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Geoff Holm

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Virologist and undergraduate educator

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Last Friday, Trump fired the National Science Board. The NSB is made up of distinguished scientists whose job is to oversee the National Science Foundation, setting research priorities by thinking beyond election cycles. It was designed to be independent. We don't know what this means, but it's bad.
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Trump Fired The Entire National Science Board. Here's Why That Matters
Trump fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees NSF. The institutional design that built American science is at stake.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Jim is one of our nation’s most eminent virologists. Allowing the flu to spread among our troops is a national security issue, putting military preparedness at risk. This is how deep the rot is among this country’s leadership.
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Influenza
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Matt Ridley gave the inaugural "NIH Scientific Freedom Lecture Series" earlier today and I just wanted to run through some of the main claims he made - you'll be unsurprised to learn that almost all of them are false. Here's his summary slide - let's start there. 🧵👇
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Geoff Holm @ghholm.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Chuck Norris didn't die, he forced Death to take him along for the ride...
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Geoff Holm @ghholm.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
This is insane. Marty Makary, Vinay Prasad, Tracy Beth Hoeg and RFK Jr are a collective menace.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
This piece by @helenbranswell.bsky.social is great. I do have to say I chuckled when she said: "has reducing the number of diseases all children are [...] vaccinated against to 11 from 18 brought the US in line with most other [...] countries? Two words. No and no." www.statnews.com/2026/01/09/c...
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When it comes to vaccine schedules, the U.S. is now the outlier
A STAT analysis of vaccine recommendations in 38 countries suggests the U.S. is now an outlier.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
This is so incredibly heart-breaking. To Jay Bhattacharya and Matthew Memoli at NIH--you have betrayed the entire scientific community. Deeply committed staff are leaving in droves--because you are destroying the institution. Shame on you. www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...
statnews.com
The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left
“We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
The come back of pertussis and Measles is only the beginning of the resurgence of preventable infectious diseases in the US. This has been one of the biggest public health failures of 2025 and the competition is tough. www.cnn.com/2025/12/30/h...
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The US has seen nearly 28,000 whooping cough cases this year. Here’s what you need to know | CNN
For the second year in a row, the US has surpassed 25,000 whooping cough cases — another sign of the risks of falling vaccination levels.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
We see that Bhattacharya's opinion is highly valued within HHS. "Dr. Koroshetz's performance as Director has been exceptional; however the Department of Health and Human Services elected to pursue a leadership transition." Not even the integrity for anyone (e.g. RFK, Jr.) to claim responsibility.
An email from NIH Director Bhattacharya stating that the removal of Walter Koroshetz was at the direction of the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
On #DavidRemnick. The @newyorker.com has some great science writers. But there is an affinity high-up for COVID contrarianism: Jessica Winter's piece on school closures, Dan Immerwahr's ode to "In COVID's Wake," & the best of 2025 for that book. 1/
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Let’s be clear. This is about cronyism and patronage. The authoritarian and his minions get to decide what science is and who gets to do it. Everything is Lysenkoism now. And it will end in the same way: human suffering and the fall of a nation’s science. Tragedy All around.
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Anyone else find it alarming that the FDA Commissioner is sharing deranged conspiracy theories about HIV coming from a lab and Lyme disease being a bioweapon made by Nazi war criminals in a USDA lab during the Cold War? Just me? rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/commission...
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Commissioner Makary Brings the Quackery
FDA is currently collapsing so great time for the Commish to hit the Plum Island bioweapon conspiracy theory podcast circuit
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
One of several reasons we are moving forward with impeachment instead of continued toothless calls for resignation: we are just at the tip of the iceberg in terms of harm caused by this man. Sign you name to endorse the articles and pester your reps here: www.standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
standupforscience.net
Stand Up for Science Campaign to Impeach and Remove RFK Jr — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
RFK Jr. is endangering our families, threatening our health, and destroying our place as the world leader in biomedical research. Impeachment is an extreme option, but Bobby is an extreme threat and m...
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Alex Crits-Christoph @acritschristoph.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
It's just crazy how this entire viral story was because someone made up a sequencing date that wasn't true. And the thing is, they may have almost got away with it! When something is a (partially) unsolved mystery for years, you risk losing the chance to ever solve it....
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
As for the #ACIP meeting today, this is the only thing you need to watch. And, to be clear, you do need to watch this.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Jay Bhattacharya and Matthew Memoli aren't bringing "gold standard science" to the #NIH, they are gutting research slowly but surely. When this time is over, they should be hauled before Congress, and shunned for the rest of their lives. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article)
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
“All I can say is ‘Wake up, America. This administration wants to take your vaccines away from you. And they’re on a path to do that,’” Michael Osterholm, director of @cidrap.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/11/20/c...
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Under RFK Jr., CDC reverses course on stance that vaccines don’t cause autism
A CDC website now promotes the debunked idea of a link between vaccines and autism.
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
I really did not enjoy Jay Bhattacharya & Matthew Memoli’s screed against pandemic & virology research for the flagship blog of a “free-market think tank." Instead of getting mad, I accepted @jeremyfaust.bsky.social's kind invitation to take a factual & scientific blowtorch to it.
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DrArchivalGenomics @ehekkala.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
🧪🔭🧬🔬🦠🌎😡👇
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Not surprising, but maddening. Such a loss of talent! www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
After months in limbo, four NIH institute directors fired
Two leaders removed by Trump administration had hoped to stay at agency as in-house investigators
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
A brief bluetorial about VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) Self-reported data about adverse effects occurring contemporaneously with vaccinations are useful but have many limitations
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a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
ALT: a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
My latest commentary with the Baker Institute @riceuniversity.bsky.social www.bakerinstitute.org/research/new...
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New COVID-19 Vaccine Restrictions and Their Impact | Baker Institute
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently authorized updated COVID-19 vaccines to protect against the latest strain. Unlike earlier rollouts, this authorization comes with added restrictions. In ...
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
“I was told to preapprove the recommendations of a vaccine advisory panel newly filled with people who have publicly expressed antivaccine rhetoric.” If ACIP recs are approved without reviewing evidence, it’s not an advisory panel. It’s a rubber stamp. www.wsj.com/opinion/robe...
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Opinion | Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC and Me
I was fired after 29 days because I held the line and insisted on rigorous scientific review.
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Preventing polio in schoolchildren is slavery. Florida parents, pushback is on you. Freedom measles. Freedom polio, now. Get mad — you don’t have to be polite with extremist nutjobs like this. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Florida moves to end all school vaccine mandates, first in nation to do so
Florida Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladapo criticized school vaccine mandates, which every state has, and likened them to slavery.
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Brian Wasik @brianrwasik.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I've held conversations with skeptical parents. I've fielded questions about mRNA vaccines during COVID. I will do so again and again. They deserve my time. These Merchants of Death -- politicians and grifters who exploit anxiety for their own profit and ideology -- get NONE of my grace.
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 03/09/2025
For all the attn to RFK Jr. as HHS Sec, FL SG Joseph Ladapo was the canary in the coalmine/early test case of what happens when antivax/anti-sci types get appointed in positions of power. Desantis appointee that legitimated his policies, but I still wldn't have guessed DeSantis wld go this far.
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Florida surgeon general says state will eliminate all vaccine mandates
"Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery," Joseph Ladapo said. "Who am I to tell you what your child should put in [their] body?"
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Geoff Holm @ghholm.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
False. Early post-dose adverse events are not wholesale reassigned to the unvaccinated group; they are tracked explicitly (often as partially vaccinated or by days since dose). This man is either dumb or lying. You tell me.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
RFK Jr will testify before the Senate Finance committee on Thursday. Should be interesting. Hopefully the Senators are ready to hold his feet to the fire and flatly call out his lies.
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
“This is unacceptable, and it should alarm every American, regardless of political leanings.” -almost every former living CDC Director with the conspicuous exception of lab leaker-turned-anti-vax fabulist Robert Redfield www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
RFK Jr receiving the coveted Stephen Miller endorsement for scientific credibility is like an arsonist being praised by a pyromaniac for his firefighting skills
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Right now, your ability to get access to a COVID vaccine this fall is in jeopardy, whether or not you fit the new, restricted eligiblity criteria. Please send a letter to your member of Congress here. And spread the word. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/writ...
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Write members of Congress - Will COVID-19 vaccines be available this fall?
It is clear that HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is on a dangerous and fast-moving path to make COVID-19 vaccines totally unavailable here in the U.S. With COVID-19 cases on the rise in many parts of the US an...
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
This is RFK Jr.'s doing. He must go. He's coming for your children's vaccines next. The US is going to be one, big Petri dish soon enough. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
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CVS Holds Off on Offering Covid Vaccines in 16 States
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
#RFKResign RFK Jr is corrupt. He’s paid by law firms that sue vaccine companies. It’s a conflict of interest for him to blow up vaccines: he profits from that. Resign or be impeached and removed.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Hey @chrismurphyct.bsky.social and @blumenthal.senate.gov, Connecticut native, constituent, and Yale public health professor here: this is the right moment. I will literally do anything. Make me wait 10 hours for a 2 minute walk and talk meeting with your lowliest intern, and I will make the case.
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Demetre Daskalakis @drdemetre.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
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Breaking News: Read three top CDC officials' resignation emails.
The end of an era.
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Katie Insel @katieinsel.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
This SCOTUS decision is not just about what words we can and cannot say in our grants. This ruling will destroy the careers of many scientists, and it will hit trainees and early career researchers the hardest. The future of scientific training and research innovation is at stake.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Yesterday the Supreme Court issued a convoluted, 36-page emergency order about NIH grant terminations. Two main takeaways: -$2 billion (not the government # of $780 million) in NIH grants will likely be re-terminated -future legal challenges will be much harder w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social:
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US Supreme Court allows NIH to cut $2 billion in research grants
The decision will hinder lawsuits against grant terminations, legal specialists say.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
A powerful piece from Bloomberg about the damage being done to NIH. 1/2
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
These are the sorts of attacks on experts that resulted in a domestic terrorist firing 500 shots at the CDC just over a week ago. If you stand for evidence based public health interventions, you basically get a target placed on your back by DHHS leadership. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
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RFK Jr. attacks pediatricians’ group over vaccine recommendations
The American Academy of Pediatrics had earlier urged parents to get young children vaccinated against Covid — pushing back against the health secretary’s stance.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
My Letter to the Editor in the Washington Post is online [Gift Link] wapo.st/415HpYM 1/4
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Opinion | AMA president: NIH is wrong to pivot from mRNA vaccines
Trump once oversaw historic mRNA vaccine development. Why is he abandoning it?
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
In what proportions is our new NIH Director a flaming ignoramus vs. a brazen liar?
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NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya on mRNA tech: 

"The next step is [to halt] the mRNA platform itself... the manufacturer has no idea what dose they're giving, no idea where it goes in the body, and whether they are producing off-target antigens"
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
You can be articulate with expletives and sarcasm. At least I think I fucking can.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
That honestly seems to be Battacharya's problem. He thought COVID would be like other coronaviruses (despite it being novel, with zero immunity in the population 🤷‍♂️), was wrong, and is causing increasingly immense harm to justify the fantasy world in his head.
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Stuart Neil @tetherin.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Like other seasonal respiratory viruses, the vaccine needs updating each year. We are still working out the rules for this, and even how much or who often they really need updating to provide protection from serious illness But they were an unqualified success.
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Stuart Neil @tetherin.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Now this lying POS, who spent the entire pandemic being wrong about everything and pretending he was being silenced when he was called on his bullshit, has been given a job he is unqualified for. And he is vandalizing US biomed science for revenge.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
This op-ed from NIH director Jay Bhattacharya is *infuriating*. He says we have to stop funding mRNA vaccine research because it hasn't "earned public trust." Motherfucker, WHO DID THAT.
washingtonpost.com
Opinion | Jay Bhattacharya: Why the NIH is pivoting away from mRNA vaccines
As a vaccine for broad public use, mRNA technology has failed to earn the public’s trust.
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I cannot emphasize enough that the playbook being used against mRNA vaccines (and vaccines in general) is IDENTICAL to the playbook used to restrict voting rights after the 2020 election: actively sow public distrust, then cite the distrust you sowed as an independent reason for your desired policy
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Opinion | Jay Bhattacharya: Why the NIH is pivoting away from mRNA vaccines
As a vaccine for broad public use, mRNA technology has failed to earn the public’s trust.
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