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Erin Kenzie

@ekenzie.bsky.social
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Assistant professor of public health // systems scientist // parent // reader // diagram nerd

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Erin Kenzie @ekenzie.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This fabulous camp is a highlight of my daughter's year. She's learned a lot of great skills and has met many awesome women in the trades.
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Sierra Club Oregon @orsierraclub.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
We've been hearing a lot about projects trying to divert PCEF dollars, but what does PCEF currently fund and what's at stake? One example is Girls Build, a summer camp that combines hands-on construction training with environmental education. katu.com/news/local/w...
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What does the Portland Clean Energy Fund pay for? Inside one program funded by PCEF
Portland leaders may redirect Clean Energy Fund dollars to police or Moda Center upgrades. KATU spotlights current PCEF grants like Girls Build, a green construction camp for foster and unhoused girls...
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Jeremy @floregonian.com · 18/07/2026
There are people on TikTok spending their precious time rating your profile pic if you send them a cowboy hat and then there are people on TikTok doing this
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
a friend recently shared this with me and i'm obsessed — it's an MTV/VH1 simulator with almost 30,000 videos (organized by decade) along with special sections for things like 120 Minutes, Unplugged, Yo! MTV Raps, and Pop-Up Video (!!!) wantmymtv.vercel.app
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MTV REWIND - I Want My MTV
Celebrating 44 years of continuous music videos. Stream classic music videos 24/7.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Following @joshuasweitz.bsky.social post and discussions with him and the Vox story, I have estimated R01 success rates for each NIH institute and center with enough awards for this to be meaningful. A long 🧵... 1/25
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Erin Kenzie @ekenzie.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Looking forward to this session next week!
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
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Erin Kenzie @ekenzie.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Reporting from war-torn Portland. Dropped my daughter off for theater class and now drinking a vegan sipping chocolate & reading a book while watching people exit the symphony. A guy in a care bear onesie just scootered past. It's rough out here.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
We are alive at time of massive self-organization of systems. If you look you'll see the responses everywhere, where the pieces of projects for the common good are caught and lifted back up before they fall fully to pieces. I'm excited to watch this one develop and maybe help it along.
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Caroline Hu @hudrewthis.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Seeking scientist volunteers for this fall! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? I need collaborators for the next cohort of SciComm & Comics art and design students. All countries and scientific fields eligible.
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Yale School of Public Health @yalesph.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Between 35 -40% of pregnant women and parents of young kids in the U.S. plan to fully vaccinate their child according to medical guidance. Dean @meganranney.bsky.social discusses the current challenges of promoting important vaccines. Read more ⬇️ accuracy.org/release...
A doctor places a bandaid on the arm of a child.
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Leora Horwitz @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Heard from #AHRQ that the entire grants staff has been let go! They are unable to issue funds for grants already funded, let alone fund new grants. This is outrageous and will make Americans poorer and sicker. Why? A brief thread about just some recent AHRQ-funded research: #MedSky #HealthPolicy
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Erin Kenzie @ekenzie.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
This is bonkers. And a very bad sign for science.
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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
We simply cannot afford a doom loop for TriMet. Reduction in service will lead to a reduction in ridership, leading to declining fares, more cuts, 🔁 The cost will be increased congestion, further deterioration in PBOT assets and of course emissions. We can’t afford that. Call your state reps.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I wanted to show support for these brave public servants and to allow others, including the scientific community, to join me. In partnership with @standupforscience.bsky.social‬, we have a way for you to do that... www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
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Bethesda Declaration — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Support NIH Staff Now!
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Erin Kenzie @ekenzie.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
LLMs as mansplainers. That tracks. Helpful thread about limits of LLM historical knowledge:
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 06/05/2025
You use federal science every day—whether you know it or not. Weather forecasts, food safety alerts, job reports—these are powered by federal data. NPR just did a great piece on how deeply this science shapes our daily lives.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?"
"Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
This guy is trying to dismantle vaccination in the US 😳 If there is no vaccine against a disease, of course a new vaccine is tested against placebo (as was the case with COVID vaccines). But if there is an existing vaccine, and a company brings out a new product, it’s unethical to use a placebo 🤦🏻‍♂️
Washington post headline about RFK Jr requiring a shift in how new vaccines are tested- all new vaccines requiring a placebo arm
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Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
BTW. If you’re a scientist and are feeling hollowed out, depressed, fried, frustrated, confused, and simply exhausted by everything, I understand you. You are perfectly sane and you are not alone.
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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
You want to hear what "return on investment" means in relation to NSF funding? I know you do...
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Erin Kenzie @ekenzie.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
This feels like getting my hair cut on March 7, 2020 and knowing it was my last normal outing for a long time because the world was about to change.
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Stuart Neil @tetherin.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
I’m a virologist who has been studying HIV in one way or another since 1997. In the last 2-3 years there has been a sea change. The new drugs spearheaded by LENC show that we can make the tools to halt HIV with will and commitment. And just as we arrive at this point, MAGA is killing that hope.
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Nathan Lo @nathanlo.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
🧵1/N New study published in @jama.com on re-emergence of vaccine-eliminated infectious diseases under declining vaccination in the US. We model long-term risk and conditions for return to endemicity for measles, rubella, polio, & diphtheria. Collab w/ @Mathewkiang.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I made a timeline of all the actions in Trump's (almost) first 100 days that have upended science and health. It was staggering to me to see it all in one place, even though I reported on many on these events. www.statnews.com/2025/04/24/t...
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Day by day, how Trump is roiling science and health
STAT is tracking, day by day, what's happened in the words of science and health during the first months of the Trump administration.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/04/2025
NEW: The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from. By @abrahm.bsky.social
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White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On
Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM Implementation of Schedule F This is what a lot of us have been worried about. This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs. BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD... 1/n
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ALT: the word alert is in a purple circle
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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I have discovered over the last 94 days that the cancellation of longitudinal scientific studies is deeply gutting to me. The very fact that humanity ever got its shit together enough to collaboratively study the world around us, passing the torch btw generations, is evidence that we can be better
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Erin Kenzie @ekenzie.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Even if this gets challenged in court, damage will be done. People from universities will avoid applying for NIH funding out of fear that funding will be clawed back or tied up in litigation, if even awarded. Shoddy biased think tanks will emerge to snatch up funding and churn out hack "studies."
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 22/04/2025
A Lancet preprint estimates that if US funding is cut and not replaced, from 2025-2040 there will be 15.2 mil add'l AIDS deaths, 2.2 mil add'l TB deaths, 7.9 mil add'l child deaths from other causes, and 40-55 mil add'l unplanned pregnancies. @altusaid.altgov.info papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
A line graph of estimated AIDS-related deaths from 2025 through 2040 in 55 PEPFAR-supported countries. The Y axis is estimated number of deaths and ranges from 200,000 to 2 million. The X axis is years and ranges from 2010 to 2040. There is a black line labeled “historical trend” from 2010 to 2025 showing a decrease in deaths from 1.2 million to ~420,000. Then in 2025 the black line splits into three scenarios: 1) a dashed green line showing deaths if USAID were to increase, 2) a dashed blue line showing deaths if USAID remained at 2024 levels, and 3) a dashed red line showing deaths if USAID stopped and was not replaced. In scenario 1 (funding increased) deaths continue to decrease from ~420,000 to 200,000. In scenario 2 (funding stays the same) deaths stay the same at 420,000. In scenario 3 (funding cut and not replaced) deaths increase from ~420,000 to 1.7 million.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The proposal by Bhattacharya to use data from Indian Health Services to study autism is outrageous and should be fought tooth and nail. I have had the honor of working with Tribes on research projects. The steps for approval are many and lengthy, as they should be for this vulnerable population.
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Erin Kenzie @ekenzie.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
This is scary and goes far beyond "just tweak the language."
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
What’s the point in accumulating influence if you only use it to advocate positions that are already popular? What does it say about you when you’re unwilling to expend your clout to stop a humanitarian catastrophe because the moral, decent position is polling 5 points underwater?
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Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
This statement from the NSF is insane. Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false. Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 18/04/2025
Everyone who every worked with, volunteered for, or was supported by @americorps.bsky.social, please share and sign. This is both a public petition but also an effort to find and connect anyone tied to AmeriCorps - access to the alumni database managed by the program was cut off.
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URGENT: Stand with AmeriCorps now!
AmeriCorps -- the community service agency of the American people -- is being dismantled by Elon Musk and DOGE. We are AmeriCorps staff, alumni, and supporters of its important mission of service to A...
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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
The plan for NIH is in, source with full 64 page proposal for all of HHS is linked. Reported in WaPo. This is catastrophic. Reduction to 8 centers. 40% cut in budget. 15% IDC cap. This will decimate science across America open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
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Sylvia at Tono Latino @tonolatino.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Kilmar Abrego Garcia lived in Maryland with his wife and their three children, and has never been charged with any crime. The Department of Homeland Security issued him a work permit, and he joined a union, working full time as a sheet metal apprentice.
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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 15/04/2025
This should be the template for every university’s website: let the public know what they gain from research and what they stand to lose. www.harvard.edu
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Harvard University
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
This part
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Science Magazine @science.org · 10/04/2025
All Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientists who provided training on concussions in youth sports were fired last week. scim.ag/4jsdSiL
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CDC firings gut research on traumatic brain injuries
Last week’s mass layoffs removed small team studying concussions
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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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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 05/04/2025
Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING #handsoff
Portland OR Hands Off Rally
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
For the people who used to ask 'Why do you have to be so political?' I hope that it's now obvious why. Healthcare is political. Housing is political. Education is political. The air we breathe, the water we drink —it's all shaped by policy and power. Ignoring that is a political choice.
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Erin Kenzie @ekenzie.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
"America’s young scientists [...] want to imagine a better world, and they want to pursue that dream here in the United States. If the country’s leadership continues with its plans, however, we will see the brightest minds of the next generation disappear with their dreams."
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 01/04/2025
I swear to fucking god some of y'all need to learn the social psychological importance of narrative construction and the sociopolitical dynamics and mechanics of myth
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
A hundred years ago, the average life expectancy was <50. Today, it is ~80. What made the difference? Public Health. Public health, however, is not some magic entity happening in a vacuum - it requires people. Without those people, there can be no Public Health. That serves no one. Wake up.
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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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Erin Kenzie @ekenzie.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Fascinating paper. The former philosophy major in me is always excited to see smart philosophy of science work break into the biomedical bubble. I'll definitely consider this in future systems modeling of TBI recovery: doi.org/10.3389/fneu...
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Frontiers | The Dynamics of Concussion: Mapping Pathophysiology, Persistence, and Recovery With Causal-Loop Diagramming
Despite increasing public awareness and a growing body of literature on the subject of concussion, or mild traumatic brain injury, an urgent need still exist...
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵
US map via scienceimpacts.org visualization of economic loss due to IDC cuts to 15% as part of Feb 7, 2025 executive order, with shading denoting intensity of cuts.
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