Coleen Murphy
@ctmurphy1.bsky.social
Scientist, citizen, mom, and occasionally athletic
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nirav shah not mincing words re: the new principle deputy director of CDC. good report from @apoorvanyt.bsky.social
🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
November 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
nirav shah not mincing words re: the new principle deputy director of CDC. good report from @apoorvanyt.bsky.social
🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
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All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
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It really should be an uncontroversial opinion that antivaxxers who reject science and basic principles of sound public health practice shouldn't be leading important public health agencies but here we are.
November 25, 2025 at 6:54 PM
It really should be an uncontroversial opinion that antivaxxers who reject science and basic principles of sound public health practice shouldn't be leading important public health agencies but here we are.
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A mother and her 15 year old autistic son are reunited after nearly 50 days apart.
Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.
ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.
ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 AM
A mother and her 15 year old autistic son are reunited after nearly 50 days apart.
Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.
ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.
ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
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Please support this bill.
NJ bill would ban ICE agents from wearing masks newjerseymonitor.com/2025/11/24/n...
NJ bill would ban ICE agents from wearing masks newjerseymonitor.com/2025/11/24/n...
NJ bill would ban ICE agents from wearing masks • New Jersey Monitor
Two New Jersey lawmakers want to follow California's lead and ban ICE agents from masking, a move that would likely end up in court.
newjerseymonitor.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Please support this bill.
NJ bill would ban ICE agents from wearing masks newjerseymonitor.com/2025/11/24/n...
NJ bill would ban ICE agents from wearing masks newjerseymonitor.com/2025/11/24/n...
Ridiculous:
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
November 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Ridiculous:
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The Trump administration inherited an economy that the Economist called "the envy of the world" in a cover story a week before the election and easily could've coasted on that success (again) but instead they set it on fire.
November 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The Trump administration inherited an economy that the Economist called "the envy of the world" in a cover story a week before the election and easily could've coasted on that success (again) but instead they set it on fire.
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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Doctor here. Her story is that of tens of thousands of Americans.
Another example: When Chad Boseman was diagnosed with advanced colon cancer, his 5 yr survival was <14%: he died in 2020. Today his 5 yr survival would be >55%. So tragic.
RFK Jr HALTED PROGRESS.
🤬😭
Another example: When Chad Boseman was diagnosed with advanced colon cancer, his 5 yr survival was <14%: he died in 2020. Today his 5 yr survival would be >55%. So tragic.
RFK Jr HALTED PROGRESS.
🤬😭
November 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Doctor here. Her story is that of tens of thousands of Americans.
Another example: When Chad Boseman was diagnosed with advanced colon cancer, his 5 yr survival was <14%: he died in 2020. Today his 5 yr survival would be >55%. So tragic.
RFK Jr HALTED PROGRESS.
🤬😭
Another example: When Chad Boseman was diagnosed with advanced colon cancer, his 5 yr survival was <14%: he died in 2020. Today his 5 yr survival would be >55%. So tragic.
RFK Jr HALTED PROGRESS.
🤬😭
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DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
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Congrats to everyone who covered the obviously bad faith, unprecedentedly illegal, & wildly unconstitutional data theft & dismantling of the federal government by a billionaire criminal Nazi & his henchmen as a legitimate process of “government efficiency.” Truly, well done.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Congrats to everyone who covered the obviously bad faith, unprecedentedly illegal, & wildly unconstitutional data theft & dismantling of the federal government by a billionaire criminal Nazi & his henchmen as a legitimate process of “government efficiency.” Truly, well done.
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DOGE is only a failure if you took their mission in good faith. DOGE destroyed so many government funded projects, gutted agencies of key staff, and illegally obtained large data sets.
Their goal was never efficiency, it was to destroy and steal and they were very successful at doing both.
Their goal was never efficiency, it was to destroy and steal and they were very successful at doing both.
November 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
DOGE is only a failure if you took their mission in good faith. DOGE destroyed so many government funded projects, gutted agencies of key staff, and illegally obtained large data sets.
Their goal was never efficiency, it was to destroy and steal and they were very successful at doing both.
Their goal was never efficiency, it was to destroy and steal and they were very successful at doing both.
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Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
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It takes a sh*tload of moral ambiguity
for the Christian Right
to keep supporting the paedophile president
meme via Malcolm Mclean
for the Christian Right
to keep supporting the paedophile president
meme via Malcolm Mclean
November 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
It takes a sh*tload of moral ambiguity
for the Christian Right
to keep supporting the paedophile president
meme via Malcolm Mclean
for the Christian Right
to keep supporting the paedophile president
meme via Malcolm Mclean
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Remember. Vaccine critics like Kennedy often give the impression that scientists haven’t seriously researched whether vaccines might cause autism.
Scientists actually HAVE. This is a MUST-READ article.
• www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Scientists actually HAVE. This is a MUST-READ article.
• www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | The Playbook Used to ‘Prove’ Vaccines Cause Autism
Data can easily be manipulated to show causation that doesn’t exist.
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Remember. Vaccine critics like Kennedy often give the impression that scientists haven’t seriously researched whether vaccines might cause autism.
Scientists actually HAVE. This is a MUST-READ article.
• www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Scientists actually HAVE. This is a MUST-READ article.
• www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Vaccines save lives.
And no, they do not cause autism.
And no, they do not cause autism.
November 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Vaccines save lives.
And no, they do not cause autism.
And no, they do not cause autism.
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I have posted about this before, but...
Researchers at Pitt School of Public Health (with NIH funding) developed Project Tycho where they digitized reportable disease data from across the country going back to ~1900.
graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
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Researchers at Pitt School of Public Health (with NIH funding) developed Project Tycho where they digitized reportable disease data from across the country going back to ~1900.
graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
1/6
Battling Infectious Diseases in the 20th Century: The Impact of Vaccines
The number of infected people, measured over 70-some years and across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, generally declined after vaccines were introduced.
graphics.wsj.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I have posted about this before, but...
Researchers at Pitt School of Public Health (with NIH funding) developed Project Tycho where they digitized reportable disease data from across the country going back to ~1900.
graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
1/6
Researchers at Pitt School of Public Health (with NIH funding) developed Project Tycho where they digitized reportable disease data from across the country going back to ~1900.
graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
1/6
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Calling something "scientific orthodoxy" rather than "established fact" or even "scientific consensus" is so incredibly damaging.
November 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Calling something "scientific orthodoxy" rather than "established fact" or even "scientific consensus" is so incredibly damaging.
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You could just say he’s wrong, and his wrongness has consequences for all of us
“Determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy” fuck you
“Determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy” fuck you
November 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
You could just say he’s wrong, and his wrongness has consequences for all of us
“Determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy” fuck you
“Determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy” fuck you
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would really love it if our elected officials had to publicly define socialism and then explain why they voted against it
November 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
would really love it if our elected officials had to publicly define socialism and then explain why they voted against it
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Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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i’m sure someone else has already put this together but fucking wild he called for members of congress to be hanged the same day the coast guard said a noose is no longer a hate symbol
November 21, 2025 at 5:43 AM
i’m sure someone else has already put this together but fucking wild he called for members of congress to be hanged the same day the coast guard said a noose is no longer a hate symbol
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for less "Fake science news", choose women: "The gender gap was even more pronounced in misconduct-related retractions, where women first authors accounted for only 11.5% of all cases. Women were also significantly less likely to have multiple retractions." 😀👏
2025. Few women named as authors on retracted medical studies, analysis shows phys.org/news/2025-11...
Few women named as authors on retracted medical studies, analysis shows
Women are underrepresented among authors of retracted publications, particularly in cases involving multiple retractions, according to a new study published in PLOS One by Paul Sebo of the University ...
phys.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:41 AM
for less "Fake science news", choose women: "The gender gap was even more pronounced in misconduct-related retractions, where women first authors accounted for only 11.5% of all cases. Women were also significantly less likely to have multiple retractions." 😀👏
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Basically what Mom & Dad said 👇🏾
November 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Basically what Mom & Dad said 👇🏾