Prof Gavin Yamey
@gavinyamey.bsky.social
Hymowitz Family Professor of Global Health & Professor of Public Policy at Duke University. Director of the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health. DJ at WXDU (Thursdays, 4-6pm ET, wxdu.org). TIME columnist. He/him. Tallest Jew on Earth.
You can easily see why Donald Trump & Russell Vought wanted to hire the MAGA hero Jay Bhattacharya to lead NIH & push forward the extreme, right-wing, toxic, Project 2025 agenda. Bhattacharya wrote this in OCT 2023—he was already pushing kooky conspiracy theories & salivating about NIH funding cuts😢
December 3, 2025 at 1:06 AM
You can easily see why Donald Trump & Russell Vought wanted to hire the MAGA hero Jay Bhattacharya to lead NIH & push forward the extreme, right-wing, toxic, Project 2025 agenda. Bhattacharya wrote this in OCT 2023—he was already pushing kooky conspiracy theories & salivating about NIH funding cuts😢
“Listen to the voice of Buddha
Saying stop your sericulture
Little people like your offspring
Boiled alive for some god's stocking
Buddha's watching, Buddha's waiting”
This song turns 50 next year (🤩) & it remains one of the greatest synth-pop tracks of all time
youtu.be/I_NStTkSRQw?...
Saying stop your sericulture
Little people like your offspring
Boiled alive for some god's stocking
Buddha's watching, Buddha's waiting”
This song turns 50 next year (🤩) & it remains one of the greatest synth-pop tracks of all time
youtu.be/I_NStTkSRQw?...
December 2, 2025 at 10:02 PM
“Listen to the voice of Buddha
Saying stop your sericulture
Little people like your offspring
Boiled alive for some god's stocking
Buddha's watching, Buddha's waiting”
This song turns 50 next year (🤩) & it remains one of the greatest synth-pop tracks of all time
youtu.be/I_NStTkSRQw?...
Saying stop your sericulture
Little people like your offspring
Boiled alive for some god's stocking
Buddha's watching, Buddha's waiting”
This song turns 50 next year (🤩) & it remains one of the greatest synth-pop tracks of all time
youtu.be/I_NStTkSRQw?...
File under: a photo that I will almost certainly regret posting that I found deeply hidden in a cupboard in my mum’s apartment in London while staying with her last week 🤣
🇦🇺 Sydney Mardi Gras, March 2000
🇦🇺 Sydney Mardi Gras, March 2000
December 2, 2025 at 12:21 AM
File under: a photo that I will almost certainly regret posting that I found deeply hidden in a cupboard in my mum’s apartment in London while staying with her last week 🤣
🇦🇺 Sydney Mardi Gras, March 2000
🇦🇺 Sydney Mardi Gras, March 2000
And take a look at this. Dr Kulldorff is part of a government that is kidnapping people, including kids, & putting them in vile detention centers under inhumane conditions. They are zip-tying and tear-gassing kids & terrorizing them. Actual fascism.
December 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM
And take a look at this. Dr Kulldorff is part of a government that is kidnapping people, including kids, & putting them in vile detention centers under inhumane conditions. They are zip-tying and tear-gassing kids & terrorizing them. Actual fascism.
There’s no doubt at all that Emma-Jean Thackray’s album “Weirdo” is one of the best of 2025
And, yes, that’s a signed vinyl copy (“Gavin, ya big weirdo!”—she ain’t wrong 😉)
And I deeply appreciate how the album is so open about mental health challenges—which helps so much to destigmatize them
And, yes, that’s a signed vinyl copy (“Gavin, ya big weirdo!”—she ain’t wrong 😉)
And I deeply appreciate how the album is so open about mental health challenges—which helps so much to destigmatize them
November 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
There’s no doubt at all that Emma-Jean Thackray’s album “Weirdo” is one of the best of 2025
And, yes, that’s a signed vinyl copy (“Gavin, ya big weirdo!”—she ain’t wrong 😉)
And I deeply appreciate how the album is so open about mental health challenges—which helps so much to destigmatize them
And, yes, that’s a signed vinyl copy (“Gavin, ya big weirdo!”—she ain’t wrong 😉)
And I deeply appreciate how the album is so open about mental health challenges—which helps so much to destigmatize them
The views of London from atop Hampstead Heath are sublime
November 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The views of London from atop Hampstead Heath are sublime
Sky tonight over central London, wowza
November 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Sky tonight over central London, wowza
It’s a two-part, two-city series 😉
November 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It’s a two-part, two-city series 😉
🇬🇧 Am back in London and am eating the food of the Gods
November 29, 2025 at 10:42 AM
🇬🇧 Am back in London and am eating the food of the Gods
💉Covid vaccines saved about 20 million lives in the 1st year alone (www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...)
RFK Jr & MAGA/MAHA hero Martin Kulldorff put anti-vaxx activist Retsef Levi in charge of reviewing Covid vaccines
He falsely called them a failed product that causes “serious harm including death” 🤯
RFK Jr & MAGA/MAHA hero Martin Kulldorff put anti-vaxx activist Retsef Levi in charge of reviewing Covid vaccines
He falsely called them a failed product that causes “serious harm including death” 🤯
November 29, 2025 at 10:15 AM
💉Covid vaccines saved about 20 million lives in the 1st year alone (www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...)
RFK Jr & MAGA/MAHA hero Martin Kulldorff put anti-vaxx activist Retsef Levi in charge of reviewing Covid vaccines
He falsely called them a failed product that causes “serious harm including death” 🤯
RFK Jr & MAGA/MAHA hero Martin Kulldorff put anti-vaxx activist Retsef Levi in charge of reviewing Covid vaccines
He falsely called them a failed product that causes “serious harm including death” 🤯
Nuzzi played a huge role in elevating RFK Jr—he’s now dismantling the US public health system & rolling back vaccines, causing death & disease
The Great Barrington Declaration dudes (MAGA/MAHA heroes!)—Bhattacharya & Kulldorff—were also crucial. The destruction of US public health is their legacy🤬
The Great Barrington Declaration dudes (MAGA/MAHA heroes!)—Bhattacharya & Kulldorff—were also crucial. The destruction of US public health is their legacy🤬
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Nuzzi played a huge role in elevating RFK Jr—he’s now dismantling the US public health system & rolling back vaccines, causing death & disease
The Great Barrington Declaration dudes (MAGA/MAHA heroes!)—Bhattacharya & Kulldorff—were also crucial. The destruction of US public health is their legacy🤬
The Great Barrington Declaration dudes (MAGA/MAHA heroes!)—Bhattacharya & Kulldorff—were also crucial. The destruction of US public health is their legacy🤬
Vaccines have saved an estimated 154 million lives in the past 50 years (www.who.int/news/item/24...)
But RFK Jr says, falsely, that the HPV vaccine increases the risk of cervical cancer & Covid vaccine increases the risk of Covid & warns of a vaccine-linked Holocaust—these are kooky anti-vaxx lies
But RFK Jr says, falsely, that the HPV vaccine increases the risk of cervical cancer & Covid vaccine increases the risk of Covid & warns of a vaccine-linked Holocaust—these are kooky anti-vaxx lies
November 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Vaccines have saved an estimated 154 million lives in the past 50 years (www.who.int/news/item/24...)
But RFK Jr says, falsely, that the HPV vaccine increases the risk of cervical cancer & Covid vaccine increases the risk of Covid & warns of a vaccine-linked Holocaust—these are kooky anti-vaxx lies
But RFK Jr says, falsely, that the HPV vaccine increases the risk of cervical cancer & Covid vaccine increases the risk of Covid & warns of a vaccine-linked Holocaust—these are kooky anti-vaxx lies
My late-midlife crisis is manifesting itself in me wearing mostly fluorescent band T-shirts, lol
November 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
My late-midlife crisis is manifesting itself in me wearing mostly fluorescent band T-shirts, lol
Yes, of course, I know, I’m ridiculous, but it would practically be a crime to visit Paris and not take THE photo
November 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Yes, of course, I know, I’m ridiculous, but it would practically be a crime to visit Paris and not take THE photo
🇫🇷 It’s almost silly how beautiful Paris is
November 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
🇫🇷 It’s almost silly how beautiful Paris is
On the Eurostar to Paris. Yes, several fellow middle aged people have commented on my band T-shirt 😎
November 26, 2025 at 11:34 AM
On the Eurostar to Paris. Yes, several fellow middle aged people have commented on my band T-shirt 😎
🖼️🦖 Regent’s Park + Hyde Park + Serpentine Gallery + Natural History Museum = a good day (and am now off to King’s College London to give an evening talk)
November 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
🖼️🦖 Regent’s Park + Hyde Park + Serpentine Gallery + Natural History Museum = a good day (and am now off to King’s College London to give an evening talk)
London does have the world’s best road signs
November 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
London does have the world’s best road signs
The captain is not wrong—currently wearing my parrot socks
November 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The captain is not wrong—currently wearing my parrot socks
Am walking through Holland Park in London and a peacock crossed my path
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Am walking through Holland Park in London and a peacock crossed my path
When the history of the extreme anti-vaccine and conspiracy theory movement is written, this photo should be seen as absolutely central and foundational.
Three physicians supporting anti-vaccine pronouncements from Trump & RFK Jr.
Three physicians supporting anti-vaccine pronouncements from Trump & RFK Jr.
November 24, 2025 at 9:49 AM
When the history of the extreme anti-vaccine and conspiracy theory movement is written, this photo should be seen as absolutely central and foundational.
Three physicians supporting anti-vaccine pronouncements from Trump & RFK Jr.
Three physicians supporting anti-vaccine pronouncements from Trump & RFK Jr.
I’m lucky to live in a city—Durham, NC—where all kids in public school get free breakfast and free lunch, no questions asked, no need to apply, it’s for ALL KIDS
This is the way
This is the way
November 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I’m lucky to live in a city—Durham, NC—where all kids in public school get free breakfast and free lunch, no questions asked, no need to apply, it’s for ALL KIDS
This is the way
This is the way
Fantastic conversion of the iconic red telephone boxes in Covent Garden, London, originally designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (who also designed Liverpool Cathedral and Battersea Power Station). LGBTQ+ solidarity 💪
November 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Fantastic conversion of the iconic red telephone boxes in Covent Garden, London, originally designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (who also designed Liverpool Cathedral and Battersea Power Station). LGBTQ+ solidarity 💪
The Great Barrington Declaration dudes got famous by attacking Dr Fauci & accusing him of “fascism,” but now these dudes are running the country & serving their masters, Trump & RFK Jr, in an ACTUAL fascist regime that’s kidnapping people—including kids—& putting them in horrific detention centers
November 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
The Great Barrington Declaration dudes got famous by attacking Dr Fauci & accusing him of “fascism,” but now these dudes are running the country & serving their masters, Trump & RFK Jr, in an ACTUAL fascist regime that’s kidnapping people—including kids—& putting them in horrific detention centers