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Alice (SHE/HER) Sato, MD PhD @asato4kids.bsky.social · 2m

Guess that explains why they don’t understand this figure about vaccine effectiveness

This chart compares annual 20th century morbidity for selected vaccine-preventable diseases to current (2023) morbidity in the U.S.
Reductions are 97 to nearly 100 percent.

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Gemma Langridge @gemma-langridge.bsky.social · 4h

🚨 Funded PhD alert 🚨

We are recruiting for a PhD student to join the @langridgelab.bsky.social in October 2026 - please share!

If you like bacteria, genomics and puzzles, this could be the project for you 🦠🧬🧩

Apply by 2 Dec 🗓️

#PhDposition

Find out more ⬇️

www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · Aug 21

I hope you’re all enjoying this descent into madness.

The important thing to remember is what while I can’t sing, neither can eels, so this little jingle is very scientifically accurate.

So please. Get an eel facts advent calendar. You don’t have to wait until Christmas for eels. EelFacts.Net

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Lisa Jarvis @lisamjarvis.bsky.social · 5d

Last year's flu season was brutal-280 kids died. That came amid a drop in flu vax rates among vulnerable groups. Convincing people to get the flu shot has always been hard-under RFK, doctors' job got much tougher. Anyway: it's October, get your flu shot! My latest for @opinion.bloomberg.com (🎁):

This Flu Season Doesn’t Have to Be as Deadly as the Last

Last year’s flu season was long, brutal, and ultimately tragic. By the time infections had subsided in May, as many as 1.1 million Americans were estimated to have been hospitalized and as many as 100...

www.bloomberg.com

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 10h

As we go into No Kings weekend (and with the influx of new followers from x) seems like a good time to resurface this.

It was written in 2020 then focused on George Floyd about the media's antagonistic relationship to protest

It’s time to change the way the media reports on protests. Here are some ideas.

"People kept sharing these videos that were coming up and it was unambiguous what was going on. We weren't looking at a stream of videos of violence erupting or clashes breaking out. We were looking a...

www.niemanlab.org

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 19h

This is a very good paragraph.

From "The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps" in The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

By Nancy A. Youssef

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 20h

I'm probably not alone as an artist who's a bit burnt out and drained right now. But this. This right here keeps the fire going. Science like Doug's allows my art to exist. We all have to keep working and making and showing up so everybody gets to do what they want to do.

Doug Ellison @dougellison.bsky.social · 20h

On Monday I braced for this most recent round of JPL layoffs by looking around my office for what I cared about most to take it home in case I never got to return. I grabbed just one thing - the beautiful bowl by @amyraehill.bsky.social inspired by the false color postcard I took with Curiosity.

A circular bowl decorated with a landscape scene. The inner surface of the bowl is painted to resemble a landscape with mountains. The top portion is a bright, clear blue sky transitioning into a warm yellow-gold sun. The lower portion depicts dark, rugged terrain. The bowl is sitting on a dark surface with a pattern of bright, colorful, geometric dots and lines.

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Alice (SHE/HER) Sato, MD PhD @asato4kids.bsky.social · 18h

Post spooky cats

Would be a normal picture of our brown tabby eating except he has absolutely visible lower fangs

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 18h

Study finds no link between mRNA COVID vaccines early in pregnancy and birth defects.

A French study found no increased risk of 75 major congenital malformations across 13 organ systems from first-trimester mRNA COVID vaccination, confirming vaccine safety in early pregnancy.

Study finds no link between mRNA COVID vaccines early in pregnancy and birth defects

www.cidrap.umn.edu

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Alice (SHE/HER) Sato, MD PhD @asato4kids.bsky.social · 20h

You might find this article helpful. I think “Problem Evaluation,” “Investigating Possible Patient-to-Patient Transmission of M. tuberculosis” and a bit below that may have what you are looking for. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview...

Guidelines for Preventing the Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Health-Care Settings, 2005

www.cdc.gov

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Alice (SHE/HER) Sato, MD PhD @asato4kids.bsky.social · 21h

What’s the question? How to test and follow up the exposed persons? The hospital IP team should have a policy in place for notification of staff and patients following an exposure.

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Alice (SHE/HER) Sato, MD PhD @asato4kids.bsky.social · 21h

Have they learned to make decent peanut butter? When I worked there, they were adding vegetable oil to it FOR NO GOOD REASON

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 22h

"In unison."

Amen.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Reporters leave Pentagon en masse after refusing to sign on to new rules

After turning in their press credentials, journalists covering the Defense Department walked out rather than comply with its restrictive new policies.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Alice (SHE/HER) Sato, MD PhD @asato4kids.bsky.social · 21h

Hey Georgia

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Absolutely incredible work here from @hankgreen.bsky.social:

I Need 1% of Georgia to Watch This Video

YouTube video by Hank Green

www.youtube.com

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STAT @statnews.com · 21h

During the #STATSummit, Rochelle Walensky talks about the perception of the CDC both globally and domestically.

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 23h

More measles in South Carolina as US nears 1,600 confirmed cases

South Carolina officials said all new case-patients were in quarantine before they contracted the disease.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...

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Alice (SHE/HER) Sato, MD PhD @asato4kids.bsky.social · 1d

Medicaid is vital for kids

www.childrenshospitals.org/news/cha-blo...

#PedSky #PublicHealth #Medicaid #MaternalHealth

By the Numbers Medicaid is Vital to Kids

Half of American children are covered by Medicaid.

www.childrenshospitals.org

Alice (SHE/HER) Sato, MD PhD @asato4kids.bsky.social · 1d

Medicaid/CHIP ensures 37 million children have access to lifesaving care.

That’s roughly 50% of U.S. kids.

Half of the 14 million kids with special health care needs are covered by Medicaid and/or CHIP

>3 million children in military families

41% of births

40% of kids in rural areas

Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 1d

I'm here today as a private citizen and mother of two kids with critical and chronic illnesses who use Medicaid.

I need representatives like Mariannette Miller-Meeks to stop stealing the money that helps my kids have a good life. - Jonna Higgins-Freese

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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

2 weeks left!

Project for Awesome @projectforawesome.bsky.social · 15d

Nerdfighter Art submissions are open until October 29th!

Every year for the Project for Awesome, we collect physical artwork that is sold to raise money for charity.🎨❤️ Your art could get sent to nerdfighters all over the world!

Click here to learn more: projectforawesome.com/physicalart

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NEJM.org @nejm.org · 1d

In a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial conducted in Uganda, the use of permethrin-treated baby wraps significantly reduced the incidence of clinical malaria among young children. Full trial results and Research Summary: nej.md/4msFwwX

#MedSky #PedSky #IDSky

The New England Journal of Medicine
Permethrin-Treated Baby Wraps for the Prevention of Malaria
A Research Summary based on Boyce RM et al. | 10.1056/NEJMoa2501628 | Published on September 24, 2025

Visual representations of the patients in the trial and the treatments they were assigned.

Read the full Research Summary at NEJM.org.

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Infectious Diseases @infectiousdz.bsky.social · 1d

NY (Long Island) just confirmed local chikungunya transmission. One case is one case - not a growing outbreak - ongoing vector control and colder temps should keep it that way. Still: the illness is painful: terrible joint pain and when it spreads it spreads fast 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/n...

New York Confirms State’s First Locally Acquired Case of Chikungunya

www.nytimes.com

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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 2d

Alarming report on FDA political interference. Scientists are being asked to find data supporting predetermined conclusions on autism treatments, vaccines, SSRIs - the opposite of how science works.

We need evidence-based regulation, not regulation-based evidence.
www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/f...

Inside FDA, career staffers describe how political pressure is influencing their work

Current and former FDA staff said the level of involvement of political officials in nitty-gritty regulatory matters is unprecedented.

www.statnews.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 1d

More of this please.

Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 12d

Damn... This was really brave and perfectly executed. The way you guys planted multiple people all around the room and spoke up one at a time overwhelmed their security. This was brilliant. I respect it.💙👏😎

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