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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 14h

The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Instability and confusion’ as CDC slashes 1,300 jobs before reinstating half

Trump administration says 700 notices were sent in error, while top CDC officer says ‘they didn’t think through what they were doing’

www.theguardian.com

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Critical Takes on Corporate Power @criticaltakes.bsky.social · 1d

A must-read here for NGOs which engage with big business.

How corporations work to capture multi-stakeholder initiatives and play them off against each other.

Rob Ralston @policyrelevant.bsky.social · 1d

new article in @reggovjournal.bsky.social that examines how corporations engage in 'venue hopping' as a means to advance agendas in multiple spaces and at multiple levels

This riffs off Baumgartner and Jones' notion of venue shopping, but adapts it for an increasingly multistakeholder world

Corporate Power in a Multistakeholder World: Venue Hopping and the Multilevel Politics of Ultra‐Processed Food

The regulation of business is increasingly characterized by “soft” governance regimes that blur the boundaries of public and private authority, as signaled by the rapid proliferation of multistakehol...

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 9h

I don't think people realize what an immediate impact this is going to have on outbreak response and containment.

Ferric Fang, MD @fangferric.bsky.social · 9h

According to a state epidemiologist, "CDC personnel who normally share information with state officials during outbreaks have been eliminated."

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 1d

“One veteran researcher who still has his job (and, like other public-health workers I spoke with for this story, requested anonymity for fear of losing it) told me he believes that Kennedy’s ultimate goal is to “silence the scientific voice of career CDC scientists.””

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Kate Violette @kateviolette.com · 9h

I'm equal parts:

1. Yeah, everyone born from the 70s through today was sold a fake bill of goods for what we thought the world was going to be when we were adults. What we have instead frankly kind of sucks.

2. Yikes those are some big "my wife didn't get enough cheese on her tacos" vibes.

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Kate Violette @kateviolette.com · 4h

Am I the only one who has a vague sense of sadness when technology tries to replace where human relationships should be?

like,

If I was depressed and burying myself in my studies, I would rather a friend ask me if I'm ok and need a hug or something instead of a chatbot chirpily chiding me.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5h

“Like a smartwatch reminding you to stand up or drink water, Evergreen will notice if a student who normally visits the fitness center hasn’t done so or encourage a student to leave the library after studying for six hours…”

Dartmouth Builds Its Own AI Chatbot for Student Well-Being

The undergrad-assisted research project will draw on students’ data to provide chatbot support and personalized plans for health and wellness.

www.insidehighered.com

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Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 5h

Where do you publish?

Where do you pitch your work?

Do you run a platform looking to connect with scholars?

Let's build resources for each other! Something we can actively do right this minute is support each other in getting necessary expertise out to the public.

Solidarity & resources ↓↓↓

Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 8h

It's live now! Please visit our Pitchables page at this link and if you have a site, magazine, podcast, or other platform for scholars to pitch their public work to, please let me know in comments or via email at bwandread@gmail!

blackwhiteandread.com/pitchables/

Screenshot of the linked webpage on my public scholarship website Black and white and read all over. The page is titled Pitchables with links to sites where scholars can pitch their work and expertise, separated into written publications and podcasts

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I've Got An Idea For A Podcast @gotanideaforapod.bsky.social · 1d

A little taster of the pod. First episode tomorrow!

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I've Got An Idea For A Podcast @gotanideaforapod.bsky.social · 17h

Our first episode is now live on Spotify and Apple Music!

We debate five things we love and hate about podcasts, and which of them should go to Podcast Heaven or Podcast Hell...

Blue sticky note featuring the title of this week's episode: "Podcast Heaven & Hell".

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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · Aug 26

Every time living standards fall, Nigel Farage blames migration.

And every time, Keir Starmer nods along.

People are struggling with the cost of living and blaming migration won’t fix that.

Scotland deserves better - a fairer, wealthier, welcoming future with independence.

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 1d

One single data centre. The combined energy draw of both of our largest cities.

Utterly unreasonable that this could be signed off without an environmental check. What about the impact on our energy prices?

The investors should have to fund the clean energy needed.

inews.co.uk/news/data-ce...

Giant data centre could use as much power as every home in Glasgow and Edinburgh

Edinburgh Council has said the developer will not have to submit an environmental impact assessment, sparking concerns data centres are avoiding scrutiny from planners

inews.co.uk

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Patrick MB @psawyerschue.bsky.social · 1d

the lesser of two great evils.

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bigode de varrer chana @tuttopassa.baby · 1d

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SpookySeasonSar(She/They) @sarthedarkone.bsky.social · 1d

Does Gianmarco Soresi count?

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Corduroy Orbison @underscore-proto.bsky.social · 1d

I'd say The Mario Bros but their status as imports from Japan means they're probably in an ICE facility somewhere

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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johnny @jjmj.bsky.social · 1d

Stanley Tucci

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 2d

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 3d

Just like they killed USAID, they are now killing CDC

“CDC is over. It was killed”

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 2d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Lois King (MPH) 🇬🇧 🇬🇭 @loisemilyking.com · 5d

So I started my podcast honestly as a form of physio post-hospital e.g. enunciation practice and I love it but this is so true, it's so time-consuming esp when you do every 😂

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Prof Devi Sridhar @profdevisridhar.bsky.social · 14d

People thinking that Reform's suggestions of getting rid of legal immigrants will fix the NHS have no idea how much it will hurt healthcare. Immigrants & children of immigrants keep the NHS functioning. Same with social care.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13d

Colon cancer is on the rise among young people – and research points to one major culprit | Devi Sridhar

If smoking was the cancer villain of the 20th century, eating ultra-processed food may be its 21st-century counterpart, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 6d

The center at Duke that I'm fortunate to lead studies the effects of aid cuts; we recently summarized key lessons from our research at www.brookings.edu/articles/nav...

One key conclusion: sudden, poorly planned donor exits, like the one @jamellebouie.net describes, cause disease resurgence & death

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Lois King (MPH) 🇬🇧 🇬🇭 @loisemilyking.com · 6d

Who'd've thought?!

a girl in a pink shirt is smiling and holding a fan

ALT: a girl in a pink shirt is smiling and holding a fan

media.tenor.com

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 7d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Lois King (MPH) 🇬🇧 🇬🇭 @loisemilyking.com · 6d

Welcome to all my new followers (can't quite believe I have this many but thank you, starter packs 🙏🏾)!

I'm a ✨️recovering academic✨️ a.k.a. global health consultant, podcast host and rare disease patient advocate with @thesumairafdn.bsky.social based in the UK 👋🏾

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