But when modeling the long term effect, it’s incomprehensible. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-04...
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But when modeling the long term effect, it’s incomprehensible. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-04...
I loved The Decameron and am still annoyed it wasn't more popular. Too close to home? It's Bridgerton but the plague and better jokes, what's not to love?
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
100% and unfortunately this is why I think it would be extremely problematic in the US
RFKs "gold standard science" more like pyrite standard science
It's obscene how little these people know about anything and how ok our elected officials are with that.
CCC, but make it stupid, costly, and scary.
In US healthcare AI scribes are being touted as a way to combat understaffing and burnout. It may help, but what would help more is better pay, lower patient quotas (caseloads here), better leave policies. This all acts as if AI doesn't cost $$$ and raise electricity costs as well.
Northeastern states consider regional approach to vaccine guidance after CDC changes Shifting national vaccine policy under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has Massachusetts and other states exploring a regional approach. www.nbcboston.com/news/local/n...
“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
Oh man I didn't think of that 🤦🏼♀️Efficiency!
Turns out, it costs a ton! Who would have thought? www.thepricer.org/how-much-doe...
What does it cost to have them do that work per hour vs the municipal workers or local crews?
I’m not sharing this to scare people—though it’s fucking terrifying. I’m sharing it because we all need to be on guard. We won’t be getting reliable data from the CDC anymore. Worse, the guidance could be harmful. RFK Jr. has no medical training, no scientific background…
The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
Says the guy whose hobby is submarining to ruins at the bottom of the ocean 🙄 what was that about artists being paid too much?
Dr. Demetre, in his resignation from the CDC, said this: “I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people”. It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury Keep reading, friends. 📚
Ive heard bashing of blue sky, it's an "echo chamber" and as so, useless. But that misses the point. Not everything needs to be about evangelizing to the people least like you on the Internet. Sharing information and learning is important. Not everything has to have the same purpose.
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“As Dr. King once said, ‘The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.’ Humbly, I would add, it doesn't bend on its own. History tells us we often have to apply force needed to make sure that the arc gets where it needs to go. This is one of those times.” -Gov. JB Pritzker
What could possibly go wrong? 🫠
Exactly. They don't care about the next "election"
It's a yes and situation
Oh don't test the stupidity of this timeline. Everything you thought was too stupid to be real, shall also come to pass. 🥲
Maybe AI has the gun lobby working for them?
RE Lisa Cook. It’s just so hard to tell why Trump is targeting these people. I guess we will never know what they had in common. A mystery for all time.
It's maddening!!
“These people have reframed the idea of learning as something where any struggle to wrestle with a concept or think really hard about something is a sign that the education is bad, and that what we need is for things to be as seamless and easy as possible…”
Oh there's always some way to wiggle out of giving a woman credit.
I thought that technology only existed in my imagination, that's incredible. Seeing his face sucks.
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Over 750 HHS current and former employees are *on the record* criticizing RFK Jr in the aftermath of the CDC shooting. They call him “complicit in dismantling America’s public health infrastructure ... by repeatedly spreading inaccurate health information." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Call it #femicide
Brought to you by data centers that are raising your bills and polluting your community, sending you to the doctor in the first place 🫠🏭
Did some fact checking on my representative's canned response about #HR1. Let's see if they address any of it 🐖🪽 (this is only one page of five, because if you're going to get wet, you might as well go swimming)
Idk man, I heard RFK say that rattlesnaking was good for your immune system.
I'd be pretty upset if I was a NC resident still trying to recover from catastrophic flooding, and our state resources were being exploited to help Trump feel like a strongman and deflect from his involvement with Epstein.
If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?
Gun violence is preventable. Journalists can make a difference. The Survivor Connection is a new service intended to help those reporting on gun violence take a more informed approach by centering the survivor community.
Anything to deflect from the Epstein files!
Because they are voting for patriarchy, not marriage sanctity.
That will probably happen at about the same time that libertarians start yelling about reproductive freedom as loudly as they yell about taxes.
I'd love it if our science and social services didn't rely on the goodwill of billionaires.
Do they ever clarify which rules, exactly?
Don't eat at restaurants, got it!
"bystander" implies standing BY the sides, not literally being in the middle of the violent insurrectionist mob 🙄
Thank you, #advocates #science and #publichealth
Hopefully there will be a better, brighter time in the future when interviewers question these goons about the gap on their resume from 2025, then swiftly end the interview.
🚨🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨🚨 @standupforscience.bsky.social Day 14! WE ARE LAUNCHING A CAMPAIGN TO IMPEACH AND REMOVE BOBBY “The Quack” JR. 🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆SIGN AND SHARE OUR PETITION: www.standupforscience.net/rfk-impeachm... We will hand deliver to Congress in Sept! #31doa #imoeachthequack #signandshare
The Supreme Court is reviewing a vitally important NIH case on its shadow docket. It is likely that the Court will back Trump, and say his (illegal) grant terminations are ok. We must speak up now. 1/
1/ SCOTUS is poised to let the Trump/Vought administration terminate NIH grants WITHOUT REASON. 🚨🧪 Act now, #shadowdocket decision coming any day now (Action call in 2nd post) Explainer: open.substack.com/pub/sciencea... Shareable graphics from: www.instagram.com/p/DNQ1k9vufj...
what else is left to say wapo.st/45NfS0M
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Good trouble 👏🏼💙🇺🇸
This shooting was the “physical embodiment of the narrative that has taken over, attacking science, and attacking our federal workers,” said Sarah Boim, a former CDC communications staffer who was fired this year during a wave of terminations.
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You have to be a truly reprehensible person to be denied a pierogi...twice 😂
Ludicrous though it is, we need to tell the EPA that carbon dioxide is in fact dangerous. Please join @thirdactorg.bsky.social in filing public comments--for the historic record if nothing else thirdact.org/act/urgent-t...
And His Magasty has cut their funding.
There are so many native flowers that can handle really terrible soil, and will help it become healthier later. This is a great idea.
Disgusting. Vote out your local GOP.
Why not both?
Covid vaccines saved millions of lives and won the Nobel Prize and this hungry ghost just cancelled the program that brought them to us. (Gift link)
JB Pritzker calls out Texas Republicans: "when Donald Trump calls they say yes, sir. Right away, sir. Happy to lick your boots, sir."
Hannibal Lecter hates bad manners. There is no way he would vote trump.
The pro-choice crowd has been warning about this for years, specifically @jessicavalenti.bsky.social Everyone should really start listening to women and advocating for abortion rights as more than just an afterthought or niche issue, because when they succeed there, they don't stop.
Healthcare in America is fixed! 🇺🇸🤡
The GOP did this.
Actual footage of what doge found in labs, libraries, and profits
Correct. Calling it a scandal is passive acceptance of abuse of minors. We can't let it go, have to call it what it is and hold these criminals accountable.
Because this country doesn't believe women. Over and over and over, we will do anything other than respect and believe a woman or girl's experience, even though we have had more than enough "I told you so" moments.
Tae Heung Kim, 40: - Lived in US since he was 5 - Has green card - Getting PhD at Texas A&M - Researching vaccine for Lyme disease - Has 1 minor pot charge from 2011, since sealed Also: Detained incommunicado by DHS after returning from wedding in Korea www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Thank you for this post. It's also bothering me how some are framing this as "salacious" or somehow beneath being news worthy. It's not some consensual scandal, it's abuse of children, and very worth bringing to justice.
I just hear someone on @npr.org say “women, many of whom were underage”… and they weren’t corrected. Underage women are children, girls. Let’s not normalize the suggestion that there is some gray area around the definition of children please.
‘Past The Point Of No Return’: Doctor Gives On-The-Ground Insight Into Starvation In Gaza www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s... via @akbarshahidahmed.huffpost.com
The trump administration is looking to refute the science that supports climate change as a threat to health. If they succeed, would that provide cover for them to refute medical science? (Not that consistency is really their thing.) www.npr.org/2025/07/24/n...
Abortion pills are being mailed to banned states by doctors in Massachusetts under shield laws, and they’ve helped over 12,000 people this year. Now states like Louisiana and Texas are trying to criminalize that care. This isn’t about safety, it’s about control. msmagazine.com/2025/07/25/a...
🔥BOOM: A federal judge just slapped down Trump’s push to defund Planned Parenthood — ruling Medicaid $$ must keep flowing to ALL clinics. Blocking care = more STIs, more unplanned pregnancies, and millions left hanging. The fight isn’t over. ⚖️ #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #ObSky #PedsSky #NurseSky
In yet another blow to Trump, aliens demand release of full Epstein files.
Been waiting for the aliens distraction tactic!
Trick I just learned since they are forcing it on us: you can turn it off by adding "-ai" to the end of each search.
Yup. Every time I hear a pundit say "he can't run again" I think about all the other things he "can't" do but has successfully done.
Love this piece from @emmarjanssen.bsky.social and @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social. It's about unlikely alliances between anti-fracking enviros and the truckers who actually cart around the hazardous materials. Important lesson on solidarity bridging other divides. prospect.org/environment/...
Love to see it. We need more of this: hunting community, farmers, local health agencies; lots of opportunities.
It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.
2010…
Many of us believe that these women were raped as children, because when we were children about 11 or 12 years old, creepy older guys came onto us. That’s the age when we learned that men are interested in children. So yes, we believe them.
Heard from #AHRQ that the entire grants staff has been let go! They are unable to issue funds for grants already funded, let alone fund new grants. This is outrageous and will make Americans poorer and sicker. Why? A brief thread about just some recent AHRQ-funded research: #MedSky #HealthPolicy
Wtffff
Make 5 calls part of your routine. I like to call my rep on my afternoon dog walk, so I can list off the ways he and his party are ignoring constituent health and well being based on the new horror news of the day. The NIH grant stats is some great new material for my call. 🇺🇸🐶💙
Gaza is ‘hell on earth’ with doctors fainting from hunger, UN says, as 1,000 people estimated to have been killed seeking food - Israel-Gaza war live share.google/XGK1ytEZPLbh.... Any other Country would be sanctioned and not get any military assistance via weapons sales.
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
Just one follow up question would be great. Not a big ask.
I guess all five of billions must have been close personal friends of his.
It’s this parody come to life.
Oceangate of the skies