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Epidemiologist | pro science | opinions are my own
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Your Local Epidemiologist
18 days ago
Today was a major win for accountability. We just got word that in the court case between the American Academy of Pediatrics and RFK Jr., a judge ruled that the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee, ACIP, cannot move forward under his changes and reversed many of the actions taken so far.
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Jeffrey Mervis
18 days ago
Wondering why NIH and NSF aren't making new grants? We explain what's happening at OMB.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Analysis: Why the research money isn’t flowing from NSF and NIH
White House review of agency spending plans for this year is causing delays
https://www.science.org/content/article/analysis-why-research-money-isn-t-flowing-nsf-and-nih
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Great explainer on doctor profits from vaccines 👇🏻
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about 1 month ago
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Eric Topol
about 1 month ago
That's right. Worse than Pointless
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...
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Eric Topol
about 1 month ago
This week's cover
@thelancet.com
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Katie Mack
about 2 months ago
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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Alt CDC (they/them)
about 2 months ago
We stand with Dr.
@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social
! She’s a champion for health equity and scientific integrity. No one should face retaliation for speaking up for public health and science. We must protect whistleblowers and defend equitable health research for all. 💪 Gift link below👇
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N.I.H. Worker Who Criticized Trump Seeks Whistle-Blower Protection
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/politics/nih-worker-trump-whistle-blower-protection.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JVA.YbNG.Hi35hJnnEmHL&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Cory Booker
2 months ago
This must stop.
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Ilhan Omar
2 months ago
"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know. This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.
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Max Kozlov
2 months ago
🚨 New from me: Grant review at more than half of NIH's institutes could be frozen by the end of the year. That's because crucial NIH grant-review panels are slated to be empty at those institutes by Jan 2027. A wonky bureaucratic problem with big implications. A short 🧵
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Exclusive: key NIH review panels due to lose all members by the end of 2026
Thirteen of the agency’s advisory councils, which must review grant applications before funding is awarded, are on track to have no voting members.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00183-x
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Gregg Gonsalves
2 months ago
The multi-year NIH funding of grants tagged to 2025 allows Russell Vought to reduce the number of grants funded this year because he insists that a 5 years of $$$ has to be committed. This is bad. We could see a cut in actual grants by 1/3 or more. Spread the word.
www.statnews.com/2026/01/16/n...
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Limit on multiyear funding of NIH grants is a sticking point in Senate budget talks
A clause limiting the use of multiyear NIH grant funding has become a sticking point as the Senate appropriations panel finalizes the HHS spending bill.
https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/16/nih-grants-multiyear-funding-sticking-point-hhs-budget/
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Jeremy Berg
3 months ago
Powerful piece in STAT this morning from some NIH staff members who have resigned
www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...
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The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left
“We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.
https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/nih-resign-protest-four-leaders-cite-interference-censorship/
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Great explainer of recent changes 🤬 to vaccine policy 👇🏻
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3 months ago
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Rolling Stone
4 months ago
How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages. Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with
@thefern.org
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www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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Max Kozlov
4 months ago
About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in. Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Robert Reich
6 months ago
First the Trump regime fired 1,300 CDC workers. Then it rehired about half of them. Those who remain fired include key officials working on injury and violence prevention and crucial health statistics. This hurts federal workers and puts us all at risk in a public health emergency.
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Alt CDC (they/them)
6 months ago
1. do not send read receipt 2. forward to personal email 3. wait for union language before responding 4. download docs (eOPF etc) quickly; expect to lose network access 5. ensure a non-gov email way to access mypay and other benefits 6. book Dr appointments and Rx filled
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ACOG
6 months ago
ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk.
https://bit.ly/47Wxc59
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
7 months ago
Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target
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Your Local Epidemiologist
7 months ago
1/ Fall 2025
#vaccines
are here: flu, RSV, and Covid-19. Keeping track of them isn’t always easy—especially with Covid-19 guidance in flux—but clarity is the antidote to confusion. But you know what? Clarity is the antidote to confusion and that’s what I’m providing today. 👇
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Alt CDC (they/them)
7 months ago
Heath Equity Funding! 👇
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reposted by
Gregg Gonsalves
7 months ago
All together now: DUMP RFK Jr.
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Jeremy Berg
8 months ago
Well, this is a huge Executive Order power grab...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/improving-oversight-of-federal-grantmaking/
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reposted by
Robert Reich
8 months ago
CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
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Jeremy Berg
8 months ago
Some sweet people have been sending physical cards and letters to the Bethesda Declaration signers. This is so kind and meaningful. It would be GREAT if they received more. Cards can be sent to Ian Morgan NIGMS 45 Center Dr, MSC 6200 Bethesda, MD 20892-6200 Ian will share them with the signers.
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Atul Gawande
9 months ago
STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Cory Booker
9 months ago
It’s not a surprise that Trump lied. But this may be his biggest lie yet — and we must not let him forget it. op:
@fightforprogress.org
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Eric Topol
9 months ago
Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Pete Buttigieg
9 months ago
It’s not too late to take action. Call your representative at 202-224-3121 to tell them to vote no.
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Mathew Kiang
9 months ago
Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages.
ki.se/en/about-ki/...
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Call for 20 Assistant Professor positions
Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. We are now recruiting outstanding early-career researchers with particularly exce...
https://ki.se/en/about-ki/jobs-at-ki/join-a-global-community-of-excellence
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever
9 months ago
#AltCitizens
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Atul Gawande
9 months ago
This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of
@gavi.org
. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
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RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort
Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/25/rfk-vaccine-donations-gavi-00422705
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Jeremy Berg
10 months ago
Powerful story from Carolyn Johnson at the Washington Post...
wapo.st/44ntbo4
[Should be a gift link; let me know if there are problems]
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His custom cancer therapy is in an NIH freezer. He may not get it in time.
The purge of probationary federal workers included skilled lab personnel who would have finalized a customized cell immunotherapy for cancer patients.
https://wapo.st/44ntbo4
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Brittany Charlton
10 months ago
📢BREAKING: Just left the courthouse for our NIH grant termination case Judge ruled terminations are “VOID & ILLEGAL” As a plaintiff, I felt a wave of relief & hope; he acknowledged the discrimination & harm Closed by asking, ‘Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?’
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Senator Alex Padilla
10 months ago
If this is how this administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, and to day laborers throughout California and across the country. We will hold this administration accountable.
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Bryan D. James, PhD
10 months ago
Was great to see
@lamhine.bsky.social
present his research on the prevalence of subjective cognitive decline in multiracial older US adults at
#SER2025
Proud to play a small part in supporting Tracy’s important work with
@michelleodden.bsky.social
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪
10 months ago
Seems bad
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BK. Titanji
10 months ago
This is the roster of ACIP committee fired yesterday. Bios included - highly qualified and vetted scientists and physicians. Worth saving this before it gets taken down for comparison with those who will be selected to replace them. We are going backwards at speed.
www.cdc.gov/acip/members...
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ACIP Membership Roster
See the ACIP membership roster.
https://www.cdc.gov/acip/membership/roster.html
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Diana Tordoff, PhD, MPH
10 months ago
A community friendly summary is also available at
pridestudy.org/research/#to...
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Pride Study
The PRIDE Study is a long-term study to learn about the identities, health conditions, and healthcare experiences of LGBTQ people across the country. You can participate via your computer, tablet, or ...
https://pridestudy.org/research/#tordoff5
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Your Local Epidemiologist
10 months ago
The Trump and Elon breakup would be pretty funny to watch if I didn't know how much is on the line here: 10 million people could lose Medicaid and 2 million kids could lose food assistance. Don't let this drama distract you from what matters.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈
10 months ago
CNN story updated with specifics: "the administration is specifically considering a full termination of federal grant funding for the University of California and California State University systems. A White House official said Friday afternoon that no final decision had been made on the cuts."
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Trump preparing large-scale cancellation of federal funding for California, sources say | CNN Politics
The Trump administration is preparing to cancel a large swath of federal funding to California, an effort which could begin as soon as Friday, according to multiple sources.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/politics/trump-california-federal-funding
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Max Kozlov
10 months ago
DOGE is now reviewing every NIH grant that goes out, I reported last week. That review is AI-driven and is screening for DEI, trans health, China, vaccine hesitancy, and the institutions to whom Trump has blocked funding,
@hannahnatanson.bsky.social
reports. Gift link:
wapo.st/3HhnPSt
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Jeremy Berg
10 months ago
New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump (Gift Article)
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/04/health/trump-cuts-nih-grants-research.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MU8.U2JL.z3BXY3hj-08t&smid=url-share
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Bryan D. James, PhD
10 months ago
Follow
@altthenia.bsky.social
for the real scoop on what’s going down at the National Institute on Aging (NIA). We must support our NIH institutional officers now more than ever as they work from the inside to make sure science still progresses despite the current political crackdown
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Mother Jones
10 months ago
Cutting $20 billion to NIH over 25 years may save $500 billion on paper, but it’d end up costing $8.2 trillion in lost human health. But NIH isn't the only thing being cut. The budget also slashes all NSF-funded science by 73 percent. NASA faces “the biggest single-year cut to NASA in history."
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Donald Trump’s proposed budget would gut American science
It would slash cancer research, drug trials, space exploration, and so much more.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/donald-trumps-proposed-budget-would-gut-american-science/
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Eric Topol
10 months ago
$9.5 billion of biomedical research support, 2,100 grants, have already been terminated at NIH
www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/n...
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A Harvard scientist built a database of 2,100 NIH grant terminations. Then his own funding was cut
Harvard's Scott Delaney helped build a database of NIH grant terminations that is being used in litigation against the Trump administration.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/nih-cuts-tracked-in-grant-watch-database-q-and-a-with-harvard-researcher-scott-delaney/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9kw-wmh1i2ocAVby6iGzBeMVCTkI6KxOaqzQWYzT2I4_wiDLxgrowo4GeAhbQwl582viSG3lg1JMxAaqiicyDKGMv72g&_hsmi=363410972&utm_content=363410972&utm_source=hs_email
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Dani Rodrik
11 months ago
Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.
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Theresa Gaffney
11 months ago
In a lawsuit filed yesterday, a group of physicians and researchers argue that the termination of more than $800 million in LGBTQ+ research funding endangers lives:
www.statnews.com/2025/05/21/l...
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LGBTQ+ researchers sue HHS, NIH over grant cuts
The suit, filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, charges that cutting $800 million in medical research endangers lives.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/21/lgbtq-physicians-sue-hhs-nih-over-grant-cuts/
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Cathy Gao-Howard MD MS
11 months ago
Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at
#ATS2025
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Joe Katz
11 months ago
A high school freshman takes transphobic Maine politicians to task for bullying the trans girl who beat her in a race. Kudos to you, Anelise Feldman.
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2nd-Place Runner in High School Race Rips Maine GOP Lawmaker for Attacking Trans Winner | Common Dreams
"I don't feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/transgender-student-athletes-maine?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=44600266c5-Top+New+%7C+Thur.+5%2F15%2F25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c56d0ea580-600304771
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