Jo Hofmann
@birdcmp.bsky.social
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Birder, woodworker, recovering servant of public health, exFed, ID doc
Here’s a great clip for all you bored feds who got fired/RIFed/however removed so you could get an exciting, well-compensated private-sector job.
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The people of Michigan have spoken.
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about 23 hours ago
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Kristian G. Andersen
3 days ago
U.S. infectious disease research is on the brink. Without immediate action from Congress, much of it will cease to exist within a year. For example👇 1️⃣ No collaborative RFAs posted for >1 year (normal: many / year). 2️⃣ No foreign collaborators allowed on grants. 🧪🪦
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Jenna Norton
5 days ago
The Deferred Resignation Program cost American taxpayers $4.5B for people NOT to work.
federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/20...
This doesn’t count the cost of paying people to not work as part of…
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The government paid $4.5 billion to feds who took the DRP, one estimate shows | Federal News Network
A new data analysis from the Partnership for Public Service reported various cost estimates of the Trump administration’s federal workforce overhauls.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2026/04/the-government-paid-4-5-billion-to-feds-who-took-the-drp-one-estimate-shows/?readmore=1
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My Iggie has been turned into a Puli.
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Greg Folkers
3 days ago
IDSA/HIVMA letter to Congress 4/15/2026 ➡️
bit.ly/3Q8bPXO
@idsainfo.bsky.social
@hivma.bsky.social
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The Onion
4 days ago
FDA Loosens Restrictions On Dousing Children With Synthetic Peptides Until Something Happens
https://theonion.com/fda-loosens-restrictions-on-dousing-children-with-synthetic-peptides-until-something-happens/
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WTAF. Extra AI digit and weird sky monster noticed.
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Good Trailcams
6 days ago
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McSweeney's
8 days ago
"We Spent Six Months Investigating the Birth Rate Crisis and Found Women at Every Turn" "Birth Rates Are Down Across the Western World. One Variable Has Remained Constant: Women" "Experts Warn the Falling Birth Rate Could Have Serious Consequences for Men"
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America’s Op-ed Columnists Brainstorm Future Headlines About the Birth Rate
“Experts Warn the Falling Birth Rate Could Have Serious Consequences for Men”
https://buff.ly/hTaPabr
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Will Quinn
7 days ago
Daily bunny no.3285 made it home safely
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Jenna Norton
7 days ago
$165,626,742,154.29 That's the cost of the Trump administration's mismanagement, as estimated by a new tool from
@ourpublicservice.bsky.social
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federalharmstracker.org/cost-to-our-...
$1.26B lost from terminated NIH grants as of Feb 2026. $1,028.74 for each person in the country.
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Cost to Our Economy
A nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working towards effective government for the American people.
https://federalharmstracker.org/cost-to-our-economy/
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Chanea Bond
8 days ago
Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
9 days ago
Wishing this fabulously competent—and joyful—crew a safe return to a planet that, frankly, doesn't deserve them.
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The Great Lysenko Iteration.
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William Shakespeare
9 days ago
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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Dr. Todd Arrington
9 days ago
4/9/1939: Contralto Marian Anderson performed at Lincoln Memorial. Daughters of the American Revolution barred her from performing at Washington DC’s Constitution Hall because Anderson was Black; First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt invited her to sing at the Lincoln Memorial. Image: Hilton Archive/Getty.
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So glad that JayBhat, w/ his decades of statistical & vaccine efficacy analysis experience is able to weigh in on this. What an asshat.
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Alex Sundermann, DrPH
9 days ago
My op-ed in
@washingtonpost.com
Sometimes it’s hard to tell how an outbreak could have been prevented. But with raw milk and raw dairy, it’s pretty straightforward. These are preventable and fueled by misinformation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/04/09/food-safety-raw-milk-outbreaks-rfk-jr-kennedy/
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Jessy Edwards
13 days ago
The “yoink!” really sets this Bryant Park woodcock video apart from the rest, for me
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Julia B. Chan
12 days ago
losing contact with the earth for 40 minutes sounds nice
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Mike Drucker
13 days ago
You can really tell America is winning this war when the president panic posts “open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards” at 5 am on Easter Sunday along with an extension on their deadline
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In contrast to another Easter greeting.
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13 days ago
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Happy Jesus is Risen day to you, sir.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.
14 days ago
Hey Philly! We have a LOT of good stuff going on this April! April 18, 10am Mural Community Paint Day! H.A Brown School
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April 19, 10am Native Plant Extravaganza Campbell Square
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April 22, 7pm Biodiversitease! StarBolt
biodiversitease.eventbrite.com
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William Shakespeare
14 days ago
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
16 days ago
I keep trying to make it clear that what RFK Jr. has done to public health and healthcare will take years before the full weight of the horror becomes visible. We are seeing the canaries in the coal mine with the measles outbreak and the FDA idiocy around vaccine approvals.
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Demise of the Milwaukee Protocol for Rabies
After survival of a rabies case in Milwaukee, the treatment approach has been dubbed the Milwaukee protocol and promoted aggressively. This approach lacks
https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/81/4/e229/8096457
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Justin Wolfers
16 days ago
You can see pretty clearly when the President decided to reassure a worried nation.
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Jenna Norton
17 days ago
Today is the anniversary of the April 1 RIFs at NIH and HHS. Thinking of my colleagues who lost their jobs last year. These cuts did no improve efficiency. They undermined the functioning of our government.
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Could someone please release a herd of rabid racoons in the White House. And a few for Andrew Nixon as well.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/h...
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C.D.C. Pauses Testing for Rabies and Pox Viruses
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/health/cdc-rabies-mpox-tests-paused.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XlA.un_B.Wn3S3wGYZhgm
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Podcast Jay (parody)
17 days ago
Today is my one year anniversary as NIH director. People ask me, "Jay, what have you been doing at NIH?" I tell them that I have accomplished more than any other NIH director in his first year ("his," because Bernadine Healy and Monica Bertagnolli were DEI directors, not real ones). 🧵
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maura quint
20 days ago
there it is, all 7 continents
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The Onion
21 days ago
Epidemiologists Confirm First Airborne Transmission Of Mar-A-Lago Face
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From the NIH Vigil/No Kings rally today in Bethesda.
21 days ago
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Art Candee 🍿🥤
21 days ago
Enormous crowd forming in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for No Kings! 💕
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David Gorski, MD, PhD
21 days ago
Definitely.
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McSweeney's
24 days ago
“I’m Paddington. I’m from Darkest Peru. Where are you from?” The bible salesman took off his hat and stepped in out of the July heat. “I’m just a simple country boy. From right near Ticksnort. I had to start selling these bibles after Papa got thirded.”
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Flannery O’Connor Absolutely Ruins Your Favorite Stories from Childhood
3/25/23 (her b-day) 3/25/24
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/flannery-oconnor-absolutely-ruins-your-favorite-stories-from-childhood
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Nuke ICE
22 days ago
Your coverage is literally the basis for this article, because your editors and writers (they ain't journalists) on this topic have produced shoddy, misleading, and dangerous coverage for years. You put people who are just trying to live, in danger.
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It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible
The task of reporting is not a simple one. Each and every day, reporters and editors at publications like The Onion make difficult decisions about which issues should receive attention, knowing that o...
https://theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997/
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Senator Jim Guthrie, a Republican from southeastern Idaho and the only member of his party to vote against the bill in the Senate, said “We’re ignoring the fact that these are people just like us,” he said. “They’re human, just like us. What are they supposed to do?”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...
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Idaho Criminalizes Transgender Use of Some Bathrooms in Private Businesses
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/us/idaho-transgender-bathroom-law.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WVA.czAw.UKGUjxllbP7o
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Welcome back.
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22 days ago
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McSweeney's
23 days ago
"In the big inning, God created Heaven on Earth. And it was without form, and void. God separated the dirt from the grass. He called the grass Outfield and the dirt He called Infield..."
#PlayBall
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Opening Day Genesis
April 1 2021 April 7 2022 3/30/23 3/28/24
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GLAAD
23 days ago
NO LGB WITHOUT THE T 🏳️⚧️
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Mike Luckovich
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Omfg.
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Laura Bassett
23 days ago
Vote for me. I will completely fuck air travel, start a war and bring back the measles
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Alejandra Caraballo
23 days ago
The IOC has announced a trans and intersex athlete ban requiring an invasive SRY genetic test for female athletes. In the 20+ years trans women were eligible, only one ever competed and none ever medaled. This is solving for a problem that doesn't exist.
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Transgender women banned from Olympics by new IOC policy
The new policy limits eligibility in women’s events to biological females based on genetic screening beginning at the 2028 Games.
https://www.nbcnews.com/sports/olympics/transgender-women-banned-olympics-new-ioc-policy-rcna265086
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Caster Semenya “I have carried this weight. So have other women of color who deserved better from sport, Reintroducing genetic screening is not progress — it is walking backward,This is just exclusion with a new name.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/w...
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Olympic Committee Bars Transgender Athletes From Women’s Events
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/world/olympics/ioc-transgender-athletes-ban.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WFA.wHXi.wOYCp8PVkDQq
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy
about 2 months ago
The cover says it all:
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