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Noah Louis-Ferdinand @michigannoah.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

This organization does incredible work to protect people around the world. Kindly give them a follow. You'll definitely learn something valuable.

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globalhep.bsky.social @globalhep.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Hey there Bluesky! Did you know that #hepatitis B and C cause 1.1 million deaths every year? At the Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination, we're committed to working with partners to create world without hepatitis. Will you join us? Learn more about our work here: www.globalhep.org

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Noah Louis-Ferdinand @michigannoah.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

This organization does incredible work to protect people around the world. Kindly give them a follow. You'll definitely learn something valuable.

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Michael Bazaco @mcbazacophd.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

If you have a professor/teacher who impacted you in a positive way, send them a short email and let them know and tell them what you’re doing these days. Teaching can be a thankless and exhausting job but one note can energize an educator for a year.

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The House of Pod @kavehmd.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I once saw a pre-op nurse preparing a patient for surgery with a Doctor named Michael Jordan. When the nurse was asked if the doctor was good, he replied “oh yeah, he’s like the Patrick Ewing of surgery.” One of the funniest lines I ever heard.

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Noah Louis-Ferdinand @michigannoah.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Since I've been granted a bunch of followers by the Bluesky gods, hello, I collect the stories for this blog and it's a great resource for anyone advocating for vaccines.

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Noah Louis-Ferdinand @michigannoah.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

Saddest example of science denialism I have seen this week. And I see many.

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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

Sad that meteorologists have entered the "getting death threats because disinformation about your job has been politically weaponized" club.

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Mallory Harris, PhD @malar0ne.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

After "inviting" vaccine scientist Peter Hotez in a tweet, summit organizer Jay Bhattacharya retweeted a bunch of weird conspiracy theories about Hotez + Covid vaccines & targetting him for abuse. From this statement, it appears Stanford's President would blame *Hotez* for refusing to participate.

What followed was disappointing. When I was invited, I asked around and indeed the organizers were talking to some well-known people with quite different views who were likely to speak. However, it was not so straightforward. Some invitees weren’t able to make it, or withdrew, or didn’t want to participate in an event with other speakers whose views and behavior they found attacking or abhorrent.

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Mallory Harris, PhD @malar0ne.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

The new President of Stanford promised to protect academic freedom. I wrote about how he has broken that promise by giving opening remarks at a conference featuring speakers who led attacks on researchers at Stanford, particularly the Stanford Internet Observatory. stanforddaily.com/2024/10/03/f...

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From the Community | President Levin’s first order of business: abandoning academic freedom

By standing with tenured faculty and powerful political operatives against contingent researchers and trainees at Stanford, President Jonathan Levin has already betrayed academic freedom, writes Mallo...

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Mallory Harris, PhD @malar0ne.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

For those curious, the President's remarks at the summit have been published here. They address none of my concerns and seem to chastise faculty who refused to engage with people who have relentlessly harassed their colleagues. Shameful. news.stanford.edu/stories/2024...

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Remarks at Pandemic Policy Conference

Following is the text of remarks by Stanford President Jonathan Levin, as prepared for delivery at Pandemic Policy: Planning the Future, Assessing the Past.

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Noah Louis-Ferdinand @michigannoah.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

my god, they invited alex berenson to speak at my former university. sooo embarrassing.

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Noah Louis-Ferdinand @michigannoah.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

hating myself for not using my invite code sooner to get a cooler number

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Noah Louis-Ferdinand @michigannoah.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

I literally never log on here, what just happened??

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Noah Louis-Ferdinand @michigannoah.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

As a michigander who eats eggs literally everyday I feared for my safety for a second there lol

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Noah Louis-Ferdinand @michigannoah.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

very interesting day in the vaccine world

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Noah Louis-Ferdinand @michigannoah.bsky.social · 13/08/2024

Obsessed with these @phinformatics.bsky.social socks. More public health organizations need to give out free socks. Many more.

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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 08/08/2024

I Won’t Forget Last RSV Season: A Mother talks about her child's experience with RSV and what she saw beyond it, in the hospital. www.voicesforvaccines.org/i-wont-forge... from @voices4vaccines.bsky.social

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I Won’t Forget Last RSV Season

We expected our pandemic baby to get sick eventually, but we did not expect what RSV would do.

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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 04/08/2024

Shingles is a reactivation of the virus that causes chickenpox. It's a herpes family virus so never leaves your body. The vaccine helps to strengthen your immune response to it so it keeps the virus in check. The vaccine doesn't make it worse; it does the opposite.

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 27/07/2024

Kamala Harris holding the vinyl album "Darude - Sandstorm" (image digitally altered)

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Voices for Vaccines @voices4vaccines.bsky.social · 27/07/2024

I can't post videos on here, so PSA: we're on TikTok! And maybe having a little too much fun with it. www.tiktok.com/@voices4vacc...

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Noah Louis-Ferdinand @michigannoah.bsky.social · 25/07/2024

I am so grateful for the people who write these stories.

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Noah Louis-Ferdinand @michigannoah.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

When people talk about pandemic school closures, the experts they cite for evidence of harm also *always* say: “Here are interventions to recoup some learning. If we don’t do these things like NOW the loss will become permanent.” But that doesn’t get RTs so it doesn’t get said.

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Noah Louis-Ferdinand @michigannoah.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

It still blows my mind that during the pandemic, the state of Florida appointed a 9/11 truther to act as a public health expert.

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Noah Louis-Ferdinand @michigannoah.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Apparently my mom hasn’t updated Twitter in months, and for a moment I saw the old app, and felt innocence & happiness.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 07/11/2023

I'm back on @businessinsider.com with a new piece about how the Return-To-Office fight is getting dirty, with executives demanding workers return to the office based on nothing but vibes - and how the media is helping by championing extremely questionable anti-remote studies.

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The fight over return-to-office is getting dirty

Bosses pushing return-to-office policies are relying on a few, questionable studies to back up the claim that remote work is less productive.

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Mike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Press Corps Approver @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

And it's not just Boris Johnson or UK-specific either.

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Noah Louis-Ferdinand @michigannoah.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Man, there is just so much disrespect in this world for people whose health problems we don’t understand.

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Noah Louis-Ferdinand @michigannoah.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

There’s a super popular substack newsletter that mines obituaries for random deaths then sends them out en masse, with their personal photos… to blame the covid vaccine. Yes: still happening in 2023.

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Noah Louis-Ferdinand @michigannoah.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Out of morbid curiosity, I signed up for the Epoch Times Health newsletter. And I’m not *at all* exaggerating when I say half of their emails are about the dangers of vaccines.

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Noah Louis-Ferdinand @michigannoah.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

Right before COVID we had norovirus sweep thru our house. Seemed inevitable w 6 people. Misery. Last winter one of us got it, so I crammed prevention advice & texted the family group chat. We stopped anyone else from getting sick! Like woah: preventative measures actually work.

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Noah Louis-Ferdinand @michigannoah.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

“Pain is always new to the sufferer, but loses its originality for those around him. Everyone will get used to it except me.” A 100+ year old quote that still perfectly summarizes why we rarely act to find real treatments for some especially terrible illnesses (like long COVID).

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Noah Louis-Ferdinand @michigannoah.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

This is misleading. Throat cancer is caused by a virus, HPV. ANY kind of sex can transmit this virus and thus cause cancer. And it’s such a common virus that 80%+ of us get it. The best way to reduce these risks is **not** to stop having sex. It’s to get the HPV vaccine.

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Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Very cool job with a great team!

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Noah Louis-Ferdinand @michigannoah.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

To push back on revisionism: COVID was a leading cause of death for all age groups in the US in 2021. That doesn’t mean it killed equal numbers. But that for all ages it was one of the biggest *relative* risks to life. We’ve previously done a lot to mitigate much smaller risks.

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Noah Louis-Ferdinand @michigannoah.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

One of the most heartbreaking things in life is when you’re arguing with a family member and suddenly realize their talking points are coming straight from what they saw on Twitter.

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Noah Louis-Ferdinand @michigannoah.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

I can give you facts about the flu vaccine, but I honestly just get mine because I know a bad flu is probably the worst I’d feel all year. I really, really love not experiencing that! And will try to prevent it even if it won’t kill me.

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Noah Louis-Ferdinand @michigannoah.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

The CDC has said universal vaccination policies are the best way to reach *vulnerable* people. They said this about flu vaccines, a decade before COVID. No one got upset or felt the need to attack them over it. www.statnews.com/2023/10/13/u...

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Yes, everyone should get an updated Covid-19 vaccine

Yes, everyone should get an updated Covid vaccine.

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Noah Louis-Ferdinand @michigannoah.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

After 3 years of polarized public health, I hope people realize that prevention isn’t either-or. Simple measures are worthwhile too. One less bad cold and maybe a slightly lower chance of getting flu or COVID is worthwhile. And that’s achievable without a “lockdown” or whatever.

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Noah Louis-Ferdinand @michigannoah.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

One of the most practical & hopeful studies I’ve read about long COVID. Scientists doing real work that could potentially restore livelihoods. It’s not perfect but it’s progress. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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