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Defend Public Health @defendpublichealth.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

We've hit the 3,000 mark in letters to Congress on the mad power-grab by Russell Vought at OMB to take over all federal grant making with a team of political commissars reporting to him. Let's get to 4,000 letters this week. Share. Share. Share. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

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Oppose OMB Proposal to Put ALL Federal Government Funding Decisions in the Hands of Political Appointees

On May 29, 2026, the Office of Management and Budget issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), OMB-2026-0034, Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance. The scope of this proposed regulation is...

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Sharing this screen grab from a friend at NIH (with permission). This is a checklist program officers have to complete before a grant can be awarded. The first question: "Is this grant All Clean/Clear in the NIH Text analysis Tool?" 🧵1/3

Screen grab of an NIH grants checklist showing the first question is: "1. Is this grant All Clean/Clear in the NIH Text analysis Tool?"

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Mallory Harris, PhD @malar0ne.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

NIH Director's stump speech lists stats on how it's hard to be early career & proposes no solution past "elevate new ideas" while he slashes our opportunities. If you're a scientific org inviting him & don't point this out, I'll assume you don't care about us. deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/04/that...

So including for instance elevating elevating the ideas of early career scientists

We have a problem, we have a major problem, right

For for the last 30 years it's gotten worse and worse

Where where you have the time to first- like the age at which you get your first large grant, the age has gone up from the mid-80s was about 35 years old to now it's like in your mid 40s.

We have a biological research ecosystem where you need 1,2,3 postdocs

Early career scientists are the ones who have the newer ideas

and so, like, when you when you elevate the new ideas you allow- essentially empower the institutes to have newer ideas funded, you're automatically organically going to fund early career scientists. You just are.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Anti-vaxxers have long weaponized VAERS, which, as this article notes, is just a repository of *unverified* reports. An adverse reaction found in VAERS is not necessarily indicative of anything, but anti-vaxxers prey on low health and information literacy to sow doubt.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

this needs to be a bigger story — RFK is rushing to appoint SEVEN more anti-vaccine extremists to his phony vaccine panel so it’s packed with quacks. my read? he’s panicking and accelerating his plans to take away all of our vaccines. free to read: wapo.st/3JStzDh

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RFK Jr. weighs adding critics of coronavirus shots to key vaccine panel

Two urged removal of mRNA coronavirus vaccines. One said physicians “blindly believed” in them. Another said covid isn’t scary, noting Jesus touched lepers.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

RFK Jr. just implied that antidepressants cause suicide. This is false.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 02/09/2025

If you are a woman who needs money for school, apply through my nonprofit The Thurman Perry Foundation on 11/15 at ThurmanPerryFoundation.org We are awarding $50,000 ($10,000 each) to women nationwide

THE 2025-2026
SCHOLARSHIP CYCLE
IS COMING. IT'S NEVER TOO EARLY TO START PREPARING!

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.

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State steps in to ensure access to COVID-19 vaccine

Public health order counters potential limitations set by the USFDA

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 29/08/2025

For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society

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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 28/08/2025

Latest Gallup poll data reveal, once again, that the main obstacles to unions in the the US are broken labor laws and employer aggression Two-thirds of the US public approves of labor unions, but unions only represent about 11 percent of the workforce

Line plot showing the historical share of those who approve of unions in a Gallup poll from January 1936 to August 2025

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Major update: As of this morning, CVS says it's decided it can offer the vax in 13 of the 16 states IF you get a prescription. Still a big new barrier for many people, but a change from its "no vaccines at all in these states" position yesterday. The three remaining absolute-nos are MA, NV and NM.

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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

the expression "never the twain shall meet" is about how Mark Twain will never hear Man! I Feel Like A Woman

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

If any pro-vaccine study did something like this, the anti-vax movement would broadcast it so loud and make it the centerpiece of a documentary. But, bc the anti-vax movement is fundamentally about eugenics and propaganda, they'll just hand-wave it away, play the victim, and move on.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I will never understand why the media feels the need to whitewash RFK Jr constantly. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

R.F.K., Jr., Anthony Fauci, and the Revolt Against Expertise

Citing evidence, ignoring appeals to authority, reserving judgment, demanding more research—these are potentially exhausting traits in a conversational partner, but they’re also marks of a scientific mind. Rather than being “anti-science,” Kennedy seems enchanted by it. His accusatory book “The Real Anthony Fauci” (2021) is packed with discussions of clinical studies, and it bears a blurb from a Nobel-winning virologist. (Anyone worried about the lack of public appetite for complex writing should contemplate the fact that this nearly five-hundred-page, data-drenched work of nonfiction has sold more than a million copies.) Kennedy has published two books with the subtitle “Let the Science Speak.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/05/2025

this guy is out here proudly being a eugenicist freak while people at mainstream and "respectable publications" make excuses for him or even muse about whether he has a "few good points"

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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

tl;dr- egotistical edgelord intoxicatingly enamored with the (false) idea that he's far smarter than everyone else and therefore superior

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Vinay Prasad, in his own words, outlines the philosophy he’ll bring to the FDA

Vinay Prasad, tapped to be a top official at the FDA, has never shied from speaking his mind.

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Leslie E. Wolf, JD, MPH @leslieewolf.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

As others have commented, this requirement has ethical problems. It would unethical to use a placebo as a control if an effective vaccine exists.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

There has been a significant reduction in the number of kids getting the flu vaccine over the past 5 years—a drop from 64% to 49%. Consequently, there have been 216 pediatric flu deaths so far this flu season, the highest number since the swine flu 15 years ago (link below). Vaccinate.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

"If you look at a long period of time, a lot of our increase in living standards seems to be coming from public investment in scientific research." The devastating cuts to science funding aren't just academic, they threaten our livelihoods and wellbeing. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...

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Trump’s Cuts to Science Funding Could Hurt U.S. Economy, Study Shows (Gift Article)

Reducing federal support for research and development could cause long-run economic damage and reduce government revenue.

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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 30/04/2025

6/ HHS Sec.'s job is to oversee med. product safety (e.g., FDA) & ensure public trust. Thus, RFK Jr. shld be saying, "HHS is here to protect your kids. Instead, he's saying the opposite: Parents (Moms): don't trust us to do this technical work. It's your parental responsibility to do it yourself.

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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 30/04/2025

4/ He promotes what sociologists call "intensive parenting," as a superior way to ensure kids are safe. That's a time/labor-intensive & stressful form of parenting many US *mothers* feel pressured to follow due to cultural norms/expectations around mothers as primary caregivers. ...

Screenshot from the NYT article linked in first post of this thread, describes comment by RFK Jr.:

“I would say that we live in a democracy, and part of the responsibility of being a parent is to do your own research,” the health secretary said, in response to a question from a woman in the audience who asked how he would advise a new parent about vaccine safety. “You research the baby stroller, you research the foods that they’re getting, and you need to research the medicines that they’re taking as well.”

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

“Do your own research” also implies that research cannot be a collective enterprise, that there is no purpose to funding actual scientific research, and that you should just manage your child’s healthcare with no guardrails.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Toxicologist here! This will improve the health of zero Americans. Current synthetic food dyes are not causing health problems, and are often times used because they are actually safer than natural food dyes. Reminder that guns are the #1 cause of death of children but we are going to ban food dyes.

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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Who needs data when you can have vibes like "the COVID-19 vaccine made people more hesitant about other vaccines" "the US is an outlier in its vaccination policy" Wanna guess what else we're an outlier in? Healthcare accessibility. Burden of comorbidities. COVID-19 death toll.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Folding 27 NIH institutes and centers down into *8*, which is even worse than the rumored plan for 15, is catastrophic for American biomedical research. Completely insane.

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Adrianna McIntyre @adrianna.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Rural health care providers are staring down existential threats from both cuts to Medicaid and the elimination of HRSA initiatives www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

No one deserves detention. No one deserves deportation. No one deserves prison. No one deserves to be separated from their loved ones. No human is illegal. Free them all.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 17/04/2025

A preliminary budget draft leaked to the Washington Post outlines plans by the Trump administration to cut: - the NIH budget by 40% - the CDC budget by 44% - the HHS budget by 33% This will not make America healthy. It will make Americans sicker and more vulnerable to disease outbreaks.

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Donovan Maust @dtmaust.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

You mean this data—health data—where Medicare beneficiary privacy is of the utmost importance and researchers go to enormous lengths to protect it? And get like fined massive amounts for disclosure? That’s the data that is being shared with immigration?

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 16/04/2025

tfw you're sitting right on top of a giant blaring cautionary tale

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 16/04/2025

Are you ready to get spicier - cages are not good solutions to human problems - profiteering and power hoarding are destructive - land should not be privately owned and the violent maintenance of this colonial system is the actual root of our problems (not republicans or the supreme court etc)

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 16/04/2025

To all my new followers, hello, welcome! Here are some things I believe: - you deserve to be treated with respect & dignity - you deserve democracy in your workplace - you deserve time to rest - you deserve care - you deserve clean air and water - everyone else deserves these things too. Everyone

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Respectfully, do they know how vaccination works?

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Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:

The new revelations about DOGE's activities at the labor agency come from a whistleblower in the IT department of the NLRB, who disclosed his concerns to Congress and the U.S. Office of Special Counsel in a detailed report that was then provided to NPR. Meanwhile, his attempts to raise concerns internally within the NLRB preceded someone "physically taping a threatening note" to his door that included sensitive personal information and overhead photos of him walking his dog that appeared to be taken with a drone, according to a cover letter attached to his disclosure filed by his attorney, Andrew Bakaj of the nonprofit Whistleblower Aid.

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Molly Nowels @nollymowels.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I was recently asked by BU’s Public Health Post to write up a short reader-friendly summary of a paper I published last year in @jmirpub.bsky.social! Here’s a link to my PHP article for those interested! publichealthpost.org/mental-behav...

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Beyond Therapy: The Role of Digital Resources in Mental Health Support

As demand for mental health services rises, digital platforms that combine self-guided tools with provider-led care are essential.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I cannot express to you in words how funny the fifth sentence in this first screenshot is. I completely lost it.

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Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

RFK Jr.: "Pharmaceutical drugs are the third-biggest killer of Americans." This is straightforwardly false. The original claim is that MEDICAL ERROR is the third leading cause of death in the US. That is also a lie, based on terrible science: gidmk.substack.com/p/medical-er...

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Medical Error Is Not The Third Leading Cause Of Deaths

The bad science behind a commonly-cited statistic

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

deporting people is wrong even if they are in a gang or have a criminal record deporting people is wrong even if they are in a gang or have a criminal record deporting people is wrong even if they are in a gang or have a criminal record deporting people is wrong

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/04/2025

there is simply no amount of child death that will move RFK to change his mind because he is a predatory narcissist who cares less about health than the gratification of his own ego

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

So, for any universities who are not paying attention or thinking they will be spared, here it is, as plain as day. Pushing back individually and as a group is the only rational strategy.

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a man in a tuxedo is pointing at something with the words right there

ALT: a man in a tuxedo is pointing at something with the words right there

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