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Almost-PhD in public health. I’ll make a real account when they can’t strip my funding and stop me from finishing.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The proposed Trump budget is brutal, unless you’re the military or Homeland Security. Here’s what gets cut: - State Department: -84% - National Science Foundation: -56% - EPA: -54% - HUD (housing): -44% - Labor: -35% - Interior: -30% - Health & Human Services: -26% - NASA: -24% - Education: -15%
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
If you are a social scientist or trainee, please sign and share this open letter calling on the Trump admin to reinstate global health funding and programs. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com
Open Letter from Social Scientists Condemning the Trump Administration’s Disastrous Actions on Foreign Aid
To sign this letter, please fill out this form. To: Marco Rubio, U.S. Secretary of State Rep. Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority Leader Sen. John Thune, Senate ...
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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” 
Subheader:
“In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”
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kooskoosy.bsky.social @kooskoosy.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
V good v interesting
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/04/2025
NEW: The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from. By @abrahm.bsky.social
propublica.org
White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On
Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.
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kooskoosy.bsky.social @kooskoosy.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
On today’s episode of me googling “Did the Nazis [fill in the blank]”… …yes, they did. In 1933.
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
⚠️ A few important pieces of health news this week: 1. The longest-running longitudinal study of women's health (which has helped us figure out how to prevent cancer, reduce osteoporosis, reduce perimenopause symptoms, and more) has essentially been shuttered. www.npr.org/2025/04/23/n...
npr.org
Funding cut for landmark study of women's health
The Women's Health Initiative, begun in the 1990s, has made many important discoveries. Now funding to collect more research data will end in September.
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kooskoosy.bsky.social @kooskoosy.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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kooskoosy.bsky.social @kooskoosy.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
AND data analytics lmao
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Cornell Advancing Science and Policy Club (ASAP) @cornellasap.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Federal research cuts impact local economies, and stall progress. Publish an opinion piece in your hometown paper on June 16th to SPREAD THE WORD about how scientific research contributes to the everyday health and wealth of the general public. #McClintockLetters blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...
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kooskoosy.bsky.social @kooskoosy.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Kitten update bc too cute to handle
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/04/2025
they want you sick and preferably dead www.reuters.com/business/hea...
reuters.com
US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts
The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by Reuters.
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kooskoosy.bsky.social @kooskoosy.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This is great but can we define constructive engagement? Do you mean university mutual defense pacts like Michigan State and other faculty senates recently voted for? Bc that is the ~constructive engagement~ we need. 200 university presidents signed: www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
aacu.org
A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U
A Call for Constructive Engagement
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kooskoosy.bsky.social @kooskoosy.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
@msnbc.com @npr.org @washingtonpost.com @nytimes.com @science.org @politico.com @salonnewsroom.bsky.social I know there’s a lot going on but we’re even more screwed than we already are if we stop training a generation of scientists
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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
As the H5N1 bird flu virus mutates and rapidly spreads through American cattle herds — a first for the U.S. — doctors and veterinarians are fearful that if the virus is left unchecked, it could spiral into a possible pandemic. cbsn.ws/4ionCJG
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As bird flu hits cattle herds in U.S., scientists say these H5N1 factors worry them most
Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible pandemic.
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Becky DEEEEEK! 🦇🕷️🦇 @bexrousse.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
For no particular reason, here is a link to a PDF of "Foodborne Illness-Causing Organisms in the US," a handy chart listing organism, common name, time to onset, usual symptoms & sequelae, duration, and likely sources. #FoodSafety
fda.gov
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
You saw the video of the ICE agent breaking a car window near the border, right? He wasn’t an ICE agent. He’s the founder of Veterans on Patrol, a FAR-RIGHT MILITIA patrolling the border for migrants. They’re basically deputizing militias to act as federal agents. This is dangerously out of control
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kooskoosy.bsky.social @kooskoosy.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Not where I expected to get the deets on what happened at NLRB but happy to have them bc holy shit!
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
It certainly looks like Elon Musk’s henchmen stole all the data from the agency which protects workers rights, tried to cover it up, and then threatened to kill the guy who blew the whistle on it.
npr.org
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
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kooskoosy.bsky.social @kooskoosy.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Serious question: is there ANY good reason why the front page of NYT does not say “CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS”
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kooskoosy.bsky.social @kooskoosy.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Hell yeah
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 14/04/2025
Trumpism is anti-science. Here's frightening proof of what happens when his #DOGE hackers gut the #CDC as he installs a dangerously unqualified #RFKJr to run #HHS - kids die. www.cbsnews.com/news/milwauk...
cbsnews.com
CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs
The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Just a reminder that Germany led the world in science until the Nazis came to power and fired, exiled, and/or killed all the non-Nazi scientists, which was most of the scientists 🧪 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Documents reveal Trump’s plan to gut funding for Nasa and climate science
Critics say Nasa faces ‘extinction-level event’ with budget plan, with climate research funding also to be slashed
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
This is all on Rubio & Trump. These expulsions--and that's what they are--have been subject to no due process or verification of claims of the Secretary of State that these young people are "lunatics." This is autocracy in action--whims that destroy lives. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
insidehighered.com
Where Students Have Had Their Visas Revoked
The Trump administration has quietly revoked hundreds of student visas across the country, wreaking havoc on the system.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
All praise to @apha.org for being the first major organization to call for this. #RFKJr is a public health menace.
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kooskoosy.bsky.social @kooskoosy.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Two things I am worried about this morning (among many others ofc): the insurrection act being invoked on April 20th and RFK manufacturing evidence to limit access to or ban vaccines by September wagingnonviolence.org/2025/04/what...
wagingnonviolence.org
What to do if the Insurrection Act is invoked
With the Insurrection Act looming, now is the time to learn how it might unfold and the strategic ways to respond.
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kooskoosy.bsky.social @kooskoosy.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
“Be feral” 🤌🏻
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Wha happened today would be treated as crime if they didn’t now also control all the law enforcement agencies
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kooskoosy.bsky.social @kooskoosy.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
More than one generation of expertise is being lost. Laying off the last generation and ending the careers of the new one. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
thenation.com
Trump and RFK Jr. Are Destroying a Generation of Knowledge
The gutting of the administrative state, of the universities, and of expertise is like something out of the Cultural Revolution.
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kooskoosy.bsky.social @kooskoosy.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
THEY HAVE PHDS SMH
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kooskoosy.bsky.social @kooskoosy.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
We started fostering kittens to keep our mind off the state of the world. 10/10 recommend
Mother cat with five kittens who are nursing and sleeping on top of her
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kooskoosy.bsky.social @kooskoosy.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
My husband has become a stock market guy in the last 5 days as he watches it fall and gleefully shouts “they touched the stove! They really did it!”
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kooskoosy.bsky.social @kooskoosy.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Yeah let’s fuck over the deaf babies, that seems good
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
If you’re a North Carolinian, you can check whether your name or the names of anyone you know is on the list of the 65K voters whose votes may be tossed. You could have an opportunity to fix it if so. thegriffinlist.com
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
“This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history” 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs
In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
New — Here is a running list of Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) offices that have either been fully eliminated or gutted into non-functionality as a result of today's mass firings (provided to me directly by a CDC staffer):
NCCDPHP
Division of Reproductive Health
Division of Population Health 
   BCSB 
   EPI branch
   Prevention Research Translation Branch
Office of Smoking and Health  

NCHHSTP
Division of TB elimination
-Communication, Education, and Behavioral Studies Branch 
PBEMB
 
GLOBAL 
Division of HIV and TB 
Communications Branch
SPIN
SPICE
PBEMB
MCHB
HIDMSB
EHSRB
Scientific Integrity Branch

NCEH 
Division of Environmental Science/Practice Asthma and Air Quality branch 
















NCIRD 
ISD/Partnerships 

NIOSH 
Miner safety 
Health effects lab division 
Respiratory health division 

NCBDDD
Office of the Director 
Disability Health 

NCIPC 
Division of Violence Prevention
Division of Injury Prevention 
OD
Office of Health Equity

OCOO
Office of Human Resources
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kooskoosy.bsky.social @kooskoosy.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Want to know something insane? The CDC Healthy Aging Branch (read: dementia and Alzheimer’s branch) was eliminated yesterday and also a study was just published that 500,000 americans get dementia PER YEAR which will be up to 1 million a year by 2060 🙃
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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Gun violence is the NUMBER ONE cause of death for children today. But guess what? The CDC Department that funds and researches methods to prevent this, the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control? Gone as of today. Are kids going to be healthier and safer now?
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Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 01/04/2025
Just so pissed off, even beyond my usual pissed off for shit this clown and his cult do every day.
cnn.com
‘It’s a bloodbath’: Massive wave of job cuts underway at US health agencies | CNN
A massive wave of job cuts got underway at US health agencies Tuesday, with some employees receiving early-morning emails saying their jobs were eliminated and some unable to access the building when ...
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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Cuts to the IRS are forcing the "IRS to cancel several large audits, which could result in tens of billions in lost revenue for the government," per FORTUNE.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
💯🎯 #TransDayOfVisibility
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
As the NIH illegal firings start, let’s remember: This is about consolidating power so Trump can control NIH, not about efficiency. “The NIH firing plan is really a radical institute merger…” We will fight back. altnih4science.subst...
altnih4science.substack.com
The NIH firing plan is really a radical institute merger and an authoritarian takeover
this is an Orbanization of US science: a move to exert political control over discovery, which will kill the US medical research industry and damage cancer cures. The plan must be stopped. We can act.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Jay Bhattacharya just sent a letter to all NIH staff, amidst the Musk/Trump chaos, and we have it for you! We unpack Bhattacharya's 'anti-vax grifterese' (h/t @angierasmussen.bsky.social ) and point out what he is really saying. You'll want to click and zoom in on this one.
From: owner-nih-all-staff@list.nih.gov <owner-nih-all-staff@list.nih.gov> on behalf of NIH Executive Secretariat <NIHExecSec@nih.gov>
Sent: Tuesday, April 1, 2025 9:44 AM
To: List NIH-ALL-STAFF <NIH-ALL-STAFF@LIST.NIH.GOV>
Subject: From the NIH Director: Honored to Lead NIH
Dear Colleagues:
As I begin my tenure as the 1gth Director of the National Institutes of Health, I want to first express my appreciation for all of you — the NIH scientists and staff whose work has contributed to lifesaving breakthroughs in biology and medicine. I most recently worked at Stanford University where my research in health economics was made possible with NIH support. I am honored and humbled to lead this agency and join you in service of the American people.
As a doctor, economist, and (now now former professor at stanto Unersity, I have always been driven by a passion for improving public health and
fostering an environment where scientific inquiry can flourish. Throughout my career, I have been supported by NIH, an institution that I love.
False: he has degraded scientific inquiry, pushing a pro-billionaire privatization agenda.
NIH's mission to enhance health remains vital as millions of children and adults in this country face poor outcomes due to chronic diseases like obesity, heart disease, and cancer. We must build on the agency's track record of tackling complex challenges and recommit to our mission to addressing the chronic disease crisis. While basic research will continue to lay the groundwork for future discoveries, we will invest in innovative, cutting-edge research that has the power to transform health. Importantly, our discoveries will only make an impact if the public has confidence in our findings and trusts that we are working in their best interests.
To help us achieve these goals, I have Establared it tonomig is lo prones, ignore real science/medicine
1. Focus on Improving Population Health: The work of NIH, whether basic or applied, must address the health need…
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Rachel Hoopsick, PhD, MS, MPH, MCHES @rachelhoopsick.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
The entire National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) team at SAMHSA was terminated today. Do not listen to the platitudes of this administration when they say they care about drug overdose, addiction, mental health, or suicide.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Individuals are being disappeared by the Trump administration. A Maryland man who was legally residing in the United States was deported to El Salvador and subsequently imprisoned due to what officials described as an “administrative error.” In a court filing, the Trump administration argued that
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Margot Kushel MD @mkushel.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Crushing people doesn't make people safe & that just one way that "clearing" homelessness encampments harms health. No one wants there to be homeless encampments. But treating human beings as if they were garbage to be disposed of isn't a solution. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/u...
nytimes.com
In Cities’ Rush to Clear Homeless Camps, People Have Been Crushed to Death
Atlanta’s mayor began a drive to clear homeless encampments. But when heavy equipment came to raze one, nobody noticed that Cornelius Taylor was still inside his tent.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
📌If Merrick Garland worked in the French courts Marine Le Pen would be the French President by now ...
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