboro, North Carolina and Melbourne, Australia) congratulating New York for Zohran Mamdani and saying NYC politics contributed to people paying attention to their local politics
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Wait until he learns that electric power plants burning coal and methane gas emit air pollution that kills people.
Scoop: I have learned Trump went after wind farms for eagle deaths during the government shutdown.
Thousands and thousands in fines over birds that died at least a year ago or more.
Via @heatmap.news
heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...
Thousands and thousands in fines over birds that died at least a year ago or more.
Via @heatmap.news
heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...
Trump Punished Wind Farms for Eagle Deaths During the Shutdown
Plus more of the week’s most important fights around renewable energy.
heatmap.news
November 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Wait until he learns that electric power plants burning coal and methane gas emit air pollution that kills people.
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A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions.
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
November 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions.
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
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NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state.
José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:
“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"
José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:
“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"
US firefighter detained on the job speaks out after deportation: ‘I feel betrayed’
Exclusive: Border patrol arrested José Bertin Cruz-Estrada while he was battling a wildfire in Washington. He is now in Mexico, separated from his family in Oregon
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state.
José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:
“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"
José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:
“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"
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This week's Big Feature @motherjones.com: A look at how Dreamers—who came to the US as kids—went from being protected by the government to being targeted by it.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Then they came for the Dreamers
Immigrants brought here as children were told they wouldn’t be deported. Now, they’re being targeted anyway.
www.motherjones.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
This week's Big Feature @motherjones.com: A look at how Dreamers—who came to the US as kids—went from being protected by the government to being targeted by it.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Thissssssss 👇🏾
If you're celebrating California's passing of Prop. 50, don't forget to acknowledge the Black organizers who made it happen.
Racial justice campaigners were Prop. 50's army in the field
For the Black organizers who made it happen, California redistricting was just one more round in a decades-long fight.
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November 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Thissssssss 👇🏾
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Fellow arthropod fans: This is even more amazing than the headline describes! The researchers say it’s “the first evidence of colonial behavior in two common spider species.”
November 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Fellow arthropod fans: This is even more amazing than the headline describes! The researchers say it’s “the first evidence of colonial behavior in two common spider species.”
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Reposting to correct an error: trump admin is quietly gutting 13 buildings and about 100 laboratories at Goddard campus that has been instrumental to Hubble and James Webb telescope missions. Staff say they’ve be locked and told to move equipment. Anything left behind will be thrown away.
NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear
(CNN) — Alarm is growing among federal workers at NASA’s iconic Goddard Space Flight Center’s main campus in Greenbelt, Maryland — the nerve center for groundbreaking missions like the Hubble
www.wkow.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Reposting to correct an error: trump admin is quietly gutting 13 buildings and about 100 laboratories at Goddard campus that has been instrumental to Hubble and James Webb telescope missions. Staff say they’ve be locked and told to move equipment. Anything left behind will be thrown away.
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Please, every time you hear excited and frankly earned praise for Newsom's gutsy move in creating Prop 50 out of whole cloth, PLEASE:
Remember this ⬇️
Remember this ⬇️
Gavin Newsom Cites Trans Godson While Taking Anti-Trans Position
The California governor said that the states trans-inclusive laws around sports should change.
www.them.us
November 5, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Please, every time you hear excited and frankly earned praise for Newsom's gutsy move in creating Prop 50 out of whole cloth, PLEASE:
Remember this ⬇️
Remember this ⬇️
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Today is an absolute rebuke of anti-transgender politics, and a real sign that the anti-trans panic is fading.
From VA Gov to Loudoun County to New Jersey to New York City and Pennsylvania, anti-trans Republicans are falling left and right.
From VA Gov to Loudoun County to New Jersey to New York City and Pennsylvania, anti-trans Republicans are falling left and right.
Democrats are currently ahead in 63 (!!!) races in the Virginia House of Delegates.
If this holds, it would be one of the largest state legislature swings in the last 4 years.
Its an absolute bloodbath for anti-trans Republicans.
If this holds, it would be one of the largest state legislature swings in the last 4 years.
Its an absolute bloodbath for anti-trans Republicans.
November 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Today is an absolute rebuke of anti-transgender politics, and a real sign that the anti-trans panic is fading.
From VA Gov to Loudoun County to New Jersey to New York City and Pennsylvania, anti-trans Republicans are falling left and right.
From VA Gov to Loudoun County to New Jersey to New York City and Pennsylvania, anti-trans Republicans are falling left and right.
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put a stake in it www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Zohran Mamdani drags the Democratic party into the future
This was a local race with national implications, whether the party's leaders liked it or not.
www.motherjones.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
put a stake in it www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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It's expensive to be disabled. Those costs can keep people working past the point where it's in their best interest, including for aging adults. www.businessinsider.com/older-americ...
She's 93 and still job searching despite 14 broken arms and other injuries. She can't afford not to work.
America's oldest workers keep clocking in — many despite health issues and disabilities. And some can't afford to retire. We talked to nearly 200.
www.businessinsider.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
It's expensive to be disabled. Those costs can keep people working past the point where it's in their best interest, including for aging adults. www.businessinsider.com/older-americ...
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Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books:
www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down
Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.
www.404media.co
October 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books:
www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
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My family's health insurance costs are doubling next year
Trump is holding a Great Gatsby/Roaring 20s-themed party at his private club in Palm Beach tonight as he tries to withhold SNAP and health care subsidies from millions of Americans. (via Kellie Meyer)
November 1, 2025 at 3:49 AM
My family's health insurance costs are doubling next year