This is my campus, and I’m sure the right-wing weirdos who are obsessed with college students are gonna be super normal about all this…. Anyway, no Nazis on campus 💜

Hi, I teach an undergrad course on racism in the United States in 2025 and just made it through my first week of class without cursing or melting down in front of my students, please clap, please send treats

I am looking for a uterus-bearing person between the age of 18-24 years (inclusive) with lived experience of endometriosis to support a population-based study on this condition (led by me). 🇨🇦 Canadian resident(s) preferred! Please re-post and share widely! #Endometriosis #MedSky #EpiSky

Hey public health folks, I'm guest lecturing on the social determinants of health again in a few weeks but the usual talk and activities feel... outdated, given all this. What have you added to you SDOH talks that address the current climate? Any good readings or activities to suggest?

Happy closing day.

It's wild that any joy or pleasure we can get these days feels wrenched away from the ever-increasing fascism. Anyway, I picked up a violin for the first time and started taking lessons, hope you can find your joy too.

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

Fevers and pain in pregnancy are linked to poor outcomes for both the parent and baby. Childhood vaccines save lives. This man is the leader of a death cult.

He goes on to struggle to pronounce acetaminophen and tell people that they need to "tough it out" when they experience pain or fever during pregnancy. Which will kill people.

Hey folks, if you want some early insight into this coming week's shower of health and science misinformation, check out Thinking Person's Guide to Autism's summary of what FDA/RFK Jr. are going to be up to in the coming days, and what their motivations could possibly be (hint: $$$).

As we get ready for the quarter to start up next week, I'm really grateful for this passage on the social meaning of the college campus as it intersects with Kirk's politics of hate. People on the right (and not just in the political class) are just plain weird about college students.

Can confirm! I assigned chapters of this to students in my undergrad white supremacy culture course, it's so insightful and important. And the last chapter, "We keep us safe," helped my students think about ways to move forward given what we were talking about in class.

I don't love the conventions around science writing, but knowing for sure within a half second when something wasn't written by a person with literally any relevant training can be helpful

Controversial opinion, but I think trans people should feel safe here on bluesky, and nazis shouldn't.

Big Dumper for MVP.

Big year for etsy witch halloween costumes, calling it now

to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech

I know most Americans don't follow public health/MAHA news if they're not in the field, so in case you didn't read yesterday's MAHA Commission strategy report, you should know that your tax dollars are going to fund research on "electromagnetic radiation" (read: wifi and 5G) as causes of disease 🫠🙃😱

Gift link. Interesting video that misses some things. But if you're seeing ads for continuous glucose monitors, claims that oatmeal is bad for you, and sponsored content on supplements, then this will connect some dots for you. These people profit off grief and fear and they must be stopped.

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

Honestly, just show this in class, your students need to see it

It's an honor to be a guest author on E is for Epi today! Give us a read and let me know what you think.

Public health is under attack. It’s not enough to fight back, we need to make our field better for everyone. Today’s E is for Epi guest post by @jessieish.bsky.social & Nadia Abuelezam asks “what would a solidarity-based epidemiology look like?” Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...

Want a COVID booster in WA state? You can get one! Effective today, here's a statewide standing order authorizing the vaccine for everyone 6 months and older, including pregnant people. I'm getting mine tomorrow. Fuck RFK Jr. and good luck to everyone else 💜

I think it's worth pointing out that using the past tense to refer to the pandemic is a way of stigmatizing those who still mask indoors in public, who test before seeing loved ones or before flights, and who still feel a strong obligation to community care.

A friend took this at a rally today and I barked laughing.

Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:

My most bonkers but right take on this is that universities and other public places should switch off whose calendar they care about every year. One year we’re off for Ramadan etc., the next the weekend is Friday and Saturday and we’re off for Jewish holidays, and so on

Cool to see this federal agency schedule an important workshop for early career people to overlap perfectly with Rosh Hashanah This, actually, is the antisemitism problem, not people who oppose genocide

Hey y’all, where do you go to read or listen to MAHA folks talk about their agenda and concerns? Blogs, podcasts, subreddits, newsletters, whatever, all potentially interesting…. Thanks!

Sobbed through three voicemails to my elected representatives asking them to impeach RFK Jr. because watching my former colleagues at CDC be so courageous really got to me. Please pick up the phone and do the same.

Sobbed through three voicemails to my elected representatives asking them to impeach RFK Jr. because watching my former colleagues at CDC be so courageous really got to me. Please pick up the phone and do the same.

Proud of my friends and public health colleagues for showing up.

Things are awful but what a gift it is to know that we can laugh at how badly Trevor Bauer will embarrass himself every few days

Mookie’s probably figured out that we’re moving by now and is especially upset that I rented reusable moving boxes this time, which means no tape for her to chomp. No amount of treats will appease her, I fear.

This is a great watch on the MAHA movement -- funny and informative -- if you're ok to hear the phrase "raw meat smoothie"

NYT interviewing a contrarian economist with NO relevant training and opening by acknowledging the CDC shooting but saying NOTHING about where all this mistrust and vilification of public health professionals comes from broke me. The total lack of self-awareness and reflexivity is bonkers.

Good morning, I’m canceling all my plans for the rest of my life because this is how Mookie looks at me when she figures out I’m leaving the apartment, thanks for understanding!!

Lots of news today (as usual) but if you saw the leaked MAHA report in NYT this morning, here's CSPI's response. 'It’s quite rich for an administration that is plunging the country into a nutrition security and food safety nightmare to now promise to make America healthy “again.”'

"What happened on Aug. 8 is part of the same trend as Jan. 6 and other recent attempted and successful acts of stochastic terrorism: an intentional campaign of political violence on all fronts, actively driven to target public health by the people who now ostensibly lead its institutions."

Interesting poll data from KFF. Over half of adults in the US report getting health info from social media but most people are still skeptical about it. Are we turning to social media for a sort of entertainment version of health info? How does that shape who we actually choose to trust?

I feel so deeply for both the victim and the shooter. Their deaths, if all this is true, are the result of decades of lies about science, massive defunding of education and public health, and inexcusable structural and policy failures. Love and solidarity to my public health friends and colleagues.

Holy shit. This is awful. “Abstracts related to work done by the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) were retracted from a major nutrition conference, sparking concerns that 2 years of work producing a robust scientific report may be disregarded.”

Appalled by how every time I find someone misinterpreting research or making stuff up about nutrition, it turns out they just happen to sell the answer to all the problems they're saying you have on their website/tiktok shop/amazon affiliate store. Truly a golden age for grifters. Thanks, RFK Jr!

Breaking these out for another wedding today. Testing the limits of both the “funky cocktail” dress code and possibly my friendships this time….

Hey! So I have been working at Center for Science in the Public Interest for a bit and two of my first articles are out today. If you're wary of how the administration is politicizing nutrition (and feeding us a load of nonsense about things like saturated fat), read up on the Dietary Guidelines!

Want to learn how the Guidelines are written and where there might be threats to the process this time around? Here's another thing I wrote!

Want to learn how the Guidelines are written and where there might be threats to the process this time around? Here's another thing I wrote!

Hey! So I have been working at Center for Science in the Public Interest for a bit and two of my first articles are out today. If you're wary of how the administration is politicizing nutrition (and feeding us a load of nonsense about things like saturated fat), read up on the Dietary Guidelines!

We're talking about mediation today, mostly to convince my students, who are all clinicians, not to do it without a biostatistician in the room 💜