Jennifer J Brown

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:

Thanks for sharing, inspiring! Just shared with my daughters.

And where those who speak out are "disappeared" as in the recent memoir author, who only published posthumously. "Nobody's Girl" by Virginia Roberts Giuffre - a haunting and tragic read.

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

Yes, pku carriers may have had lower miscarriage rates from spoiled foods (mycotoxins) during epic famines, as a selective advantage... how pku is carried in the human genome of many all around the world, scientists have guessed.

Wonderful news!

A book reading from "When the Baby Is Not OK: Hopes & Genes" by Jennifer J. Brown, PhD at the J.J. Brown Books channel on YouTube, including a discussion of genetics and eugenics in rare disease.

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

Great news! And a fine example to follow.

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.

Agree! Heading into apocalyptic political scenes IRL motivates me too, and I tell my daughters the same. Be fit, we can't really imagine what may be coming our way, and anyway, workouts boost all the right neurotransmitter hormones to keep us at our best!

IDK, reading the news is like having a lightning storm in my head.

The bitter irony of it!

The bitter taste of the irony....when so many in the US need food right now and lose access to SNAP food assistance, the govt is moving on weight loss.

We Are Still Here: The History They Don’t Teach

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...

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

Lovely to see and hear!

If imitation is the sincerest flattery, he's flattering Mamdani by mimicing the rally call "affordability"...

The longest govt shutdown in history clearly underscores that it simply was not working any longer. Time for changes... and changes are afoot.

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.

I ask myself now and then, what has a billionaire done for you lately? And answer with the long list of "nothings", knowing these are places to not support - not open our wallets as a vote.

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

Thanks Julene, let me know what you think!

Image from the series "The Fall of the House of Usher" on IMDb, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15567174/ a great Halloween movie.

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

The Fall of the House of Usher was so Poe! Loved it.

Paving his way to hell while still on earth...

If or when ancestral ghosts visit they will shame us all.

Hell is empty as all the devils walk here now... - Shakespeare's Tempest

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…

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

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