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Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH

@erinabowles.bsky.social
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Director of Collaborative Science | MPH epidemiologist in breast cancer research | Focused on non-traditional career paths, musical theater, tap dancing #episky #epimasters | Posts are personal views, not my employer’s

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Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Email spam from a “scientific” journal this morning: “I really need a warm support from an ideal person like you.” 😂 😂 😂
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Just to give the TL;DR on this one: *The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.
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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
DON'T MISS AT #SER2025: 'Find your public voice: leaning into advocacy and engagement' with @britshmit.bsky.social, @gregggonsalves.bsky.social, & @zinzinator.bsky.social! I am thrilled to be chairing this exciting professional development session at #SER2025 on the Friday at 12pm! #EpiSky
Flyer for session on 'find your public voice: leaning into advocacy and engagement'
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
As 100 days in office comes up, let’s focus on the next few months: Trump is trying to stop spending at NIH to justify cutting the NIH budget. Every US scientist should be in contact with their Congressional reps about this. Get grants and money out the door soon or the money goes away.
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Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
WTF?! What on earth is happening right now?
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Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
A VA colleague just told me about this today….I don’t even know what to say. Some scary, scary times we are living in.
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Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
“No study is a better example of the enormous scientific impact of research on the prevention of chronic disease in the population, one of the stated priorities of the HHS leadership” 💔💔💔
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Maggie Fox @maggiefox.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
“The funding cuts to the landmark nationwide Women’s Health Initiative will deal a devastating blow to the health of all older adults in the U.S. and throughout the world." www.statnews.com/2025/04/22/w...
statnews.com
Women’s Health Initiative, known for hormone therapy trials, to lose federal funding
The Women's Health Initiative, the enormous study that shaped treatment of menopause and other conditions, is on the verge of shutting down.
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Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 More of this please.
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Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Great masters level epi job here!!!
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Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Thrilled to see Macy Corley present on our NCI-Kaiser Permanente Breast Cancer Survivors cohort at #aspo2025 But bummed that NCI colleagues had to pre-record talks instead of being here in person.
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Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Great cancer survivorship session this morning at #aspo2025 focused on personal experience, disparities, and sleep. And this gem: “If you’re using an alarm to wake up in the morning, you’re not getting enough sleep.” Ouch.
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Kiernan Mathews @faculty.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
An attention-grabbing thing R1 presidents could do is to announce that should NIH (etc) cuts happen, they will reappropriate all athletics allocations into research to protect the core of their academic enterprise. If presidents had the chutzpah, this could stop the administration in its tracks.
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Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Dang. Just learned ASPO (Amer soc for preventive oncology) didn’t receive their R13 conference grant from NCI for the first time ever, due to the EOs and delays. Still managed to hold a meeting this year. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #aspo2025
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Here’s what RFK Jr. has done since a measles outbreak began which has killed 3 people so far: 1. Buried a CDC report showing need for vaccination 2. Recommended vitamin A, resulting in liver damage in kids 3. Defunded vaccination clinics nationally 4. Hired a fraud to manipulate vaccine data
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Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
It gives me so much hope to see this! If I hadn’t been on a plane all day, I would have been at the protest in Seattle!
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Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
This is great but also NIH grants are never funded at the original, full amounts? I don’t remember the last time I didn’t have a 17% cut right off the top.
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I want to point out two things about yesterday's HHS cuts 1- a FDA office was cut that's completely funded by tobacco settlement dollars. The cut saved the US $0 but cost scientists their jobs & will result in unsafe/unregulated products on store shelves 2- state & local health depts will be harmed
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Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
200 people fired locally today. Never did I ever think it would get this bad. And I’m afraid it’s still going to get worse.
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Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Am honestly sick over what is happening.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
The first randomized trial comparing fecal occult blood testing (every other year) testing and (one-time) colonoscopy. No significant difference in colon cancer mortality among >56,000 participants www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @thelancet.bsky.social
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Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I have no words.
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Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Not me accidentally saving over the final tracked changes version of a manuscript with the clean version when both are required for resubmission 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️
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Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Come on NCI!
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Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Seattle Public Schools just cancelled all after school activities and meetings today…gonna be a wild one!
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Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I keep seeing ads for yoga with puppies on my IG feed and I feel like the universe is trying to tell me something. Is it do yoga? Is it get a puppy? These are very different things.
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Dr Slaughter-Acey @drslaughter99.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies
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Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
❤️
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Brilliant scientists are getting their grants terminated for committing the sin of studying people other than white, straight men who don’t live with a disability. These grants were selected for funding via a thorough review done by experts, only to be cut via a hatchet job done by idiots.
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Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
March for science in Seattle today. Thanks for your support WA state governor! @governorferguson.bsky.social
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Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
My dad lived 26 years longer than any doctor predicted thanks to cancer research. See you tomorrow, Seattle.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics. At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
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Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
🎉🎉🎉
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Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Great thread here
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Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Oh wow.
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Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
PSA Seattleites: it is 60 degrees and sunny. Go outside! Your mind and body will thank you later.
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Katherine J. Wu @katherinejwu.com · 27/02/2025
I talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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Inside the Collapse at NIH
Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.
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Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
What a huge loss for the future of science 😢
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
No one had died of measles in America for ten years, until yesterday. That 2015 death in WA was preceded by a 12y period of no US deaths. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... HHS Secretary RFK Jr. says it’s “not unusual.” apnews.com/article/meas... It is unusual. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services is
"watching" the outbreak, which he described as
"not unusual" during a Wednesday meeting of President Donald Trump's cabinet members.
The health secretary did not provide specifics on how or if the federal agency is assisting on the ground.CDC chart of measles cases, showing a profound drop off after the vaccine was introduced in 1963 and an elimination declared in 2000.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Attacks on cancer research, which is what is going on, resonate with everyone. Everyone in America, rural or urban, knows someone with cancer or worries about it themselves. Explain it to people who don’t care about science by talking about the outcomes, the cures for disease.
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Terra Field @rainofterra.gay · 24/02/2025
The public comment period for changing passports to misgender trans people is open. Please take a moment to let them know that you do not support that change.
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30-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Application for a U.S. Passport
The Department of State has submitted the information collection described below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we are requesting comments on these collections from all interested individuals and organizations....
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Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Brilliant
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Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
The West Wing
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 22/02/2025
1. Monday - fell apart 2. Tuesday - broke my heart 3. Wednesday - same 4. Thursday - didn't even start 5. Friday - I'm in love
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Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Some good news. FINALLY
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
ATTENTION: If you have received a NoA from NIH within the last 10 days, please let me know the grant number and award date. I am trying to characterize the time lag between awards and NIH Reporter. DM me if you wish or just reply
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a man holding a cup with the words wake up and smell the data on the bottom
ALT: a man holding a cup with the words wake up and smell the data on the bottom
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Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
NIH indirects case update: Hearing ongoing now, and I'll try to live tweet some notable exchanges. Prior to more detailed arguments, Judge Kelley starts off with a few point questions to both sides: (I'm paraphrasing here)
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