One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

I'd love to say lots of nice things about this invaluable preventable disease tracker from @monscience.bsky.social and team at Think Global Health. It's an incredible resource. But I can't get over my anger & sadness that this resource is even needed. www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/vacc...

ICE has been cracking down hard across the vast expanse of the greater Chicago area, and I wrote a little bit about what you need to understand about what it’s like here now. Plus, I compiled some resources for locals to get alerts and whistles. dansinker.com/posts/202…

A tricky thing about transitioning in academia is forgetting who I've officially "told" and every email I'm like, "do I need to add my deadname to this?" So anyways I'm trans - if I look kinda familiar, you probably met me when I used a different name, which you can find in my orcid if desperate.

Now out in Epidemics - we adapted traditional serocatalytic models to explore the development of a gradient of seropositivity for seasonal human coronaviruses. Our method is flexible and can be applied to other pathogens. Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Matthew Shepard was murdered right when I was trying to come out of the closet. So like, this hit me pretty hard. Maybe that’s why I understand how important it is for trans kids to know they deserve to live.

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today. The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly. We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

#CDC is renaming #Mpox using the old misleading and stigmatizing term. #Mpox was set as global consensus by @who.int and there is no scientific or public health reason to go back to an outdated terminology. What we need is action: vaccination, awareness & equitable access, not backward naming.

1. It's shutdown day, and anti-trans provisions are on the line... either today, or in a few more weeks if a clean continuing resolution passes. Trump posted a video this morning blaming a shutdown on trans people and immigrants. Here is your shutdown guide. Subscribe to support our journalism.

What is the impact of the HHS decision to no longer recommend COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy? In our new research letter in @jamapediatrics.com, we provide estimates on the number of infant hospitalizations under different vaccine scenarios here. @mathewkiang.com, @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social

"This is what made parenting so much more interesting in the good old days. You young folks—Millennials, GenZ, GenAlpha, and whatever the heck comes after that—have no idea how much fun you’ve been missing. Now, though, you may get the chance to find out."

Very disturbing and unethical. Akido, a medical startup, is using an AI system to diagnose patients & provide treatment reca at clinical visits with medical assistants. The worst part of all of this is who is being targeted (or tested) first w. this technology: Medicaid patients who are unhoused.

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So I have a question... RFK, Jr. says he does not believe "modeling studies" to estimate the number of premature deaths prevented by COVID vaccines, He want to see real data. Question: What data does he have in mind? 1/2

"The day the paper was published should have been a moment of pride. Instead, it felt like a quiet erasure." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/4p3eH5g

Atlanta’s HIV epidemic is real and it’s driven by structural factors: lack of Medicaid expansion, racism, poverty, homelessness, limited comprehensive sex education, and barriers to HIV testing and PrEP access. Fear mongering to stigmatize certain communities is unhelpful and wrong.

No, Atlanta has NOT had 20,000 new HIV cases in 2025. That’s a viral falsehood spreading on TikTok and Facebook . As of 2022, ~43k people were living with HIV in metro ATL, and annual new diagnoses are in the hundreds locally (low thousands statewide) not tens of thousands in one city.

Incredible

Thank you, Jeremy, for always speaking truth to power. The recent NIH "priorities" with regard to trans kids are based on a false, dehumanizing narrative that puberty blockers and gender affirming care is dangerous, when in fact, it is life saving. Our kids deserve better.

Draft policy would stop NIH‑funded researchers from collecting gender‑identity data This is a calculated and desperate attempt to erase trans and nonbinary people and to ignore their health needs, autonomy, and visibility, along with that of cis women.

My new @forbes.com piece is about the critical importance of NIH and it's impactful Fogarty program Small Investment, Big Returns: Why This NIH Center Matters www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...

NIH scientists say that mRNA vaccines have saved untold thousands of lives. A heroin addled nepo baby whose brain was partially eaten by a worm says mRNA vaccines are worthless and even dangerous. For busy medical patients, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Closing date tomorrow!

I see news outlets reporting on falling ‘fertility rates,’ and I find this terminology non-intuitive… and potentially problematic. Falling fertility rates tell us about reductions in women’s birth rates, not reductions in women’s fertility! Let me explain:

What to know about the Skrmetti ruling, including how SCOTUS cited biased, inaccurate @nytimes.com coverage in their decision to allow bans on best practice, lifesaving care for transgender youth.

SCOTUS just let states block gender-affirming care for trans youth. A devastating decision especially given that gender affirming care is *life-affirming* and *life-saving*. Support trans-led orgs that are providing material and other support to trans youth and their families.

🚨 BREAKING: Nearly 4 months the NIH cut its first grants, a judge has ruled that the directives and process that led to cuts are arbitrary and capricious. "The explanations are bereft of reasoning — virtually in their entirety... unsupported by [facts]." Each of them are VOID and ILLEGAL, he says.

This means someone pregnant having a COVID vaccine, as recommended by OB/GYN and Infectious disease societies and guidelines in the US, may suddenly have to pay out of pocket 200+ US dollars, if even able to access the vaccine. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The head of HHS said he’d preserve ACIP. Then he fired the entire committee. Now a new panel -- with mostly unclear expertise in clinical trials, vaccines, and ID -- is in place. Time for high alert for changes that could seriously affect public health. #IDSky blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...

My confidence that HHS has disbanded our country's independent advisory committee issuing clinical guidance on vaccines to follow "unbiased science" and improve the health of Americans is...extraordinarily low. www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-jr-hhs-moves-to-restore-public-trust-in-vaccines-45495112

To me, this is one of the most frightening moves so far in the dismantling of public health - stacking ACIP so it'll fall in line. Americans deserve evidence-based vaccine policy, lest we return to an age when childhood polio deaths were a routine event.

I helped explain to the Chicago Tribune the enourmous and irrational damage the NIH funding freeze is causing at Northwestern. “You’re at risk of losing an entire next generation of scientists" "it’s terrifying; it’s completely senseless." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/07/w...

idk about you but personally I’d be pretty embarrassed to publish a NEJM commentary filled with citations to my own powerpoint slides.

ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years. 1/n

This is excellent, incredibly timely and important. Thanks @nathanlo.bsky.social and team for this work and for sharing it in this detailed thread. We can't afford to roll back the incredible gains made in the control of infectious diseases by allowing sustained declines in vaccination.

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Uh: HHS considering new NIH grant language that would 👉 allow NIH to terminate *and claw back* grants at unis w/ DEI programs 👉 expand DEI to DEIA--so now we're prohibiting accessibility (ADA?) 👉 prohibit all BDS initiatives 1A lawyers gonna have a field day w/ this one. @kenwhite.bsky.social

Northwestern just announced that the university will meet the funding needs of any research that is being impacted by stop orders. LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOO! #edusky #academicsky wgntv.com/evanston/nor...

Can’t stop obsessing about how much the Covid-19 signature on the LAB (TRUMP) LEAK website looks like something Joanna Gaines would stencil on a farmhouse kitchen wall.

Online NOAA climate data hubs serving 27 states — from Colorado and the Dakotas to Louisiana and Texas — have gone dark after a lapse in funding. The cause: expired contracts. This is becoming a pattern at NOAA 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

An absolutely incredible document. I have co-authored multiple papers on COVID origins and I must admit we did not consider that this dipshit was somehow involved

Hard to take seriously a website that looks like the 1999 promo for Blair Witch Project, but here we are, I guess

After 8 months of peer review, our manuscript was published today @nature.com showing that bovine H5N1 viruses bind poorly to human-type sialic acid receptors. We now know that the virus is only 1 HA substitution away from efficiently binding human receptors. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

SCOOP: Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi went into an interview today hoping he would come out a U.S. citizen. Instead, ICE arrested him. theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...

NEW: Entire scientific fields have been wiped out by the nearly 800 grants cancelled at NIH, finds a @nature.com analysis of the unprecedented cuts. About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone. See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:

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No more occupational health research. No more HIV research. Or tuberculosis. Or sexually transmitted infections. No environmental health & science research. No chronic disease research & prevention. The CRUELTY is the point. This won’t make anyone healthier. It will do the exact opposite.

The CDC has literally been gutted today. There’s no need for “April Fools” when reality is a nightmare for every human on this planet. Thousand of scientists fired. Entire departments erased. 1/