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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

love living in a timeline where a notable callout for a CDC director is “she supports science”

C.D.C. Gets New Director The Senate confirmed Dr. Erica Schwartz as C.D.C. director. She has publicly supported childhood vaccines.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 30/06/2026

Social media posts containing misinformation evoke more moral outrage than posts with trustworthy information, and that outrage facilitates the spread of misinformation, according to a 2024 study in Science. scim.ag/4wgXGHA #SocialMediaDay

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Misinformation exploits outrage to spread online

We tested a hypothesis that misinformation exploits outrage to spread online, examining generalizability across multiple platforms, time periods, and classifications of misinformation. Outrage is high...

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aaaaiorg.bsky.social @aaaaiorg.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Vaccines are a cornerstone of public health, training the immune system to prevent infectious disease. This episode reviews recent vaccine developments, schedule updates, use with biologics and vaccine allergy evaluation. www.aaaai.org/professional-educatio…

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Cato Institute @cato.org · 03/02/2026

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

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Brian Vickery @atlergist.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

If you think that this is “making America healthy again,” you are insane. If you think that doctors, hospitals & experts are the problem, you are mistaken. This is what happens when manifestly unqualified people leverage propaganda to gain power. Intellectual decadence is killing us. Wake up

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Brian Vickery @atlergist.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Attn: @ossoff.senate.gov @warnock.senate.gov Please heed Gov. Inslee’s sage advice on protecting our democracy!

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Brian Vickery @atlergist.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Our so-called leaders speak With words they try to jail you They subjugate the meek But it's the rhetoric of failure

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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Shifting many pediatric vaccines into the category of shared clinical decision-making means in many red states governors and legislators will be pressured to strip them from school-entry requirements. Vaccination rates could fall sharply with stark regional differences in protection against disease

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Federal health officials slash recommended childhood vaccinations under Trump’s directive

The number of recommended childhood shots drops from 17 to 11.

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The American Academy of Pediatrics @ameracadpeds.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Read our full statement by AAP President Dr. Andrew Racine on today’s HHS announcement about the childhood immunization schedule: www.aap.org/en/news-room...

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FAACT | Food Allergy @faactnews.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

#Sponsored by: Stallergenes Greer Tune in to #FAACTsRoundtable #Podcast on #OralImmunotherapy (OIT) Basics Listen to #FAACT's Ep. 262: www.buzzsprout.com/848314/episo... #FoodAllergy #FoodAllergies #Allergy #OIT #FoodAllergyTreatments #Anaphylaxis #AllergyAwareness #FoodAllergyAwareness

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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Over the last 5 years, ACA marketplace insurance enrollment increased 157% in red states and 36% in blue states. It’s these Americans that are likely to lose their insurance if Republicans don’t do something about the expiring tax credits. My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart

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ACOG @acog.org · 22/09/2025

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. bit.ly/47Wxc59

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Brian Vickery @atlergist.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

ENDORSE: "We are speaking out because protecting public health is our responsibility as physicians, scientists and patient advocates. It is also the responsibility of our elected officials, and we call for their support at this critical moment to protect the health of the nation." (1/2)

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Joint statement calling for Secretary Kennedy resignation

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/09/2025

The thing about living in a human society is you either decide that everyone (except those for whom it would be medically dangerous) has to take VACCINES into their bodies or everyone (with no exceptions at all) has to take VIRULENT PATHOGENS in from those around them and, look, the first is better.

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. - Carl Sagan

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Brian Vickery @atlergist.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

We cannot get people with even basic scientific literacy back into leadership positions quickly enough.

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Brian Vickery @atlergist.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

The highest cost of demagoguery is paid by the eight thousand little souls who starve to death *every day* while their salvation sits in a warehouse. The Christians who enabled & still support this administration should be haunted the rest of their days by this ungodly cruelty. Watch the 2 vids 👇🏻

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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

A very big study from Denmark generates some reassuring findings about aluminum in childhood vaccines, finding no association between aluminum and development of a number of illnesses, including asthma. www.statnews.com/2025/07/14/a...

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Study finds no evidence aluminum salts in vaccines are tied to higher risk of asthma, other childhood diseases

A new large study from Denmark finds no evidence that aluminum salts used in vaccines are tied to a higher risk of childhood diseases.

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The American Academy of Pediatrics @ameracadpeds.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

The American Academy of Pediatrics is proud to stand with leading public health organizations by taking legal action to protect the integrity of our immunization system to defend science, evidence-based medicine, and the policies that keep children safe. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DODV...

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Protecting Kids: Why Pediatricians Are Suing the Government | AAP

YouTube video by American Academy of Pediatrics

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 30/06/2025

Read more about the role that vaccines have played in reducing child mortality: ourworldindata.org/vaccines-chi...

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Vaccines have saved 150 million children over the last 50 years

Every ten seconds, one child is saved by a vaccine against a fatal disease.

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Brian Vickery @atlergist.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Please enjoy some basic facts about thimerosal, a favorite boogeyman of the anti-vax movement, from our friends at Rollins at Emory, the #2 ranked school of public health in the country according to USNWR.

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Brian Vickery @atlergist.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

A great post to pin. Vaccines are safe, cost-effective, & prevent serious infections leading to things like deafness, paralysis, cancer, & death. They have probably been the single most important advance in the history of medicine and they are under unnecessary attack. XO, a pediatric immunologist

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Brian Vickery @atlergist.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Read this. “The evidence overwhelmingly shows that ensuring children have access to care leads to better outcomes and that Medicaid improves their health and economic well-being into adulthood.” Of all the s*#t happening in the world, the needless suffering of children is the biggest atrocity(1/)

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Kim Mukerjee, MD @kimmukerjee.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

The ripple effect from the cruelty and fear of these raids is profound. Pediatricians from around the country are seeing an increasing rate of children not showing for their medical appointments due to fear. To enact policies that instill fear of accessing basic needs is truly a low of lows.

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Paul Graf @paulginva.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years. What are we doing?

Ardem Patapoutian's story is not just the American dream, it is the dream of American science.

He arrived in Los Angeles in 1986 at age 18 after fleeing war-torn Lebanon. He spent a year writing for an Armenian newspaper and delivering Domino's at night to become eligible for the University of California, where he earned his undergraduate degree and a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience.

He started a lab at Scripps Research in San Diego with a grant from the National Institutes of Health, discovered the way humans sense touch, and in 2021 won the Nobel Prize.

But with the Trump administration slashing spending on science, Dr. Patapoutian's federal grant to develop new approaches to treating pain has been frozen. In late February, he posted on Bluesky that such cuts would damage biomedical research and prompt an exodus of talent from the United States. Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to "any city, any university I want," he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.

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Brian Vickery @atlergist.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

👏🏻 Slashing 👏🏻 federal 👏🏻 investment 👏🏻 in 👏🏻 research 👏🏻 is 👏🏻 a 👏🏻 major 👏🏻 strategic 👏🏻 mistake 👏🏻

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Brian Vickery @atlergist.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Children like Evan are dying needlessly and we have willfully turned away from them, led by an addled man-child who in large part made his own fortune with the help of government grants. Cutting PEPFAR & similar relief programs should be viewed as a crime against humanity, full stop. Watch👇🏻

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Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 15/05/2025

This baby is alive because the NIH and other US federal agencies supported research and development of CRISPR technology. How many babies will die due to cuts in federal research funding? How many babies would have to die for the richest people in the world to be willing to give up their tax cuts?

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Brian Vickery @atlergist.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

We didn’t come this far for my daughter to be subject to this kind of bullshit from delusional old white male billionaires. Out of the way, grandpa. Thanks for making a giant mess (again) that our kids will have to clean up for you once you’re gone.

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Brian Vickery @atlergist.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

We are beginning to see in the data evidence of the brain drain which is entirely predictable, and which Dr. Collins spoke about last week on 60 Minutes. It is essential that the general public understand the nature of scientific research funding so that we can collectively advocate for NIH (1/)

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Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Using an LLM to generate a 100-word email requires .14 kilowatt-hours worth of electricity, enough to power 14 LED lights for an hour. If you were to send one AI email a week for a year, you'd use 7.5kWh, equal to an hour's worth of electricity consumed by 9 households. futurism.com/altman-pleas...

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Sam Altman Admits That Saying "Please" and "Thank You" to ChatGPT Is Wasting Millions of Dollars in Computing Power

Sam Altman says OpenAI is spending "tens of millions of dollars" processing chatbot queries made with proper etiquette.

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Brian Vickery @atlergist.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

It was a true honor to recognize Dr. Lisa Kobrynski this morning for her 30+ years of dedicated service to @emoryuniversity.bsky.social as a researcher, public health advocate, teacher, and master clinician par excellence - and to welcome Dr. Cullen Dutmer as our new Medical Director of Immunology!

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Brian Vickery @atlergist.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

People 👏🏻 with 👏🏻 autism 👏🏻 ARE 👏🏻 HUMAN 👏🏻 BEINGS 👏🏻 …with many gifts and unique abilities! Feels weird to have to set the Secretary of HHS straight on this matter, but here we are.

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Brian Vickery @atlergist.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

FACTS. Many of these people are my neighbors. I know them personally. They work their asses off for low pay because they dedicate their lives to the mission orientation required of public servants. They deserve our undying gratitude and respect 🙏🏻

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Brian Vickery @atlergist.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

“The FDA as we know it is finished.” - ex FDA commish. Since when did the American people decide that ensuring the safety of our food and medicines is not in the national interest? Same question about CDC? Wrong, wrong, wrong. Bad for Americans, bad for industry, bad for the world 😢

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The sheer volume of time and energy being spent by thousands of university-based researchers in *every* field right now to figure out if their funding will exist next month or next year, if their careers can even continue… just citing dollar values doesn’t do it justice, it is full-scale upheaval.

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Brian Vickery @atlergist.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Here’s the @ajc.com front page in 1997 announcing the record tree pollen count of 4601. Over this past weekend it exceeded 14,000. What’s going on? Well, remember back to middle school science: Trees exchange CO2 for O2. More CO2 = more pollen. Anthropogenic climate change strikes again.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

If they're this careless with their own personally identifiable information, imagine how careless they are being with yours.

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

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

Proud to serve on the Board of @immunedeficienC. This #RareDiseaseDay, Help us raise awareness about primary immunodeficiency. Their free screening tool takes just 10 minutes and could change someone's life. go.primaryimmune.org/immune-syste...

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Brian Vickery @atlergist.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

“What becomes of the University if it succumbs to the demands of a political party or leader and cedes its rights of free speech, free expression, and free inquiry?”

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Brian Vickery @atlergist.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

There are many, many talented physicians, scientists, & engineers legally here on H-1Bs. They are not threats & do not take American jobs. They work very hard in essential roles & make us better. Likely one has cared for one of your loved ones. This is wrong. Remember her name: Dr. Rasha Alawieh.

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Nature @nature.com · 17/03/2025

The importance of diversity in science is an unshakeable reality that the scientific community must stand by, says Arthur Caplan go.nature.com/3XS8xc4

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Don’t wait out four hard years: speak truth to power

The importance of diversity in science is an unshakeable reality that the scientific community must stand by.

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