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Ben H

@bnhamlin.bsky.social
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Humanist, Scientist (sort of), Dog Lover (totally!), Severe UWP Addiction (crack would be much cheaper) and firm believer that (Good) Beer makes the world a better place to exist.

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ohdsi.bsky.social @ohdsi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Personalized Federated Framework for OMOP-CDM Multi-Hospital Data: Application to prediction of 30-day hospital readmission #OHDSISocialShowcase Lead: Dani Manjah Team: Pierre Remacle, Maryna Borshchivska, Thibaut Helleputte 🔗 loom.ly/NrCDlkM #JoinTheJourney
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ohdsi.bsky.social @ohdsi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Federated OMOP-based observational analysis of HR+/HER2- metastatic breast cancer across Europe: methodological development & clinical insights from the DigiONE network #OHDSISocialShowcase Lead: Stelios Theophanous Team on poster ⬇️ 🔗 loom.ly/JXRQXVs #JoinTheJourney
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Pennsylvania officials are now reporting two more measles deaths, bringing the total to four this year. RFK Jr. continues to dispute the numbers, claiming there have been zero, despite Pennsylvania health officials confirming the cases.
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DOH Confirms Two Additional Measles-Associated Deaths
DOH Confirms Two Additional Measles-Associated Deaths
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ohdsi.bsky.social @ohdsi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Federated OMOP-based observational analysis of HR+/HER2- metastatic breast cancer across Europe: methodological development & clinical insights from the DigiONE network #OHDSISocialShowcase Lead: Stelios Theophanous Team on poster ⬇️ 🔗 loom.ly/JXRQXVs #JoinTheJourney
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ohdsi.bsky.social @ohdsi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Identifying Adverse Drug Reaction Using Sequence Symmetry Analysis Design on OMOP data #OHDSISocialShowcase Lead: Thomas Leth Jensen Team: S Møller Thysen, E Jimenez Solem, L Christian Lund, J Hallas, PRijnbeek, K Verhamme, A Markus 🔗 loom.ly/ltDQYTA #JoinTheJourney
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ohdsi.bsky.social @ohdsi.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Comparing the representation of medicinal products in RxNorm Extension and SNOMED CT #OHDSISocialShowcase Lead: Maryia Khitrun Co-Author: Anna Ostropolets 🔗 loom.ly/3AhNeY4 #JoinTheJourney
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/07/2026
Last year, the FDA lost more than 400 workers that support inspections of everything from dairy farms to seafood processors. More than 240 consumer safety specialists left across the agency, including nearly 40 workers responsible for safeguarding food. (Published Aug. 2025)
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Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies
More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform...
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ohdsi.bsky.social @ohdsi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Large-Scale Extraction and Standardization of Primary Care Vaccination Data to the OMOP Common Data Model in Wallonia, Belgium #OHDSISocialShowcase Lead: M. Borshchivska Full team listed on poster ⬇️ 🔗 loom.ly/v2SccVg #JoinTheJourney
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ohdsi.bsky.social @ohdsi.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
DARWIN EU® - Incidence of Suicide-Related Events Among Adult Male Patients Treated for Androgenetic Alopecia and Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia in Europe #OHDSISocialShowcase Lead: Marzyeh Amini Team listed on poster ⬇️ 🔗 loom.ly/YtypjXY #JoinTheJourney
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ohdsi.bsky.social @ohdsi.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Assessing Device Data Research Readiness: A Case Study Among Patients w Patent Ductus Arteriosus in the Great Ormond Street Hospital #OHDSISocialShowcase Lead: Lydia Briggs Team: E Holland, P Khadka, A Jödicke, D Prieto-Alhambra, A Prats-Uribe, E Burn 🔗 loom.ly/nHvvZvg #JoinTheJourney
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The systems that identify outbreaks overseas are often what prevent them from becoming emergencies at home. As Ebola spreads in central Africa, reducing the role of the very agency built to track and contain infectious diseases is a decision that could have consequences far beyond any one country.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The Trump administration is moving forward with a plan that would significantly reduce the CDC’s role in international health programs. On paper, this may look like bureaucratic reshuffling.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
As many suspected, taxpayers will end up footing part of the bill for the new White House ballroom after all. According to a new report from The Washington Post, the estimated cost of the project has now climbed to $600 million, with roughly half expected to come from taxpayer dollars.
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NPR @npr.org · 17/06/2026
The U.S. military attacked a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, killing one man and leaving two survivors. This brings the number of people who have been killed in boat strikes to at least 208. n.pr/4ox6juX
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U.S. strike on an alleged drug boat kills 1, leaves 2 survivors
The U.S. military attacked a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, killing one man and leaving two survivors. This brings the number of people who have been killed in boat strikes to at least 208.
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NPR @npr.org · 17/06/2026
People who go to prison keep one important right — to file a grievance over their treatment: from abuse to denied medical care. But in the vast majority of cases, those efforts go nowhere, according to an analysis of federal data by The Marshall Project and NPR. n.pr/4vgpFab
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'Rejected': How federal prisons stonewall grievances and deny care for years
People who go to prison keep one important right — to file a grievance over their treatment: from abuse to denied medical care. But in the vast majority of cases, those efforts go nowhere, according to an analysis of federal data by The Marshall Project and NPR.
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ohdsi.bsky.social @ohdsi.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Evaluation of the Preparative Phase Readiness in OikoLexis #OHDSISocialShowcase Lead: Michel J.F. Walravens, Team: Ilse Vermeulen, Liesbet Peeters 🔗 loom.ly/DpwoYSc #JoinTheJourney
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The wall of silence around Claudia Sheinbaum in the US & particularly US-Jewish press is astounding: you wouldn’t know by reading the NYT or FWD that she is perhaps the most popular leader in the world, not only but not least bc she is clear about US imperialism & Israeli genocide
Mexican President Sheinbaum shatters the
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'I am against the American-Israeli war axis.
Bombing schools full of girls is not self-defense; it is a full-fledged war crime.'
'Whoever calls the killing of children self-defense is an agent of genocide... and whoever remains silent about it is an accomplice in the blood.'
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ohdsi.bsky.social @ohdsi.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
From OHDSI Cohorts to Trustworthy, Reproducible and Reusable Dashboards for your Enterprise #OHDSISocialShowcase Lead: Lisa Murch Co-Author: William Kuan 🔗 loom.ly/GTOCLAM #JoinTheJourney
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ohdsi.bsky.social @ohdsi.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Extending OMCP to the OHDSI Application Layer: MCP Servers for Vocabulary, Cohort Definition, and Statistical Profiling #OHDSISocialShowcase Lead: Niko Möller-Grell Team: Shihao Shenzhang, Zhangshu Joshua Jiang, Richard Dobson, Vishnu V Chandrabalan 🔗 loom.ly/gVpV2u0 #JoinTheJourney
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Robyn @handcranked.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Even magpies like to pose at the scenic lookouts Rocky Mountain National Park #BirdOfTheDay #LivingLandscape #EastCoastKin #ECK #PhotographersUnited #birds #ArtYear
A magpie standing in snow with stunning mountains in the distance behind it. The magpie has a black head, upper breast, wings, beak, eyes, and legs with a white belly. It's facing toward the camera with the head turned to the right. There's a cement curb directly behind it and a pine tree a little behind that on the left side. The mountains are dusted with snow and the lower ones have pine trees. The sky is mostly cloudy with a bit of blue in the top right corner.
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ohdsi.bsky.social @ohdsi.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
From Data Quality to Clinical Quality – Episodes as Enablers for Next Generation Dashboarding #OHDSISocialShowcase Presenter: Georgina Kennedy Team listed on poster 🔗 www.ohdsi.org/2025showcase-608 Video: youtu.be/CP5g-PQaLmw #JoinTheJourney
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 05/09/2025
🧵RFKJ and one of his ACIP picks, Robert Malone, appear to be getting ready to restrict the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) immunizations (nirsevimab and clesrovimab) saying there is a vast cover up of vaccine safety data. As a pediatrician and CDC worker I have two questions for RFKJ about that:
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LadyCat311🇺🇲 @coffeecat311.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
So. It begins. coloradonewsline.com/2025/08/13/c...
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NPR @npr.org · 21/08/2025
JUST IN: But the court, in its emergency docket order, also left in place by a 5-4 order a lower court ruling that threw out NIH memos that enforced the administration's policies.
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Supreme Court allows NIH to stop making nearly $800M in research grants for now
But the court, in its emergency docket order, also left in place by a 5-4 order a lower court ruling that threw out NIH memos that enforced the administration's policies.
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Trish Owen @trish0116.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Significant portions of Article I of the U.S. Constitution were removed from the version published on Congress’ official Constitution website. Large parts of Section 8(which outlines the powers of Congress) were deleted, and Sections 9 and 10,
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🇺🇸💙💙🤔🤨CJ🤣🧐💙💙🇺🇸 @cnice59.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
This is what’s going on while the Orange Clown is trying to distract us! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The Supreme Court prepares to end voting rights as we know them
And justices don’t want you to notice.
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Ben H @bnhamlin.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
TSA Touchless ID. The latest gov’t surveillance program to speed you through airport security.
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Corey Brettschneider @democracyprof.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
I've said it before and I'll say it again. ICE agents who commit crimes are not immune. And local prosecutors should act accordingly.
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Joe Segal - Create Positive Solidarity @joesegal.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
if we remove the profit incentive from prisons, we will see less crime. If we remove the profit incentives from healthcare, we will see more good health outcomes. And same with housing and homelessness etc etc etc. Some things should be walled off from the markets & operated for the common good.
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Michael McKeon @grinch67.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Something that doesn’t seem to be commanding the attention of the American MSM is that both Germany and Italy are having their gold bullion reserves repatriated from storage in Manhattan.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
In addition to kicking millions of Americans off their health insurance, cutting taxes for the wealthy, and adding trillions to the deficit, other parts of Trump’s Budget are also harmful and unpopular. We need to make sure more people learn about them.
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Three Things in Trump’s Budget That Aren’t Getting Enough Attention
They might affect the bill’s fate… if more people learn about them and speak up.
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Taylor Darcy @tdarcy.wedissentmedia.com · 26/06/2025
They are not the sharpest knives in the drawer.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
The White House says it’s now limiting how much classified intelligence it shares with Congress, following criticism from lawmakers over the Iran bombing.
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Bill Wielechowski @wielechowski.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Mysteriously, tax settlements have dropped by hundreds of millions of dollars under Dunleavy. Several months ago a former Dunleavy Deputy Commissioner wrote that he was told “point blank” he was “expected to violate statute to enrich oil companies on public money they weren't legally entitled to.”
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Just want to take a moment to shout out the international reporters helping us get the real story out. When an 80-year-old veteran with a walker is hauled off with his hands zip-tied behind his back, and the media spins it as a “threatening breach” of a police barricade
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Rep. Ilhan Omar @repilhan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
What happened to Sen. Padilla is a disgrace. Elected officials are supposed to speak for the people. When the government starts throwing Senators to the ground for doing that, we’ve left democracy behind. You don’t have to wonder what a fascist regime looks like. This is it.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Investigations are now underway into officers and ICE agents who fired crowd-control munitions at dangerously close range. In case after case, the situation only escalated when force was used against peaceful protesters.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 12/06/2025
Today Marco Rubio would like to congratulate Russia on its 70,000th forcibly kidnapped child from ukraine!!! Our people have so much in common.
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Rep. Ami Bera, M.D. @bera.house.gov · 12/06/2025
What happened to Senator Padilla can happen to any American. Video footage clearly shows Senator Padilla identifying himself as a sitting United States Senator. He was then pushed into a hallway, forced to the ground, and handcuffed. An officer even blocked his aide from recording the incident.
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Congressman Hank Johnson @hankjohnson.house.gov · 12/06/2025
This is over the top madness! What are we coming to in this country? The land of the free and home of the brave has become the land of the king and home of the distressed. We must act to preserve our freedom!
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
When a cabinet member announces "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Today, the House of Representatives will vote on a rescission package that will instantly gut all federal funding for public media. All of it, gone. Here’s more information: protectmypublicmedia.org?utm_source=n...
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Protect My Public Media
Take a stand for the local stations and programs you love.
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