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Meredith Wadman @meredithwadman.bsky.social · 12d

Thrilled that NPR's Shortwave podcast today featured Katie Burns and her important endometriosis research, along with the Science article that tells Katie's story @Science.org : www.npr.org/2025/09/26/n...

What causes endometriosis? Scientists are closer to finding out : Short Wave

Since the age of nine or ten, Katie Burns has had debilitating pain from endometriosis, a condition where tissue resembling the uterine lining grows outside the uterus. For years, Katie was in the dar...

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Meredith Wadman @meredithwadman.bsky.social · Aug 8

I’m so sorry. Thanks for letting me know

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Meredith Wadman @meredithwadman.bsky.social · Aug 8

Thank you!

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Meredith Wadman @meredithwadman.bsky.social · Aug 8

I am hearing of a possible active shooter situation on CDC campus in Atlanta. Please reach out with any information. Note this is from one source on the campus and is not verified.

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Meredith Wadman @meredithwadman.bsky.social · Aug 7

"The small children, they die!” From @science.org 's @martinenserink.bsky.social Don't look away. www.science.org/content/arti...

In Guinea, the United States helped beat back malaria. Now, the disease is set to soar

Foreign aid cuts are expected to cause a rise in malaria cases and deaths across sub-Saharan Africa

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Meredith Wadman @meredithwadman.bsky.social · Aug 4

Don't look now but: Scientific fraud has become an ‘industry,’ alarming analysis finds. Brought to you by @science.org 's excellent @cathleenogrady.bsky.social | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Scientific fraud has become an ‘industry,’ alarming analysis finds

Sophisticated global networks are infiltrating journals to publish fake papers

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Meredith Wadman @meredithwadman.bsky.social · Jul 30

Hey @sciencewriters.org , job opportunities at Retraction Watch: retractionwatch.com/job-opportun...

Job opportunities at Retraction Watch

Here are our current open positions: Editor, Medical Evidence Project Staff reporter, Retraction Watch Assistant researcher, Retraction Watch Database Learn more about the Center for Scientific Int…

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Meredith Wadman @meredithwadman.bsky.social · Jul 21

Thanks so much Brendan. I feel just the same way about you!

Meredith Wadman @meredithwadman.bsky.social · Jul 18

A fascinating summer read from the redoubtable @alexaroblesgil.bsky.social‬ for @science.org ! How a string of deadly shark attacks made a remote island a hub of lifesaving research | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

How a string of deadly shark attacks made a remote island a hub of lifesaving research

After 11 deaths, Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean became a center for shark attack science

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Meredith Wadman @meredithwadman.bsky.social · Jul 17

Thank you Helen!!!

Meredith Wadman @meredithwadman.bsky.social · Jul 15

Well, this makes it real: I'm retiring in September and this is the just-posted job listing for my replacement. @Science.org is a fabulous place to work, so @sciencewriters.org, apply here! recruiting.ultipro.com/AME1123ASEM/...

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Meredith Wadman @meredithwadman.bsky.social · Jul 8

@michaelhoffman.bsky.social could you reach out? [email protected]

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Martin Enserink @martinenserink.bsky.social · Jun 13

How much expertise did a key vaccine panel lose this week when RFK Jr. fired its 17 members and appointed 8 new ones?

@meredithwadman.bsky.social and I looked at their publication records to find out. www.science.org/content/arti...

The members of RFK Jr.’s new vaccine committee have published little on vaccines

Purge at immunization panel represents a major loss of expertise, as measured by scientific papers

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Meredith Wadman @meredithwadman.bsky.social · Jun 10

Pace RFK Jr, a @science.org investigation found that doctors on CDC's now-fired Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices made less from industry than their specialist peers; five of 13 made nothing at all. @mariashriver.bsky.social Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

RFK Jr. says federal vaccine advisers are beholden to industry. The evidence does not support him

A Science investigation finds no sign that members of a key CDC vaccine committee are compromised

www.science.org

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Meredith Wadman @meredithwadman.bsky.social · Jun 9

Trump budget proposes killing nursing research institute | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Trump budget proposes killing nursing research institute

A tiny sliver of NIH, it has provided an evidence base for bedside care, shrinking mortality and saving dollars

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Meredith Wadman @meredithwadman.bsky.social · May 23

"Promising" is overused when it comes to potential medicines, but here I think it's justified. 10s of millions of Americans have sleep apnea; many reject CPAP. @science.org.bsky.social : Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial

Drug combination targeting lax airways is nearing an FDA submission

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Meredith Wadman @meredithwadman.bsky.social · May 6

The backstory is here: NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women

The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

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Meredith Wadman @meredithwadman.bsky.social · May 6

Now, the study leader has written to her colleagues: "We are so pleased to inform you that the decision to restore WHI funding has been officially communicated to WHI leadership. We learned last night from our NIH acquisitions officer “that the previous decision to not renew has been rescinded."

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Meredith Wadman @meredithwadman.bsky.social · May 6

The administration had said as much, under pressure, after Science broke the news that the longstanding study was being targeted. But the scientists themselves then heard nothing.

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Meredith Wadman @meredithwadman.bsky.social · May 6

The Trump administration has made it official, letting Women's Health Initiative investigators know that their money won't dry up in September after all.

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Meredith Wadman @meredithwadman.bsky.social · Apr 24

Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy

“I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020

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Meredith Wadman @meredithwadman.bsky.social · Apr 10

The #TraumaticBrainInjury unit at the Centers for Disease Control was wiped out in last week's firings. @science.org looks at what was lost. www.science.org/content/arti...

CDC firings gut research on traumatic brain injuries

Last week’s mass layoffs removed small team studying concussions

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Meredith Wadman @meredithwadman.bsky.social · Apr 7

@altcdc.altgov.info Contact me today if you were impacted by, or know someone impacted by, the elimination of the team focused on traumatic brain injury at CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention. I'm on Signal: meredithwadman.13

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Meredith Wadman @meredithwadman.bsky.social · Feb 27

Important and under-covered attack on the guts of NIH's intramural program from @science.org NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research

Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs

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Meredith Wadman @meredithwadman.bsky.social · Feb 25

@taaltree.bsky.social could you reach out to me about EEID program? [email protected] or Signal meredithwadman.13

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