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Naomi Harada Thyden, PhD MPH @naomithyden.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

All I can come up with is discrediting cheap and effective interventions to peddle your own snake oil.

Naomi Harada Thyden, PhD MPH @naomithyden.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I was in a meeting where the facilitator would stop presenting to say out loud when she noticed someone in the process of typing a comment in the chat 😭

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Naomi Harada Thyden, PhD MPH @naomithyden.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Same. It’s mostly worth it but I have had some nasty surprises. 🤣

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Naomi Harada Thyden, PhD MPH @naomithyden.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Why does he have 7 different reasons and none of them make sense. What is the actual reason. 🤨

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Naomi Harada Thyden, PhD MPH @naomithyden.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I got the email. Assumed it was everyone.

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Naomi Harada Thyden, PhD MPH @naomithyden.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

😂 you could probably pin it yourself and then just hand it over.

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Naomi Harada Thyden, PhD MPH @naomithyden.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I use a tailor for ~$20 because I hate sewing.

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Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

We've been tracking unlawful NIH grant terminations for 3 weeks. Spread the word👇! Fellow PIs: what can you do upon termination? ✅ Email PO + document questions ✅ Submit FOIA ✅ Advocate to your OCG/OSP for appeal + litigation ✅ Consider outside litigation ✅ Donate to state AGs + legal orgs 1/🧵

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Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025. Data from this form will be used to update the Rescinded NIH...

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Naomi Harada Thyden, PhD MPH @naomithyden.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Haha yes I see friends down south posting salads made from their gardens while it’s still snowing here.

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Claire Kamp Dush @clairekampdush.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

My federal grants with @wendymanning.bsky.social and Ann Meier were terminated last week. The language from the termination is below. It has been sad as we are being forced to say goodbye to members of our team. We are figuring out next steps. We remain deeply committed to studying all families.

This award no longer effectuates agency priorities. Research programs based primarily on artificial and non-scientific categories, including amorphous equity objectives, are antithetical to the scientific inquiry, do nothing to expand our knowledge of living systems, provide low returns on investment, and ultimately do not enhance health, lengthen life, or reduce illness. Worse, so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”) studies are often used to support unlawful discrimination on the basis of race and other protected characteristics, which harms the health of Americans. Therefore, it is the policy of NIH not to prioritize such research programs.

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Naomi Harada Thyden, PhD MPH @naomithyden.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

A couple years ago U of MN was intentionally poaching researchers from politically conservative states. And now they announced that political stances are against university policy. Sobering stuff.

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Naomi Harada Thyden, PhD MPH @naomithyden.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I referred to it as a “cervical cancer vaccine” and my friend was like there’s a cervical cancer vaccine?? Just didn’t make the connection even though she received it

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Naomi Harada Thyden, PhD MPH @naomithyden.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

They are unionized. Some of the firings target people in their probationary period before full union protections kick in. Some of the firings are illegal.

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Naomi Harada Thyden, PhD MPH @naomithyden.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

your Ward 2018 AEP paper is cited, as always!

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Naomi Harada Thyden, PhD MPH @naomithyden.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Thanks for pointing that out! I changed my settings so you should be able to now. Looks like I can't DM you since you don't follow me.

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Naomi Harada Thyden, PhD MPH @naomithyden.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

See full commentary for more details on each of these recommendations, additional ethical and statistical justifications, and a treasure trove of citations. Resist by continuing to move your work forward!

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Naomi Harada Thyden, PhD MPH @naomithyden.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Knee jerk “insufficient sample size” justifications for failing to collect and analyze data on marginalized communities is dismissive and harmful. If our standard practices systematically disadvantage minoritized groups, then we need to find ways to correct them.

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Naomi Harada Thyden, PhD MPH @naomithyden.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Data owners Rec 3: Become familiar with data ownership frameworks outside of the mainstream. Mainstream frameworks for data ownership and ethics emphasize concerns about privacy and statistical rigor (aka prioritize sample size), while complementary frameworks emphasize other value systems.

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Naomi Harada Thyden, PhD MPH @naomithyden.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Data owners Rec 2: Reconsider sample size requirements with the size of marginalized populations in mind. Some marginalized groups simply do not exist in numbers large enough to satisfy sample size req's. In these cases, are we willing to exclude entire communities from the scope of statistics?

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Naomi Harada Thyden, PhD MPH @naomithyden.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Data owners Rec 1: Facilitate the implementation of the above recommendations. Structural racism researchers encounter structural racism in their efforts to obtain data. Data owners should allow researchers to make a case for analyzing smaller samples than are customary to with their dataset.

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Naomi Harada Thyden, PhD MPH @naomithyden.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Rec 5b: Avoid analyzing or reporting “multi-racial” as racial/ethnic category. It is so vague it is meaningless. One option is to create categories for combos of racial and ethnic groups which exhibit distinct health patterns. Another option is categories that are not mutually exclusive.

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Naomi Harada Thyden, PhD MPH @naomithyden.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Rec 5a: Avoid analyzing or reporting “other” as racial/ethnic category. An “other” estimate is just a weighted average, weighted toward whichever remaining group happens to be the largest in that particular dataset – a group which is rarely identified.

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Naomi Harada Thyden, PhD MPH @naomithyden.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Rec 4: Publish estimates produced from small samples of marginalized groups even if they are imprecise. In isolation, imprecise estimates might not be convincing, but if several publications produce similar estimates, we essentially increase the sample size and make progress toward precision.

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Naomi Harada Thyden, PhD MPH @naomithyden.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Rec 3: Explore ways to thoughtfully increase the analytic sample of the group you’re interested in. In situation when sample sizes from marginalized groups are too small to analyze with bivariates or regression models, thoughtfully consider who else is similar enough to be categorized together.

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Naomi Harada Thyden, PhD MPH @naomithyden.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Rec 2: Report overall Ns of each racial/ethnic subgroup in your data, even if you do not analyze them further. This encourages transparency. Many papers report race/ethnicity data in a way that the reader cannot assess whether it was justifiable to exclude or combine racial/ethnic groups.

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Naomi Harada Thyden, PhD MPH @naomithyden.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Rec 1: Recognize that descriptive analyses have smaller sample size req's. Rules of thumb for sample sizes assume the goal is multivariable models. Descriptive epi is essential to address health inequities. And exposures more common among marginalized groups are in earlier stages of research.

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Naomi Harada Thyden, PhD MPH @naomithyden.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

It is worth revisiting whether common practices around sample size requirements in observational data are actually best practices or not, and whether they strike the right balance between privacy and our ability to document the experiences of marginalized groups.

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Naomi Harada Thyden, PhD MPH @naomithyden.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

As social epidemiologists, we use epidemiologic methods to study racism within structures such as housing, education, and the criminal legal system. But we also need to examine racism within structures in our own field.

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Naomi Harada Thyden, PhD MPH @naomithyden.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

We know we need disaggregated data on minoritized groups - Indigenous Peoples, AAPI, sexual and gender minorities, Black immigrants, etc. Yet it is common practice to exclude and obscure these groups in population-level analyses because of 'insufficient sample size'.

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Naomi Harada Thyden, PhD MPH @naomithyden.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Are you interested in analyzing small samples from marginalized communities and aren't sure how? My new commentary in AJE's collection on Methods in Social Epidemiology lays out rec's for researchers, public health practitioners, and data owners. DM your email address if you need access.

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Insufficient sample size or insufficient attention to marginalized populations? A practical guide to moving observational research forward

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 17/02/2025

The good news: CDC's webpages have been restored following court orders. The bad news: many have this despicable banner attached to them. We will be getting into misconceptions in gender ideology in a later post. For now, we are hurt and ashamed, and we stand with the LGBTQIA+ community.

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Whitney Robinson @whitneyepi.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Yesterday I realized that people do not understand that the “DEI” purge is a cover to get Black people fired and sidelined from government, university, and civic and corporate life in the US. This is so clear based on who is being targeted that I hadn’t thought to say it explicitly Happy #BHM! 🙃

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Naomi Harada Thyden, PhD MPH @naomithyden.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The social media comments about this have been vile!

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I'm with a dozen public health professionals meeting with @amyklobuchar.com 's staff... next to her Minneapolis office. (We thought we had a meeting here but it turns out they don't meet with constituents in person in Minnesota, only in DC?! So we scrambled to find a public space) #VoughtNo 1/

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 03/02/2025

We can confirm that the communication ban at CDC (and presumably all of HHS) has been extended for at least another week with no specified end date. No external communication with local, state, or territorial health departments, healthcare systems, or the public. In the setting of ongoing outbreaks.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/01/2025

If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not

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Naomi Harada Thyden, PhD MPH @naomithyden.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I didn’t know Howe or Cooper were neighborhoods until just now 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

remember, the blitzkrieg is intended to make you feel like there is nothing you can do about it; that’s the only reason to go forward in this haphazard and sloppy manner all in the first week and the choice of that strategy tells you they are afraid you *will* do something about it

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

“Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.” T.Snyder.

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Naomi Harada Thyden, PhD MPH @naomithyden.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I'm going to miss having Dr. Vivek Murthy as our Surgeon General. www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...

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