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Megan L. Ranney is a practicing American emergency physician currently serving as the Dean of the Yale School of Public… more

Megan L. Ranney
H-index: 42
Psychology 41%
Public Health 31%
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An additional delightful bit -- Dr. Sakaguchi was the only one of the three who got the news directly from the Nobel committee. Dr. Brunkow saw someone was phoning from Sweden and thought it was spam/spoofing (an AP photographer later told her), and Dr. Ramsdell is hiking in a remote part of Idaho.
The Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 scientists for key immune system discoveries
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discoveries about how the immune system knows to attack germs and not our own bodies. The work by Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ram...
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WOW THAT IS SO COOL. Janeway himself.

And thank you right back ❤️
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💯

Ps: I admire you :)
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by Megan L. Ranney — Reposted by: Megan L. Ranney

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I know the news is tough right now.

So take a moment and soak in the gorgeousness & promise of the science that led to this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine & Physiology.

WOW.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/h...
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded for Work on Immune Systems
www.nytimes.com
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I hard co-sign this one.
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mackayim.bsky.social
Quick update of Australian #flu numbers -07OCT
FluA subtype A(H1N1), derived from our *last* pandemic #influenza virus, dominates.
2025=thick red dashed line/red monthly dots. The last pink dot just marks September as an incomplete month.
1,368 added daily over 14 days (19,147).
➡️slowing continues
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Love this one
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Did NIH cancel all the NOSIs? I first noticed that NOT-MH-24-100, which had a prior expiration date of May 2027, now shows as expired (as of September 9, 2025). I then realized there are no active NOSIs...
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by Megan L. Ranney

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Watch to the end 😭
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Reposted by: Megan L. Ranney, Cathy N. Davidson, Karen Benjamin Guzzo , and 1 more

washingtonpost.com
Exclusive: The Trump administration is preparing a plan that will make it harder for older Americans to qualify for Social Security disability payments, part of an overhaul that could result in hundreds of thousands of people losing benefits.
Trump plan would limit disability benefits for older Americans
Trump administration officials are considering eliminating age as a factor in deciding whether someone is capable of working.
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Reposted by: Megan L. Ranney, Anne Applebaum, Michael Cox , and 40 more

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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Reposted by: Megan L. Ranney, Joshua S. Weitz, Smith , and 2 more

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The sequel to We Want Them Infected is done!

COVID killed 1.2 million Americans while vaccines saved millions.

Yet, disinformation superspreaders were empowered, where they are taking a wrecking ball to science & medicine.

How did that happen?🧵

sciencebasedmedicine.org/everyone-els...
Everyone Else is Lying to You: My Book is Done!
The pandemic’s biggest disinformation superspreaders are now in charge. How did this happen?
sciencebasedmedicine.org
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jennanewman.bsky.social
“Good scientists…know the cure for their ignorance is to actively & rigorously test their own assertions. That kind of humility is no different from enduring the hardships required to become a champion…boxer, a great rock climber or a master musician.

It’s time to make that connection explicit.”🧪🛟
“Good scientists are intimate with the limits of what they know and stand ready to learn in domains outside their expertise. They don't just claim they are right. Instead, they know the cure for their ignorance is to actively and rigorously test their own assertions. That kind of humility is no different from enduring the hardships required to become a champion middleweight boxer, a great rock climber or a master musician. It's time to make that connection explicit, and the best place to start is with members of Gen Z themselves. If I could talk to that young man on the plane again, I would not simply tell him to exercise caution when it comes to fringe experts. I would instead explain the long traditions of scientific discipline and determination that built the jet he's flying in. Einstein's relativity, evolution and genetics, climate physics on any planet (even alien ones) - these topics are a thousand times more compelling than faked moon landings because they are not the fever-dreams of hucksters but a direct vision of nature's outrageous beauty and complexity. Make the effort to walk down that road, embrace its honesty and humility and you'll be hooked forever.”
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by Megan L. Ranney

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Also:
It’s fewer shots
It’s fewer visits to the doctor
Immunization rates go up

So there’s both a social science & a biological science side to it!
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“framing science as a debate to be won makes it easy to paint established scientists as opponents who must be overcome”

An interesting thesis and suggestion of a solution

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o... 🎁
Opinion | How the Manosphere Hijacks Young Men’s Interest in Science
www.nytimes.com
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Reposted by: Megan L. Ranney, Ken Caldeira, Tom Clark , and 11 more

chrislhayes.bsky.social
According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building
YouTube video by MSNBC
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by Megan L. Ranney

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It is certainly on hold right now in the US.
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by Megan L. Ranney — Reposted by: Nicholas A. Christakis

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“Combination vaccines were developed to reduce missed opportunities, increase coverage and minimize the trauma of multiple injections … Undoing that progress would put children at risk."

*ps, my editorial note: they are also SAFE

www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-s...
Trump's call to split up the MMR childhood vaccine revives long-settled debate
President Trump's suggestion​ that the combination measles, mumps and rubella vaccine should be separated marks a sharp break from decades of immunization practice.
www.cbsnews.com
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emmybetz.bsky.social
HBO's "Task" is a great show...and I especially loved this inclusion of secure gun storage! It's a a quick reference, but it helps normalize an important part of responsibile gun ownership that can save lives at home
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Opportunity was the focus of Dean @meganranney.bsky.social's address to the Yale School of Public Health community at our recent 2025 State of the School.

Read more in the latest edition of our Science & Society Magazine: m.yale.edu/dbcx
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Reposted by: Megan L. Ranney, John Hogan, Mark Rice , and 2 more

lutzfernandez.bsky.social
Say it often, say it loud:

"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."
Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education
Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...
nepc.colorado.edu
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by Megan L. Ranney

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Totally ok - I am just curious on why the internet has lifted it up from the archives 🤷‍♀️
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Reposted by: Megan L. Ranney, Scott L. Greer, Ingo Rohlfing , and 6 more

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"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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by Megan L. Ranney

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I am so curious about why this video from 2 years ago is circulating!

(Everything I said remains true, with Mississippi & Louisiana nearly tied for the highest firearm death rates, adjusted for population.)
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by Megan L. Ranney

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I challenge you to test your knowledge about the state of Americans’ health.

You might (or might not?) be surprised….

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Opinion | Are Americans more likely to die young?
Take our quiz on mortality statistics and test your knowledge of public health around the world.
wapo.st
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Reposted by: Megan L. Ranney, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

motherjones.com
Some MAHA activists are extremely frustrated that Trump has blamed the existence of autism on Tylenol, and not vaccines.
Anti-vax groups struggle to explain how Tylenol fits in with their whole thing
The White House's very weird autism announcement triggers a moment of opportunity and crisis.
www.motherjones.com
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washingtonpost.com
As President Trump ties Tylenol to autism, many in the scientific community are alarmed by the politicized rush to present drug like leucovorin as solutions, bypassing the slow careful work research demands.
As Trump ties Tylenol to autism, doctors raise alarms and urge more research
U.S. officials will issue a warning label on Tylenol for those who are pregnant, a move that contradicts the guidance from the major medical societies.
www.washingtonpost.com
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🚨 "Sick to my stomach."

That's how the researcher who found a link between Tylenol and autism felt when she realized MAHA would link her analysis to vaccines.

My latest exclusive @kffhealthnews.org
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
‘Sick to My Stomach’: Trump Distorts Facts on Autism, Tylenol, and Vaccines, Scientists Say - KFF Health News
The White House’s autism announcement exaggerates links to Tylenol, misleads on vaccines, and sets back the field by ignoring decades of research, scientists say.
kffhealthnews.org
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by Richard M. Carpiano — Reposted by: Megan L. Ranney

rmcarpiano.medsky.social
What a difference when sci/health journalists cover sci topics (even highly politicized ones). With the increased politicization of sci over the yrs, the standard political journalism practice of both-sides-ing is unhelpful for reporting a story--can help legitimate/amp un-/poorly-supported claims.
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