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Jay @pescado70.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 01/10/2025

🧒 Inequality reshapes young brains A study of more than 10,000 US children found that living in states with greater income inequality is linked to structural brain changes and poorer mental health, regardless of family wealth. 🔗 www.theguardian.com/science/2025... #SciComm #Inequality 🧪

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Study links greater inequality to structural changes in children’s brains

Researchers say findings show inequality creates toxic environment and reducing it is ‘a public health imperative’

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Dr. Tom Frieden @drtomfrieden.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

For 75 years, every time any U.S. state has requested epidemiologic assistance (an “Epi-Aid”), CDC sent disease detectives. Now, Wisconsin has asked for help to address newly discovered lead poisoning in Milwaukee. But all CDC experts in lead poisoning were just fired.

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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Would love to see this in Canada.

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Dr. Phillip Alvelda @alvelda.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

An unprecedented assault on higher education.

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Douglas Natelson @nanoscaleviews.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

🧪⚛️ Slashing the number of fellowships awarded in half is awful. This is the clearest sign that NSF leadership is worried that their budget next year will be cut by a similar fraction. Push on your legislators about the negative consequences of such cuts.

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NPR @npr.org · 09/04/2025

Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.

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U.S. says it is now monitoring immigrants' social media for antisemitism

Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

The story gets worse.

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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Why we @yalesph.bsky.social are trying to fill the gaps

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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

He is doing exactly what he said he was going to do back in November 2023, when he was a presidential candidate. “I’m gonna say to NIH scientists, God bless you all,” Kennedy said. “Thank you for public service. We’re going to give infectious disease a break for about eight years.”

RFK Jr. comes ‘home’ to his anti-vaccine group, commits to ‘a break’ for U.S. infectious disease research
He has suggested without evidence that researchers and pharmaceutical companies are driven by profit to neglect chronic conditions.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Wall Street Journal editorial board: "Our worst fears about Mr. Kennedy are coming true..." www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

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Opinion | RFK Jr. Is Already Vindicating His Critics

Shrinking HHS makes sense, but giving power to antivaccine crusader David Geier doesn’t.

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Dr. Phillip Alvelda @alvelda.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Another disastrous decision for public health.

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betsy ladyzhets 😷 @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Thank you @statnews.com & @rosebroderick.bsky.social for including this piece in the Morning Rounds newsletter today!

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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Long Covid is a DEI issue and "The Resistance" might want to start talking about it. www.the-sentinel-intelligence.com/p/we-dont-ha...

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We Don't Have to Let MAHA Goons Kill Long Covid Treatments

It's time for activist medicine.

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Folks, very bad news for #LongCOVID. Deep breath. 29 awarded grants to do with COVID and Long COVID have been rescinded by NIH. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Science has learned that grant termination letters went out last night to principal investigators of 29 awards made by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), including nine grants that were part of a program hoping to deliver antiviral drugs to prevent future pandemics.

Other terminated grants involved research to develop improved COVID-19 vaccines and to address Long Covid, the mysterious lingering aftermath of some SARS-CoV-2 infections. “The research is being treated like we already have all the answers we will need in the future and that the current vaccines work well enough and don’t need improvement, which we know is not true,” says an investigator involved with one of the NIAID grants who asked not to be named for fear of retribution. “Some of the studies being canceled were attempting to make a pancoronavirus vaccine, which would hopefully be available the next time a novel coronavirus jumps species into humans.”

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Dr. Phillip Alvelda @alvelda.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Disastrous, leaving millions who already suffer Long COVID unsupported, and abandoning all efforts to prevent more from succumbing to preventable debility and death.

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Dr. Phillip Alvelda @alvelda.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Worse than many third world countries. Who would want to risk delivering a child in TX?

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Dr. Phillip Alvelda @alvelda.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

If you fire the staff, turn off the phones, and close the offices that allow the Social Security Administration to function, and in so doing, curtail access to payments and reconciliation, that’s effectively a cut in benefits whether you cut the funds themselves or not.

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Dr. Phillip Alvelda @alvelda.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

More irresponsible abandonment of critical Public Health obligations. States must take up these responsibilities.

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Dr. Phillip Alvelda @alvelda.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Another disastrous public health decision.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 25/03/2025

Including the wrong recipient is a mistake. Using a non-government platform for classified information is a crime.

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Dr. Phillip Alvelda @alvelda.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Well that’s either extreme incompetence, extreme negligence, or extreme corruption plus a completely transparent coverup. Any other options in this case?

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Dr. Phillip Alvelda @alvelda.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Worst secure comms breach by senior DoD officials in my living memory.

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Dr. Phillip Alvelda @alvelda.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Does anyone have the equivalent BlueSky graphic?

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resist4harris.bsky.social @resist4harris.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Let’s please all follow and repost! Give them some love for resisting and fighting @savecivilservice.bsky.social

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Dr. Phillip Alvelda @alvelda.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Clearly a solvable problem. US exceptionalism seems to be holding us back, eh?

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Board member Kimbal Musk sold $27.6 million in Tesla stock last month. Tesla's board chair, Robyn Denholm, dumped $117 million in Tesla stock over the last three months. Yet Elon is pleading with employees not to sell their stock.

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Dr. Phillip Alvelda @alvelda.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Uh oh. Short your hospitality and tourism stocks.

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 20/03/2025

Mapping changes in temperature: every decade from the 1850s to 2020s

18 maps showing decadal average temperature changes since 1850 to present, getting redder in recent decades

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Public Health Action Network @publichealthaction.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

In this 2024 article, Dr Ziyad Al-Aly (@zalaly.bsky.social) discusses how the blood-brain barrier gets breached by #COVID19: "By inducing that inflammation of the brain, that makes that barrier leaky, so it starts leaking things into the brain that shouldn't be there." www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

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COVID infections are causing drops in IQ and years of brain aging, studies suggest | CBC Radio

Researchers are trying to understand the profound effects of COVID-19 on the brain, looking at how it disrupts the blood-brain barrier, how it affects brain volume, and showing that even a mild case o...

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

In today's The Big Picture, Jay Kuo identifies and calls out the classic fascist tactics Trump and Musk are deploying, so that we can fight back against them more effectively.

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Bogeymen and Trojan Horses

How to identify and call out Trump and Musk’s fascist tactics

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Dr. Phillip Alvelda @alvelda.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I’d prefer that the US not allow massive profits for inflicting misery.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

“Less medical research, a pull-back on life-saving vaccines, turning away from science and embracing folk medicine. Make America Healthy Again. Again. Meaning: America used to be ‘healthy’ and now is not. This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

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MAHA Is a Fraud

America has never been healthier. Going backwards is going to mean more people getting sick and dying.

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

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Trixie 🌸🇨🇦 @trixie57.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

HOW HITLER DISMANTLED DEMOCRACY IN 53 DAYS The similarities between Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler are utterly chilling, and we need to pay serious attention. Trump is currently doing the same thing to the United States that Hitler did to Germany. Their tactics are the same.😳😬 Part 1 of 2

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Dr. Phillip Alvelda @alvelda.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

More destruction being wrought upon our nation’s future.

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Long Covid Kids @longcovidkids.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

'UK doctor says Britain is failing children with #LongCovid' @emmabatha.bsky.social Pulmonologist @binitakane.bsky.social helped set up a Long Covid clinic after struggling to get treatment for her daughter. www.context.news/socioeconomi... #LongCovidAwareness #LongCovidKids #PaediatricLongCovid

'UK doctor says Britain is failing children with Long Covid' a mother and daughter sit at a table holding mugs of tea.

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Sally Witcher @salwitcher.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

If anyone ever tells you the Covid-19 pandemic is over/ it's mild/ washing hands protects against it, etc, etc, please send them this guide from @thewhn.bsky.social

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Sen Dems vote against CR. Then demand a new minority leader.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Yeah make America great again. What a fucking joke. It took close to a century to build up biomedical research in this country, which made it the envy of the world. And it's been destroyed in an instant. #Trump #Musk #Vance #Vought are modern day Visigoths. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...

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Federal Cuts Prompt Johns Hopkins to Cut More Than 2,000 Workers

The university, a leader in scientific research, has been hard hit by the Trump administration’s cuts, which will slash at least $800 million from its budget.

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