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Sarah B. Andrea @sarahbandrea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Attending @iaphs.bsky.social in Portland next week? Join us for happy hour!

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Today, people across the entire country will withhold their labor, withhold their dollars, and take to the streets to protest Trump’s ICE thugs terrorizing Minneapolis. Solidarity with everyone participating. Let this be one of many actions we take to fight back against this regime.

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Sarah B. Andrea @sarahbandrea.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

I've had my hands full & totally dropped the ball last year. But we are coming up on the time when I would typically launch the annual #EpiCookieChallenge & perhaps we could all use some joy. What are vibes @epiellie.bsky.social @lucystats.bsky.social @societyforepi.bsky.social #episky #epitwitter?

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

“In 38 states, health care is now the biggest employer. Some former manufacturing hubs, like Cleveland and Pittsburgh, have transitioned to health care as a core driver of the local economy. And hospitals are often the largest employers in small towns and rural places”

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Jordan Zakarin @jordanz.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

The entirety of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health was wiped out last night in a form letter sent by RFK Jr. NIOSH is an agency in the CDC that investigates workplace hazards and finds solutions. It protects workers, so it’s gone. Even firefighters.

A screenshot from the CDC website showing that the National Firefighter Registry for Cancer is closed

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Sarah B. Andrea @sarahbandrea.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

BEEM is a powerful study on #guaranteedincome & Black young adult health that unjustly received notice of #NIH terminations. This project matters to our participants, #healthequity, & the future of evidence-based policy. We’re not giving up but need your help! tinyurl.com/yc4v8ah8

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UCSF with a Peer to Peer Campaign

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Sarah B. Andrea @sarahbandrea.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Happy National Public Health Week I'm heading down to check out some of the important #publichealth work our awesome students in the #OHSU #PSU school of public health have been up to! We need public health now more than ever! #pdx #episky #nphw

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Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

📢 Update!📢 I'm sharing my recent op-ed in @thehill.com, a platform I chose to reach policymakers, judges, & key decision-makers 🌟 I explain the reasons behind my lawsuit against #RFKJr at #HHS for the reckless &—I believe—illegal terminations of #NIH research contracts 🔗 👇 1/

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/04/2025

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

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Samantha Kaiser @girlinthehat.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Showing up in Portland, Or! #handsoff #handsoff2025

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 05/04/2025

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING #handsoff

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Sarah B. Andrea @sarahbandrea.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Huge turn out at the #handsoff protest in Portland, Oregon!

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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 05/04/2025

We are saving as much public data as we can. The other thing you can do is speak out. Tell everyone you know about what is happening (here, IRL, everywhere). We need people to know the consequences of these actions.

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

For the people who used to ask 'Why do you have to be so political?' I hope that it's now obvious why. Healthcare is political. Housing is political. Education is political. The air we breathe, the water we drink —it's all shaped by policy and power. Ignoring that is a political choice.

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Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

🚀 Big reveal! Introducing our interactive table on NIH grant terminations, supercharged from the original Google tracker! 📊👇 Help us uncover which NIH grants are tagged for termination and why! 🕵️🔍 1 / 🧵 #HealthEquity #MedSky #PublicHealth

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Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

These contracts, constitutionally grounded, are binding agreements between scientists & government Their cancellation risks making scientific inquiry vulnerable to political influence, threatening public health policy & the well-being of vulnerable communities 10/

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Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

🚨 BREAKING: I'm suing #RFKJr @ #HHS & #JayBhattacharya @ #NIH Canceling medical research grants threatens innovations benefiting ALL Americans, no matter your politics! 🇺🇸 Thanks to my lawyers @aclu.org @aclum.bsky.social @protectdemocracy.org & @cspi.bsky.social Long 🧵 on why I'm suing 👇 1/

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The New Deal and Reconstruction were both born of a nation fallen to chaos and misery because of evil shitheads seeking to enrich themselves through human suffering. This is our chance to take that torch and run with it in a way that *endures*, and that can be our legacy.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I've created a shareable document with a list of the HHS offices gutted today that I'll be updating as often as possible. Have something to add? Message marisakabas.04 on Signal or email MKwrites4000@proton.me docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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HHS RIF running list

National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP) • Division of Reproductive Health • Division of pop health • Behavioral and clinical surveillance branch • Epidemiology ...

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Aside from limited materials, corporations manufacture abroad because of child labor and worker rights laws, as well as OSHA and the federal minimum wage. As poorly conceived as it is, the tariff plan would never have been proposed at all if it didn't also include a plan to repeal those protections.

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Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @epiellie.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

As near as I can tell, RFK Jr’s plan to Make America Healthy Again is to simply stop collecting any information on health. If there’s no data, the data can’t look bad, I guess?

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Ariel Beccia @albeccia.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

it was never about money, this was always an ideological battle following fascist playbooks

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Who was fired? HIV office? Gone. Environmental health (like heat risk to children with asthma)? Gone. Gun violence office? Gone. Injury prevention? Gone. Communications? Gone. Worker safety? Gone. Division of reproductive health? Gone. Disability health? Gone. TB prevention? Gone.

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Less than 1% of the US budget. Liquidating federal health agencies is not about saving money. Dismissing these workers will dismantle these agencies and cost American lives and our economy. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...

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Federal Health Workers Make Up Less Than 1% of Agency Spending

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggests that laying off thousands of federal workers would tame a massive budget. But nearly all of the agency’s money goes to hospitals, doctors and nursing ho...

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Stephanie “LB” @lincolnsbible.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

This is a pre-meditated intentional assault on, and in many cases the murder of, hundreds of millions of innocents. Look at it that way, and you’ll see who RFKjr really is.

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

“But are there not many Fascists in your country?" "There are many who do not know they are Fascists, but will find it out when the time comes.” - Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

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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...

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PRAMS Shuttered for Good

In the first weeks of the administration I wrote a number of...

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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Well, UMN has officially been hit. We just got an email from our president that an international grad student was detained yesterday. No further details provided. This. Is. Crushing.

Dear students, faculty and staff,

We are writing to inform you about a deeply concerning situation involving one of our international graduate students at the University of Minnesota.

We learned that, on March 27 at an off-campus residence, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials detained a graduate student enrolled on our Twin Cities campus. We are actively working to gather more details about this incident.

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Sarah B. Andrea @sarahbandrea.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Hi fellow educators on #EpiSky #AcademicSky #TeacherSky #EducatorSky - anyone have luck with any solid free replacements for Jamboard?

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

On Bhattacharya's first day as NIH head, the agency is directing its staff to compile a list of grants related to mis/disinfo — a move that could precede funding cuts "Misinformation has found a home in this presidential administration" @mattmotta.bsky.social 🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/03/26/n...

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On NIH director’s first day, the agency tackles one of his priorities — ending ‘censorship’ in science

On Jay Bhattacharya's first day as NIH director, the agency directed staff to identify contracts related to “fighting misinformation or disinformation”

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Sarah B. Andrea @sarahbandrea.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Just found out this week - on my birthday no less - that a grant I'm on a diversity supplement for that has the audacity to try to make the world a better place was terminated. I'm in a scramble with the immediate loss of 20% FTE but we have team members who with even more substantial impacts

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Sarah B. Andrea @sarahbandrea.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

That feel when your course starts next week and you're working on updating some shit but you are also behind on everything because your field is literally imploding #episky

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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I would like a running list of the unions suing the administration please

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Sarah B. Andrea @sarahbandrea.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Cleaning out the closet and came across this relic from 2020 (that I want to say @epiellie.bsky.social was selling?! Correct me if I'm wrong!) Either way, it's hitting a certain way right now

Picture of a black t- shirt that reads:
Epi is...
Women's health
Men's health
Trans health
Children's health
Heart health
Black health
Indigenous health
Immigrant health
Occupational health
Environmental health
... everything!

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Sarah B. Andrea @sarahbandrea.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Thank you @lastweektonight.com for talking about tipping! The health implications of tipped-wage work was actually the focus of my dissertation, inspired by being raised by a tipped worker in a state where the subminimum wage was frozen at $2.89 for ages. Here is what I found... 🧵

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

From an NIH source re. grant terminations "These searches are pulling in things based on 'other support' sections and biosketches, so science may be held up just because someone mentions that they serve on a DEIA committee, or has a completely different grant that uses a 'problematic' word. (cont)

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

We need some better language for pushing back against what the administration is doing. They’re not “ending DEI.” No. They're firing women and people of color in the military. They’re forbidding whole fields of research. They’re erasing trans people from existence.

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Luisa N. Borrell @lborrell.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Important piece by @rwidome.bsky.social on the impact of #NIH funding cuts for people who needed it the most: "What we have has taken decades to build, and if it is broken, will not bounce back." #PublicHealth #EpiSky #StandUpForScience2025 minnesotareformer.com/2025/03/06/c...

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Chaotic cuts to NIH will threaten America's leadership in innovation, hurt American families • Minnesota Reformer

NIH research delivers an estimated $2.50 of economic activity for every $1 spent.

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Luis Zaman @luiszaman.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

This CDC "survey" getting sent to grantees is wild yall. This is some serious "Kiss my Ring" level bullshit.

Survey for CDC grants that include "no DEI" "no environmental justice" or climate related work, the biologically bullshit argument that "protecting women against gender ideology"

more MAGA propaganda (with receipts since it links an executive order under most questions). "Do you counter malign influence, including Chinga?", "What impact does this project have on preventing illegal immigration"?

What impact does this project have on protecting religious minorities, promoting religious freedom, and combatting Christian persecution? Establishment of the White House Faith Office and Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias
What impact does this project have in increasing American influence, trust and reputation within foreign governments?

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Katherine J. Wu @katherinejwu.com · 07/03/2025

if you've had an NIH grant terminated, I want to hear about it. Signal: katherinejwu.12

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 06/03/2025

SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING! To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎

List of Stand Up for Science events—official events in red, solidarity events in blue.

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

“It’s extremely alarming that grants that have been vetted by the scientific community and deemed important and impactful to understand the world are now being cancelled because of political ideology,” says @lkfazio.bsky.social. “This is direct censorship of scientific research.”

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Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants

Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Wondering if your research will be affected? The 76 NOFOs that have been unpublished are a good place to start. "That itself is crazy, we’ve never 'unpublished' notices of award before," an NIH official tells me. "Basically everything associated with these is considered a 'Category 1'," they say.

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