Rebecca Fielding-Miller
@rebeccafieldingmiller.com
Mom. Social epidemiologist. Professional angry feminist. Jewish San Diegan. "So-called expert" on terminated science
Associate Professor of Public Health at UC San Diego, all views my own
Associate Professor of Public Health at UC San Diego, all views my own
Pinned
A refusal to abandon HIV science : AIDS
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I am *so* proud to have co-authored this piece with my brilliant colleagues @abigailmhatcher.bsky.social and @kldunkle.bsky.social. It was initially written over a month ago, but becomes more timely every day.
We lay out 5 principles:
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We lay out 5 principles:
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Sorry, I don't mean resources for how to go and protest. I mean readings about how public health and activism have interacted. Think the history of act up, in a way that is digestible for 20-year-olds who are thinking about it for the first time.
Looking for resources!
I teach qual methods for undergrads. They design and execute their own project over 10 weeks. This year I wanted to loosely center the question on "what do undergraduates think is the role of activism in public health?"
Favorite readings/videos/podcasts for background info?
I teach qual methods for undergrads. They design and execute their own project over 10 weeks. This year I wanted to loosely center the question on "what do undergraduates think is the role of activism in public health?"
Favorite readings/videos/podcasts for background info?
February 9, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Sorry, I don't mean resources for how to go and protest. I mean readings about how public health and activism have interacted. Think the history of act up, in a way that is digestible for 20-year-olds who are thinking about it for the first time.
Looking for resources!
I teach qual methods for undergrads. They design and execute their own project over 10 weeks. This year I wanted to loosely center the question on "what do undergraduates think is the role of activism in public health?"
Favorite readings/videos/podcasts for background info?
I teach qual methods for undergrads. They design and execute their own project over 10 weeks. This year I wanted to loosely center the question on "what do undergraduates think is the role of activism in public health?"
Favorite readings/videos/podcasts for background info?
February 9, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Looking for resources!
I teach qual methods for undergrads. They design and execute their own project over 10 weeks. This year I wanted to loosely center the question on "what do undergraduates think is the role of activism in public health?"
Favorite readings/videos/podcasts for background info?
I teach qual methods for undergrads. They design and execute their own project over 10 weeks. This year I wanted to loosely center the question on "what do undergraduates think is the role of activism in public health?"
Favorite readings/videos/podcasts for background info?
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Bad Bunny won the Super Bowl
February 9, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Bad Bunny won the Super Bowl
Relax it's a blood test is unironically really good public health messaging.
February 9, 2026 at 1:57 AM
Relax it's a blood test is unironically really good public health messaging.
I don't know what people want, what if we asked them?
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"No, it's not based on a real person."
"No, it's not based on a real person."
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"It's in the syllabus"
"It's in the syllabus"
February 7, 2026 at 6:59 PM
I don't know what people want, what if we asked them?
Someone who is good at embroidery, please help me figure out what stitches are happening in this sampler in the background of the new Muppet show? I want to make it immediately
February 7, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Someone who is good at embroidery, please help me figure out what stitches are happening in this sampler in the background of the new Muppet show? I want to make it immediately
I love that the reporter took the kid seriously. "Wait, let me make sure I have all this..."
Kids are people! Often very cool people! The best way to help them grow into cool big people is to treat them respectfully while they're cool small people.
Kids are people! Often very cool people! The best way to help them grow into cool big people is to treat them respectfully while they're cool small people.
From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X)
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
February 7, 2026 at 2:56 AM
I love that the reporter took the kid seriously. "Wait, let me make sure I have all this..."
Kids are people! Often very cool people! The best way to help them grow into cool big people is to treat them respectfully while they're cool small people.
Kids are people! Often very cool people! The best way to help them grow into cool big people is to treat them respectfully while they're cool small people.
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Here's a basic fact: most conspiracy theories tend towards antisemitism. Yes, that one. Mmm hmm, even that seemingly harmless one.
Flat Earthers? Moon Landing Truthers? Antisemitism. Q-Anon? 9/11 Inside Job? Antisemitism.
Flat Earthers? Moon Landing Truthers? Antisemitism. Q-Anon? 9/11 Inside Job? Antisemitism.
February 7, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Here's a basic fact: most conspiracy theories tend towards antisemitism. Yes, that one. Mmm hmm, even that seemingly harmless one.
Flat Earthers? Moon Landing Truthers? Antisemitism. Q-Anon? 9/11 Inside Job? Antisemitism.
Flat Earthers? Moon Landing Truthers? Antisemitism. Q-Anon? 9/11 Inside Job? Antisemitism.
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fund research on menopause you cowards
January 23, 2026 at 10:12 PM
fund research on menopause you cowards
This is so sad. As a teenager my room was knee-deep in paperbacks (literally - ask my mom). Those big soft cover trades were wildly unaffordable, but $5 at Barnes and Noble could buy an afternoon in Discworld or a weekend in Newford.
Farewell to the mass market paperback (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...
So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket
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February 6, 2026 at 10:19 PM
This is so sad. As a teenager my room was knee-deep in paperbacks (literally - ask my mom). Those big soft cover trades were wildly unaffordable, but $5 at Barnes and Noble could buy an afternoon in Discworld or a weekend in Newford.
Incredibly charming.
I love how deliberately this leans away from the trope of women competing with one another for a dude.
I love how deliberately this leans away from the trope of women competing with one another for a dude.
sabrina carpenter singing islands in the stream w the muppets has healed me in ways i did not know i needed
February 6, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Incredibly charming.
I love how deliberately this leans away from the trope of women competing with one another for a dude.
I love how deliberately this leans away from the trope of women competing with one another for a dude.
Lol, of course they are.
Tech bros only ever (re)invent two things: busses and colonialism
Tech bros only ever (re)invent two things: busses and colonialism
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February 6, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Lol, of course they are.
Tech bros only ever (re)invent two things: busses and colonialism
Tech bros only ever (re)invent two things: busses and colonialism
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THE TINY PODIUM????? Get you a mayor who thinks kids are people 😍
Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
February 6, 2026 at 4:31 AM
THE TINY PODIUM????? Get you a mayor who thinks kids are people 😍
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free them all
February 6, 2026 at 4:39 AM
free them all
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The billionaire class wants to decimate the white collar workforce. Because white collar workers are expensive. And because white collar workers—who historically sided with billionaires—are questioning that alliance. Which makes their knowledge and resources a huge threat to billionaire power.
February 5, 2026 at 11:03 AM
The billionaire class wants to decimate the white collar workforce. Because white collar workers are expensive. And because white collar workers—who historically sided with billionaires—are questioning that alliance. Which makes their knowledge and resources a huge threat to billionaire power.
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The desire to decimate the white collar workforce is also driving billionaire attacks on DEI. Because marginalized students/workers have led the questioning of white collar alignment with billionaires, and bigotry makes it easy to get privileged workers not to care if the marginalized are pushed out
February 5, 2026 at 11:40 AM
The desire to decimate the white collar workforce is also driving billionaire attacks on DEI. Because marginalized students/workers have led the questioning of white collar alignment with billionaires, and bigotry makes it easy to get privileged workers not to care if the marginalized are pushed out
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Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."
February 5, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."
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Vance is the archetype of *that guy* in study section.
they made the entire administration out of the worst person you have ever known in every situation, vance is the worst person you ever met in college
February 4, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Vance is the archetype of *that guy* in study section.
In a parallel universe, a study section reviewer once complained that my hiv research grant became *less* significant when I included the fact that sexual violence is a risk factor in HIV treatment and prevention.
Virologist Nathan Wolfe sought funding from Jeffrey Epstein to study whether sexually transmitted infections increased women’s sex drive.
He planned to conduct this study among female undergraduate students.
He planned to conduct this study among female undergraduate students.
Former Stanford professor Nathan Wolfe ’92 planned sexual behavior research, described interns with Epstein
The Daily investigated correspondence between virologist Nathan Wolfe ’92 and Epstein in which the two men discussed interns’ attractiveness, “female viagra” and sexual research projects.
stanforddaily.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:11 AM
In a parallel universe, a study section reviewer once complained that my hiv research grant became *less* significant when I included the fact that sexual violence is a risk factor in HIV treatment and prevention.
That said, hashtag not all philanthropists.
If you've got some money to spare, you think sexual assault is bad, and you want to fund ethical community engaged research and violence prevention, I know a scientist with two thumbs and open DMs who'd love to chat
If you've got some money to spare, you think sexual assault is bad, and you want to fund ethical community engaged research and violence prevention, I know a scientist with two thumbs and open DMs who'd love to chat
I don't think people understand the sheer *scale* of reputation laundering that happens through university donations. This is not isolated. Write a check, put your name on a building, take the tax write-off, and no door on campus will ever be closed to you.
February 3, 2026 at 7:43 PM
That said, hashtag not all philanthropists.
If you've got some money to spare, you think sexual assault is bad, and you want to fund ethical community engaged research and violence prevention, I know a scientist with two thumbs and open DMs who'd love to chat
If you've got some money to spare, you think sexual assault is bad, and you want to fund ethical community engaged research and violence prevention, I know a scientist with two thumbs and open DMs who'd love to chat
I don't think people understand the sheer *scale* of reputation laundering that happens through university donations. This is not isolated. Write a check, put your name on a building, take the tax write-off, and no door on campus will ever be closed to you.
February 3, 2026 at 7:41 PM
I don't think people understand the sheer *scale* of reputation laundering that happens through university donations. This is not isolated. Write a check, put your name on a building, take the tax write-off, and no door on campus will ever be closed to you.
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Sanders: Do vaccines cause autism to the American people?
Bhattacharya: I do not believe the measles vaccine causes autism.
Sanders: I didn't ask about measles. Do vaccines cause autism?
Bhattacharya: I have not seen a study to suggest any **single** vaccine causes autism.
(emphasis mine)
Bhattacharya: I do not believe the measles vaccine causes autism.
Sanders: I didn't ask about measles. Do vaccines cause autism?
Bhattacharya: I have not seen a study to suggest any **single** vaccine causes autism.
(emphasis mine)
Hearing today with the Senate HELP committee and NIH Director Bhattacharya.
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Modernizing the National Institutes of Health: Faster Discoveries, More Cures | The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions
Full Committee Hearing on February 3, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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February 3, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Sanders: Do vaccines cause autism to the American people?
Bhattacharya: I do not believe the measles vaccine causes autism.
Sanders: I didn't ask about measles. Do vaccines cause autism?
Bhattacharya: I have not seen a study to suggest any **single** vaccine causes autism.
(emphasis mine)
Bhattacharya: I do not believe the measles vaccine causes autism.
Sanders: I didn't ask about measles. Do vaccines cause autism?
Bhattacharya: I have not seen a study to suggest any **single** vaccine causes autism.
(emphasis mine)
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Going to try and watch this until I’m blinded by rage
Hearing today with the Senate HELP committee and NIH Director Bhattacharya.
www.help.senate.gov/hearings/mod...
www.help.senate.gov/hearings/mod...
Modernizing the National Institutes of Health: Faster Discoveries, More Cures | The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions
Full Committee Hearing on February 3, 2026 at 5:00 AM
www.help.senate.gov
February 3, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Going to try and watch this until I’m blinded by rage
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Bernie: do vaccines cause autism? Yes or no
Batt: not the measles one
Bernie: no no, not measles, vaccines
Batt, very demure: I have not seen any evidence that they do
Batt: not the measles one
Bernie: no no, not measles, vaccines
Batt, very demure: I have not seen any evidence that they do
February 3, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Bernie: do vaccines cause autism? Yes or no
Batt: not the measles one
Bernie: no no, not measles, vaccines
Batt, very demure: I have not seen any evidence that they do
Batt: not the measles one
Bernie: no no, not measles, vaccines
Batt, very demure: I have not seen any evidence that they do