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Luisa N. Borrell

H-index: 59
Medicine 32%
Public Health 25%
lborrell.bsky.social
Sorry you and your family had to experience that situation.
lborrell.bsky.social
Oh my! How do you bring all of them? 🙈🙈
lborrell.bsky.social
Very interesting read: “​solidarity-based [epid] is the explicit practice of [epid] aimed at dismantling structural inequities in health through the promotion of shared interests, with the goals of overcoming domination and exploitation and, ultimately, of achieving justice.” #EpiSky #SocEpi
epiellie.bsky.social
Public health is under attack. It’s not enough to fight back, we need to make our field better for everyone.

Today’s E is for Epi guest post by @jessieish.bsky.social & Nadia Abuelezam asks “what would a solidarity-based epidemiology look like?”

Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...
Solidarity-based Epidemiology: A guest post
Re-distributing power inside and outside of the field
open.substack.com
epiellie.bsky.social
Public health is under attack. It’s not enough to fight back, we need to make our field better for everyone.

Today’s E is for Epi guest post by @jessieish.bsky.social & Nadia Abuelezam asks “what would a solidarity-based epidemiology look like?”

Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...
Solidarity-based Epidemiology: A guest post
Re-distributing power inside and outside of the field
open.substack.com
cbpolis.bsky.social
Nine former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - who collectively served under both Republican & Democratic administrations - came together to write this piece raising alarm about how RFK Jr. is endangering public health in the United States.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
lborrell.bsky.social
Thank you for the confirmation! I certainly did communicate with the AE and let them know that this was unacceptable and an excessive request.
lborrell.bsky.social
Very interesting! I recently received a review where the reviewer literally demanded I cite at least 15 articles by the same first author. Will this be considered a misconduct or citation extortion? Asking for a friend…🙈
academic-integrity.bsky.social
Prof. Zhanhu Guo, at Northumbria University (a professional citation extortionist) suffers serious consequences for his misconduct (of course not): he must attend a couple of ethics seminars for a year to learn that it's not acceptable to force people to cite dozens of his articles. See FBS Shorts:
academic-integrity.bsky.social
Prof. Zhanhu Guo, at Northumbria University (a professional citation extortionist) suffers serious consequences for his misconduct (of course not): he must attend a couple of ethics seminars for a year to learn that it's not acceptable to force people to cite dozens of his articles. See FBS Shorts:
lborrell.bsky.social
The silence is disturbing and complicit at best!
lborrell.bsky.social
I hear that my dear friend! We have to take all joy we can get these days ❤️😍🥰
lborrell.bsky.social
I couldn’t stop laughing 🤣🤣thank you for sharing 🥰🥰
clarerevans.bsky.social
An excellent example of turkey group gobbles in trees — though I intentionally kicked this one off (please enjoy my attempt at a turkey sound 😉)
clarerevans.bsky.social
An excellent example of turkey group gobbles in trees — though I intentionally kicked this one off (please enjoy my attempt at a turkey sound 😉)

Reposted by: Luisa N. Borrell

cbpolis.bsky.social
And...chef's kiss 🤌 on the footnote, @defendpublichealth.bsky.social and @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social. 👏👏👏 #IHATnotMAHA
Excerpt from article in The Guardian, which states: "The first MAHA report “contains misinformation and uses references that don’t even exist”, she [Dr. Elizabeth Jacobs] noted. The Defend Public Health report has a tongue-in-cheek note that it was “created by real human experts relying on real rigorous data”."
ises-epi.bsky.social
👏 Congratulations to Dr. Yang Han of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, a recipient of our Postdoctoral Fellow Award (Outstanding Promise in Social Epidemiology)!

This week, we spotlight his innovative research in our award series.

🎥 Watch the video feature here: www.social-epi.org/ises-awards
Photo of Dr. Yang Han
carlbergstrom.com
Trump's 3/27 executive order targets the Smithsonian for advancing "the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct."

Trump argues that the exhibit's statement, below, is unscientific. He's wrong. As a biology professor and population geneticist, I agree with every word of it.
“Race does not provide an accurate representation of human biological variation,” the statement reads. “Humans are not divided biologically into distinct continental types or racial genetic clusters. Instead, the Western concept of race must be understood as a classification system that emerged from, and in support of, European colonialism, oppression, and discrimination.”

“It thus does not have its roots in biological reality, but in policies of discrimination,” the statement says. “Because of that, over the last five centuries, race has become a social reality that structures societies and how we experience the world. In this regard, race is real, as is racism, and both have real biological consequences.”

Reposted by: Luisa N. Borrell

brenttoderian.bsky.social
“Trump’s tariffs aren’t just bad economics. They’re a declaration of economic war on the half of America that didn’t vote for him. This is deliberate & strategic. It’s a cultural counter-revolution disguised as industrial policy.”

Except tariffs devastate the half of the US that voted for him too.
Trump's Tariffs Aren't Economics. They're a Cultural Purge | Washington Monthly
Trump's blunderbuss tariff policies are a declaration of war on the half of America that didn’t vote for him.
washingtonmonthly.com

Reposted by: Luisa N. Borrell

episconroy.bsky.social
“Confounding is for EFFECT measures, not occurrence measures.”

Just in case you missed it 🙂
epiellie.bsky.social
I keep seeing people arguing about autism prevalence estimates saying they’ve “adjusted for all confounders” but a *prevalence estimate* can’t be confounded.

Confounding is for *effect* measures, not *occurrence* measures.

Don’t get me wrong, prevalence estimates can be *biased* but not like that.

Reposted by: Luisa N. Borrell

nilsgilman.bsky.social
“Seizing control of universities is among the first steps of any authoritarian regime. We’ve seen this playbook in places like Hungary. When independent institutions fall in line under political pressure, the consequences are long-term and far-reaching.” gautam.beehiiv.com/p/what-happe...
What Happens If Trump Takes Harvard?
The Indispensable Newsletter #25
gautam.beehiiv.com
lborrell.bsky.social
Hard agree 💯💯 Feedback should specific and direct without the ‘idiot’ word. It should provide solutions not more problems and confusions.
#AcademicSky #PhDSky
eve.gd
How to give feedback.
This is a comic strip titled "Savage Chickens" by Doug Savage showing "How To Give Feedback - Lessons 1-5." The comic demonstrates proper feedback techniques using a simple stick figure character speaking to a chicken character throughout five panels:

1. "Be Specific" - Shows the transformation from vague feedback ("You are an idiot") to specific feedback ("You are a total idiot").

2. "Use 'I' Statements" - The stick figure says "I think you are an idiot" to the chicken.

3. "Make sure your feedback is timely" - The stick figure tells the chicken "You were an idiot just now."

4. "Word your feedback as a question" - The stick figure asks the chicken "Are you an idiot?"

5. "Provide specific suggestions" - The stick figure suggests to the chicken "Maybe try being less of an idiot?"

The comic uses humor to satirize corporate feedback training by applying professional feedback guidelines to consistently insulting content, highlighting how following the form of good feedback practices doesn't necessarily make the feedback constructive or appropriate.

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