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In a letter, Kennedy said RFK Jr. was "unqualified" to be the new U.S. Department of Health and Human Services secretary just hours before he was scheduled to appear for confirmation hearings.

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Please repost! We’re trying hard to sort out rumors from truth + would like to hear from anyone affected by the new federal orders + NIH pause. Patients, scientists, health equity researchers: please contact us below. We won’t share anything without your permission. www.statnews.com/2025/01/25/t...

submitted 27 days ago • 20 comments

🚨 The indefinite pause on NIH study sections & CDC public communication updates is devastating for science, public health, and our future. These decisions will have long-term consequences for research, disease prevention, and lives if they are prolonged. A 🧵

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

Here we go! The Senate hearing for RFK's nomination as head of HHS now has an official date: Wednesday, January 29

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of scientific meetings prompts confusion, concern www.statnews.com/2025/01/22/t... via @statnews.com

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has provided real-time data and analysis about disease outbreaks and emerging health threats without a break every week since 1960. Until today.

submitted 29 days ago • 147 comments

This. The institutional knowledge of a single post-doc or 6th year grad student is truly astonishing. Let alone the PIs! Or the techs who've been there 20 years! These are not tweedy ivory tower eggheads that the media paints them. They are PEOPLE. People living, often, on pretty subpar salaries.

submitted 29 days ago • 5 comments

I can't read the full article, but I'll be keeping my eyes open to see if we get an MMWR release this week! 😕 here's hoping we don't end up with messed up public health communication/coordination bc of this 😬

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Things you may wish to do while you still can: 1. Buy plan B. If you don't need it, you may know someone who may need it. Also, you don't have to be a woman to buy plan B, men can. 2. If you need longterm contraception, now may be the time to get that IUD placed. Pass it on.

submitted 31 days ago • 6 comments

Just posting this picture of an iron lung at University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, for no particular reason. Jonas Salk was pretty dope. #VaccinesSaveLives

submitted 34 days ago • 16 comments

Always a positive sign when the first book of the year is so good 📚💙 I really enjoyed Where the Crawdads Sing Anyone have recommendations like it? #booksky

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That this is even on the table right now, with the very real risk of a bird flu pandemic kicking off in the near future, is absolutely absurd - what are people thinking?!

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I wrote about why so many people angry at the health insurance industry -- and whether they should be www.huffpost.com/entry/insura...

submitted 74 days ago • 4 comments

My story on this from @usa.streetsblog.org: usa.streetsblog.org/2024/12/10/e...

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

75+ Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as head of the Department of Health and Human Services. The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a Cabinet choice.

submitted 74 days ago • 8 comments

Whenever I see the American discussion of healthcare reform it's always the status quo vs the British or Canadian system. There are other systems in the world. Every other wealthy country has achieved universal coverage, often without a single-payer system. A hybrid model would make sense for us.

submitted 76 days ago • 17 comments

Fascinating thread

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

Watch the earthquake waves from the M7.0 earthquake offshore Cape Mendocino, CA sweep across seismic stations in North America. Sound on 🔊

submitted 78 days ago • 20 comments

One of the best pieces I’ve seen on pandemic revisionism, Jay Bhattacharya, the Great Barrington Declaration & RFK Jr (who Bhattacharya campaigned for—he even spoke at his political rallies) By @kkjetelina.bsky.social & @kmpanthagani.bsky.social yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/hhs-picks-...

submitted 79 days ago • 19 comments

Only 15% into listening to American Dirt (Jeannine Cummings) and think it's already a contender for my top book of the year #booksky 📚💙

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Even where they don't look like science problems, many issues have scientific as well as social solutions (anything in the field of epidemiology is political...).So not super fun to discover that scientists think 80% of global policymakers have no science understanding www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

This highlights a big problem w/ RFK Jr.: how his positions distract from serious focus on public health issues, forcing debate on topics sci considers well-settled, be it vaccine & H2O fluoridation safety or tallow. Forces elevating/"both sides"-ing debunked ideas & conspiracy theories.🛟medsky 🧪

submitted 79 days ago • 3 comments

Medicare for All isn’t a radical idea. We already have Medicare, people like it, and it provides life saving healthcare for so many seniors and older adults. Healthcare should not be tied to where and if one is working. Healthcare is a human right.

submitted 79 days ago • 45 comments

I'm very happy for the people who are enjoying the 20 day book challenge! If you're like me, though, and find it overwhelming your feed and keeping you from interacting on #booksky you can filter out most of it using the moderation settings 📚💙

submitted 80 days ago • 3 comments

This is a really valuable tool to evaluate environmental cancer risk, block-by-block in the USA. If you're looking to buy a home, check the address first.

submitted 80 days ago • 7 comments

Everyone needs to be aware of this kind of bot. Many of us believe we have a duty to respond gently to polite argumentation. Especially in advocacy. Nope. If someone sealions, check their timeline to see if this is a pattern. Then report & block, as @rahaeli.bsky.social describes. 🧵(1/6)

submitted 80 days ago • 11 comments

Get yer shots. Sure, it's annoying, but you know it's also an excuse to get yourself a little treat. One little treat for your immune system, and one for the shot. Like giving a kid a lollipop at the doctors. Only it's you. And Starbucks.

submitted 81 days ago • 3 comments

“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record. They run them bc people react to them the most. If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change. It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

submitted 81 days ago • 2303 comments

Just downloaded StoryGraph and having fun figuring it out! Anyone have tags they've made that were really good additions? Any tips? #booksky 📚💙

submitted 81 days ago • 2 comments

The study: www.cell.com/cell-host-mi... #covid ⚕️ 🧪

submitted 81 days ago • 7 comments

The ground work for this "victory" lap for overcoming herd immunity "censorship" was laid by the GOP's Covid subcommittee, some pre-election revisionist history conferences, awards, etc whowhatwhy.org/politics/us-... www.importantcontext.news/p/embarrassi... www.importantcontext.news/p/invisible-...

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment