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This post by @enirenberg.bsky.social is absolutely worth your time. It's not just scicomm, it's poetry. deplatformdisease.substack.com/p/the-cdc-a-...
December 2, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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The revolution will be inflatable..
October 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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I joined eight former CDC directors—spanning Republican and Democratic administrations—to share this warning: our nation’s health is at risk.

The very systems that protect us from disease, cancer, and future health threats are being dismantled.
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Mamdani must explain his tweet from 1740 BC claiming that Ea-nāṣir had "high quality copper"
June 29, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
April 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy
April 23, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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I do not have any words for what is happening today at the Department of Health and Human Services. It is a tragedy from the personal to the societal levels.
April 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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A hundred years ago, the average life expectancy was <50. Today, it is ~80.

What made the difference? Public Health. Public health, however, is not some magic entity happening in a vacuum - it requires people.

Without those people, there can be no Public Health. That serves no one.

Wake up.
April 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Let me help you with this title @politico.com. "Kennedy lays off thousands of public servants focused on improving the nation's health."

subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
POLITICO Pro: Kennedy lays off thousands across the health bureaucracy
Overnight notices hit civil service leaders as well as the rank and file.
subscriber.politicopro.com
April 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Whether it's students at Oberlin complaining about banh mi or administrators at NYU cancelling a speech for fear of offending Donald Trump, both schools have fraught relationship with freedom of expression.
NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID.

This is what actual campus censorship looks like.
‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation
A Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Donald Trump administration.
www.ctvnews.ca
March 31, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Morbid, but hilarious.
Same but you don't hear me bragging about it
March 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Some pretty stunning answers here from DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar in today's interview with NPR's Michel Martin, in which Edgar equates pro-Palestinian protests with terrorist activity and can't point to any crime committed by Mahmoud Khalil: npr.org/2025/03/13/n...
March 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Trump threatens Canada with new tariffs, seeking to block the release of the new Bryan Adams album.
March 12, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Me, watching the Census, NIH, CDC, and FDA get dismantled while trying to make rent.
March 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Some higher ed organizations who are loudly circling the wagons against federal funding cuts were oddly silent or circumspect about the earlier attacks on CRT and DEI.

I wish there was a better understanding that these attacks are coming because we failed to repel those.
February 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Hey #EpiSky, want to learn more about cancer screening? Noel Weiss presents an SERplaylist
Evaluation of cancer screening efficacy by means of non-randomized studies – Society for Epidemiologic Research
The level of screening for a given form of cancer can vary within a population over time, and/or can vary across populations. But only rarely can population-level studies deal with the other factors that...
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October 16, 2024 at 11:14 AM
#EpiSky what is a good, gentle introduction to learning about causal inference?
September 15, 2024 at 2:41 AM
This study in JAMA Oncology highlights the high burden of cervical cancer in some US-Affiliated Pacific Islands. #EpiSky #MedSky #PublicHealth

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Cervical Cancer Incidence in the US-Affiliated Pacific Islands
This cross-sectional study examines the population-based incidence of cervical cancer in 6 US-Affiliated Pacific Islands from 2007 to 2020.
jamanetwork.com
September 15, 2024 at 2:28 AM
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Curious to learn more about epidemiology? You’re in luck! Our book is coming soon to a bookstore near you 🥳🥳

More info here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
March 21, 2024 at 1:22 PM