Note: Podcast doesn't require paid sub. #CDC #PublicHealth

Rewatching this scene from Reds; it is exactly how I remember it from watching it in the theatre during its first run. RIP Diane Keaton.

Thread. Grr.

Tracking Shutdown Impact and Changes at PubMed There's been some panic about PubMed again, since a notice on the website warned it could be out of date because of the US government shutdown. Shutdown is dreadful, in so many ways. But that notice doesn't mean PubMed has been de-funded, or that it's…

This is beyond bad. All of our disease defenses are down now. We are sitting ducks. This is #RussellVought #DonaldTrump #RFKJr. They are endangering American lives with their insane crusade. These men are hazardous to your health and dangerous to the republic. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

📣 We have a postdoctoral opportunity within the #Wimmics team on the French Riviera! On combining generative #AI and linked data model for #NLP based federated queries on secure and distributed #KnowledgeGraphs 📎 More info and application on jobs.inria.fr/public/class... #GenerativeAI #LLM #ML

Glad I moved back to New England.

I'll be grinding cinnamon sticks for the near future. It's not too difficult to do in a coffee grinder.

No, Trump Can’t Order Troops to Wherever He Wants www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

I sure hope this backfires.

The brazenness of state terror has escalated so much since @timothysnyder.bsky.social wrote this in April. I'll share this piece w my book club when we discuss On Tyranny later this month.

“I often think about my mom’s healthcare experience when I think about the ways in which the system needs to be fixed and the things we must fight like hell to protect… Healthcare broke my heart, but healthcare cannot stay broken.” — Solomon Banjo

Headlines: Veradigm to issue business update - Google, Flo Health to pay $56M in data privacy suit - Federal shutdown could end Medicare telehealth coverage histalk2.com/2025/09/28/m...

Media, I am begging you to callout false information within the headline. I know it's a challenge with limited characters, but that's the only part of the story that many people read. The broadcasting of misinformation is as dangerous as policy changes.

Comments by @liastot.bsky.social are on target--and apply across all healthcare. #ruralhealth #publichealth

Editor-in-Chief Eric Rubin asks why, under an administration that says it is focused on making America healthy again, we are denigrating and discarding our single most cost-effective public health tools — vaccines. Read the full editorial: nej.md/4mtH8Xm #MedSky #PublicHealth

New at Media Nation: @njpbs.bsky.social chair Scott Kobler weighs in on the public TV station's possible closure. Plus, Emily Rooney on not quitting and @karenattiah.bsky.social fights back. And please come to Waltham for panel on "Journalism in Crisis." dankennedy.net/2025/09/25/n...

Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code may be one and the same.

Follow developments in local news on our Bluesky news feed at @whatworks-nu.bsky.social. We've also embedded the feed at our website, whatworks.news

I spoke extensively with the Crimson reporter. She understood the strength of the evidence, and it shows. Odds ratios can be eye-glazing, but let's just say that when 2.5 million kids are studied, and it's still not possible to detect added risk from taking acetaminophen...there's no added risk.

Vaccine experts at CDC were not consulted nor asked to review the announcement, per this article.

Important and timely topic for patients and clinicians. Registered for the virtual event (no fee).

Not suprised one bit. I'd be surprised if the models corrected for bias in the training data.

My latest with @bakerinstitute.bsky.social www.bakerinstitute.org/research/new...

The Board of Directors has signed this joint statement by the Infectious Diseases Society of America, joining more than 20 national medical and health organizations.

"The spectacle of overt repression serves as a warning to others. Equally powerful, though, are economic carrots and sticks that have been used to discipline the media."

Wrote this. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

People ask me this all the time. Solid sources are key to good reporting www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...

Senate HELP hearing with fired CDC Director Monarez and ex-CDC leader Debra Houry getting started. www.help.senate.gov/hearings/res...

You should go. improbable.com/the-35th-fir...

"Restoring trust in science -- A pair of authors offer a “battle plan” for combating antiscience sentiment" | Great review of #ScienceUnderSiege by @meganranney.bsky.social for #ScienceMagazine: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Article is more positive toward #PatientsUseAI than headline suggests. Yes, cautions about privacy & accuracy are important, but benefits make it worthwhile to learn how to use AI. Quotes @epatientdave.bsky.social & @thelizarmy.bsky.social

If you are celebrating an assassination of your political opponent, check to make sure you still have a soul. No one shld be condoning political violence. Democracy means we use our words, not bullets.

Note how he deflects to efforts to restrict #DTC pharma marketing, an issue with broad appeal, and avoids answering the #antivax question. Expect more of this deflection.

🚨National Statement from Canada's Healthcare community: #ScienceMatters! Too often lies – about vaccines, COVID, ivermectin, etc. – harm patients, policies & the public. Canadian medical, research, clinical and healthcare organizations stand up for science!📢 Signed by over 20 leading orgs...👇

Our health care system needs fixing, but burning it down isn’t the answer. We should build on what works: research, prevention, regulation & education that save lives every day. My guest essay in @nytopinion: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/o...

"Not all openness is virtuous; not all resistance to openness is obstructionist." MIT Press Director Amy Brand shares her insights on how the unchecked use of published research in AI may threaten the integrity, sustainability, and future of scientific publishing:

I just wish I could believe that this is being done in the name of patient empowerment.

MUZZLED CANCER REPORT—For past 3 years, the alcohol industry, aided by its allies in Congress & Trump WH, sought to discredit and bury a major analysis linking alcohol and getting sick and dying, including cancer. They succeeded. Author says says Trump WH blocked it. www.vox.com/health/46008...

"Once trusted experts are removed and advisory bodies are stacked, the results are predetermined. That isn’t reform. It is sabotage."

New at Media Nation: Here are three ideas for @bostonglobe.com Media's new vp of product: Simplify the homepage, offer some gift links; and fix the broken social connection. dankennedy.net/2025/09/03/h...

Some quick thoughts on the Trump-RFK Jr alliance — and how its seeds were planted almost a decade ago.

Please, please read this and share it with everyone. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

The alarm sounded by these 9 former #CDC directors should be echoed far and wide by medical professionals & scientists across the US.

They are unlikely to cause harm—in fact, they are probably good for you, especially if eaten in moderation and supplemented by other, healthy fats such as the omega-3s found in fish and walnuts

Nice concise summary of value of vaccines.

If you are worried about misinformed U.S. federal guidance on vaccines and preventative health measures right now, here’s a list of well sourced and science backed alternative sources of information. A thread that you can bookmark for future reference and pass on to others 🧵

I've seen claims recently that the FDA is no longer investigating microbial contamination of food. That's just not true. Yes, the agency is now desperately understaffed. But some dedicated scientists are still there, still trying. As you'll see in this outbreak investigation summary.