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Dr. Cecília Tomori

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🇭🇺🇺🇸 Anthropologist/Public Health Prof breastfeeding, lactation, MNCH, reproduction, public health, health policy, equity, justice 🤱🏾🤱🏽🤱 posts - my own. https://nursing.jhu.edu/faculty-research/faculty/directory/cecilia-tomori/

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Dr. Cecília Tomori @drtomori.bsky.social · Nov 9

Hello new followers! Time for a new intro. I am an anthropologist/public health researcher/prof. My work is about understanding the roots of inequities and how to build better systems to address them. Main focus is on breastfeeding and maternal child health, but my interests run across many topics.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 13h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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APHA @apha.org · 1d

Join APHA & our partners on Nov. 5 @ 2:30-4 p.m. ET on the National Mall to Rally for the Public’s Health. Be inspired & energized by powerful stories, bold ideas & calls to action as we highlight urgent public health priorities. More info: www.APHA.org/Rally #SpeakForHealth

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 14h

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

www.nobelprize.org

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 13h

Henry Farrell on the Trump admin’s proposed “compact” for universities, arguing that the rollout signals weakness, and that academics need to band together to reject this authoritarian attack on university independence and academic freedom.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 1d

“Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk.”

Six former surgeons general condemn RFK Jr.

Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans

It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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Hampton Gaddy @hggaddy.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 The Economist has been telling you for years that polygamy causes civil war by locking men out of marriage. A new article with @rebeccasear.bsky.social and @anthrolog.bsky.social explains that the demography of marriage markets doesn't actually work that way. 🧵

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market | PNAS

There is a widespread belief, in both the scholarly literature and the popular press, that polygyny prevents large numbers of men from marrying by ...

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Dr. Cecília Tomori @drtomori.bsky.social · 2d

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Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Last chance on our 35% #SALE on selected #HealthStudies, #FertilityStudies & ALL #MedicalAnthropology titles. Sale ends WEDNESDAY!: bit.ly/4nzR2aZ

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 2d

Without an understanding of immune tolerance, organ transplantation will not be possible. Also, their discoveries opened avenues for cancer and auto immune disease therapies.
Congratulations to these year's awardees of the nobel prize in physiology or medicine.
bit.ly/4mC0Gc5

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 2d

In 2025, no mom anywhere needs to lose her baby to whooping cough or measles...

We know how to prevent these deadly scourges from our past: vaccination

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My Son Died in My Arms from Whooping Cough. He Was 2 Months Old (Exclusive)

Kathryn Alcaide watched whooping cough destroy her son's tiny body and now urges everyone to get vaccinated to protect their families.

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 3d

Highly recommend Melissa Aronczyk's dissection of PR firms as

"the glue joining carbon based industries, media orgs,& economic sectors using coalitions, campaigns & other coordinated processes to question the efficacy of science, news & political institutions engaging climate related issues" ~34:30

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Kevin Ault @kevinault.bsky.social · 8d

"Pregnant women should receive a single dose of Tdap during each pregnancy in the 27th–36th week of pregnancy to help protect their newborns from #pertussis during their first few months of life."

Mississippi has announced a pediatric death due to pertussis.

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Pediatric Pertussis Death Reported - Mississippi State Department of Health

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 9d

Happy "The Life of a Showgirl" release week!

In anticipation of Taylor Swift's newest album, I present the 2025 edition of "Taylor Swift as American politics books":

"Coverage Denied" by @mirandayaver.bsky.social

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Dr. Cecília Tomori @drtomori.bsky.social · 9d

4014 fewer projects funded...

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 9d

Here are the results in terms of the number of projects.

The number of funded projects in FY2025 is 4014 fewer than the number for FY2024.

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A grant showing the number of projects funded for FY2021 through FY2025. The number for FY2025 lagged behind and did not catch up with 4014 fewer projects funded in FY2025 compared with FY2024.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 9d

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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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 14d

China recently announced that it will include the vaccine against human papillomavirus, or HPV, in its national immunization program, meaning all eligible girls will get the vaccination for free. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social · 14d

We're offering a 35% #SALE on selections of our #HealthStudies, #FertilityStudies & ALL #MedicalAnthropology titles. Browse: bit.ly/4nzR2aZ!

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 14d

This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”

Philanthropies Strike a Promising Deal to Turn Back H.I.V.

www.nytimes.com

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 15d

The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.

Signs Referencing Climate Change Along with Web Pages Removed from Acadia National Park

The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund.

barharborstory.substack.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15d

Hard to express to those not in the weeds just how much the current state of the immigration detention system is just utter chaos.

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 15d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 18d

I've been reporting in East Africa on the impact of President Trump's USAID cuts, and I find that not only are children dying in large numbers but the pace is accelerating as stockpiles run out and people grow weaker. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Opinion | Trump’s Most Lethal Policy

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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 18d

www.statnews.com/2025/09/20/d...

Winner of mRNA Nobel Prize says ACIP member’s claim that Covid vaccines persist is “absolutely impossible”

In a Q&A with STAT, Nobel winner Drew Weissman addressed concerns raised about Covid shots at a recent meeting of federal vaccine advisers.

www.statnews.com

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 21d

Let's bring it home...5 more hours of the 24 Hours to Save AIDS Research Livestream. Welcome the day with saveaidsresearch.org. Youtube link here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3wx...

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Dr. Cecília Tomori @drtomori.bsky.social · 21d

Congratulations!! This is so helpful.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 21d

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change," a brief communication in the journal Nature Climate Change. There's a map showing regions of the world, and pie charts of relevant studies as they apply to different health impacts like "heat-related deaths" and "maternal and child health"

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