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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 14d

Look, folks. When it’s tearing down a Confederate monument that was set up during the Jim Crow era—years after the Confederacy was defeated—it’s eRas1ng H1stoRy! When it’s bulldozing a portion of the White House it’s a *glow up.*

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Public health librarian @healthlibrarian.bsky.social · 14d

Could it be related to the AWS outage?

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 18d

Several employees at the CDC’s Office of Science Quality and Library Services, for example, remain RIF’d. Without those clearances, “CDC can’t publish any scientific documents,” says a recently RIF’d CDC employee. cen.acs.org/policy/regul...

Trump administration reverses course on shutdown layoffs at CDC

More than half of the approximately 1,300 reduction-in-force notices sent to the agency's employees on Oct. 10 were in error, the Department of Health and Human Services determined as it reinstated st...

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Public health librarian @healthlibrarian.bsky.social · 19d

Same with the CDC Library, which has been around since 1946.

public health guy 🦃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 19d

surprised there hasn’t been more discourse around the illegal firing of NCHS leadership, including those in vital statistics.

which are vital

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 20d

Welp—CDC’s entire data team for its legendary national health and nutrition survey (NHANES)—our health census—has been laid off. Now we are flying blind to nutrition and chronic disease status in the U.S.—is this supposed to help us be MAHA? www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off

NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

www.statnews.com

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Public health librarian @healthlibrarian.bsky.social · 19d

Thank you! Every little bit helps!

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Quetzal1234 @quetzal1234.bsky.social · 20d

Hi, Every Library (a political group that advocates for libraries) just launched a petition and a way to email your reps to support the CDC librarians:
Petition: action.everylibrary.org/cdclibrarype...

Email: action.everylibrary.org/emailcdclibr...

Please share!

PETITION: Protect the Center for Disease Control Library

Staff at the CDC Library were laid off on October 10th and have not been brought back. Sign the petition to call for their return.

action.everylibrary.org

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Dr. Tom Frieden @drtomfrieden.bsky.social · 20d

CDC is not a Democratic or Republican agency. It's an American agency. One in three employees have been lost in recent months. This is dismantling of our health protections, not reform.

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Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition) @firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 20d

Librarians are banding together for the CDC library and its staff. Consider signing, sharing, and call your reps.

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Public health librarian @healthlibrarian.bsky.social · 20d

If you don't feel like writing your electeds, sign a petition instead. Every little bit helps!

action.everylibrary.org/cdclibrarype...

PETITION: Protect the Center for Disease Control Library

Staff at the CDC Library were laid off on October 10th and have not been brought back. Sign the petition to call for their return.

action.everylibrary.org

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Public health librarian @healthlibrarian.bsky.social · 20d

No, shhh here! The CDC Library needs you to spread the word and write your reps. #medlibs #firedbutfighting

a library shelf full of books with the word shhhh on the bottom

Alt: a library shelf full of books with the word shhhh on the bottom

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Public health librarian @healthlibrarian.bsky.social · 20d

The CDC Library performs the behind-the-scenes work that enables timely, effective public health responses.

Without the library, the administration has placed a massive, unnecessary time tax on CDC staff, forcing them to spend hours searching for information instead of saving lives.

#medlibs

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Public health librarian @healthlibrarian.bsky.social · 20d

CDC Library staff and the larger Office of Science Quality and Library Services have yet to be re-hired at the CDC!!! Please contact your elected reps to advocate for the reinstatement of the CDC Library. Every little bit helps!
#medlibs #firedbutfighting #publichealthsaveslives #CDC

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Public health librarian @healthlibrarian.bsky.social · 21d

No, we haven’t gotten any word about a rescission just yet.

maggiemaythegreat.bsky.social @maggiemaythegreat.bsky.social · 21d

Anyone know if CDC Library firings were rescinded? Can’t find anything on their status

Public health librarian @healthlibrarian.bsky.social · 21d

Where is the 700 rescinded number coming from? I know some media reported total number of staff in offices of 1 or 2 folks that had received a rescission; however, not everyone in those specific offices have been rehired.

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Deb Houry @drdebhoury.bsky.social · 22d

Congress needs to demand transparency re these CDC firings and what happened. I don't think "miscoding" is the reason nearly 50% of those fired were rescinded. Maybe it was the public awareness that programs like global health, suicide prevention, and measles response were being eliminated...

Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition) @firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 23d

No one knows what is happening. Now, we are hearing some of the CDC RIF notices might have been in error.
Error = Miscoding

Where are we hearing this? Through media of course! No one is being transparent with CDC staff.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

We continue to track the cuts. Stay tuned.

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Caitlin Rivers @cmyeaton.bsky.social · 23d

I can't get over how the CDC layoffs are coming less than two months after the attempted mass shooting. The agency is being taken apart brick by brick. The public servants there do not deserve this.

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Public health librarian @healthlibrarian.bsky.social · 23d

The library is still RIF’d, too. 😢

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 23d

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 24d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Public health librarian @healthlibrarian.bsky.social · 24d

Yea!!! LFG Aces!

The Athletic @theathletic.com · 24d

One player. Two Finals MVPs. Three rings. Four MVPs.

A’JA WILSON IS HER.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 24d

RIFed:
Office of Science - CDC Library

They have helped SO many of us with their expertise & guidance so we can do efficient & quick research.

You don’t need us toiling in Pubmed for days at a time during an outbreak. The library helps us get what we need quickly so we can continue our work.

About Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library

The CDC library provides resources and services to support research, communication, and learning.<br></br>

www.cdc.gov

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Public health librarian @healthlibrarian.bsky.social · 24d

Well, just got laid off from my job as a public health librarian in the latest illegal firings by this administration. If anyone knows any job leads for a phd-trained health researcher with expert-search skills, please let me know! 😢

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Public health librarian @healthlibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 30

Ugh. This is so played out. Grow up.

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · Sep 30

Erm, does one actually "read" an audiobook?

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Public health librarian @healthlibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 18

I hope news reporters pick this up! According to 2018 ACIP documents, working groups are FACA-exempt since they perform in a fact-finding role; do not include a quorum; and, do not vote on policy.

cdc.gov/acip/downloa...

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Public health librarian @healthlibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 17

This and the dissolving of the PubMed selection committee do not bode well for the future of NLM within the NIH.

MR INFO @mr-info.bsky.social · Sep 17

Only found out about this today (we use it for DOCLINE delivery): "The NNLM will end support for delivery.nnlm.gov on Friday, December 19th 2025. The document delivery site will no longer be available after that date, and it will not be replaced with a similar service." #MedLibs

NNLM | NNLM Delivery

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Public health librarian @healthlibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 17

This really showcases the cowardice and dishonesty of Makary and Bhattacharya at the FDA and NIH, respectively. They're political puppets with no power.

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