Reposted by Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D.Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 16/05/2025… and Molly is not alone. More than $2.6B of ongoing research has been canceled (with much more this week, at Harvard). With each cancellation: We are losing so much knowledge. Losing the next generation of scientists. Losing our ability to protect our health, both now & for the future. 🧪🩺😷 221779
Reposted by Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D.George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/03/20251. What explains the paralysis that seems to have overcome us, as we watch the most powerful nation of Earth spiralling towards fascist dictatorship? Well, a large part of it, I feel, is the surreal, astonishing uselessness of the Democratic Party. 🧵 1262335631
Reposted by Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D.Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 26/02/2025Job loss can be a major form of trauma. If you’re in shock, feeling untethered, or worried about your life situation, finances, etc. please reach out to a friend, family member, someone in the community, or a hotline/chat to connect and talk about it. Dialing 988 is a good place to start. 22751208
Reposted by Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D.Bart Bingenheimer @bartbing.bsky.social · 25/02/2025If anyone at the Gates Foundation cared what I think, my advice would be to pivot away from shiny “innovations” and invest in helping to preserve the basic infrastructure of global health, starting with the Demographic and Health Surveys program. 1183
Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D. @marmelinz.bsky.social · 14/02/2025This is an informative thread and I’m feeling a little slice of hope. Not too much, but maybe like I can take a little sip of air… 000
Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D. @marmelinz.bsky.social · 14/02/2025If you need some hope, @tiffanylgreen.bsky.social has some to share ⤵️ 021
Reposted by Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D.Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025McConnell being the lone no vote on any of this is like Godzilla offering to repaint a window sill after destroying Tokyo 361501281
Reposted by Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D.Chelsea Polis @cbpolis.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Health workers, policymakers, students, educators, & researchers who use data, methods & findings from USAID-funded DHS Program published a preprint calling for restoration of access to data & continued operation of DHS Program website. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... cc @stephanienolen.bsky.socialpapers.ssrn.comWhen Health Data Go Dark: A Call to Restore DHS Program Funding<span>The suspension and threatened closure of USAID has severe short- and long-term negative impacts on the health of people worldwide.</span><span> We dr 2135
Reposted by Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D.Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Tesla's stock is ridiculously overvalued, and even a modest consumer boycott could tank the company, which accounts for the majority of Elon Musk's wealth. The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...slate.comDon’t Buy a Tesla. Sell Your Tesla. Refuse a Tesla at the Rental Counter. Yes—It Will Help.Elon Musk’s car company is in a precarious spot. 228101933650
Reposted by Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D.Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · 12/02/2025If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall. tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change. 4833191515
Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D. @marmelinz.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Does cutting Medicaid align with a pro-life approach? 110
Reposted by Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D.Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 12/02/2025CFPB - closed USAID - closed Medicaid - under attack NIH cancer funding - frozen Department of Education - under attack But do you know who just got a NEW government contract for $38,858,978 literally today? SpaceX — owned by Elon Musk 35781754708
Reposted by Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D.Chelsea Polis @cbpolis.bsky.social · 08/02/2025What seems missing is guidance on how evidence-based folks should talk to those whose brains marinated in RW propaganda for decades. Many TRIED & failed to “get our people”, maybe b/c we find facts compelling. Could guidance, more specific/rapidly responsive than Lakoff’s broad framing stuff, help? 181
Reposted by Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D.Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 11/02/2025“No American can be proud of a govt that carries out change in this way. Neither can these actions be rationalized by discussion of past grievances or appeals to efficiency. Everything can be more efficient, but adherence to the rule of law is paramount” www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...americanbar.orgThe ABA supports the rule of lawIt has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accor... 412171895178
Reposted by Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D.Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 11/02/2025My God, 600 trials at Hopkins now in jeopardy from Trump's draconian cuts to health research, including trials for cancer, pediatrics, & cardiovascular disease I guess cancer, children's health, and heart health are now too "woke" to address? 210645
Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D. @marmelinz.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Not confirmed yet, but The DHS Program, which has operated for 40+ years collecting data in over 90+ countries and is the primary source of data for monitoring global health, is on the list of contracts to be cut. This is devastating on so many levels. 087
Reposted by Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D.Peter Maybarduk @maybarduk.bsky.social · 11/02/2025New: We are suing Trump to reverse the foreign aid freeze, on behalf of AVAC @hivpxresearch.bsky.social and the Journalism Development Network. Act up, fight back. www.citizen.org/news/nonprof...citizen.orgNonprofits Sue Trump Administration to Reverse Freeze on Foreign Aid Funding - Public CitizenWASHINGTON D.C. — Today, Public Citizen filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against… 14021
Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D. @marmelinz.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Where is the real Robin Hood? You know, that D0GE mole with access to everyone’s bank accounts?!! Come on, just ~ 5% of Mu$k’s net worth would end homelessness in the US. 000
Reposted by Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D.Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Pfizer’s cancer drug commercial was beautiful, but their breast cancer drug Ibrance costs $10k per month and their prostate cancer drug Xtandi costs $22k per month. Beautiful commercials don’t change the fact that 42% of cancer patients exhaust their life savings in 2 years. 8636611176
Reposted by Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D.Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/20251. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...grants.nih.govNOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost RatesNIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD 25469984078
Reposted by Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D.cecily-collins.bsky.social @cecily-collins.bsky.social · 07/02/2025The data not expressed here includes the number of deliveries that are paid for by Medicaid (44.7 % in 2023) and the percentage of funding for Children’s of Alabama which comes from Medicaid (50-57% depending on the year). Medicaid is critical to the healthcare of Alabamians. 0153
Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D. @marmelinz.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Not only has survey preparation, collection, and data processing stopped, but so has the ability to request and download #DHSProgram data because the requests are handled by my colleagues who are furloughed. If (when?) USAID is permanently dismantled, this tremendous global good will be lost. 💔 165
Reposted by Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D.Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 05/02/2025keep it up 2842071043
Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D. @marmelinz.bsky.social · 04/02/2025All US USAID staff living abroad are being “evacuated” back to the US by Saturday. Reckless isn’t the right word. Evil fits better. 100
Reposted by Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D.Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science. 12652769315654
Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D. @marmelinz.bsky.social · 02/02/2025I just made myself a website! Check it out! lindsaymallick.owlstown.net @owlstown.bsky.social Please add my academic website to The Owlstown Academic Gallery.🙏lindsaymallick.owlstown.netLindsay Mallick | PhD Candidate | Maternal and Child HealthOfficial website of Lindsay Mallick, an applied epidemiologist specializing in maternal and child health. 141
Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D. @marmelinz.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Looking forward to hearing more about what we can do: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...mobilize.usWe Choose To Fight: Action Call · IndivisibleThis Sunday night, February 2 at 8pm ET/5pm PT, you’re invited to join Indivisible, MoveOn, Working Families Party, and a coalition of other organizations for an action call. During the call, you will... 010
Reposted by Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D.Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 01/02/2025BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...open.substack.comBREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised. 56576214262
Reposted by Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D.Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 01/02/2025The USAID website is no longer functioning. 2134
Reposted by Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D.Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 28/01/2025I want to hear how you plan to help out in your communities. How are you helping your friends, family & neighbors? 🏘️ What are things we can do to help our mental health? Any Food 👩🏾🌾 growing tip? Anyone have useful💰saving tips? Don’t tell me what HE did today. Tell me what YOU did today. 3714228
Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D. @marmelinz.bsky.social · 01/02/2025I’m starting to compile a list of all the suggestions I’m seeing for things we can do to advocate for change - or at least stop the downward spiral we’re headed into. Please share any ideas you have/have seen here (or PM me). I’ll post some specific ideas that resonate with me later today. 000
Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D. @marmelinz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025If there was ever a time to speak up and act, now is it. 000
Reposted by Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D.Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 28/01/2025The White House just ordered that all Federal financial assistance, including grants and loans, be put on pause. In FY 2024, the Federal Government spent “more than $3 trillion on Federal financial assistance, such as grants and loans.”washingtonpost.comWhite House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusionThe Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments. 60324137
Reposted by Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D.Brandon Wolf @brandonwolf.bsky.social · 27/01/2025I know there’s a lot right now. But folks need to understand what this means. A suspension this long would mean people living with HIV lose their medicine for months. People around the world lose their PrEP for months, putting millions at risk of getting HIV. Drug-resistant strains could emerge. 14954782759
Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D. @marmelinz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025<1% of the US federal budget goes to foreign aid, which saves maternal & child lives, prevents mass famine, combats infectious disease, etc. This 90-day pause will have disastrous effects-from destabilizing nations in critical need of aid to layoffs of US support staff. www.npr.org/sections/goa...npr.orgU.S. puts virtually all foreign aid on 90-day hold, issues 'stop-work' orderFollowing Trump's Monday freeze on foreign aid, a subsequent memo calls for for a stop-work order for current grants and contracts. 020
Reposted by Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D.Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Taking the opportunity to repost this since people hate it BECAUSE I'M RIGHT. 1110123
Reposted by Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D.Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 22/03/2024I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/projects.propublica.orgFind Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your ClaimYou likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f... 9161794310176
Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D. @marmelinz.bsky.social · 02/12/2024To improve pandemic preparedness for #MCH & #nutrition, we can use vital statistics data to evaluate state efforts + outcomes during COVID. @mariethoma.bsky.social found that states w/ EBT for WIC (Women, Infants and Children) mitigated declines in enrollment over states w/ paper-based systems. 031
Reposted by Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D.Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024There's a huge tension building within public health over collaboration: can we work with the Trump Administration, at whatever few points of overlap in mission exist, to make people healthier? What this misses is the visibility and transparency of that play to the public, and its impact on trust 1326874
Reposted by Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D.Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 26/11/2024One of the early signs that the USSR was in deep trouble in 1980s was its suppression of health data. Now Texas follows suit www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... 39646
Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D. @marmelinz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Kathleen Toomey fired the ENTIRE Maternal Mortality Review Committee in Georgia after the being unable to pinpoint exactly who leaked the reports of the maternal deaths resulting from the state’s #abortion ban. Speak up and share widely-- we cannot stay quiet. dph.georgia.gov/kathleen-too...dph.georgia.govKathleen ToomeyBefore her appointment to commissioner, Dr. Toomey served as Director of the Fulton County Department of Health and Wellness. She led the department’s transition to become the Fulton County Board of H... 23220
Reposted by Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D.Chris Carroll, MD @chriscarrollmd.com · 19/11/2024After falling for decades, the childhood mortality rate has started to rise. What’s killing kids? Trauma, drugs and firearms. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/b... 19302123
Reposted by Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D.Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 20/11/2024I'm so glad that we are rebuilding #AcademicTwitter and #ScienceTwitter! They were extremely important communities, and their decline was a genuine loss. I am grateful and hopeful that Bluesky is giving us the chance to rebuild these remarkable human networks. #AcademicSky #ScienceSky 224145
Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D. @marmelinz.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Are those who use the private sector more or less likely to have future unmet need for care? What about those who switch sectors across MCH services? Find out more today at 11:40am rm 101B #HSR2024 as we discuss Aligning the Private Sector and see other MOMENTUM talks ⬇️ usaidmomentum.org/hsr2024/ 000
Lindsay Mallick, Ph.D. @marmelinz.bsky.social · 18/11/2024First day on #bluesky AND first day of a conference—how exciting! I’m in Nagasaki at the Health Systems Global’s #HSR2024, repping usaidmomentum.org/hsr2024/. If you’re here, too, stop by the MOMENTUM booth (17) or come check our presentations.usaidmomentum.orgJoin MOMENTUM at HSR 2024 020