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Kara Gavin @karagavin.bsky.social · 17h

Heads up! Even southern Michigan could get a bit of this one.

KFF @kff.org · 06/10/2026

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A month before the midterms, health care and gas costs tie as voters' top affordability worries. A quarter say they are "very worried" about affording each, ahead of food, utilities and housing. More in our new Health Tracking Poll: on.kff.org/4zgJv6z

Chart shows that Democrats hold a nearly 2-to-1 advantage over Republicans on handling the cost of health care.

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Society for the Advancement of Injury and Violence Research @thesavir.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Learn more about the summer research fellowship training program in firearm injury prevention research at University of Michigan. buff.ly/izB9vPE Application Deadline: December 16, 2026

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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NEW from me: New preliminary research from the University of Michigan shows women living in states with post-Dobbs abortion bans may be more likely to shoulder costs for employer-sponsored health insurance premiums, with data reflecting a 5.4% increase in annual premium expenditures after 2022.

stateline.org

Research suggests women living in states with abortion bans bear higher health insurance costs • Stateline

New preliminary research from the University of Michigan shows women living in states with post-Dobbs abortion bans may be more likely to shoulder costs for employer-sponsored health insurance premium...

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The @umich.edu & VA team behind this study used AHRQ funding over many years to study catheter-related issues, and develop & test tools to help hospitals reduce catheter use. It worked. And those tools are now available for free. This is what AHRQ funding is all about. @academyhealth.bsky.social

screen shot of a mobile app called Bladdersafe, designed to help reduce urinary catheter use

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No one likes having a urinary catheter when they're in the hospital. And no one should have one any longer than they absolutely need to, because of the risk of a UTI or worse. Yet a new #PatientSafety study shows many hospitals still don't do enough: www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/m...

The legs of a hospital patient who has a urinary catheter, with the catheter tubing running from the groin down toward the (unseen) urine bag.

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Since the CDC doesn’t yet have an official Bluesky presence I thought it might be interesting for folks here to know they just shared this on LinkedIn. It points to www.cdc.gov/ebola/hcp/co... #publichealth #IDsky #medsky

Screenshot of a CDC LinkedIn post from 12:45 pm on Oct 6 2026 about an Ebola ambulatory evaluation algorithm for clinicians to quickly evaluate patients and implement infection prevention steps, and coordinate with public health authorities

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 06/10/2026

I love that this was the last skeet from the IceCube account before the Nobel Prize post...

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In September we added another 740 organisations to our clinical guideline tracking. We are now monitoring 3,800+ guideline publishing organisations and can tell you when they cite your work in their recommendations! updates.altmetric.com/announcement...

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Enhancing our clinical guidelines coverage - October 2026

Altmetric curates a broad scope of clinical guidelines from organisations around the world, across a wide range of therapeutic areas.

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Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#womeninSTEM The first woman to lead the organization that gives the physics & chemistry Nobel Prizes!

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A lab worker’s death after a reported accident in Russia has raised concern for #plague. A reminder: As the US dismantles public health, we weaken our ability to detect and contain the next threat. Cutting surveillance doesn’t eliminate danger. It makes us slower to see it.

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Kara Gavin @karagavin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you work in research in the US please consider taking this survey! #scisky

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The "health freedom” movement is run by health authoritarians. They want to impose their anti-vaccine agenda on you, to threaten and intimidate scientists, and to let parents treat their children as disposable objects. This needs to be opposed, not appeased. My latest.

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“Health Freedom” Leaders are Health Authoritarians

"The centerpiece of the MAHA and health freedom agenda has been removal of mRNA shots."

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

89% of SBE NSF grants were never awarded!! My field (Cognitive Neuroscience) is included in this gutting, as are so many others. Plenty of horror stories in the same space are also coming from NIH. It’s not just delaying research; it’s labs shutting down and a next gen that won’t be trained.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.

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Kara Gavin @karagavin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Still available! Afrofuturism dance performance starting at 7:30!

Kara Gavin @karagavin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My tortoiseshell cat approves of this #caturday science thread…

A curled up tortoiseshell cat in a Michigan October sunbeam

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Kara Gavin @karagavin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey @learnedleague.com players, #Jeopardy fans and #womeninSTEM folks - this is a worthy challenge. (My physicist husband and I collaborated and were still humbled by our performance.)

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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NEW: researchers say one 'zombie' study in Iran, 20 years ago, has skewed the world's medical evidence base for using Prozac to treat depression in children. They stop short of saying don't use Prozac this way, but want clinical guidelines revised. @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Prozac use for childhood depression skewed by single flawed medical trial

One small study in Iran swayed meta-analyses in favour of antidepressant use in children, researchers say.

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Kara Gavin @karagavin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Dr. Saint's work on catheter-associated urinary tract infections was one of the first #patientsafety studies I wrote about, waaaaaaaay back in October 2000 when that field was still pretty new. And the @archive.org has preserved it: web.archive.org/web/20080108...

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Kara Gavin @karagavin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

To all scientists and others: even Darwin had bad days. Many of them, it seems. Keep going.

Kara Gavin @karagavin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Glad to see you’re back and thank you for sharing the encouragement for those who are struggling to seek help. The world is better with you in it and your book project sounds fascinating. Looking forward to it! Perhaps if you come to Wayne State on a book tour stop we can connect in person.

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Kara Gavin @karagavin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Heads up to all who travel on M-14 and I-275 in the Ann Arbor Detroit region: they just announced a new ramp closure for 10/5-19, for the EB M14 ramp to NB275. (And a lane closure on NB 275) Yeesh. mdotjboss.state.mi.us/MiDrive/map?...

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MDOT - Mi Drive Map

Mi Drive is a construction and traffic information website that allows users to view traffic cameras, speeds, locate incidents, and construction.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 01/10/2026

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Russians join street choirs to sing away sorrows - or show dissent. At a time when public gatherings in Russia are strictly regulated and dissenting voices silenced, street choirs have been springing up across the country – offering an avowedly apolitical opportunity to come together u.afp.com/S9BK

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Kara Gavin @karagavin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Looking forward to this! I was her PR person when she was at @brookhavenlab.bsky.social !

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Lara Coughlin, PhD & Allison Lin, MD @addictioncaremi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We’re thrilled to welcome Nora Volkow, M.D., Director of NIDA, to our Oct. National Contingency Management Community of Practice meeting! Explore CM’s journey to standard of care, nationwide implementation, & what’s next. Live Q&A included! 🗓️ Wed. Oct. 28 | 1–2 p.m. ET umich.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: National CM Community of Practice (CoP). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

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Kara Gavin @karagavin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Did you know that legal immigrants without Green Cards are about to lose their Medicaid coverage starting tomorrow? I didn't, until I wrote this #explainer: michmed.org/wdR3b (it also addresses what we know as of now about the 'work requirement' rules & exceptions coming up in January)

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What’s changing in Medicaid and what can you do?

With eligibility rules for people with lower incomes changing in every state, it’s important to stay up to date, seek trustworthy sources and not fall for misinformation

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Barry Popik @barrypopik.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"#Burger" (1907), for "#hamburger," is first cited at the University of Michigan. @bgzimmer had found "burger" a few years later at Penn State. @MerriamWebster has 1937! cc @michigandaily @btaylorblake @EsnpcB 1/4 www.newspapers.com/article/the-...

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"Burger" for "hamburger" (1907).

Clipping found in The Detroit News published in Detroit, Michigan on 10/27/1907. "Burger" for "hamburger" (1907).

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Can you share a link for those who are viewing your post on a phone and can’t scan the QR code?

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Ayanian wins national public health policy award

Here's a brief writeup I did about John's career studying health disparities, the effects of uninsurance and Medicaid expansion, and much more - not to mention his leadership in bringing the @umich.edu health services research community together: ihpi.umich.edu/news-events/...

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Everyone: Please congratulate @ihpidirector.bsky.social John Ayanian on receiving the @aamc.org @rwjf.org award for #publichealth #healthpolicy work!

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

There's actually a paper by Elyse Aurbach, @bzikmund.bsky.social and others about how well this works to develop messages for any audiences, but especially for boiling technical information down for a non-specialized audience: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Yesterday, my colleague & I presented on #scicomm to the @umich.edu Pharmacology department retreat. We led 100+ staff, students & faculty in a "half life" exercise adopted from improv to hone their messaging. Try it! Describe your work in a layperson-friendly way in 60 seconds Then 30 Then 15 Go!

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Alt: Stopwatch Timer

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