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Dr Jennifer Marino

@drjenmarino.bsky.social
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Adolescent health epidemiologist, feminist. They/them. Black lives matter. Trans lives matter. Sovereignty was never ceded. Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer.

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Anthony @aroseworn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Wear it Purple 🌈💜
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Independent Education Union of Australia NSW/ACT Branch @ieunswact.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Happy Wear It Purple Day! Today, we're celebrating the courage of LGBTQIA+ young people to live proudly as their authentic selves. #wearitpurpleday2026
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QNews LGBTIQA+ Australia @qnews.com.au · 28/08/2026
qnews.com.au
Today is Wear It Purple Day, and it matters now more than ever
QNews LGBTIQA+ News
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IWDA @iwda.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Today, we’re celebrating Wear It Purple Day and standing with LGBTQIA+SB young people, communities and allies. 💜 Our IWDA team came together for a purple morning tea to celebrate visibility, connection and inclusion. Courage can be big or quiet, and every act matters. #WearItPurpleDay #IWDA
Wear it purple day - IWDA staff gathered in the office wearing purple clothes to celebrate Wear It Purple Day. Logo: International Women's Development Agency
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APRA AMCOS @apraamcos.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Coming to you from the APRA AMCOS offices for Wear It Purple Day! 💜 This year's Wear It Purple Day theme is Colours of Courage 💫 We're celebrating the many ways LGBTQIA+SB young people, allies and communities show courage every day. www.wearitpurple.org
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FMI @fmi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I dont have much ... anything! ... purple to wear. So - donated. www.minus18.org.au/campaigns/we...
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Wear It Purple® Day 2026
Wear It Purple® Day: August 28 | Go purple to stand with and support LGBTQIA+ young people.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
An outbreak of Mpox is unfolding in Guinea Bissau. Madagascar is also experiencing its first ever outbreak. I would argue that Mpox never left. We have not made the necessary investments in global surveillance and targeted immunization. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Mpox is back – and in new countries. How can this outbreak be contained?
The public health emergencies in 2022 and 2024 saw the virus reported in 145 countries, but in the new cases children appear particularly affected
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Dr Jennifer Marino @drjenmarino.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I'm alone in my home office, and I haven't even got any meetings today, so it doesn't much matter what I wear for Wear It Purple Day, but I would like you all to imagine I'm dolled up in my regalia to support LGBTQIASB+ young people (UWashington colours, not delusions of royalty) #WearItPurple
me, a roundfaced smiling person with messy long wavy hair, in my purple doctoral regalia with purple velvet trim and gold piping, including floppy purple velvet tam
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Dr Jennifer Marino @drjenmarino.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I encourage you to read the whole article to get a sense of how this is occurring over and over across US institutions, and how it's affecting human health, science, and careers.
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 17/06/2026
Putting RFK jr. (a eugenicist) in charge of Special Ed at the federal level is just one more act of violence against disabled kids. It is also an obvious move in an ongoing consolidation of the federal government towards authoritarian power and fascism.
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Here we see the NYT's Jeremy Peters making specific statements about scientific publication bias with absolutely no evidentiary support for his claims.
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Dr Jennifer Marino @drjenmarino.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Horrifying www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
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Breaking: Queensland pause on puberty blockers for trans adolescents to continue
The Queensland government says it made the decision after considering a 530-page independent review into the evidence surrounding the treatments.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 17/12/2025
There are more than four million guns in Australia and Australia Institute research shows that a gun is stolen every four hours. Read more on our research into firearms here: australiainstitute.org.au/report/fi…
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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health @anzjph.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
New in ANZJPH: Research from the University of Auckland found at 1 in 8 NZ teens reported unwanted sexual experiences. Read the Radio New Zealand article below, or check out the research here: doi.org/10.1016/j.an... #PublicHealth @publichealthaus.bsky.social
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'Incredibly concerning': One in eight teens report unwanted sexual experiences - study
The survey found sexual violence rates were highest against Māori and Pacific teens, gender-diverse youth, and those in the poorest schools.
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Dr Jennifer Marino @drjenmarino.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
VicHealth needs to stay independent! c.org/D656cpvCmC
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Sign the Petition
Keep VicHealth Independent and Strong for a Healthier Future #SaveVicHealth
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Dr Jennifer Marino @drjenmarino.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
wonderful news!
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is meeting on December 4th and 5th. I believe this is where they will show their alleged data indicating that children died after the COVID19 vaccine. TBF, based on their past presentations, I am dubious of the quality and rigor.
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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Folks with Diabetes! There is an urgent recall on some FreeStyle Libre 3 and FreeStyle Libre 3 Plus sensors because they are showing false low glucose readings. Check your sensor serial numbers at freestylecheck.com
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Home | FreeStyle - Abbott
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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
While Makary spreads bullshit about the origin of HIV. (To be clear, this has been thoroughly investigated and fits neither the timing nor the molecular epidemiology of HIV).
PDB: "if I were to ask you where did AIDS come from, what would you say?

Makary: The film 'thank you Dr Fauci' explores a non-tradi narrative which has not gotten the attention it deserves and that is that [HIV] may very well have come from a lab in Africa"
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Dr Jennifer Marino @drjenmarino.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
AusPATH has been a very intense conference but I’m very glad I attended, what an incredible group of researchers, advocates, practitioners and people with lived experience (categories not exclusive)!
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I don’t think people outside of healthcare realize how much AAP is standing out as a moral backbone of medicine right now, especially in pediatrics. There is so much fear at institutions. Seeing an org directly and repeatedly targeted refuse to budge an inch is extraordinary.
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AAP: ‘Stop wasting government resources to amplify false claims’ about vaccines, autism
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its website to include false claims linking vaccines and autism, prompting a swift rebuke from the AAP and other medical experts.
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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 27/11/2025
I think in a lot of cases it is projected self-hatred. (Not saying they're closeted trans people. But I suspect most if not all have *some* deeply complicated feelings about gender that they don't want to admit or address, and this kind of overcompensation is how such feelings come out)
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Dr Jennifer Marino @drjenmarino.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I am proud to be attending the 2025 AusPATH conference. For the first time in my conference career, I don’t feel it is safe for meeting delegates for me to live-blog the proceedings. Please let this post hold space for what I would have done in a better world.
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Dr Jennifer Marino @drjenmarino.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
This is a very important piece of reporting from The Guardian but please be careful if you have trauma around birth, birthing, pregnancy loss, or loss of a child www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
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Dr Jennifer Marino @drjenmarino.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
listening to the NHMRC "Sex, gender, variations of sex characteristics and sexual orientation in health and medical research" event. reassuring that NHMRC CEO Steve Wesselingh is foregrounding equity as central to health research.
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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 20/11/2025
Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance #TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames *** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *
MOURN THE DEAD, FIGHT LIKE HELL FOR THE LIVING
TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE
THIS IS WHY WE'RE SO FUCKING ANGRY
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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 06/11/2025
Tech bros tired of reinventing buses reinvent phrenology instead
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
My favorite comment on the FT story
Personally I'd be impressed if they could make something as smart as an ant. Ants only have 250,000 neurons, which is pretty small compared with GPT-5's reputed more than one trillion parameters. And yet ants are able to survive all by themselves in this complex world of ours, without endless infusions of investor capital or government subsidies. I don't think GPT-5 could do that.
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Dr Jennifer Marino @drjenmarino.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I regret to inform you that I checked, and this is real. Please also note that next year, when Kentucky has elections, Kentucky voters will still be unable to vote in the NYC or Virginia elections.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 03/11/2025
this is awful. teen vogue has done such important work
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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.
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Jack Turban MD @turban.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
🚨New Study Added🚨 A new study published in the Journal of Pediatrics of 432 #trans adolescents and young adults receiving gender-affirming hormone therapy found statistically significant reductions in suicidality following treatment. open.substack.com/pub/jackturb...
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The Evidence for Gender-affirming Medical Interventions for Transgender Adolescents
Research suggests gender-affirming medical care results in better mental health. Here are the studies.
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Kirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Qld top court overturns puberty blocker ban. The court agreed that there was too much political interference. The judge found in our favour on 3 grounds - in particular it rules that consultation was inadequate & that irrelevant factors were taken into account. www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
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Mother says Queensland's puberty blocker ban fight was 'harrowing and traumatising'
Queensland Health placed a freeze on puberty blockers for adolescents in January, prompting a legal challenge by the mother of a trans teenager.
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Laura Lindberg @lauralindberg.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Postdoc opportunity… and speaks to why i advise grad students to get cleared for RDC research… the postdoc clock moves too quickly…
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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 17/10/2025
Social media bans suggest a resurgence of conservative values in our digital lives. But at what cost to young people’s autonomy, creativity and expression? 👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/as-soci...
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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
When I say the study of human populations needs epistemic diversity this short piece show why - thinkers from beyond the silos of demography and public health and economics are doing the WORK and we're becoming fast irrelevant. The meanings of demographic measures are why they matter.
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Dr Jennifer Marino @drjenmarino.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
unacceptable. the long shadow of private ownership and control of media.
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jbwh24.bsky.social @jbwh24.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
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Dr Jennifer Marino @drjenmarino.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
foreshadowing in real (academic) life: "An account has been created for you in JournalName Editorial Manager site"
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Dr Jennifer Marino @drjenmarino.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I am not surprised that the people who want to run unethical studies to provide "evidence" for their repeatedly-debunked fictions about disease aetiology have had to eliminate the IRB
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Dr Jennifer Marino @drjenmarino.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Some really excellent content from my colleagues in the Australian Research Consortium for Trans Youth and Children (ARCTYC) in this issue!
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The Medical Journal of Australia @mja.com.au · 12/10/2025
The MJA special issue on gender and health is out now! Available online at buff.ly/3f7UnqS Featuring research and perspectives on trans health, reproductive health and heart health
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Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · 12/10/2025
University execs come up with the dumbest excuses. And they get away with it. ‘…WSU said its "change process" was being led "by our own people" and consultants were engaged because staff working on the restructure were facing burnout.’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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University staff outraged as high-paid consultants work on redundancies
As Western Sydney University prepares to shed hundreds of staff due to its dire finances, leaked documents reveal it is paying consultants as much as $2,850 a day.
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Karen Fisher, PhD @fisherke.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
-80 freezer at -20
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
You need to understand: this administration is not merely destroying access to treatments, but the possibility that they might exist at all.
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
For more information about the Friday night massacre at CDC, I wrote up an analysis of who got terminated and what that means for public health. Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-death-...
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The Death of Public Health
Another Friday night massacre, but this time it's not just an essential federal public health agency that will die
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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Dr Jennifer Marino @drjenmarino.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
No exaggeration - I mourn the death of the US public health system
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Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · 07/10/2025
Hey, researchers/commentators! Narrative that the wrong kind of women are having too many kids while the right kind of women are having too few is grotesque. Statistical models are abstract and fail to account for the thing that makes us human: humanity. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
"That is a real problem in every western country: middle class women do not have enough kids. Women in the welfare system have lots of kids," Mr Abbott said. "If you're very wealthy you can afford to have as many kids as
you want."
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