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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/05/2025

Salt Lake City, Utah, and Boise, Idaho, adopted official Pride flags on Tuesday in response to state laws barring the display of any nonofficial flags at schools and government buildings.

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Salt Lake City and Boise Adopt Official Pride Flags in Response to State Laws

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Josh Barocas, MD ⭕️ @jabarocas.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Don’t tell me you care about children’s health when you dissolve the CHILDHOOD LEAD POISONING PREVENTION branch at the #CDC.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

On Feb 24, I gave a lecture at UW explaining what my team's decade-plus research on online rumors during crises reveals about the right wing "bullshit machine." Fittingly, a lightning strike impacted the original audio. Here's a fixed version w/ the full transcript: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjiG...

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A Spotlight on Rumors

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The whole economic and political system from left to right is geared towards economic growth based on the total annihilation of the natural world And this is called progress And anyone who says otherwise is mocked as a freak and a clown but we all know who the real clowns are

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

The first measles death in the US since 2015. In a school-aged child who was not vaccinated. Senseless tragedy. Measles is no joke. And there are many outcomes from measles infection other than death that we should also care about and try to prevent. Everything about this was entirely preventable.

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John Lynch @johnlynchid.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Interested in why people who think that vaccines are harmful vote to support RFK jr but also vote to support the below? No vaccines, but yes to formaldehyde+other unrestricted toxins? She Lobbied for a Carcinogen. Now She’s at the E.P.A., Approving New Chemicals. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/c...

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She Lobbied for Formaldehyde. Now She’s at E.P.A. Approving New Chemicals.

Lynn Dekleva, who recently took a senior role at the agency, once led an aggressive effort by industry to block regulations on formaldehyde.

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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

We should send newly confirmed expert, RFK Jr. to Wuhan so he can expose himself to this new virus and let us know if everything is ok. If he looks good after a few months they can send him back home! 😜 I’m sure he wouldn’t want to endanger anyone with vaccines! www.newsweek.com/new-coronavi...

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New coronavirus discovered in Chinese bats sparks alarm

The virus binds to humans in a similar way to the virus that causes COVID-19.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/02/2025

The breadth and scope of cowardice amongst our scientific leadership is staggering.

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Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This is unbelievable—the chaos occurring in our country right now is impossible to put into words. Firing officials working on #H5N1 bird flu ‘by accident’ as it continues to spread isn’t just incompetence, it’s putting lives at stake for politics. We can’t afford this kind of recklessness.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Here’s some positive H5N1 news for a change: conditional approval for poultry vaccines made by Zoetis for chickens. Why didn’t we do this sooner? The answer is more complex than you might think. www.science.org/content/arti...

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U.S. conditionally approves vaccine to protect poultry from avian flu

The decision brings U.S. poultry farmers a step closer to immunizing their flocks

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Liv Coleman @livcolemanfl.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Listen to legendary, brilliant political science professor Stathis Kalyvas, of Oxford University today, previously of Yale University, NYU, and OSU. He gets it. Read my previous posts to see the larger news context.

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

“When I hear about us leaving WHO . . . , we’re cutting out the EIS — a chill goes up my spine. Because I realize that we’re dealing with people who are in a different reality. They don’t understand public health. They don’t understand what it was like to encounter the dangers of the past.”

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Washington State Department of Health @doh.wa.gov · 12/02/2025

We're expediting sex designation change requests on birth certificates. People born in WA who want to change the sex designation on their birth certificate can do so by filing a request with us. . doh.wa.gov/DesignationC...

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Sex Designation Change on a Birth Certificate

We are currently processing requests in three (3) business days. Please allow up to two (2) weeks for delivery and mail time for ordered certificates.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Young scientists are worried for their future and careers. Some people are reveling on n that. They seem to be really enjoying the moment. They have “no sympathy”. Imagine saying that to many people who are rightly worried about their jobs and income. They dream of firing more people.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025

I’ve been seething and grieving since yesterday’s Friday Night Massacre of NIH overheads, a seeming bit of bureaucratic trivial that will in fact destroy the US university system if unchecked. But I want to get away from budgets and rate breakdowns and F&A percentages for a moment. Humor me?

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

This change will accomplish one thing - kill medical research in US academic institutions. That's not hyperbole and the best way I can explain this to the lay public. Slashing indirect costs to 15% is a move to destroy the academic enterprise. Pass it on. www.statnews.com/2025/02/07/n...

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NIH plans to slash support for indirect research costs, sending shockwaves through science

The NIH said Friday night that it would slash support for indirect costs on all existing and future grants to 15%

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Editorial from the @thelancet.bsky.social "The health, medical, and scientific communities have a vital role in advocating for their patients, defending programmes, and lobbying for policies and institutions that are good for health and wellbeing." #GoodTrouble

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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Oh, hell yeah www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Cover of The Lancet: "Health institutions may be hesitant to criticise the new administration publicly, but this timidity is a mistake.
Trump's actions must be called out for the damage they are doing."

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John Lynch @johnlynchid.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The loss of research and clinical funding (USAID, PEPFAR, NIH, CDC, etc) directly impacts human beings in trials, who are being treated for HIV/TB/malaria, and who are now at greater risk of dying. The halt of funding is unethical and violates our commitments to study participants and to patients.

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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Trump’s nominees to lead NIH and FDA, Jay Bhattacharya and Marty Makary, are among the editorial board members of a new journal that includes scientists who promoted herd immunity and opposed public health measures during Covid. My story with @mattreynolds.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/trump-...

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Donald Trump's NIH Pick Just Launched a Controversial Scientific Journal

The journal’s editorial board includes multiple scientists, such as Trump health nominees Jay Bhattacharya and Marty Makary, who opposed Covid public health measures.

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

We have given up on public health. It is difficult to imagine a more perfect situation for the looming pandemic than now. We are actively working to make our food less safe and more capable of harming us.

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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Moving defense of childhood #vaccines by Vanderbilt vaccine expert Kathy Edwards in JAMA. Stunning that so many people fear the tools that prevent children from dying and being maimed, rather than the pathogens that resurge when vaccine use declines. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Reflections on the Successes of Pediatric Vaccines

This Viewpoint discusses the importance of early and continued vaccine use in the US.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 06/02/2025

You may wonder why altCDC is so political. Public health is as much about the disease as it is about the society in which that disease occurs. We are battling an admin that wants to dismantle US public health, sow misinformation, devalue science, and cripple our ability to respond to health threats.

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John Lynch @johnlynchid.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

RE LARPing fake and bad science into existence. It mimics a bigger pattern/approach.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The #PEPFAR tracker is following the real time impact of each passing day of the funding suspensions spurred by the USAID funding freeze. Although there is a waiver to allow dispersion of ART, this is not happening because clinic workers have been laid off. People are dying. pepfarimpact.vercel.app

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John Lynch @johnlynchid.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

LARPing a "journal" into existence.

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John Lynch @johnlynchid.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Let's go @idsainfo.bsky.social, time to get rolling given the stakes

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Justin Gill @justin-gill.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Thank you @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social for publishing my Op-Ed today. RFK Jr.’s “confirmation would undermine public health and betray hardworking health care professionals and researchers who work relentlessly to keep our patients safe and healthy” www.seattletimes.com/opinion/a-nu...

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I saw during COVID what RFK Jr.'s brand of skepticism could do | Op-Ed

During COVID, when health professionals needed support from the public with vaccinations, I saw firsthand how misinformation led to death and trauma.

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WHO @who.int · 24/01/2025

#HealthForAll For everyone. Everywhere.

Black text on white background. It reads:

With you, for you.
WHO remains committed to health for all.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

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Scott Hadland, MD @drscotthadland.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

This is inconceivable. We are entering a dark phase of American public health in which many, many people suffer unnecessarily from vaccine-preventable illnesses. We need to keep fighting, sharing stories of harm from the front lines & disseminating data. #MedSky www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots

An NPR investigation found Louisiana health officials told staff to stop promoting vaccines for COVID, flu and mpox, holding flu shot events or otherwise encouraging the public to get those vaccines.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/12/2024

My frequent collaborator @jevinwest.bsky.social worked with an exceptional team to develop an NRC report on the challenges of misinformation about science. That report is now available for free today. nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2789...

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Understanding and Addressing Misinformation About Science

Read online, download a free PDF, or order a copy in print.

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John Lynch @johnlynchid.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Awesome new IPC medical director position at UW Medical Center just posted!

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Doctors who gushed over RFK Jr. are trying to absurdly blame those who warned about him for his rise. Too bad. They’ll be tied to him for the rest of their careers. It’s all they’ll be known for. My latest for Science Based Medicine. sciencebasedmedicine.org/notsatire/

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Dr. Vinay Prasad “Sabotaging RFK Jr’s Confirmation Will Increase Vaccine Hesitancy” & “Doctors Criticizing RFK Jr. Paved the Way for His Ascendancy” | Science-Based Medicine

Doctors who gushed over RFK Jr. made their bed, and they'll lie in it.

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Eli Perencevich @eliowa.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I hope the folks nominated for health or public health positions are asked about H5N1 during confirmation hearings. Most of us who think about this stuff think an influenza pandemic will be far worse than 2020 was #IDSky

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/11/2024

Sarah McBride: "It is an attempt to distract ... Every single time we hear them say the word 'trans,' look what they're doing with their right hand. Look at what they're doing to pick the pocket of American workers, to fleece seniors by privatizing Social Security and Medicare."

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

My latest for Science Based Medicine. Any doctor who enabled RFK Jr. in any way, is antivaccine, no matter how much they say they love vaccines. Featuring some new arrivals here to bluesky. sciencebasedmedicine.org/antivaxxdocs/

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Any Doctor Who Enabled RFK Jr. In Any Way Is Anti-Vaccine No Matter How They Describe Themselves | Science-Based Medicine

If you associate yourself with Sensible Medicine, you are anti-vaccine no matter how you describe yourself.

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Joshua Salomon @jsalomon.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

“Local #publichealth is here to do everything in our power, with our teams, to serve every single person in our community who needs us. But that should be the case for every single person who lives in our country.” Dr. Sara Cody, Santa Clara County Health Officer www.kqed.org/news/1201538...

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'Keep On Keeping On': California Public Health Officials Express Resolve Ahead of 2nd Trump Term | KQED

Public officials say that local health departments will be key in stopping the spread of both respiratory diseases and misinformation in the coming years.

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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Warning to all: Dr. Peter Hotez is not on BSKY. This is a fake. (Repeating Dr. Hotez’ warning on Twitter).

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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

In 2023, I wrote a paper for the BMJ debunking a paper Marty Makary wrote where he (and team) manipulated irrelevant data to create the illusion that the COVID-19 vaccines presented more risks than benefits to young adults. He is not qualified to be the head of the FDA. jme.bmj.com/content/50/2...

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Ethics of college vaccine mandates, using reasonable comparisons

In the paper ‘COVID-19 vaccine boosters for young adults: a risk–benefit assessment and ethical analysis of mandate policies at universities,’ Bardosh et al argued that college mandates of the COVID-1...

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I’m at a loss to understand how a pandemic denier could be nominated for leading health RFK Jr. Says His Health Org. Funded Covid Conspiracy Film 'Plandemic' www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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RFK Jr. Said His Organization Funded Viral Covid Conspiracy Film 'Plandemic'

RFK Jr. said his anti-vax nonprofit Children's Health Defense financed 'Plandemic,' a viral conspiracy-theory film about Covid-19.

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