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Jessica Briggs

@jessikator.bsky.social
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ID doc at UCSF. One of the many #womeninmalaria.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Let’s be really clear about this lettuce situation: it’s not just the destruction of public health tracking, it’s also years and years of ending regulations that would have prevented conditions causing outbreaks in the first place, combined with climate change that makes them more likely to happen.
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Jessica Briggs @jessikator.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
gold standard science: blocking the publication of findings that don't agree with your beliefs
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/03/2026
Right now, unfolding around us on a global scale, is a rich and unambiguous lesson on the dangers of fossil fuel dependence. The most obvious solution is for the affected countries to reduce their dependence through clean energy. Are you seeing that message in media?
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
A remarkably disheartening thing is you get the sense there are a handful of genuine historic fork in the road moments of what kind of country we want in our lifetime, and I still can’t shake how much during the height of Covid we had a decision of what lessons we’d all take from it and what…
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
This is the key point - it's not about Moderna's flu vaccine, it's about sending a signal to the rest of the industry that vaccine development isn't viable in the US. It's all part of the larger anti-vaccine agenda.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
"The authoritarian violence happening now is occurring in conjunction with a totalizing project from the far right and its corporate allies that, among other things, seeks to destroy public health and healthcare in the US and leave the carcass of what is left to the private sector to devour."
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Until Miller’s gone these are just gestural purges to sanitize and consolidate his reign of terror.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Every time a Trumpist or Right-wing shitbird yawps about free speech, remember they are lying trash who would use state force to suppress your speech in a heartbeat if it suited their ideology or mood. /1
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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 23/01/2026
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The existence of this agency, staffed the way it is today, is just completely incompatible with a democratic society.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
this sickness must be eradicated from public life
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/01/2026
This is, in my opinion, not only the correct moral/ethical/legal position but also the correct political framing. Everyone can see the agency is out of control; everyone can see that it is constantly violating human rights. "Scrap it and start over" is the moderate position.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
there's no answer to the question 'what's it gonna take?' but that doesn't stop it from popping into my head every goddamn time I look at the news
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Blame them and everyone who elevated them.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Multi-year funding is a dirty trick by #RussellVought. This way the #Trump administration can say they're spending what Congress appropriated for research, BUT they'll only fund 1/5 the number of grants. Call your Senators/Reps now. Science hangs in the balance. H/T @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
URGENT! Call your Senators and Representatives. #Trump and #RFKJr just slashed two billion dollars in funding for addiction and mental health services. Thanks to @5calls.org and @defendpublichealth.bsky.social for taking the lead on this. 5calls.org/issue/samhsa...
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Demand Restoration of Essential Addiction and Mental Health Funding ⭑ 5 Calls
Around midnight on January 13, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) sent grant terminations for as many as 2,800 …
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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/01/2026
conservatives: remote learning is the worst thing that ever happened also conservatives: we will invade an american city and send armed goons to its campuses to the point that they are forced to reinstitute remote learning
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Jessica Briggs @jessikator.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
This approach, of course, is quite familiar to communities that have been dealing with police abuses for as long as there have been professional police forces. In 2000, then–New York City Mayor and future Trump adviser Rudy Giuliani justified the killing of the Haitian American Patrick Dorismond by police by quipping that he was “no altar boy.” Embarrassingly for Giuliani, whose capacity for shame was overestimated even then, it turned out that Dorismond had literally been an altar boy. Dorismond’s mother responded to the campaign to justify her son’s killing with an observation that continues to haunt me decades later.

“They kill,” Dorismond said, “and after that, they kill him the other way—with the mouth.”

Taking Good’s life wasn’t enough. The moment she died, it became imperative for the administration to also destroy her memory.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
ice agents simply aren't trained well enough to be on the street. they are a genuine danger to citizens
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Global health discourse has spent 2025 treating the U.S. as withdrawing from the world. But that's not quite true: we're blackmailing countries for 25-year deals to own their data, and running unethical experiments on children in Africa. We cannot move forward as though the only problem is absence
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns. The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Statement on the Brown University shooting.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Voted yes on RFK Jr when he could have voted no. Continues to hedge, when he could act.
As a liver doctor who has treated patients with hepatitis B for decades, this change to the vaccine schedule is a mistake. The hepatitis B vaccine is safe and effective. The birth dose is a recommendation, NOT a mandate. 

Bill Cassidy on X

Before the birth dose was recommended, 20,000 newborns a year were infected with hepatitis B. Now, it’s fewer than 20. Ending the recommendation for newborns makes it more likely the number of cases will begin to increase again. This makes America sicker. 

Acting CDC Director O’Neill should not sign these new recommendations and instead retain the current, evidence-based approach.
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Not just a tragedy for America, but, given the central place the US occupies in the research ecosystem, a tragedy for the world.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”
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Interactive AIDS Quilt
The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 48,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience People around the world can experie...
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The Ferrari Lab @theferrarilab.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
I can't read this as anything other than a direct assault on the vaccine industry. Full stop. They are laying the groundwork to prevent all vaccine R&D. Not directly, but by requiring study designs for approval that are scientifically unnecessary and financially inviable.
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Jessica Briggs @jessikator.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
i deeply enjoy the legal news these days since it's the one place where competence still seems to matter and these bozos get their comeuppance regularly
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings. Hundreds of N.I.H. grants and clinical trials were cancelled, affecting thousands of patients. I worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I worried about the trials that were my only shot at remission. Early in my illness, when I
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
The extent of the damage done to public health, biomedical science, and healthcare in the US in less than a year will take a generation or more to repair. This is the scale of the destruction. Let that sink in. A new president, Congress won't be enough to reverse things fully. It's that bad.
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Jessica Briggs @jessikator.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
no more paylines anymore, just vibes grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 17/11/2025
Remind us @nytimes.com, who is it that is ruining the workplace? www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender Jef...
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Look, I know this weaponization of male academic interest is the oldest story in the book, but it’s just so, so pernicious. It’s awful to the women directly involved, but it’s also awful to *all* women in the academy, who have to live in its shadow all the time.
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online. It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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Jessica Briggs @jessikator.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
I want the Democrats to stand up to this administration and support the shutdown. But I am still devastated that my study section may not meet on Oct 29th. Already it's been so challenging to have no mechanism to submit grants with our foreign collaborators. Now this. Delays upon delays upon delays.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/10/2025
The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners. Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.
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Solar and batteries had a record-setting, grid-stabilizing summer in…
Solar has set 17 power generation records in Texas so far this year, shoring up the grid alongside batteries as some gas plant developers step back.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I can’t say I know exactly how it all would have played out, but I would much rather live in the alternate universe where the leaders of Columbia University had stood up for the institution and all of its faculty and students.
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 01/10/2025
The White House is engaging in direct extortion of local and state governments, attempting to force them to change their policies by stopping funding projects that already have signed grant agreements with the federal government.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
For at least the past 15 years, my colleagues in academia have grappled with angry letters to university officials for doing their jobs. They have weathered campaigns for their firing. They have contended with an internet army obsessed with doxxing them, their parents, their kids. I've been contacted by the F.B.I. more than once in my career. Not because I hold any important state secrets or know a biker gang but because one of my colleagues has lived with so much sustained harassment from right-wing
"activists" that it has become a matter of federal concern. Watch lists (one of which was constructed by Kirk's organization) do not distinguish between public intellectuals at wealthy enclaves and hoi polloi who teach popular classes at cash-strapped schools. In either case, an army of trained provocateurs stands ready to destroy their lives to prove their bona fides as conservative activists. That threat has been chilling speech on campuses for years.
Now it's coming for all of you.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
“‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ will be preempted indefinitely,” an ABC spokeswoman said Wednesday, as Disney leans into an authoritarian future.  www.wsj.com/business/med...
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Disney to Pull Jimmy Kimmel’s Show After Kirk Remarks
Disney said it is pulling ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s show in the wake of remarks he made about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
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Jessica Briggs @jessikator.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I have the same questions. Is anyone submitting a R01 for the 10/5 deadline with a foreign institution as prime with a sub to a US institution?
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onion person @junlper.beer · 10/09/2025
rightwing media ecosystem operates by stoking hatred and anger and divisions every single day, they want people to constantly be afraid and want people to hate eachother, everything we are seeing is a result of the destablization the right has profited off of
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Anyway Senator/Dr. Bill Cassidy could have kept RFK out of government entirely if he had actually cared
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/09/2025
The thing about living in a human society is you either decide that everyone (except those for whom it would be medically dangerous) has to take VACCINES into their bodies or everyone (with no exceptions at all) has to take VIRULENT PATHOGENS in from those around them and, look, the first is better.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." 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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/08/2025
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
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RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns
“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
We're going to have a big beautiful dark age, perhaps darker than ever before. And I think you'll be very happy
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