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Job loss can be a major form of trauma. If you’re in shock, feeling untethered, or worried about your life situation, finances, etc. please reach out to a friend, family member, someone in the community, or a hotline/chat to connect and talk about it. Dialing 988 is a good place to start.

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

If anyone at the Gates Foundation cared what I think, my advice would be to pivot away from shiny “innovations” and invest in helping to preserve the basic infrastructure of global health, starting with the Demographic and Health Surveys program.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

A friend in need is a friend indeed.. 🐢

submitted 8 days ago • 405 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 12 days ago • 386 comments

This is an informative thread and I’m feeling a little slice of hope. Not too much, but maybe like I can take a little sip of air…

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

If you need some hope, @tiffanylgreen.bsky.social has some to share ⤵️

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

McConnell being the lone no vote on any of this is like Godzilla offering to repaint a window sill after destroying Tokyo

submitted 15 days ago • 40 comments

Health workers, policymakers, students, educators, & researchers who use data, methods & findings from USAID-funded DHS Program published a preprint calling for restoration of access to data & continued operation of DHS Program website. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... cc @stephanienolen.bsky.social

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Tesla's stock is ridiculously overvalued, and even a modest consumer boycott could tank the company, which accounts for the majority of Elon Musk's wealth. The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...

submitted 16 days ago • 239 comments

If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall. tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.

submitted 16 days ago • 55 comments

Does cutting Medicaid align with a pro-life approach?

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

CFPB - closed USAID - closed Medicaid - under attack NIH cancer funding - frozen Department of Education - under attack But do you know who just got a NEW government contract for $38,858,978 literally today? SpaceX — owned by Elon Musk

submitted 16 days ago • 382 comments

What seems missing is guidance on how evidence-based folks should talk to those whose brains marinated in RW propaganda for decades. Many TRIED & failed to “get our people”, maybe b/c we find facts compelling. Could guidance, more specific/rapidly responsive than Lakoff’s broad framing stuff, help?

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

“No American can be proud of a govt that carries out change in this way. Neither can these actions be rationalized by discussion of past grievances or appeals to efficiency. Everything can be more efficient, but adherence to the rule of law is paramount” www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 17 days ago • 428 comments

My God, 600 trials at Hopkins now in jeopardy from Trump's draconian cuts to health research, including trials for cancer, pediatrics, & cardiovascular disease I guess cancer, children's health, and heart health are now too "woke" to address?

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

Not confirmed yet, but The DHS Program, which has operated for 40+ years collecting data in over 90+ countries and is the primary source of data for monitoring global health, is on the list of contracts to be cut. This is devastating on so many levels.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

New: We are suing Trump to reverse the foreign aid freeze, on behalf of AVAC @hivpxresearch.bsky.social and the Journalism Development Network. Act up, fight back. www.citizen.org/news/nonprof...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Where is the real Robin Hood? You know, that D0GE mole with access to everyone’s bank accounts?!! Come on, just ~ 5% of Mu$k’s net worth would end homelessness in the US.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Pfizer’s cancer drug commercial was beautiful, but their breast cancer drug Ibrance costs $10k per month and their prostate cancer drug Xtandi costs $22k per month. Beautiful commercials don’t change the fact that 42% of cancer patients exhaust their life savings in 2 years.

submitted 18 days ago • 90 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 20 days ago • 270 comments

The data not expressed here includes the number of deliveries that are paid for by Medicaid (44.7 % in 2023) and the percentage of funding for Children’s of Alabama which comes from Medicaid (50-57% depending on the year). Medicaid is critical to the healthcare of Alabamians.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Not only has survey preparation, collection, and data processing stopped, but so has the ability to request and download #DHSProgram data because the requests are handled by my colleagues who are furloughed. If (when?) USAID is permanently dismantled, this tremendous global good will be lost. 💔

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

keep it up

submitted 23 days ago • 29 comments

All US USAID staff living abroad are being “evacuated” back to the US by Saturday. Reckless isn’t the right word. Evil fits better.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 24 days ago • 1328 comments

I just made myself a website! Check it out! lindsaymallick.owlstown.net @owlstown.bsky.social Please add my academic website to The Owlstown Academic Gallery.🙏

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Looking forward to hearing more about what we can do: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

submitted 27 days ago • 603 comments

The USAID website is no longer functioning.

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

I want to hear how you plan to help out in your communities. How are you helping your friends, family & neighbors? 🏘️ What are things we can do to help our mental health? Any Food 👩🏾‍🌾 growing tip? Anyone have useful💰saving tips? Don’t tell me what HE did today. Tell me what YOU did today.

submitted 30 days ago • 38 comments

I’m starting to compile a list of all the suggestions I’m seeing for things we can do to advocate for change - or at least stop the downward spiral we’re headed into. Please share any ideas you have/have seen here (or PM me). I’ll post some specific ideas that resonate with me later today.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

If there was ever a time to speak up and act, now is it.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

The White House just ordered that all Federal financial assistance, including grants and loans, be put on pause. In FY 2024, the Federal Government spent “more than $3 trillion on Federal financial assistance, such as grants and loans.”

submitted 31 days ago • 64 comments

I know there’s a lot right now. But folks need to understand what this means. A suspension this long would mean people living with HIV lose their medicine for months. People around the world lose their PrEP for months, putting millions at risk of getting HIV. Drug-resistant strains could emerge.

submitted 32 days ago • 155 comments

<1% of the US federal budget goes to foreign aid, which saves maternal & child lives, prevents mass famine, combats infectious disease, etc. This 90-day pause will have disastrous effects-from destabilizing nations in critical need of aid to layoffs of US support staff. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Taking the opportunity to repost this since people hate it BECAUSE I'M RIGHT.

submitted 38 days ago • 11 comments

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

submitted 343 days ago • 997 comments

To improve pandemic preparedness for #MCH & #nutrition, we can use vital statistics data to evaluate state efforts + outcomes during COVID. @mariethoma.bsky.social found that states w/ EBT for WIC (Women, Infants and Children) mitigated declines in enrollment over states w/ paper-based systems.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

There's a huge tension building within public health over collaboration: can we work with the Trump Administration, at whatever few points of overlap in mission exist, to make people healthier? What this misses is the visibility and transparency of that play to the public, and its impact on trust

submitted 93 days ago • 13 comments

One of the early signs that the USSR was in deep trouble in 1980s was its suppression of health data. Now Texas follows suit www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

submitted 94 days ago • 3 comments