Gregg Mitman
@greggmitman.bsky.social
Historian of science, medicine, and environment.
Prof at UW-Madison, LMU Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. ERC Advanced Grant: fragmentsoftheforest.com.
Chasing ecologies and power across viral divides.
Prof at UW-Madison, LMU Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. ERC Advanced Grant: fragmentsoftheforest.com.
Chasing ecologies and power across viral divides.
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Looking forward to today's talks and discussion at the Hotspots of Concern: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Biodiversity and Health workshop convened by @emmanuelleroth.bsky.social & @greggmitman.bsky.social www.cas.lmu.de/en/events/ev...
Hotspots of Concern: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Biodiversity and Health
Workshop organized by Prof. Gregg Mitman and Dr. Emanuelle Roth (RCC/LMU)
www.cas.lmu.de
October 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Looking forward to today's talks and discussion at the Hotspots of Concern: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Biodiversity and Health workshop convened by @emmanuelleroth.bsky.social & @greggmitman.bsky.social www.cas.lmu.de/en/events/ev...
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was reading a poli sci book about the US response to the 2013-16 Ebola outbreak and the challenges to (not just) experts (but expertise), was also a function/subset of challenging sovereign authority. Just who’s in charge - or should be - during health crises? Whose/what knowledge is valued?
These are the sorts of attacks on experts that resulted in a domestic terrorist firing 500 shots at the CDC just over a week ago. If you stand for evidence based public health interventions, you basically get a target placed on your back by DHHS leadership.
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
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RFK Jr. attacks pediatricians’ group over vaccine recommendations
The American Academy of Pediatrics had earlier urged parents to get young children vaccinated against Covid — pushing back against the health secretary’s stance.
www.politico.com
August 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
was reading a poli sci book about the US response to the 2013-16 Ebola outbreak and the challenges to (not just) experts (but expertise), was also a function/subset of challenging sovereign authority. Just who’s in charge - or should be - during health crises? Whose/what knowledge is valued?
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Department "Knowledge Systems and Collective Life" seeks a Collaborative Research Coordinator!
🤝 Help expand its community-based, publicly engaged research
🎤 Advise researchers on cooperative methods
📋 Coordinate cooperation agreements
🗓️ Deadline: Sep 28, 2025
🔗 bit.ly/45FXu8R
#HistSci #EnvHist
🤝 Help expand its community-based, publicly engaged research
🎤 Advise researchers on cooperative methods
📋 Coordinate cooperation agreements
🗓️ Deadline: Sep 28, 2025
🔗 bit.ly/45FXu8R
#HistSci #EnvHist
August 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Department "Knowledge Systems and Collective Life" seeks a Collaborative Research Coordinator!
🤝 Help expand its community-based, publicly engaged research
🎤 Advise researchers on cooperative methods
📋 Coordinate cooperation agreements
🗓️ Deadline: Sep 28, 2025
🔗 bit.ly/45FXu8R
#HistSci #EnvHist
🤝 Help expand its community-based, publicly engaged research
🎤 Advise researchers on cooperative methods
📋 Coordinate cooperation agreements
🗓️ Deadline: Sep 28, 2025
🔗 bit.ly/45FXu8R
#HistSci #EnvHist
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There are still many ways that the MAHA movement can crush the NIH, but the Senate Appropriations Committee—including most of the GOP—grew a spine & rejected one of the biggest ones yesterday: a full rebuke of proposed budget cuts & reorganization of the NIH.
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
Appropriations Senators Retain Vertebrate Status
Even Susan Collins voted to fully fund NIH and CDC and give no money to MAHA
open.substack.com
August 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
There are still many ways that the MAHA movement can crush the NIH, but the Senate Appropriations Committee—including most of the GOP—grew a spine & rejected one of the biggest ones yesterday: a full rebuke of proposed budget cuts & reorganization of the NIH.
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
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We are looking for multidisciplinary panels to be presented at our upcoming conference "Beyond Dualism—Thinking Creatively Across Worlds," which takes place in July next year.
The full call can be found in the news section on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev... (1/?)
The full call can be found in the news section on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev... (1/?)
August 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
We are looking for multidisciplinary panels to be presented at our upcoming conference "Beyond Dualism—Thinking Creatively Across Worlds," which takes place in July next year.
The full call can be found in the news section on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev... (1/?)
The full call can be found in the news section on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev... (1/?)
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“A fascist society is one in which some people are deputized to do violence, and everyone else is forced to defend themselves.”
Mutual Aid in the Age of Fascism - Boston Review
As people are being deputized to do violence, building connections is political resistance.
www.bostonreview.net
June 8, 2025 at 2:02 AM
“A fascist society is one in which some people are deputized to do violence, and everyone else is forced to defend themselves.”
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I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding.
It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.
unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.
unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
unbreaking.org
May 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding.
It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.
unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.
unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
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I subscribe to the @newyorker.com, I was part of ACT UP, I knew Larry Kramer well and know Tony Fauci too. Daniel Immerwahr's piece on RFKJr, features this and other passages that need a reponse. 1/
May 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I subscribe to the @newyorker.com, I was part of ACT UP, I knew Larry Kramer well and know Tony Fauci too. Daniel Immerwahr's piece on RFKJr, features this and other passages that need a reponse. 1/
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"A Big, Ugly, Destructive, Deadly Bill": Bishop William Barber Slams Bill Cutting Medicaid, Medicare
“Ugly, Destructive, Deadly”: Bishop William Barber Slams Bill Cutting Medicaid, Medicare
As a Republican-sponsored budget bill advances through Congress, we hear from Bishop William Barber about how the bill hurts low-income people. “It is about death-dealing and destruction to the poor...
www.democracynow.org
May 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"A Big, Ugly, Destructive, Deadly Bill": Bishop William Barber Slams Bill Cutting Medicaid, Medicare
“It’s the next generation we have to protect and care about,” Gregg Gonsalves. Thankful to @gregggonsalves.bsky.social, who has never shied from speaking truth to power.
Trump’s ‘fear factor’: Scientists go silent as funding cuts escalate | Science | AAAS
Trump’s ‘fear factor’: Scientists go silent as funding cuts escalate | Science | AAAS
Trump’s ‘fear factor’: Scientists go silent as funding cuts escalate
Many worry about retribution. But for others, speaking out is worth the risk
www.science.org
May 16, 2025 at 6:13 AM
“It’s the next generation we have to protect and care about,” Gregg Gonsalves. Thankful to @gregggonsalves.bsky.social, who has never shied from speaking truth to power.
Trump’s ‘fear factor’: Scientists go silent as funding cuts escalate | Science | AAAS
Trump’s ‘fear factor’: Scientists go silent as funding cuts escalate | Science | AAAS
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"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF
Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress
www.science.org
May 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
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"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
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Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
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Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
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Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.
'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis
The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
www.politico.com
May 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.
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Internal records show that the NIH axed grants for research about transgender people despite a court order barring the cuts.
Agency officials also testified that DOGE was involved in directing grant terminations.
By @anniewaldman.bsky.social
Agency officials also testified that DOGE was involved in directing grant terminations.
By @anniewaldman.bsky.social
Trump’s NIH Axed Research Grants Even After a Judge Blocked the Cuts, Internal Records Show
A lawsuit led by the Washington state attorney general offers an unprecedented view of the termination of more than 600 NIH grants, including transgender research grants threatened by Trump’s…
www.propublica.org
May 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Internal records show that the NIH axed grants for research about transgender people despite a court order barring the cuts.
Agency officials also testified that DOGE was involved in directing grant terminations.
By @anniewaldman.bsky.social
Agency officials also testified that DOGE was involved in directing grant terminations.
By @anniewaldman.bsky.social
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So we haven't heard much in the news about H5N1 lately...is it because the threat is gone?
I don't think so. Viruses don't just go away when you stop looking for them.
I spoke with @carlynzwaren.bsky.social @salonnewsroom.bsky.social about it 👇
www.salon.com/2025/04/30/b...
I don't think so. Viruses don't just go away when you stop looking for them.
I spoke with @carlynzwaren.bsky.social @salonnewsroom.bsky.social about it 👇
www.salon.com/2025/04/30/b...
Bird flu isn't as silent as we think — experts caution the pandemic threat is still growing
It's been months since a major update in H5N1 news, but that doesn't mean the virus has disappeared
www.salon.com
May 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
So we haven't heard much in the news about H5N1 lately...is it because the threat is gone?
I don't think so. Viruses don't just go away when you stop looking for them.
I spoke with @carlynzwaren.bsky.social @salonnewsroom.bsky.social about it 👇
www.salon.com/2025/04/30/b...
I don't think so. Viruses don't just go away when you stop looking for them.
I spoke with @carlynzwaren.bsky.social @salonnewsroom.bsky.social about it 👇
www.salon.com/2025/04/30/b...
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Nature reports that the National Science Foundation has stopped awarding new grants and allotting funds to existing ones. All of them. @colincarlson.bsky.social says that unless the freeze is lifted, it “is going to destroy people's labs.” 2/10
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Nature reports that the National Science Foundation has stopped awarding new grants and allotting funds to existing ones. All of them. @colincarlson.bsky.social says that unless the freeze is lifted, it “is going to destroy people's labs.” 2/10
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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"Anthropology of Infectious Disease Emergence and Epidemic Control". A review by Tamara Giles-Vernick and Jules Villa www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Anthropology of Infectious Disease Emergence and Epidemic Control: A review
Traditional biomedical and epidemiological approaches have been crucial in preparing for and responding to infectious disease epidemics. But biologist…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
"Anthropology of Infectious Disease Emergence and Epidemic Control". A review by Tamara Giles-Vernick and Jules Villa www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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My latest: sexual violence/harassment, land appropriation, labor rights violations at African plantations co-owned by French billionaire Vincent Bollore.
Rubber made by this woman, "Rebecca," who faces daily sexual coercion, is imported by Michelin for US tires.
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Rubber made by this woman, "Rebecca," who faces daily sexual coercion, is imported by Michelin for US tires.
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Sex-for-Work Allegations Hang Over Tycoons’ Rubber Plantations
Hubert Fabri and Vincent Bolloré own plantations accused of land appropriation and labor abuses. Their company says it has taken steps to improve matters, but a trip to West Africa shows sexual coerci...
www.bloomberg.com
April 16, 2025 at 10:52 PM
My latest: sexual violence/harassment, land appropriation, labor rights violations at African plantations co-owned by French billionaire Vincent Bollore.
Rubber made by this woman, "Rebecca," who faces daily sexual coercion, is imported by Michelin for US tires.
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Rubber made by this woman, "Rebecca," who faces daily sexual coercion, is imported by Michelin for US tires.
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
As hate, vengeance, and greed are driving decisions devastating the planet and those most vulnerable, I highly recommend this Oscar-nominated doc on John Francis, a remarkable person, whose presence of being and message of kindness, are so needed today.
#envhist
www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...
#envhist
www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...
Planetwalker
In 1971, John Francis witnessed an oil tanker collision in the San Francisco Bay. The incident caused him to give up motorized transport and speaking. He spent the next 17 silent years earning the nam...
www.bloomberg.com
March 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
As hate, vengeance, and greed are driving decisions devastating the planet and those most vulnerable, I highly recommend this Oscar-nominated doc on John Francis, a remarkable person, whose presence of being and message of kindness, are so needed today.
#envhist
www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...
#envhist
www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...
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Stanley added: “You’ve got to just band together and say an attack on one university is an attack on all universities. And maybe you lose that fight, but you’re certainly going to lose this one if you give up before you fight.
“Columbia was just such a warning,” he said. “I just became very worried because I didn’t see a strong enough reaction in other universities .... I see Yale trying not to be a target. That’s a losing strategy.”
Yale Professor who Studies Fascism Flees to Canada
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Yale Professor who Studies Fascism Flees to Canada
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada
Jason Stanley, who says grandmother fled Berlin with his father in 1939, says US may become ‘fascist dictatorship’
www.theguardian.com
March 27, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Stanley added: “You’ve got to just band together and say an attack on one university is an attack on all universities. And maybe you lose that fight, but you’re certainly going to lose this one if you give up before you fight.
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Gift article about why it is a TERRIBLE idea to let H5N1 spread on farms, because it will 1. kill the birds 2. make them suffer 3. provide more opportunities for mutation 4. be a disaster to clean up because they would just be leaky feathered H5N1 bombs. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/h...
RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread (Gift Article)
The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say.
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Gift article about why it is a TERRIBLE idea to let H5N1 spread on farms, because it will 1. kill the birds 2. make them suffer 3. provide more opportunities for mutation 4. be a disaster to clean up because they would just be leaky feathered H5N1 bombs. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/h...
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The UN’s new biodiversity deal aims to protect 30% of Earth by 2030—but does it tackle the root causes of nature’s destruction? Without addressing economic expansion, pollution & systemic issues, conservation alone won’t be enough. #Biodiversity #NatureCrisis theconversation.com/biodiversity...
Biodiversity treaty: UN deal fails to address the root causes of nature’s destruction
Global summits to arrest Earth’s deteriorating health look increasingly farcical.
theconversation.com
February 27, 2025 at 11:11 AM
The UN’s new biodiversity deal aims to protect 30% of Earth by 2030—but does it tackle the root causes of nature’s destruction? Without addressing economic expansion, pollution & systemic issues, conservation alone won’t be enough. #Biodiversity #NatureCrisis theconversation.com/biodiversity...
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POSTDOC ALERT! Postdoc in the history of modern medicine or public health at Wisconsin: details at the link below. 2 years, excellent conditions. #Skystorians #HistMed #medhum please repost widely!
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Postdoctoral Fellow: History of Modern (19th century-present) Medicine or Public Health
Position Requirements: PhD in history of modern (19th century-present) medicine or public health or closely related field, geographic area and specialty open. All requirements for the PhD, including t...
mhb.wisc.edu
February 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
POSTDOC ALERT! Postdoc in the history of modern medicine or public health at Wisconsin: details at the link below. 2 years, excellent conditions. #Skystorians #HistMed #medhum please repost widely!
mhb.wisc.edu/2025/02/25/p...
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"The entire first-year class of the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Services officers, known as “disease detectives,” has been laid off! An incredible group of talented healthcare professionals devoted to help people and stop the spread of outbreaks around the world. Senseless.
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Musk’s takeover of US health agencies raises pandemic threat, experts warn
Doge wreaks havoc on HHS and CDC as Trump seeks to grant committee sweeping governmental powers
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2025 at 6:49 AM
"The entire first-year class of the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Services officers, known as “disease detectives,” has been laid off! An incredible group of talented healthcare professionals devoted to help people and stop the spread of outbreaks around the world. Senseless.
#histmed
#histmed
"We will have to go toe-to-toe with this administration ... challenging its attacks on science in the courts, finding ways to protect public health through state and local action." Huge respect for Gregg Gonsalves, fighting for global health equity for decades.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...
Opinion | I Shudder to Imagine Kennedy Running Our Health Agencies. (Gift Article)
We have to go toe-to-toe with this administration and resist its attacks on public health.
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
"We will have to go toe-to-toe with this administration ... challenging its attacks on science in the courts, finding ways to protect public health through state and local action." Huge respect for Gregg Gonsalves, fighting for global health equity for decades.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...