@jrmorber.bsky.social
PNW freelance sci journo, PhD nanosci and materials engineering. World traveler, field reporter. Newly focused on probing solutions to our biggest problems, but still interested in whale anuses and poo. I love the weird things. she/her
@jrmorber.bsky.socialYou should! Five stars for you. Always check. I'm sorry though that it's true.
@jrmorber.bsky.socialEvery single one is real. Happy to send links.
@jrmorber.bsky.socialFive Things About Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time Old Fashioned Apple Crisp AI disqualification yields new Nikon Small World in Motion winner Making the environment beat general assignment reporting hurts those most at-risk Friends ask how I’m doing I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know
@jrmorber.bsky.socialTabs on my internet browser, a short poem Deep Sleep Pillow US death row inmate Christa Pike awake and speaking after failed execution, lawyers say Viral TikTok Sushi Wrap Gwyneth Paltrow Just Goopified Drone Warfare Cities Built Their Safety Nets on Federal Money. Now It’s Leaving All at Once
@beebrookshire.bsky.socialReposted by @jrmorber.bsky.socialWhat happens when an "extinct" toad is re-found...and when a road is planned through it's habitat? In Ecuador, where the rights of nature are in the constitution, it's time to get the toad a lawyer.
@ethanpfreedman.comReposted by @jrmorber.bsky.socialI don't think people outside the world of environmental journalism understand just how much climate reporting has been axed in the past few years
@notjustdna.bsky.socialReposted by @jrmorber.bsky.socialOh, so the Nikon Small World winner got disqualified
– The picture is of the new winner
@jrmorber.bsky.socialThank you for your work! I will note that WA and ID are two states that do not have a residency requirement.
@jrmorber.bsky.socialInterested in helping to validate and assist US elections? Here is how to become a poll worker and the rules and requirements.
@leftistlawyer.comReposted by @jrmorber.bsky.socialAnyway, call me a filthy commie, but I think Cook County State's Attorney Burke should prosecute the ICE fascists shooting people in the street based on the color of their skin instead of the people protesting the ICE fascists shooting people in the street based on the color of their skin.
@jrmorber.bsky.socialI love this. Hardly the most egregious but a couple of years ago I was in the ER with appendicitis, on morphine bc I was so sick, and everything paused before I got the CAT scan I needed for a safe surgery so that we could check to see if insurance would cover it. The system is nuts.
@maxblau.bsky.socialReposted by @jrmorber.bsky.socialMy colleagues and I at @propublica.org are looking into the ways health insurers’ use of prior authorization — the extra layer of approval insurers require before covering a medical expense — impacts patients.
We need your help. 👇
@mgerrydoyle.bsky.socialReposted by @jrmorber.bsky.socialhey quick question, am I having a stroke
@alexip718.comReposted by @jrmorber.bsky.social
@kashana.blacksky.appReposted by @jrmorber.bsky.socialExcited to see that we’re replacing new housing with chatbots that tell you to kill yourself
@jrmorber.bsky.socialI checked and this is true. What a fantastic story
@jilldlawrence.bsky.socialReposted by @jrmorber.bsky.socialI'd be crazed if I were still an op-ed editor and had to examine all incoming pieces to discern if they were by human experts or AI imposters. 🤷♀️ My husband deals with this daily and it's nervewracking. Good analysis here from @columjournreview.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/analysis/fak... 🤷♀️
@lukerussert.bsky.socialReposted by @jrmorber.bsky.socialIn calling for live-streamed public execution—Hegseth wants America to be like Iran, North Korea and Saudi Arabia: newrepublic.com/post/216430/...
@jrmorber.bsky.socialIt helps you recover from the trauma of the accident you caused when you were playing Tetris
@lastudiolafayette.bsky.socialReposted by @jrmorber.bsky.socialMargaret Hamilton, the MIT computer scientist who led the development of the flight software that piloted NASA's Apollo program, has died. She was 90.
