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Prof. Jennie Roe-mick 🏳️‍🌈 @romich.bsky.social · 43m

To be clear, this "wow" should have been a "yikes."

Prof. Jennie Roe-mick 🏳️‍🌈 @romich.bsky.social · 5h

Wow. My University of Washington colleague Amy Hagopian was expelled from APHA for her pro-Palestinan advocacy. 🧵

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What to Do When Your Professional Association Breaks Your Heart

BY AMY HAGOPIAN Public health professionals are charged with responding to humanitarian crises. When hospitals are bombed, when children are deliberately starved, when doctors are assassinated, we’…

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Dana Priebe @queenofnopants.bsky.social · 5h

Happy International Lesbian Day to all who celebrate!

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Prof. Jennie Roe-mick 🏳️‍🌈 @romich.bsky.social · 5h

As of 10/8/25, 500+ public health scholars and practitioners have signed a letter in support of due process for Hagopian - links to the letter and materials are in her statement.

As Prof. Hagopian argues, this "pattern of institutional capitulation matters."
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academeblog.org/2025/10/07/w...

What to Do When Your Professional Association Breaks Your Heart

BY AMY HAGOPIAN Public health professionals are charged with responding to humanitarian crises. When hospitals are bombed, when children are deliberately starved, when doctors are assassinated, we’…

academeblog.org

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Prof. Jennie Roe-mick 🏳️‍🌈 @romich.bsky.social · 5h

Her expulsion and banning from the 2025 meetings is particularly ironic as another colleague reports that she was going to receive a lifetime achievement award at this conference. 5/n

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Prof. Jennie Roe-mick 🏳️‍🌈 @romich.bsky.social · 5h

Amy was also the 2018 recipient of APHA's Victor Sidel and Barry Levy Award for Peace which recognize members who have made "outstanding contributions to preventing war and promot(ing) international peace." 4/n

This is a screenshot of the a. pHA website about the Victor Sidel and Barry Levy award for peace. Full text pasted in below, but the relevant part is highlighted-- the 2018 awardee was Amy Hagopian

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The Victor Sidel and Barry Levy Award for Peace is awarded to an APHA member who has made outstanding contributions to preventing war and promote international peace. The award draws attention to the profound health consequences of war and what public health workers can do to help prevent war and promote international peace.

The award was endowed by two past presidents of APHA, Victor W. Sidel, MD, and Barry S. Levy, MD, MPH, who have edited books, written papers and spoken widely on war and public health.

Submit a Nomination

Previous Winners

2024 Yara M. Asi, PhD, MA
2023 Samer Jabbour, MD, MPH
2022 Mulugeta Gebregziabher, PhD
2021 Séverine Autesserre, PhD
2019 Shelley K. White, PhD, MPH
2018 Amy Hagopian, PhD, MHA
2017 Fatima Lunze, MD, ScD, PhD
2017 Karsten Lunze, MD, MPH, DrPH
2016 Robert A. Rubinstein, PhD, MsPH
2015 Billie Weiss, MPH
2014 Nancy E. Stoller, PhD

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Prof. Jennie Roe-mick 🏳️‍🌈 @romich.bsky.social · 5h

Hagopian is a longtime APHA member, active in several sections including currently serving as the elected chair of the International Health section. 3/n

This is a screenshot of the American public health association international health section website.

Full text is pasted in below, but the important part is a highlighted section in the middle. That notes that Amy is the elected section chair as of 2025.

The following is text copied from the image--
You can read more about the Section’s history here.

The Section is an active community of global health professionals engaged in networking, policy development, and sharing scientific knowledge and experience with peers as well as increasingly in advocacy and public education. We have built relationships with other sections to promote global health throughout APHA.

The International Health Section’s members are a broad range of global health professionals from students to professors, interns to program directors, and authorities on many aspects of global health.

Section Officers (elected to two-year terms)

Chair: Amy Hagopian (2025)
Chair-Elect: Rachel Rubin (2025)
Immediate Past Chair: Carol Dabbs (2024)
Secretary: Clara Harb (2025)
Secretary-Elect: Mark Strand (2025)
Treasurer: Paul Freeman (2022)

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Prof. Jennie Roe-mick 🏳️‍🌈 @romich.bsky.social · 5h

Prof. Hagopian reports a process that included an anonymous complaint and a 40 minute zoom meeting, "with no written charges provided" then expulsion and banning from meetings "without investigation, witness interviews, or (an) appeal process."

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Prof. Jennie Roe-mick 🏳️‍🌈 @romich.bsky.social · 5h

Wow. My University of Washington colleague Amy Hagopian was expelled from APHA for her pro-Palestinan advocacy. 🧵

academeblog.org/2025/10/07/w...

What to Do When Your Professional Association Breaks Your Heart

BY AMY HAGOPIAN Public health professionals are charged with responding to humanitarian crises. When hospitals are bombed, when children are deliberately starved, when doctors are assassinated, we’…

academeblog.org

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Sykosonik [Spooktacular Hardcore] @sykosonik.online · 2d

I think Link should be unbanned.

Link this post if you agree.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 2d

What if we all just post the word Link over and over again repost it and like then until even the normies are bothered?

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Miriam @miriamboosh.bsky.social · 3d

Let me get this straight: Link, a Black user, got banned for calling out the Bluesky CEO for following a racist. That’s not a good look, especially given Bluesky’s historical treatment of Black users here on bluesky.

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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 8d

Quick reminder that fascism is almost always obsessed with the aesthetics of the male body—sculpted, uniformed, disciplined.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "It all starts with physical fitness and appearance. If the secretary of war can do regular hard PT, so can every member of our joint force. Frankly, it's tiring to look out at combat formations and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals."

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 24d

Your institution will not love you back

Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 26d

UC Berkeley gives the Trump admin the names of 160 faculty + students for a federal investigation into “alleged antisemitic incidents.”

Judith Butler, one of the targeted scholars, tells me: "It is an enormous breach of trust... It's shocking. Did you consider not complying with this request?”

UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move

Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’

www.theguardian.com

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Prof. Jennie Roe-mick 🏳️‍🌈 @romich.bsky.social · 9d

“'This tendency to fantasize—when times change and things aren’t what they were—that the poorest and most vulnerable are actually some sort of malicious freeloading class is a very old one,' medievalist @elisewang.bsky.social ... pointed out on Bluesky."

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 9d

To many, the notion that the “able-bodied” must work sounds reasonable on its face. But in reality, work requirements don’t meaningfully boost employment.

And for people with invisible disabilities that can make work extremely challenging, the framework can unfairly cast them as lazy.

The deceptive phrase behind Trump's Medicaid purge

How the idea of “able-bodied” is abused

www.motherjones.com

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Prof. Jennie Roe-mick 🏳️‍🌈 @romich.bsky.social · 9d

Wondering what image will be on my personalized Antifa address stickers.

Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 9d

I know for a fact that Antifa is not an organization because I don't get emails from them asking for money.

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Prof. Jennie Roe-mick 🏳️‍🌈 @romich.bsky.social · 9d

Concerning.

And very sad to see our national data resources degraded.

Thank goodness for the archivists.

Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 9d

"Data manipulation by the US Gov...makes crucial datasets untrustworthy and unusable. If the US Government secretly changes datasets for political reasons, researchers relying on the data might erroneously recommend ineffective or counterproductive interventions."
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Data manipulation within the US Federal Government

A US Department of Veterans Affairs dataset compiling veteran health-care use in 2021 was quietly amended on March 5, 2025. A column titled gender was renamed sex, and the words were also switched in ...

www.thelancet.com

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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 9d

Old man going on the Sunday morning shows, looking lost, talking like he’s in a past that died decades ago, all while wearing a 100% Grover wool suit from the Sesame Street collection.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11d

it’s fucking insane that you can log off for a few hours and come back to find trump invaded another city in his own country

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Rafi @rafil.bsky.social · 10d

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

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Prof. Jennie Roe-mick 🏳️‍🌈 @romich.bsky.social · Aug 30

Came here to say that I have specific language too, but I love the addition of noting that it's "bad social science."

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The Onion @theonion.com · Feb 4

It Only Tuesday
theonion.com/it-only...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Aug 18

Hey #BookSky!!!

One of my favorite children’s book writers is opening a new bookstore on the southside of Atlanta and could use your help getting it off the ground. Pleeeeeeeeeeeaaaaasssse donate. Yes $5 is enough!!

We need more Black women-owned bookstores.

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📚💙

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Donate to Impossible Moon Bookshop! #HopefulInHapeville, organized by Breanna McDaniel

Hi, I'm Breanna J. McDaniel a born and raised Atlantan from t… Breanna McDaniel needs your support for Donate to Impossible Moon Bookshop! #HopefulInHapeville

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Prof. Jennie Roe-mick 🏳️‍🌈 @romich.bsky.social · Aug 14

We must increase bands.

Indigo Women

Michelle Electrocuted

Allison Krause & Union Transit System

K. D. Lang

(That last one may be a Step Too Far).