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Jeanne Erdmann

@jeanne-erdmann.bsky.social
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Independent health and science journalist, Contributor, The Craft of Science Writing, former executive board member Association Health Care Journalists, co-founder, @theopennotebook.bsky.social, dog lover, ice dancer, Official US Figure Skating.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026
I think the entire right wing media ecosystem was primed to make this a huge deal, they all had their talking points ready to go and this was going to be THE big gotcha that brought down Jack Smith and they are just scrambling because it turns out the whole thing was an embarrassing mistake
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Jeanne Erdmann @jeanne-erdmann.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Happy National Dog Day! Here's Milly, the shelter girl who rescued me.
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Jeanne Erdmann @jeanne-erdmann.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Happy National Dog day. Here's Milly, the shelter girl who rescue me
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Roberta Kwok @robertakwok.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Wonderful review of Lost in Curiosity in Science: "Young scientists’ passion and commitment take center stage in a moving portrait of research in action... Kwok brings readers to the wings of a play whose ending has not yet been written" www.science.org/doi/full/10.... by @vijee.bsky.social
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
RFK Jr. and Oz attacked California for its Medicaid home care, citing growth as proof of fraud. For @motherjones.com, I reported on how the growth isn't proof of fraud, and growth of participants is proof the program is more accessible than in other states. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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California does Medicaid home care well. They're being punished for it.
Republicans are deferring $850 million from the state because of unfounded fraud claims.
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Jeanne Erdmann @jeanne-erdmann.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Every story is a science story and this book is a conversation with some of the best in the business. You can order it today: www.theopennotebook.com/the-best-sci...
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The Best Science Stories and How They Work: A Collection with Commentary - The Open Notebook
An invitation to engage with some of today’s most respected science journalists as they take readers beneath the surface to tell the stories behind eleven of the best science stories.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 07/07/2026
Just thinking this morning about how many women are forced to serve up the most intimate and horrible moments of their pasts because people blast through a veritable thicket of red flags in support of a political candidate, and in retaliation, they are smeared and harassed.
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The Open Notebook @theopennotebook.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
JUST ANNOUNCED: We’re hosting a full-day workshop on editing ahead of the Outdoor Writers Association of America’s annual conference in Madison, WI on 8/21. Register by 7/31 and learn more here: www.theopennotebook.com/editing-fore...
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Editing Forensics: Hands-On Workshop to Strengthen Editing and Writing - The Open Notebook
Great writing depends on great editing—and great editing is a skill that can be learned. In this highly interactive 6-hour workshop offered in partnership with the Outdoor Writers Association of…
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Seth Fletcher @sethfletcher.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Great @deborahb.bsky.social piece on what the past tells us about the current science-policy nightmare. "Maybe it could be seen as an opportunity,” one scientist tells her. "It’s like the opportunity you have to build a better house when yours burns down.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...
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Scientists weathering Trump’s attacks on research can look to the past
It’s a complicated time to be a young scientist in America. Lessons from history can tell us what the future might hold
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
"If being in good graces of the current administration means you can't express your scientific opinion, then your organization as been corrupted'. -Justin Ryder, one of "New Orleans Five" expelled from #ADA 2026 meeting. Dozens of scientists walked out. 🧪 www.the-scientist.com/police-remov...
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Police Removed Prominent Scientists from the ADA Meeting. Researchers Respond | The Scientist
The organizers of the American Diabetes Association meeting had a group of researchers removed from the event for sharing an editorial about negative impacts of policy changes to research funding.
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Jeanne Erdmann @jeanne-erdmann.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Beyond the Noise pauloffit.substack.com?utm_campaign...
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Paul Offit | Substack
Professor of pediatrics at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; author and co-director of The Vaccine Education Center. Click to read Paul Offit, a Substack with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
This is the slow death of NIH by design. The architect is Russell Vought. He is the man who architected the RIFs & probationary terminations. He devised the multiyear funding and censorship schemes. If you don't like what you see, let's get him impeached: actionnetwork.org/forms/civil-...
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Civil Servants Demand: Impeach Russell Vought
The Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought is the central architect driving the destruction of your government. Russell Vought created lawlessness in every part of the Trump administ...
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Roberta Kwok @robertakwok.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I'm thrilled to announce that my book LOST IN CURIOSITY: Field Notes from Scientists' Adventures into the Unknown is available to pre-order now and has been chosen for Indies Introduce, the American Booksellers Association's list of best summer/fall debuts! www.instagram.com/p/DYCj597DTp... (1/N)
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Put simply, Trump cannot be permitted to exclude broadcasters whose viewpoint he disagrees with. It would be the end of the free press: F.C.C. Orders a Review of ABC’s Broadcast Licenses www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/b...
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F.C.C. Orders a Review of ABC’s Broadcast Licenses
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Jeanne Erdmann @jeanne-erdmann.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
This excellent book is out! @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social was my beloved editor @naturemedicine.bsky.social a few years back. While I miss her as an editor, I love the stories she writes. You will never look at disease - or DNA- in the same way again. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/711682...
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Beyond Inheritance by Roxanne Khamsi: 9780593541913 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
“Constantly fascinating and impeccably reported...You won’t look at yourself in the same way again.” —Ed Yong, bestselling author of An Immense World and I Contain Multitudes A...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 09/04/2026
Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.
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UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers
A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.
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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
ICE deports U.S. citizen to Mexico—racially profiled driving to work. Agents refused to look at his birth certificate or social security card—or even medical records proving born in U.S. hospital. Then they threatened him with 5 years in prison for fraud—accusing him of lying to federal officers.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 04/04/2026
Riverdale native Jayera Griffin is being recognized for her philanthropic efforts with a Compassion Award at the inaugural FECK Awards, honoring individuals for their forgiveness, empathy, compassion and kindness.
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Riverdale woman’s consistent kindness earns national recognition
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
RFK Jr. is taking away our access to new cancer screening and other preventative strategies in plain sight and he is getting away with it. The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force is not allowed to meet so they can’t issue disease prevention recommendations that must be covered under the ACA.
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Jeanne Erdmann @jeanne-erdmann.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Yikes! What @marynmck.bsky.social said...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
8 Million protesters yesterday at #NoKings. No police beaten with flag poles. No fire extinguishers thrown at other humans. No vandalism or theft. No racist flags. No zip ties. No death threats. No pipe bombs. No poop smeared on walls. That's what happens when mature, civilized people protest.
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Lisa Jarvis @lisamjarvis.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
On a recent visit to CVS, I witnessed a depressingly common scene: a man leaving w/out a prescription bc the cost was out of reach. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com is about the trade offs people are making to afford health care, whether that's meds, ER visits, or insurance coverage itself. 🎁
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Health-Care Costs Are Forcing Terrible Trade-Offs
Earlier this month, as I waited to pick up a prescription at my local CVS, I watched a man leave without his elderly father’s medication. The pharmacist had tried several tricks to lower the cost. It ...
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 27/03/2026
They really are trying their worst to destroy scientific research in the US.
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Association of Health Care Journalists @healthjournalism.org · 26/03/2026
⏳ Final countdown! Early-bird rates for #HJ26 end tomorrow. Join AHCJ in Minneapolis this year, May 27–30 — and save before rates go up. Register now: healthjournalism.org/training-eve...
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Health Journalism 2026
AHCJ and the Center for Excellence in Health Care Journalism are thrilled to bring Health Journalism 2026 to Minneapolis from May 27–30.
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Jeanne Erdmann @jeanne-erdmann.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This is so heartbreaking. I just read @drkatemarvel.bsky.social's resignation letter out loud to my husband. Too much to process anymore.
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Jeanne Erdmann @jeanne-erdmann.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Another day, another heartbreak...
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Jeanne Erdmann @jeanne-erdmann.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The @theopennotebook.bsky.social part of my DNA and is the best resource out there for journalists. And that’s why I support TON’s Page Turners Collective, a community of supporters who give monthly. If you’re able to give, please do the same! www.theopennotebook.com/donate/
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I posted a 1912 photo of a man with smallpox and someone asked if it was AI. That says something about the moment we’re living in: because of vaccination, we’re now so far removed from this virus that real images of it look fake. #medicalhistory #vaccines #vaccineswork #skystorians
A black and white photo of a man suffering from smallpox. His face is riddled with pustules.
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Jeanne Erdmann @jeanne-erdmann.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
A powerful article by @kellicaldwell.bsky.social for @themarshallproject.org. This story helped me understand how my sister-in-law could buy a handgun given her history. When she was diagnosed with early dementia, my husband just took it (illegally apparently), and she's in memory care.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Superb reporting from @katherineeban.bsky.social for @rollingstone.com on the scandal around the RFK-fueled, unethical HBV vaccine study in Guinea Bissau that horrified CDC staff, scientists and ethicists around the world. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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New Documents Reveal a Controversial Vaccine Study's Unusual Path to CDC Approval
A new investigation has found irregularities in the ethics review of a grant to study effects of a birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau.
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Jeanne Erdmann @jeanne-erdmann.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I'll be there in spirit
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Jeanne Erdmann @jeanne-erdmann.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I'm not in California but I'll say that hospice tossed out my mom in her first stint because she 'wasn't declining fast enough' Readmitted six weeks later and died shortly after. The loss of that level of care in the interim was devastating. But let's go after the dying and their families
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
"ICE officials are also investigating the couple for other crimes. They were found with a substantial amount of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. 'What are those luxury goods doing in their possession?' asked the ICE spokesman, taking a moment to adjust his mask."
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ICE Detains Undocumented Parents, Newborn
They await deportation proceedings.
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Association of Health Care Journalists @healthjournalism.org · 16/12/2025
📢 Final week to apply! SHERF Fellowship closes Dec. 19. Get mentoring, training and more — don’t wait! Apply here ➡️ healthjournalism.org/fellowships/...
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National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellowships
The SHERF fellowships are made to support early-career journalists who are pursuing careers in science, health or environmental reporting.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
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Massive four-year study finds no increase in deaths linked to COVID-19 mRNA vaccination
Data from 30 million French adults suggests COVID-19 vaccines did not lead to higher death rates. Instead, they reduced them.
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Jeanne Erdmann @jeanne-erdmann.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Congratulations! You are going to love this fellowship 💜
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The folks at @defendpublichealth.bsky.social bring you this week’s Whopper of the Week. It’s the 21st century but RFK Jr wants to take us back to the 19th. Yes. Really. Forget Pasteur. Forget Koch. Forget germ theory. We’re back to miasma and terrain theory. The dude is bonkers.
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Tara Haelle @tarahaelle.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
A great overview on what to expect from the CDC vaccine meeting tomorrow and Friday. Pay special attention to the playbook at the end — every single one of those tactics is likely to be used and is easily recognizable if you know what to look for. yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/what-to-ex...
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What to expect from this week's U.S. vaccine meeting
Hep B, routine vaccination schedule, and a firehose of falsehoods
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Yes, you still need to get your flu vaccine. Now. www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-va...
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With an absent CDC and mismatched 'subclade K' flu strain, experts face upcoming season with uncertainty
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 06/11/2025
I will translate from NPRese Scientists are alarmed because the Trump admin has gutted the CDC and USDA at a time when this virus could jump to a threat to humans anyday now. 🩺🧪
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
As I’ve explained: one of the best ways to protect your heart health is to keep up with your Covid and flu vaccinations. Don’t listen to antivaccine activists they don’t care about you or your family www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...
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Covid and Flu Can Triple Your Risk of Heart Attack
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The regime is saying it’s woke for a man to be diagnosed with breast cancer. It’s not even a joke.
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Amesh Adalja @ameshaa.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
In this video I discuss some aspects of shingles and the benefits of the shingles vaccination
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Amesh Adalja @ameshaa.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
I’m experimenting with some short videos on infectious disease topics. Here’s one on measles — highlighting some aspects that I find most important to keep in mind. Taking requests for other topics or questions I can address.
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Jeanne Erdmann @jeanne-erdmann.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Absolutely everything we do at @theopennotebook.bsky.social stems from our commitment to supporting community, equity and professional growth. If TON has helped you in any way, please consider celebrating our 15th birthday with a donation. All donations today are matched.
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Jeanne Erdmann @jeanne-erdmann.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Happy 15th Birthday to @theopennotebook.bsky.social With @siricarpenter.bsky.social at the helm we're not a little side project anymore. TON is an indispensable resource for the science journalists worldwide.
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Jeanne Erdmann @jeanne-erdmann.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
On the eve of @theopennotebook.bsky.social's 15th birthday, here are here are 15 stories we love from the archives. #TON15 🧪
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Jeanne Erdmann @jeanne-erdmann.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
From humble beginnings to fifteen years, 600 articles—over 1.5 million words. Please consider donating to @theopennotebook.bsky.social on October 24
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