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Holy crap, HHS cancelled VRBPAC. (For non-public health people: This is the US contribution to the WHO-led identification and selection of flu strains for the next flu shot. There are other countries contributing. But US labs and expertise have always been a huge factor in the final agreement.)

submitted 4 hours ago • 16 comments

Please sign and share widely this petition asking for an end to the delay by CFPB’s new leadership around unemployment & health coverage for illegally fired workers: chng.it/LnJSrHH4k6

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

Pedro Pascal responding to transphobia on social media: “I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” (via @charliejane.bsky.social) [capitalfm.com]

submitted 7 hours ago • 58 comments

Hey, what's up with books having sprayed edges these days? LET ME TELL YOU THE STORY! I was there! Thread: 1/13

submitted 8 days ago • 28 comments

Phrase read a few minutes ago in one of my chats: “… collectively in the face of mass wanton destruction.” On that note, it’s time to do my nightly reduction of phone notifications and dive into ebook reading. Tonight might be fiction instead of nonfiction.

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One of my little hobby projects is a scraper that pulls in food recall data. It started failing at 8:09 pm (last successful run was at 3:15pm yesterday). For some reason requests to www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls timeout now. Is this maybe a side-effect of DOGE (they work in browser, not curl)?

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This is horrible for the future of American science and innovation and economic wellbeing and all the things Pitt is not a small institution It has nearly 10K grad students It is where Salk discovered the polio vaccine

submitted 4 days ago • 43 comments

You better believe I’ll be working this in on Monday.

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Yesterday many thousands of federal employees were terminated. This is a Reddit thread for federal employees that got laid off.

submitted 11 days ago • 84 comments

No one is immune from disability. It can happen to anyone at anytime, regardless of how 'young and healthy' you are. Stop believing you will be the exception, and start engaging in disability justice. It's far easier to fight for better support and treatment while you still have your health.

submitted 12 days ago • 24 comments

NEW — In an alarming email last night reviewed by me, Coast Guard members learned that 1,135 members' direct deposit account routing information was compromised due to a data breach from unauthorized access. It was only discovered because an officer “reported anomalous activity” on their account.

submitted 12 days ago • 418 comments

Bluesky is where you run into both your union comrade @theredheadted.bsky.social and the guy who was across the hallway from you in your freshman dorm @atarispot.bsky.social. Where are my other old friends?

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Parade day. Go Birds. 🦅 More photos later/tomorrow!

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I wish I was in Philly right now 😭

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Several hundred Federal employees and supporters from the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau protest takeover and shutdown of their website and social media accounts. dcmediagroup.us/2025/02/07/h...

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Already reskeeted this, so I guess it gets quote skeets from here on out.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Black History Month. Listen to, support, fund, and uplift Black people. #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth Black journos: go.bsky.app/QvS5FNb Black scientists: go.bsky.app/Ao3Qt9a Black academics: go.bsky.app/RyKSzcb Black democracy experts: go.bsky.app/6WTBzhX Black in tech: go.bsky.app/2RAbS3g

submitted 25 days ago • 190 comments

A friend of mine worked as US Aid for a number of years, traveling the world doing crucial life saving work. She sent me this link that puts the sudden, illegal stoppage in stark numbers. Can I ask as many of you you out there as possible to spread this link around? www.usaidstopwork.com

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

“City health officials are urging New Yorkers to get flu shots as influenza cases skyrocket higher than they have been in the last five years.” Shots and masks are your friends, friends

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Federal Workers: our work is important for society and we must not be intimidated out of our obligation to public service. Link to toolkit below: linktr.ee/fedsworkforyou

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: Philadelphia workers have won the first Whole Foods union under Amazon with UFCW. Since Amazon bought the chain, workers have lost benefits and felt the squeeze. Now they're fighting back against the multi-trillion dollar giant and hoping this win will be the first of many.

submitted 30 days ago • 453 comments

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

submitted 34 days ago • 2539 comments

Hahahaha, same exact thought process over here.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Hi to folks who are relatively new to Bluesky! Still feeling a bit lost or unsure how to set things up well? 1) Use some of the hints & tricks found at bsky.app/hashtag/blue... 2) Toggle the setting to require alt text on images you post, which gently reminds you to add it & helps many people here

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Sign of the times that the first place I announce this is Bluesky: I switched jobs this past Monday from one federal agency to another. Went from a Dodd-Frank financial regulator to a Dodd-Frank financial monitor. Job purpose: always working to improve their websites.

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

Mmmm, data. 😋

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Why can't we just automate it??? 🤡🎪🤡

submitted 85 days ago • 10 comments

If you're a Spotify user who is finding the microgenre & geodata of your annual "Wrapped" to be less substantial than usual, there's a reason why. A year ago, Spotify laid off most of its employees who worked on genre classification, including folks like data alchemist @glennmcdonald.bsky.social.

submitted 84 days ago • 4 comments

A popular Python project's GitHub Actions CI script did not adequately treat the git branch name as untrusted user-generated content, so an attacker used a git branch name to inject a crypto miner into that project's PyPI release. This is an incredibly creative supply chain attack.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

This hits way too close to home for me right now.

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

With AI transcription tools, I think it's REALLY important to revisit the concept of "informed consent." UX researchers should be familiar with this term (to read more, 18F has a nice little explainer: guides.18f.gov/ux-guide/res...). For me, this applies to all meetings (not just research sessions)

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

Interesting article. #BlackSky www.inquirer.com/opinion/ghan...

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

Illinois has put an end to the injustice of cash bail. And it’s working better than anyone expected.

submitted 86 days ago • 101 comments

Abbott elementary starts at 8pm this week with an hour long special. Please spread the word! 🎄 🫡

submitted 87 days ago • 339 comments

Happy Henry Kissinger Is Dead Day to those who celebrate.

submitted 89 days ago • 31 comments

Currently at the stage of sibling Thanksgiving where my brother and I are discussing our mutual or non-mutual friends who have been on Jeopardy (mentioned: numerous government employees, numerous research univ employees @wordnerdy.bsky.social)

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

Traffic from Bluesky to @bostonglobe.com is already 3x that of Threads, and we are seeing 4.5x the conversions to paying digital subscribers.

submitted 92 days ago • 399 comments

Traffic from Bluesky's @bsky.app to @theguardian.com is already 2x that of Threads In its first week on the platform & with 300k followers, Bluesky traffic from @theguardian.com posts is already higher than it was from TwX in any week in 2024, where the account had 10.8m followers, but🧵

submitted 92 days ago • 174 comments