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.
"So-called expert" on terminated science
Associate Professor of Public Health at UC San Diego.
Pinned
A refusal to abandon HIV science : AIDS
An abstract is unavailable.
journals.lww.com
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:
(1/x)
journals.lww.com/aidsonline/f...
We lay out 5 principles:
(1/x)
journals.lww.com/aidsonline/f...
Reposted by Rebecca Fielding-Miller
Please remember that your Senator is neither your friend, nor your enemy. They work for you. Call them and give them clear input. And don’t be afraid to tell them you’ll be supporting their next primary challenger if they don’t show a spine. They work for you. Threaten to fire them if you have to.
November 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Please remember that your Senator is neither your friend, nor your enemy. They work for you. Call them and give them clear input. And don’t be afraid to tell them you’ll be supporting their next primary challenger if they don’t show a spine. They work for you. Threaten to fire them if you have to.
I have so much respect for Dr. Berg, so please take this as a structural observation not a personal critique: Virginia Woolf could have been discussing *this meal* in A Room of One's Own. It's an uncanny parallel.
Who was *not* at that table and what and where were they eating?
Who was *not* at that table and what and where were they eating?
On one evening, the speakers were divided up and went to dinner parties hosted by some of the wealthy folks who lived around Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island. My dinner was delightful, with good conversation with our host (the mayor of a nearby village), his friends, and some other speakers.
34/41
34/41
November 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I have so much respect for Dr. Berg, so please take this as a structural observation not a personal critique: Virginia Woolf could have been discussing *this meal* in A Room of One's Own. It's an uncanny parallel.
Who was *not* at that table and what and where were they eating?
Who was *not* at that table and what and where were they eating?
Today's adventures through 3 different "impacted" airports: Hopefully a very short, very boring thread.
Airport 1, the gate: "captain requests we hold off boarding for a while" ... Probably fine? 😬
Airport 1, the gate: "captain requests we hold off boarding for a while" ... Probably fine? 😬
November 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Today's adventures through 3 different "impacted" airports: Hopefully a very short, very boring thread.
Airport 1, the gate: "captain requests we hold off boarding for a while" ... Probably fine? 😬
Airport 1, the gate: "captain requests we hold off boarding for a while" ... Probably fine? 😬
Reposted by Rebecca Fielding-Miller
Every single woman you know has had this happen to her. Even the goddamn president of Mexico.
Brava: “If I don’t file a complaint, then what message does that send to all Mexican women?” Ms. Sheinbaum said at her daily news conference, noting sexual harassment was a crime… “If this can happen to the president, what’s going to happen to all the young women & women across our country?”
Mexico’s President Presses Charges Against Man Who Groped Her on the Street
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Every single woman you know has had this happen to her. Even the goddamn president of Mexico.
Reposted by Rebecca Fielding-Miller
They want people to go hungry. Because hungry people will revolt. And if hungry people revolt, then they can vilify the hungry for revolting and claim that the hungry never deserved food at all.
BREAKING: The Trump administration seeks an emergency pause to a court order demanding full November SNAP payments.
Trump administration seeks to halt SNAP food aid payments after a court order
The Trump administration has asked a federal appeals court to block a judge’s order to distribute November’s full SNAP benefits during a U.S. government shutdown. U.S.
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
They want people to go hungry. Because hungry people will revolt. And if hungry people revolt, then they can vilify the hungry for revolting and claim that the hungry never deserved food at all.
Reposted by Rebecca Fielding-Miller
APHA Rally: November 5th 2:30
National Mall, 7th Street, N.W. between Madison and Jefferson (near the Hirshhorn Museum)
www.apha.org/events-and-m...
1/2
National Mall, 7th Street, N.W. between Madison and Jefferson (near the Hirshhorn Museum)
www.apha.org/events-and-m...
1/2
Rally for the Public’s Health
Join us on the National Mall on November 5th to rally for critical public health issues and initiatives.
www.apha.org
October 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
APHA Rally: November 5th 2:30
National Mall, 7th Street, N.W. between Madison and Jefferson (near the Hirshhorn Museum)
www.apha.org/events-and-m...
1/2
National Mall, 7th Street, N.W. between Madison and Jefferson (near the Hirshhorn Museum)
www.apha.org/events-and-m...
1/2
What a beautiful day to rally with thousands of my favorite public health people for public health and good science
And then March to HHS Headquarters (Humphrey Building) after the APHA rally.
2/2
2/2
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
What a beautiful day to rally with thousands of my favorite public health people for public health and good science
The moral arc of the universe bends in surprising places sometimes
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The moral arc of the universe bends in surprising places sometimes
Reposted by Rebecca Fielding-Miller
billionaires lost tonight. you love to see it.
November 5, 2025 at 2:11 AM
billionaires lost tonight. you love to see it.
Reposted by Rebecca Fielding-Miller
I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.
November 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.
Reposted by Rebecca Fielding-Miller
Every dispatch from this courtroom is better than the last.
The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
November 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Every dispatch from this courtroom is better than the last.
Are you at #APHA2025? This afternoon I'll be presenting findings of our demographic survey on whose NIH funded research was deprioritized and defunded. Come say hi!
(Spoiler: it's exactly who you think)
(Spoiler: it's exactly who you think)
November 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Are you at #APHA2025? This afternoon I'll be presenting findings of our demographic survey on whose NIH funded research was deprioritized and defunded. Come say hi!
(Spoiler: it's exactly who you think)
(Spoiler: it's exactly who you think)
Reposted by Rebecca Fielding-Miller
This is undeniably (1) awesome (2) going to make the bigots lose their goddam minds
أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك
November 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
This is undeniably (1) awesome (2) going to make the bigots lose their goddam minds
Reposted by Rebecca Fielding-Miller
Girls only want one thing and it’s you convincing your dimmest family members that changing the clocks twice a year is “woke” and they should call their congressperson about it.
October 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Girls only want one thing and it’s you convincing your dimmest family members that changing the clocks twice a year is “woke” and they should call their congressperson about it.
This is such a good thread. Read it with Wikipedia open so you can bookmark all the things you want to learn more about.
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
This is such a good thread. Read it with Wikipedia open so you can bookmark all the things you want to learn more about.
The monstrous RFK head 💀💀💀
Seen elsewhere, but reposting with attribution to @ellecordova.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/4Iu3g...
Seen elsewhere, but reposting with attribution to @ellecordova.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/4Iu3g...
They did the Monster Slash
YouTube video by Elle Cordova
youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:10 AM
The monstrous RFK head 💀💀💀
Seen elsewhere, but reposting with attribution to @ellecordova.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/4Iu3g...
Seen elsewhere, but reposting with attribution to @ellecordova.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/4Iu3g...
Today's Very Good Question From a Kid:
Is there a currency where you can buy something with the smallest denomination? If so, what and where? (i.e., a single penny once bought a single piece of candy). We decided that "buy one get one for $.01" doesn't count.
Is there a currency where you can buy something with the smallest denomination? If so, what and where? (i.e., a single penny once bought a single piece of candy). We decided that "buy one get one for $.01" doesn't count.
October 30, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Today's Very Good Question From a Kid:
Is there a currency where you can buy something with the smallest denomination? If so, what and where? (i.e., a single penny once bought a single piece of candy). We decided that "buy one get one for $.01" doesn't count.
Is there a currency where you can buy something with the smallest denomination? If so, what and where? (i.e., a single penny once bought a single piece of candy). We decided that "buy one get one for $.01" doesn't count.
Oh nooo. I was wrong a lot.
Take this quiz to die instantly www.americansurveycenter.org/quiz/
Beyond the Ballot Quiz - The Survey Center on American Life
www.americansurveycenter.org
October 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Oh nooo. I was wrong a lot.
Reposted by Rebecca Fielding-Miller
Most scientists have more potential research directions than they can pursue. They choose which paths to pursue. And part of this is deciding which paths are most likely to be fundable.
October 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Most scientists have more potential research directions than they can pursue. They choose which paths to pursue. And part of this is deciding which paths are most likely to be fundable.
Reposted by Rebecca Fielding-Miller
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
Reposted by Rebecca Fielding-Miller
I think it was in the Book of Job where they threw away the homeless guys stuff
Newsom: The New Testament and Old Testament have one dominant thing in common—Matthew, Isaiah, Luke, Proverbs, go down the list—it’s about food, about serving those who are hungry. It’s not a suggestion; it’s core and essential to what it means to align with God’s will.
October 29, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I think it was in the Book of Job where they threw away the homeless guys stuff
Reposted by Rebecca Fielding-Miller
pollsters have a lot of ways to put their thumb on the scale and some of them are less than subtle
wording matters
wording matters
A STORY IN FOUR PARTS:
1. NRSC poll wording
2. NRSC poll results
3. SoCal poll wording
4. SoCal poll results
1. NRSC poll wording
2. NRSC poll results
3. SoCal poll wording
4. SoCal poll results
October 27, 2025 at 2:37 AM
pollsters have a lot of ways to put their thumb on the scale and some of them are less than subtle
wording matters
wording matters
Reposted by Rebecca Fielding-Miller
They're calling it epistemic collapse, did you know that? Epistemic collapse, folks. Because now the perceptions, they're totally divorced from empirical fact.
I've a new essay out at The Nation on Trump's mass firings at the CDC earlier this month and what they mean––not just for public health, but for the entirety of US politics.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
October 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
They're calling it epistemic collapse, did you know that? Epistemic collapse, folks. Because now the perceptions, they're totally divorced from empirical fact.
Reposted by Rebecca Fielding-Miller
"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
October 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)