Am probably late to this conversation but question: does changing the #vaccine schedule eventually translate into lack of coverage by #insurance for those? Seems like the current answer is "No" but this feels like something to watch closely over time.

Manuscript and grant reviewers in biomedical sciences: Do you have any major pet peeves when it comes to formatting of papers or grants that you're reviewing? Anything else not format-related? I'm putting together some recommendations for trainees in our #epidemiology program. Thanks!

Thanksgiving timed sales are a great way to figure out what mailing lists you are on

Election Day!

Please include confidence intervals with your relative risks (risk ratios, odds ratios, hazard ratios, etc) and not just the RR and a p-value. Bonus points for other measures too, but need to see how wide those intervals are not just whether they are significant. #postconferencefeedback

So excited that this work is out. Thank you to all the great collaborators and coauthors involved in this work! Great work by first author @amadeia.bsky.social lupus.bmj.com/content/12/2...

And like that a 1-yr sabbatical comes to an end. Enjoying the day with family and getting ready for the new challenges. What an odd time to have been offline in public health and what a critical time to be ready and rested to get back to it. Wish me luck!

The Trump administration has announced that the US will rewrite past climate reports, in a clear attempt to erase scientific history and undermine the consensus on human-caused climate change.

Much of the regulations at USDA have been removed; consume anything at your own risk.

I come from a family of pediatricians and have longed for my dad to have the opportunity to dress down RFK Jr, who is a true no-nothing menace. Thank you Congresswoman Schrier.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... One Minnesota lawmaker and her spouse were fatally shot and a second lawmaker and his spouse were injured in separate "politically motivated" shootings at their homes in eastern Minnesota. Suspect, who authorities say had been impersonating law enforcement…

New work out with colleagues from Karolinska including @elizabetharkema.bsky.social and many more!

Excited to share that our next paper on evaluating diagnostic and treatment patterns in chronic illness is out - this time, exploring how race and gender may influence decision making in #neurology www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

•••MEASLES ALERT••• A traveler with measles was at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey for several hours while infectious this week. Anyone who was in Newark Airport's Terminal B on Monday between 12:30 and 4:00 p.m. may have been exposed to measles — considered by health…

With the destruction of federal funding for research, people have been hoping foundations fill in some of the gaps. HHMI decided to suspend their competitions AFTER applicants had already spent hours working on the application.

In the face of book bans in our public libraries and schools, Little Free Libraries serve as vital distribution points for free access to banned books. Help expand access to these stories by celebrating #LFLweek through May 17: lflib.org/lfl-week @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social #UniteAgainstBookBans

I always knew the “vaccines cause autism” crowd used sketchy science. But this is the second time I’ve looked into a super popular analysis, only to discover that they didn’t even have the data they claim to have. Now I’m curious how much of this “research” is just straight up lies.

they want you sick and preferably dead www.reuters.com/business/hea...

PLEASE don’t buy into Amazon’s booksale this week. They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions. Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.

It is open comment time (until May 23) for the proposed OPM rule to remove civil servant protections (Schedule F) www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... #ArmchairResistance Please share @altnps.bsky.social @altspaceforce.altgov.info @altfws.altgov.info @altcdc.altgov.info @altfda.altgov.info

So excited to dig into this sci-fi thriller by @pfracassi.bsky.social

If you're an academic on BlueSky, there's a fairly good chance that your employer is on this "list"

“...A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants [of NurembergTrials], a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” Captain G. M. Gilbert, Army psychologist assigned to watching defendants at the Nuremberg trials

This is the internal paperwork from the NIH detailing the process of screening grants for "DEI words" that would violate the Executive Order Hard to read but see the alt text

The number of measles cases in Texas has increased since Tuesday from 58 to 90. Of these, 94% were unvaccinated or have unknown vaccine status, and 16 were hospitalized (18%). The health department will update on Tuesdays and Fridays. www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...

So... things are being slashed and destroyed, consequences be damned, to save/get money to pay down the debt, so we are going to distribute the "savings" to people instead of paying down the debt?

The erasure of people and history.

If you are an NIH or CDC scientist that lost your job, we have a home for you at UTHealth. I’m hiring physician scientists and we also have transplant ID fellowship slots open. Contact me. #IDSky #MedSky

It has already spread east into New Mexico nmpoliticalreport.com/2025/02/14/d...

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

In 3 days, the number of measles cases in a highly unvaccinated area of Texas has doubled. There are now 48 cases, all of whom are unvaccinated, and 13 of whom have been hospitalized so far, for a hospitalization rate of 27%. This is huge figure in epidemiology. This outbreak will keep spreading.

Texas is having a measles outbreak and it's growing fast. How big could the outbreak get? If we assume it stays in Gaines County, an uncontrolled outbreak could still mean up to almost 5000 cases in the next 3 months!

Nice reporting by @berkeleyjr.bsky.social “Direct cost is the groceries," Golden said. "Indirect costs are the money you need to have a refrigerator and to pay your electric bill so that the milk and eggs don’t go bad.” www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Unbelievable speed of ATTEMPTS to dismantle science. They tried this 💩 in the first admin, proposing cuts to 10%, and it was resisted by Congress Call your congresspeople, and remind them they have defended health research before, and they can do so again

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

BREAKING: CDC's top advisors demand answers and a restoration of crucial public health data. New story by me: www.statnews.com/2025/02/01/c...

“The CDC has instructed its scientists to retract or pause the publication of any research manuscript being considered by any medical or scientific journal, not merely its own internal periodicals” - @jeremyfaust.bsky.social in Inside Medicine

Remember how I keep telling y'all to stay updated on ALL of your vaccines? Well the ACIP specific guidance on individual vaccines has been taken down. Pediatricians and primary care providers use these guidelines EVERYDAY! www.cdc.gov/acip/

If you are scientists, researcher, or scholar of any kind, it's time to invest HEAVILY in science communication. If the government won't let the people know the facts, we must. And I already got you covered. #academicsky #science #phd #research medium.com/educreation/... bsky.app/profile/roxa...

GitHub change logs make it possible to see how and where the government has been scrubbing web pages of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility content. www.404media.co/github-is-sh...

Our study on inflammatory proteins measured before sarcoidosis diagnosis was recently published. We show that markers of inflammation in sarcoidosis patients are higher compared to controls many years before diagnosis. We used biobanked samples from Northern Sweden Health & Disease Study #EpiSky

Happy new year!

Fika with the kids

Visited an old favorite spot in Stockholm this morning with the family this morning - peaceful spot where we used to take long walks with Zeke