Meredith Wadman
@meredithwadman.bsky.social
Biomedical policy and climate-and-health reporter at Science. Author of The Vaccine Race. Book lover. History lover. Dog lover. Dual U.S.-Canadian citizen, proud Vancouver native. Signal me at: meredithwadman.13
Thrilled that NPR's Shortwave podcast today featured Katie Burns and her important endometriosis research, along with the Science article that tells Katie's story @Science.org : www.npr.org/2025/09/26/n...
What causes endometriosis? Scientists are closer to finding out : Short Wave
Since the age of nine or ten, Katie Burns has had debilitating pain from endometriosis, a condition where tissue resembling the uterine lining grows outside the uterus. For years, Katie was in the dar...
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September 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Thrilled that NPR's Shortwave podcast today featured Katie Burns and her important endometriosis research, along with the Science article that tells Katie's story @Science.org : www.npr.org/2025/09/26/n...
I am hearing of a possible active shooter situation on CDC campus in Atlanta. Please reach out with any information. Note this is from one source on the campus and is not verified.
August 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I am hearing of a possible active shooter situation on CDC campus in Atlanta. Please reach out with any information. Note this is from one source on the campus and is not verified.
"The small children, they die!” From @science.org 's @martinenserink.bsky.social Don't look away. www.science.org/content/arti...
In Guinea, the United States helped beat back malaria. Now, the disease is set to soar
Foreign aid cuts are expected to cause a rise in malaria cases and deaths across sub-Saharan Africa
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August 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
"The small children, they die!” From @science.org 's @martinenserink.bsky.social Don't look away. www.science.org/content/arti...
Don't look now but: Scientific fraud has become an ‘industry,’ alarming analysis finds. Brought to you by @science.org 's excellent @cathleenogrady.bsky.social | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Scientific fraud has become an ‘industry,’ alarming analysis finds
Sophisticated global networks are infiltrating journals to publish fake papers
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August 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Don't look now but: Scientific fraud has become an ‘industry,’ alarming analysis finds. Brought to you by @science.org 's excellent @cathleenogrady.bsky.social | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Job opportunities at Retraction Watch
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A fascinating summer read from the redoubtable @alexaroblesgil.bsky.social for @science.org ! How a string of deadly shark attacks made a remote island a hub of lifesaving research | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
How a string of deadly shark attacks made a remote island a hub of lifesaving research
After 11 deaths, Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean became a center for shark attack science
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July 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
A fascinating summer read from the redoubtable @alexaroblesgil.bsky.social for @science.org ! How a string of deadly shark attacks made a remote island a hub of lifesaving research | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Well, this makes it real: I'm retiring in September and this is the just-posted job listing for my replacement. @Science.org is a fabulous place to work, so @sciencewriters.org, apply here! recruiting.ultipro.com/AME1123ASEM/...
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July 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Well, this makes it real: I'm retiring in September and this is the just-posted job listing for my replacement. @Science.org is a fabulous place to work, so @sciencewriters.org, apply here! recruiting.ultipro.com/AME1123ASEM/...
@michaelhoffman.bsky.social could you reach out? mwadman@aaas.org
July 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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How much expertise did a key vaccine panel lose this week when RFK Jr. fired its 17 members and appointed 8 new ones?
@meredithwadman.bsky.social and I looked at their publication records to find out. www.science.org/content/arti...
@meredithwadman.bsky.social and I looked at their publication records to find out. www.science.org/content/arti...
The members of RFK Jr.’s new vaccine committee have published little on vaccines
Purge at immunization panel represents a major loss of expertise, as measured by scientific papers
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June 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
How much expertise did a key vaccine panel lose this week when RFK Jr. fired its 17 members and appointed 8 new ones?
@meredithwadman.bsky.social and I looked at their publication records to find out. www.science.org/content/arti...
@meredithwadman.bsky.social and I looked at their publication records to find out. www.science.org/content/arti...
Pace RFK Jr, a @science.org investigation found that doctors on CDC's now-fired Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices made less from industry than their specialist peers; five of 13 made nothing at all. @mariashriver.bsky.social Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
RFK Jr. says federal vaccine advisers are beholden to industry. The evidence does not support him
A Science investigation finds no sign that members of a key CDC vaccine committee are compromised
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June 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Pace RFK Jr, a @science.org investigation found that doctors on CDC's now-fired Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices made less from industry than their specialist peers; five of 13 made nothing at all. @mariashriver.bsky.social Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump budget proposes killing nursing research institute | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump budget proposes killing nursing research institute
A tiny sliver of NIH, it has provided an evidence base for bedside care, shrinking mortality and saving dollars
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June 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Trump budget proposes killing nursing research institute | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
"Promising" is overused when it comes to potential medicines, but here I think it's justified. 10s of millions of Americans have sleep apnea; many reject CPAP. @science.org.bsky.social : Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial
Drug combination targeting lax airways is nearing an FDA submission
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May 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
"Promising" is overused when it comes to potential medicines, but here I think it's justified. 10s of millions of Americans have sleep apnea; many reject CPAP. @science.org.bsky.social : Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
The Trump administration has made it official, letting Women's Health Initiative investigators know that their money won't dry up in September after all.
May 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The Trump administration has made it official, letting Women's Health Initiative investigators know that their money won't dry up in September after all.
Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy
“I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020
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April 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
The #TraumaticBrainInjury unit at the Centers for Disease Control was wiped out in last week's firings. @science.org looks at what was lost. www.science.org/content/arti...
CDC firings gut research on traumatic brain injuries
Last week’s mass layoffs removed small team studying concussions
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April 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The #TraumaticBrainInjury unit at the Centers for Disease Control was wiped out in last week's firings. @science.org looks at what was lost. www.science.org/content/arti...
@altcdc.altgov.info Contact me today if you were impacted by, or know someone impacted by, the elimination of the team focused on traumatic brain injury at CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention. I'm on Signal: meredithwadman.13
April 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
@altcdc.altgov.info Contact me today if you were impacted by, or know someone impacted by, the elimination of the team focused on traumatic brain injury at CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention. I'm on Signal: meredithwadman.13
Important and under-covered attack on the guts of NIH's intramural program from @science.org NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research
Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs
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February 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Important and under-covered attack on the guts of NIH's intramural program from @science.org NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
@taaltree.bsky.social could you reach out to me about EEID program? mwadman@aaas.org or Signal meredithwadman.13
February 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
@taaltree.bsky.social could you reach out to me about EEID program? mwadman@aaas.org or Signal meredithwadman.13
Exclusively from @science.org : ‘Death by ax.’ Fate of millions of research animals at stake in NIH payments lawsuit | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
‘Death by ax.’ Fate of millions of research animals at stake in NIH payments lawsuit
Rodent and monkey facilities imperiled by Trump plan to cut overhead payments
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February 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Exclusively from @science.org : ‘Death by ax.’ Fate of millions of research animals at stake in NIH payments lawsuit | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
icymi, @science.org has a new tracker to keep you up to the minute: Trump Tracker: Firings, lawsuits, and U.S. science in chaos | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump Tracker: Firings, lawsuits, and U.S. science in chaos
Follow President Donald Trump’s impact on U.S. research and science globally
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February 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
icymi, @science.org has a new tracker to keep you up to the minute: Trump Tracker: Firings, lawsuits, and U.S. science in chaos | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
From @science.org : Ax falls on elite group of Ph.D.s training to lead U.S. public health labs | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Ax falls on elite group of Ph.D.s training to lead U.S. public health labs
Most of the fellows in CDC’s highly competitive Laboratory Leadership Service were fired last weekend
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February 19, 2025 at 10:52 PM
From @science.org : Ax falls on elite group of Ph.D.s training to lead U.S. public health labs | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
‘Wrecking ball’: RFK Jr. moves to fire thousands of health agency employees | Science | AAAS brought to you by @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
‘Wrecking ball’: RFK Jr. moves to fire thousands of health agency employees
Supervisors deliver bad news across NIH, CDC
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February 14, 2025 at 11:43 PM
‘Wrecking ball’: RFK Jr. moves to fire thousands of health agency employees | Science | AAAS brought to you by @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
@altnih4science.bsky.social if you are a probationary NIH employee who is losing your job today, reach out to me on Signal meredithwadman.13 to help @science.org tell this important story.
February 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
@altnih4science.bsky.social if you are a probationary NIH employee who is losing your job today, reach out to me on Signal meredithwadman.13 to help @science.org tell this important story.
@altfda.bsky.social If you are a probationary FDA employee who is losing your job today, reach out to me on Signal meredithwadman.13 to help @science.org tell this important story. Confidentiality guaranteed.
February 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
@altfda.bsky.social If you are a probationary FDA employee who is losing your job today, reach out to me on Signal meredithwadman.13 to help @science.org tell this important story. Confidentiality guaranteed.
@altcdc.bsky.social if you are a CDC probationary employee who is losing your job today you can reach me on Signal. meredithwadman.13 Please help @science.org tell this story. Confidentiality guaranteed.
February 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
@altcdc.bsky.social if you are a CDC probationary employee who is losing your job today you can reach me on Signal. meredithwadman.13 Please help @science.org tell this story. Confidentiality guaranteed.