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Megan L. Ranney is a practicing American emergency physician currently serving as the Dean of the Yale School of Public… more

Megan L. Ranney
H-index: 42
Psychology 41%
Public Health 31%
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Dean @meganranney.bsky.social and @nelbamg.bsky.social attended a Sept. 25 panel discussion and screening of The Tennessee 11 documentary at Connecticut’s Legislative Office Building.

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Finding common ground in addressing the national gun violence crisis
A Sept. 25 panel discussion set the stage for dialogue with a screening of The Tennessee 11 documentary at Connecticut’s Legislative Office Building.
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by Megan L. Ranney

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I feel this deep in my soul
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LOVE THIS THANK YOU
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by Greg Linden — Reposted by Megan L. Ranney

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Yep: "Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst"
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Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst
Possibility of ‘sharp market correction has increased’, says Bank’s financial policy committee
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by Joshua S. Weitz — Reposted by Megan L. Ranney

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Documenting what has been lost... and what still could be found with a renewed commitment to science in America.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 7d
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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Reposted by Megan L. Ranney, Aaron Sojourner

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Southern right whales are growing in number after being on the brink of extinction.
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Reposted by Megan L. Ranney, Meredith Broussard, Lisa W. Fazio , and 38 more

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Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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by Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò — Reposted by Megan L. Ranney, Anna O. Law, Rebecca Solnit , and 12 more

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repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 7d
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
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As the nation grapples with ongoing gun violence, Dean Megan Ranney MD MPH is researching and advocating for innovative approaches to address this epidemic. Dean Ranney delivered the 2025 Woodson Lecture at the University of Louisville SPHIS.

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Reposted by Megan L. Ranney, Scott L. Greer, John McLaren , and 9 more

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i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
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An additional delightful bit -- Dr. Sakaguchi was the only one of the three who got the news directly from the Nobel committee. Dr. Brunkow saw someone was phoning from Sweden and thought it was spam/spoofing (an AP photographer later told her), and Dr. Ramsdell is hiking in a remote part of Idaho.
The Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 scientists for key immune system discoveries
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discoveries about how the immune system knows to attack germs and not our own bodies. The work by Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ram...
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by Megan L. Ranney

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WOW THAT IS SO COOL. Janeway himself.

And thank you right back ❤️
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by Megan L. Ranney

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Ps: I admire you :)
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by Megan L. Ranney — Reposted by Megan L. Ranney

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I know the news is tough right now.

So take a moment and soak in the gorgeousness & promise of the science that led to this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine & Physiology.

WOW.

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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded for Work on Immune Systems
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I hard co-sign this one.
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Quick update of Australian #flu numbers -07OCT
FluA subtype A(H1N1), derived from our *last* pandemic #influenza virus, dominates.
2025=thick red dashed line/red monthly dots. The last pink dot just marks September as an incomplete month.
1,368 added daily over 14 days (19,147).
➡️slowing continues
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Love this one
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Did NIH cancel all the NOSIs? I first noticed that NOT-MH-24-100, which had a prior expiration date of May 2027, now shows as expired (as of September 9, 2025). I then realized there are no active NOSIs...
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by Megan L. Ranney

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Watch to the end 😭
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 11d
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Reposted by Megan L. Ranney, Cathy N. Davidson, Karen Benjamin Guzzo , and 1 more

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Exclusive: The Trump administration is preparing a plan that will make it harder for older Americans to qualify for Social Security disability payments, part of an overhaul that could result in hundreds of thousands of people losing benefits.
Trump plan would limit disability benefits for older Americans
Trump administration officials are considering eliminating age as a factor in deciding whether someone is capable of working.
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Reposted by Megan L. Ranney, Anne Applebaum, Michael Cox , and 42 more

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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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The sequel to We Want Them Infected is done!

COVID killed 1.2 million Americans while vaccines saved millions.

Yet, disinformation superspreaders were empowered, where they are taking a wrecking ball to science & medicine.

How did that happen?🧵

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Everyone Else is Lying to You: My Book is Done!
The pandemic’s biggest disinformation superspreaders are now in charge. How did this happen?
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Reposted by Megan L. Ranney

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“Good scientists…know the cure for their ignorance is to actively & rigorously test their own assertions. That kind of humility is no different from enduring the hardships required to become a champion…boxer, a great rock climber or a master musician.

It’s time to make that connection explicit.”🧪🛟
“Good scientists are intimate with the limits of what they know and stand ready to learn in domains outside their expertise. They don't just claim they are right. Instead, they know the cure for their ignorance is to actively and rigorously test their own assertions. That kind of humility is no different from enduring the hardships required to become a champion middleweight boxer, a great rock climber or a master musician. It's time to make that connection explicit, and the best place to start is with members of Gen Z themselves. If I could talk to that young man on the plane again, I would not simply tell him to exercise caution when it comes to fringe experts. I would instead explain the long traditions of scientific discipline and determination that built the jet he's flying in. Einstein's relativity, evolution and genetics, climate physics on any planet (even alien ones) - these topics are a thousand times more compelling than faked moon landings because they are not the fever-dreams of hucksters but a direct vision of nature's outrageous beauty and complexity. Make the effort to walk down that road, embrace its honesty and humility and you'll be hooked forever.”
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by Megan L. Ranney

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Also:
It’s fewer shots
It’s fewer visits to the doctor
Immunization rates go up

So there’s both a social science & a biological science side to it!
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by Megan L. Ranney — Reposted by Megan L. Ranney

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“framing science as a debate to be won makes it easy to paint established scientists as opponents who must be overcome”

An interesting thesis and suggestion of a solution

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Opinion | How the Manosphere Hijacks Young Men’s Interest in Science
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Reposted by Megan L. Ranney, Ken Caldeira, Tom Clark , and 11 more

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According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

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‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building
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by Megan L. Ranney

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It is certainly on hold right now in the US.
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by Megan L. Ranney — Reposted by Nicholas A. Christakis

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“Combination vaccines were developed to reduce missed opportunities, increase coverage and minimize the trauma of multiple injections … Undoing that progress would put children at risk."

*ps, my editorial note: they are also SAFE

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Trump's call to split up the MMR childhood vaccine revives long-settled debate
President Trump's suggestion​ that the combination measles, mumps and rubella vaccine should be separated marks a sharp break from decades of immunization practice.
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Reposted by Megan L. Ranney

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HBO's "Task" is a great show...and I especially loved this inclusion of secure gun storage! It's a a quick reference, but it helps normalize an important part of responsibile gun ownership that can save lives at home
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