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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 18h
⚠️ STATES, LOCALS, TRIBAL NATIONS, TERRITORIES ⚠️

HHS has eliminated EVERY SINGLE SAFEGUARD FOR DATA PROTECTION AT CDC. Giving data to CDC is no longer safe and puts your residents at risk.

Unless and until all CDC’s data protections are restored you should consider CDC a bad actor.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 17h
More CDC Cuts :: NCHS Edition 📊🔫

At least 1/3 of the staff at the National Center for Health Statistics has been cut (and remain cut). This is catastrophic for our nation’s health data.

Say goodbye to national health statistics that you can trust, healthcare surveys, NHANES and data systems.
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 21h
There are so few academic jobs, and thousands of excellent scholars are all trying to move at the same time due to location. 
‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south
Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 1d
Special education.
Targeting the most vulnerable children and families in our society for the lulz.
Tell me again how very Christian this is.
The cruelty here is unfathomable.
Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: Sources
The nation’s special education services have been significantly damaged after Fridays’s mass layoffs within the Department of Education, sources told ABC News.
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Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d
Reporting from @zachschermele.bsky.social at USA Today with more details ⬇️

www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says
The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
www.usatoday.com
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Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d
⚠️ USAToday reporter confirms the office in charge of special education funding has been “decimated”:
Zach Schermele Follow @ZachSchermele NEW: The Education Dept. layoffs continued overnight, w/ the main office in charge of special ed funding being "decimated," as one person described. "They cut just about everyone that works with IDEA funding," said another. "I'm not sure how these programs exist moving forward." 10:21 AM • 10/11/25 • 2.1K Views
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 2d
Thoughtful and well-informed op-ed from @ianlmorgan.bsky.social

Definitely worth a read!

www.the-scientist.com/nih-leadersh...

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NIH Leadership Is Failing Early Career Researchers
Halted training programs, funding chaos, and hiring freezes jeopardize advancement options for early career researchers.
www.the-scientist.com
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 2d
The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.
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Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 4d
This is really one of the best charts by @ourworldindata.org 📊

Amazing how much research and work goes into creating a chart like this. And it's such a good insight into society.
What Americans die from and the causes of death the US media reports on. 4 stacked bar charts. showing in short that while heart diseases and cancer constitutes 55% of the causes of death, they receive about 7% of the media coverages. Homicide is under 1% but receives between 42% and 52%. Terrorisme barely registers in the causes of death, but gets between 11% and 18%. The first stacked bar is causes of death in the US in 2023 Heart diseases 29% Cancer 26% Accidents 9.5% Stroke 6.9% Lower respiratory diseases (6.2%) Alzheimer's disease (4.8%) Diabetes (4.0%) Kidney failure (2.4%) Liver disease (2.2%) Suicide (2.1%) COVID-19 (2.1%) Influenza/Pneumonia (1.9%) Drug overdose (1.8%) Homicide (<1%) Terrorism (<0.001%) Media coverage of these causes of death in 2023 in... New York Times Heart disease (2.8%) Cancer (4.1%) Accidents (9.7%) Suicide (3.8%) COVID-19 (5.3%) Drug overdose (7.5%) Homicide (42%) Terrorism (18%) Washington Post Heart disease (2.9%) Cancer (4.7%) Accidents (5.9%) Suicide (3.3%) COVID-19 (7.9%) Drug overdose (9.5%) Homicide (46%) Terrorism (12%) Fox News Heart disease (2.3%) Cancer (3.8%) Accidents (6.1%) Suicide (4.1%) COVID-19 (6.0%) Drug overdose (9.8%) Homicide (52%) Terrorism (11%) Note: Based on the share of causes of death in the US and the share of mentions for each of the causes in the New York Times, the Washington Post and Fox News. All values are normalized to 100%, so the shares are relative to all deaths caused by the 12 most common causes + drug overdoses, homicides and terrorism. These causes account for more than 75% of deaths in the US. A "media mention" is a published article in one of the outlets which mentions the cause (e.g. "influenza) or related keywords (e.g. "flu") least twice. Data sources: Media mentions from Media Cloud (2025); deaths data from the US CDC (2025) and Global Terrorism Index. Fox News
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Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social · 10d
You can listen to my recent interview with WBUR's Here & Now:
www.npr.org/2025/10/01/n...
Undercounted: The hidden deaths in America’s jails : Here & Now Anytime
Over a four-year period between 2019 and 2023, about 1,000 people died annually in U.S. jails. Nearly one-third of those deaths don't have a cause of death, according to an analysis of federal data by...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10d
Crystal Carter went to tour an apartment. Rent was $1,500 a month.

“I’ll be paying with a Section 8 voucher,” she said.

“Yeah,” the landlord said. “I don’t do Section 8.”

This is what housing voucher discrimination looks like 👇

(Published 2020 w/ @ctmirror.org)
How Wealthy Towns Keep People With Housing Vouchers Out
Section 8 vouchers should give low-income people the opportunity to live outside poor communities. But discriminatory landlords, exclusionary zoning and the federal government’s hands-off approach lea...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 11d
The fiscal year is over.

So how was the NIH appropriation committed?

A long thread with institute by institute results about where the money went.
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ALT: a white cat is sitting on a box with the words where written on it .
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 12d
Staff members at the NIH seem to have done the impossible: spend the agency's $48 billion budget.

“Everyone has been rallying together to clean up the mess, but it’s a mess that did not need to be made,” an NIH program officer told me.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
NIH races to spend its 2025 grant money — but fewer projects win funding
Despite political obstacles, officials are on track to disburse all of the research funds allocated to US biomedical behemoth.
www.nature.com
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 15d
Followup
“This is only one institute at NIH, but it’s good news. Other institutes may not have done as well.”

Also we’d add: Russ Vought tried to stop NIH spending to create illegal impoundment, and THIS YEAR, he failed. He’ll be stronger next year as more NIH staff have left.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 15d
Hearing from someone in NIH program:

“Our final Task Order for $6.2M went out today. Every obstacle DOGE put up to keep us from funding new TOs and extending others was overcome. My fired contract officers were rehired. It was a lot of work, but we did it.
For now.”
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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 13d
Thank you all the program officers at NIH that persisted through the 2025 fiscal year and were able to fund 99% of the total FY2024 budget. I know this has take a toll on everyone at NIH. Thank you for supporting important health and behavior science and helping to keep the U.S. a leader in science.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 13d
The fiscal year ends tomorrow.

Here are results from NIH Reporter downloaded an hour ago.

The total amount of funding committed for FY2025 at this point is 99.0% of that for FY2024. The same difference could be due to a variety of technical factors.

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A graph showing the fraction of annual grant funding committed for NIH for fiscal years 2015 to 2025. The fiscal year 2025 lagged behind but then caught up over the last two months.
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 15d
Clarence Thomas on precedent: He doesn't feel bound. www.rawstory.com/clarence-tho...
Justice Thomas signals during speech the court is open to tossing aside prior rulings
In a rare public appearance, Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas hinted that the nation’s highest court may very well be considering tearing up legal precedents that have been in effect fo...
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 18d
This is such a nuanced and big-hearted piece on the evolution of autism as a diagnosis, by an anthropologist of mental health who is also the dad of a now-grown daughter on the spectrum. Great reading (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
Opinion | Autism Has Always Existed. We Haven’t Always Called It Autism.
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drwendieberg.bsky.social @drwendieberg.bsky.social · 18d
Today is #WorldDenseBreastDay! Educate yourself and those you love about the higher risks of missed cancer on mammograms and of developing breast cancer. Great resources @densebreastinfo.bsky.social @densebreastscanada.bsky.social. Thank you @bcrfcure.bsky.social for supporting our research!
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DenseBreast-info.org @densebreastinfo.bsky.social · 19d
📻 Healthcare providers! ICYMI: DBI’s Chief Scientific Advisor, @drwendieberg.bsky.social, joined Dr. Miriam Green on SiriusXM to cover #DenseBreasts, supplemental screening, and insurance coverage. Don’t miss these insights!

Catch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVG9...

#WorldDenseBreastDay
Dr. Berg Discusses Dense Breasts, Supplemental Screening, and Insurance Issues on Sirius XM
YouTube video by Densebreast-info.org
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Theresa O @theresalouiseo.bsky.social · 19d
This is data on the % of FY2024 appropriation committed to date in FY 2025 by NIH Institutes.

Such EXTRAORDINARY work for most NIH institutes including NICHD and NIA who are at the top of the list!!!!! Well done program officers and staff getting those grants OUT!!! 🙏
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 19d
Here are data on the percentage of FY2024 appropriation committed to date in FY2025. Most ICs are well on track, but four ICs (NIMHD, NINR, NHLBI, NHGRI) still appear to be under 80%.

Note that values >100% reflect either a higher appropriation for FY25 or an increased % devoted to grants.
A table of the percentage of fiscal year 2025 funding compared to fiscal year 2024 for 25 NIH institutes and centers (and the Office of the Director).
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 20d
Updated funding curve (with two weeks to go in the fiscal year)

(Posted on jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... )
A graph showing NIH grant funding for fiscal years 2015-2024 and 2025 showing that fiscal year 2025 was lagging behind the pace from other years, but has been catching up in July and August.
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NPR @npr.org · 23d
George Cook is the Trump administration's new acting director of the Census Bureau, which has been thrust into the middle of a renewed attempt by President Trump to alter the national head count.
The Census Bureau is now headed by a Trump official in an acting position
George Cook is the Trump administration's new acting director of the Census Bureau, which has been thrust into the middle of a renewed attempt by President Trump to alter the national head count.
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Erica Groshen @ericagroshen.bsky.social · 23d
#BLS has delayed the 2024 Consumer Expenditures Survey annual release. This is likely due to the severe understaffing in the agency.
Staff losses and hiring freeze are taking their toll.

www.bls.gov/cex/notices/...

#econsky
Consumer Expenditures 2024 Data Release to be Rescheduled
Consumer Expenditures 2024 Data Release to be Rescheduled (9/19/2025)
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Theresa O @theresalouiseo.bsky.social · 23d
Another court ruling against the administration, and NEA, in favor of first amendment rights of artist grants.

Court Rules Against Arts Endowment on Trump’s ‘Gender Ideology’ Order
Court Rules Against Arts Endowment on Trump’s ‘Gender Ideology’ Order
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Emily Baker-White @ebakerwhite.bsky.social · 26d
This is one hell of a read.

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New Army Shaving Policy Will Allow Soldiers with Skin Condition that Affects Mostly Black Men to Be Kicked Out
The Army is preparing to roll out a new policy that could lead to soldiers diagnosed with a chronic skin condition that causes painful razor bumps and scarring to be kicked out of the service -- an is...
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