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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 7h

If you work in the Office of Special Education, have been RIF'd and want to talk to a journalist about it, please hit me up on Signal at slooterman.18.

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@janprobst.bsky.social @janprobst.bsky.social · 8h

My bluegrass group practices in a local park. Now that school is back in session, the attendants bring a group of autistic kids (various impairment levels) in to listen on Mondays. Any one of those kids is worth more than anyone in the current administration.

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Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · 13h

1. My father's funeral was this week. This morning, I attended my first @nihvigils.bsky.social with my family. I shared my father's story. My father immigrated from South Korea. This was possible with #NSF funding. I know we are sister agencies, but science is under attack in multiple departments.

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Joseph Q Jarvis MD MSPH @drjqjarvis.bsky.social · 16h

“Rural hospitals across the US are under threat. Nearly 200 rural hospitals have closed since 2005, and one-third, more than 700 hospitals, are at risk of shutting their doors.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rural US town outraged as only hospital forced to shut: ‘I would have died without it’

Nearly 28,000 people relied on Glenn Medical center for its services, but now they will have to travel more than 30 miles for care

www.theguardian.com

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Rachel Hoopsick, PhD, MS, MPH, MCHES @rachelhoopsick.bsky.social · 18h

No pizza party or company swag is going to fix the reality of what it’s like to be a healthcare worker in the US. Our pilot data suggest that moral injury is prevalent among HCWs and may affect suicidal thoughts and behaviors doi.org/10.1080/1555...

ABSTRACT
Research suggests that moral injury (i.e., perpetrating, witness-ing, or failing to prevent acts that transgress one's moral beliefs, values, or ethics) is associated with a range of adverse psychological sequelae among military-connected populations, including suicidality. However, little is known about how moral injury is associated with suicidality among healthcare workers or if these associations differ by gender. We collected self-reported data from a sample of United States healthcare workers (N= 200), including a modified Moral Injury Events Scale and items related to suicidality (i.e., past-year suicide thoughts, suicide plans, suicide attempts). We examined the cross-sectional relationships between moral injury and these measures of suicidality using separate logistic regression models and examined for differences by gender. Greater moral injury was significantly associated with higher odds of past-
year suicidal thoughts (aOR = 1.05, 95% CI: 1.01, 1.09) and
associated with suicide planning (aOR = 1.06, 95% CI: 1.00, 1.12) and suicide attempt at a trend-level (aOR = 1.07, 95%
Cl: 0.99, 1.16). There were no statistically significant differences in these associations by gender. Results suggest that suicidal thoughts, plans, and attempts of healthcare workers may be driven, in part, by morally injurious events experienced in the workplace.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 1d

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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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 1d

Public health is not partisan. It is health for the public.

That means all of us.

Defend Public Health.

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Eli Perencevich @eliowa.bsky.social · 18h

It only makes sense to shut down the CDC journal MMWR if CDC is no longer doing public health

CDC DOB: July 1, 1946
CDC died: October 10, 2025

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Troy Tassier @troytassier.bsky.social · 1d

Many don’t realize the breadth of cdc. They do far more than fight infectious disease and recommend vaccines. They are key to all areas of health: chronic disease, maternal and child health, gun violence, substance abuse, suicidal prevention, on and on. Killing ourselves literally by gutting 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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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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@janprobst.bsky.social @janprobst.bsky.social · 1d

GTFO is a mild response, actually.

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, we argue vociferously, backed by empirical research, that patients’ wellbeing and health outcomes will suffer from the Trump administration’s push to end DEI policies at US medical schools

The BMJ @bmj.com · 1d

The Trump administration and its allies have taken several steps to ensure that medical schools in the US dismantle all diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.

It is patients who will be the victims of this, write @gavinyamey.bsky.social and @michaeldgreen.com
www.bmj.com/content/391/...

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@janprobst.bsky.social @janprobst.bsky.social · 1d

Angrily shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe, who is sooooo tired of rural being passed over.

#PowerOfRuralCats

KFF Health News @kffhealthnews.org · 1d

A 91-year-old learns to check health portals; a 7-year-old finally can do homework. They were among rural residents helped by a digital navigator, until President Trump abruptly canceled the Digital Equity Act’s dollars.
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Trump Called Digital Equity Act ‘Racist.’ Now Internet Money for Rural Americans Is Gone. - KFF Health News

President Donald Trump called the Digital Equity Act unconstitutional, racist, and illegal. Then the $2.75 billion program for rural and underserved communities to gain internet access disappeared.

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 1d

Artist Michelle Browder’s 'Mothers of Gynecology' project is an act of resistance, challenging the silences around the ugly history of medical apartheid's impact on Black women. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

One woman's quest to reclaim the ugly history of Black maternal health

Artist Michelle Browder's Mothers of Gynecology project is an act of resistance.

www.motherjones.com

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@janprobst.bsky.social @janprobst.bsky.social · 2d

Endorsed by Sam the rural health advoCATe. He has observed highly colonial attitudes in U.S. researchers running experiments in Africa…and urban folks who treat rural America similarly.

#PowerOfRuralCats

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 2d

Real question, not snark. How do we update this diagnosis to reflect the elimination of USAID, other US cuts (eg NIH), and big (~40%) overall cuts to health aid over other rich countries? Global health as we knew and could critique it in 2024 is mostly gone. What are productive ideas now?

Why global health research must stop treating communities as data sources and start honoring them as knowers - GHO

Professor Seye Abimbola joins us for the Expert's Voice where he discusses epistemic injustice, the stubborn legacies of colonialism in academic global health, and why meaningful change requires us to...

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 2d

Praises and love to my Antifa father and his band of brothers, who fought in WWII on three continents and survived.

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 2d

Real security is funding for hospitals and health centers.

Real security is making sure that Americans can see a doctor when they’re sick without worrying whether they can make rent.

Real security is paying our military AND protecting health care.

This isn’t real security.

Screenshot of headline reading: Senate passes mammoth annual defense policy bill

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 2d

I teach a seminar on the "Legacy of the Holocaust for Health Professionals" and one of the points that students report is most resonant is the duress defense, or the notion that people in the Third Reich felt compelled to commit atrocities b/c of what would happen if they didn't.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 2d

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Katie Lee @resourcefulsqrl.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder that we have a TT job opening here at Tulane for "a biological anthropologist specializing in the analysis of human skeletal remains, especially those recovered from archaeological contexts. Regional focus is open."

Due by Oct 15.

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@janprobst.bsky.social @janprobst.bsky.social · 2d

Shared with a sigh by Sam the rural health advoCATe. The notion that health care is as much an infrastructure needs as roads and electricity never seems to sink in.

#PowerOfRuralCats

spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 2d

listen, hospitals are just going to have to shift from a sustainable model where they provide care to an unsustainable model where they close - if they can't accept that, they should close

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

SCARBOROUGH: The Nebraska Rural Health Association says at least 6 rural hospitals would have to close bc of the big beautiful bill

FLOOD: Here's the deal: Some hospitals that are rural hospitals are going to eventually have to transition from being acute bed hospitals into being an ER model

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

"Garbage" is far too kind a description of what the Washington Post's ed page has become.

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@DUH4Healthcare @duh4healthcare.bsky.social · 3d

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KFF Examines Which Lawfully Present Immigrants Will Lose Access to Federally Funded Health Coverage Due to the 2025 Reconciliation Law

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Sarah Burgard @burgards.bsky.social · 4d

please help us understand what population scientists are experiencing in the #shutdown @popassocamerica.bsky.social

Population Association of America @popassocamerica.bsky.social · 4d

As the federal #shutdown enters week 2, GPAC is monitoring developments and working with partners (@cossa.bsky.social) to address disruptions.

If your research/funding has been affected, share impacts via our portal—your examples help strengthen advocacy for a swift resolution. buff.ly/pIO1QQw

Share Your Research Activities Negatively Affected by Shutdown

www.populationassociation.org

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@janprobst.bsky.social @janprobst.bsky.social · 3d

Sam the rural health advoCATe agrees that rural communities have infrastructure needs… and resents the gamesmanship aspect of this (inadequate) funding mechanism.
#PowerOfRuralCats

National Rural Health Association @ruralhealth.bsky.social · 3d

States are scrambling for their share of the Rural Health Transformation Program. “Rural communities and especially hospitals need resources that will strengthen sustainable access to care in the long term,” says NRHA’s Alexa McKinley Abel. pro.stateaffairs.com/tn/health-ca... #ruralhealth

States Race to Secure Share of $50B Rural Health Grant

States scramble to claim $50 billion federal grant for rural health care, targeting workforce shortages and chronic disease.

pro.stateaffairs.com

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