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Morgan Philbin, PhD

@morganphilbin.bsky.social
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Associate Prof at UCSF & BHHI; formerly at Columbia Public Health; works on health equity, social policy, housing, LGBTQ+ youth, HIV and drug use. Outside of that: nature, jogging slowly, gardening with benign neglect, Dodgers & Valkyries fan

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boehninglab @boehninglab.com · 02/05/2025
Budget released today: 40% cut to NIH 50% cut to NSF If enacted, this will destroy academic research in the United States. It will also have a major trickle down effect on the entire academic ecosystem
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 21/04/2025
there's a county in Alabama where Black people are literally getting sick because the government doesn't provide a working sewer system, and Trump's Justice Department is trying to keep it that way apparently Black people with indoor plumbing is "illegal DEI" ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Trump DOJ: Providing Basic Sewer Services to Black People Is Actually “Illegal DEI”
The Trump administration has nixed a 2023 settlement that was building modern sanitation infrastructure in Lowndes County, a predominantly Black county in Alabama.
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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
If "protests in all 50 states" wanted above-the-fold coverage in @nytimes.com, they should have been "seven random Americans" instead
NYT home page: more prominent coverage for "7 Americans React to Sweeping Tariffs" and "A Sticky Miso Salmon Bowl for Busy Weeknights" than for "Anti-Trump Protests in All 50 States"
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Candace Winstead @candacewinstead.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I will never never forget living through the summer of '95 in Chicago during grad school with no AC. We slept on the cement floor in lab. So so many elderly folks died. Closing the LIHEAP program, which still has millions left to distribute is evil callous cruelty. Fuck these eugenic assholes.
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Morgan Philbin, PhD @morganphilbin.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Your daily reminder that health, particularly women’s health, remains under attack from every angle in this country….
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Morgan Philbin, PhD @morganphilbin.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The PRAMS data are vital for shaping evidence based clinical care; their loss will lead to increases in morbidity and mortality. It’s absolutely unconscionable….
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...
talkingpointsmemo.com
PRAMS Shuttered for Good
In the first weeks of the administration I wrote a number of...
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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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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 31/03/2025
The HHS reorganizing--nice overview, including an org chart that suggests issues. E.g., "NIH is 1st & foremost a research agency...CDC is a public hlth agency...putting 'sci into action'... (M)oving key Centers out of (CDC)...thus removes the 'action' component, potentially resulting in gaps..." 🛟🧪😷
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HHS Re-Org: Implications for Public Health
The HHS reorganization could create gaps in state, local, and tribal public health programs.
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Morgan Philbin, PhD @morganphilbin.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Who else is at SBM with us??
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The detention of Mahmoud Khalil puts all Americans fundamental rights at risk. And if you can’t see that because you oppose his politics, well that’s exactly the reaction Trump and his cronies are counting on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run
The pro-Palestine student was arrested without due process for exercising his right to free speech. He will not be the last.
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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Scientists need to realize this list will grow. It used to be abortion and climate change. Staying quiet won’t keep your area off lists like this.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 07/03/2025
No you didn't. You just weren't paying attention. - Photo: Maddie McGarvey for the New York Times.
Bumper sticker "I bought this before Elon went crazy"
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Morgan Philbin, PhD @morganphilbin.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
This list of words to avoid is terrifying, and obviously has zero scientific rationale (you can't even study mice w/o 'sex'..) And the fact that the "Gulf of Mexico" is on the list next to DEI, BIPOC and LGBTQ shows just how asinine this whole endeavor is... www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
The Words Federal Agencies Are Removing From Their Sites Under Trump
Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.
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Morgan Philbin, PhD @morganphilbin.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Sitting on the sidelines won't save institutions, federal grants, or the people we need to be rallying behind with our science and advocacy. Get out there and fight back, especially if you're an institution with money and power. www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/03...
columbiaspectator.com
Trump administration cuts $400 million in federal funding to Columbia
<i>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.</i>
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Morgan Philbin, PhD @morganphilbin.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
While I have so many issues with what the Enola Gay did, I can def get behind it's new status as a queer icon 🏳️‍🌈... (The pentagon wiped records of the Enola Gay because it ran afoul of Trump's BS gender ideology 🙄) people.com/pentagon-wip...
people.com
Pentagon Wipes Records of Famed WWII Plane 'Enola Gay,' Named After the Pilot's Mom, Because 'DEI Is Dead'
A Defense Department purge of 'DEI' content has caused tens of thousands of photos and stories to be flagged for deletion, many of which have nothing to do with DEI. One image on the chopping block is...
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Thanks to @ryanenos.bsky.social & Steven Levitsky for calling on Harvard to stand up for democracy. From Orban to Modi, authoritarians depend on the silence of academic institutions like ours. We need to speak up while we still can. There is no room for cowardice. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Harvard Must Take a Stand for Democracy | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
To silence ourselves in the name of neutrality would not only violate our own policy but also abdicate our broader civil responsibility.
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Morgan Philbin, PhD @morganphilbin.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I’m assuming that when Jeff Bezos says “personal liberties” he means abortion rights and gender identity, right??? Right???
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Morgan Philbin, PhD @morganphilbin.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Sharing a new @jama.com paper on substance use in homeless populations (see thread below). As people who use drugs and experience homelessness become increasingly marginalized we need data like these to highlight relevant policy interventions vs criminalization. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Illicit Substance Use and Treatment Access Among Adults Experiencing Homelessness in California
This survey study examines reported drug use, history of overdose, treatment, and unmet treatment needs among people experiencing homelessness in California.
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Morgan Philbin, PhD @morganphilbin.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
All of the inane Trump firings are horrific, and as somebody who grew up spending lots of time in nature and using it as a form of solace this hits particularly close to home 🌳🏕️ www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return
Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return at a time when federal employees are being laid off
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Alison Gemmill @alisongemmill.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Our two papers on abortion bans and fertility/infant mortality are now out. In 14 states w/ abortion bans, fertility increased 1.7% and infant mortality increased 6%. Key takeaway is that these impacts were disproportionately felt among those w/ greatest structural disadvantages. Links below.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14/02/2025
One of the most important roles of the NSF is to support science and tech ecosystem in the US. This ecosystem drives basic science breakthroughs that industry can build on. It also supports the education of a skilled workforce so that actual tech firms don’t have to hire utter imbeciles like these.
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Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website
"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
BREAKING: StatNews reports that more than 5,000 HHS employees across NIH, CDC and other public health and research agencies will be fired this afternoon. www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/f...
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Trump administration to fire thousands at health agencies
The Trump administration is set to eliminate thousands of federal health care jobs Friday, targeting employees across agencies who were hired in the past one to two years.
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Morgan Philbin, PhD @morganphilbin.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Taking this as a definite win since I wasn't expecting something being illegal to actually stop anybody in this administration... popular.info/p/breaking-n...
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BREAKING: NIH admits funding freeze is illegal, will resume issuing grants
An internal memo issued February 12 was obtained by Popular Information.
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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 11/02/2025
SOURCES: Clayton Kershaw, the longest-tenured Los Angeles Dodger, will be back for an 18th season. He is just 32 strikeouts away from being the 20th pitcher in baseball history to record 3,000. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/612...
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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Kendrick Lamar has 22 Grammies and a damn Pulitzer if you don’t know who he is that’s a You problem
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10/02/2025
"Sure there's an American flag built literally from the backs of Black men, but I can't imagine what message Kendrick was trying to send." - white guy at the new york times, basically
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse. The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
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Louisiana coerced unhoused people into an unheated warehouse – and paid $17.5m for it
Dozens of New Orleanians were bused to a site with insufficient heating and blankets days before the city is to host the Super Bowl
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
AND IT’S ILLEGAL FOLKS: “None of the funds appropriated in this title may be used to modify or implement any change to the indirect cost rates applied to grants & contracts funded by the NIH w/o the prior approval of the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives & the Senate.” 1/
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025
1. 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...
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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH 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
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Morgan Philbin, PhD @morganphilbin.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I know this is a VERY minor thing...but I wrote a check yesterday and woke up to a text from Capitol One saying to reach out if the check wasn't mine (it was; I did nothing). They called once 30 min ago while I was in a meeting and now they've already canceled the check? WTF??
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Josh Lee @josh-lee.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I received an email from NIH stating that applications are being removed from an upcoming study section. I am dismayed that NIH is folding.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 05/02/2025
Frankfort, Kentucky!
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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Well just received this email regarding a paper under review:
Screenshot of an email that reads: "Dear Authors, 

As you may know, the new presidential administration in the United States has issued Executive Orders, including one that impacts foreign aid.  

As part of these Executive Orders, USAID-funded projects have received stop work orders. Given the circumstance, we must stop all work on Global Health: Science and Practice. As such, I regret that we will have to postpone processing submitted papers. We know that a lot of work has gone into preparing your paper. Please feel free to take your manuscript elsewhere.  

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation during this challenging time.   

Sincerely,

Natalie Culbertson
Managing Editor
Global Health: Science and Practice Journal"
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Morgan Philbin, PhD @morganphilbin.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I was on a call with a Program Officer recently and as he was sharing some thoughts about future research priorities it felt like he was being forced to play a game of taboo but where the list of 'taboo' words was both unclear and changing in real time...
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a man with a name tag that says andrew is not allowed to say anything
ALT: a man with a name tag that says andrew is not allowed to say anything
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
"As more Americans realize we’re actually witnessing a government coup – via Executive Orders – the resistance is blossoming, in many forms. Here’s a rough picture..." resistingproject2025.substack.com/p/dont-despa...
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Don’t Despair, Organize: A Resistance Roundup & Progress Report
As more Americans realize we’re actually witnessing a government coup – via Executive Orders – the resistance is blossoming, in many forms. Here’s a rough picture.
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Morgan Philbin, PhD @morganphilbin.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I just put in a Co-PI NIH grant on structural discrimination (*a new 'dirty' word*) and trans youth (*also on 'the list'*) using the CDC's YRBS data (now offline). While we know funding chances are low we decided not to preemptively acquiesce and instead take a "f*ck you make me" approach. 🏳️‍⚧️✊
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
THIS IS WHAT WE WANT!! Stop them all. Freeze the Senate! Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz has announced he will put a blanket hold on all Trump diplomatic nominees. Go @brianschatz.bsky.social!
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 03/02/2025
Hey everyone. It’s Feb 3rd, and the Democrats have been at home since Jan 24th because the house is out of session. They should have come back, the place is on fire. Get suing, messaging, demonstrating, speaking, everything and ANYTHING
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Some NIH study sections for tomorrow have just been canceled. Who knows which of these grants would have led to the next life-saving invention. Who knows which scientists will throw in the towel bc of funding delays. Who can even begin to measure the impact of these reckless cancellations.😕🩺🧪🛟
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Morgan Philbin, PhD @morganphilbin.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
We're still in a dumpster fire but letting myself smile to see Kendrick sweep his categories and Beyoncé win Album of the year!! #TheyNotLikeUs #CowboyCarter
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a woman wearing a white cowboy hat and a sash that says ' cowboy ' on it
ALT: a woman wearing a white cowboy hat and a sash that says ' cowboy ' on it
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king crissle @crissle.com · 03/02/2025
so the Grammys got better because they added DEI 💀
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 02/02/2025
NSF FUNDING FREEZE UPDATE I received this email from the NSF about 45 minutes ago. Attached are the links. I believe this should restore trainee funding but await confirmation on that. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/TRO-NY... new.nsf.gov/executive-or...
MESSAGE to the NSF PI Community,
 
On Friday, January 31, 2025, a Federal Court issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) directing Federal grant-making agencies, including the National Science Foundation (NSF), to “...not pause, freeze, impede, block, cancel, or terminate... awards and obligations to provide federal financial assistance to the States, and... not impede the States’ access to such awards and obligations, except on the basis of the applicable authorizing statutes, regulations, and terms.” Although the language of the TRO is directed at State institutions, the Department of Justice has determined that it applies to all NSF award recipients. You can review the TRO here.
 
In order to comply with the TRO, the NSF Award Cash Management Service (ACM$) system is available for awardees to request payments as of 12:00pm EST, February 2, 2025. 
 
This message is also available on the Executive Order Implementation webpage.  Please check back regularly as we add frequently asked questions (FAQs) based on community feedback.
 
Sethuraman Panchanathan
Director
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 01/02/2025
We are still learning about all the webpages that have been taken down, but they include: contraception and reproductive rights, STI treatment guidelines, youth risk behavior survey data, CDC's health education analysis tool, resources for the LGBTQ community, and intimate partner violence. 💔
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Morgan Philbin, PhD @morganphilbin.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I finally joined Bluesky (late to the party, I know I know) so any recs of who to follow or how to figure out this platform are much appreciated.
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Josh Barocas, MD ⭕️ @jabarocas.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Infectious diseases physician here: Expect increases in HIV in your community. Hepatitis C. Sepsis. Bloodstream infections. Influenza, covid, and other respiratory viruses. Expect loss of productivity due to communicable disease. Expect increased mortality. Expect healthcare system overload. (1/3)
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Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪 @tuffcookie.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Before trying to get a bunch of scientists to leave their jobs voluntarily, one should consider that many of us completed our advanced degrees PURELY OUT OF SPITE.
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a close up of a man laying on a bed with his arm outstretched in front of a wall .
Alt: Han Solo leaning against the wall of the Mos Eisley cantina saying "over my dead body"
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