Melanie
@mboyd.bsky.social
Mathematician/Research Scientist , PhD Candidate
Want to help make the world a better place, especially for our kids
Want to help make the world a better place, especially for our kids
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Defend Public Health just published our first Whopper of the Week, which will highlight on of RFK Jr.’s most egregious statements, why it’s nonsense, and how it may impact you.
Thank you, @benecal.bsky.social @miriam2024.bsky.social, and Dr. Horstcamp!
Thank you, @benecal.bsky.social @miriam2024.bsky.social, and Dr. Horstcamp!
Whopper of the Week: Kennedy claims that COVID19 vaccines are accessible to all who want them | Defend Public Health
www.defendpublichealth.org
September 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Defend Public Health just published our first Whopper of the Week, which will highlight on of RFK Jr.’s most egregious statements, why it’s nonsense, and how it may impact you.
Thank you, @benecal.bsky.social @miriam2024.bsky.social, and Dr. Horstcamp!
Thank you, @benecal.bsky.social @miriam2024.bsky.social, and Dr. Horstcamp!
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Thanks! We've created scienceimpacts.org to scale insights from these studies to a broader audience, and gotten national and local news coverage. We're also working with advocacy groups like @standupforscience.bsky.social & @snapcoalition.bsky.social to get these messages to the public and Congress
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
August 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Thanks! We've created scienceimpacts.org to scale insights from these studies to a broader audience, and gotten national and local news coverage. We're also working with advocacy groups like @standupforscience.bsky.social & @snapcoalition.bsky.social to get these messages to the public and Congress
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BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity.
This is a major win for public health.
This is a major win for public health.
June 16, 2025 at 9:46 PM
BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity.
This is a major win for public health.
This is a major win for public health.
June 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
This needs to happen daily.
The least that elected officials can do is show up, stand their ground, and force these motherfuckers to arrest them. You have power, you have influence, you have privilege.
Push the issue and draw attention.
Push the issue and draw attention.
May 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
This needs to happen daily.
We need to use what is happening now to make healthcare Better for everyone. #publichealth #healthcare #science
‘US spends 2 to 3 times more per capita on healthcare than other high-income nations but suffers from far inferior health outcomes characterized by large racial and class disparities.’
‘US spends 2 to 3 times more per capita on healthcare than other high-income nations but suffers from far inferior health outcomes characterized by large racial and class disparities.’
RFK Jr is channeling popular anger at a corrupt US healthcare and at underinvested, ineffective public health systems to destroy them altogether. Defending the status quo is not an adequate response. We must fight for an alternative transformative vision. academic.oup.com/healthaffair...
Democratizing care to care for democracy: community care workers and anti-racist public health
Abstract. The organization of care in the United States reflects a longstanding prioritization of medical interventions over broader social support systems
academic.oup.com
May 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
We need to use what is happening now to make healthcare Better for everyone. #publichealth #healthcare #science
‘US spends 2 to 3 times more per capita on healthcare than other high-income nations but suffers from far inferior health outcomes characterized by large racial and class disparities.’
‘US spends 2 to 3 times more per capita on healthcare than other high-income nations but suffers from far inferior health outcomes characterized by large racial and class disparities.’
April 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Let’s dream up to ways to shit on women. Oh hey, let’s cancel the largest clinical trial ever for women www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 23, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Let’s dream up to ways to shit on women. Oh hey, let’s cancel the largest clinical trial ever for women www.science.org/content/arti...
People will die for no reason. And science goes backwards.
Heartbreaking takeaway from a vaccine researcher:
"My biggest concern is that a lot of people, mostly children, are going to die because of these actions. There’s going to be an outbreak of either a new infectious disease or an old infectious disease that people aren’t being vaccinated for."
"My biggest concern is that a lot of people, mostly children, are going to die because of these actions. There’s going to be an outbreak of either a new infectious disease or an old infectious disease that people aren’t being vaccinated for."
What It’s Like to Be a Vaccine Researcher in RFK Jr.’s America
“My biggest concern is that a lot of people, mostly children, are going to die.”
nymag.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:22 AM
People will die for no reason. And science goes backwards.
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trying to arrange a meeting between jd vance and my neighbor with the wind chimes
April 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Because listeria is just delicious in milk
Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.
April 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Because listeria is just delicious in milk
Now they are threatening peer review journals.
Oh man, if I get one of those for Health Economics, not only am I going to post it everywhere, I’m going to print it out on high quality cotton bond, frame it, and hang that bastard on my office wall so I can laugh at it every day.
Right after I write back that they can go fuck themselves.
Right after I write back that they can go fuck themselves.
The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.
April 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Now they are threatening peer review journals.
Excellent analysis of how authoritarians use our fears and manipulate legal norms to throw us off balance. Disabusing ourselves of these tactics can help us get our footing. A must listen on repeat.
Authoritarians take over using corruption and existing prejudices and then twist the concept of legality and criminality to suit their purposes.
They will use terms like “criminal” or “enemy” against anyone they see as a threat, including you.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/resistance...
They will use terms like “criminal” or “enemy” against anyone they see as a threat, including you.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/resistance...
Resistance and Criminality: Audio From A Collapsing State
Authoritarians capture institutions, but they also capture reality. The definition of "crimes" and the use of punishment is something we must reckon with
jaredyatessexton.substack.com
April 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Excellent analysis of how authoritarians use our fears and manipulate legal norms to throw us off balance. Disabusing ourselves of these tactics can help us get our footing. A must listen on repeat.
What if everyone did the right thing? What kind of world could we share?
April 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
What if everyone did the right thing? What kind of world could we share?
And no one trusts the US enough to fund our debts. Not good.
April 9, 2025 at 11:10 AM
And no one trusts the US enough to fund our debts. Not good.
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Some 2,000 scientists, including dozens of Nobel Prize winners, have signed an open letter warning that the U.S. lead in science is being "decimated" by the Trump administration's cuts to research.
Top scientists warn that Trump policies are causing a 'climate of fear' in research
Some 2,000 scientists, including dozens of Nobel Prize winners, have signed an open letter warning that the U.S. lead in science is being "decimated" by the Trump administration's cuts to research.
www.npr.org
April 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Some 2,000 scientists, including dozens of Nobel Prize winners, have signed an open letter warning that the U.S. lead in science is being "decimated" by the Trump administration's cuts to research.
I listen to this song when I need a little happy lift. You can feel their energy and satisfaction. And the simple joy. youtu.be/5r3B7yz6J68?...
Tom's Diner (Cover) - AnnenMayKantereit x Giant Rooks
YouTube video by AnnenMayKantereit
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March 30, 2025 at 4:39 AM
I listen to this song when I need a little happy lift. You can feel their energy and satisfaction. And the simple joy. youtu.be/5r3B7yz6J68?...
Yep
March 14, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Yep
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I’ve never seen Jd thank a single couch
March 3, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA.
Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.
Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.
See how this works?
Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.
Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.
See how this works?
February 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA.
Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.
Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.
See how this works?
Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.
Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.
See how this works?
This.
You only fire the lawyers if you plan to break the law. It's that simple. That's what Hegseth meant when said "roadblocks." www.military.com/daily-news/2...
'People Are Very Scared': Trump Administration Purge of JAG Officers Raises Legal, Ethical Fears
Military lawyers and legal experts told Military.com the administration's firings of the Air Force, Army and Navy's top judge advocates general politicizes and sets an alarming precedent for a crucial...
www.military.com
February 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This.
Please pay attention.
Trump’s firing of three judge advocates general (JAGS), the most senior uniformed legal authorities in the U.S. Department of Defense, should absolutely terrify every American. Their removal is yet another attack on the rule of law perpetrated by the Trump and his administration.
Trump has…
Trump has…
February 26, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Please pay attention.
