Vaccination rates aren’t just a personal choice, they determine whether outbreaks happen. • Polio: ~80–85% vaccination needed to prevent outbreaks • Measles: ~95% vaccination needed Once coverage drops, children become vulnerable. When vaccination rates fall, outbreaks follow.

Applications are open for LookUp grants for young people working on Youth Mental Health and Digital Wellness! 
Let me know if you have questions.
#funding #grants #young #college #youth #highschool #wellness #AI #online #health www.linkedin.com/pulse/youth-...

Congrats, Katie and MoveOn!

Congrats to the Graduates of 2025! #CSUEB #calstateeastbay #calstate #graduation

Congrats, Mr. Riddick!

You’re allowed to argue that black people and women are genetically inferior. But you’re NOT allowed to argue they are NOT inferior because that’s divisive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...

Yikes

This is just heartbreaking

Trump loses 3 times in 90 minutes www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

SCOOP: Trump's Equal Opportunity office is investigating Barnard's employment practices. Professors received texts to their personal phones on Monday, linking to a survey asking if they were Jewish and if they had been subjected "unwelcome discussions" theintercept.com/2025/04/23/t...

Everyone paying attention here, folks? Safety inspections of milk doesn't sounds like waste or fat to me. WTF?

Just wow

Congrats to the Honors Graduates at Cal State East Bay today! #csueb #calstate #eastbay

Everyone should read this story to know how cute to USAID are hurting real people

Do NOT miss this brilliant @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social episode with the ever so wise, @heathermcgee.bsky.social. open.spotify.com/episode/7IZT...

Some hopeful news

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

This #GoldenLoopholeAwards thread for #TaxDay2025 is great satire—hilarious yet deeply disturbing. Kudos to @Trillions_Trump for laughing us into painful truths. Let's #TaxTheRich and stop the #BillionaireTaxBailout

🗣️ Please share this call widely to support early career opportunities for folks in biobehavioral medicine, health psychology, or related disciplines! The ECEB is a great way to gain experience that is often not emphasized in grad or postdoctoral training. #healthpsych #affectivescience #psychscisky

1/ New Publication! As a Black and Latino professor of public health, this work is deeply personal. When I was a student, stress was constant—and culturally relevant mental health support was rare. #MentalHealthEquity #FacultyOfColor

So great to meet up with colleagues in person after working together remotely for so many months. And the paper got published!! #Latinx #Research #PublicHealth #Mindfulness

Glad to hear it!

1/ New Publication! As a Black and Latino professor of public health, this work is deeply personal. When I was a student, stress was constant—and culturally relevant mental health support was rare. #MentalHealthEquity #FacultyOfColor

There are 72M people on Medicaid

Our local Dad book club is deep into The Demon of Unrest—and wow, it reads like today’s headlines. Gripping, urgent, and painfully relevant. Thanks for making history feel so alive. @exlarson.bsky.social

The EPA ordered the virtual elimination of a 15-year-old federal program that requires thousands of power plants, oil refineries, cement factories and other large industrial facilities to publicly report their greenhouse gas emissions, according to two people briefed on the decision.

So we can deport based on someone’s “expected beliefs”?

See full thread but a) govt trying to coerce people into work just generally does not work; we already have very strong work incentives; b) Trump has gutted research like this on how SSA is working and can be improved.

Amazon prime but with human beings

63% of U.S. adults say tax rates on large businesses and corporations should be raised. A majority (58%) also support raising taxes on household income over $400,000. www.pewresearch.org/...

Authoritarianism directed inward

Our health is at risk.

The National Park Service has restored the changes to its website about the Underground Railroad following public outcry www.nps.gov/subjects/und...

60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP

We need to be talking about this

National Park Service website on Underground Railroad edited by Trump Administration to remove any reference to Slavery www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

Can someone explain the last foul on Flagg and why it was completely made up by the ref?

Great news for research and researchers

Watch what you eat, you're on your own now. Federal funding for the state programs that inspect 90% of our produce and 75% of our manufactured foods face cuts of around 60%. What about imported foods? No, we can't afford them anymore thanks to huge tariffs. #HealthSky #MedSky #FitnessSky

The cuts affect every state and ultimately every person.

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The latest NIH grant chaos: NIH apparently sent stop-work orders to all *97* MARC and U-RISE programs in the country. These programs support underrepresented undergrads interested in health research careers. MARC dates to 1977. Over 48 years, the programs have supported thousands of students.

New CDC buries info about the spread of deadly measles.

I used to wear the smart academic so I wouldn’t be confused with a student, but these days I’m slowly moving lower.

Let’s go vaccines

RCT suggests smartphones make adults dumb cc @paulgp.com @novosad.bsky.social academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

To quote the late, great Carrie Fisher, things are getting worse faster than we can lower our standards.

What?!

Screen time linked to reduced sleep, especially for night owls