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Nancy L Sieber

@nancysieber.bsky.social
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Physiologist and environmental health researcher and teacher. I travel to India a lot for work, and love it. Interested in public health, politics, and cat photos.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
If you’re thinking about how sexual violence, social movements, and accountability today, read this brilliant Sara Ahmed essay on the difference between consequences and punishment. I recommend this essay to people grappling with accountability proceedings more than any other.
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The Complainer as Carceral Feminist
I am often asked how my arguments about complaint activism relate to the projects of transformative and restorative justice as well as abolitionist feminism. In an answer to one such question, I sp…
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midwest-voter.bsky.social @midwest-voter.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Ohio is ready for a change in leadership and for someone who will put the needs of the people above politics Help @amyacton.bsky.social defeat strong Trump ally Vivek Ramaswamy #LiveBlue #ResistanceUnited #ONEV1
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
“This isn’t just a policy change. It’s a betrayal of more than a century of hard-won victories by public health heroes who fought, often at great personal and professional sacrifice, to establish a principle that should be beyond debate: American lives have value.”
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The EPA just erased a century of public health progress
Former Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Dean Michelle A. Williams on the EPA’s incorrect and morally wrong decision.
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Joe Allen @joeallenjoe.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
“My concern is that, like any disaster, after a year, people stop paying attention,” Allen said. “But there’s a lot more to do. A lot more to learn.” www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...
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The L.A. fires gave us an unprecedented look at the danger of urban blazes
Scientists say there has been an extraordinary research effort to understand the long-term health and environmental effects of the Los Angeles fires.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
“Lost Science is an ongoing series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding after cuts by the Trump administration.”
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 21/12/2025
A portrait of the kind of science we are losing, and for no reason www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/r...
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His lab was humming with discovery. After one year under Trump, it’s almost silent
John Quackenbush built a lab that is at the forefront of human genetics research and bioinformatics. Trump administration cuts have put it in danger of collapse.
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Joe Allen @joeallenjoe.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
The first health study out of our L.A. Fire HEALTH consortium shows that visits to the emergency department for heart and respiratory illness were at levels "comparable to or surpassed those seen during the worst years of the Covid-19 pandemic." www.wsj.com/health/healt...
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Heart Attacks, Lung Conditions Jumped After Los Angeles Wildfires
Mysterious illnesses also rose after the fires, according to a new study that reviewed emergency-department visits.
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STAT @statnews.com · 05/12/2025
His lab was humming with discovery. After one year under Trump, it’s almost silent. John Quackenbush, computational biology pioneer, ‘knew biomedical research was in the crosshairs’ www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/r...
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His lab was humming with discovery. After one year under Trump, it’s almost silent
John Quackenbush built a lab that is at the forefront of human genetics research and bioinformatics. Trump administration cuts have put it in danger of collapse.
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Joe Allen @joeallenjoe.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Scientists working on the LA Fires: lafirehealth.org/conference/
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STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The Cost of Forgetting by Chelsi — Vaccines have made a world that is safer and healthier. But, vaccines have made us comfortable enough to forget.
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The Cost of Forgetting
by Chelsi — Vaccines have made a world that is safer and healthier. But, vaccines have made us comfortable enough to forget.
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Increase the chances that this precious document will be found among the ruins of our declining state.
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Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
“Womanosphere influencers … help direct the national conversation away from how the government could invest in communities” and help the right convince “women to expect less from a nation that could give them more.” This whole piece from Adrienne Matei is🔥🔥🔥 www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why strongmen rely on women at home
Fascist regimes pushed narratives of domestic bliss, yet relied on women’s unpaid labor. In the US today, ‘womanosphere’ influencers promote the same fantasies
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Nancy L Sieber @nancysieber.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Sign up for my popular online Human Pathophysiology class! Focus is on CV, resp & renal systems, & how they work (& fail) together.  Co-taught by critical care MD.  Great prep for MCAT, etc.  Interactive classes - you will learn ALOT. Mon 5:30-7:30 PM EDT.  DM for details.  Enrollment ends 8/28.
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Human Pathophysiology I - Harvard Division of Continuing Education Course Browser
This course focuses on the pathophysiology of the human cardiovascular, respiratory, and renal systems, and on how these systems are altered by various physiologic challenges. The concept of homeostas...
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Nancy L Sieber @nancysieber.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Sign up for my popular online Human Pathophysiology class! Focus is on CV, resp & renal systems, & how they work (& fail) together.  Co-taught by critical care MD.  Great prep for MCAT, etc.  Interactive classes - you will learn ALOT. Mon 5:30-7:30 PM EDT.  DM for details.  Enrollment ends 8/28.
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Human Pathophysiology I - Harvard Division of Continuing Education Course Browser
This course focuses on the pathophysiology of the human cardiovascular, respiratory, and renal systems, and on how these systems are altered by various physiologic challenges. The concept of homeostas...
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Bill Hanage @billhanage.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Well said Rick Bright “In national security terms, mRNA is the equivalent of a missile defense system for biology. The ability to rapidly design, produce and deploy medical countermeasures is as vital to our defense as any military capability“ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...
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Opinion | America Is Abandoning One of the Greatest Medical Breakthroughs
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Such an important essay on the anti-vaccine playbook — and how not to fall for it www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | The Playbook Used to ‘Prove’ Vaccines Cause Autism
Data can easily be manipulated to show a causation that doesn’t exist.
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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
I am grateful for the immunologists working to understand the long term impacts of Covid on our immune systems! Looking forward to knowing so much more about the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen in the decades to come.
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Nancy L Sieber @nancysieber.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
What is this? Hanging from a tree in rural Vermont.
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
If someone you know buys into claims about "genetic optimization" of embryos using polygenic scores of cognition, just send them our 2024 paper on Beethoven & musicality. We wrote it to help communicate limits of individual-level genetic predictions & complexity of links between DNA & behaviour. 🧪👇
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Notes from Beethoven’s genome
Wesseldijk et al. compare the genomic information collected from Ludwig van Beethoven with population-based datasets used to quantify musical achievement.
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Paul Belcher FRCP HonMFPH 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @pauljbelcher.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
🇺🇸 War on #science: The US and the world look likely to pay a high price for the policies of #Trump’s ruthless health secretary #RFKJr “Once #PublicHealth becomes politicised, then it’s game over. There’s just no way to come back from that” @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/interna...
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A war on science: Kennedy’s slash-and-burn approach to pu...
The US and the world look likely to pay a high price for the policies of Trump’s ruthless health secretary
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Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD @drwambsgans.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I feel like I’ve been grasping at anything that gives me joy lately. Like helping a friend finish a quilt, knitting a shawl, taking a turn about my garden every day. I’m really trying to not let the weight of fascism hurt my spirit, but it’s been really hard lately. I know I’m not alone in this.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 26/06/2025
This is Gus. He was caught sitting at the kitchen table while home alone. His motives remain unknown. 14/10 (TT: milolovesromeo)
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 25/06/2025
Vaccines may offer double protection against dementia, study suggests
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Vaccines may offer double protection against dementia, study suggests
Oxford research shows adjuvant chemicals included in vaccinations may enhance their antiviral effect
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
RFK Jr. is going to kill thousands of people. That’s not hyperbole.
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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
🧪 #medsky #episky
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 04/06/2025
1/4 Trump’s Assault on Science & Academia Is a National Crisis The Trump regime slashed federal research funding in a sweeping ideological purge, gutting the NIH, canceling almost 2500 lifesaving projects, and punishing universities. This is sabotage. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump (Gift Article)
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
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Charlotte Payne @libertyruth.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
As a Chinese international student during the first Trump administration, Qian Di was accused of research misconduct for his work on air quality, and eventually chose to return to China. In this piece he reflects on his experiences, and the continued impacts of hostile US policies. rdcu.be/epAMd
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Navigating anti-science policies in environmental public health
Nature Human Behaviour - Qian Di talks about what it was like doing public health research as a Chinese scientist in the USA during the first Trump administration. His experiences foreshadow...
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Hy Bender @hybender.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Law abiding citizen
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Joe Allen @joeallenjoe.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
People have no idea of the extent of the destruction happening in the scientific community. There is no real-time feedback loop like the stock market. But, man, are we shooting ourselves in the foot. Decades to build; months to destroy.
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Nancy L Sieber @nancysieber.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
So much is being lost when we terminate these grants. salatainstitute.harvard.edu/breathe-easi...
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Breathe easier? Not without the science  - The Salata Institute
By canceling a multi-year study of older people with lung disease – a few months before it was due to end – the Trump administration has left patients without help, doctors without answers, and wasted...
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Nancy L Sieber @nancysieber.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
If ChatGPT hallucinates a first authored paper by me that played “a crucial role” in my field, can I include it on my CV?
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Joe Allen @joeallenjoe.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
We modeled measles transmission in schools across the U.S. —> Our results highlight the primary importance of vaccination —> additional and significant risk reduction from ventilation and filtration
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 13/04/2025
however I also have not finished reading it b/c this goes on too long in a too frustrating manner and I'm going back to sleep instead. LOL I agree that our symptoms mostly become a problem when we're forced into environments that our brains aren't wired to handle. But... no shit? lol
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
The truth is, we never, in any systematic way, made classrooms safe, like ensuring upgraded ventilation and air purification in schools. And COVID ripped through classrooms. Kids fueled household spread and hundreds of thousands of them lost caregivers to the virus. But we don’t talk about THAT.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 12/04/2025
BREAKING: Harvard AAUP & the nat'l AAUP have jointly filed a lawsuit & TRO to block the Trump admin from demanding that Harvard restrict speech & undermine academic freedom or else lose $8.7 billion in federal funds. This action challenges the Trump admin's misuse of funds for coercion. Stay tuned.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
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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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Jenai Huff @jenaihuff.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Very good point
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
My first post on BlueSky, I could not access the same handle as my X (someone hacked into that one): So it's @peterhotez for X and @peterhotezmdphd for BlueSky I'm a pediatric-vaccine scientist based in Houston TX at our Texas Medical Center
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Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Great effort by an MPH student to connect people to jobs in #publichealth publichealthhiringhelp.substack.com
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Public Health Hiring Help | Substack
Public Health Student Helping Each Other Find Employment with Targeted Postings. Click to read Public Health Hiring Help, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
A really powerful WWII era "don't be a sucker" piece, that explains how authoritarians have to separate and destroy groups of people so they can take power. I don't usually watch anything this long (22 min) but couldn't stop watching once I started this.
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Nancy L Sieber @nancysieber.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
So sad to lose this symbol of friendship. We were just there last weekend.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
“Nobody feels like their job is safe. Everyone is on edge,” said Kim Hasenkrug, an NIH scientist emeritus… “Even the top people can’t keep track because they’re hiring and firing so much. Direct supervisors of those who were terminated didn’t even know that it was happening.”
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At NIH, ‘everyone is on edge’ as they brace for deep cuts and more centralized control
As the NIH braces for cuts of up to 5,000 of its 20,000 positions, “people are scrambling and freaking out,” a researcher said.
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Joe Allen @joeallenjoe.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
PhD student Daniella Fodera had her F31 fellowship research training grant terminated. Fodera studies fibroids in the uterus — non-cancerous growths that affect 70%–80% of women by the age of 50, and can cause severe pain and infertility
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Joe Allen @joeallenjoe.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
In fiscal year 2024, the report found, NIH awarded more than $36.9 billion to researchers, supporting more than 408,000 jobs and generating over $94.5 billion in new economic activity nationwide. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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NIH funding delivers exponential economic returns — Harvard Gazette
Report finds all 50 states reap gains in patient health, job creation, research resources, business development.
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Robodobdob @robodobdob.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Promo photo of a Tesla Cybertruck with with the words Incel Inside stamped over it to look like the Intel Inside logo
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Nancy L Sieber @nancysieber.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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Will Harvard Bend or Break? — The New Yorker
Free-speech battles and pressure from Washington threaten America’s oldest university—and the soul of higher education.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Inside the Collapse at the NIH www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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Inside the Collapse at the NIH
Administration officials pressured the NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.
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