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Tamara Dubowitz

@tamaradubowitz.bsky.social
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Epidemiologist who studies Neighborhoods, Cities, and Communities. Mom of 3 humans and 2 dogs. Lover of nature and trees. Swimmer. Cyclist. Runner/Jogger. I like challenges.

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Apparently NIH shut down the RFI form early. Thank goodness for the @waybackmachine.bsky.social where we can clearly see the deadline was supposed to be 11:59pm. web.archive.org/web/20260821... @maxkozlov.bsky.social @aniloza.bsky.social @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social
Screen shot of the NIH peer review RFI webform showing the deadline of Oct 13 at 11:59 pm.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted. What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards. Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.
Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success.

Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302
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Tamara Dubowitz @tamaradubowitz.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
So proud of my hub @jaydaronson.bsky.social who spoke today at #StandupforScience "They are coming for all of us. And we have to defend one another." @standupforscience.bsky.social @pgh-health-science.bsky.social @carrieamcdphd.bsky.social @jeremymberg.bsky.social
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Science Magazine @science.org · 15/10/2025
Hundreds of CDC employees found out on Friday night they were being fired as part of widespread layoffs across federal agencies. But within 24 hours, roughly half were reinstated—mirroring firings at various health agencies earlier this year that were deemed a mistake and quickly reversed.
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Whiplash at CDC as hundreds of employees are terminated, then reinstated
Agency’s prestigious training programs among those spared, while other key offices are scrapped
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
A painful and essential read. “The PEPFAR Program Impact Tracker, created by a mathematical modeler and a product management leader in the wake of Trump’s PEPFAR freeze, found 56,329 adult and 5,995 child HIV-related deaths between January 24 and June 1, 2025”.
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“History Will Judge Us Harshly”: Gutting Global HIV Programs
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Harold Tobin @haroldtobin.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
This is a VERY large earthquake, possibly/probably among the 10 largest ever recorded. A clear subduction zone megathrust event. And it is another M>8.5 event with a notable foreshock (the recent M7.4 in same location), like Tohoku in 2011.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
The NIH can’t award ANY grants to outside researchers under new WH restriction, reports @wsj.com. The pause came in the form of a footnote from OMB Director Vought, in a document that doles out federal funds to the NIH. Prelude to rescissions, especially after his comments over the weekend?
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Trump Administration Puts New Chokehold on Billions in Health-Research Funding
The National Institutes of Health can’t award grants to outside researchers under a new White House restriction.
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Theresa O @theresalouiseo.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
📣 Looking for a postdoc? Is Interdisciplinary Population Health Research your jam? Apply NOW to the Population Health Postdoc at U of Minnesota!! Recruiting scholars from various disciplinary social science & public health doctorates. OH Yah. Fall '25 start. Apps due July 21st lnkd.in/gUeEqEDB
The University of Minnesota Training Program in Population Health Science produces scientists who understand that complex health problems result from multiple interacting layers of influence that unfold over chronological, biological, & historical time. We offer cross-training in the biology and etiology of disease as well as in the social sciences, including engaging in independent and collaborative population health research supervised by interdisciplinary teams of faculty; training in a large, vibrant interdisciplinary research center; and intensive mentoring and professional socialization designed to integrate trainees from various disciplinary backgrounds to prepare them for outstanding careers as population health scientists. We elicit postdoctoral fellowship applications from scholars with doctorates in health and social science disciplines to study population health research topics aligned with the priorities of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, Population Dynamics Branch. Examples of target recruitment disciplines include: sociology, developmental science, public health, epidemiology, demography, geography, economics, health policy, public policy, environmental health, psychology, geography, health behavior, anthropology, history, or related disciplines. Multiple positions available. Applications due Monday July 21. https://pop.umn.edu/training/postdoctoral
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 01/07/2025
Republicans want to rip healthcare away from 17 million Americans with Trump’s Tax Scam.
HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL LOSE HEALTH CARE IN YOUR STATE? 

THAT’S 17 MILLION LIVES REPUBLICANS ARE PUTTING AT RISK

@warren.senate.gov
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Andrew O'Neill ❌👑 @andrew-oneill.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
The GOP bill would take healthcare from 17 million people. Big numbers can be hard to understand - 17 million is the same as the *entire* population of: Wyoming Vermont Alaska North Dakota South Dakota Delaware Rhode Island Montana Maine New Hampshire Hawaii West Virginia Idaho Nebraska COMBINED
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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
46 states have fewer people than the number who will die because Trump, Elon, and Rubio illegally destroyed USAID.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
An act of war weeks in planning but unauthorized by Congress against a country that Trump's own director of intelligence testified under oath was not close to getting a nuclear weapon.
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.
 quote on a dark blue and purple background from Sudip S. Parikh, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), criticizing proposed cuts to science funding in the FY26 U.S. federal budget. The quote reads:

“If enacted, the FY26 budget request would end America’s global scientific leadership. The cuts to science would imperil our nation’s future health, security and prosperity. This budget proposal stands in stark contrast to the President’s call for a renewed commitment to American scientific leadership. Congress has demonstrated a bipartisan commitment to investment in research and must do so again to answer the President’s call.”
The quote is attributed to Sudip S. Parikh, CEO of AAAS and Executive Publisher of the Science family of journals. The AAAS logo appears at the bottom right.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
13588 comments yesterday...now 14393. Let's get this over 15000 today!
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RNS @rns.org · 29/04/2025
"We cannot allow the fight against antisemitism to be twisted into a wedge issue, used to justify policies that target immigrants and other minorities, suppress free speech, or erode democratic norms," the letter read. religionnews.com/2025/04/28/5...
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550 US rabbis sign letter condemning Trump's antisemitism policy
(RNS) — The letter comes after a poll found that most American Jews oppose the way President Donald Trump is handling antisemitism.
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Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
I really wish reporters would stop saying that there is an effort by the Trump administration to combat antisemitism. It is quite the opposite. There is an effort to foment antisemitism. forward.com/fast-forward...
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Columbia staff receive texts asking if they're Jewish, as government hunts antisemitic harassment on campus
Barnard employees received the text as Columbia University students plan a new tent encampment to protest the Israel-Hamas war.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
🧪 UPDATE: NSF just opened itself even further to lawsuit. Yesterday, it doubled down on the false claim that its 1,000+ grant terminations are "not subject to appeal." See question 16 here, published Friday afternoon: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p... A brief thread... 🧵
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years. 1/n
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a cartoon of a man holding a frying pan and a spoon with red alert written above him
ALT: a cartoon of a man holding a frying pan and a spoon with red alert written above him
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
BREAKING: we won! A federal judge has enjoined the administration's shut down of Voice of America Another success for the Constitution and for us @sddaction.bsky.social & our many wonderful partners & clients More details to follow--stay tuned!
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwestern (including med schools) Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants
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Tamara Dubowitz @tamaradubowitz.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
This is a profound loss to science and to anyone who cares about our food system.
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Tamara Dubowitz @tamaradubowitz.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Read this. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/o...
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Opinion | It’s Time to Protect America From America’s President (Gift Article)
Trump’s authoritarian actions are vandalizing the American project.
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Tamara Dubowitz @tamaradubowitz.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
"Participate in protests to find and share solidarity, but above all, remember: your work is an act of resistance. Every experiment, every line of code, every collaboration defies those who would silence science. Keep going."
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This video shows the fire damage inside the Pennsylvania Governor’s mansion. Governor Shapiro’s reaction to the arson attack is on my timeline.
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PGHS - Pittsburgh Healthcare Workers, Scientists, & Scholars @pgh-health-science.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Faculty, staff, students, trainees, alumni of #Pittsburgh: We’ve written a letter calling on #Pitt leadership to protect academic freedom, research, and inclusion. This is our moment to stand together. Sign here: tinyurl.com/PittLetter
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Defend intellectual freedom, scientific discovery, and community safety at the University of Pittsburgh
An open letter from University of Pittsburgh faculty, students, and staff mobilizing in response to threats to intellectual freedom, research funding, and democracy, calling upon Pitt leadership to st...
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PGHS - Pittsburgh Healthcare Workers, Scientists, & Scholars @pgh-health-science.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id16... Weekly reminder that Republicans in Congress are trying to cut vital health insurance to give tax cuts to the billionaires More than 400000 people in #Allegheny and surrounding counties are on #Medicaid per pa.gov Call your representatives, this WILL affect us
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How Billions in Medical Cuts Would Hurt Pittsburgh
Podcast Episode · City Cast Pittsburgh · 04/08/2025 · 30m
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
the graph says it all it was (and is) unconscionable to paralyze biomedical research like this life is fragile — patients, animals, communities, society when homeostasis is lost, it’s hard to regain and impossible to do without
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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Toronto's UHN hiring 100 early career scientists. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Toronto’s University Health Network launches recruitment campaign for scientists
Hospital network will be investing $15-million in recruiting 50 scientists immediately as a part of its ‘Canada Leads 100 Challenge’
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 03/04/2025
SAVE THE PENGUINS. STOP TRUMP’S TARIFFS.
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Tamara Dubowitz @tamaradubowitz.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Please let this be true
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Speaking of waste.... @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
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Are terminations of NIH grants wasting billions of taxpayer dollars?
DOGE argues killing grants saves money, but a Science analysis suggests more than $1.4 billion in sunk research costs may produce few results
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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Trump says he is fighting antisemitism, ensuring against discrimination by racial category, moving education back to the states. In fact, he is turning every federal dollar into an unprecedented opportunity for coercion, with power in only his hands.
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Dr. Roberta Dollinger @robertadolling1.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Somehow this keeps chugging along. Remaining NIH employees are absolute heroes…
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
February 19, @theprospect.bsky.social: "Elon Musk only has 100 days left in government." April 2, Politico: "The transition, the insiders said, is likely to correspond to the end of Musk’s time as a 'special government employee'" Read @theprospect.bsky.social, get the news first.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Collecting my thoughts at the end of one of the worst days of my life... At NIH, > 1300 people were RIFed. These range all across the board from institute directors to low level administrative staff. Communication staff and procurement appear to be hardest hit as anticipated from the HHS plan 1/n
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goldieslc @goldieslc.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This 👇 "Reimagining public health is essential. But tearing it down with no plan to rebuild isn’t transformation. It’s sabotage." via @kkjetelina.bsky.social yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/why-we-kee...
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Why we keep going
Today thousands of health workers at the CDC and FDA lost their jobs—effective immediately.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
This is correct. NIH can’t award grants if the institutes are dismantled. Musk and Trump get their hands off NIH or they will kill the cancer cures and economic advantages created by the US’s world-leading science enterprise.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 01/04/2025
"This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history." Story on the decimation of NIH by @maxkozlov.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...?
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‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs
In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Just trying to get my head around the absolute gutting of cdc and nih today. A bleak day for the US and …. well staying alive longer than people did in the 19th century.
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Paul Bierman @paul-bierman.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
As a scientist i can tell you thus is exactly right. I've been doing science for 45 years and have never felt so threatened. ❄️🧪💙📚 #scicomm #climate #UVMresearch #science 🧪 🌎 🔬 ⚒️ #geosky #ClimateHealth #ClimateAction www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/s...
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Trump Administration Has Begun a War on Science, Researchers Say (Gift Article)
Nearly 2,000 scientists urged that Congress restore funding to federal agencies decimated by recent cuts.
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Sara Reardon @sarareardon.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
"We spent all this money on this research and we’re not even going to be able to give taxpayers the outcomes." DOGE's cuts to NIH grants may save money on paper, but terminating studies without notice ultimately wastes money, our analysis shows. @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
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Are terminations of NIH grants wasting billions of taxpayer dollars?
DOGE argues killing grants saves money, but a Science analysis suggests more than $1.4 billion in sunk research costs may produce few results
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
These are scientists, physicians, and science educators using their voices in their times when truth and reason are under assault. I urge you to follow all. I just did a major update. I will continue to do so. go.bsky.app/14W5Rdk
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Anne Simon 🧪🌱🐴🦠🍊🇨🇦🇺🇦 @annealiz1.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
🧪 Scientists: keep talking and spreading the news about the blackmailing of our universities; loss of critical funding; cancelling of new graduate student offers and funding for current students. Ending critical research means people will die; farmers will suffer. If not now, when? If not us, who?
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Tamara Dubowitz @tamaradubowitz.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
This is terrifying and we need to communicate, mobilize, and amplify
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PGHS - Pittsburgh Healthcare Workers, Scientists, & Scholars @pgh-health-science.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
A visualization of the economic impact of funding cuts to #NIH. Over $300 million lost in #Pittsburgh and surrounding counties. And more importantly, all the medical advances and lives that could have been saved... Just so billionaires can get...a tax break?!?! #protest scienceimpacts.org
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Read Peter Marks' resignation letter from FDA. Shame on #RFKJr, #Trump, #Musk, #Vought and the rest of these monsters driving the American public health and health systems to destruction.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
As I was saying #RFKJr, #Trump, #Musk and #Vought are intent on destroying science, public health and healthcare in America.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
And of course this is all at the same time they're cutting off aid to food banks: bsky.app/profile/sbag...
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