For some context the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report in addition to being just a good read, to quote wikipedia, "is the main vehicle for publishing public health information and recommendations that have been received by the CDC from state health departments. "

Journalist here

I’m interested in talking to a federal agency scientist who was fired, then rehired. I can keep you anonymous. I’m on Signal ginnyg.04

Reposts are appreciated!

CDC RIFs that we're hearing about:
OPHDST -Office of Public Health Data & Tech

Goals
✅improve access to & use of public health data (Wish Fake-CIP used them-they’d finally understand vaccine data)
✅Improve EFFICIENCY of data & tech systems ➡️
help states, etc. make informed public health decisions

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

I’m onto you!!!

Y'all. This interview is sooo good. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

EXCLUSIVE: In her first interview all year, Susan Monarez, CDC director for only 29 days, tells me why Trump/RFK fired her and where this is all headed.

The CDC director is an “inherently political position, but that doesn’t mean that it has to be politically compromised”, she tells @nature.com.

What does science have to say about getting a good night's sleep? Quite a lot, really. @lynnepeeps.bsky.social captures most of it nicely in this feature www.nature.com/articles/d41...?

Seismic shifts are afoot for universities in the US and worldwide. @dangaristo.bsky.social captures the trends in four telling graphics. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Against my better judgment, I contributed a feature about the state of global higher education to this package about the future of universities. No easy way to sum it all up—there's plenty of good news and bad news to be found—but the world is much bigger than the US its current problems.

It was the right decision.

I feel like any meal out of this lunchbox needs to be eaten while making ‘Taz-like’ noises (Abu-dab -gab-gob) and gesticulating wildly.

I’m always inspired by the work of my colleagues @dangaristo.bsky.social @maxkozlov.bsky.social and @heidiledford.bsky.social But I’ve got to say that this one is special. 🧪🧵6/6 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

And we talk about how @audreydrotos.bsky.social @bnwolford.bsky.social and countless others are organizing to spread the word about the value of science that is being scaled back, and the impacts of that missing investment. 🧪🧵5/6

We talk about how @noamross.net and @scott-delaney.bsky.social started to gather deep information on all the science that was being unlawfully terminated. 🧪🧵4/6

We tell the story of @neuronikki.bsky.social who joined a national lawsuit to try and prevent NIH grant terminations. 🧪🧵3/6

These are the scientists fighting back against the Trump administration’s cuts to NIH and NSF funding. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪🧵2/6

Inspired by Fred Rogers, @nature.com asked readers to help us 'find the helpers' amid the crisis in American science. What emerged were inspiring stories of researchers, legal experts, data hounds and government scientists who are fighting the dismantling of the US research enterprise. 🧪🧵1/6

NEW: Don't ask too many questions, but...

NIH may not re-terminate the 900ish grants at issue in the main NIH lawsuits after all.

To the PIs of reinstated grants, SPEND NOW!

🧵 Here's what NIH is probably thinking. Bear with me:

“All this training and then we weren’t allowed to do anything.” kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

If you, like me, are still trying to put last week's complex SCOTUS decision on NIH funding into context, this great story by my colleagues is a great resource 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Yesterday the Supreme Court issued a convoluted, 36-page emergency order about NIH grant terminations. Two main takeaways:
-$2 billion (not the government # of $780 million) in NIH grants will likely be re-terminated
-future legal challenges will be much harder

w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social:

500–600 CDC employees just laid off.
This comes weeks after a gunman fired hundreds of bullets at CDC HQ, killing a police officer.

Trump has said nothing. Meanwhile, RFK Jr. is accused by 750+ health workers of spreading lies & dismantling public health. wapo.st/4mrA2DN
#BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky