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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 1h

And of course the subtext here is to threaten those conscientious NIH staffers, like SROs who have study sections in process, who might work while furloughed.

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 1h

Well this is deliciously imprecise. IAR notice in NIH’s eRA Commons. Since they know who is and is not a gov employee, they could omit this for peer reviewers if they didn’t mean us. I’m pretty sure they don’t mean non-gov but WHO KNOWS!?!?!

Gov shutdown notice from IAR eRA commons

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 4h

JD Vance is the Mallard Fillmore duck screaming "liberals!" Over and over again

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

BRENNAN: CBS confirmed the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of CDC scientists. Some were involved with the federal measles response. How does a mistake like this happen?

VANCE: The govt shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos. It happened because of Schumer

B: But this was a WH decision

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 3h

Some of the 100s of CDC workers "mistakenly" fired on Friday have been asked to return to work. Some were involved with the federal measles and Ebola responses.

JD Vance told CBS it was a mistake caused by "the Dems' shutdown of the Government".

The sackings were ordered by the White House.

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 5h

You can donate an inflatable costume to Operation Inflation here. I don’t know if it is legit, so do your homework.

operationinflation.com

Operation Inflation - Inflatable Costumes for America

Provide inflatable costumes for protesters. Every costume purchased is delivered to those who need them.

operationinflation.com

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 6h

Threw away the pellet

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 13h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 13h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Eugene Day, DSc @eugenedaydsc.bsky.social · 5h

100% stand by this.

A cartoon supporting hand writing references in manuscripts rather than a software product.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 5h

Congrats to UNC's Nabarun Dasgupta, one of this year's MacArthur Foundation Fellows. He is an epidemiologist & harm reduction advocate creating practical programs to mitigate harms from drug use, particularly opioid overdose deaths 1/n
www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

Nabarun Dasgupta

Combining scientific studies with community engagement to reduce deaths and other harms from drug use.

www.macfound.org

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Becky DEEEEK!!! 🕷️👻🎃👻🕷️ @bexrousse.bsky.social · 22h

If you're talking to ppl who aren't sure why we should care about the MMWR staff being fired, here's an MMWR article from 9/25/2025. These are people whose work we don't (& shouldn't have to) think about. But they gather data & inform the people who we trust to keep us safe. #EpiSky

Pediatric Influenza-Associated Encephalopathy ...

This report describes 109 U.S. cases of pediatric influenza-associated encephalopathy during the 2024–25 flu season – a high-severity season.

www.cdc.gov

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 1d

Moral purity policing starts resembling authoritarian dynamics when rigid moral policing emerges and it starts being about controlling allies.

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 1d

My hot take of the day is that people on the liberal-to-left side of the political spectrum who parse their positions excessively through a frame of moral purity are at elevated risk of sliding into authoritarianism

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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 1d

“Originalism”. Have you heard of it? It’s the white supremos’ response to the Warren Court’s expansion of civil rights in the 1960’s. COMPLETELY MADE UP BULLSHIT that rewrote history AND the Constitution.

This COUP was a 55 year process. Their project is almost complete. It’s called Project 2025.

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 16h

Now with facial expressions. This is great.

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 1d

My first attempt at "Fifty Shades of Jay: The Videos".

It is a work in progress....

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 16h

Steady.

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 1d

So...if a Russian asset wanted to sabotage the American government's outbreak surveillance system in preparation for biological warfare against the US population, how would their absolute dream celebrate-victory-with-vodka-and-caviar outcome look different from what just happened at the CDC?

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 17h

Ben Hutton deserves to be ahead of Lauzon on the #VGK #VegasBorn D depth chart.

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Rich Jackman @bldgcommunity.bsky.social · 23h

Don't undercount their hatred of science. Science challenges received truths and propaganda. They don't understand it, or they'd realize how dependent they are on it.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 1d

I can. The regime thinks it has enough resources to keep itself safe, while the more Americans it can kill and impoverish, the easier it is to hold power.

This is stupid and evil, but that is the Republican identity now.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

Why is this administration pro-disease? I simply cannot understand this.

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

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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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

Christ.

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

RIF notices also sent to the CDC’s 2023 and 2024 class of civilian EIS officers known as its main disease detectives, per sources. These are the people who are typically the first responders in an outbreak. 4/4

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

In the least shocking news ever Putin’s top #1 foreign placed agent* says she maintains an open line of communication with him.
*alleged

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Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 2d

In CA, voter registrations are as follows:

Total Voters: 22,900,896

Dems
10,367,321 = 45.27 %

MAGA
5,776,356 = 25.22 %

NPP (Independent / “Decline to State”) 5,116,983 = 22.34%

Other
896,260 = 7.16%

VOTE #YesOn50
So We Can Stop Trump from rigging 2026 elections

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

I do so love getting a text that my mail-in ballot was received and counted. #vote #YesOn50

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MannE @blatus.bsky.social · 1d

That's hand to flipper combat, Temu Himmler

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