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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Words have consequences

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

In the early 1930s the SA was roughing people up, creating chaos in neighborhoods, seeking to terrorize with the occasional killing. By the late 1930s it had been supplanted by the SS, which was much better trained.

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Maciej F Boni @maciekboni.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

🎯 Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social on Blue Sky ... On the right side of history finally.

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Peter Orlowicz @peterorlowicz.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I'm not anonymous, but if lapsing appropriations for Labor/HHS (which includes SSA and, uh, railroad retirement administration) is what it takes to stop executing citizens in the streets, it's worth it.

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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

✨Africa CDC shuts down RFK's attempt to conduct a Tuskegee-like vaccine trial on children in Guinea-Bissau. The study exploited “the scarcity of a proven beneficial vaccine in a context where that vaccine is needed,” said Boghuma Titanji. @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Controversial US study on hepatitis B vaccines in Africa is cancelled

$1.6m project drew outrage over ethical questions about withholding vaccines proven to prevent disease

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Maciej F Boni @maciekboni.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Where has public health leadership succeeded in 2025? In one of the most challenging areas of public health work: prevention. Take a look at how failure and success contrast between what we've done in the US and what African leadership has done since 2020. maciekboni.substack.com/p/is-public-...

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Is public health leadership failing everywhere in the world? No.

Incredibly, in a moment of great uncertainty, Africa's public health leaders are coming together to prepare for a challenge ahead of time.

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Ferric Fang, MD @fangferric.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

“I have a very particular set of skills. . . skills that do not include epidemiology.”

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Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I wrote in @statnews.com about the emotional toll anti-vaccine rhetoric is taking on clinicians — and how it’s straining our relationships with patients. This isn’t abstract; it’s happening every day in exam rooms across the country. 🔗 www.statnews.com/2025/12/10/a... #Vaccines #PublicHealth

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Rise of anti-science rhetoric has fundamentally changed the relationship between doctors and patients

“The rise of anti-science and anti-vaccine rhetoric has fundamentally changed the relationship between clinicians and patients.”

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Maciej F Boni @maciekboni.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Again, health and medicine getting frozen out of these conversations. This is the lowest it's gotten, but it can definitely get worse. Every word in this piece. www.statnews.com/2025/12/10/a...

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

My latest for @thenation.com: "Public Health Needs a New Motto: No Apologies, No Surrender" It’s time we stopped flinching at the assaults of the far right—and started fighting back. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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Public Health Needs a New Motto: No Apologies, No Surrender

It's time we stopped flinching at the assaults of the far right—and started fighting back.

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Maciej F Boni @maciekboni.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Some important video segments from the esteemed Prof Gilbert Kokwaro and Prof Nick White -- on the importance of confronting and preparing for the current wave of artemisinin resistance. open.substack.com/pub/protectt...

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The Dominoes May Fall: Why We Must Act Now on Malaria Drug Resistance

Malaria patients rely on artemisinin-based drugs to survive. Now, these drugs need our help to survive, too.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Spot on, Mr. Rather. 🎯 💯

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I think the *speed* at which RFK Jr and his Great Barrington Declaration/anti-vaxx/Brownstone wrecking crew have been dismantling the US public health system has been really astonishing

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Maciej F Boni @maciekboni.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Artemisinin resistance is spreading in Africa. The stories. The urgency. The solutions. The progress. Will all be posted here. Please subscribe (it's free). open.substack.com/pub/protectt...

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Welcome to Protect the Cure

Drug resistance grows slowly—but awareness can grow faster.

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Deb Houry @drdebhoury.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Today's ACIP- no career CDC scientists presented on vaccine safety, data/materials not posted in advance, vote delayed again despite several months to prepare. My thoughts tonight on @ms.now including what this means for the health of children

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Has RFK Jr. put lives at risk with his leadership? '100%' says Ex-CDC official

The CDC's vaccine panel has delayed its decision about when kids should be vaccinated and which ones they should receive. The panel has been drastically changed by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr....

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Kiera Butler @kieraevebutler.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like: “The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.” “I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”

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“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page

"The best way I can put it is it feels like we're on a hijacked airplane."

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Caw Yar Bluff @j-leslie3k.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

"This is how the wellness influencer industry works,” Hotez said. “It’s not enough to push the snake oil. You have to discredit mainstream biomedical science and portray scientists as public enemies or cartoon villains, and that's what Kennedy’s seeking to do.”

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Bill Hanage @billhanage.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

This, from @maciekboni.bsky.social, is a sobering reminder of just how bad things were five years ago. But it’s also five years since we got the trial results which signposted a way out of the nightmare. Warp speed was a huge success and we should not forget maciekboni.substack.com/p/covids-lea...

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COVID’s leadership failures

Two moments that were too big for us, and the unfixable chain of mistakes that was set off after November 2020

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

We don’t talk enough about how Operation Warp Speed saved many lives in spite of Trump, nor how many people died because of his failure of leadership. Great piece from my great colleague @maciekboni.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/maciekbo...

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COVID’s leadership failures

Two moments that were too big for us, and the unfixable chain of mistakes that was set off after November 2020

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Maciej F Boni @maciekboni.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

What were you doing 5 years ago today ? I think a lot of us forgot the news that was delivered and the failures that followed. Important reminder here: maciekboni.substack.com/p/covids-lea... Please click subscribe. It's free.

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Erol Akcay @akcay.theoretical.bio · 29/10/2025

A bit belated, but happy to have our preprint, “An Ecological Theory of Democracy,” out. We consider political party competition in light of classic ecological theory. Led by a talented former undergrad, Riley Fotis, in collaboration with Brendan O’Leary (neither on bluesky). A 🧵 1/

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Paul Offit @pauloffit.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

tinyurl.com/yc5nhcv4 In one of the most irresponsible presidential press conferences in history, Donald Trump declares that Tylenol during pregnancy cause autism. Again, apparently, mothers are to blame.

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Doctors push back on Trump admin’s autism & Tylenol link | CNN

Dr. Paul Offit and Dr. Veronica Gillispie-Bell joins The Lead

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

The point is that many can live quite normally under the thumb of authoritarianism. Yes: many suffer and suffer now but large swaths of the American public chooses to be clueless and it’s not difficult. This is how the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper. www.vox.com/the-big-idea...

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Life in authoritarian states is mostly boring and tolerable

Americans have an overly dramatic view what the end of democracy looks like.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2025

Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"

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Bill Hanage @billhanage.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Discussions grounded in science and clear that pandemic response involves hard choices, are a vital part of how we *should* respond to Covid. Even if they are thin on the ground right now

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Maciej F Boni @maciekboni.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Thanks to Braver Angels & David Zweig for engaging in this debate on the primary effects of the first year of the pandemic (540,000 deaths), the secondary effects (one year of learning loss for kids, unemployment, isolation), and things that we did right and wrong 1/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=59Gg...

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A COVID Pandemic Policy Conversation

YouTube video by Braver Angels

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Pushing back works. Stand strong, Chicago.

JB Pritzker, August 25: Mr. President, do not come to Chicago.

5 Chicago article, September 6: Protest against deployment of federal troops to Chicago takes over Michigan Avenue

Man holding sign that says National Guard stay out of Chicago

Trump on Sept 7 responding to "Do you have plans for Chicago this week?" saying "No. Not really."

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Maciej F Boni @maciekboni.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Please join us in Sunny Philadelphia, Friday evening Sep 5, for a chat about what went wrong and right during the COVID pandemic response. Hosted by Temple University. Reserve a spot on the Braver Angels website here: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-covid-pa...

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 30/07/2025

Let's please keep the remaining staff at NIH, NSF, etc in our thoughts even as you lose sleep over your own lab and scientific career. They are enduring pure chaos to try to hold the fort. See snapshot from wapo.st/4feKKuu (gift 🔗) saying they are "barely holding it together"

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Rewording my earlier post. RFK Jr will be testifying before Congress. I am interested in what experts and others think would be the best way to leverage this time and opportunity for the public good. If you were behind the dais for this hearing, what would you do? What do you want to see asked?

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Maciej F Boni @maciekboni.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Hello @episky.bsky.social -- tenth episode of "Why Should I Trust You?" , a podcast on the trust we lost in public health and some routes on how to get it back. Episode 10: censorship. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

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Censorship vs. Science: The Fight Over Free Speech That Is Tearing Us Apart

Podcast Episode · Why Should I Trust You? · 03/06/2025 · 1h 23m

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Today, a collaborative grant we submitted to the National Institutes of Health won't be reviewed. No one's will. Grant reviews have been halted for study section after study section. Yes, I am mad. But, folks outside science should be even madder. a 🧵

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The taxpayers, through Federal NIH funding, have literally invested tens of millions of dollars in my education & career. This is a privledge, & I have always endevored to give my best back to the taxpayers who put me here I am just one of many thousands of scientists who can tell the same story

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 28/01/2025

American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

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Maciej F Boni @maciekboni.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Hi @episky.bsky.social, public health and public policy friends. 2025 will be full or surprises, please listen to this new podcast (episode 1) "Why Should I Trust You" as we are all going to need to communicate clearly and empathetically for the next 4 years. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

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Why Should I Trust You?

News Commentary Podcast · 2 Episodes · Updated Weekly

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Hensley Lab @scottehensley.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

The preliminary sequence from the H5N1 human case in British Columbia has been posted and it is not good news. The virus potentially has a quasispecies at HA residue 226 (H3 numbering). This is bad news because we know that mutations at residue 226 can increase binding to human receptors. 1/

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Joe Servadio @jlservadio.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

New paper on #influenza #vaccination in tropical areas! Published in PNAS Nexus. #episky doi.org/10.1093/pnas... Without strong flu seasonality in much of the tropics, timing annual vaccination campaigns is challenging. It becomes more important to ask WHO to vaccinate instead of WHEN. 1/4

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Influenza vaccine allocation in tropical settings under constrained resources

Abstract. Influenza virus seasonality, synchronicity, and vaccine supply differ substantially between temperate and tropical settings, and optimal vaccinat

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Maciej F Boni @maciekboni.bsky.social · 13/08/2024

Hi @epidemiology.bsky.social we are #hiring - there is a critical need 4 new global health planning in #malaria specifically to push back the artemisinin resistance identified in East/Central Africa in 2020 #jobs #postdocposition plz contact if interested in job/postdoc/PhD in this area👉 mol.ax/opp/

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Maciej F Boni @maciekboni.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

Hi @epidemiology.bsky.social we have just wrapped up the 4th year of COVID transmission in the US: Mar 1 2023 to Feb 29 2024. CDC recorded 67.5K deaths during this period. Death counts for previous years were 539K (year 1, almost all pre-vax), 443K (year 2, 3 variant waves), & 137K (year 3) 1/

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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 07/01/2024

Looking back at a decade of tech innovations 2013: Blockchain! It's a like a database, but slower and worse! 2016: VR! It's like monitors, but slower and worse! 2021: NFTs! It's like pictures, but slower and worse! 2023: AI! It's like algorithms, but slower and worse!

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/10/2023

"We are entering an unfamiliar domain regarding our climate crisis, a situation no one has ever witnessed firsthand in the history of humanity" Keep the words of these scientists in your mind when you hear feeble, jelly-like centrists arguing that climate policy that works fast is "too radical"

As scientists, we are increasingly being asked to tell the public the truth about the crises we face in simple and direct terms. The truth is that we are shocked by the ferocity of the extreme weather events in 2023. We are afraid of the uncharted territory that we have now entered. Conditions are going to get very distressing and potentially unmanageable for large regions of the world, with the 2.6°C warming expected over the course of the century, even if the self-proposed national emissions reduction commitments of the Paris Agreement are met (UNEP 2022b). We warn of potential collapse of natural and socioeconomic systems in such a world where we will face unbearable heat, frequent extreme weather events, food and fresh water shortages, rising seas, more emerging diseases, and increased social unrest and geopolitical conflict. Massive suffering due to climate change is already here, and we have now exceeded many safe and just Earth system boundaries, imperiling stability and life-su

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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

It's so frustrating that pro- science groups have to beg and beg for scraps of funding, while antivax groups are scoring millions from supposedly reputable charities.

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Maciej F Boni @maciekboni.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

Crystal clear explanation of the Oct 4 Assembly Theory paper. Thanks so much Carl.

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Maciej F Boni @maciekboni.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

Hi @epidemiology.bsky.social 3.5 years after covid started spreading in the US, we just went through a 6-month period (Mar 1 - Sep 1, 2023) with the lowest mortality to date: 24,600 COVID deaths were reported during this time, although hospital admissions have been trending upward since July. 1/

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Maciej F Boni @maciekboni.bsky.social · 05/09/2023

Hello #episky #medsky #epitwitter @epidemiology.bsky.social .. my first foray into blue sky science. This one is about combination therapy, and how it is supposed to prevent drug-resistance evolution. And how triple therapy should, in principle, be more effective at this than double therapy. 1/

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