Public health librarian
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Illegally fired CDCer, public health nerd, sports fan, book lover, and hater of all things fascist
WTH???
DOGE is at again. Yes, DOGE is still a thing. It didn’t just disappear with Elon.
A DOGE leftover, Sam Beyda, is now rumored to be sleeping and showering (eck!) in the CDC Director’s suite. This started during the shutdown. Weird? Right?
A DOGE leftover, Sam Beyda, is now rumored to be sleeping and showering (eck!) in the CDC Director’s suite. This started during the shutdown. Weird? Right?
November 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
WTH???
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Apparently all you needed to do to predict the NYC election results was read that one N.K. Jemisin novel.
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Apparently all you needed to do to predict the NYC election results was read that one N.K. Jemisin novel.
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Is Mike Johnson going to say "I don't know" when asked about tonight's election results?
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Is Mike Johnson going to say "I don't know" when asked about tonight's election results?
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Look, folks. When it’s tearing down a Confederate monument that was set up during the Jim Crow era—years after the Confederacy was defeated—it’s eRas1ng H1stoRy! When it’s bulldozing a portion of the White House it’s a *glow up.*
October 20, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Look, folks. When it’s tearing down a Confederate monument that was set up during the Jim Crow era—years after the Confederacy was defeated—it’s eRas1ng H1stoRy! When it’s bulldozing a portion of the White House it’s a *glow up.*
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Several employees at the CDC’s Office of Science Quality and Library Services, for example, remain RIF’d. Without those clearances, “CDC can’t publish any scientific documents,” says a recently RIF’d CDC employee. cen.acs.org/policy/regul...
Trump administration reverses course on shutdown layoffs at CDC
More than half of the approximately 1,300 reduction-in-force notices sent to the agency's employees on Oct. 10 were in error, the Department of Health and Human Services determined as it reinstated st...
cen.acs.org
October 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Several employees at the CDC’s Office of Science Quality and Library Services, for example, remain RIF’d. Without those clearances, “CDC can’t publish any scientific documents,” says a recently RIF’d CDC employee. cen.acs.org/policy/regul...
Same with the CDC Library, which has been around since 1946.
surprised there hasn’t been more discourse around the illegal firing of NCHS leadership, including those in vital statistics.
which are vital
which are vital
October 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Same with the CDC Library, which has been around since 1946.
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Welp—CDC’s entire data team for its legendary national health and nutrition survey (NHANES)—our health census—has been laid off. Now we are flying blind to nutrition and chronic disease status in the U.S.—is this supposed to help us be MAHA? www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...
CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off
NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.
www.statnews.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Welp—CDC’s entire data team for its legendary national health and nutrition survey (NHANES)—our health census—has been laid off. Now we are flying blind to nutrition and chronic disease status in the U.S.—is this supposed to help us be MAHA? www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...
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Hi, Every Library (a political group that advocates for libraries) just launched a petition and a way to email your reps to support the CDC librarians:
Petition: action.everylibrary.org/cdclibrarype...
Email: action.everylibrary.org/emailcdclibr...
Please share!
Petition: action.everylibrary.org/cdclibrarype...
Email: action.everylibrary.org/emailcdclibr...
Please share!
PETITION: Protect the Center for Disease Control Library
Staff at the CDC Library were laid off on October 10th and have not been brought back. Sign the petition to call for their return.
action.everylibrary.org
October 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Hi, Every Library (a political group that advocates for libraries) just launched a petition and a way to email your reps to support the CDC librarians:
Petition: action.everylibrary.org/cdclibrarype...
Email: action.everylibrary.org/emailcdclibr...
Please share!
Petition: action.everylibrary.org/cdclibrarype...
Email: action.everylibrary.org/emailcdclibr...
Please share!
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CDC is not a Democratic or Republican agency. It's an American agency. One in three employees have been lost in recent months. This is dismantling of our health protections, not reform.
October 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
CDC is not a Democratic or Republican agency. It's an American agency. One in three employees have been lost in recent months. This is dismantling of our health protections, not reform.
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Librarians are banding together for the CDC library and its staff. Consider signing, sharing, and call your reps.
October 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Librarians are banding together for the CDC library and its staff. Consider signing, sharing, and call your reps.
CDC Library staff and the larger Office of Science Quality and Library Services have yet to be re-hired at the CDC!!! Please contact your elected reps to advocate for the reinstatement of the CDC Library. Every little bit helps!
#medlibs #firedbutfighting #publichealthsaveslives #CDC
#medlibs #firedbutfighting #publichealthsaveslives #CDC
October 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
CDC Library staff and the larger Office of Science Quality and Library Services have yet to be re-hired at the CDC!!! Please contact your elected reps to advocate for the reinstatement of the CDC Library. Every little bit helps!
#medlibs #firedbutfighting #publichealthsaveslives #CDC
#medlibs #firedbutfighting #publichealthsaveslives #CDC
No, we haven’t gotten any word about a rescission just yet.
Anyone know if CDC Library firings were rescinded? Can’t find anything on their status
October 14, 2025 at 2:27 AM
No, we haven’t gotten any word about a rescission just yet.
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Congress needs to demand transparency re these CDC firings and what happened. I don't think "miscoding" is the reason nearly 50% of those fired were rescinded. Maybe it was the public awareness that programs like global health, suicide prevention, and measles response were being eliminated...
No one knows what is happening. Now, we are hearing some of the CDC RIF notices might have been in error.
Error = Miscoding
Where are we hearing this? Through media of course! No one is being transparent with CDC staff.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...
We continue to track the cuts. Stay tuned.
Error = Miscoding
Where are we hearing this? Through media of course! No one is being transparent with CDC staff.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...
We continue to track the cuts. Stay tuned.
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Alt: a picture of a giraffe dancing with the words welcome to the circus
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October 12, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Congress needs to demand transparency re these CDC firings and what happened. I don't think "miscoding" is the reason nearly 50% of those fired were rescinded. Maybe it was the public awareness that programs like global health, suicide prevention, and measles response were being eliminated...
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I can't get over how the CDC layoffs are coming less than two months after the attempted mass shooting. The agency is being taken apart brick by brick. The public servants there do not deserve this.
October 11, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I can't get over how the CDC layoffs are coming less than two months after the attempted mass shooting. The agency is being taken apart brick by brick. The public servants there do not deserve this.
The library is still RIF’d, too. 😢
OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
October 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
The library is still RIF’d, too. 😢
Yea!!! LFG Aces!
One player. Two Finals MVPs. Three rings. Four MVPs.
A’JA WILSON IS HER.
A’JA WILSON IS HER.
October 11, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Yea!!! LFG Aces!
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RIFed:
Office of Science - CDC Library
They have helped SO many of us with their expertise & guidance so we can do efficient & quick research.
You don’t need us toiling in Pubmed for days at a time during an outbreak. The library helps us get what we need quickly so we can continue our work.
Office of Science - CDC Library
They have helped SO many of us with their expertise & guidance so we can do efficient & quick research.
You don’t need us toiling in Pubmed for days at a time during an outbreak. The library helps us get what we need quickly so we can continue our work.
About Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
The CDC library provides resources and services to support research, communication, and learning.<br></br>
www.cdc.gov
October 11, 2025 at 2:01 AM
RIFed:
Office of Science - CDC Library
They have helped SO many of us with their expertise & guidance so we can do efficient & quick research.
You don’t need us toiling in Pubmed for days at a time during an outbreak. The library helps us get what we need quickly so we can continue our work.
Office of Science - CDC Library
They have helped SO many of us with their expertise & guidance so we can do efficient & quick research.
You don’t need us toiling in Pubmed for days at a time during an outbreak. The library helps us get what we need quickly so we can continue our work.
Well, just got laid off from my job as a public health librarian in the latest illegal firings by this administration. If anyone knows any job leads for a phd-trained health researcher with expert-search skills, please let me know! 😢
October 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Well, just got laid off from my job as a public health librarian in the latest illegal firings by this administration. If anyone knows any job leads for a phd-trained health researcher with expert-search skills, please let me know! 😢
Ugh. This is so played out. Grow up.
Erm, does one actually "read" an audiobook?
September 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Ugh. This is so played out. Grow up.
I hope news reporters pick this up! According to 2018 ACIP documents, working groups are FACA-exempt since they perform in a fact-finding role; do not include a quorum; and, do not vote on policy.
cdc.gov/acip/downloa...
cdc.gov/acip/downloa...
September 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I hope news reporters pick this up! According to 2018 ACIP documents, working groups are FACA-exempt since they perform in a fact-finding role; do not include a quorum; and, do not vote on policy.
cdc.gov/acip/downloa...
cdc.gov/acip/downloa...
This and the dissolving of the PubMed selection committee do not bode well for the future of NLM within the NIH.
Only found out about this today (we use it for DOCLINE delivery): "The NNLM will end support for delivery.nnlm.gov on Friday, December 19th 2025. The document delivery site will no longer be available after that date, and it will not be replaced with a similar service." #MedLibs
NNLM | NNLM Delivery
delivery.nnlm.gov
September 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This and the dissolving of the PubMed selection committee do not bode well for the future of NLM within the NIH.
Got my audiobook copy from the library today. Super excited to read!! Congrats @itsafronomics.bsky.social
TODAY, I AM OFFICIALLY AN AUTHOR!!! A CHILDHOOD DREAM COME TRUE!!!!!
#TheDoubleTax is the first book I've ever written and it’s OUT EVERYWHERE TODAY. Four years. 100s of stories. Countless drafts. I woke up today as a FIRST TIME author. WOW.
Get your copy TODAY: annagifty.com #booksky #blacksky
#TheDoubleTax is the first book I've ever written and it’s OUT EVERYWHERE TODAY. Four years. 100s of stories. Countless drafts. I woke up today as a FIRST TIME author. WOW.
Get your copy TODAY: annagifty.com #booksky #blacksky
September 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Got my audiobook copy from the library today. Super excited to read!! Congrats @itsafronomics.bsky.social
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After nearly two years of negotiations, workers at Enoch Pratt Free Library ratified their first-ever union contract. baltimorebeat.com/enoch-pratt-...
September 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
After nearly two years of negotiations, workers at Enoch Pratt Free Library ratified their first-ever union contract. baltimorebeat.com/enoch-pratt-...
CFB was wild yesterday! I think about a commentator urging kids not to become RBs, WRs or QBs, but kickers and punters. Yesterday, kickers (and holders) were the make-it-or-break-it piece of the team. #cfb #notredame #tenneessee
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September 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
CFB was wild yesterday! I think about a commentator urging kids not to become RBs, WRs or QBs, but kickers and punters. Yesterday, kickers (and holders) were the make-it-or-break-it piece of the team. #cfb #notredame #tenneessee