For my social science and qualitative methods friends: does anyone know of a resource that concretely speaks to the importance of good methods? Like, "we asked a interview question this way and it was bad but we did it this way and it was good." I'm trying to build a resource.

What a fantastic way to present legislation to the public

The important lesson to take away from this is not that we are all going to die of Hantavirus. We aren’t. It’s that the United States has zero pandemic prevention capacity at the present because of deliberate sabotage by the president and his appointed lackeys.

“But the federal workforce, on the whole, is composed of people doing their best under increasingly difficult circumstances to keep the machinery of government functioning.”

This is a WIN for science. RFK Jr’s overhaul of vaccine recommendations has been BLOCKED by a federal court. The ACIP committee cannot meet as planned this week, since its membership has been invalidated, and ALL votes made by those advisers in the last year have also been invalidated.

Great news!! “Murphy issued a preliminary ruling finding that Kennedy’s reconstitution of a key vaccine advisory panel, and changes made to the childhood vaccine schedule in January, were likely illegal. Specifically, he ruled, those policy changes violated the Administrative Procedure Act”

Measles cases in Broomfield now an outbreak, unvaccinated students at two schools sent home for 21 days

One of the main reasons I don't use AI is that you have to fact-check every single thing it gives you and by the time I do that, I could have just done the research myself.

imagine being a family member seeing your mother or father with an AI hand up their corpse making their mouth flap for a subscription fee and you didn't give a single shred of consent

Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

With the passing of Greg Brown, cofounder of CAKE, I'm relistening to Fashion Nugget, the soundtrack of my high school years. RIP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xw4...

Update to my intro: Hi! 👋 I wear hats as a public health regulatory manager for the state, a nonprofit consultant, an editor, and a writer. Always a nerd. My PhD in Medical Anthropology focused on the politics of sanitation in India, and the book comes out this year.

X-ray imaging revealed a hidden portrait beneath Van Gogh’s Patch of Grass (1887). It showed a peasant woman painted over in browns and reds. He often reused canvases, turning constraint into renewal, failure into foundation.

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

a major concern for every farmer with livestock is: how to deal with poop and it's consequences

While it may explain some of the context, this framing also hides that women scientists didn't cozy up to epstein the way men did. They also need funding, no? This is also about being part of a powerful boys club where one can act in despicable ways with impunity. Misogyny is a huge driving factor.

Huge news! They actually released Liam Ramos and his father! Please remember that ICE is abducting more people - including children - all the time. And they will no doubt keep trying to harass and destroy this family. Defund and abolish ICE and support immigrants! kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

1 in 200 #polio infections leads to irreversible paralysis. In the 1960s children suffering from irreversible paralysis caused by polio were required to use 'iron lungs' to help them breathe. We don't see these 'iron lungs' anymore today because #VaccinesWork

The idea that the British Raj respected the rule of law is legitimately one of the funniest things I've ever read in my entire life

May I remind everyone that there is currently NO cure for rabies. May I also remind everyone there is absolutely NO scientific proof connecting ANY vaccine that we produce today with autism. This is true regarding vaccination in both humans AND in dogs. Vaccinate your pets please.

One of the things I was most worried about is starting to come to fruition. RFK Jr. will succeed in eliminating all of our vaccines if allowed to remain in office. His disinformation campaign and the falling demand for vaccines will cause American companies to stop making them.

Don't know this guy, but I like to reskeet research studies! Go help research if you qualify!

For everyone who's like "why are you telling us not to breastfeed bats, surely no one is doing that" bsky.app/profile/tric...

Great run-down of some of the effects of the vax schedule change: "A system that once made simple, safe prevention easy is now forcing families to second-guess and leading to delays." communityimmunity.substack.com/p/are-these-...

"Science is iterative and there is uncertainty and there must be grace for good faith efforts to get some things wrong. But these are not good faith actors. This is the rejection of sound science for purely opportunistic reasons at the expense of the public’s health and safety."

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better

If I sound angry, its because I was/am

As I always say when some right-winger starts going on about "red tape that slows innovation", every regulation on the books represents a lesson we as a society learned the hard way, and then encoded so we wouldn't forget. It's someone's blood & pain.

I love my little Shut Up & Write community--a low key way to find a writing community with no pressure to share if you don't want to but people willing to read if you'd like. If you're in Denver area, feel free to join! www.meetup.com/shutupandwri...

I don't know, maybe before implementing the plagiarism machine in state gov, we can instead get all agencies to use EITHER Google Docs OR Microsoft products. www.axios.com/local/denver...

ME: [extremely burnt out] I need to take the day off to relax ALSO ME: I wonder if there is a way that I could relax that would be more productive

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

We’re giving $40 billion to Argentina. This is $5 billion MORE that the entire USAID budget that DOGE cut.

YOU MUST TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS TO HAVE STRENGTH TO CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES.

Because CO has a non-medical exemption for school vaccines, I have been getting hate mail from both anti AND pro vaccine people.

Please note everyone. What’s leaving is not just a head count. It’s millions of person-years of accumulated informal knowledge and institutional memory. The federal government is being destroyed, not reformed.

Anyone get hella stressed getting a haircut? The combo of staring at myself in a mirror and small talking with a stranger is a lot to deal with.

back to work

Happy football season!

Fall kitty for Caturday.

Love the new Maintenance Phase ep on Vani Hari, the "food babe." I used to teach her stuff to undergrads to study how science can be distorted and manipulated. (Also used the aftermath of the Bhopal gas tragedy as a contrast for how corporates do it.)

"They can’t get me scared. I will not give them what they want. I will not just leave. I’m going to make it as difficult as possible for these fuckheads. www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

I've been following Zach Wahls (off and on) since he started a campaign in Boy Scouts of America to eliminate the anti-LGBTQ policies. (I was in Venture Crew, a co-ed offshoot of BSA.) So excited to see his trajectory!

Tums causes hurricanes. How about that

Hydrology is insanely complex--why would anyone believe Musk's approach here? "That works fine in the private sector, but not the public sector,” [Rock Owens] said. “We’re not looking at Mr. Musk’s personal fortune; we’re looking at the livelihood and lifelong investments of people who live here.”

Good morning and greetings from beautiful Keystone, Colorado! This week is Public Health in the Rockies Conference, which will be an adventure in me trying to remember how to do a conference (it's been years) and doing deep ethnography of this strange culture known as "public health."

A short 🧵 on giving stakeholder feedback on revising regs! So, most regulation revision processes require some sort of stakeholder/community feedback. The goal is to figure out if there is something in proposed revisions that could cause an unexpected problem, a def that needs to be tweaked etc...

An anti-vax email railing against a policy we don't actually have (CO has an incredibly lenient non-medical exemption law for school vaccines) and the best part is the cheerful "Thanks!" at the end.