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.

Lives are at stake with today’s ACIP meeting: ☑️ COVID-19 shots for kids & pregnant women ☑️ Hep B newborn vaccines ☑️ MMRV guidance ☑️ Vaccine funding for low-income families ☑️ Public trust in vaccines We won't be live posting but will return or chime in with thoughts. ⏰Stream live ~10AM Eastern

Over 27,000 SNAP-authorized retailers—including small grocers, farmers markets, and food shops—will be hit hard. For every $1 in SNAP, $1.50 in local economic activity is generated. These cuts hurt entire communities. www.baltimoresun.com/2025/08/06/g...

Harvard will not comply. “No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” — Harvard President Alan M. Garber www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

NEW: Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.

The good news: CDC's webpages have been restored following court orders. The bad news: many have this despicable banner attached to them. We will be getting into misconceptions in gender ideology in a later post. For now, we are hurt and ashamed, and we stand with the LGBTQIA+ community.

It’s been buried in all the news today, but every scientist in the US should pay attention to this: Mike Lauer went out on a limb for us all, sending out a memo saying institutes should start awarding grants. And it looks like Trump/Musk fired him for that. 🧪

Major news: Entire first-year class of the Epidemic Intelligence Service must be out by 5pm, sources say. Also: a major CDC contractor "just let go." Others may follow. This is an attack on our ability to detect outbreaks. More, with quotes from CDC officials: open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

If you are one of the #CDC #HHS #FDA #NIH employees who have learned today that your employment is being abruptly ended, we want to hear from you. @altcdc.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/f...

For some reason, there is this assumption that this science isn't good science because certain words are used. That's just ridiculous. As an epidemiologist, describing the burden of disease (or other phenomenon) among the population is essential, and we absolutely cannot shy away from those words.

Yesterday I realized that people do not understand that the “DEI” purge is a cover to get Black people fired and sidelined from government, university, and civic and corporate life in the US. This is so clear based on who is being targeted that I hadn’t thought to say it explicitly Happy #BHM! 🙃

🔬🧪🥼🧠🦠📈🟦 Between Feb 3-10, 2024: NIH issued 513 grant awards totaling $218,273,053. Between Feb 3-10, 2025: NIH issued just 11 grant awards totaling $4,981,089. I.e., since the courts ordered a full resumption in grant funding, NIH still only approved a handful of grants - 2.2% of typical volume

Earth & Life Sciences Academics communicating the new EO about indirect rates, imma need you to improve yer messaging- maybe don't say "If I get a million dollar grant, my uni gets another $700k to keep the lights on & water running" bc isn't going to get the traction you think it is-

THIS ⬇️ "We at the American Journal of Public Health have no interest in following the president's prohibitions on language," APHA's Georges Benjamin tells Medpage Today. "We will publish things under our guidelines, under our ethical principles." www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo... 🔥

48% of papers published since January 1, 2015 have been removed from PCD website. Our team pulled all PCD publications from PubMed and checked the DOI to see if the paper still exists on the PCD website. For the 1470 articles from the past 10 years, only 763 are still accessible through PCD (52%).

🧬🦠🧠🥼🧪📈🟦 @ebi.embl.org: Many scientists are worried that vital biomedical data housed in U.S. government databases is at risk. Which aspects of NCBI are mirrored on EMBL-EBI? Do you plan to back up more U.S. data? @altcdc.bsky.social @altnih4science.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Ditto to academics

If you're a journalist downloading CDC data today, please consider filling out this form so we have a centralized guide to who has what. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...