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Jon Shaffer @jonshaffer.bsky.social · 8h

This is legit scary.

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 17h

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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Elizabeth Lanphier @ethicselizabeth.bsky.social · 7h

Maybe it’s my lack of imagination, or lack of a law degree, but I just can’t come up with any compelling moral or legal argument that would justify that.

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Elizabeth Lanphier @ethicselizabeth.bsky.social · 17h

We need health care agencies staffed with experts. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social

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Write to Congress: CDC Employees must be Reinstated

**Please write now to your Senators and Representative demanding that ALL CDC employees be reinstated as part of any agreement to reopen the government.** Late on Friday, October 10, the Trump Admin...

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Robert Talisse @roberttalisse.bsky.social · 20h

I've studied the great works of political theory for over half my life, yet the most important insights for our times can be gained from Scorsese films. Like this one:

Capitulation to a bully's demands simply establishes the baseline for the next extortion

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Elizabeth Lanphier @ethicselizabeth.bsky.social · 1d

Today is the day to submit your note to Jon Husted if you are in Ohio!

Letters will be printed tomorrow for delivery to the Senator.

Elizabeth Lanphier @ethicselizabeth.bsky.social · 9d

Tell Jon Husted what you think about his track record on health and healthcare in #Ohio. Letters will be printed on note cards and hand delivered to his office on October 15th.

Write a Letter to Senator Jon Husted to Defend Public Health in Ohio

On October 15th the Ohio chapter of Defend Public Health will convene in Columbus to deliver as many cards from constituents as possible to Senator Jon Husted to "thank" him for threatening the health...

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Honesty for Ohio Education @honesty4ohioed.bsky.social · 21h

Analysis: Universal school meals in Ohio would pay for themselves — and then some
by Marty Schladen
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/14/a...

Analysis: Universal school meals in Ohio would pay for themselves — and then some • Ohio Capital Journal

Most Ohio school kids already get free meals. Making them free for all students would produce big social benefits, new study says.

ohiocapitaljournal.com

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Elizabeth Lanphier @ethicselizabeth.bsky.social · 1d

Today is the day to submit your note to Jon Husted if you are in Ohio!

Letters will be printed tomorrow for delivery to the Senator.

Elizabeth Lanphier @ethicselizabeth.bsky.social · 9d

Tell Jon Husted what you think about his track record on health and healthcare in #Ohio. Letters will be printed on note cards and hand delivered to his office on October 15th.

Write a Letter to Senator Jon Husted to Defend Public Health in Ohio

On October 15th the Ohio chapter of Defend Public Health will convene in Columbus to deliver as many cards from constituents as possible to Senator Jon Husted to "thank" him for threatening the health...

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Elizabeth Lanphier @ethicselizabeth.bsky.social · 1d

From Health Policy Institute of Ohio: "The decline in medical debt coincides with a drop in Ohio’s uninsured rate, which has been halved following the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 and Ohio’s decision to expand Medicaid eligibility beginning in 2014." (i.e. by policies now under threat)

A graphic showing "percent of Ohioans with medical debt in collections drops in past decade, remains higher than U.S. overall" with a 37% decrease from 2011-2022. Link to full graphic here: https://www.healthpolicyohio.org/files/data-graphics/medicaldebtstandalonegraphic.jpg?mc_cid=ebcd7976d3&mc_eid=29a6d11f05

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Elizabeth Lanphier @ethicselizabeth.bsky.social · 2d

Based on today’s trip to the zoo where many kids were dressed up for HallZOOween, “left-wing propagandist” is a very popular costume among ~6-12 year olds. So many inflatable animals!

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 2d

The Movement is where the movement is, and for a pretty long time, the liberals were not particularly interested in moving. Now they very much are, and we ignore that groundswell of energy at our peril, I think

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Chiasm @chiasm.bsky.social · 2d

This IRIS group at the University of Cincinnati is fascinating. I've been a part of a lot of "interdisciplinary groups" but I've never been to one whose conferences intermix poetry readings and art theory in with the biology and neuroscience presentations. 💕
www.artsci.uc.edu/iris.html

Institute for Research in Sensing (IRiS)

The Institute for Research in Sensing (IRiS) at the University of Cincinnati is an interdisciplinary research institute focused on novel routes to innovation in sensing research and sensor technology ...

www.artsci.uc.edu

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

UPDATE : Two HHS officials told me Saturday evening that some RIF’d CDC employees—including disease, detectives, measles response team and MMWR staff —were fired in error and are being brought back. Story w/ @apoorvanyt.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Dr. Regina Mueller @reginamueller.bsky.social · 3d

We’re excited to share a CfP for a Special Issue “Bioethics and Structural (In)justice” in Bioethics! We invite articles from all disciplines. Deadline: September 1, 2026
We can’t wait to read your contributions!
Regina Müller, Mirjam Faissner, Isabella Marcinski-Michel & Stefanie Weigold

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2d

“CDC is over. It was killed. This administration only knows how to break things. They have made America at risk for outbreaks and attacks by nefarious players. People should be scared,” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 2d

Something I didn't appreciate until my kids started school was just how enmeshed the tech industry is in public ed. Attendance, school lunch, communication, calendars, testing, teaching tools--everything has its own app. There's a lot of money to be made there.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 2d

Meanwhile, ed tech companies are salivating--eager to sell "solutions" to families whose schools will now struggle (even more than they already have) to meet their kids' learning needs.

(Here are a few of the ed tech ads I've been tracking over the past few months)

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Elizabeth Lanphier @ethicselizabeth.bsky.social · 2d

Weekend push to @defendpublichealth.bsky.social in Ohio.

Submit your note telling Jon Husted what you think about his voting record on health TODAY.

(Ohio residents only but even if you are out of state, share with your #Ohio friends and family!)

Elizabeth Lanphier @ethicselizabeth.bsky.social · 9d

Tell Jon Husted what you think about his track record on health and healthcare in #Ohio. Letters will be printed on note cards and hand delivered to his office on October 15th.

Write a Letter to Senator Jon Husted to Defend Public Health in Ohio

On October 15th the Ohio chapter of Defend Public Health will convene in Columbus to deliver as many cards from constituents as possible to Senator Jon Husted to "thank" him for threatening the health...

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Elizabeth Lanphier @ethicselizabeth.bsky.social · 9d

Hello Ohio!

A few ways you can support public health & healthcare in Ohio right now with @defendpublichealth.bsky.social.

1. Help submit letters to Sen. Husted to tell him how he is hurting healthcare by filling out the form below.

2. Come to Columbus on October 15th to hand deliver letters

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 5d

"They dug their keys into the side of my pretty little souped up four-wheel drive, your honor! It was awful! They carved their names into my leather seats!"

(runs out of court sobbing)

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 5d

Perry cites the claims of "slashed tires" and "keyed cars."

"Some of this frankly sounds like a Carrie Underwood song."

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 3d

Policy, comms, ethics, and science management (the people who clear science docs — determine whether they meet scientific standards) heavily hit.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report staff are gone.

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T is ALWAYS angry @t-is-always-angry.bsky.social · 5d

My fellow Ohioans, we have our assignment.

Let's do this!

Elizabeth Lanphier @ethicselizabeth.bsky.social · 9d

Tell Jon Husted what you think about his track record on health and healthcare in #Ohio. Letters will be printed on note cards and hand delivered to his office on October 15th.

Write a Letter to Senator Jon Husted to Defend Public Health in Ohio

On October 15th the Ohio chapter of Defend Public Health will convene in Columbus to deliver as many cards from constituents as possible to Senator Jon Husted to "thank" him for threatening the health...

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Lisa Jarvis @lisamjarvis.bsky.social · 3d

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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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 3d

Here's a rule of thumb: If "AI" seems like a good solution, you are probably both misjudging what the "AI" can do and misframing the problem.

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Comment by Tom Diettrich on a linkedin post reading:

"You can't "test-in quality" in engineering; you can't "review-in quality" in research. We need incentives for people to do better research. Our system today assumes that 75% of submitted papers are low quality, and it is probably right (I'll bet it is higher). If this were a manufacturing organization, an 75% defect rate would result in bankruptcy.

Imagine a world in which you could have an AI system check the correctness/quality of your paper. If your paper passed that bar, then it could be published (say, on arXiv). Subsequent human review could assess its importance to the field.

In such a system, authors would be incentivized to satisfy the AI system. This will lead to searching for exploits in the AI system. A possible solution is to select the AI evaluator at random from a large pool and limit the number of permitted submissions. I imagine our colleagues in mechanism design can improve on this idea."

Original:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7381685800549257216/?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A(activity%3A7381685800549257216%2C7382628060044599296)&dashCommentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_comment%3A(7382628060044599296%2Curn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7381685800549257216)

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Elizabeth Lanphier @ethicselizabeth.bsky.social · 3d

Are those dismantling public health so removed from any sense of feeling part of “the public” that they believe they too won’t be harmed by all this?

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 4d

Public health is not partisan. It is health for the public.

That means all of us.

Defend Public Health.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 3d

The president of the United States is getting flu and COVID booster shots but telling YOU that you shouldn’t and that removing access across every state via the pharmacies.

PHYSICIAN TO THE PRESIDENT
THE WHITE HOUSE
MEMORANDUM
October 10, 2025
TO: KAROLINE LEAVITT, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY
PHYSICIAN TO THE PRESIDENT
CAPTAIN, U.S. NAVY
SUBJECT: President Donald J. Trump Completes Comprehensive Follow-Up Evaluation at
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
President Donald J. Trump successfully completed a scheduled follow-up evaluation today at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The visit was part of his ongoing health maintenance plan and included advanced imaging, laboratory testing, and preventive health assessments conducted by a multidisciplinary team of specialists. These evaluations were performed in coordination with leading academic and medical consultants to ensure optimal cardiovascular health and continued wellness.
Comprehensive laboratory studies performed in conjunction with the visit were exceptional, including stable metabolic, hematologic, and cardiac parameters.
In preparation for upcoming international travel, President Trump also received preventive health screenings and immunizations, including annual influenza and updated COVID-19 booster vaccinations.
President Trump continues to demonstrate excellent overall health. His cardiac age-a validated measure of cardiovascular vitality via ECG-was found to be approximately 14 years younger than his chronological age. He continues to maintain a demanding daily schedule without restriction.
SUMMARY: President Donald J. Trump remains in exceptional health, exhibiting strong cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurological, and physical performance.

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