Jacky Jennings
@jackymjennings.bsky.social
Professor; social/infectious disease epidemiologist; transmission/inequities sleuth; HIV/STIs; network scientist; woman, STEM mentor, big-heart, friend, mother, daughter of an immigrant, avid athlete, spicy; views are mine; Science is for ALL OF US🏳️🌈🔥
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Could Monday's court hearing result in hundreds of cancelled NIH grants being restored? Here's what we know so far -- and what's at stake. @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
June 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Could Monday's court hearing result in hundreds of cancelled NIH grants being restored? Here's what we know so far -- and what's at stake. @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
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Oh my God, I just had a full night’s sleep and Cory Booker is still going…
www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...
www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...
LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor
YouTube video by Associated Press
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April 1, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Oh my God, I just had a full night’s sleep and Cory Booker is still going…
www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...
www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...
Maryland could lose 552 million due to federal health research cuts. Visit scienceimpacts.org to learn more. scienceimpacts.org
SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research
Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide
scienceimpacts.org
March 31, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Maryland could lose 552 million due to federal health research cuts. Visit scienceimpacts.org to learn more. scienceimpacts.org
Been waiting for some smart tabulations. Missing in the calcs are the federal grants/contract cuts in public health&medicine which have been disrupted midstream
$$ spent before completion plus cut = $$ lost, lives lost, science lost
#StandUpForScience
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
$$ spent before completion plus cut = $$ lost, lives lost, science lost
#StandUpForScience
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
March 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Been waiting for some smart tabulations. Missing in the calcs are the federal grants/contract cuts in public health&medicine which have been disrupted midstream
$$ spent before completion plus cut = $$ lost, lives lost, science lost
#StandUpForScience
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
$$ spent before completion plus cut = $$ lost, lives lost, science lost
#StandUpForScience
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Sounds awfully similar to what Kennedy is suggesting for the measles epidemic.
Blatant disregard of science ✅
Complete lack of concern for health and life ✅ #VaccinesSaveLives #StandUpForScience
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/h...
Blatant disregard of science ✅
Complete lack of concern for health and life ✅ #VaccinesSaveLives #StandUpForScience
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/h...
RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread
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 19, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Sounds awfully similar to what Kennedy is suggesting for the measles epidemic.
Blatant disregard of science ✅
Complete lack of concern for health and life ✅ #VaccinesSaveLives #StandUpForScience
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/h...
Blatant disregard of science ✅
Complete lack of concern for health and life ✅ #VaccinesSaveLives #StandUpForScience
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/h...
Measles is a highly contagious virus that can cause loss of hearing and sight, brain encephalitis and death. Tragically children less than 5 yrs are most at risk. Vaccination is the most safe and effective way to protect against measles. #StandUpForScience
Struggling to contain a raging measles epidemic in West Texas, public health officials increasingly worry that residents are relying on unproven remedies endorsed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, and postponing doctor visits until the illness has worsened.
Keeping With Kennedy’s Advice, Measles Patients Turn to Unproven Treatments
In West Texas, some with severe illness have not been taken to a doctor until their conditions worsened, officials said.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Measles is a highly contagious virus that can cause loss of hearing and sight, brain encephalitis and death. Tragically children less than 5 yrs are most at risk. Vaccination is the most safe and effective way to protect against measles. #StandUpForScience
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Universities need to stand up for their interests and be vocal collectively to defend free speech and independent inquiry. Trying to lay low and hide is not going to work.
"The administration has weaponized the fight against antisemitism as a means to another end: punishing and weakening universities." www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
First They Came for Columbia | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.
www.thecrimson.com
March 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Universities need to stand up for their interests and be vocal collectively to defend free speech and independent inquiry. Trying to lay low and hide is not going to work.
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In response to the measles outbreak that started in west Texas, claims are circulating about the use of vitamin A, steroids, and antibiotics.
There is no cure for measles. The only way to prevent measles is the safe and effective MMR vaccine.
For more: podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/864-the-meas...
There is no cure for measles. The only way to prevent measles is the safe and effective MMR vaccine.
For more: podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/864-the-meas...
March 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
In response to the measles outbreak that started in west Texas, claims are circulating about the use of vitamin A, steroids, and antibiotics.
There is no cure for measles. The only way to prevent measles is the safe and effective MMR vaccine.
For more: podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/864-the-meas...
There is no cure for measles. The only way to prevent measles is the safe and effective MMR vaccine.
For more: podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/864-the-meas...
Fauci’s advice today. Stay keenly focused on the science. Fight misinformation. Don’t be afraid to tell inconvenient truths which may place you in the line of fire. Encourage young scientists. Vaccines and HIV ARTs (PEPFAR+USAID) have saved millions of lives. #StandUpForScience #FauciRocks
March 14, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Fauci’s advice today. Stay keenly focused on the science. Fight misinformation. Don’t be afraid to tell inconvenient truths which may place you in the line of fire. Encourage young scientists. Vaccines and HIV ARTs (PEPFAR+USAID) have saved millions of lives. #StandUpForScience #FauciRocks
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The U.S. Department of Defense is ending all of its funding for social science research, stopping 91 ongoing studies related to threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation. scim.ag/4hqu6HA
Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research
More than 90 studies on threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation are halted
scim.ag
March 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The U.S. Department of Defense is ending all of its funding for social science research, stopping 91 ongoing studies related to threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation. scim.ag/4hqu6HA
A landmark study reported in the Lancet in 2024 revealed that global immunization has saved 154 million lives or 6 lives every minute for the past 50 years. The vast majority, 101 million, were infants.
And now this ….💔#StandUpForScience
www.science.org/content/arti...
And now this ….💔#StandUpForScience
www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines
Move reflects vaccine skepticism of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
www.science.org
March 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
A landmark study reported in the Lancet in 2024 revealed that global immunization has saved 154 million lives or 6 lives every minute for the past 50 years. The vast majority, 101 million, were infants.
And now this ….💔#StandUpForScience
www.science.org/content/arti...
And now this ….💔#StandUpForScience
www.science.org/content/arti...
phys.org/news/2025-03...
where do i sign-up? …..argh, only 15 scientists for 3 yrs. Unlikely I’ll make the cut. 🙏🏻🇫🇷
where do i sign-up? …..argh, only 15 scientists for 3 yrs. Unlikely I’ll make the cut. 🙏🏻🇫🇷
French university opens doors to 'threatened' US scientists
A French university announced Wednesday it would welcome scientists from the United States working in areas threatened by funding cuts under President Donald Trump's administration.
phys.org
March 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
phys.org/news/2025-03...
where do i sign-up? …..argh, only 15 scientists for 3 yrs. Unlikely I’ll make the cut. 🙏🏻🇫🇷
where do i sign-up? …..argh, only 15 scientists for 3 yrs. Unlikely I’ll make the cut. 🙏🏻🇫🇷
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I love this photo that @melissabender.bsky.social captured of me at the #standupforscience rally yesterday in NYC. I wonder if I could make this my official faculty photo lol @jackiantonovich.bsky.social @kimberlywheiman.bsky.social @archaeoscape.bsky.social @sarahruncie.bsky.social
March 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I love this photo that @melissabender.bsky.social captured of me at the #standupforscience rally yesterday in NYC. I wonder if I could make this my official faculty photo lol @jackiantonovich.bsky.social @kimberlywheiman.bsky.social @archaeoscape.bsky.social @sarahruncie.bsky.social
#science #standupforscience
It was a great day for science in DC yesterday. Representing for ALL OF US. 🏳️🌈💪🏼🔥🪧
It was a great day for science in DC yesterday. Representing for ALL OF US. 🏳️🌈💪🏼🔥🪧
March 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
#science #standupforscience
It was a great day for science in DC yesterday. Representing for ALL OF US. 🏳️🌈💪🏼🔥🪧
It was a great day for science in DC yesterday. Representing for ALL OF US. 🏳️🌈💪🏼🔥🪧
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I have a NYT essay out this morning. There is very little that Americans can agree on these days. Not religion, not sports, and certainly not politics. But there is one thing nearly everyone agrees on: Vaccines are good. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/o...
Opinion | Kennedy’s Anti-Vaccine Views Don’t Represent America (Gift Article)
Threatening vaccine access is not only bad science, it’s bad politics.
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I have a NYT essay out this morning. There is very little that Americans can agree on these days. Not religion, not sports, and certainly not politics. But there is one thing nearly everyone agrees on: Vaccines are good. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/o...
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Measles outbreaks in West Texas and Lea County, NM continue to grow, resulting in the first death from measles in the U.S. since 2015.
The MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine is safe and extremely effective in preventing the spread of measles.
www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html
The MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine is safe and extremely effective in preventing the spread of measles.
www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html
February 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Measles outbreaks in West Texas and Lea County, NM continue to grow, resulting in the first death from measles in the U.S. since 2015.
The MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine is safe and extremely effective in preventing the spread of measles.
www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html
The MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine is safe and extremely effective in preventing the spread of measles.
www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html
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There’s a lot of noise surrounding vaccines.
The @publichealthpod.bsky.social podcast looks at the basics of vaccines and vaccination—including how they work, the science behind safety, the systems built to ensure children are immunized against life-threatening diseases, and more.
The @publichealthpod.bsky.social podcast looks at the basics of vaccines and vaccination—including how they work, the science behind safety, the systems built to ensure children are immunized against life-threatening diseases, and more.
Vaccines 101: From Molecular Science to Global Policy | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
A series from the Public Health On Call podcast explores the science, safety, and systems behind vaccines.
publichealth.jhu.edu
February 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
There’s a lot of noise surrounding vaccines.
The @publichealthpod.bsky.social podcast looks at the basics of vaccines and vaccination—including how they work, the science behind safety, the systems built to ensure children are immunized against life-threatening diseases, and more.
The @publichealthpod.bsky.social podcast looks at the basics of vaccines and vaccination—including how they work, the science behind safety, the systems built to ensure children are immunized against life-threatening diseases, and more.
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Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s dismantling of USAID will lead to millions of preventable deaths.
The decision of the richest person in the world to destroy an agency that delivers life-saving aid to the poorest people on the planet is unconscionable.
The decision of the richest person in the world to destroy an agency that delivers life-saving aid to the poorest people on the planet is unconscionable.
March 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s dismantling of USAID will lead to millions of preventable deaths.
The decision of the richest person in the world to destroy an agency that delivers life-saving aid to the poorest people on the planet is unconscionable.
The decision of the richest person in the world to destroy an agency that delivers life-saving aid to the poorest people on the planet is unconscionable.
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NIH just posted this news announcement.
"Today the National Institutes of Health is announcing plans to centralize peer review of all applications for grants, cooperative agreements and research and development contracts within the agency’s Center for Scientific Review (CSR)"
"Today the National Institutes of Health is announcing plans to centralize peer review of all applications for grants, cooperative agreements and research and development contracts within the agency’s Center for Scientific Review (CSR)"
NIH centralizes peer review to improve efficiency and strengthen integrity
The proposed approach is expected to save more than $65 million annually.
www.nih.gov
March 7, 2025 at 12:36 AM
NIH just posted this news announcement.
"Today the National Institutes of Health is announcing plans to centralize peer review of all applications for grants, cooperative agreements and research and development contracts within the agency’s Center for Scientific Review (CSR)"
"Today the National Institutes of Health is announcing plans to centralize peer review of all applications for grants, cooperative agreements and research and development contracts within the agency’s Center for Scientific Review (CSR)"
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Very bad sign. Just need one person on the subway or plane who is infectious but pre-symptomatic to create something out of control. Could already be happening.
March 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Very bad sign. Just need one person on the subway or plane who is infectious but pre-symptomatic to create something out of control. Could already be happening.