Reposted by Nicole GottdenkerMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 27/04/2026The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca... 247972664
Reposted by Nicole GottdenkerJim Alwine @jimalwine.bsky.social · 21/04/2026An emerging contageous virus, like a flu virus, will easily spread in the confines of a military base or a military operation…unless the troops are vaccinated. So the brilliant leaders of HHS and DOD decide to stop protecting the troops by no longer requiring flu vaccination. In 1918, before 513854
Reposted by Nicole GottdenkerProf Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 22/04/2026This is one of the saddest pieces I’ve read in a long time; brace yourself, it’s devastating I wish RFK Jr and his MAHA movement would read it (they won’t) 🎁 Link www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know. 37546
Nicole Gottdenker @gottdenk.bsky.social · 09/03/2026aje.news/f5f4ypaje.newsWhich US and Israeli military companies are profiting from the Iran war?Defence stocks reach all-time highs, driven by need to produce billions of dollars of weapons systems. 022
Reposted by Nicole GottdenkerGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Please, please click the link and send a letter to your senators today. 43621
Reposted by Nicole GottdenkerDimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage. 13866007418639
Reposted by Nicole GottdenkerDaniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Attention folks in the weather, climate, disaster, wildfire, and Earth science communities: NSF has just published a new "Dear Colleague" letter inviting feedback (by Mar 13) on the proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). www.nsf.gov/funding/... 6499415
Reposted by Nicole GottdenkerAlt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 09/01/2026It breaks our hearts to have to say that CDC is no longer a source for evidence-based vaccine recommendations. 💔 But we are so proud of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) for stepping up to protect kids. ❤️🩹 Childhood vaccine schedule from AAP 👇 downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP-... 3740183
Reposted by Nicole GottdenkerGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 06/01/2026RFK Jr.'s new Tuskegee experiment: an HBV vaccine trial in Guinea Bissau. pauloffit.substack.com/p/rfk-jrs-tu...pauloffit.substack.comRFK Jr.’s Tuskegee ExperimentRFK Jr. recently directed the CDC to fund a study in West Africa that lays bare his cruelty and dishonesty 27952
Reposted by Nicole GottdenkerAdam Hayward @adhayward.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Exciting and varieed PhD on Eimeria species diversity and interaction with the host microbiome in sheep: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...findaphd.comInvestigating the gut parasite Eimeria in UK sheep: parasite species diversity and impacts on the gut microbiome (project at University of Surrey) at University of Reading on FindAPhD.comPhD Project - Investigating the gut parasite Eimeria in UK sheep: parasite species diversity and impacts on the gut microbiome (project at University of Surrey) at University of Reading, listed on Fin... 032
Reposted by Nicole GottdenkerGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 06/12/2025I woke up this morning to see that many states across the country have decided to #REJECT the decision to scrap the #HBV vaccine birth dose by #ACIP. Here are some (alt-text included). But who will be left behind? 1/ 25554185
Reposted by Nicole GottdenkerGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 04/10/2025Sound familiar? Trump and Mussolini are two peas in a pod. "Only twelve out of some 1200 university professors refused to swear [their allegiance to Mussolini] in 1931." Who will bow down to fascism a century later? blognostrumuva.wordpress.com/2017/04/11/t...blognostrumuva.wordpress.comThe Italian university professors’ oath of allegiance to fascism (1931)«I swear fidelity to the King, to his Royal successors and to the Fascist regime, and I swear to respect the [National Fascist Party’s] Statute and the other laws of the State, and to fulfil … 28337
Reposted by Nicole GottdenkerCharles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 21/09/2025www.thenation.com/article/poli...thenation.comThreatening Vulnerable People Is No Way to Mourn Someone Who Was MurderedThose who had nothing to do with the violence against Charlie Kirk are being menaced—just like always. 2133
Nicole Gottdenker @gottdenk.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Students hanging with turtles outside the Odum School of Ecology Building 120
Reposted by Nicole GottdenkerBritish Science Association @britsciassoc.bsky.social · 12/09/2025If you missed Dr Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas at British Science Festival in Liverpool yesterday talking about her work to connect animals through tech, check this out! 🦜💻 #BSF25 072
Reposted by Nicole GottdenkerSeptima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 11/09/2025Yesterday I wrote about how Turning Point put many of us on the Professor Watchlist What I didn't write about was the years of harassment from the right, including rape, deportation & death fantasies that played out in my messages, comments in the stories about me & voice mails. That’s his legacy. 211644
Nicole Gottdenker @gottdenk.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Do better, People magazine 🤣 that's a weevil not a kissing bug 😉 020
Reposted by Nicole GottdenkerDemetre Daskalakis @drdemetre.bsky.social · 31/08/2025abcnews.go.com/Politics/for...abcnews.go.comFormer CDC immunizations chief: ‘I only see harm coming’ with RFK Jr. leading HHSFormer CDC immunizations chief Dr. Demetre Daskalakis said he’s concerned with the direction the agency is going and about people’s health care needs going forward. 920864
Reposted by Nicole GottdenkerThe Ferrari Lab @theferrarilab.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Excited to announce a search for an Associate or Full Professor in Infectious Disease Modeling at Penn State's Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics. Details at link and below. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.comFull or Associate Professor in Infectious Disease ModelingAPPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a... 12631
Reposted by Nicole Gottdenker💢Marx Was Right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 01/07/2025The rich can build a prison in 24 hours, but just not homeless shelters. 66613195
Reposted by Nicole Gottdenkerravindra-raut.bsky.social @ravindra-raut.bsky.social · 16/06/2025🧬Happy Transposon Day! 🎉Each year on the 16th of June we commemorate the birthdate of the founder of transposable element research, Barbara McClintock (1902-1992). #TransposonDay2025 #MobileDNAjournal 05516
Reposted by Nicole GottdenkerCas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 16/05/2025It’s just all so dark, so perverse, so sick. 3619
Reposted by Nicole GottdenkerDr. Suzanne Le Menestrel @drsl.bsky.social · 02/05/2025The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...spencer.orgRapid Response Bridge Funding ProgramIn the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap... 4614505
Reposted by Nicole GottdenkerRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 11/04/20253 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain developmentcbsnews.comCDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffsThe CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts. 8322105510460
Reposted by Nicole GottdenkerJoshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Update via #SCIMaP now broken down by house districts Our interdisciplinary team has expanded efforts to communicate the economic impacts of White House proposed cuts to health research. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org 35542
Reposted by Nicole Gottdenker👻 Spooky Elle 🎃🧙🏼♀️🍄 @hecatestorch.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Just found out NIH has officially canceled our grant, a longitudinal study of Alzheimer's disease in Black Americans. I cannot even put into words how angry I am. The truth is they are canceling it because it has Black in the title. That's it, there is no other reason to do this. 501826785
Nicole Gottdenker @gottdenk.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Visited the Legacy Museum and Sculpture Garden in Montgomery, Alabama today. A critically important place and a must-see. 010
Reposted by Nicole GottdenkerCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 18/03/2025The Great Barrington Declaration, but for chickens. RFK Jr. is truly the stupidest motherfucker.nytimes.comRFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread (Gift Article)The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say. 1171946469
Reposted by Nicole GottdenkerAndrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Since I’ve now completely abandoned the other site and am still relatively new here, I’ll flag a few pieces I published this year. For @aaup.bsky.social on Du Bois, higher ed labor, and the idea of the university as a member cooperative. 1/ www.aaup.org/article/towa...aaup.orgToward the Cooperative University: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Membership in the AAUPIn 1937, at the tender age of sixty-nine, W. E. B. Du Bois paid a $4 membership fee and joined the American Association of University Professors. Du Bois was several years into his second stint as a p... 1010940
Reposted by Nicole GottdenkerVijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Trump’s Nationalist Conservative White Christian Agenda by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research (authored By Deborah Veneziale, Senior Fellow): mronline.org/2025/02/28/t... (in Chinese: www.guancha.cn/DeborahVenez...).mronline.orgTrump’s Nationalist Conservative White Christian Agenda | MR OnlineThe Trump-orchestrated blitzkrieg exposition of a Nationalist Conservative White Christian Agenda raises a series of questions, including: What are the internal contradictions within the US ruling cla... 0123
Reposted by Nicole GottdenkerDr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 26/02/2025 Recuerden que el viernes se hace boycott económico. No compren nada. Ni echen gasolina. No usen tarjeta de crédito. Háganse sentir. 075
Reposted by Nicole GottdenkerGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Congress is about to cut #Medicaid by $880 billion. CALL THESE REPS. They are vulnerable--close margins in their elections and with lots of people in Medicaid in their districts. You may call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121. List below. Call now and all day tomorrow. 1/ 8238114
Reposted by Nicole GottdenkerTrends in Parasitology @cp-trendsparasitol.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Register for the Cell Press webinar #LandHealth: Preventing #Zoonoses #Spillover on March 5: hubs.li/Q036zpC80 Keynote: Kris Murray Panelists: @clfaust.bsky.social @gottdenk.bsky.social Eric Lambin & Paula Prist Moderators: Catherine Tait & @ryanperry404.bsky.social 145
Reposted by Nicole GottdenkerGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 15/02/2025They have killed the Epidemic Intelligence Service AKA “the disease detectives.” These are the experts on the frontlines protecting us from new and old infectious disease threats. Gone. In tbe stroke of a pen. 18255103
Reposted by Nicole GottdenkerDr. Tom Frieden @drtomfrieden.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Epidemic intelligence service officers are the cream of the cream. They're top doctors, veterinarians & other health professionals. They sign up for a two-year training program to serve the country. Not only is terminating them bad for the country, it's also a disgraceful violation of a commitment. 230293
Reposted by Nicole GottdenkerAlan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate? www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...sussex.ac.ukUniversity announces new scholarships for Palestinian studentsThese scholarships will provide fully-funded support for two Palestinian students, with a particular focus on those impacted by the conflict in Gaza 4338369
Reposted by Nicole GottdenkerDionne Warwick @dionnewarwick.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Happy MLK Day. 410587638562
Reposted by Nicole GottdenkerChloé Lahondère @lahonderelab.bsky.social · 10/12/2024I created a starter pack highlighting Women in the field of Disease Vector Biology and Ecology: go.bsky.app/E7wuQus Please share and let me know if you’d like to be added! 🦟🦠🪰 187346
Reposted by Nicole GottdenkerMethods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 28/11/2024📖Published📖 Our new research article introduces a novel, non-invasive method to estimate the 3D body size (volume) of pinnipeds (seals, sea lions and walruses) that will allow monitoring at high spatial and temporal scale 🌎 🧪 Read more here👇buff.ly 092