CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

For more information about the Friday night massacre at CDC, I wrote up an analysis of who got terminated and what that means for public health.

Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble.

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RIFs at CDC.

Destroying the Epidemic Intelligence Service, NCIRD, NCIPC & a dozen other areas/divisions/branches will cause enormous harm and suffering to America, and indeed to the whole world.

Call your Reps about it.

Then call them again.

My quote of the day

Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get.

William Foege

One week from today, in front of NIH, 10am-12pm

Rally to Defend Medical Research

NIH/Medical Center Metro stop
Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20814

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This is great. Thanks 🙏🏼 for these @lizneeley.bsky.social. Meeting the Moment is a bit of light in the darkness.

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

Asthma is a chronic disease characterized by acute, intermittent, recurrent episodes of airway inflammation. A decade of work developing the tools, techniques and collaborations needed to figure out how CD4+ T cells in the lungs propagate disease can be found here:
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News accelerated as I wrote this week‘s debrief (proper post tomorrow, meanwhile get some sleep, friends)

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I think the past few weeks have shown that, regardless of political affiliation, even media companies respond to effects on their bottom line. If you are upset with changes in your primary news source, consider changing it. Support the numerous organizations that value and deserve your patronage.

Countdown: Twelve Days

Stand up and speak out for Democracy before it is totally taken away.

This will take ALL of us!

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Actually?!?

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼This 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Each Friday, I summarize what is happening to American science & higher ed. 🧪
This was Week 37:
- 9 universities face loyalty oath (“compact”)
- government shutdown - impact on services & fear of further RIFs
- four NIH directors officially fired

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~“Mindfulness commodified for American consumption is about managing your stress, not addressing systemic oppression. Optimizing performance, not transforming unjust conditions. Finding inner peace, instead of collective liberation.”

Hear! effing Hear!

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New job 🚨:

Our #SCIMaP (scienceimpacts.org) team is searching for a Research Communications and Media Outreach Specialist to facilitate public engagement related to federal investment in science and health research.

Application review starts Oct 10:
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A true hero... She changed how we think about so many things...

Jane Goodall was my first childhood hero, as I loved animals as a kid and was inspired by her story. I still remember the National Geographic specials about her. RIP.