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Dana Howard

@thedanahoward.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor | Bioethics and Philosophy. Views are my own and not that of my employer. Professional website: sites.google.com/site/danasarahhowa…

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3h
Terrific reporting by Andrew Egger from Ohio--from Pierre Damas Bel's funeral in Springfield, and Trump's rally that evening. "They buried Pierre Damas Bel on Saturday. That night, Donald Trump came to town to take a victory lap on the policies that killed him." www.thebulwark.com/p/a-death-a-...
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A Death. A Funeral. And the Trump Rally Down the Block.
On the day Springfield held a funeral for Pierre Damas Bel, the president held a rally 25 miles away. We went to both.
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Dana Howard @thedanahoward.bsky.social · 3h
This is one of the things about Ohio that my friends and family out of state have the hardest time believing. We PAY an extra $150 each year in taxes for driving a plug in hybrid. www.bmv.ohio.gov/doc-fees.aspx
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 15h
“The Amish are sometimes depicted as objecting to vaccination on religious grounds, but getting vaccinated was a matter of personal preference, families said, again and again… Vaccinations rates are also low because the Amish generally do not have commercial health insurance or credit cards.”
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Get in losers, we're reinventing Narrow AI
Excerpt reads: "Smaller models fine-tuned for industries such as law and finance - or even individual companies - could make AI cheaper to run. Trained on specialist or proprietary data, they may require less computing power while outperforming general-purpose frontier models on narrow tasks."
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Center for Public Health Law Research, Temple University @templelegalepi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Policy research is health research. Understanding the health consequences of policy is not peripheral to NIH’s mission. It is central to it. Read the warning against funding cuts from leading researchers in Health Affairs Forefront: www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...
Bold text reading: Policy research is health research. Leading experts warn against further NIH funding cuts
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Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New research: “AI-generated survey results consistently differ from human surveys“
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How well synthetic samples replicate public opinion
Synthetic survey respondents tend to exaggerate differences between demographic subgroups and portray some responses as nearly universal.
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NHIS, Census, and on and on... we're going to look back at this period and scratch our heads about how to make the data usable.
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STAT @statnews.com · 01/10/2026
A proposed redesign of the federal government’s annual health survey would result in significant undercounting of Americans with intellectual and developmental disabilities. www.statnews.com/2026/10/01/cdc-hea…
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As CDC redesigns annual health survey, it removes questions about disabilities
Proposed changes to the federal government’s health survey would undercount Americans with disabilities, advocates say.
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Dana Howard @thedanahoward.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is a moment of deep shame.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Justice Kavanaugh, please explain to me — and Christa Pike— how this is an “interim” decision? Justice Barrett, please explain to us how this is merely a “preliminary” ruling?
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Dana Howard @thedanahoward.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
hey lawyers, is it good for the head of HHS to say that it would be “malpractice” for a doctor NOT to use AI?
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Dana Howard @thedanahoward.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Mr. Kennedy said OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, told him during a recent visit to his office that it would be “malpractice for a doctor to make a diagnosis or to make a prescription without at least checking A.I.” Mr. Kennedy apparently agreed.”
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patrick mcneil (he/him) @patrickryne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
NEW: Daniel Rendleman promised senators he'd set aside his anti-abortion views. His past comments, including a radio interview that's gone unreported, reveal the depth of his beliefs. If confirmed, he could hear veterans’ reproductive health care claims. nominationnotes.substack.com/p/a-trump-no...
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A Trump nominee promised to set aside his anti-abortion views. His past comments reveal the depth of his beliefs.
Daniel Rendleman could hear veterans’ reproductive health care claims if confirmed.
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Liz Essley Whyte @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
NEW scoop from me and Laura Cooper The Trump administration is planning a major move to speed authorizations of tobacco products, including flavored vapes www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | U.S. Regulators Plan Major Move to Speed Authorizations of Vapes, Tobacco Pouches
The move comes despite lawmakers voicing concern about recent flavor approvals.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026
Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have prohibited future governors from handing over abortion providers, helpers, and patients to red states for criminal prosecution. The bill also barred extraditions involving transgender care.
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Newsom vetoes bill that would ban extraditions for abortion and gender-affirming care
California’s pro-repro rights governor rejects a key protection that 18 blue states have enshrined into law.
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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Today, a minor table correction was published on this fantastic paper from CEIGR (NativeBio as a co-author and contributor). If you missed, now is your chance to read it. www.frontiersin.org/journals/gen...
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Frontiers | A workshop considering genetic research and data collection with American Indian and Alaska Native people outside of Tribal jurisdiction
IntroductionIn the United States (US), Tribes are sovereign nations and have the right to oversee research conducted with Tribal citizens. However, it is unc...
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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The real “brain drain” is not the handful of high-profile scientists taking a top position abroad. It's the international scholars who have to leave the US halfway through their postdoc, or the international students who never apply for grad school in the US because of visa policies
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 22/09/2026
Even after the CDC changed the way it counted measles deaths, it should now have updated numbers - but still nothing. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Why the CDC is excluding measles deaths in Pennsylvania even as outbreak appears to be ‘accelerating’
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention refuses to count four measles deaths in the state though doctors are ‘seeing new forms’ of disease
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The vast majority denied SNAP are denied for procedural reasons. Even 4 in 10 of those with NO INCOME in the previous year are denied, with 80% of those denied for *procedural reasons*, or, effectively, missing paperwork. And The One Big Beautiful Bill is making this so much worse.
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Bridget Dooling @bridgetdooling.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’ve been writing about duties to do one’s own writing. Touched on academics and the self-deception of thinking that they’re in control of the writing when they start from someone / something else’s draft… papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Ghostwriting the Government
<p>Ghostwriting is when a writer prepares materials to be issued under someone else’s name. The word describes a politician’s use of a speechwriter, a student’s
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Dana Howard @thedanahoward.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Two important points: “One is that there is a remaining “controversy” about the history. There really isn’t. Some people don’t like the history, that’s true. And the second is the “maybe now we really know” framing of DNA as if the genetics are more certain than the historical analysis.”
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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
1) Thank you, Karin. I’m happy that both the 1998 and 2026 DNA tests results jibe with the historical evidence compiled in my first book. I also think the historical information alone should be enough. But I know the world we live in & why DNA was brought into the picture.
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27 UNIHTED @27unihted.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Join us for “SOS for Health” an upcoming NIH Vigil with guest speaker @jeremymberg.bsky.social Jeremy Berg, former NIGMS Institute Director at NIH Saturday, September 26th, 10am Medical Center Metro (NIH Visitor Entrance), Bethesda, Maryland
Flyer pictures Jeremy standing in the woods in a blue shirt that says deranged activist
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Defend Public Health - Ohio @dphohio.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Our website is now live: www.defendpublichealth.org/state/ohio
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Ohio | Defend Public Health
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Defend Public Health - Ohio @dphohio.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
OSMA (Ohio State Medical Association) recently endorsed Vivek Ramaswamy for governor. If you are an Ohio based physician and you disagree with this, consider signing this open letter. It already has 1021 signatures. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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A LETTER FROM THE PHYSICIANS OF OHIO
To the people of Ohio: We are physicians writing together because the Ohio State Medical Association Political Action Committee (OSMAPAC), the political arm of an organization that represents Ohio ph...
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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 17/09/2026
If we don’t have free speech, due process, or clear rules for doing science, what do we have??
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Also telling: the group behind the effort, Students for Life, has outright admitted it's all bullshit. VP Kristi Hamrick said environmental law wasn't her "first weapon of choice" but "frankly, I'm for using the devil’s own tools against them.” 🤡
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“The meeting with staff members of Cincinnati Christian Schools began with a prayer. Then they told Mike Grimmer and Linda Kelly that their granddaughter could no longer attend the private school.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026
NEW: Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin Umar Kremlev footed the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars of wedding expenses at Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish wedding, including renting out a private island and paying for the fireworks show.
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 11/09/2026
'A team of Stanford University computer scientists find that SLMs can find the same — or better — answer to the kind of queries that dominate current chat requests almost every time and cut compute and energy costs by between 60 and 80 per cent.' www.ft.com/content/4858...
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Wisconsin Examiner @wisconsinexaminer.com · 11/09/2026
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin files constitutional challenge to state abortion restrictions via @bspears.bsky.social wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/09/11/p...
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Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin files constitutional challenge to state abortion restrictions • Wisconsin Examiner
The lawsuit was filed Thursday by Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin in Dane County Circuit Court on behalf of its staff and patients.
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Bridget Dooling @bridgetdooling.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New essay from me about agency use of AI tools to write regulations: Outside Helpers, Rulemaking, and the Presumption of Regularity papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... This piece was an invited contribution to a forthcoming symposium on the next wave of thinking about government’s use of AI.
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Outside Helpers, Rulemaking, and the Presumption of Regularity
<p>It is no longer hypothetical: U.S. government agencies are using AI to write regulations. We therefore must grapple with the intersection of the Administrati
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Shana Gadarian @sgadarian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Vaccines are amazing.
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Joanna Grossman @joannagrossman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Another unconscionable result of the GOP’s war on women. www.propublica.org/article/ecto...
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Thread on the launch of @osuaaup.bsky.social’s campaign demanding better pay and working conditions for non-tenure track faculty. Scroll down for links to the petitions for both OSU faculty and allies to show your support!
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Alice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The lawyer for the abortion pill maker Danco is up now. She says Louisiana is asking the 5th C to do something the Supreme Court already said they can't do: impose a nationwide restriction on the drugs before the FDA completes its safety review.
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Alice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
DOJ lawyer stresses he is NOT defending the abortion pill rules: "The only args we are making are threshold ones that the District Court was proper to to stay the litigation & that Louisiana doesn't have standing." Higginson: "I don't find that very satisfactory. I mean, this is your regulation"
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Alice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Judge Higginson wonders if Louisiana is "asking the federal government to help you impose your criminal laws" and whether the national restrictions the state wants would infringe on the rights of states that allow abortion. More on this --> www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Louisiana’s abortion pill case could wipe out access in blue states
Red states claiming "sovereign injury" seek to impose nationwide restrictions.
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Alice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Louisiana argues that Biden's FDA allowed telehealth abortions to undermine the bans of red states. Judge Dana Douglas, a Biden appointee, shoots that down: "The removal of the in-person requirement predates the 2023 issue because it arose originally in COVID. So, how is that a direct response?"
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Alice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Judge Richman is now pressing the Trump admin lawyer on whether FDA held mifepristone to a higher standard than other drugs when it comes to the risk of adverse events. He repeatedly declines to comment on that, saying that the court only has to decide on the standing issue.
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Alice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Arguments are kicking off now. Listen live here: www.ca5.uscourts.gov/live-streams
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Live Streams — Fifth Circuit
Listen to live oral-argument audio before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit — one live feed per courtroom, with today's panels and cases.
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Alice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Pills ordered online account for as much as 44% of all abortions in states where abortion is legal. The Louisiana lawsuit getting argued today could cut off that option. CA Attorney General @robbonta.bsky.social told me this breaks the "Dobbsian compact" of "each state shall decide for itself.”
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Louisiana’s abortion pill case could wipe out access in blue states
Red states claiming "sovereign injury" seek to impose nationwide restrictions.
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Dana Howard @thedanahoward.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Even these small tweaks have been transformative.
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Dana Howard @thedanahoward.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Did not institute a "no laptops policy" for my upper level class because we are reading full books, two of which are only available as e-books through library services. BUT I did give each student a physical notebook as a reading log, not using powerpoint & minimal e-platform use (just syllabus).
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Dana Howard @thedanahoward.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Did not institute a "no laptops policy" for my upper level class because we are reading full books, two of which are only available as e-books through library services. BUT I did give each student a physical notebook as a reading log, not using powerpoint & minimal e-platform use (just syllabus).
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Dana Howard @thedanahoward.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"At the time of the study, the gestational limit for abortion was 20 weeks. It’s now limited to 12 weeks, after both chambers of the North Carolina General Assembly voted to override then-Governor (and current Senate candidate) Roy Cooper’s veto of the ban."
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026
For those who don't have the capacity to travel hundreds of miles for abortion care, Dobbs is working exactly as designed.
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Dobbs’s Near-Total Destruction of Abortion Rights Across the South
Anti-abortion lawmakers are forcing women to travel hundreds of miles to obtain health care.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.
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Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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Dana Howard @thedanahoward.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“Just as tribal nations have built institutions to govern land, finance and economic development, Yracheta believes the next generation of nation-building will require institutions capable of governing data and the opportunities it creates.”
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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Re-sharing in case you missed it. Native Bio's piece called "AI, Genomics, and Tribal Sovereignty: Native Nations Need to Prepare for the Next Frontier" tribalbusinessnews.com/sponsored-co...
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AI, Genomics, and Tribal Sovereignty: Native Nations Need to Prepare for the Next Frontier
As AI transforms research and healthcare, Native Bio-Data says tribal nations must build the institutions and governance needed to manage data as a strategic resource.
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