7: It's warm today. Probably next month we can start biking a lot! Me: Your sister (13) is actually going biking today. 7: You aren't worried about the roads? Me: Nah. The roads are pretty clear. I'm not worried about snow and ice. 7: You ARE worried about ice. If you know what I mean. 👀 😬

Time to re-up this bad boy. There are many ways to protest. Choose your own adventure. From the nurses' strike, to whistles and human chains, to noise parades and destruction of property, no one way alone is more or less effective. It takes all kinds. See also: beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tactic

Yay COVID and flu vaccines! Take care of yourself and others!!

Interesting @medscape.com article today regarding #PhysicianWellness in the context of the #HiddenCurriculum. Pretty near and dear to my heart as an #OccEnvMed physician. www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Minnesota currently has a statewide air quality alert due to Canadian wildfire smoke. What can you do about it? See this great @mprnews.org story about it! Full disclosure - they quote me from 2023 and I still agree with what I said then 😅 www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

RFK Jr. and his toady Jay Bhattacharya have just dismantled the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director, an outside group of advisors who provide guidance on a range of topics. They will be likely be replaced with another layer of toadies. Toadies all the way down.

Let’s talk about Covid myths!! I’ll provide sources on these so you can look at the info yourself. First big myth: getting the initial vax series gave you permanent immunity! Nnoooooope! Six months out, the protection wanes to 20% jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I keep reading heat preparation materials that don't mention how heat affects air quality. One of the best learning resources I've seen on this is the Met Office's case study of the ozone event that was part of the August 2003 heatwave. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/eab2...

I gave in! After students asking for it, I now made a simple figure design checklist. To help all scientists w/o graphic skills create clear, accessible, and truthful charts! -> Out in @nature Cell Biology: rdcu.be/erwl4 #DataVisualization #PhD #SciComm Thx for review @bethcimini.bsky.social + 2

NIOSH funding cuts and impacts on Occ. and Env. Med. #OccEnvMed residency training discussed at AMA House of Delegates! #medsky www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcover...

"The researchers found that, on average, it costs Medicaid $179,000 to save a year of life ... less than the combined public and private spending on interventions like safety inspections for cars or the removal of asbestos from buildings"

#Medicaid Matters & SAVES LIVES "The expansion of Medicaid has saved more than 27,000 lives since 2010, according to the most definitive study yet on the program’s health effects...deaths fell not only among older enrollees but also among those in their 20s and 30s"

Congress is pushing 6-month #Medicaid checks—fueling #churn that cuts coverage for families. It raises costs, worsens health, & hits Black, Indigenous & Latine communities hardest. MN shows what works: continuous coverage. We shouldn’t go backward. #KeepFamiliesCovered #MedSky #StopTheCuts

@qdurandmoreau.bsky.social - I assume you are/were not at #AOHC2025? I thought this might be the year for us to meet in person! Then again, I also cannot fault anyone for hesitating to travel to the US at this point... 😅😭

Great opening talk by Dr. John Clarke at #AOHC2025 on implicit bias! He's the Medical Director for Occ. Med. at @astrazeneca.bsky.social. Implicit bias is so critical in medicine, not only in terms of taking care of our patients, but also in how we (esp. Black physicians) present ourselves. 🩺✊🏾

First day of #AOHC2025 at the ACOEM House of Delegates meeting! 💚👍🏾

Any #EnvironmentalHealth starter packs out there? 👀🌳🌎💚

Happy #EarthDay! 🌎🌳💚

This is horrifying: #Measles #Texas

My point of pride for 2025 was finding out one of my articles was used as an example from an Oxford podium, with the question "Can you believe anyone thinks this way?" spoken by an EBM high minister. I can believe it. We're called scientists. This one: www.scientificamerican.com/article/mask...

Yes. This is super weird. We should NOT be using the word "marijuana", which is pejorative, but rather "cannabis", which is the scientific name. Unfortunately "marijuana" is used in legal documents (like legislation) and news (thanks, AP style guide). We need to do better as with language.

Love when irony writes itself... Though admittedly open access was not a thing in the same way in 1992 (when that article was published)

🧬 Variant Evolution Rate Since 2020 We witnessed a huge weekly growth advantage in new variants for the first year after Omicron arrived, and then to a lesser extent after Pirola. Now we have 9 months of the lowest growth advantages since 2020. 🧵

Conspiracy theorists aren’t just online anymore — they’re stepping into office, warns infectious disease expert @pauloffit.bsky.social. That could be bad news for vaccines, he tells The Nation's Health Podcast. Listen to the new episode: www.thenationshealth.org/page/podcasts 🎧

A look back at what vaccines have done.

Acute ankle pain in a 43-year-old male—exploring diagnostics with an OEM lens. Dive in for clinical insights at dinaabdurahman.com/blog/case-st...

So true! Anxiety about gun violence is in itself, a public health issue. Up to 38% of adults and 25% of teens reported extreme anxiety about gun violence. As providers, we can screen for this—and advocate for evidence-based prevention: safe storage, background checks, ERPOs.

RFK Jr. is absolutely right here. The MMR vaccine is the best way to prevent the spread of measles and protect yourself, your children and your community. Share this if you agree!

Wishing everyone a peaceful evening as we continue to fight for our democracy.

This 2025 Recommendation Statement from the USPSTF recommends providing interventions or referrals, during pregnancy and after birth, to support breastfeeding. https://ja.ma/4lsfzhI

Anti-vaxxers are blaming hospitals for medical errors, rather than attributing the deaths to measles itself. And RFK Jr. is also doubling down on the long-discredited link between vaccines and autism — thus contributing to rising rates of vaccine hesitancy. notadoctor.news/2025/04/11/t...

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Honored to talk about advocacy this morning in the 2025 Midwest Regional Education and Research Center Symposium sponsored by #NIOSH with @amira-adawe.bsky.social and Rebecca Reindel of AFL-CIO! Esp. with NIOSH funding and #PublicHealth dangers to worker health/safety right now!! #OccEnvMed

Vaccines don’t cause autism. They never have. They won’t magically start in September.

If you have a dictionary that you don't show love Oh, yes, son, we're talking to you.

Infectious disease doc here 🙋🏻‍♂️. There are some viruses we can treat very well (most notably HIV and hepatitis C - thanks NIH!). Others (influenza, COVID), we have middling therapies for. Measles: none. But we have literally the BEST vaccine. This is soooooo stupid 🤦🏻‍♂️

Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.

I was a Covid-19 vaccination champion for @acog-org.bsky.social in 2021. Speak with pregnant persons about vaccination in pregnancy all the time. I understand these crucial conversations. #medsky #obskyn #obgynsky #pedssky how to you speak to your pts about vaccination #getvaccinated

CNN story on lead poisoning & HHS/CDC's inability to act: Wisconsin asked the CDC for help with lead poisoning cases in Milwaukee but CDC had to cancel because HHS Secretary laid off all the CDC lead poisoning experts! Screenshot below of Ex CDC Director Tom Frieden's '09-'17 comments today #medsky

Free idea: a website where you enter the name of your disease/injury/condition/procedure and get shirts, stickers, signs, etc. with “NIH grant number X saved my life.”

Gun Violence as a Source of Anxiety and Stress in the US Population In the American Journal of Health Promotion From my colleagues Tom Kottke and Stephanie Hooker of the HealthPartners Institute! (among others) #PublicHealth #medsky journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

#PublicHealth communication! People have lost trust in public health information sources in the past few years and we need to rebuild that trust while combating the increasing dis/misinformation. Public health is designed to protect the most vulnerable, including vulnerability to bad information.

Good that media is covering HHS restructuring. Of note, NIOSH is the primary or only source of funding for an entire specialty: Occupational and Environmental Medicine #OccEnvMed Relevant since AFAIK no specialty has been defunded before in medicine, on purpose or by accident 😳 #medsky

The US has cut billions of dollars in COVID and pandemic readiness research funding, saying "Americans moved on years ago.” The public health and broader science community MUST stop aiding this shift in research priorities by referring to COVID in the past tense. www.bmj.com/content/388/...

✨Please share! My newsletter is out.✨ In this issue: ⬆️More infections (bacterial, viral, fungal) in year after getting COVID 🔴2nd child dies of Measles in Texas 👧Vitamin A liver damage in kids ⚕️10,000 HHS (CDC, FDA, NIH) employees laid off & much more buff.ly/z23A3Ow #medsky #pedsky #IDsky 🛟😷🧪

🧵1/ With rising STI rates across the U.S., the very programs that protect us were slashed. Cuts to CDC’s Division of STD Prevention gut a system built to stop syphilis, gonorrhea, HIV, and more. Here’s what we’re losing and why it matters to everyone. #IDSky #PublicHealthSky

We need a centralized system to track deaths caused by disruptions to public health, both in the U.S. and globally. I worry the true toll will be massive. I worry it won’t be counted. And if it’s not counted, will it matter? #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth