Jennifer Davis
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I live in Chicago. I work in a lab. Sometimes I bike. Views are my own.
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Collection of websites I've seen highlighting the impact of federally funded research at various institutions First is Chicago's very own Northwestern University, which ended FY2024 with $>1 billion in research funding Northwestern University: Research Impact
www.northwestern.edu/research-nu/...
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Research Impact : Northwestern University
https://www.northwestern.edu/research-nu/research-impact.html
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Good evening, Kid A is twenty-five years old
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I am going to establish the Spinster Society for single cyclists over 40
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about 5 hours ago
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Crap I sat down and read the news
about 6 hours ago
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I was yesterday years old when I learned this is a controversial view?
about 7 hours ago
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I need a new bike jacket, how is Showers Pass lately?
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reposted by
Jennifer Davis
Greater Good Science Center
about 10 hours ago
This October, tap into daily science-backed practices that uplift your spirit and spread kindness all around, explore the full happiness calendar and let each day be a chance to make the world a little brighter 🌼✨
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Your Happiness Calendar for October 2025
This month, make the world a little better.
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/your_happiness_calendar_for_october_2025
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The internet used to scream every time you logged on and maybe that was for the best
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we deserve some beautiful news SPIE: Astro-color alchemists
spie.org/news/photoni...
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Astro-color alchemists
Astronomers have a method for colorizing grayscale images from various space- and groundbased observatories.
https://spie.org/news/photonics-focus/sept-oct-2025/coloring-astronomy
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everything is awful but I'm going through my backlog of awfulness
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"According to one expert, the lack of approval leaves those who rely on the VFC program — roughly 50 percent of U.S. children — unable to access the shots for free if their family wants them." Ghouls
www.statnews.com/2025/09/30/c...
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Low-income children lack access to Covid vaccines because of approval delay
Two weeks after vaccine advisers approved new Covid recs, Kennedy still hasn’t given his approval, leaving states unable to order updated shots for low-income kids.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/09/30/covid-shot-delay-stymies-vaccines-for-children-program/
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🎶someone will say what is lost can never be saved 🎵
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This one hibiscus in Channahon has made fools of us all
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2 days ago
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Sound AND fury? In this economy?
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588-2300
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Even for Whole Foods these grocery prices are outrageous
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The coffee will continue until the headache improves
3 days ago
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And I had such a good day on Milwaukee
3 days ago
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Wait what
blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/28/a...
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Armed Federal Agents Patrol Downtown, Make Arrest At Millennium Park, Witnesses Say
The federal troops were seen in Millennium Park, on the Magnificent Mile and in the Gold Coast — days after patrolling the Chicago River in a boat. "This is another brazen provocation from the Trump a...
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/28/armed-federal-agents-patrol-millennium-park-mag-mile-to-chants-of-shame/
3 days ago
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I have journeyed from afar to recreate on The 606
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While up here I stopped by the birthplace of my bicycle
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Shoutout to everyone getting vaccinated at the Walgreens popup clinic at Meet Me on Milwaukee today
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Good morning
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4 days ago
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Is Meet Me on Milwaukee one of those bike events that's not a bike event but is totally a bike event?
4 days ago
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Good evening to the guy smoking a big cigar while driving a vintage Camero on the Magnificent Mile
4 days ago
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well, spending the day in bed didn't make me any less tired, I wonder what will
4 days ago
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What is this giant freaky shrub?
5 days ago
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Reminder
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5 days ago
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I'm looking right now at several parking decks taller than this, what the heck
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6 days ago
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reposted by
Jennifer Davis
Space Telescope Science Institute
6 days ago
#NASAWebb
provides high-resolution details of Herbig-Haro 49/50—an outflow from a nearby still-forming star and background galaxies. Webb reveals the fuzzy object at the tip of the outflow in the Spitzer image is actually a distant spiral galaxy:
https://bit.ly/4mXuQHW
🔭 🧪
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Is Lake Michigan okay
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6 days ago
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How do we come back from this? Do we come back from this?
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
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The Doctors Building a Public-Health Universe Outside the Government
A growing contingent of physicians and policymakers are breaking away from federal health guidance under Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/public-health-kennedy-vaccine-guidance-a64cc122
6 days ago
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Oh boy
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7 days ago
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Came home to the benefits guide and another plea for donations in my mailbox, ah well
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City at night
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Problems forever lake now
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Some invasive vine got on the green roof and it's becoming a botanical mess
8 days ago
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Nice job, clouds
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I'm sorry, what's this "Chicago riots in May 2021" nonsense
blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/24/p...
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Private Fences Put Up Around Public Park Irks Near North Neighbors
The park must be publicly accessible 6 a.m.-11 p.m. daily as part of an agreement with the city — but some are concerned that the large fences a homeowner association put up will keep other Chicagoans...
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/24/private-fences-put-up-around-public-park-irks-near-north-neighbors/
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I can't sleep, please enjoy these hops
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I had childhood trips to the Skydeck that turned out like this
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Anyone need dry ice
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"Children today receive roughly four to five times as many shots as their 1986 counterparts, yet are exposed to 95% fewer antigens and only modest increases in aluminum."
www.statnews.com/2025/06/24/t...
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‘Too many, too soon’? Debunking a common fear about kids’ vaccines
Despite a significant increase in injections, today's vaccines expose children to a fraction of the immune-stimulating material that previous generations encountered.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/24/too-many-too-soon-vaccine-schedule-children-antigens-immune-system-aluminum/
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KFF Health News: Mercury in Your Hot Dog? Vaccine Skeptics Face Their Limits at Crucial CDC Meeting
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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Mercury in Your Hot Dog? Vaccine Skeptics Face Their Limits at Crucial CDC Meeting - KFF Health News
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention meeting on vaccines pitted scientific expertise against vaccine skepticism. An often confusing debate ended with critics of the current vaccine schedule ta...
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/cdc-acip-meeting-mmrv-hepatitis-b-childhood-vaccine-schedule/
9 days ago
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I missed Chicagohenge
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Into the autumn night
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Hey Bike lights It's fall now
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Did Did we just get Tylenol in the divorce
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And... Fall
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I thought ivermectin was what you'd give a horse
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