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Janet R. Wojcik, Ph.D., FACSM

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Professor, Exercise Science; #100FitCities, Co-Chair ACSM BEAT SIG; rock music, sports, cars, cats; opinions my own, drjanetrwojcik on IG, Threads

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I know I'm more than a day late on this, but for some reason it came across my feed now — I confirmed with Sanofi today that they haven't yet shipped the Novavax shot, so it isn't available anywhere. They plan to start shipping next week.
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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
There are so many things wrong with Canvas already, and this is what they decide is important.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
15+ years old, but still VERY relevent — and if we had acted 15 years ago, the “better world” we’d be creating would be a LOT better & easier to reach. There are real consequences we’re just starting to see to not heeding this cartoon a lot sooner. Even worse if we don’t heed it now. #ClimateCrisis
“What if it’s a hoax and we create a better world for nothing?”
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Janet R. Wojcik, Ph.D., FACSM @drjanetrwojcik.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
New publication in collaboration with the Physical Activity Policy Research and Evaluation Network (PAPREN) on the need for physical activity with GLP-1 medications. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Jennifer Polk @fromphdtolife.com · 22/07/2025
This isn’t a webinar. It’s a live reflection session for professors, postdocs, and other PhDs who aren’t sure whether to stay in academia. One hour. No slides. No pressure. Register for free or pass it on. #PhDSky
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Get on my calendar! (Jennifer Polk, PhD)
Jennifer Polk, PhD, is a career coach, educator, and recognized expert in PhD careers. She regularly facilitates professional development workshops and delivers keynote presentations at institutions across the US, Canada, and internationally. Jen created her PhD Career Clarity Program to help PhDs navigate their career paths with confidence.   Jen’s writing is published in University Affairs, Inside Higher Ed, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Globe and Mail, Academic Matters, and in three books. More recently, she was an expert panelist for the 2021 Canadian Council of Academies report, Degrees of Success, on the challenges PhDs face transitioning to employment. Jen currently serves on the board of directors for the Canadian Association for Graduate Studies, and she’s on the management committee for a multi-year transborder project about PhD career paths. She earned her PhD in history from the University of Toronto. Find Jen online at From PhD to Life.
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Anne Elias @woodsfern.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
This is also happening in Michigan. Michigan State University will lose ~$10 million in these funding cuts, and is laying off 120 MSU Extension workers who teach nutrition education to people across the state. I will link in thread below how you can take action.
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Congress Cut a Federal Nutrition Program, Jeopardizing Campus Jobs and Community Services
The elimination of SNAP-Ed funding has already prompted layoffs at one campus, with more likely to follow.
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 03/07/2025
Making America Healthy Again by defunding research on cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s is an…interesting, and reckless, strategy www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Table shows number of deaths from heart disease, respiratory distress, diabetes, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer’s drug overdose, suicide, Covid/flu. For each condition, they list the institute they funds that research and the amount of proposed funding cuts. These range from 36% to 40%
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
I was trying to come up with an analogy and the best I could think of was "imagine if you were sick and the government denied access to modern medicine and forced you to rely on outdated 19th century stuff" and, oh
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 28/06/2025
A major reason we have so few Black physicians is the 1910 Flexner Report that closed almost every medical school that primarily served Black students. This scholarship was an effort to correct that historical error, and UAB just terminated it and gave the money back to the sponsoring family.
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Carlos del Río, MD, FACP, FIDSA @docdelrio.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Today marks the 44th anniversary of the publication in the MMWR of a new syndrome that we now know as AIDS www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview... (MMWR 1981;30:250--2). Much progress since then but much remains to be done.
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Pneumocystis Pneumonia --- Los Angeles
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Ferric Fang, MD @fangferric.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
This might be a good time to recall Arnold Relman's wise words: "There really is no such thing as alternative medicine-- only medicine that has been proved to work and medicine that hasn't." gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-is-op...
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RFK Jr. Is Opening the Alternative Medicine Floodgates
Kennedy plans to make it easier for people to take unregulated, potentially unsafe treatments like stem cell and chelation therapy.
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 06/06/2025
Holy smokes! Our article is on the cover of The Lancet!!!!!!!!!! Nbd 💅
The cover of The Lancet with this quote from our commentary: "If we in academic medicine give in to the campaigns against diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, the consequences will include resegregation and fewer opportunities for marginalised groups."
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Janet R. Wojcik, Ph.D., FACSM @drjanetrwojcik.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Interesting article about current commercial fitness landscape. I saw on someone’s account their Gold’s Gym in El Paso abruptly closed this week. athletechnews.com/hvlp-low-pri...
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As HVLPs Enter Golden Era, Mid-Tier Gyms Could Feel Squeeze
Low-price gym chains are poised for continued growth, fueling a wave of consolidation that could see mid-tier gyms get swallowed up.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/05/2025
Starting on Wednesday, travelers in the U.S. will need a Real ID, passport or other federally recognized document to board domestic flights, a requirement that has sent many Americans scrambling for the security-enhanced, star-emblazoned identification cards.
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‘No Appointments Here’: A Mad Dash to Get a Real ID Ahead of the Deadline
A Real ID, passport or other federally recognized document will be required starting next week for domestic flights. Good luck booking an appointment.
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God @thegodshow.com · 26/04/2025
Hi, I’m God. How many pandemics must I send before humans once again learn to revere scientists? How many millions must die? Not trying to be dramatic, just earnestly inquiring for My Notes. Thanks, God
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
This is why it’s so frustrating that RFK’s food dye distraction is getting so much coverage. Salmonella is much worse for you! www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...
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USDA withdraws a plan to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry
The Agriculture Department says it is withdrawing a plan to limit salmonella bacteria in poultry products.
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
#CDC was notified of 6 more kids who died from #flu this season. They bring the total to date to 204, the third highest count since CDC started collecting pediatric death data in 2004-05. The worst year, 2009-10, was the year of the #H1N1 pandemic. www.cdc.gov/fluview/surv...
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Janet R. Wojcik, Ph.D., FACSM @drjanetrwojcik.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I still have a mountain of grading, but we played Cornhole and pickleball with the students, and my special populations class went to Pilates.
Playing pickleball in a gymnasium. Pilates instructor cueing exercises on the reformer
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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
For the last 3 yrs, I was the director for the Science of Science program at the NSF. We funded projects on science communication - science communication to the public, communication of public priorities to scientists, citizens engagement & participation in science. 🧵
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Adrianna McIntyre @adrianna.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
"'Instead of cutting red tape, they are strangling grantees with it,' said Robert Gordon, who served as the HHS assistant secretary of financial resources during the Biden administration."
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 22/04/2025
Something to remind you It's a world worth saving
Three young pronghorn does in a field of yellow flowers and a distant mountain valley scene behind them.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School! Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101. Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway.
This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.
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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 21/04/2025
Reminder that the USPS often provides "last mile" (or multiple miles) delivery for the private shippers and companies, particularly for rural areas, including important medications and supplies for people who need home delivery.
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 21/04/2025
A non-exhaustive list of things to try if we actually want to support families: -universal basic income -free or low-cost childcare -universal healthcare -federally-mandated paid parental leave -eliminate the motherhood penalty -eliminate the manosphere But they want to try “menstrual classes”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
This comes up every so often: its a health argument to effectively make SNAP more burdensome (more like WIC), which means that fewer people will use the benefit. On the whole people are better having access to SNAP, rather than strangling the program in burdens.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20/04/2025
"It would be hard to find a federal investment that has generated larger or clearer returns than the National Science Foundation fellowships." ICYMI @citizencohn.bsky.social on another senseless and inefficient cut: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-scie...
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Trump’s Science Cuts Will Be Felt for Generations
Mindless slashing at NSF won’t just harm the scientific enterprise today—it will damage discovery and innovation for years to come.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
It's time to start reminding people: LILIES ARE DEADLY FOR CATS. The leaves, the petals, the stem, even drinking a bit of vase water or licking a few grains of pollen from their fur can cause fatal kidney failure. ⚠️ www.fda.gov/animal-veter...
Color photo of a white lily blossom, overlaid with a black skull and cross bones and text that reads “no lilies for kitties”.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 04/04/2025
Thousands of employees fired this week from the Department of Health and Human Services and the public health agencies it oversees may be asked to temporarily continue working for two months and others could be reinstated, officials said reut.rs/4lv1Uqu
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US Health Dept may ask fired staff to keep working, reinstate others
Thousands of employees fired this week from the Department of Health and Human Services and the public health agencies it oversees may be asked to temporarily continue working for two months and others could be reinstated, officials said on Thursday.
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Amelia Ferrell Knisely @amelianews.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
New: WVU would be required to operate a civics learning center focused on teaching constitutional studies and “great debates of Western civilization” overseen by a governor’s appointee, according to a bill approved by the House. westvirginiawatch.com/2025/03/24/w...
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WVU would have to operate ‘center for civics’ overseen by political appointee, bill says • West Virginia Watch
WVU would be required to operate a civics learning center focused on constitutional studies according to a bill approved by the House.
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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 23/03/2025
The ACA was cool because before the ACA EVERY SINGLE CHILD WITH CANCER hit their annual and lifetime limits almost immediately and were denied insurance for the rest of their lives and after the ACA that’s illegal.
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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Exciting research out of australia! It's weird that my highest hopes for the next few years no longer involve US innovation but rather the joy of seeing innovation survive without the US www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
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Undiscovered cause of Parkinson’s found for first time by scientists
Experts make breakthrough that could pave way for new treatments for neurodegenerative disease
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
If you love around Dallas
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 14/03/2025
NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline? Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s What should we make of this? www.ft.com/content/a801...
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
If you live in NC, call every Republican politician you know. Call every farmer you know and ask them to do the same When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...
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USDA cancels $11 million in federal funding for North Carolina food banks
The USDA has notified the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services that it would terminate the agreement for the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program, which is one of the progr...
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 15/03/2025
#medsky
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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed
A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog hanging over the New York skylineA vintage photo from the National Archives shows damaged oil drums piled high at an Exxon refinery. A vintage photo from the National Archives shows cars driving down a road as smoke spews from factories in the distance and air pollution hangs over everything.A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog in Los Angeles taken from a high vantage point.
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 13/03/2025
Other countries are fully targeting US academics with social media ads now, basically of the form "we still have inclusive liberal democracy and academic freedom here"
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/03/2025
Breaking News: A judge ordered the rehiring of thousands of probationary workers across six federal agencies, saying their firings were based on a “sham.” Follow live updates. nyti.ms/422hhPg
A large crowd of protesters in front of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington in February. A headline reads: "Judge Orders Thousands of Federal Workers Reinstated." Photo by Tierney L. Cross for The New York Times
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Sherry Pagoto, PhD @drsherrypagoto.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
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NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report
National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Maybe the crisis in seabirds with multi-organ failure from exposure to plastics will help raise awareness of their serious hazard and lead to action science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 12/03/2025
Gutting the Department of Education will impact everything from internet access to school buses. Let’s not make it harder to learn.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 06/03/2025
Now is not the time for the scientific community to self-censor. We need to all unite together and get behind grassroots efforts like @standupforscience.bsky.social if we are to effectively overcome the attacks on science!
“In 2017 almost every scientific society in existence formally endorsed the March for Science. It appears to me that scientific societies are much more reluctant to throw their official support behind today’s protests,” said Lucky Tran, a science communicator who helped organize the 2017 march. “I understand that scientific institutions are being cautious because this time they are more directly targeted, however I am worried about them preemptively self-censoring, which could be very damaging in the long-term.”
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Losing a baby late in pregnancy is nearly 3x more common in the South than in other U.S. regions. This is likely linked to the lack of Medicaid expansion in the South & high rates of uninsured people plus more maternity care deserts combined w/ rural transportation problems.
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'A continual cycle': Losing a baby late in pregnancy is more common in the South, new report shows
“We are losing lives,” said the lead researcher of a new health care report. “At what point are we going to stand up and say enough is enough?”
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I've been thinking a lot about that bumper sticker which says "everything looks like a conspiracy theory when you don't understand how anything works" and folks it's pretty obvious to me that the people in power right now have absolutely no desire to understand how anything works.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
How gut microbiome research needs to move forward. Going multi-omics, getting to causality, rigorous clinical studies www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... @cellpress.bsky.social
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
It’s normal to consider a candidate’s CV for a job, and I strongly advise everyone to review it.
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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
🚨I promised I'd say more on the Royal Society and Elon Musk, so here it is. 🚨 I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk. My op-ed in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say so. That’s why I resigned | Kit Yates
It is vital to act, and I urge colleagues to do so. How can we stand by and laud this man while he undermines scientific integrity? asks academic and author Kit Yates
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