“We should be acutely aware of the number of different infectious threats that can be thrown at us, and once you’ve got a really great new tool in your toolkit, why would you throw it away? Why would you turn your back on mRNA technology when it’s helped us so much?” – @billhanage.bsky.social

🆕 Today, UKHSA and the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) have confirmed the first detection of West Nile virus in mosquitoes collected in the UK. There is currently no evidence of wider circulation in birds or mosquitoes, and the risk to the public remains very low. 📰🔗 www.gov.uk/government/n...

‘No one knew what to do’: power cuts bring chaos, connection and revaluation of digital dependency. A quote: ““It was amazing,” she said. “Despite everything that went wrong, it gave me a lot of hope in humanity to see how quickly people got together and helped each other.”

Wonderful ❤️

A 50% cut to science funding (which is close to what Trump is proposing for NIH) would result in huge negative long-term economic outcomes: *7.6% cut in GDP *8.6% cut in federal revenues *equivalents of making the average American $10,000 poorer

Princeton with a new site to help make the case for academic freedom standup.princeton.edu

Terminating the grants to study misinformation is “an overt act of censoring and preventing accountability,” says Stephen Lewandowsky, a misinformation researcher at the University of Bristol. “Who other than a liar would cancel misinformation research?” 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

AI industry giants owe their existence to taxpayer-funded, open research, but many have abandoned this collaborative model. I spoke to The Atlantic about how US science and tech leadership was built on shared knowledge. When companies hoard research, innovation suffers and accountability declines.

US students. Looking to apply to graduate school? Had an offer rescinded recently? The University of British Columbia in Canada will re-open the application portal in some departments for US students from April 14-18. Details: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant... #ubc #AcademicSky #PhDSky #ScienceSky

Germany's 2024 National Nutrition Strategy aimed to be participatory—but what does that mean in practice? We interviewed 55 stakeholders to find out. Here's what we (@fsniehotta.bsky.social @annakaiser.bsky.social and I) learned about what makes participation meaningful. doi.org/10.1016/j.he...

I'm looking for 1-2 doctoral candidates in my ERC-funded project "Relative Health: Long-Run Inequalities in Health and Survival Between Families and Across Generations". These are 4-year, fully funded positions at Lund University. More info: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

This is such an amazing study. Researchers tracked people over 300,000 births looking at how biomarkers change & recover postpartum. ~60% stabilise close to pre-conception levels after 3 months, but some (eg for bone & liver health) take a year. Others never recover! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Teaching #qualitative methods? Or new to doing #health research? New edition of our text book out soon! uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/qu...

Today I'm filled with admiration for my university's president, Chris Eisgruber. He's standing up for Columbia and for universities as a home for freedom of ideas, debate, and thought - free of government attack. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This is so terrible.

Breast cancer is on the rise: data reveal drastic gap in survival rates Lack of screening and limited treatment options mean that low- and middle-income countries face higher death rates despite having fewer cases than wealthier nations 🧪 #MedSky @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

👏 Good news for researchers working with Swedish register data and who want their research to be reproducible 👉 If you include in your ethics application/research plan that replication may be part of the project, then external replicators (e.g. data editors) can be given access to the data!

As flu rages, the Trump administration has pulled the plug on a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention flu immunization campaign that targeted high-risk groups, including pregnant women.

I am keeping a diary of daily events, as they unfold open.substack.com/pub/adamprze... It is available to everyone. I am new to Substack, so please let me know if something is wrong with the link or the file.

You know Kate Winslet in Contagion? Where she runs into a hot zone, risking her life, so Americans could be safer? She was an EIS officer. That’s who was just fired at CDC today. EIS officers. And many, many more public servants fighting every day for your health.

Headlines from today: Vice President Vance Accuses European Leaders of Censoring Free Speech White House Bars Associated Press From Spaces Like Oval Office and Air Force One

CDC's "disease detectives" halved as part of DOGE cuts at health agencies www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-dis...

🚀New! Elon Musk’s recent interest in disrupting EU and UK politics can seem a bit of mystery. But as @damiantam.bsky.social of @lsemedia.bsky.social argues, what lies behind it is the same reason Musk has allied with Trump: blatant economic interest. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

American vaccination rates against once-common childhood diseases have been dropping. The rate of kindergartners with complete records for the measles vaccine declined from before the pandemic to last year, according to the CDC, well before Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s political rise. nyti.ms/42buOVp

And the Robert Koch-Institut, Germany’s CDC, has also abandoned X and is now posting here on bluesky instead. They are explicitly joining the universities and instititues that announced they are leaving X a few days ago. 🧪 #IDsky

Want to add a few questions to the General Social Survey? The 2026 module competition is open now! gss.norc.org/content/dam/...

Germany has no regulatory food policies because people wouldn't accept them? In our pre-registered survey study @annakaiser.bsky.social @raenhhadhami.bsky.social Vincent Brugger and @fsniehotta.bsky.social found: Thats not the case www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Gemeinsam mit der Ministerin für Wissenschaft, Forschung Kunst BW Petra Olschowski, unseren Kolleg*innen aus dem Kompetenznetzwerk Präventivmedizin BW, unseren Partnern und Menschen aus Mannheim haben wir über die Zukunft der Prävention im Länd diskutiert Danke an alle! www.umm.de/medien/press...

Total Eclipse of the Heart Played on Increasingly Smaller Rubber Chickens

That's fantastic! Especially considering that cervical cancer, with its link to unprotected sex, is 2nd place in the ranking of risk-attributable cancer DALYs for females globally: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Wir haben auf @riffreporter.bsky.social viele Texte zu den Themen #Ernährung und #Gesundheit für euch. Natürlich faktenbasiert und mit Mehrwert! Und: Unser Jahresabo gibt es gerade stark vergünstigt - jetzt abschließen und bis zu 50 % sparen:  www.riffreporter.de/de/abo-beste... #nachhaltig

New article accepted at CPS. @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I analyze how rental market risk affects radical right support. Combining data on local rent increases with the SOEP, we find that individuals facing increasing local rents become more likely to support the AfD. 🧵

In our new #OpenAccess paper we look into the process of integrating #VirtualWards within the NHS in England as a new way of delivering care to patients who would otherwise be hospitalized from the perspective of ICS commissioners. www.jmir.org/2024/1/e56494/ @nihr-pru-bass.bsky.social

Wow! Thanks for sharing this. The author attributes this quote about Naples to Bloch: “a true lesson in porosity; there is nothing aggressive about it, rather all is friendly and open, a diffuse, collective, gliding”. Did anyone ever think about porosity as a network concept?

We need to come up with a better term than "skeets" lol! Bluesky's symbol is a butterfly. Butterflies flutter and float. We will be fluttering some sociology news to you. Can we float some sociology research your way? #whatarewedoinghere

📣 HD/UMM folks: Just received an email that @kakape.bsky.social is coming to us as Gastprofessor. Couldn’t be more excited! You can sign up for workshops here: www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/transfer/...

Very interesting indeed! I always found the concept of categorical or contextual fate super interesting.

Unfollowing hyperpartisan influencers can reduce partisan animosity by 24%. It was a "structural intervention", changing people’s daily information diet for at least a year. osf.io/acbwg Authors: among else @steverathje.bsky.social @jayvanbavel.bsky.social

Very Interesting study on inequality and disease; highlighting “the need for not only policies that address specific diseases, but also universal policies addressing the root causes of socioeconomic disparities and their health consequences.” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Trust in science is so important. What can we do to earn more it? www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/h...

That wasn't Kamala Harris, that was me. Be afraid, disinformation purveyors. I'm coming for all of you with my Woman Magic

An experimental cancer drug that helps the brain turn glucose into energy was able to reverse memory loss in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease.

#Hitze kann die #Gesundheit belasten. Entscheidend ist dabei aber nicht nur die #Temperatur, sondern auch die Luftfeuchtigkeit. Ab wann feuchte #Hitze für unseren Körper gefährlich wird und wie du dich bei schwülem #Wetter am besten schützen kannst:

Dozens of environmental, labor and health care groups banded together on Monday to file a petition to push FEMA to declare extreme heat and wildfire smoke as “major disasters,” like floods and tornadoes.

For master's students interested in social science research: Free (!) week-long summer school at the European University Institute in Florence, Tuscany in September 2024. Classes by scholars such as @simonhix.bsky.social @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social Apply by 15/5. Check: blogs.eui.eu/sps-summer-a...

The number of states reporting H5N1 bird flu outbreaks in cows is now 6. According to USDA, outbreaks have been detected in 15 herds: Texas (7), Kansas (3), New Mexico (2), Idaho, Michigan & Ohio (new) with 1 each. Still a single confirmed human case. www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...

Great article. I really think more sociological perspectives on the relationship between health and social connections are needed. I feel like identity would also be a helpful concept here. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thought provoking article with a hopeful conclusion: “Each pandemic left us in better shape to fight future pandemics because humanity learned and made investments in science and public health that increased preparedness against the unpredictable”