Rebecca Fielding-Miller
@rebeccafieldingmiller.com
Mom. Social epidemiologist. Professional angry feminist. Jewish San Diegan.
"So-called expert" on terminated science
Associate Professor of Public Health at UC San Diego.
"So-called expert" on terminated science
Associate Professor of Public Health at UC San Diego.
Pinned
A refusal to abandon HIV science : AIDS
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I am *so* proud to have co-authored this piece with my brilliant colleagues @abigailmhatcher.bsky.social and @kldunkle.bsky.social. It was initially written over a month ago, but becomes more timely every day.
We lay out 5 principles:
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We lay out 5 principles:
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Hey friends! My entire etsy shop is on sale for cyber week or turkey fiesta or whatever etsy is calling it. I’d LOVE your support of my small handmade ceramic biz. Please have a look and please share this post. Shop: surly.etsy.com #handmade
November 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Hey friends! My entire etsy shop is on sale for cyber week or turkey fiesta or whatever etsy is calling it. I’d LOVE your support of my small handmade ceramic biz. Please have a look and please share this post. Shop: surly.etsy.com #handmade
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Lizza (who's got multiple allegations of sexual misconduct and harassment) is most likely posting all the gross RFK stuff now because Nuzzi had a restraining order against him until very recently. There is nothing about this story that is not depressing and I would like to unsubscribe.
November 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Lizza (who's got multiple allegations of sexual misconduct and harassment) is most likely posting all the gross RFK stuff now because Nuzzi had a restraining order against him until very recently. There is nothing about this story that is not depressing and I would like to unsubscribe.
When I first saw this story, my first thought was that the website language must have been written AI, because no competent scientist would ever use their human hands to type those words into being.
Good for these staff. I can't wait to celebrate them all in public...someday
Good for these staff. I can't wait to celebrate them all in public...someday
The frontline CDC staff first asked to change the vaccines-autism website to promote a false link between the two wouldn't do so, @lenasun.bsky.social discovered wapo.st/3X9Mr43
CDC in turmoil after agency backpedals on rejecting vaccines-autism link
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), who voted to confirm Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after he pledged not to remove language stating vaccines do not cause autism from the CDC website, condemne...
wapo.st
November 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
When I first saw this story, my first thought was that the website language must have been written AI, because no competent scientist would ever use their human hands to type those words into being.
Good for these staff. I can't wait to celebrate them all in public...someday
Good for these staff. I can't wait to celebrate them all in public...someday
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What’s so pernicious about this is that science works by testing a hypothesis (call it H1) vs the null hypothesis (H0). The burden of proof is on those asserting H1 as correct. This gets our standards of proof completely backwards. This is an attack on the very foundation of scientific epistemology.
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 2:44 AM
What’s so pernicious about this is that science works by testing a hypothesis (call it H1) vs the null hypothesis (H0). The burden of proof is on those asserting H1 as correct. This gets our standards of proof completely backwards. This is an attack on the very foundation of scientific epistemology.
Jaw dropping in its senseless wickedness. This will kill people.
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Jaw dropping in its senseless wickedness. This will kill people.
Hey #AcademicSky - I feel like we talk a lot about writing habits (aspirational 30 minutes a day, etc...) but do you all have a *reading* practice? How do you keep up with the literature? Do you aim to read a certain amount a week? Keep an endless tbr list?
November 20, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Hey #AcademicSky - I feel like we talk a lot about writing habits (aspirational 30 minutes a day, etc...) but do you all have a *reading* practice? How do you keep up with the literature? Do you aim to read a certain amount a week? Keep an endless tbr list?
This essay is my entire personality now. Every word is exactly as it should be.
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
November 19, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This essay is my entire personality now. Every word is exactly as it should be.
I was a peace corps volunteer in South Africa and it changed the entire trajectory of my life. I am still in touch with my host sister. This is yet another unnecessary tragedy. www.peacecorps.gov/about-the-ag...
Peace Corps to Phase Out Country Program in South Africa by 2027
www.peacecorps.gov
November 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I was a peace corps volunteer in South Africa and it changed the entire trajectory of my life. I am still in touch with my host sister. This is yet another unnecessary tragedy. www.peacecorps.gov/about-the-ag...
I feel better about my non-compliant tattoo every day of this administration.
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NOT-OD-26-007: Reminder of Compliance Requirements for NIH Extramural Recipients Related to Renegotiated Aims, Objectives, Titles, and Abstracts
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Reminder of Compliance Requirements for NIH Extramural Recipients Related to Renegotiated Aims, Objectives, Titles, and...
grants.nih.gov
November 19, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I feel better about my non-compliant tattoo every day of this administration.
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This idea that #metoo was a temporary piece of insanity that happened because America was too woke...
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
November 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This idea that #metoo was a temporary piece of insanity that happened because America was too woke...
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
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people aren’t embarrassed enough because how dare you say this about a woman who harassed child survivors of mass shootings and spouted conspiracies about Jewish space lasers, among other bigoted drivel
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
people aren’t embarrassed enough because how dare you say this about a woman who harassed child survivors of mass shootings and spouted conspiracies about Jewish space lasers, among other bigoted drivel
Under absolutely no circumstances do you have to hand it to the space lasers lady.
November 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Under absolutely no circumstances do you have to hand it to the space lasers lady.
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It’s good but what MA is doing is playground stuff compared to post WWII tax rates. We need to retvrn.
November 14, 2025 at 2:28 AM
It’s good but what MA is doing is playground stuff compared to post WWII tax rates. We need to retvrn.
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the point of camo for a soldier is to obscure their position from the enemy. camo in an urban environment is completely different, and this forest green or desert pattern is functionally useless.
police only dress this way to project an image of power they should not have.
police only dress this way to project an image of power they should not have.
November 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
the point of camo for a soldier is to obscure their position from the enemy. camo in an urban environment is completely different, and this forest green or desert pattern is functionally useless.
police only dress this way to project an image of power they should not have.
police only dress this way to project an image of power they should not have.
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You guys wanna see a dead body?
November 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
You guys wanna see a dead body?
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We’ve launched five (5) shirts. For each of these shirts we sell, we’ll give $10 to Feeding America. So please buy these shirt and let’s fill America’s food banks. bsgeneralstore.com/collections/...
October 30, 2025 at 5:07 AM
We’ve launched five (5) shirts. For each of these shirts we sell, we’ll give $10 to Feeding America. So please buy these shirt and let’s fill America’s food banks. bsgeneralstore.com/collections/...
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"In reflecting on her now, I wanted to check in with modern-day heroes of the school lunch line."—Jennifer Justus for @bittersouth.bsky.social
All Praise to the Lunch Ladies — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
Blessed are the women who watch over America’s children.
bittersoutherner.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"In reflecting on her now, I wanted to check in with modern-day heroes of the school lunch line."—Jennifer Justus for @bittersouth.bsky.social
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Please remember that your Senator is neither your friend, nor your enemy. They work for you. Call them and give them clear input. And don’t be afraid to tell them you’ll be supporting their next primary challenger if they don’t show a spine. They work for you. Threaten to fire them if you have to.
November 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Please remember that your Senator is neither your friend, nor your enemy. They work for you. Call them and give them clear input. And don’t be afraid to tell them you’ll be supporting their next primary challenger if they don’t show a spine. They work for you. Threaten to fire them if you have to.
I have so much respect for Dr. Berg, so please take this as a structural observation not a personal critique: Virginia Woolf could have been discussing *this meal* in A Room of One's Own. It's an uncanny parallel.
Who was *not* at that table and what and where were they eating?
Who was *not* at that table and what and where were they eating?
On one evening, the speakers were divided up and went to dinner parties hosted by some of the wealthy folks who lived around Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island. My dinner was delightful, with good conversation with our host (the mayor of a nearby village), his friends, and some other speakers.
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November 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I have so much respect for Dr. Berg, so please take this as a structural observation not a personal critique: Virginia Woolf could have been discussing *this meal* in A Room of One's Own. It's an uncanny parallel.
Who was *not* at that table and what and where were they eating?
Who was *not* at that table and what and where were they eating?
Today's adventures through 3 different "impacted" airports: Hopefully a very short, very boring thread.
Airport 1, the gate: "captain requests we hold off boarding for a while" ... Probably fine? 😬
Airport 1, the gate: "captain requests we hold off boarding for a while" ... Probably fine? 😬
November 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Today's adventures through 3 different "impacted" airports: Hopefully a very short, very boring thread.
Airport 1, the gate: "captain requests we hold off boarding for a while" ... Probably fine? 😬
Airport 1, the gate: "captain requests we hold off boarding for a while" ... Probably fine? 😬
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Every single woman you know has had this happen to her. Even the goddamn president of Mexico.
Brava: “If I don’t file a complaint, then what message does that send to all Mexican women?” Ms. Sheinbaum said at her daily news conference, noting sexual harassment was a crime… “If this can happen to the president, what’s going to happen to all the young women & women across our country?”
Mexico’s President Presses Charges Against Man Who Groped Her on the Street
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Every single woman you know has had this happen to her. Even the goddamn president of Mexico.
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They want people to go hungry. Because hungry people will revolt. And if hungry people revolt, then they can vilify the hungry for revolting and claim that the hungry never deserved food at all.
BREAKING: The Trump administration seeks an emergency pause to a court order demanding full November SNAP payments.
Trump administration seeks to halt SNAP food aid payments after a court order
The Trump administration has asked a federal appeals court to block a judge’s order to distribute November’s full SNAP benefits during a U.S. government shutdown. U.S.
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
They want people to go hungry. Because hungry people will revolt. And if hungry people revolt, then they can vilify the hungry for revolting and claim that the hungry never deserved food at all.
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APHA Rally: November 5th 2:30
National Mall, 7th Street, N.W. between Madison and Jefferson (near the Hirshhorn Museum)
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National Mall, 7th Street, N.W. between Madison and Jefferson (near the Hirshhorn Museum)
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Rally for the Public’s Health
Join us on the National Mall on November 5th to rally for critical public health issues and initiatives.
www.apha.org
October 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
APHA Rally: November 5th 2:30
National Mall, 7th Street, N.W. between Madison and Jefferson (near the Hirshhorn Museum)
www.apha.org/events-and-m...
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National Mall, 7th Street, N.W. between Madison and Jefferson (near the Hirshhorn Museum)
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What a beautiful day to rally with thousands of my favorite public health people for public health and good science
And then March to HHS Headquarters (Humphrey Building) after the APHA rally.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
What a beautiful day to rally with thousands of my favorite public health people for public health and good science