What an incredible interview to close out our 4th Season of sNAPAshots! Visit the NAPA website to learn how Rosalie Anne Post took her love of languages and launched a career in helping communities co-create solutions for the problems facing their citizenry. Check it out today! lnkd.in/g_aJJWh9

Ok it was 8k which might be a personal best for one day 🙃

I wrote a 7k word referenced article in one day, and I do not recommend it. (I'd done the thinking work, but you know...)

It’s Wednesday and that means it is time for Defend Public Health’s Whopper of the Week! This time we focus on the false claim that Tylenol causes autism spectrum disorder.

RIP to a real hero. An example to us all -- to walk the walk every day, to the very end. 💔 #Anthro #JaneGoodall www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

I've always carried my passport card (not the passport book) on me when working in volatile contexts around the world. I carry it in the States now, too.

The global public health workforce - we're not burned out, we've been burned. Anti-science movements feel personal when we've worked (invisibly) our whole careers to improve the health of people around the world.

The Lancet: “Long COVID is here to stay—even in children” By Danilo Buonsenso www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Staff members at the NIH seem to have done the impossible: spend the agency's $48 billion budget. “Everyone has been rallying together to clean up the mess, but it’s a mess that did not need to be made,” an NIH program officer told me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Just sitting here wondering if there's cesium-137 in my food. Like we do now.

Sometimes I'm proud to be from Tennessee, and sometimes there's this

Author @jennieerinsmith.bsky.social discusses what separates her book, Valley of Forgetting, Alzheimer's Families and the Search for a Cure, from any other reporting that's been done on those afflicted in Medellin, Colombia, with Health Storytelling Q&A host @marynmck.bsky.social

🦟 🪱 🦠 25 tracks on a theme of infectious disease.... We start with a banger that's 24 years old, Four Tet's magnificent "No More Mosquitoes" (it's a rallying cry for this playlist 'cuz they're a vector for all sorts of diseases, like malaria and Zika) 1/25 youtu.be/l651f3mucXA?...

The measles website at CDC continues to share updated data. 1514 cases reported in 2025. 3 deaths. CDC scientists working hard but have to manage vaccine attacks from @SecKennedy and his minions. This will be the year that ends US’s measles elimination status. Not one word at #UNGA.

Love it when the side effects list for a med makes it sound like I'm going to be wandering around like an extra in La Boheme: may experience mild coughing of blood, fainting spells, spasmodic episodes

Fresh public health hero just dropped

We truly can't have anything

Here we go

🤯

Just took my first dose! Come on study drug!! A strange feeling to be on the participant side of a study, but after 3.5 years of long covid, I could really, really use a win 🙏

I just wake up and clock in to the email factory

lolsob

I just received a newsletter from a prestigious global health organization announcing critical new working groups. The accompanying photo was all white people in a fancy conference room.

ATL friends! Join @wghgeorgiausa.bsky.social for a global health volunteer opportunity at Medshare this Saturday! I'll be there!

Are you autistic? What did you think of the announcement yesterday? I want to hear from you for a Guardian US article: [email protected]

I stan Violet!

Politico: USDA ends food insecurity survey www.politico.com/newsletters/...

As a '90s kid, I loved Model UN - the diplomacy, the multilateralism, the possibilities of building a better world together. As a grown-up, it's hard to process that this is our reality

‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors leaving US south www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

No words

Reading this again for reasons

Is there anything so loathed as a middle aged woman?

Thank god, he's arrived back safely.

I really gotta stop trying to make random gluten free bread recipes off Pinterest 😬

In 2021, Javier Sanchez Mendoza Jr. pleaded guilty to conspiracy to engage in forced labor as part of a federal investigation that exposed widespread abuses of H-2A workers across Georgia. This is the story of what one of those workers endured. By @maxblau.bsky.social

My teammate on an H1B was just starting some fieldwork at a new implementation site for safe+natal. But instead of engaging with our community partners, he's rushing back to the US this weekend to avoid the possible $100k ransom. Science is impossible under these conditions.

The ACIP vote was tied 6-6 for requiring everyone to get a prescription for the COVID19 vaccine. The chair broke the tie by voting NO. Prescriptions will NOT be required.

America, the Beautiful

Listening to ACIP meeting which is a catastrophe, as predicted. I’d like emphasize in all this that the CDC subject matter experts and leads have been tremendous and continue to represent good science on our behalf. I am very grateful for their dedication, despite internal and external pressure.

What?! How would this possibly be true? Flu, pneumonia, RSV, and pertussis-in addition to covid-would like a word.

Wow. Our kids deserve the highest standard of care. ACIP is an important body for setting standards and guidance in the US and this is... not the highest standard.

Important study (that rather flies in the face of recent vaccine decisions) that considers the risk of Covid (and long Covid) on the cardiovascular system and the need to note and rehabilitation to better manage CV symptoms. Also suggest vaccines are an important tool to prevent such complications

No, your kid told YOU they needed a decorated t-shirt at 10 pm for tomorrow morning. (It was me. Get out the paint pens.)

Workplace violence training just really hits different now. I appreciate Emory's efforts to prepare us, but I'm just thinking of Officer Rose.

Defend Public Health just released our report countering Marty Makary’s false claims last week that COVID19 vaccines caused the deaths of 25 children. You can read it here:

Global health going backwards on gender equality www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-afri...

*psst* QALYs are still problematic pass it on #PublicHealthEthics #DisabilityConsciousBioethics #StructuralViolence

New Sausage of Science episode! Dr. Luisa María Rivera is a critical biocultural anthropologist whose work examines how social inequality, trauma, and structural violence shape reproductive and maternal–infant health. Listen Here: soundcloud.com/sausageofsci...