jenna newman phd

I love this profile — the idea of both girlhood and womanhood as roles to be inhabited, the self both outside and inside these categories

“‘It was a level of effect that was beyond even our wildest expectations’…
Over 6 months, 34 kids in the permethrin-wrap group tested positive for malaria, compared w/ 94 in the water-soaked wrap grp, a reduction of~65%…suggest[ing] mosquitoes are biting more often than thought during the daytime”🛟🧪

At the end of the day, don’t we all just want to read books in a cottage during a pouring rain in front of a crackling fire whilst enjoying a plate of emotional support cinnamon rolls?

“Amarillo Boulevard,” by David Wright Faladé Jean stepped out of the car as Nia approached—lean and arrogant, a cigarette pinched between her lips. Then her swagger slipped, her expression unsettled.

Really good story at NYer this week. I'm such a fan of David Wright Faladé, and this story is so beautiful and understated and real.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

Sunbeams shining through clouds and illuminating bright green fields and a town below.

breathe

in plane view

/adds to lexicon/

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

Research findings illuminate “a promising pathway for developing effective clinical interventions…& ultimately enhancing patient outcomes.
‘Our study demonstrated remarkable efficacy in…restoring healthy function in the blood–brain barrier &leading to a striking reversal of Alzheimer’s pathology’.”🧪

“The team demonstrated that targeting a specific mechanism enables undesirable ‘waste proteins’ produced in the brain to pass thru [the BBB] barrier &be eliminated in the blood flow.

In Alzheimer’s disease, [accumulation of] the main ‘waste’ protein…impairs the normal functioning of the neurons.”🧪

I like eating dry hot cocoa mix out of the bag, with marshmallows, like a horribly Pixie Stick. Gives you the weirdest mouth feel afterwards. Fuck I’ve never admitted this one to anyone

*clumpy* drivethru icecream floats on roadtrips
1. surreptitiously take a kid’s McDonalds milkshake (if caught: “just checking to make sure it’s not poisonous!”)
2. pour—a good long pour—into cup of Coke; crucial to have much ice.
3. Standby. With napkins. volcanic foaming eventually self-resolves

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

Cultivate a couple of hobbies. Ideally, things that have nothing to do with your day job and that bring you joy, even if you're not great at them.

“[***]research needs to be planned strategically for impact[***], for which it needs to be relevant and fulfill the needs of policymakers.

It is necessary to be clear and separate pure scientific curiosity from the demand for science to address real problems posed by policymakers.”🧪

YES.YES.YES.

OYSTER SLOBBER!
“If clinical trials continue to confirm these results, this could be a major shift in ortho surgery, esp for complex fractures (like shattered bones from accidents). Instead of being ‘rebuilt’ w/plates &screws, bones could essent’ly be ‘glued’ back together & left to heal naturally”🧪

It's okay for the abyss to stare back, but does it have to wink?

That's just unseemly.

it's okay to have fun during spooky month even if you're having a whole spooky life

THIS—SO MUCH THIS—“Getting a PhD is a labour of love. Take the time to know that this is really what you want to pursue & if it is, then make sure you balance your mental health throughout the process. Burnout is much easier to avoid than to try to recover from.”
— Female 2nd-yr student in the US🧪🛟

Brunkow got the news via an AP photographer at her door early this AM: “She said she had ignored the earlier call from the Nobel Committee.

‘My phone rang & I saw a number from Sweden & thought: “That’s just…spam….”’

‘When I told Mary she won, she said, “Don’t be ridiculous,”’ said her husband.”🧪

Research-based advice for parents on how to talk to their kids about their online worlds & lives

Remember — most of all —
“Kids are having these conversations, make sure they are having them with you.”🧪🛟

👊 @milleridriss.bsky.social @perilresearch.bsky.social 👊

Glowworms In the punt on the river in the cave, beneath the dim light of glowing worms, it was thoughts of my own death that consumed me.

“I had always believed myself to be pretty sanguine at the thought of my own death—I’d had a good long life, done good work, experienced true love, was generally A+ lucky—but now all I wanted was to get the hell out of there.” A new essay by Ann Patchett.

YouTube video by Kidzuko No Cats In The Library 🐱📚 | Reading Rainbow 📖 🌈 | Full Episode | @Kidzuko​

Reading Rainbow… is back! 🥹

This LeVar Burton/Reading Rainbow raised human is feeling all of the library joy. We hope your kids believe they belong in books, just like you ✨

Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋🌌
youtu.be/gHAIjSkmnYI?...

Parent

The Books I Have Not Read, by Shel Silverstein

Daughter to other daughter: Let's share, but I'll take the bigger half, okay?

For women, increased tenure in CSEM is associated w/higher likelihood of“difficulties related to collegial interactions, supervisory r/ships, or professional exclusion, patterns not observed among men…suggest[ing] that seniority may increase women’s interpersonal burdens”🧪🛟
@sarahdamaske.bsky.social

Word of the Day is ‘tandsmør’, from Danish. It describes bread that is buttered so thickly you can see tooth marks in it after every bite. Its literal translation? ‘Tooth butter’.

“One of the walls in the small, airless gym was covered w/ sticky notes on which the trainees had written their reasons for joining.
‘To get out of the hopeless pit that my life was headed to,’ one read.
‘To show my family that I am not a disappointment,’ another trainee had written.”
*gift article

This Program Rescued Army Recruiting

“The program also offers benefits that are harder to measure, [LTG Eifler, the Army’s G-1] said. It has become a lifeline for people searching for housing, stability &a piece of the American dream.” @gregjaffe.bsky.social