Anygirl99 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️⚧️🇪🇺
@anygirl99.bsky.social
(she/her) Epidemiologist, cancer research & public health by training, drug safety by vocation (causal inference, EHR, claims, PASS), multiple and varied interests all squeezed into one feed.
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One of my favorite things about Bluesky (or at least my little corner of it) is that people are always sharing resources for taking action.
So here's a pinned thread collecting those resources, some made by me and some made by others.
So here's a pinned thread collecting those resources, some made by me and some made by others.
People are angry and taking peaceful action to protest. That energy needs to continue after the protest if we are going to fix this mess.
Here’s a pinned list of things to do, at protests and outside of them.
Here’s a pinned list of things to do, at protests and outside of them.
VAERS is for hypothesis-free data mining. It is NOT a suitable source for *evaluating* potential safety concerns. Other data / studies are used for that.
Read the caveats in the thread below
Read the caveats in the thread below
Pretty much ANY statistic you see cited to frighten you about vaccines comes from the VAERS database. (Including the recent evidence-free missive from Vinay Prasad). Here's why VAERS can NEVER be a proper source for population-level vaccine risk estimates.
Thread [1/9]
Thread [1/9]
December 1, 2025 at 1:18 AM
VAERS is for hypothesis-free data mining. It is NOT a suitable source for *evaluating* potential safety concerns. Other data / studies are used for that.
Read the caveats in the thread below
Read the caveats in the thread below
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Got tired of reading the news and getting mad. Feeding America backs 200+ food banks around the country and I've seeded with $500 for now. I'll match up to another $500 myself.
Pass the hat, RTs graciously appreciated, etc.
Pass the hat, RTs graciously appreciated, etc.
I'm supporting Feeding America!
To feed America’s hungry through food banks and engage our country in the fight to end hunger
teamfeed.feedingamerica.org
November 2, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Got tired of reading the news and getting mad. Feeding America backs 200+ food banks around the country and I've seeded with $500 for now. I'll match up to another $500 myself.
Pass the hat, RTs graciously appreciated, etc.
Pass the hat, RTs graciously appreciated, etc.
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We asked researchers across the country how federal funding changes have affected them and their labs. Their responses indicate a sense of doom and an existential crisis for science in the US: “The ship is going down and we are powerless.”
Importantly, there’s still time to fix this. 1/2
Importantly, there’s still time to fix this. 1/2
We surveyed hundreds of biomedical researchers about the instability in federal funding. Here’s what they said
“The ship is going down and we are powerless”: What scientists are saying about cuts to federal research funding.
www.statnews.com
August 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
We asked researchers across the country how federal funding changes have affected them and their labs. Their responses indicate a sense of doom and an existential crisis for science in the US: “The ship is going down and we are powerless.”
Importantly, there’s still time to fix this. 1/2
Importantly, there’s still time to fix this. 1/2
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Nice study by @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social et al., even though quite a depressing read.
Studies/articles like these are useful to help the public understand what's being lost and push back.
Don't want to have long depressing chats with your family, friends, etc. yourself? Send 'em here.
Studies/articles like these are useful to help the public understand what's being lost and push back.
Don't want to have long depressing chats with your family, friends, etc. yourself? Send 'em here.
We asked researchers across the country how federal funding changes have affected them and their labs. Their responses indicate a sense of doom and an existential crisis for science in the US: “The ship is going down and we are powerless.”
Importantly, there’s still time to fix this. 1/2
Importantly, there’s still time to fix this. 1/2
We surveyed hundreds of biomedical researchers about the instability in federal funding. Here’s what they said
“The ship is going down and we are powerless”: What scientists are saying about cuts to federal research funding.
www.statnews.com
August 28, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Nice study by @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social et al., even though quite a depressing read.
Studies/articles like these are useful to help the public understand what's being lost and push back.
Don't want to have long depressing chats with your family, friends, etc. yourself? Send 'em here.
Studies/articles like these are useful to help the public understand what's being lost and push back.
Don't want to have long depressing chats with your family, friends, etc. yourself? Send 'em here.
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Between last fall and today, there have been over 3 million out-patient visits, over 300,000 hospitalizations and over 30,000 deaths from COVID. This data comes from a presentation at the the June ACIP meeting extrapolated forward. Now there will likely be more as RFK Jr. consolidates his power. 4/
August 28, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Between last fall and today, there have been over 3 million out-patient visits, over 300,000 hospitalizations and over 30,000 deaths from COVID. This data comes from a presentation at the the June ACIP meeting extrapolated forward. Now there will likely be more as RFK Jr. consolidates his power. 4/
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Science is the most international endeavor in human history.
This flagrantly racist administration is destroying the U.S.'s lucrative and life-saving leadership. www.thetransmitter.org/policy/what-... on @thetransmitter.bsky.social
This flagrantly racist administration is destroying the U.S.'s lucrative and life-saving leadership. www.thetransmitter.org/policy/what-... on @thetransmitter.bsky.social
What U.S. science stands to lose without international graduate students and postdoctoral researchers
Neuroscience in other countries will strengthen—at the United States’ expense—as rising visa restrictions and rejections block many international students from enrolling at U.S.
www.thetransmitter.org
July 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Science is the most international endeavor in human history.
This flagrantly racist administration is destroying the U.S.'s lucrative and life-saving leadership. www.thetransmitter.org/policy/what-... on @thetransmitter.bsky.social
This flagrantly racist administration is destroying the U.S.'s lucrative and life-saving leadership. www.thetransmitter.org/policy/what-... on @thetransmitter.bsky.social
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North Carolina Republicans have introduced a bill that could ban election officials from encouraging voter turnout. If passed, that means:
❌ No voter education from election offices
❌ No public outreach to boost participation
❌ No PSAs reminding people to cast a ballot
❌ No voter education from election offices
❌ No public outreach to boost participation
❌ No PSAs reminding people to cast a ballot
Don’t Say Vote: NC GOPers Want to Bar Election Officials From Encouraging Turnout
Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.
www.democracydocket.com
July 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
North Carolina Republicans have introduced a bill that could ban election officials from encouraging voter turnout. If passed, that means:
❌ No voter education from election offices
❌ No public outreach to boost participation
❌ No PSAs reminding people to cast a ballot
❌ No voter education from election offices
❌ No public outreach to boost participation
❌ No PSAs reminding people to cast a ballot
Trump’s Republicans are putting an end to American research excellence.
Even with flat funding for the NIH, under the current FY26 plan, there will be 60% less cancer research and much less research funded overall. We need to make sure Congress understands these tricks and protects against them in their budget plan.
Odds of winning NIH grants plummet as new funding policy and spending delays bite
Funding multiyear grants up front will sharply cut number of investigators receiving awards
www.science.org
July 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Trump’s Republicans are putting an end to American research excellence.
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Congress eliminated public media funding, and the president signed it into law. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together.
Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq
Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq
July 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Congress eliminated public media funding, and the president signed it into law. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together.
Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq
Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq
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Surprise, surprise. These changes will have the greatest impact on women, people of color, and workers in hazardous occupations.
Labor Department proposes rewriting or repealing more than 60 'obsolete' rules in push to deregulate workplaces
The Labor Department says the goal is to deliver on President Donald Trump's commitment to restore American prosperity through deregulation.
www.pbs.org
July 23, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Surprise, surprise. These changes will have the greatest impact on women, people of color, and workers in hazardous occupations.
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This is one way that we can stand together and help public media survive during this tragic time. Adopt one or more of these stations. Spread the word to friends and family. adoptastation.org Adopt A Station
Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media
Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.
adoptastation.org
July 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
This is one way that we can stand together and help public media survive during this tragic time. Adopt one or more of these stations. Spread the word to friends and family. adoptastation.org Adopt A Station
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The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens.
Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".
Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.
substack.com/redirect/169...
Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".
Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.
substack.com/redirect/169...
June 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens.
Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".
Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.
substack.com/redirect/169...
Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".
Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.
substack.com/redirect/169...
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Also, the years being used are 2021, 2022, and 2023.
Trying to remember what was happening around then that could have influenced college attendance and graduation…………………..
Trying to remember what was happening around then that could have influenced college attendance and graduation…………………..
This is very, very bad.
A new state law will likely force the closure of hundreds of low-enrollment programs at Indiana University. The cutoff is 15 graduates/year for undergrad majors, 7 for Masters programs, and 3 for PhD programs, averaged over 3 years.
wfiunews.wordpress.com/2025/06/24/h...
A new state law will likely force the closure of hundreds of low-enrollment programs at Indiana University. The cutoff is 15 graduates/year for undergrad majors, 7 for Masters programs, and 3 for PhD programs, averaged over 3 years.
wfiunews.wordpress.com/2025/06/24/h...
Hundreds of IU degree programs at risk of disappearing
By Ethan Sandweiss Indiana University could lose hundreds of degree programs as part of compliance with an array of new laws affecting higher education that passed at the 11th hour of the legislati…
wfiunews.wordpress.com
June 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Also, the years being used are 2021, 2022, and 2023.
Trying to remember what was happening around then that could have influenced college attendance and graduation…………………..
Trying to remember what was happening around then that could have influenced college attendance and graduation…………………..
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If MAGA passes Trump's Big Ugly Bill
Experts say 51,000 Americans will die PER YEAR due to loss of Medicaid or ACA coverage
This is unacceptable under ANY circumstances
And to think-Republicans are doing this to give tax breaks to billionaires
No,Mitch McConnell
We Wont Get Over Losing Medicaid
Experts say 51,000 Americans will die PER YEAR due to loss of Medicaid or ACA coverage
This is unacceptable under ANY circumstances
And to think-Republicans are doing this to give tax breaks to billionaires
No,Mitch McConnell
We Wont Get Over Losing Medicaid
June 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
If MAGA passes Trump's Big Ugly Bill
Experts say 51,000 Americans will die PER YEAR due to loss of Medicaid or ACA coverage
This is unacceptable under ANY circumstances
And to think-Republicans are doing this to give tax breaks to billionaires
No,Mitch McConnell
We Wont Get Over Losing Medicaid
Experts say 51,000 Americans will die PER YEAR due to loss of Medicaid or ACA coverage
This is unacceptable under ANY circumstances
And to think-Republicans are doing this to give tax breaks to billionaires
No,Mitch McConnell
We Wont Get Over Losing Medicaid
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Mitch McConnell says voters will ‘get over’ losing Medicaid. That callousness will cost Republicans during during the next elections. Remember this!!!
#WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
#WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Mitch McConnell says voters will ‘get over’ losing Medicaid. That’s a risky bet.
It’s true that many voters have short memories. But other Republicans fear this time may be different.
www.msnbc.com
June 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Mitch McConnell says voters will ‘get over’ losing Medicaid. That callousness will cost Republicans during during the next elections. Remember this!!!
#WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
#WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
“…open all 58 million acres of our national forests to logging and development”
Our public lands are NOT FOR SALE!
Last night, news broke that the current Senate language won’t fly in reconciliation. But, this fight is not over yet!
They are likely to try again and the Trump Admin just announced it will open 58 million acres of our national forests to logging and development.
Last night, news broke that the current Senate language won’t fly in reconciliation. But, this fight is not over yet!
They are likely to try again and the Trump Admin just announced it will open 58 million acres of our national forests to logging and development.
June 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
“…open all 58 million acres of our national forests to logging and development”
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Buried in a Senate budget bill is a massive giveaway to corporate developers and fossil fuel companies.
It forces the sale of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management land in 11 Western states *every 60 days* until millions of acres are gone.
It forces the sale of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management land in 11 Western states *every 60 days* until millions of acres are gone.
June 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Buried in a Senate budget bill is a massive giveaway to corporate developers and fossil fuel companies.
It forces the sale of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management land in 11 Western states *every 60 days* until millions of acres are gone.
It forces the sale of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management land in 11 Western states *every 60 days* until millions of acres are gone.
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Why another protest? What is it going to accomplish? Shouldn’t we be [insert alternate tactic] instead?
These are good-faith questions, and they stem from very reasonable concerns. So let’s take a step back and talk about the role of a peaceful mass mobilization like No Kings.
These are good-faith questions, and they stem from very reasonable concerns. So let’s take a step back and talk about the role of a peaceful mass mobilization like No Kings.
The Strategic Logic of the No Kings Protests
By Leah Greenberg, Indivisible Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director
indivisibleteam.medium.com
June 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Why another protest? What is it going to accomplish? Shouldn’t we be [insert alternate tactic] instead?
These are good-faith questions, and they stem from very reasonable concerns. So let’s take a step back and talk about the role of a peaceful mass mobilization like No Kings.
These are good-faith questions, and they stem from very reasonable concerns. So let’s take a step back and talk about the role of a peaceful mass mobilization like No Kings.
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Mass protests planned for June 14, everyone hit the streets. Every city, every capital. Resist and defend. #3E #HandsOff #Indivisible #FiftyFiftyOne #StopICE #NoKingsProtest
Find a confirmed location here (more protests exist but are not listed): nokings.org#map
Find a confirmed location here (more protests exist but are not listed): nokings.org#map
June 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Mass protests planned for June 14, everyone hit the streets. Every city, every capital. Resist and defend. #3E #HandsOff #Indivisible #FiftyFiftyOne #StopICE #NoKingsProtest
Find a confirmed location here (more protests exist but are not listed): nokings.org#map
Find a confirmed location here (more protests exist but are not listed): nokings.org#map
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This is a good question and it's one I'm getting a lot. The answer is going to depend, in part, on your risk tolerance and the role you plan to play
I've just pushed out a newsletter article with recommendations and advice. Here's a thread with the cliff's notes
🧵
I've just pushed out a newsletter article with recommendations and advice. Here's a thread with the cliff's notes
🧵
June 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This is a good question and it's one I'm getting a lot. The answer is going to depend, in part, on your risk tolerance and the role you plan to play
I've just pushed out a newsletter article with recommendations and advice. Here's a thread with the cliff's notes
🧵
I've just pushed out a newsletter article with recommendations and advice. Here's a thread with the cliff's notes
🧵
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A People’s Guide to Protesting
open.substack.com/pub/jayponti...
open.substack.com/pub/jayponti...
A People’s Guide to Protesting
Safety Tips for Everyone Taking to the Streets
open.substack.com
June 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
A People’s Guide to Protesting
open.substack.com/pub/jayponti...
open.substack.com/pub/jayponti...
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The nation's criminal defense bar association (@NACDL.org) condemns the National Guard deployment in Los Angeles. This move, in response to protests, is an abuse of power, violating free speech and civil liberties.
The nation's criminal defense bar association (@NACDL.org) condemns the National Guard deployment in Los Angeles. This move, in response to protests, is an abuse of power, violating free speech and civil liberties.
June 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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The nation's criminal defense bar association (@NACDL.org) condemns the National Guard deployment in Los Angeles. This move, in response to protests, is an abuse of power, violating free speech and civil liberties.
The nation's criminal defense bar association (@NACDL.org) condemns the National Guard deployment in Los Angeles. This move, in response to protests, is an abuse of power, violating free speech and civil liberties.
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BREAKING: The US military is set to temporarily deploy about 700 Marines to Los Angeles while additional National Guard troops arrive in the city, a US official told Reuters, adding that for now the Insurrection Act is not expected to be invoked reut.rs/3TguBdG
Pentagon to deploy 700 Marines to Los Angeles, official says
The U.S. military is set to temporarily deploy about 700 Marines to Los Angeles while additional National Guard troops arrive in the city, a U.S. official told Reuters on Monday.
reut.rs
June 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
BREAKING: The US military is set to temporarily deploy about 700 Marines to Los Angeles while additional National Guard troops arrive in the city, a US official told Reuters, adding that for now the Insurrection Act is not expected to be invoked reut.rs/3TguBdG
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Your daily reminder that the only reason they are trying to pass a "big" bill is because they want a $4 trillion tax cut for the rich.
Don't do that and Medicaid cuts not needed, cuts to other programs.
Don't do that and Medicaid cuts not needed, cuts to other programs.
June 4, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Your daily reminder that the only reason they are trying to pass a "big" bill is because they want a $4 trillion tax cut for the rich.
Don't do that and Medicaid cuts not needed, cuts to other programs.
Don't do that and Medicaid cuts not needed, cuts to other programs.