Candice Johnson
@cyjohnson.bsky.social
She/Her • Assistant Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Michigan State University • Former CDC/NIOSH Employee • Work, Pregnancy, Multiracial Populations • Personal Account
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55 years ago today, Richard Nixon signed the Occupational Safety and Health Act giving American workers the right to a safe workplace.
www.politico.com/story/2018/1...
www.politico.com/story/2018/1...
Nixon signs workplace safety bill, Dec. 29, 1970
The bill created OSHA.
www.politico.com
December 29, 2025 at 8:17 PM
55 years ago today, Richard Nixon signed the Occupational Safety and Health Act giving American workers the right to a safe workplace.
www.politico.com/story/2018/1...
www.politico.com/story/2018/1...
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On delayed application review, the NIH grant terminations lawsuit appears to be headed for a settlement.
Both plaintiffs and defendants have submitted a joint document outlining their agreement. Judge Young must sign off on it before it takes effect.
Here's what it says and what all this means 🧵
Both plaintiffs and defendants have submitted a joint document outlining their agreement. Judge Young must sign off on it before it takes effect.
Here's what it says and what all this means 🧵
December 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
On delayed application review, the NIH grant terminations lawsuit appears to be headed for a settlement.
Both plaintiffs and defendants have submitted a joint document outlining their agreement. Judge Young must sign off on it before it takes effect.
Here's what it says and what all this means 🧵
Both plaintiffs and defendants have submitted a joint document outlining their agreement. Judge Young must sign off on it before it takes effect.
Here's what it says and what all this means 🧵
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It has a name now 😜
Many thanks to Ken for agreeing to put his good name to my...artwork. The image is in the public domain (CC 0), but citations to the linked documents are warmly welcomed.
✅ zenodo.org/records/1808...
✅ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24452418/
Many thanks to Ken for agreeing to put his good name to my...artwork. The image is in the public domain (CC 0), but citations to the linked documents are warmly welcomed.
✅ zenodo.org/records/1808...
✅ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24452418/
December 29, 2025 at 11:19 AM
It has a name now 😜
Many thanks to Ken for agreeing to put his good name to my...artwork. The image is in the public domain (CC 0), but citations to the linked documents are warmly welcomed.
✅ zenodo.org/records/1808...
✅ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24452418/
Many thanks to Ken for agreeing to put his good name to my...artwork. The image is in the public domain (CC 0), but citations to the linked documents are warmly welcomed.
✅ zenodo.org/records/1808...
✅ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24452418/
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I only learned this recently, and was shocked (though it helped to explain a lot of things).
Fun fact: almost no trade nonfiction books are fact-checked. Unless the author is a rare one who wants to (and can) pay for it out-of-pocket, your favorite books hit the presses full of whatever errors the author may have made. And everyone makes some.
December 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I only learned this recently, and was shocked (though it helped to explain a lot of things).
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This is an outstanding essay describing some of the important roles and influences of NIH program officers (from an insider perspective).
Read!
elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...
Read!
elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...
The Quiet Power of Program Officers
How invisible decisions shape what science gets done—and whether it matters
elizabethginexi.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
This is an outstanding essay describing some of the important roles and influences of NIH program officers (from an insider perspective).
Read!
elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...
Read!
elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...
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More news (not good) from NIH
The renewal request from National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke Director Walter Koroshetz has been denied.
I guess the NIH_leadership™ needed another position to fill with their time-tested recruitment process.
The renewal request from National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke Director Walter Koroshetz has been denied.
I guess the NIH_leadership™ needed another position to fill with their time-tested recruitment process.
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
More news (not good) from NIH
The renewal request from National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke Director Walter Koroshetz has been denied.
I guess the NIH_leadership™ needed another position to fill with their time-tested recruitment process.
The renewal request from National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke Director Walter Koroshetz has been denied.
I guess the NIH_leadership™ needed another position to fill with their time-tested recruitment process.
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Creating a useful DAG is definitely not trivial. And it’s pretty easy to tell when it was an afterthought or checkbox.
The struggle of creating a good DAG is one of the things that can can make a project great. But, I think that takes a good team willing to spend time discussing.
The struggle of creating a good DAG is one of the things that can can make a project great. But, I think that takes a good team willing to spend time discussing.
December 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Creating a useful DAG is definitely not trivial. And it’s pretty easy to tell when it was an afterthought or checkbox.
The struggle of creating a good DAG is one of the things that can can make a project great. But, I think that takes a good team willing to spend time discussing.
The struggle of creating a good DAG is one of the things that can can make a project great. But, I think that takes a good team willing to spend time discussing.
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Funding Opportunity!
We are now taking applications for our Early Career Research Awards. These awards provide support to recent PhD earners researching policy and employment issues. Those working in economics, sociology, public policy, political science, and related fields may apply.
#Econsky
We are now taking applications for our Early Career Research Awards. These awards provide support to recent PhD earners researching policy and employment issues. Those working in economics, sociology, public policy, political science, and related fields may apply.
#Econsky
December 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Funding Opportunity!
We are now taking applications for our Early Career Research Awards. These awards provide support to recent PhD earners researching policy and employment issues. Those working in economics, sociology, public policy, political science, and related fields may apply.
#Econsky
We are now taking applications for our Early Career Research Awards. These awards provide support to recent PhD earners researching policy and employment issues. Those working in economics, sociology, public policy, political science, and related fields may apply.
#Econsky
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The team behind Climate.us aims to provide the same kind of reliable, fresh content that used to be available via Climate.gov. We hope you’ll support us. #ClimateForUs
December 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The team behind Climate.us aims to provide the same kind of reliable, fresh content that used to be available via Climate.gov. We hope you’ll support us. #ClimateForUs
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This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
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Bad-faith actors have used a well-worn playbook to undermine public health interventions and institutions to advance their commercial, political, and personal interests. We need to be careful not to conflate "meeting people where they are" with ceding scientific ground to these actors and agendas.
December 23, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Bad-faith actors have used a well-worn playbook to undermine public health interventions and institutions to advance their commercial, political, and personal interests. We need to be careful not to conflate "meeting people where they are" with ceding scientific ground to these actors and agendas.
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"[RFK jr.] may as well have shot the bullets himself [...] and I hold him and his colleagues personally responsible for that violence and the death of that officer", says Daskalakis.
Their rhetoric dehumanizing people who do public health created the environment that led to the attack, he says.
Their rhetoric dehumanizing people who do public health created the environment that led to the attack, he says.
December 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
"[RFK jr.] may as well have shot the bullets himself [...] and I hold him and his colleagues personally responsible for that violence and the death of that officer", says Daskalakis.
Their rhetoric dehumanizing people who do public health created the environment that led to the attack, he says.
Their rhetoric dehumanizing people who do public health created the environment that led to the attack, he says.
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Daskalakis says that for him the lasting memory of 2025 will be the attack on the CDC on August 8, during which the police officer David Rose was killed.
"That was one of my moments where I was like, we've crossed a threshold."
And he does not mince words about who he sees as responsible: RFK jr.
"That was one of my moments where I was like, we've crossed a threshold."
And he does not mince words about who he sees as responsible: RFK jr.
December 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Daskalakis says that for him the lasting memory of 2025 will be the attack on the CDC on August 8, during which the police officer David Rose was killed.
"That was one of my moments where I was like, we've crossed a threshold."
And he does not mince words about who he sees as responsible: RFK jr.
"That was one of my moments where I was like, we've crossed a threshold."
And he does not mince words about who he sees as responsible: RFK jr.
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@washingtonpost.com piece featuring over 1,000 interviews with federal employees.
#altgov family spread the word.
wapo.st/4b14KAy
#altgov family spread the word.
wapo.st/4b14KAy
The year Trump broke the federal government
How DOGE and the White House carried out a once-unthinkable transformation of the nation’s sprawling bureaucracy.
wapo.st
December 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
@washingtonpost.com piece featuring over 1,000 interviews with federal employees.
#altgov family spread the word.
wapo.st/4b14KAy
#altgov family spread the word.
wapo.st/4b14KAy
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#JohnsHopkins @ucsfmedicine.bsky.social and @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social are not obliged to take back Marty Makary, Vinay Prasad & Jay Bhattacharya when they leave the administration.
December 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
#JohnsHopkins @ucsfmedicine.bsky.social and @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social are not obliged to take back Marty Makary, Vinay Prasad & Jay Bhattacharya when they leave the administration.
One of the major problems with epidemiologic research is that we focus so much on the statistics that many (most?) researchers think that "doing research" means running the regression model and not the actual research part, which is everything described in this historian's post. 1/n
A big part of being a historian is being a detective! Who did this? Why? Where? Why does it matter in the grand scheme of things? You have to learn how to probe, how to uncover, how to read against the grain, how to find unusual sources, how to interpret those sources. How to piece together a puzzle
It also robs students of learning *how* to research.
December 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
One of the major problems with epidemiologic research is that we focus so much on the statistics that many (most?) researchers think that "doing research" means running the regression model and not the actual research part, which is everything described in this historian's post. 1/n
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McGill is hiring scholars from outside Canada! The Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (Impact+) Program is designed to attract world-leading researchers whose work addresses critical national and global challenges. Review of applications begins 1/16/26. www.mcgill.ca/research/res...
December 22, 2025 at 12:52 AM
McGill is hiring scholars from outside Canada! The Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (Impact+) Program is designed to attract world-leading researchers whose work addresses critical national and global challenges. Review of applications begins 1/16/26. www.mcgill.ca/research/res...
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20,000 words, 150 footnotes, 100+ timeline events = our attempt at documenting and synthesizing all the ways that the federal government has attempted to destroy access to gender-affirming care since January unbreaking.org/issues/trans...
Transgender Healthcare: Explainer — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
unbreaking.org
December 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
20,000 words, 150 footnotes, 100+ timeline events = our attempt at documenting and synthesizing all the ways that the federal government has attempted to destroy access to gender-affirming care since January unbreaking.org/issues/trans...
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Manuscript and grant reviewers in biomedical sciences: Do you have any major pet peeves when it comes to formatting of papers or grants that you're reviewing? Anything else not format-related? I'm putting together some recommendations for trainees in our #epidemiology program. Thanks!
December 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Manuscript and grant reviewers in biomedical sciences: Do you have any major pet peeves when it comes to formatting of papers or grants that you're reviewing? Anything else not format-related? I'm putting together some recommendations for trainees in our #epidemiology program. Thanks!
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A new federal rule would ban gender affirming care at virtually every hospital system in the country.
Now, an organization says they've prepared, have private clinics and financial aid ready for families that need them.
Meet one group fighting back, the TYEP.
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Now, an organization says they've prepared, have private clinics and financial aid ready for families that need them.
Meet one group fighting back, the TYEP.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Trans Youth Emergency Project Offers Families Guidance To Help Keep Getting Care After New Trump Anti-Trans Rule
The organization tells EITM that they are prepared to scale up for further shutdown of care, and can offer most families places to continue getting care.
www.erininthemorning.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
A new federal rule would ban gender affirming care at virtually every hospital system in the country.
Now, an organization says they've prepared, have private clinics and financial aid ready for families that need them.
Meet one group fighting back, the TYEP.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Now, an organization says they've prepared, have private clinics and financial aid ready for families that need them.
Meet one group fighting back, the TYEP.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
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14 2-yr Postdoc positions at 3 unis, any field (that is under pressure in US), deadline Jan 9
Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
December 20, 2025 at 5:42 AM