List of targeted grants here: grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0...

Good section in here on the health needs of kids held in ICE detention www.propublica.org/article/life...

Pregnant people laboring at home. Diabetics diluting or forgoing insulin. Children going hungry in hiding. What's happening in Minnesota is a public health crisis in the making. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A few updates on the deeply unethical study to probe "non-specific" effects of the birth dose HepB vaccine in Guinea-Bissau by Danish investigators. 1️⃣ The study was canceled as per AfricaCDC - HHS disputes this. 2️⃣ Full protocol was leaked and it's bad. Quick 🧵 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Discover the seven stories Kim Stanley Robinson selected as the winners of the Bulletin's Write Before Midnight contest in our January magazine issue. Start reading: buff.ly/mNO6mTQ

Do you need a prescription to get a COVID vaccine? Answer: Nope. You don’t need a prescription to get a COVID vaccine in California. 📲 Talk to your pharmacist, doctor, or visit MyTurn.ca.gov to schedule your vaccine appointment.

Exciting news to start 2026: for the first time ever, the PHAROS repository for wildlife disease surveillance is a journal-recommended home for your archived data! Thanks to Integrative and Comparative Biology for taking the leap with us 🦠🔢➡️🌎💻💫 academic.oup.com/icb/pages/Ge...

Interested in AIxBio? I’m compiling a Bluesky starter pack! Please send suggestions for individuals/orgs to add. go.bsky.app/Jt18Ltq

California announced the launch of the Public Health Network Innovation Exchange (PHNIX), a state-led initiative designed to modernize public health infrastructure and strengthen trust in science-based decision-making. Read the news release: www.gov.ca.gov/2025/12/15/g... [1/4]

I want to spell this out in case the implications aren't clear: This means all public tools/webapps of GISAID data (all the ones you've been used to seeing thru the pandemic, as far as we can tell) are prohibited. The file allowed this. Cut that - cut off all tools the public & others were using.

Concerning: for a high emissions scenario, the model found a 37% increase in daily extreme precipitation over land by 2100. “Much of the increase was driven by shifts in wind patterns that created chains of severe thunderstorms hundreds of kilometers long that traditional models fail to capture.”

My last research project showed that many mammals now live in climates different from the ones they occupied for thousands of years. Publishing it made me realize how often important science stays inaccessible and why I now focus on sharing it clearly. Full story ↓ 🧪 #SciComm buff.ly/WMgl3kB

The fact that China's green economy has outpaced our fossil fuel one was totally predictable 10 years ago. And US companies and economic policies continue to put their head in the sand. Even as we wrangle against facism, the physical effects of our CO2 emissions continue inexorably. Science.

I lived with my dad when I was very young and he didn’t apply for food stamps or free school lunches, though we qualified. So, I went hungry. It was awful. I begged neighbors for saltine crackers. I can say it was the worst time of my life. Children shouldn’t go hungry. Restore SNAP benefits.

Rita Hamad, professor of social epidemiology and public policy, explains why losing the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System puts the health of mothers and infants at risk, and how she hopes to help keep its data accessible. “Without data, we can’t fix problems,” says @ritahamad.bsky.social

If the ostriches are not culled, Canada will violate its trade agreements for managing avian flu outbreaks. This could cause our trading partners to ban Canadian poultry imports and cut off the entire $2B poultry export market. Three countries have already restricted Canadian imports on this basis.

Recently published work from colleagues Morgan Wack (postdoc at University of Zurich) & Joey Schafer (UW PhD candidate) showing how state election policies that delayed vote counting fueled rumoring and conspiracy theorizing around the 2020 election: blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

With deportation continuing apace amid the federal government shutdown, advocates speculated that the latest scheme to pay off immigrant children was deliberately timed by ICE and its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, to minimize public attention.

In my latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com, I break down the health care provisions Democrats are fighting for in this government shutdown. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

A drug that provides near-perfect protection against HIV with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope for ending the HIV epidemic. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/h...

There is only one major company in the world that makes monovalent measles vaccine: Serum Institute of India. The only reason it continues to do so is that, until recently, 19 countries in the world had not yet introduced rubella vaccination to their national schedules 1/

To be clear, there are no data that provide a link between short-term use of Tylenol during pregnancy and autism. In fact, one of the best prospective studies w/ sibling controls, if anything, pointed to a protective effect for use less than 7 days acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

When the vaccine first came out, the US actually only vaccinated “high-risk” individuals and children born to Hepatitis-B-positive parents. And it didn’t work out well. Disease rates only declined - by ~99% - after making the vaccine a universal recommendation on Day1 www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Hyperlocal forecasting that provides real time, practical information for people to use when navigating extreme weather events is perhaps one of the first steps in climate adaptation today. An institute in Mumbai, in partnership with the local met department, is on it www.science.org/content/arti...

it’s hard to overstate: -how beneficial vaccines are -how massively overwhelming the evidence is showing no link between vaccines and autism -how impossible it is that RFK will somehow “find the cause” (at all, let alone in his first year) -how much RFKjr want to get rid of childhood vaccines

Must read for all teams consulting infectious diseases #idsky #idmeded #meded #stewardship #voicesofID @cidjournal.bsky.social academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...

The Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, or CBER, was one of the hardest hit divisions. It ensures the safety and quality of biological products for human use, like red blood cells, immunotherapy, and vaccines. Since January, the center has lost about 500 people, or 26% of its workforce.

A natural experiment provides evidence for promoting moderate-vigorous physical activity: the importance of walkable cities www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Concern for airborne H5N1 on US dairy farm…(🎁 article) #IDSky Not yet peer reviewed 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/h...

A fascinating new paper in @nature.com found that infection w/ influenza or SARS-CoV-2 caused dormant breast cancer cells in the lungs to “awaken” & grow...*IN MICE*. The data for people was *suggestive* but not super compelling IMO. #episky #medsky #idsky jenndowd.substack.com/p/can-covid-...

Advice for academics on finding their public voice: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Unsettling case: A UK baby develops #botulism after eating peanut butter. Father is peanut allergic; parents were trying to lower baby's risk of peanut allergy by gradually introducing peanut to its diet, per medical guidance. Baby was very ill but recovered. www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2...

Thanks for this useful thread. What about changing of the focus from immunity, the outcome of NPIs or other changes to pathogen circulation, to *infection*, the actual thing that is causing an impact. So... "Infection pause" works best here I think. 1/2

📃Follow-up of UCSF's DoxyPEP trial published. TL;DR ✅std care STI ↘️when started PEP -of course!🤷‍♂ ✅no difference between arms for doxy R in N. gono 🥳 ✅no change in S. aureus/MRSA carriage😅 ❌doxy R in S. aureus ↗️ in doxy arm 😬 #AMR #AntimicrobialResistance #IDSky www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

“Their small bodies are shutting down — they can’t breathe, their immune systems are collapsing.” Children are dying from starvation. Nearly 1 in 3 people are going days without food. This is preventable. They need food, water, care — urgently. #BlueSky #MedSku #NewsSky #PedsSky #NurseSky

Interesting randomised controlled trial that found use of AI tools (i.e. Cursor) made developers about 20% slower on time-to-completion. Included a nice accompanying visualisation of possible reasons for discrepancies between RCT and other findings... metr.org/blog/2025-07...

Neat to see this idea for how AI can be used to help with package learning!

105 years ago today, the Women's Bureau—a DOL office dedicated to promoting American women in the workforce—was born. Today, Trump is calling for its elimination for the first time ever. Spoke to 9 current & former staffers about its work for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Department of Health and Human Services has a process for making and updating recommendations like this, using expert scientists and clinicians. RFK is deliberately putting Americans' health at risk and sidestepping good science for political reasons.

Weekly COVID-19 hospital visits surge 88 percent Among 330 severe COVID-19 cases reported this year "74.2 percent were people aged 65 or older, 84 percent had underlying health conditions and 90 percent did not get the JN.1-adapted vaccine" www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/...

⛔️ Big NIH update: We just learned of 726 more NIH grants that were terminated sometime over the past 2 months. A huge number of diversity supps, diversity F31s, and diversity training grants. See below ⤵️ View them here: grant-watch.us/nih-data.html h/t to @noamross.net for processing them.

I had the exact same reaction...

Update: 800 documented measles cases in the US & CDC continues to have a plane travel image on the outbreak page. It used to be right, when measles was eliminated in the US. But this year 94% of cases are outbreak associated. It's here, it's spreading here. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...

I'm funded by one of the COVID-19 era grants used for pandemic preparedness they are working to pull back. Part of what I do is develop methods to continue to track COVID-19, These methods are leveraged for other diseases and will be invaluable to have ready for next pandemic. calcat.covid19.ca.gov

“I also could not believe that the national security adviser to the president would be so reckless as to include the editor in chief of The Atlantic in such discussions with senior U.S. officials, up to and including the vice president” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

This is one of the biggest threats to Americans' personal data in decades. If you're a 23andMe customer, I strongly urge you to delete your data to protect it from whoever the new buyer might be. Here’s how:

A bit of delightful biology: my coauthor Jay Falk hypothesizes that the chicks of one species of hummingbird protect themselves by mimicking toxic caterpillars. www.colorado.edu/today/2025/0...

Yes, the US #flu season was historically huge. Yes, it has peaked, but as with climbing any mountain, one eventually has to go down the other side, and there are still many flu cases in the US community. www.cdc.gov/fluview/surv...