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It has occurred to me that y'all might not know who Mayor Ras Baraka is. So I'm going to take a moment out of grading to do my duty as a Jersey girl and teach you a thing. Mayor Baraka is the 40th mayor of the Newark, NJ, the city that will forever be Jersey's heartbeat.

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Help track what’s at stake

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🚨 ALL my remaining NIH grants were just terminated Without philanthropic gifts, this is the end of 1️⃣ my career (as I know it) 2️⃣ @lgbtqhealthexce.bsky.social 3️⃣ our LGBTQ health equity work Yet, reading about LGBTQ families in my kid's class reminded me: love knows no bounds 🌈 You with us?

submitted 97 days ago • 29 comments

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

submitted 97 days ago • 874 comments

🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies

submitted 96 days ago • 54 comments

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

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Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world. Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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I received one of the 232 NIH grant "terminations" sent to scientists at Columbia last night. My research focuses on improving maternal and child health in the US. Also affected: ongoing clinical trials, research training programs, and research centers that aim to improve the health of Americans.

submitted 107 days ago • 75 comments

I guess I should no longer care for a severely injured trauma patient - in partnership with trauma surgeons - using Advanced Trauma Life Support principles and training. 🤦‍♀️

submitted 109 days ago • 54 comments

I got your waste, fraud, and abuse right here

submitted 110 days ago • 1150 comments

What Trump isn't talking about tonight... His approval ratings are plummeting The economy is showing major signs of strain due to his policies DOGE looks more and more like a giant hoax The GOP is trying to gut Social Security and Medicaid to pave the way for big tax cuts for the rich Hello?

submitted 114 days ago • 73 comments

A lot of people are going to die from this

submitted 117 days ago • 1203 comments

Donald Trump is not fit to be President of the United States of America. His presence in the Oval Office is a stain on the legacy of this country.

submitted 118 days ago • 782 comments

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

submitted 119 days ago • 431 comments

Starting to feel like peak covid times (no vax, isolation, masking, financial collapse, mutual aid, mass unrest) was just a warm up for what’s to come.

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This news truly breaks my heart. We are calling on HHS to take immediate action. Secretary Kennedy needs to bring back weekly measles tracking from the CDC, rehire the health experts, and roll out a serious vaccine campaign. Our kids' safety is on the line! abcnews.go.com/Health/1st-m...

submitted 120 days ago • 1474 comments

How do we live in a world where this monster leads HHS

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This is so terrifying. 19k have died. Almost 100 kids died. This season.

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ICONIC: Yosemite National Park workers just hung an upside-down American flag—THOUSANDS of feet up on El Capitan. That’s not decoration. That’s a distress signal. They’re telling us the country is in danger. Are you paying attention? www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

submitted 124 days ago • 405 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 127 days ago • 1189 comments

this winter morning light spilling everywhere into the silence (photo by josh)

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How. Why. How.

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By the time I finished residency, I was so good at lumbar punctures. Squeezing down on a crying infants head and pushing them into a ball and then slipping in the spinal needle. On a typical admission night I might do 2 or 3. All gone now. I haven’t done one in years. They want to bring this back.

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This new Administration is a bunch of terrorists blowing up all that is meant to keep us safe and healthy. CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t... via @statnews.com

submitted 132 days ago • 169 comments

A lovely opportunity to tell someone to eat shit for removing the T from LGBT. Click the link, do a quick scroll (so quick), when asked 'Was this helpful?" click "no" then describe with whatever flourish brings you the most joy, what is wrong with the page (namely, dropping the T).

submitted 133 days ago • 20 comments

Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.

submitted 139 days ago • 103 comments

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 139 days ago • 266 comments

This change will accomplish one thing - kill medical research in US academic institutions. That's not hyperbole and the best way I can explain this to the lay public. Slashing indirect costs to 15% is a move to destroy the academic enterprise. Pass it on. www.statnews.com/2025/02/07/n...

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Millennials living through yet another round of ‘unprecedented times’

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This isn't my first or even second time at the rodeo. I dealt with Ronald Reagan & George Bush trying to kill my community by ignoring the AIDS epidemic. It happened again when I lived in South Africa with Thabo Mbeki. And we won twice. So: courage. We will beat them too. Stay focused. Get to work.

submitted 144 days ago • 56 comments

Let's all say it out loud. These people are fascists & this is a fascist take-over of the United States. You can couch your words more carefully, but the speed and ferocity of what is happening now is part-and-parcel of a coup. The GOP in Congress has surrendered. The Dems are out of their depth. 1/

submitted 146 days ago • 126 comments

PLEASE SHARE WIDELY #medsky #IDsky #obgynsky #pedsky CDC STI treatment guidelines have been taken down. They are archived here 👇 web.archive.org/web/20250131...

submitted 146 days ago • 163 comments

The CDC medical eligibility criteria for contraceptives was a super useful tool I used often to determine what hormonal treatments (sometimes but not only used for birth control) were safe for my patients. It’s no longer online as we apparently won’t need it as make America healthy again

submitted 146 days ago • 16 comments

It’s important to educate parents and their children about the vaccines they receive. Many healthcare providers use the CDC vaccination information sheets to do so. #MedSky They’re no longer online.

submitted 146 days ago • 30 comments

Very good advice to find after a day of doomscrolling

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My @newyorker.com piece on the ongoing, likely unconstitutional funding freeze at USAID now imperiling millions: “This is not a pause. It is a destruction.” USAID is also where the Administration is testing out its playbook for eviscerating other agencies. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

submitted 146 days ago • 18 comments

This CDC contraception guidelines has been scrubbed by administration. Full on fascism

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For those who need it.

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🚨 If you think this administration isn't attacking science & vaccines, think again. They’ve now scrubbed all ACIP slides. First, they erase the data. Then, manipulate it to fit their narrative—this time, undermining vaccine safety. We’ve seen this playbook before. #ScienceMatters #VaccinesSaveLives

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