it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like "A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act." fuck yeah

The person who decided to use the original Pokémon theme song for an advertisement for ICE has to be the living embodiment of everything wrong with meme culture.

COVID is hitting pretty hard already this year, with Flu and RSV well on their way. Every year since 2020 has been hell for emergency departments and peds floors. I cannot imagine how it'll be by the holiday season this year.

Having PragerU as part of an "Education Coalition to..Advance a shared understanding of America's founding principles" is truly one of the most unhinged things I've seen yet. TPUSA is there, too. www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

This shouldn't really come as a surprise, but even for the party of "facts and logic", claiming talking points that would get them laughed out of a 5th grade classroom is really low. Number of Washington people who died due to a covid vaccine: 1-3. Number who died from COVID: >15,900. C'mon now.

Some pretty wild swings here.

It is absolutely crazy to be building a software that requires accurate weather forecasting data, only to find out NOAA said months ago staffing cuts were so deep that forecast and measurement data is likely to be a bit screwy going forward.

In a lot of ways, medical provider resistance to mask wearing parallels its previous resistance to hand washing. There was controversy around handwashing that boiled down to ego. "How dare you imply I am impure or filthy, now excuse me as I deliver a baby with another patients blood on my hands."

My new piece is on the painfully slow process of scientific error-correction and how it harms real people all the time. Also, why cinnamon probably isn't a useful treatment for diabetes. gidmk.substack.com/p/cinnamon-f...

Group that includes most major insurers — apart form UnitedHealthcare — says its plans will continue to cover vaccines including Covid and flu despite potential changes to recommendations. More @statnews.com: www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/a...

Trans rights are human rights.

We're going to be resuming writing topical public health articles soon, but would love some feedback! Would there be interest in articles that summarize policy decisions, determine how based in reality they are, and what local communities can do to empower themselves with or against them?

It's nearly like that classic saying: "Hard times make for strong people, Strong people make for good times, Good times make for weak people, Weak people make for hard times" Just with less militarism and glorification, and way more needless COVID/Measles deaths.

I am 76 & I have had most of these vaccinations at one time or another. Also vaccinations against Covid, Tetanus, plus Cholera & Yellow Fever when travelling in foreign countries. These prevented me catching horrible diseases & dying a gruesome death. They did not harm me, they protected me!

🧪 Ever hear of Data Sonification? It's a way to represent data alongside or instead of visual graphs! Check out this neat demonstration we've made for a community science fair: codycarmichaelmph.github.io/Data-Sonific... #DataViz #Science #ScienceArt #Leaflet #SNAP #CommunityEngagement

🧪🛟 CPH Focus: Regression Analysis: Logistic Regression! Discover key assumptions, decode log-odds mechanics, and sharpen your CPH exam study notes: buff.ly/xNU3g1A #EpiSky #MedSky #Biostatistics #LogisticRegression #PublicHealth #TestPrep

To add onto this, Feel Free uses kratom as an ingredient, a mu opioid receptor agonist and when not used appropriately, a drug with a gnarly chance for addiction and side effects. As usual: please don't trust gas station supplements.

Today is World #Hepatitis Day. Did you know❓ Hepatitis is the second leading infectious cause of death globally, with hepatitis B and C claiming 3 500 lives every day. Learn how to protect yourself and your loved ones 👉 bit.ly/hepatitis2025

So excited to do our first presentation of Narcan Acquisition and Usage for a Mutual Aid Group today!

Pay attention to this. Private equity destroying hospitals and health care helped bring us RFK Jr and the destruction of NIH and public health. If we want the public to trust health institutions we have to make healthcare work better for the public.

🧪🛟 CPH Focus: Linear regression essentials! Dive into slope, intercept, and core assumptions to power your way to acing the CPH exam: buff.ly/tE8ktpg #EpiSky #MedSky #Biostatistics #LinearRegression #Regression #TestPrep

🧪🛟 CPH Focus: From Kaplan-Meier to Cox regression! Discover survival-curve secrets, proportional-hazards checkpoints, and prime your skills for the CPH exam: buff.ly/zMmE0fz #EpiSky #MedSky #Biostatistics #SurvivalAnalysis #Regression #TestPrep

Very excited to announce we've published our first R Package, RALLY! github.com/CodyCarmicha... It is a package for Local code completion/explanation, with no data leakage or storage. Please feel free to give it a try and submit any feedback you'd like to! #RStats #Programming #R #RDev #Github

Striking. After Texas banned abortion, ER visits for early miscarriage rose 25% and blood transfusions surged 54%. Doctors delayed care like D&Cs out of fear of prosecution. More women nearly bled to death. buff.ly/egXhmm7 #medsky #ObGynsky 🛟🧪

New COVID-19 vaccine candidate shows strong protection against multiple variants Centenary Institute July 18, 2025 stillcoviding.ca/en/news/new-... #Australia #COVID #vaccines #CovidIsNotOver

🧪🛟 CPH Focus: Parametric vs non-parametric tests—discover when to trust means or lean on ranks, explore test assumptions without spoilers, and gear up for deeper practice: buff.ly/0beh2fy #EpiSky #MedSky #Biostatistics #ParametricTests #NonParametricTests #PublicHealth #TestPrep

Your advocacy made a difference— #PEPFAR is safe, for now. Follow the #thread 🧵to learn more or take action now: act.pih.org/global-healt... @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social | @tbfighters.org | @stoptbusa.bsky.social | @sheila-davisdnp.bsky.social

🧪🛟 CPH Focus: Type I (α) vs Type II (β) errors—distinguish false positives and false negatives, set your significance level, and harness test power to minimize errors on the CPH exam: buff.ly/cp8oSBs #EpiSky #MedSky #Biostatistics #HypothesisTesting #PublicHealth #TestPrep

🛟 In light of Louisiana cutting Gender Affirming care for basically anyone relying on Medicaid, we wanted to share a resource we've found useful in the past: prescriptionhope.com/medications/ Rx Hope is fairly general purpose but does have T and E available in some forms, and can ship to home.

Very happy to announce that our free #PublicHealth Tutorials, Data Sets and Resource pages have been visited over 10,000 times! Thank you so much to everyone who has checked out BroadlyEpi.com, we'll continue building and are so glad to see so many people who continue to be interested!

🧪🛟 CPH Focus: Evidence-based hypothesis testing: define null (H₀) vs alternative (H₁), understand one- vs two-tailed tests, and reinforce with practice questions for CPH success: buff.ly/zwhE0de #EpiSky #MedSky #Biostatistics #HypothesisTesting #PublicHealth #TestPrep

Not going door-to-door to aid vulnerable people in a disaster is quite similar to opening a bakery and never turning on an oven; It doesn't leave a whole lot of options on what can actually be done.

Important research of the "water makes things wet" variety:

“Fuck the New York Times.” ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, chanted this at their actions. They saw the NYT’s culpability in the AIDS genocide and acted accordingly. They staged protests, pickets, and sit-ins. They stenciled dead bodies on the street to represent AIDS victims. 1/

Wild to see the Atlantic publish an Op-Ed saying Public Health lost its credibility by supporting BLM protests during COVID, stating that it got "too political" and that everything was fine before that. Did we all forget all the wild things that happened before that? Or is it just a racist take?

This is such a cool idea!

This, from our friends at @crdjustice.bsky.social, is important:

🧪🛟 CPH Focus: Learn how and when to use the normal, binomial, and Poisson distributions to model health data and calculate key probabilities. Solid grounding in these concepts is a must for the CPH exam: buff.ly/YBGzRnt #EpiSky #MedSky #Biostatistics #Distributions #PublicHealth #TestPrep

🧪🛟 CPH Focus: Grasp the fundamentals of probability, essential for interpreting risk, predicting outcomes, and making solid decisions in public health research. Master key rules with examples and practice: buff.ly/N2NSge4 #EpiSky #MedSky #Biostatistics #Probability #CPH #PublicHealth

🛟 🧪 CPH Focus: Decode the meaning of p-values & statistical significance, key to interpreting study results in public health research. Clarify your knowledge with clear explanations and practice questions here: buff.ly/KS5xH11 #EpiSky #MedSky #Biostatistics #pValues #CPH #PublicHealth

Calling all chronically ill artists and allies to help @drjogreer.bsky.social with this beautiful project: 'One Red Leaf at a Time', bringing awareness about #ME Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, and the need for funding for research. More information here: theredtreeandme.substack.com/p/one-red-le...

Today's the day: Introducing SHORT VIDEO from Assigned Media. Here's a link to our channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCyi... And here we are on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@assignedmedia

🧪 🛟 CPH Focus: Master confidence intervals; essential for precise estimation and informed decision-making. Get clear on calculations, interpretations, and practice questions here: www.broadlyepi.com/cph-focus/cp... #EpiSky #MedSky #Biostatistics #ConfidenceIntervals #CPH #PublicHealth

🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨 WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people. 4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic. Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

We are incredibly pleased to announce we've updated our LGBTQIA+ Health Resources guide to include an incredibly useful guide around cyber health and security by our friends over at vpnMentor. Feel free to check out the updated guide here: www.broadlyepi.com/lgbtqia-heal...

With round after round of layoffs here in the US for #EpiSky and #PublicHealth folks, we've been asked to help find international posts one could apply to, to scoot on out of the country. Does anyone know of any resources to look for recruiters/jobs in: Ireland Germany France NZ Thanks!

Danielle Harlow has created an incredible public dashboard showing ICE related disappearances: public.tableau.com/app/profile/... If non-governmental human trafficking is a public health issue, it stands to reason government backed trafficking should be, too.

This is a slap in the face to all of us who worked so long against COVID. “The COVID-19 pandemic is over, and HHS will no longer waste billions of taxpayer dollars responding to a non-existent pandemic that Americans moved on from years ago,” - HHS Rep apnews.com/article/hhs-...