Research and innovation in the United States depend crucially on our hard-won ability to attract many of the best and brightest to our universities.
The US regime is exploding a bomb underneath this foundation of our future competitiveness and prosperity.
#PublicHealth friends!! Submit a nomination for 40 Under 40 in Public Health — self nominations are welcome!
Bluesky is the place for science.
Medicaid serves 72 million Americans and impacts the health and economic strength of communities across the country.
This Forbes post by CEO Brian C. Castrucci outlines the potential impact of budget cuts.
New @harvardchanschool.bsky.social-de Beaumont poll: Among U.S. workers with chronic health conditions, 76% need to manage them during work hours, yet 60% haven’t told their employer about their conditions. debeaumont.org/news/2025/po...
Launching today! “Communicating About Public Health: A Toolkit for Public Health Professionals” offers research-tested messaging and practical tips to help people understand #PublicHealth. debeaumont.org/resources/co...
On the day of the first HHS confirmation hearing, @brianccastrucci.bsky.social reflects on the vital mission and scope of the agency and the programs it oversees on @forbes.com. #RFKJr
Why doesn't anything actually break the internet?
Monday grays today
Many folks - including RFK Jr - are eyeing SNAP restrictions as a way to 'make America healthy again.'
My colleague Danielle Krobath and I describe why this isn't the right approach in @us.theconversation.com
#academicsky #publichealth #medsky
The WHO does a lot of crucial global #publichealth work. They help countries communicate during disease outbreaks. Their researchers & scientists provide best practices for all sorts of health-related concerns.
Full post by Nerdy Girl Rebecca Raskin-Wish 👇:
thosenerdygirls.org/world-health...
#childrenofbloodandbone coming to IMAX and THEATERS!!!!!! 🥹🙌🏾🙌🏾
Awwwwhhh so excited!!
One day you're young and carefree, and the next you realize you can no longer wear your sunglasses at night.
We’re a day into the second Trump presidency & public health has already taken some big hits.
To get the public back on board with public health, we have to help them understand why we do what we do.
So, if you work in public health, what concept do you wish more people understood?
Protect immigrants. Protect people of color. Protect transpeople. Protect children. Protect women. This is what a community needs to do. Remember this because the next four years because we will not have leaders only rich people trying to destroy humanity.
To my trans and non-binary friends, I see you and you are loved. Nothing Trump says or does will ever change that you are here and that you deserve the right to live your truth.
A family of elegant white mycena mushrooms grow from the underside of a mossy log, their curving stems supporting small white caps with fine sharp gills All photos by me
Here are some nice mushrooms
We’re live! #publichealth #healthcomms folks come through!
this is worth reading if only as further evidence for the thesis that these self-proclaimed philosopher capitalists are total morons who huff paint and call it insight
stop with the ppl wearing glasses are smart trope. we literally have to fail a test to get these.
one very strange thing are the people who try to psychoanalyze why i post here. “it must be because he gets off on being superior to people.” uh, word? i just like to post. that’s all.
WE ARE STILL IN THIS.
Wipe your tears.
This is the difficult business of hope and defying expectation.
We do not give up.
We run through the tape.
Y’all aren’t allowed to throw in the towel until I do. 😉
Big breath. Locked in. Let’s do this.
Authors love libraries. Please use them. Please support them.
Libraries are amazing. 📚
“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record.
They run them bc people react to them the most.
If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change.
It’s not easy and takes constant practice!
