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Thoughtful perspective from @adamfrank4.bsky.social "I believe the first step out of the maze for young men begins by reasserting to them the virtue of hard work — an often grueling but indispensable part of finding the right answers in science." 🎁 link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...

The US government is shutdown, but with your help US led science doesn’t have to stop. share.google/tR3Pmgk6jLJE...

"while a healthy lifestyle and good parenting are important, they are not adequate protection against infectious disease. This was made tragically clear when one unvaccinated child died of measles this year while her siblings in the same house recovered." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

"Chinese universities see changes in the US as ‘a gift from Trump,’ professor says" www.cnn.com/2025/09/29/c...

Excited for the Cosmic Collisions: Supergiant vs Neutron Star author event with @marckuchner.bsky.social today at 4pm at @jeffkinney.bsky.social’s @anunlikelystory.bsky.social in Plainville, MA!

Join us today at noon ET for a conversation with @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social & @mtosterholm.bsky.social (@cidrap.bsky.social) where they will discuss how we can safeguard access to lifesaving vaccines and prepare for the next pandemic. Register here ⤵️ brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Add Denmark to the list of countries who are making a play for US scientists worried about their abilities to continue to do research in the US.

New from #SCIMaP - analysis of the White House’s Proposed FY 2026 National Science Foundation Budget. Take-home: Slashing NSF by >50% will lead to ~$11 billion in economic loss and extensive job loss and reduced training opportunities in communities nationwide. Report: osf.io/e8rnc a 🧵

@wsj.com Experts like @mtosterholm.bsky.social are stepping up to protect science with projects like the Vaccine Integrity Project to keep vaccine guidance evidence-based www.wsj.com/health/healt... Hear from him & @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social on 9/26, 12 PM ET Register: brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

"Perhaps no one told Mr. Trump about this trial lawyer campaign, but the costs of his intervention aren’t benign. He’s raising public fear about a useful medicine in a way that could harm maternal and fetal health. Whatever happened to do no harm?" www.wsj.com/opinion/tyle...

“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is disrupting the Health and Human Service Department in nearly all the wrong ways.” www.wsj.com/opinion/dr-p...

Join us Firiday 9/26 at 12:PM ET for a conversation with @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social and @mtosterholm.bsky.social (@cidrap.bsky.social) in discussion on how we can safeguard access to lifesaving #vaccines and prepare for the next pandemic. Register here 👇 brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

View from the coffee shop.

“To be clear, he said there was no science or data, but that he still expected you to change the schedule?” Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) asked. “Correct,” Monarez responded.

❗❗❗“He did not have any data or science to point to” ❗❗❗ www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/m...

Divet stomping.

I’m starting to see a number of countries placing ads on social media to recruit researchers from the US.

Cassidy is asking RFK Jr. to encourage vaccination, amid whooping cough outbreak in Louisiana: x.com/senbillcassi...

A child died from a rare complication of a measles infection contracted before s/he was old enough to be vaccinated. Another heartbreaking reminder of the danger that measles infections pose.

"Global health programs are not charity. They are insurance policies and the most affordable protection we have against future pandemics. Containing outbreaks at their source costs millions. Letting them spread costs billions — and lives."

Advice please! My 12yo wants to host a private server to play Minecraft with his friends. He’s looking at ShockByte 3gb budget plan. Is this safe/secure? I’m very leery of kids+tech.

“Far from cracking down on food and farming practices, Mr. Kennedy’s MAHA commission report on Tuesday defended existing pesticide review procedures and, in some cases, called for loosening food regulations” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

"the secretary has lately caused consternation among some of the president’s aides and the president himself for a series of negative headlines about chaos inside the CDC, and about his views on vaccines." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

"the people peddling anti-health-care content — people now empowered by and working in the Trump administration — have raked in their share of the $460 billion wellness industry, profiting from the paranoia they fueled." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...

8 of the 10 top-ranked research institutions worldwide are in China. Only 1 is in the United States. "If this does not constitute a Sputnik moment, it is hard to imagine what would." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

“Respondents said they place their greatest trust in doctors and nurses when it comes to vaccine information, including 76% of Trump voters. About 73% of Trump voters and 83% of swing voters agreed that vaccines save lives.”

The memo said, however, that “Republicans should not mistake skepticism over the COVID vaccine as evidence that Republican voters are against all vaccinations.” share.google/B0hzqaHKL8XL...

Beautiful sunset tonight!

#TheNationalNewsDesk: Florida moves to eliminate all vaccine mandates, public health leaders warn that could put children & communities at risk. @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social: “...[Citizens] will not be happy when they have to contend with deadly, costly outbreaks as a result...” More here ⤵️

"Mr. Vance is trying to rally Republicans to RFK’s side...That may serve his political purposes as he courts RFK’s supporters...but it won’t win over anyone paying attention to the health secretary’s contradictions as he attacks life-saving vaccines." www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

"Republican support for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Capitol Hill is starting to waver." www.politico.com/live-updates...

Ebola outbreak confirmed in DRC. So far 28 suspected cases and 15 deaths, including 4 healthcare workers. www.afro.who.int/countries/de...

Courageous statement from Dr. Monarez. Few qualified people would have agreed to step in to lead CDC under a known anti-vaxx profiteer. But Susan did until she was instructed to ignore evidence. It is impossible to imagine that any serious, qualified person will again step into this role.

"Those seeking to undermine vaccines use a familiar playbook: discredit research, weaken advisory committees, & use manipulated outcomes...Once trusted experts are removed and advisory bodies are stacked, the results are predetermined. That isn’t reform. It is sabotage." www.wsj.com/opinion/robe...

A suspected Ebola outbreak is occurring in DRC. This is bad at any time! But it’s particularly worrisome now when US capacity to detect and respond to deadly biothreats has been purposefully dismantled. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Reminder: Antivaxxers like RFK Jr. profit more when people don't trust official channels of information. The goal in weakening CDC is to drive people away from evidence-based information and into the arms of social media influencers who earn $ for every click and like.

“The ongoing investigation indicates that measles is spreading locally.” www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/wisc...

Recommendations please! My dieffenbachia flowered. I read that means it will die. What should I do?!

Listen: @amymaxmen.bsky.social reports on the Trump administration’s interference with the CDC, which slowed its response to Texas' recent measles outbreak—now recognized as the largest in the U.S. in 30 years. www.wnyc.org/story/the-tr...

From top to bottom, the future of #publichealth in this country has never been at greater risk. CDC’s Leadership Is in Chaos—Experts Warn of Public Health Risks www.scientificamerican.com/article/cdc-... by @laurenjyoung.bsky.social via @sciam.bsky.social CC: @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social @apha.org

"Failing to build on mRNA research now makes the United States more vulnerable to infectious diseases like influenza or COVID, to future pandemics, to biological attacks, and to other health threats," writes @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social. ⬇️

This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.

RFK Jr.’s endless anti-vax campaign targets the science that could lead to cancer vaccines thebulletin.org/2025/09/rfk-...

From @bostonglobe.com: Health experts warn that the foundations of the US public health system risk crumbling at the hands of #RFKJr. “He seems hellbent on making sure people don’t have the choice to get vaccinated” says @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social. Read more: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/28/m...

“CVS, the country’s largest pharmacy chain, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states…even to people who meet newly restricted criteria from the Food and Drug Administration.” The regulatory chaos has paralyzed vaccine access. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

@drsethberkley.bsky.social warns in @science.org: the US is cutting research, undermining vaccine experts & pulling funding from @gavi.org, which protects half the world’s children. The US is ignoring the opportunity to lead in vaccine science and instead leans on skepticism. More here ⤵️

“What they want is an anti-vaccine, anti-science infectious disease agency,” www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...

"If the US government persists down this current path...the world will inevitably witness a tragic increase in child deaths..." Sobering warning from @drsethberkley.bsky.social @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...