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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 26d

I’m curious. If an outspoken atheist was to set up tables outside churches on Sunday and on campuses of Christian colleges with a sign that said “God doesn’t exist, prove me wrong,” would that person be hailed as a figure who was trying to engage in good faith debate and heal our divisions?

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Dennis Goris @dennisgoris.bsky.social · Aug 28

I miss the old brand #CDC

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · Aug 29

Going forward, what comes out of the CDC “will be a Frankenstein of science and ideology”

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The C.D.C.’s Vaccine Chief on Why Quitting Was His Only Option

Podcast Episode · The Daily · 08/29/2025 · 29m

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · Aug 29

Kennedy “is trying to fully dismantle the nation’s vaccination apparatus, regardless of what science says or what most people want. And less than a year into his tenure as health secretary, he is succeeding brilliantly.” We are all at deep risk unless we push Congress to actually act. NOW.

Opinion | The Public Health Disaster Everyone Saw Coming

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Aug 28

BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout.

They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.

(🎥 AP)

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Pathoplexus @pathoplexus.org · Aug 27

🗓 Pathoplexus turns ONE! 🎂🎉

In the past year we’ve grown from 4 pathogens to a truly global, community-driven platform for transparent, equitable & impactful pathogen sequence sharing.
📰 Read the full update: pathoplexus.org/news/2025-08...

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ballerinaX @ballerinax.bsky.social · Aug 25

Trump takes light

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Trump admin pulls nearly $62M in solar grants from Utah, leaving rural towns in the dark

The Trump admin clawed back $62M in federal aid to bolster solar energy across Utah, derailing projects for rural towns, tribes and families.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · Aug 24

“New Jersey health officials are issuing a warning about a possible measles exposure on NJ Transit and PATH trains.
A Hudson County resident who was diagnosed with measles used public transportation while potentially infectious, the New Jersey Department of Health announced Friday.”

Warning issued for possible measles exposure on NJ Transit, PATH trains

A Hudson County resident who tested positive for measles used public transit while potentially infectious, health officials say.

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Dr. Kelly O. @drkfo.bsky.social · Aug 19

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Former CDC Director William Foege: How public health can fight back in a time of dangerous nonsense

“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time,” writes former CDC Director William Foege.

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ballerinaX @ballerinax.bsky.social · Aug 2

They're all cool with sexually assaulting children it appears

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Molly Gale (Gale-Hammell Lab) @mollygale.bsky.social · Jun 16

🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬

Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Jun 15

We’re honored to report that over 11 million showed up for today’s No Kings protest, and totals are still coming in. Just… wow. WOW 😮! There’s nothing more to say.

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Duncan MacCannell @drm.bsky.social · Jun 14

I once talked to Ice-T about skiing in the Delta customer service line in Salt Lake City.

R.L. Stine Cold Steve Austin @bolt451.bsky.social · Jun 13

Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie

Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction

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Dr. Kelly O. @drkfo.bsky.social · May 28

A little shameless self-promotion. www.aphlblog.org/how-next-gen...

How Next-Generation Sequencing Is Revolutionizing Food Safety - APHL Blog

By Donna Campisano, specialist, Communications, APHL Last year, 113 people across 23 states were sickened with Salmonella Typhimurium after eating cucumbers. Another 61 people from 19 states developed...

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Sean Eddy @cryptogenomicon.bsky.social · May 22

NIH funding supporting the HMMER and Infernal software projects has been terminated. NIH states that our work, as well as all other federally funded research at Harvard, is of no benefit to the US.

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Dr. Kelly O. @drkfo.bsky.social · May 19

Check out some fun foodborne illness investigations! www.aphlblog.org/contaminatio...

Contamination Chronicles: How Laboratory Scientists Cracked Three Unusual Food Safety Cases - APHL Blog

By Donna Campisano, specialist, Communications, APHL What do raw milk, raw pet food and a drug-laced chicken sandwich have in common? They were all subjects of the “Contamination Chronicles” session a...

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · May 1

Time to catch up on the past week’s news about science and medicine in the US. Whew. 1/10

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com · Apr 28

This week’s main story is about the budget and staffing cuts being made to public health agencies in the U.S. under RFK Jr.’s leadership, how those cuts will impact all of us, and some foolproof ideas for what scientists can do in the absence of totally superfluous stuff like, y’know, centrifuges.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Apr 28

💣The Carpet Bombing of HHS 💥

It's hard to describe how America's health agencies have been bombed and shelled in the past few months, but John Oliver is a good start. 🧵

RFK Jr. & HHS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Mar 28

We agree that CDC needs to be more nimble and efficient. But CDC restructuring should be done by someone who understands the mission and respects science. RFKJ is not that person. He does not understand the work he is destroying and does not care to find out.

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Picture of RFKJ in a dark suit and blue tie leaning back in an arm chair with both arms on the arm rests looking confidently back at the camera. Caption reads "Ask me why I combined HIV research...with occupational and environmental health."

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Mar 28

Utah just banned fluoride in drinking water, undoing decades of science-based public health progress.
Time for a fluoride #factcheckfriday:

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Dr. Kelly O. @drkfo.bsky.social · Mar 29

Those NAS worked great for almost 9 years. RIP!

Erin Young @erinyoung.bsky.social · Mar 28

It's the end of an era. I wish they hadn't died on me.

A synology NAS and expansion sit on the floor next to a white filing cabinet in an office somewhere. No lights are on, and all bay doors are askew.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Mar 28

CDC leadership has not been included in decisions that affect the agency's future. Termination emails will go directly from HHS to CDC staff. The tone from Center directors today: “sorry we don't know anything. Please tell us if you're RIF'd. We'll do a headcount Monday of those still standing".

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Dr. Kelly O. @drkfo.bsky.social · Mar 27

The hits just keep coming! This in the same week as the cuts to state public health agencies.

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RFK Jr. announces big cuts to Department of Health and Human Services

In all, the agency will cut 20,000 positions, half of them through layoffs.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · Mar 25

RFK Jr puts an absolute crank with a history of retracted papers and license violations in charge of his “no really vaccines do cause autism” study.

David Geier… incredible, really. Nice job, Bill Cassidy!

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Vaccine skeptic hired to head federal study of immunizations and autism

A long-discredited researcher and vaccine skeptic will conduct a government study on whether vaccines cause autism.

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