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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 11h

How is this not a blatant Hatch Act violation?

www.usda.gov

Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 1d

The royal "you" not you in particular. It's not a complaint for reviewers, I've reviewed plenty as well, it's the silly submission requirements before it even hits reviewers.

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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 1d

I'm getting the sense that IU is aiming for the worst university for free speech.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Indiana University cuts IDS print entirely, hours after firing student media director

Indiana University's independent student newspaper.

www.idsnews.com

Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 1d

If reproducibility doesn't matter to you then it's fine. Can you show me a journal DOI that links to a .docx?

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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 1d

Know any journals that take markdown files?

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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 2d

News articles that don't link the study cause brain decay

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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 2d

Don't tell it to find info on a large imported library, you'll be repeatedly proving you are human for hours.

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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 2d

Also why would a pharmaceutical manufacturer even do it? They aren't beholden to the public and given the flippant nature of HHS/FDA/ACIP, why would they ever believe it's economical when they already have a viable vaccine?

Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 2d

Rejection kind of depends on perspective, my MPH wasn't published but I still got an MPH. CDC made me write reports without an author, but I still claim them. I had a paper take 5 years to publish but it got there eventually. My PhD has been a tough journey but I see light.

Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 2d

Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it.
 CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
 But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.

👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...

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Fail Better: Why Your Rejections Will Shape You More Than Your Publications

The Art of Learning from Rejection

catherineeunicedevries.substack.com

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Don Vinh @donvinh.bsky.social · 3d

Pregnancy doubles the risk of severe COVID-19.
Infants < 6 months old have approx = risk of severe disease as those 65-74 yrs old.

➡️ Pregnancy = priority for COVID 💉

Modeling the Health Impact of Discontinuing COVID-19 Vaccination During Pregnancy in the US : jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Modeling the Health Impact of Discontinuing COVID-19 Vaccination During Pregnancy in the US

This decision analytical model study estimates the number of avertable COVID-19 hospitalizations in US infants younger than 6 months and pregnant persons with vaccinations during pregnancy.

jamanetwork.com

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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 5d

The epidemiologists didn't die, I still get emails from my South Carolina days almost ten years ago

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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 5d

Holy shit, how are conservatives not grabbing for their guns?!?

www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

US announces it will allow Qatar to build an Air Force facility in Idaho | CNN Politics

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced on Friday that the US will allow Qatar to build an Air Force facility at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho, which will host Qatari F-15 fighter jets and...

www.cnn.com

Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 7d

It's mind-blowing that some former speechwriter, Peter Thiel muppet is the current CDC director.

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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 10d

It's what Project 2025 called for, political CDC and analysis CDC

Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 10d

Good thing those don't exist.

CNN @cnn.com · 10d

The acting director of the CDC called for vaccine makers to develop separate shots against measles, mumps and rubella to replace combination MMR vaccines, despite no evidence of any benefit to getting the shots separately.

Acting CDC director, citing Trump directive, calls for MMR shot to be split into three despite no evidence of benefit | CNN

The acting director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called for vaccine makers to develop separate shots against measles, mumps and rubella to replace combination MMR vaccines, des...

www.cnn.com

Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 10d

CDC is being led by a goddamn speechwriter haha. Reminds me of South Carolina DHEC under Nikki Haley. Just straight nepotism with about the same effect... Cough cough...

www.thestate.com/news/upstate...

South Carolina reports measles outbreak as statewide vaccinations fall

Five cases of the highly contagious virus have been identified in the Upstate over the course of roughly a week.

www.thestate.com

Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 10d

Trying to shoot down his bullshit is like drinking from a firehose, press issues that make him weaker.

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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 12d

Safety and efficacy of early medical abortion at home between 10+0 and 11+6 weeks' gestation: a retrospective review

srh.bmj.com/content/earl...

srh.bmj.com

Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 13d

I was just going to post this, is this independent from NCBI?

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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 13d

Certainly a slippery slope but one the US is already well down...

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

New study finds more than 400 pregnancy-related prosecutions after Roe's fall

Most of the cases involved allegations of substance use during pregnancy, a nonprofit legal group found.

www.nbcnews.com

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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 14d

How much is the article processing fee?

Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 15d

Can't believe I missed that the @societyforepi.bsky.social podcast recently had stochastic modeling episodes, kinda glad they send out those summary email blasts.

seriousepi.blubrry.net

SERious EPI | A podcast from the Society for Epidemiologic Research

seriousepi.blubrry.net

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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 15d

Ha, quiet and gassy or a messy wreck?

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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 16d

This is pretty crazy, study models millions of indirect hurricane deaths potentially driving/contributing to the life expectancy disparity in the US:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

a, Total incidence of TCs on CONUS by month. Bar height is sum of average maximum wind speeds for all state-by-storm events. Colours correspond to decades. b, Stacked overlapping excess mortality responses to each storm for all of CONUS. Each storm response aggregates state-level responses nationally, accounting for state-level population and adaptation. Outline colours correspond to the decade when the TC occurred. The upper envelope is the total estimated mortality burden for CONUS resulting from all TCs occurring during the prior 172 months (see Supplementary Fig. 3). c, Official deaths directly resulting from TCs for each month according to NOAA National Hurricane Center and NOAA National Weather Service6,7. The y-axis scale is the same for b and c.

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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 17d

This reminds me of the fetal cell lines used for testing, at what point does religion say, "maybe our >1,000 year old book doesn't cover this"?

apnews.com/article/indo...

Halal concerns drive vaccine hesitancy as Indonesia fights measles outbreak

Health workers in Sumenep, Indonesia, are delivering measles vaccines to children. This effort is part of a campaign to curb a deadly measles outbreak on Madura Island, which has persisted for nine mo...

apnews.com

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