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emgirouard.bsky.social
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@emgirouard.bsky.social
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Health Data Scientist at NORC at the University of Chicago 🔅 she/her 🔅 epidemiology, anthropology, and healthcare analytics 🔅 current hair color: purple🔅my views are my own and do not reflect my employer
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“Researchers, companies say NIH funding changes could be lethal to innovations”

-in today’s Pittsburgh Trib

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'It's a wake-up call': Researchers, companies say NIH funding changes could be lethal to innovations
During her medical training, Dr. Miriam Cremer watched a woman suffering from advanced cervical cancer bleed to death in Arcatao, El Salvador. That preventable tragedy is what sowed the seeds of her P...
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February 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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yalesph.bsky.social
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the most pressing public health challenges of the 21st Century. A new study led by researchers at the @yalesph.bsky.social could help fill data gaps and significantly improve AMR gonorrhea surveillance nationally. Learn more ⬇️
https://m.yale.edu/c28y
Tracking a Health Threat
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the most pressing public health challenges of the 21st Century. One area of particular concern is AMR gonorrhea, a
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February 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
emgirouard.bsky.social
Witnessing my talented research colleagues be laid off is emotionally taxing. Worrying about the stability of my own job is emotionally taxing. Thinking about every person and community who is up against an apathetic system right now is emotionally debilitating, but we trudge on.
February 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
emgirouard.bsky.social
GOOD NEWS: NGOs captured some government datasets before their removal. These include CDC data preserved in archives-- please share! archive.org/details/2025...
CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.
archive.org
February 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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amyklobuchar.com
Shutting down USAID is not about efficiency—it’s about undermining America’s global leadership. USAID counters extremism, fights diseases, and creates more markets for U.S. exports. This is reckless and dangerous.
February 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
emgirouard.bsky.social
awesome, sick, cool
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · Feb 4
The EPA plans to demote career employees and replace them with political appointees, which would give Trump administration loyalists more influence over aspects of the agency that were traditionally led by nonpartisan experts.
E.P.A. Demotes Career Employees Overseeing Science, Enforcement and More
A spokeswoman for the agency said the change was “common practice.” Others said it injects partisanship into jobs that have always been neutral.
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February 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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katlaronde.bsky.social
Everyone in LA is sharing this story on insta, and I just want to make sure non-Angelenos know about this bear that crawled under a house during the fires. He had to be lured out with rotisserie chickens. Read it. You deserve a little treat.
525-Lb. Bear Discovered Under Evacuated Altadena Home Too Fat to Tranquilize: 'Not an Option'
An Altadena, Calif., man was shocked to discover he couldn't return to his home — which he evacuated due to the Eaton fire — because a 525-lb. bear had nested in the crawl space under his house. It to...
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February 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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"I hope senators will protect American kids from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.," our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes.
Opinion | If Kennedy Is Blind to Science, Why Entrust Him With Our Health?
When we face some risk of a bird flu pandemic, do we want to entrust our health to a man who has fought lifesaving vaccines?
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
emgirouard.bsky.social
In these trying times, I'd like to remind everyone that you can buy gold star stickers for yourself, because you are an adult, and it rocks. "Wow, I wrote an entire paragraph for that proposal? All on my own??? I deserve a gold star!"
January 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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roseschmits.bsky.social
The care that saved my life is a scandal to the uk health secretary
hleehurley.com Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · Dec 11
Wes Streeting just called the use of puberty blockers to date a 'scandal'.

There's your front page headlines for tomorrow.
December 11, 2024 at 1:39 PM
emgirouard.bsky.social
my supervisor's supervisor told me I should set up a bluesky account to share my & my colleagues' research and improve health data visibility
a woman with long nails is sitting on a chair
ALT: a woman with long nails is sitting on a chair
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December 11, 2024 at 10:04 PM
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yalesph.bsky.social
How do we know that autism is not linked to vaccines?

Short answer: Massive studies have not found a link between autism and vaccines.

Longer answer: Continue reading ⬇️

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December 11, 2024 at 9:32 PM
emgirouard.bsky.social
whoever said that should learn to BACK OFF and let a Jersey girl live her truth 💖
December 11, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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Gain real work experience with NORC this summer and apply to our internships! Internship opportunities are available with NORC’s IT, human resources, accounting, DREI, finance, and research teams! Apply today! go.norc.org/3Bee1G3
Promotional image for NORC, featuring a data visualization design background with text inviting applications for Summer 2025 internships in various departments such as Human Resources, Accounting, DMEI, Finance, and IT. Apply at careers.norc.org.
December 3, 2024 at 4:53 PM