Our grant partners at Harvard just notified us that their federally funded grant was just abruptly cancelled…along with 800 other federally funded awards to Harvard. This is terrifying.
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
Because of the layoffs at NIOSH, multiple lifesaving programs have been shut down even though they’re required by law.
Took a little break from Bluesky. But we’re back and better than ever. I fully intend to make this space a public health communication account - a little bit of disease, a tad of communication tips, and a lot a bit of politics.
Coinciding with it's "No" letter Harvard has refashioned its university homepage into essentially an advertisement for the social benefits of university research. This is the current front page.
If Democratic congressional leadership don’t lead an en masse halt to all legislative business after today, I don’t know why they’re worth supporting. What moment could more demand a response of intractable and tedious opposition? Shut it all down, and refuse to budge.
As health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the agencies he leads have taken far-reaching steps to undermine confidence in vaccine efficacy and safety.
As an infectious diseases specialist I beg to defer. Simply encounter as a healthy individual an N meningitidis and you might die, doesn’t matter how healthy you are.
This is terrible. Also please understand this is how every scientist and medical researcher in America feels right now.
“I put so much work into [my career curing cancer or other diseases], all worthless.”
Dr. Peter Marks, recently pushed out of FDA, told us he believes the measles outbreak is being underreported. He says the case count is likely 3-7x higher, saying we could actually have as many as 3,000 cases. Yesterday, Sec'y Kennedy said we had 600+ cases and the outbreak was under control.
This has been the hardest week in public health yet. I mean harder than during COVID. At least during that, there was a sense of community… a group mentality to rally against a disease that was risk to us all. Now? Imagine that disease was targeting scientists and immigrants. That is our experience.
Instagram is the weirdest service
They congratulate you when they actually show your posts to people, like you solved the puzzle that day
"Your post from March 2023 has been seen by 350 people! Keep it up!"
Today is the day I cried. The destruction of HHS and the CDC; the failson in charge of it all; the overwhelming loss of so many brilliant, dedicated people; the cruelty and disrespect with which it was done.
Tomorrow is the day this profound sorrow renews my motivation.
we all understand that this just means we have to yell at our reps more, right
A sad day for science & public health www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/h...
Tired of the democratic party taking nap after nap during this constitutional crisis. Congregate, make a comms plan, and start holding televised hearings every day all day investigating each illegal thing the #trumpadmin is doing. For the love of god, get it together #democrats, or get replaced.
1. Tulsi Gabbard was overseas while participating in the Signal chat.
2. Steven Witkoff was in Russia when he was added to the Signal chat.
3. Russia infiltrated Signal some time ago to use it against Ukrainians.
It’s high time to Benghazi the shit out of Trump’s administration.
According to a source I have at the CIA, Director Radcliffe lied today under oath. Signal is absolutely not loaded on agency computers. As a matter of fact it’s specifically prohibited as an outside app. Skype is allowed for conference calls but not Signal. He’s lying. @markwarner.bsky.social
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The CIA Director testified today that he is not sure a reporter was on the unclassified national security group chat that recklessly disclosed military plans in Yemen.
The whole world is aware of who was part of Signalgate.
These people cannot be trusted with America’s national security.
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Meanwhile, in my final weeks at the CDC, I watched as career infectious-disease experts were tasked with spending precious hours searching medical literature in vain for data to support Kennedy’s preferred treatments. All this misdirection is a waste of federal dollars that will do nothing to control the outbreak. It also could cost lives.
There is so much about this opinion piece from Griffis that is upsetting but this part makes me apoplectic.
archive.ph/aGUUO
This is called policy-based evidence-making. It is among the most abhorrent practices of antiscience people, working to weaponize confirmation bias to grant...
Read the #hegseth #warplans group chat Atlantic article here without the paywall. Everyone needs access to this information and the Atlantic should remove the paywall ASAP.
my husband is a lawyer, I’m in public health - our are mornings are politico doomscrolling and our nights include wondering if we should start doomsday prepping with our Costco membership.
babe wake up, a special new episode of @podsaveamerica.crooked.com just dropped
“Yet, far from acting in courageous defiance, many scientists and administrators now seem to think that the best response to the war on DEI is to keep their heads low and wait out four hard years.”
Hell yes, Art Caplan. More courageous defiance, less quiet cowardice.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
on this weeks episode of juggling day light savings and a constitutional crisis with a side of avian flu and Guinness beer.
i wonder if maybe we should stop writing post-apocalyptic fiction just until we're sure that's not where rich people are getting their ideas
