iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Michelle Kendall @mishkendall.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Join us this September for our first workshop on Digital Pandemic Preparedness! Working towards ensuring digital tools are ready for global health emergencies. 📍 Oxford Martin School 🗓️ 21-23 September 2026 🙋‍♀️ Registration: £150 to cover catering ➡️ Guest speakers and registration link: bit.ly/44J96bq

Poster advertising the Digital Pandemic Preparedness multi-disciplinary workshop, 21-23 September 2026 in Oxford. The background image is a stylised globe with glowing dots and lines symbolising digital communications.

The image is of a quote: "Digital tools can significantly mitigate health risks and socio-economic harms, but timely deployment requires trusted governance, fully-tested, interoperable tooling and established plans for Public Health integration."

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Michelle Kendall @mishkendall.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Six years since the inception of Digital Contact Tracing! We've shown that privacy-preserving DCT could play a key, low-cost role in mitigating future outbreaks whilst simultaneously gathering valuable epi insights in real time. michellekendall.github.io/2026/03/05/d...

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

New post on the era of the statisticAIn... kucharski.substack.com/p/the-era-of...

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The killings in Minneapolis didn’t come out of nowhere. Funding, legal cover, weakened oversight, and dehumanising rhetoric ramping up over a year. This started on 20 Jan 2025 with Trump's executive orders on immigration. I lay it out in my latest post. christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-ice-st...

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The ICE Storm: a year-long escalation

Funding, law, rhetoric, violence. How each has fed the other to lead here

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 14/09/2025

I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday. As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.

Letter from Ed Davey to Keir Starmer condemning Elon Musk for inciting violence and urging unity to defend democracy.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

🚨1000 authoritarian actions. 7 months🚨 I've been tracking Trump's authoritarian actions. From dismantling democratic institutions to militarising immigration enforcement, Trump is reshaping America. In my new post I highlight key authoriarian attacks christinapagel.substack.com/p/grand-desi... 1/2

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Grand Designs: the loss of American freedom

Exactly seven months into Trump's second term, we have reached 1000 authoritarian actions. Here I lay out the enormity of what has happened.

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Meaghan Kall @kallmemeg.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Support services always seem to become an afterthought when medicine 💊 is available. But these services save lives, create friendships, educate, build self-love. Something a pill could never do. We must save them. Decades-old HIV charity's fear over future funding www.bbc.com/news/article...

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London HIV charity Positively UK could close over funding crisis

Positively UK, which has supported thousands of people with HIV since 1986, is struggling financially.

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Thoughtful post by @daisychristo.bsky.social on learning to write in an era of AI: substack.nomoremarking.com/p/what-is-th...

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Tom Hollenstein @tomhollenstein.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

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Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

He's right. "Nothing short of devastating" By @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Study finds after Burundi abolished school fees in 2005, girls gained 1.22 more years of education. For very-low income girls, 1 additional year of school reduced teenage motherhood by 7%. Wealthier households likely already ensured education for daughters. theconversation.com/does-free-sc...

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Does free schooling give girls a better chance in life? Burundi study shows the poorest benefited most

Education policies can be highly effective, but not necessarily for everyone in the same way.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

1/ The US government has ordered the Swedish city of Stockholm to end its diversity, inclusivity and equality (DEI) programmes within 10 days. The city authorities say the demand is "bizarre" and they won't be complying. ⬇️

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Dr Kathryn Bates @kathrynbates.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

We interviewed @chrischirp.bsky.social to better understand the recent cuts to funding in the US and why diversity is important in science. TLDR: Diverse teams produce more impactful work and we need to study diversity to improve healthcare. Listen now: www.scienceorfiction.co.uk/p/why-is-div...

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Why is diversity important in science?

Watch now | Diversity, equity and inclusion programmes have been cut and research grants are being pulled in the US. We discuss why diversity is needed in science.

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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health @hsph.harvard.edu · 22/04/2025

“There are hundreds of thousands of deaths that we are projected to be facing in the course of the next year,” says @ariadnelabs.bsky.social's Atul Gawande, who served as assistant administrator for USAID’s Bureau of Global Health during the Biden administration.

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Gawande: Federal cuts could mean loss of life, harm to U.S. science enterprise | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Physician, writer, and public health researcher Atul Gawande has been speaking out about the ramifications of cuts to federal health agencies including the U.S. Agency for International Development an...

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

The White House has turned COVID.gov from a public health resource into a politically charged platform promoting the lab-leak theory and attacking specific scientists and the pandemic response in general. Let’s fact check its 5 headline claims… 🧵

The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature.
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Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events.
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Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research (gene altering and organism supercharging) at inadequate biosafety levels.
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Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers were sick with COVID-like symptoms in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market.
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By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasn’t.

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

NIH grant applications often run to well over 100 pages, and if awarded there is a contract to receive funding so researchers can deliver the science in the grant proposal. It’s not ‘entitlement’ to want that agreement to be honoured.

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 17/04/2025

What does global poverty look like if we rely on the notions of poverty in rich countries like Denmark, the US, or Germany? And how should this perspective inform our aspirations for the future of global poverty?

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I’d like to tell you a story about planets, and what it means for a scientific theory to be wrong… 🧵

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 11/04/2025

NEW 🧵 The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border. Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

my website for searching all SAGE Covid-related documents is now complete: sagesearch.info Contains over 900 documents from Jan 2020 to Feb 2022, filterable by document type, categories covered and date. There are AI-generated summaries of every doc. You can also free-text search summaries

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The Ferrari Lab @theferrarilab.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

A second child, an 8 yo girl, has died of measles in Texas. Some have asked "could this actually be RFK Jr's or Trump's fault? They've barely been in charge. Vaccination has been falling since before". It's a valid question, with a clear answer. Yes. They have ignored the standard of care 1/

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A Second Child Dies of Measles in Texas

It is the second confirmed measles death in the U.S. in a decade. If the outbreak continues at the current pace, the nation may lose its “elimination” status.

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

No more occupational health research. No more HIV research. Or tuberculosis. Or sexually transmitted infections. No environmental health & science research. No chronic disease research & prevention. The CRUELTY is the point. This won’t make anyone healthier. It will do the exact opposite.

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 04/04/2025

NEW 🧵 A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far: 1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively. These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/04/2025

The U.S. is ending funding that provided contraception to nearly 50 million women, many in the world’s poorest countries. The change stands to have enormous implications, including more maternal deaths and an overall increase in poverty.

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Trump Aid Cuts End Contraception Access for Millions of Women

The United States was a key supplier of contraceptives in many developing countries. The Trump administration has ended that support.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Colleagues are cancelling their US work trips. I worry that international colleagues in the US are at risk if they collaborate with us on certain topics. I've written a new post about the increasing danger of being a foreign scientist in the US. christinapagel.substack.com/p/trumps-att...

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Trump's attacks on universities get ever darker, with the shadows reaching our shores

The US has become a hostile and authoritarian state to foreign scientists and is choosing ideology over science.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28/03/2025

Take the time to follow the link and read for yourself the list of cancelled grants. The combination of cruelty, shortsightedness, and absolute ignorance is astounding.

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The Ferrari Lab @theferrarilab.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Chatting with global health colleagues recently and lamenting that even if all US global health functionality were restored tomorrow, the erosion of trust in any data, recommendations, or interventions originating from USG partners would likely render it useless.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/03/2025

A core element of public health involves working with the public to help them understand how they can protect themselves and their neighbors from disease. This memo (see the next post) equates this vital aspect of public communication with censorship.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/03/2025

Here NIH officials target contracts that "may be related to any form of censorship at all or *directing people to believe one idea over another regarding health outcomes*." Directing people to believe one idea over another regarding health outcomes IS public health. It's also education.

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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

"Whether we want to push the boundaries of science or push back on conspiracy theories we need to find better ways to explain things" For TEDx London @adamjkucharski.bsky.social explores why people might turn to #disinformation & conspiracy to fill gaps in knowledge. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJYQ...

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Kate Grabowski @kategrabowski.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Today, PEPFAR expires. 'if US assistance for HIV is not restored after the pause in April, and it is not replaced by other funding, “there will be an additional 6.3 million AIDS-related deaths in the next four years” healthpolicy-watch.news/pepfar-reaut...

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PEPFAR Reauthorisation Expires With No Clarity About Renewed US Funding For HIV - Health Policy Watch

The US Congress's one-year reauthorisation of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) expires on Tuesday (25 March) and there is no clarity

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/03/2025

The current administration is straight up censoring the scientific record by requiring authors to alter an already-accepted research paper because it uses banned words such as "gender" and "equitable" and presents data broken down by sexual orientation.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

North London: @chrischirp.bsky.social has lost her cat. Please check your garden, shed, garage etc. Full contact details below.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/03/2025

Trump, Musk, Vance, Vought, etc are systematically destroying: 1. Scientific research in the United States. 2. The talent pipeline for this research. 3. The university system itself. 4. The careers of thousands of people like Dr. Minor For what? Politics? Resentment? Thiel? Putin? Thread:

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

My new book Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty is out in the UK tomorrow! For those of you debating whether it’s worth a picking up a copy via proof.kucharski.io – or the many of you who have kindly already pre-ordered and want a sneak preview – here’s an A-to-Z of some topics it covers... 🧵

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Excited to share my new TEDx talk on why we need to find better ways to trust things that we can’t explain, and better ways to explain the things that we don’t trust: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJYQ...

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What the science of uncertainty tells us about human nature | Adam Kucharski | TEDxLondon

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

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Julian Winn @winn-on-health.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

"Universities across the US are reducing their spending, pausing hiring and new student admissions. The next generation of scientists in key areas risk not being trained" From authoritarian politics to dumbing down. The 'book' is playing out #AcademicSky #MedSky #ComradeKrasnov #Project2025

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

My latest post is now out. I show how Trump's attacks on science and universities are neither random nor new - they fit very precisely into the authoritarian playbook. This means we can guess what might come next and prepare - and we must! christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...

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Censor, purge, defund: how Trump following the authoritarian playbook on science and universities

I have mapped 35 of the Trump administration's attacks on science and universities to the authoritarian playbook - and consider what it means for attacks still to come

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Vincent Carchidi @vcarchidi.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Wholeheartedly recommend this brief read, and highlight this portion, which I think gets at a recurring 'all-or-nothing' quality about a lot of the work companies like OpenAI are trying to get their models to replicate/independently produce. It's either the model "gets it" or it doesn't.

Which brings us on to the second problem. We don’t train PhD students so they can continually produce papers of similar quality to their first one. We help train them so they will get better, and grow as scientists. Even if AI could match early PhD-level output, having an AI ‘scientist’ who needs close supervision and guidance forever is not nearly as useful as non-scientists might assume. As I’ve written about previously, it would just create an unscalable and unmanageable team dynamic.

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DefinitelyNotAlice @alicele.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I totally share the content of this article. We need to covey to the public that however much our research seems not applicable, you never know where the next important discovery will come from... Curiosity and passion for studying need to be the drivers of science!!

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing

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Natalie Dean, PhD @nataliexdean.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Established in 1951, the EIS fellowship program is for our nation’s best and brightest. Abruptly firing these dedicated fellows is unconscionable, ghoulish, dangerous. I’m furious. www.cdc.gov/eis/php/abou...

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About the Epidemic Intelligence Service

Information about CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service

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