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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 5h

If this reduces barriers for pregnant women to get vaccinated, it would be a very welcome development. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

CDC, its advisers quietly expand access to Covid-19 shot for pregnant women

The panel voted to undo an action by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. which removed the vaccine from the immunization schedule for pregnant women.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 7h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 1d

“I certainly didn’t expect to win the Nobel Prize,” he said from a hotel in Montana. “It never crossed my mind.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/h...

His Off-the-Grid Vacation Was Interrupted by Winning a Nobel Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 4d

People are awesome.

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 5d

Thoughtful perspective from @adamfrank4.bsky.social
"I believe the first step out of the maze for young men begins by reasserting to them the virtue of hard work — an often grueling but indispensable part of finding the right answers in science."
🎁 link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...

Opinion | Why Young Men Are Losing Faith in Science

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 7d

The US government is shutdown, but with your help US led science doesn’t have to stop. share.google/tR3Pmgk6jLJE...

NASA has 36 projects you can help with right now

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 8d

"while a healthy lifestyle and good parenting are important, they are not adequate protection against infectious disease. This was made tragically clear when one unvaccinated child died of measles this year while her siblings in the same house recovered." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

Opinion | What Really Drives Vaccine Hesitancy

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 9d

"Chinese universities see changes in the US as ‘a gift from Trump,’ professor says" www.cnn.com/2025/09/29/c...

In the race to attract the world’s smartest minds, China is gaining on the US | CNN

A Princeton nuclear physicist. A mechanical engineer who helped NASA explore manufacturing in space. A US National Institutes of Health neurobiologist. Celebrated mathematicians. And over half a dozen...

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 11d

Excited for the Cosmic Collisions: Supergiant vs Neutron Star author event with @marckuchner.bsky.social today at 4pm at @jeffkinney.bsky.social’s @anunlikelystory.bsky.social in Plainville, MA!

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Pandemic Center at Brown University’s School of Public Health @pandemiccenter.bsky.social · 12d

Join us today at noon ET for a conversation with @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social & @mtosterholm.bsky.social (@cidrap.bsky.social) where they will discuss how we can safeguard access to lifesaving vaccines and prepare for the next pandemic.

Register here ⤵️
brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 12d

Add Denmark to the list of countries who are making a play for US scientists worried about their abilities to continue to do research in the US.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 14d

New from #SCIMaP - analysis of the White House’s Proposed FY 2026 National Science Foundation Budget.

Take-home: Slashing NSF by >50% will lead to ~$11 billion in economic loss and extensive job loss and reduced training opportunities in communities nationwide.

Report: osf.io/e8rnc

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Economic loss from the White House's NSF FY 2026 Proposed Budget

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Pandemic Center at Brown University’s School of Public Health @pandemiccenter.bsky.social · 14d

@wsj.com Experts like @mtosterholm.bsky.social are stepping up to protect science with projects like the Vaccine Integrity Project to keep vaccine guidance evidence-based
www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Hear from him & @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social on 9/26, 12 PM ET
Register: brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 14d

"Perhaps no one told Mr. Trump about this trial lawyer campaign, but the costs of his intervention aren’t benign. He’s raising public fear about a useful medicine in a way that could harm maternal and fetal health. Whatever happened to do no harm?"
www.wsj.com/opinion/tyle...

Opinion | Trump, Tylenol and the Plaintiffs Bar

The acetaminophen link to autism is based on weak evidence pushed by RFK Jr. and his legal allies.

www.wsj.com

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 16d

“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is disrupting the Health and Human Service Department in nearly all the wrong ways.”

www.wsj.com/opinion/dr-p...

Opinion | Dr. Prasad, the FDA’s Grim Reaper

Blocking a therapy for late-stage melanoma will cost many lives.

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Pandemic Center at Brown University’s School of Public Health @pandemiccenter.bsky.social · 16d

Join us Firiday 9/26 at 12:PM ET for a conversation with
@jennifernuzzo.bsky.social and @mtosterholm.bsky.social (@cidrap.bsky.social) in discussion on how we can safeguard access to lifesaving #vaccines and prepare for the next pandemic.

Register here 👇
brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 18d

View from the coffee shop.

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 21d

“To be clear, he said there was no science or data, but that he still expected you to change the schedule?” Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) asked.

“Correct,” Monarez responded.

Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 21d

❗❗❗“He did not have any data or science to point to” ❗❗❗

www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/m...

Ousted CDC director says Kennedy plans to change pediatric vaccine schedule

Ousted CDC director Susan Monarez told lawmakers that her boss, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., told her he plans to change the childhood vaccine schedule this month.

www.statnews.com

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 21d

❗❗❗“He did not have any data or science to point to” ❗❗❗

www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/m...

Ousted CDC director says Kennedy plans to change pediatric vaccine schedule

Ousted CDC director Susan Monarez told lawmakers that her boss, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., told her he plans to change the childhood vaccine schedule this month.

www.statnews.com

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 25d

Divet stomping.

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 26d

I’m starting to see a number of countries placing ads on social media to recruit researchers from the US.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 26d

Cassidy is asking RFK Jr. to encourage vaccination, amid whooping cough outbreak in Louisiana:
x.com/senbillcassi...

U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. on X: "Chair Cassidy Commits to Work with Secretary Kennedy to Stop Whooping Cough Outbreak, Asks him to Encourage Vaccination WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today committed to https://t.co/kotHRAfhqP" / X

Chair Cassidy Commits to Work with Secretary Kennedy to Stop Whooping Cough Outbreak, Asks him to Encourage Vaccination WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today committed to https://t.co/kotHRAfhqP

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 27d

A child died from a rare complication of a measles infection contracted before s/he was old enough to be vaccinated. Another heartbreaking reminder of the danger that measles infections pose.

Mary-Margaret Fill, MD, MPH @mmfill.bsky.social · 27d

I’m so sorry to see this news from Los Angeles 💔

Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is a progressive, almost uniformly fatal, neurological disorder caused by reactivation of the measles virus or an inappropriate immune response to the measles infection.

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Child dies from rare measles-related complication, LA County health officials say

Health officials reported the death of a Los Angeles County child from a complication of measles infection acquired during infancy.

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 27d

"Global health programs are not charity. They are insurance policies and the most affordable protection we have against future pandemics. Containing outbreaks at their source costs millions. Letting them spread costs billions — and lives."

Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · 27d

“Ebola is never just a virus; it is a mirror."

My latest in @statnews.com on #Ebola in #DRC. I’ve seen its horror firsthand — when every hour counts & fear spreads fast.

Global health defenses are weakening — what starts remote can quickly become a global threat.
www.statnews.com/2025/09/11/e...

Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is a warning

“Ebola is never just a virus; it is a mirror,” writes infectious disease physician Krutika Kuppalli.

www.statnews.com

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 27d

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