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Janice McCallum
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My primary aim throughout my career involves guiding clients, friends, everyone I know toward improved evidence-based decisionmaking. Strategist, consultant, board member, patient advocate. UChicago, Simmons Univ alum. #AI #healthcare #MediaLiteracy
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Janice McCallum @janicemc.bsky.social · 1d
Note: Podcast doesn't require paid sub. #CDC #PublicHealth
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 1d
Opinion: Former acting CDC director on public health changes: ‘absolutely heartbreaking’ www.statnews.com/2025/10/15/r...
Former acting CDC director on public health changes: ‘absolutely heartbreaking’
“I used to think that I couldn’t be surprised,” says RWJF’s Richard Besser. But this HHS constantly alarms him.
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Janice McCallum @janicemc.bsky.social · 4d
Rewatching this scene from Reds; it is exactly how I remember it from watching it in the theatre during its first run. RIP Diane Keaton.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 4d
RIP Diane Keaton
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 4d
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Janice McCallum @janicemc.bsky.social · 4d
Watching Motorcycle Diaries would be a good start. It's a great film about Guevara when he was still a medical student.
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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 4d
Thread. Grr.
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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 5d
NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4
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Hilda Bastian @hildabast.bsky.social · 6d
Tracking Shutdown Impact and Changes at PubMed

There's been some panic about PubMed again, since a notice on the website warned it could be out of date because of the US government shutdown. Shutdown is dreadful, in so many ways. But that notice doesn't mean PubMed has been de-funded, or that it's…
Tracking Shutdown Impact and Changes at PubMed
There's been some panic about PubMed again, since a notice on the website warned it could be out of date because of the US government shutdown. Shutdown is dreadful, in so many ways. But that notice doesn't mean PubMed has been de-funded, or that it's not being maintained. The notice is the same as the one displayed during a shutdown in 2018.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 5d
This is beyond bad. All of our disease defenses are down now. We are sitting ducks. This is #RussellVought #DonaldTrump #RFKJr. They are endangering American lives with their insane crusade. These men are hazardous to your health and dangerous to the republic. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
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Pierre Monnin @piermonn.bsky.social · 7d
📣 We have a postdoctoral opportunity within the #Wimmics team on the French Riviera! On combining generative #AI and linked data model for #NLP based federated queries on secure and distributed #KnowledgeGraphs

📎 More info and application on jobs.inria.fr/public/class...

#GenerativeAI #LLM #ML
Natural Language Based Secure Federated Query Building
Offre d'emploi Inria
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Janice McCallum @janicemc.bsky.social · 7d
Glad I moved back to New England.
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Chuck Webster MD, MS AI, MS Systems Engineering @wareflo.bsky.social · 7d
Safest states 2025, 52 metrics across 5 categories: personal/residential safety, financial safety, road safety, workplace safety/emergency preparedness wallethub.com/edu/safest-s... #NewMexico is 27th. #Florida, #Texas, #Mississippi, #Lousiana are 47th, 48Th, 49th & 50th #balloonfiesta
Safest States in America in 2025
Safest States in America in 2025
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Janice McCallum @janicemc.bsky.social · 7d
I'll be grinding cinnamon sticks for the near future. It's not too difficult to do in a coffee grinder.
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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 7d
The FDA has added more brands to its list of lead tainted cinnamon. 1/3
Safety Alert
The FDA is advising consumers to throw away and not to buy the ground cinnamon products because samples of products listed in the table were found to contain elevated levels of lead.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 8d
No, Trump Can’t Order Troops to Wherever He Wants www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...
Opinion | No, Trump Can’t Deploy Troops to Wherever He Wants
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Tinker Ready @tinkerr.bsky.social · 8d
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How numbers help patients more than vague terms
Lessons for physicians, patients and journalists or whoever writes about health care
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Janice McCallum @janicemc.bsky.social · 9d
I sure hope this backfires.
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The Economist @economist.com · 9d
Not long after a raid on South Shore in Chicago, the Department of Homeland Security published a video of young Hispanic men being led away in cuffs. The Hollywood-style visuals seem to have been part of the goal
What a Chicago immigration raid says about Trumpism
The worst excesses seem designed to produce content
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Janice McCallum @janicemc.bsky.social · 11d
The brazenness of state terror has escalated so much since @timothysnyder.bsky.social wrote this in April. I'll share this piece w my book club when we discuss On Tyranny later this month.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11d
"State Terror: A brief guide for Americans"
Revisiting a piece I wrote in April 2025
"In the history of state terror, the escape from law into coercion takes three forms... the leader principle; the state of exception; and the zone of statelessness."
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State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 14d
“I often think about my mom’s healthcare experience when I think about the ways in which the system needs to be fixed and the things we must fight like hell to protect…

Healthcare broke my heart, but healthcare cannot stay broken.”

— Solomon Banjo
The day healthcare broke my heart
I still remember the first time healthcare broke my heart. It was the summer of 2015 and my manager started our check-in like she often did, by asking me how I was doing.
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HIStalk @histalk.bsky.social · 17d
Headlines: Veradigm to issue business update - Google, Flo Health to pay $56M in data privacy suit - Federal shutdown could end Medicare telehealth coverage histalk2.com/2025/09/28/m...
Morning Headlines 9/29/25 – HIStalk
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 17d
Media, I am begging you to callout false information within the headline.

I know it's a challenge with limited characters, but that's the only part of the story that many people read. The broadcasting of misinformation is as dangerous as policy changes.
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 17d
File under: worse and worse.

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RFK Jr.'s newest CDC autism adviser claims every vaccinated child is injured
Neither a physician nor a scientist, new CDC senior adviser Mark Blaxill claims without evidence that every child who takes vaccines is in some way injured.
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Janice McCallum @janicemc.bsky.social · 19d
Comments by @liastot.bsky.social are on target--and apply across all healthcare. #ruralhealth #publichealth
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NEJM.org @nejm.org · 21d
Editor-in-Chief Eric Rubin asks why, under an administration that says it is focused on making America healthy again, we are denigrating and discarding our single most cost-effective public health tools — vaccines. Read the full editorial: nej.md/4mtH8Xm

#MedSky #PublicHealth
Editorial "Under an administration that says it is focused on making America healthy again, why are we denigrating and discarding our single most cost-effective public health tools?" "Risk and Benefit" by Eric J. Rubin, M.D., Ph.D.
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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 21d
New at Media Nation: @njpbs.bsky.social chair Scott Kobler weighs in on the public TV station's possible closure. Plus, Emily Rooney on not quitting and @karenattiah.bsky.social fights back. And please come to Waltham for panel on "Journalism in Crisis." dankennedy.net/2025/09/25/n...
NJ PBS chair weighs in, Emily Rooney on not quitting and Karen Attiah fights back. Plus: Please come to Waltham.
NJ PBS chair Scott Kobler has issued a statement in which he criticizes New Jersey government officials for “intransigence or maybe even apathy” over the public broadcasting funding cri…
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 21d
Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code may be one and the same.
Is Life a Form of Computation?
Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code may be one and the same.
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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 21d
Follow developments in local news on our Bluesky news feed at @whatworks-nu.bsky.social. We've also embedded the feed at our website, whatworks.news
What Works
The Future of Local News • From Northeastern University’s School of Journalism and the Center for Transformative Media
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 21d
I spoke extensively with the Crimson reporter. She understood the strength of the evidence, and it shows.

Odds ratios can be eye-glazing, but let's just say that when 2.5 million kids are studied, and it's still not possible to detect added risk from taking acetaminophen...there's no added risk.
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Janice McCallum @janicemc.bsky.social · 23d
Vaccine experts at CDC were not consulted nor asked to review the announcement, per this article.
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KFF Health News @kffhealthnews.org · 23d
“Sick to my stomach”: A researcher studying Tylenol and autism says that, by making false statements about vaccines, the White House compromises her research.

@amymaxmen.bsky.social has the details: kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
‘Sick to My Stomach’: Trump Distorts Facts on Autism, Tylenol, and Vaccines, Scientists Say - KFF Health News
The White House’s autism announcement exaggerates links to Tylenol, misleads on vaccines, and sets back the field by ignoring decades of research, scientists say.
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Janice McCallum @janicemc.bsky.social · 24d
Important and timely topic for patients and clinicians. Registered for the virtual event (no fee).
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Víctor M Montori MD @vmontori.bsky.social · 27d
Trust is central to science based policies + care. Careful + kind care demands mutual trust bw patients & clinicians; bw clinicians & the organizations that set up the material, regulatory, scientific and financial conditions for care. I see you at this timely @patientrevolution.org town hall!
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