A horrifying new Ebola outbreak is underway. There's no approved vaccine for the new strain causing the outbreak. @sariahmed.bsky.social @mattherder.bsky.social Janice Graham & I published a paper last year on the history of J&J's Ebola vaccine—and why it divested in 2023 from new vaccine research.

Our work on the political economy of adenoviral vectors is among few papers connecting the financialization of drug development to the scientific history of ebola. Important context for thinking critically about which players are on the scene responding to the current outbreak. @cmorten.bsky.social

About 45 people at our inaugural Healthcare in Palestine interest group at @societygim.bsky.social 2026 with guests from Doctors Against Genocide, the Nonviolent Medicaid Army and ZinesforFalastin. Register at the link if you couldn't make this session but want to stay connected.

Healthcare in Palestine Interest Group dinner before our inaugural meeting at @societygim.bsky.social, join us for the IG today at 1pm. If you have a conflicting meeting, register to stay in touch.

I wrote with my brilliant friend Marc for the latest issue of the University of the Poor journal: "Global Capital, Healthcare, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution." This article is also available in Spanish. universityofthepoor.org/global-capit...

The inaugural meeting of the @societygim.bsky.social Healthcare in Palestine Interest Group is at the conference in DC this year. We're going to have dinner with some local leaders of Doctors Against Genocide, register here to join or stay in touch, all members welcome. forms.gle/G3qvQ6bqYiH8...

This is one of the worst things I have ever read and I study frontier genocide as a profession.

Israel strikes central Beirut without warning https://aje.news/ygb521

Israeli soldiers are detonating entire villages in South Lebanon while taking selfies. Ancient mosques, churches, cemeteries, schools, hospitals - all being obliterated by the genocidal regime www.instagram.com/reel/DWrg5xi...

Our National call this week is on “Projects of Survival,” a legacy of the Black Panther Party. Changing the political economic status quo in this nation, inclusive of the war economy, requires us to unite the bottom, those with the most to gain and the least to lose. bit.ly/2026NVMANati...

New in @theprogressivemag.bsky.social. This network has been my organizing home for 12 years, link to an upcoming National Call is at the bottom. progressive.org/latest/the-n...

Today, as Gaza continues to be stuck in a bloody limbo, we are turning our website over to Gaza and its people in an initiative we are calling “A Day for Gaza.” There will be no pieces published on our website today that do not come directly from Gaza.

socialist scientists: *minding their own business* otherwise reasonable science blogger: *3 part series on why RFK is basically a communist*

Can't now find it but there's a classic old tweet which said something like "Every time we're on the verge of achieving class consciousness in America a CIA sleeper agent activates and, their eyes glowing red, they just tweet out "John Brown was a white saviour"" and I think about it often.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

It is now confirmed from multiple sources that ICE shot a legal observer dead on Portland in Minneapolis between 34th and 33rd street. The victim is dead

Mary Bassett's firing is about many things, but Palestine is among the most prominent. Public health doesn't need to just "muscle up," and join the #resistance, it also needs to confront anti-Palestinian racism and imperialism.

The height of the activity of the National Union of the Homeless was during the housing takeovers in the 1990s - you can learn about them by watching the film Takeover (the PBS version - not the 2021 film by the same name featuring the also-awesome hospital takeovers by the Young Lords).

In a new analysis from the OPTIMUM trial, researchers studied the prevalence and co-occurrence of chronic overlapping #pain conditions among patients with chronic #LowBackPain. Learn more ➡️ duke.is/pctnews20251...

NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials. “Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."

This is indeed so deliciously written.

Great thread, summarizing our work on J&J's Advac and the perils of what we term 'platform thinking'!

This is a neat paper ⬇️. 💉

New paper! Karim Sariahmed, Janice E. Graham, Matthew Herder & Christopher J. Morten, Public Sector Innovation and the Constraints of “Platform Thinking”: An Account of Johnson & Johnson’s Viral Vector Vaccines, 387 Social Science & Medicine 118687 (2025). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/

Read our work in Social Science & Medicine on vectors, "platforms," and the political economy of vaccine development as it relates to J&J's adenoviral vector. Health research systems can be built to understand and solve public health problems, but that's not what we observed here unfortunately. 1/

Just published in Social Science & Medicine! Led by @sariahmed.bsky.social + @cmorten.bsky.social we interrogate how 'platform thinking' constrains not only pharma companies like J&J but also science more broadly. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

When journalists, healthcare workers and children are targets, their stories must be recorded and witnessed www.croakey.org/when-journal...

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Kieran Andrieu, a British Palestinian member of the Global Sumud Flotilla, now back in London, shares what happened when he and fellow activists were captured and imprisoned by Israel.

This is a very important empirical (!) study accounting for the mental health impact of genocide on health care workers in Gaza. Much respect to the researchers who conducted a survey under the hardest conditions, especially those in Gaza. These urgent testimonies warrant to be read and acted upon

2nd Annual Doctors Against Genocide Conference, this weekend, at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Theme: Genocide and Mass Atrocities as a Global Public Health Emergency www.instagram.com/p/DNlYz4dxrOL/

Relevant data from an overlapping and larger sample collected with @msf.ca and the Palestinian MOH, which we didn't find during the latest revision. Reporting very high levels of stress, anxiety, and depression in mid to late 2024, nearly a year later. sciencepg.com/article/10.1...

Our work on the mental health of health workers in Gaza is now out in @plosglobalpublichealth.org. The findings are not surprising - health workers were being terrorized from the beginning of the genocide (data from December 2023- Jan 2024 peer review is slow). journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

Palestinian children in Gaza are seen collecting the remnants of dough prepared by their mother after an Israeli attack destroyed their tents.

Qatari PM Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani has condemned the Israeli strike on Doha as “state terrorism”, warning that Qatar will not tolerate violations of its sovereignty.

Nothing is more dangerous to Netanyahu than a ceasefire. He had 2 years to bomb Hamas in Doha and he chose to do so while they were meeting to discuss a ceasefire deal.

The #Crozer8 were arrested during a sit-in demanding the re-opening of closed Crozer-Chester Hospital in Chester, PA. Hundreds of hospitals are threatened w/ the same. Part of the #NonviolentMedicaidArmy #NVMA National Day of Action for Medicaid. In the @inquirer.com web.archive.org/web/20250908...

It’s all an attitude of being fine with authoritarianism, just not in their preferred cities. High crime rates in Republican-led states isn’t a gotcha! It’s a tragedy and a canary in a coal mine about what systemic racism and poverty beget. Do better, y’all. Not one city should be occupied.

one of the most baffling parts of this. I spent the last decade or so prepping to make the "first they came for ethnic studies" version of the Niemoller point to libs. while they did (see the CRT offensive and book bans) I absolutely did not think children's cancer researchers would be next in line

Please read our new @lancetgh.bsky.social paper "Dignity-based practice in global health research: a framework of expectations" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... We analysed complaints on knowledge practices in global health to identify expectations that affirm the dignity of marginalised knowers.

Please give generously to this relative of my research collaborator. #MedSky #PsychSky www.gofundme.com/f/help-abdul...

Cool paper - not sure how well the MCQ-based design and the output metrics approximate clinical reasoning, but the fact is that we have plenty of researchers asking 'how can we put AI everywhere' and too few asking 'why are we putting AI everywhere?' #MedSky jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Our organizing theory and practice as it relates to #Medicaid is grounded in the tradition of poverty abolition. You can read about it in the journal of the University of the Poor. Artwork by one of our members. universityofthepoor.org/the-nonviole...

Public health efforts are rightly focused on reducing opioid overdose deaths. We know relatively little about severe morbidity among overdose survivors. Our new paper in @journalgim.bsky.social provides the first national estimates of overdose-related hypoxic-ischemic brain injury rdcu.be/ezNUN

Excited to announce an upcoming event w @nyuengelberg.org! My first back at @nyulaw.bsky.social! "Fixing a Broken System: The Path to Public Pharma in New York" 5:30-7 pm Thur Sep. 25, 2025 @ NYU Co-hosted w T1International & @racepowerpolicy.org! Zoom & IRL, free & open to all! Join us!

Where is working class blue sky? I just want a place to share my research without the cheer leading.

New work laying foundations on somatic therapy for PTSD (and chronic pain?) in a primary care context. Really enjoyed conducting these interviews. Among our patients and staff, a body-first orientation to trauma resonates strongly. #MedSky #PsychSky pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Must-read story from @jeneeninterlandi.bsky.social on Trump & RFK Jr's catastrophic assault on the FDA. I'm quoted briefly, echoing a warning @reshmagar.bsky.social, @drjoshs.bsky.social & other watchdogs reiterated for years: FDA's unnecessary, excessive secrecy fueled conspiracy theories.

@bma.org.uk demonstrates some moral clarity, support for academic freedom and freedom of speech more broadly. All people should feel emboldened to raise the question of direct and indirect support for war, occupation, genocide in their organizations. www.bma.org.uk/what-we-do/w...

today's Very Special Episode of "a society that would like to safeguard it's most basic functions must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities"