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As Canadians head into a federal election, the Canadian Public Health Association encourages its members, and every voter, to question their candidates and demand support for strategies and programs that build health for all. www.cpha.ca/election-2025

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We felt nostalgic and wanted to bring back Clippy, but with a twist! We wondered: “What would Clippy say if it was programmed to nudge and assist people with misinformation?” More Clippys here 👇 scienceupfirst.com/project/what... #ScienceUpFirst #TogetherAgainstMisinformation

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This article focuses on health care but public health capacity, and the critical challenge of restoring trust in public health, must also be front of mind for the new administration. Health in Canada: a pivotal political moment - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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West Texas measles outbreak update: Now 145 cases total. Seems to be slowing down, but be careful coming to this conclusion. It's unclear whether it's from true containment or lack of reporting/cooperation. Just have to watch how this unfolds. Big thanks to public health workers on the front line!

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Mass firings decimate U.S. science agencies | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

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"Without research to point toward a healthier country, there will be poorer national health and less capacity to do what people do...on either end of the political spectrum." Read the Editorial by JAMA Health Forum EIC Sandro Galea and JAMA EIC @kbibbinsdomingo.bsky.social. ja.ma/4b6Z2LJ #MedSky

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Being a field epidemiologist is awesome, but we don’t get skilled field epis without a global network of Field Epidemiology Training Programs. Public health doesn’t just happen.

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Censor CDC scientists and ask them to withdraw papers from medical journals? This is not how it works, Mr President. Our response @bmj.com on the Trump Executive Order and his "forbidden words" www.bmj.com/content/388/...

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🤬 It may look like Trump can censor public health and science. He cannot. We use tracked changes around here ya’ll. And duplicates and archives and repositories. We got reporters on speed dial and besties at all the journals. We’re digging in. #censorship #trollkingdom #digdeep #publichealth

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Howdy 🤠 Our team is growing! We're #hiring for a Communications and Outreach Coordinator in the #Edmonton region. Deadline to apply is February 10th with a start date in early March. 🔗: www.goodwork.ca/jobs/biodive...

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Excellent 🧵 for an accessible and compelling breakdown of our recent @pnasnexus.org paper.

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"advocacy is becoming risky business for scientists in Canada"... “'We don’t live in a world where sharing a piece of evidence is neutral, we’re engaging in a process that is already polarized.'” Vital reporting on what's becoming a global trend for science in society... 🧪 #scicomm

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Newest issue of @cphjournal.bsky.social out today - link below. If you think academic publishing needs to change & you work on public health, do consider publishing in, & otherwise supporting, this journal as they forge a new path, away from commercial publishers. It can't be easy but amazing to see

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This op-ed in @nytimes.com by @pauloffit.bsky.social is an absolute must-read. In it, Dr. Offit writes, "I’m an actual vaccine skeptic. In fact, everyone who serves with me on the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory committee is a vaccine skeptic." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/o...

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Moderna in the late stages of testing a norovirus vaccine using mRNA technology against the (tricky) virus. 🛟 medsky 🧪 time.com/7205731/noro...

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Historians of public health have some things to say. Many things, in fact. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/u...

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Just published on PLOS Global Public Health: It won’t end with COVID: Countering the next phase of American antivaccine activism 2025–29 by Peter Hotez journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

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📈 Are Precocious Scientists on the Rise? This @nature.com article discusses a recent surge in early-career researchers among top-cited authors. Are these metrics legit or is something else going on? 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41... #AcademicSky #SciComm 🧪

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The Emerging Threat of H5N1 to Human Health

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“Resistance to public health is an invitation to inquiry and partnership”.

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As we prepare to enter a new political era, those of us in healthcare, especially infectious disease specialists and public health professionals need to start working on inclusive messaging. As hard as it is, we need to be able to reach those we disagree with for the sake of public health.

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'Jimmy Carter’s efforts against neglected diseases embodied public health at its finest' www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... @picardonhealth.bsky.social Get weekly updates: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁

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What lies ahead in global health in 2025? I can't tell you if #H5N1 #birdflu is going to trigger a pandemic, but I can tell you a few things I'm going to be watching in the new year. www.statnews.com/2024/12/26/g...

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Upgrade your #causalinference arsenal. A revision of our book "Causal Inference: What If" is available at miguelhernan.org/whatifbook Thanks to everyone who suggested improvements, reported typos, and proposed new citations and material. Enjoy the #WhatIfBook plus code and data. Also, it's free.

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Major barriers for combating mis/disinformation: distrust in institutions, cognitive/emotional biases, political divides, inattention to non-English-language mis/disinfo, and the use of disinfo by politicians for personal gain. misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/stru... #MisinfoResearch

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Books save lives!

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Useful q and a about H5N1... "Q&A: Why Finland is vaccinating farmers against bird flu — but California isn’t — and more info about the spreading virus What to know about the bird flu outbreak as concerns about cases grow" 🧭🛟🧪😷 Health policy science communication idsky medsky sociology

submitted 90 days ago • 19 comments

Selecting a few of the recommendations from our National Academies report on science misinformation to highlight. Recommendation 2 is simply that universities & researchers need better procedures for publicizing research. There should be accountability for overhyping science.

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My replies are perpetually full of anti-vaxxers these days telling me about polio vaccines. Not shockingly, most of what they are saying is wrong. Luckily, I trained with Vincent Racaniello & he taught me a few things about poliovirus. So let’s discuss the king of the Picornaviridae👇🏻

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Evolution vs. Religion: the exasperating conflict between incompatible positions. Sceptics of evolution are more likely to accept the theory if it is presented as complementing, rather than contradicting, their core beliefs. www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #evolution #scicomm #communication

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This. ❤️ In honour of all the great libraries and librarians that serve us the world over. I'm grateful. Libraries are one of the best public health & education services we have!

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❌ Myth: Posting a preprint leads to my work being scooped. ✔️ Truth: Preprints establish your priority with a timestamped, citable record, reducing the risk of scooping by proving you were the first to share your findings.

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Welp, the news is out. It's a gutting day for us at STAT with layoffs of 11 treasured, hardworking colleagues. I can't say this loud enough: Please subscribe/support the journalism you trust. Science writing jobs are going extinct at a time when we're needed most. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/09/b...

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Child w suspected case of bird flu in Marin County, CA “presented to a local emergency department with fever and vomiting after drinking raw milk.” Tested positive for flu A, more testing needed to confirm whether seasonal or bird flu (h/t @helenbranswell.bsky.social) www.marinhhs.org/h5n1-bird-flu

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Open Access UCL Research: How has intersectionality been operationalised in health policy analysis? A scoping review protocol discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

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That heightened level of vigilance and monitoring we’ve been begging for seems to be now in play to prevent a larger outbreak. This could have major implications for both agriculture and public health. #H5N1 #episky

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This is a good explainer on case definitions and case counts, for any public health epis who have had to work through this in outbreak communication! open.substack.com/pub/caitlinr...

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"What I want to see is a better utilization, analysis, and visualization of the data that we have to tell us what’s happening today," shares @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social w/ @publichealthmag.bsky.social in an article for predicting the ebb and flow of infectious disease. More here⤵️

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"...The study shows that our relationship with science is a lifelong story shaped by curiosity, critical thinking and the ever-present push to learn more." Michigan News covers research lead by Jon Miller on how views of science change with age. 🧪#SciComm news.umich.edu/how-our-view...

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