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Tamara Dubowitz
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Epidemiologist who studies Neighborhoods, Cities, and Communities. Mom of 3 humans and 2 dogs. Lover of nature and trees. Swimmer. Cyclist. Runner/Jogger. I like challenges.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 27d
Hundreds of CDC employees found out on Friday night they were being fired as part of widespread layoffs across federal agencies.

But within 24 hours, roughly half were reinstated—mirroring firings at various health agencies earlier this year that were deemed a mistake and quickly reversed.
Whiplash at CDC as hundreds of employees are terminated, then reinstated
Agency’s prestigious training programs among those spared, while other key offices are scrapped
scim.ag

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Jul 30
A painful and essential read.

“The PEPFAR Program Impact Tracker, created by a mathematical modeler and a product management leader in the wake of Trump’s PEPFAR freeze, found 56,329 adult and 5,995 child HIV-related deaths between January 24 and June 1, 2025”.
“History Will Judge Us Harshly”: Gutting Global HIV Programs
Emily K. Abel
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · Jul 30
The NIH can’t award ANY grants to outside researchers under new WH restriction, reports @wsj.com.

The pause came in the form of a footnote from OMB Director Vought, in a document that doles out federal funds to the NIH.

Prelude to rescissions, especially after his comments over the weekend?
Trump Administration Puts New Chokehold on Billions in Health-Research Funding
The National Institutes of Health can’t award grants to outside researchers under a new White House restriction.
www.wsj.com

Reposted by Dawn J. Wright, Tamara Dubowitz

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Harold Tobin @haroldtobin.bsky.social · Jul 30
This is a VERY large earthquake, possibly/probably among the 10 largest ever recorded. A clear subduction zone megathrust event. And it is another M>8.5 event with a notable foreshock (the recent M7.4 in same location), like Tohoku in 2011.

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Apr 26
🧪 UPDATE: NSF just opened itself even further to lawsuit.

Yesterday, it doubled down on the false claim that its 1,000+ grant terminations are "not subject to appeal."

See question 16 here, published Friday afternoon: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

A brief thread... 🧵
davidimiller.bsky.social Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Apr 20
🧪 Tip: You have the right to contest a grant termination, even though NSF says you don't. 🧵

On Friday, NSF terminated 402 grants (per Musk's DOGE).

The notification letters had one of the most egregious violations of fed regulations I've seen so far in these cases:

"not subject to appeal"
mzahneis.bsky.social Megan Zahneis @mzahneis.bsky.social · Apr 18
Here's a copy of an NSF grant termination notice that went out today. "NSF is issuing this termination to protect the interests of the government pursuant...on the basis that they no longer effectuate the program goals or agency priorities." Not subject to appeal. #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Reposted by Michael Nelson, Tamara Dubowitz, Juliet Johnson

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Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · Mar 15
Hey! Are you an American considering a PhD or a postdoc, and the funding / academic situation just went absolutely bonkers?

Canada's federal funding awards just added eligibility for international applicants if at Cdn institutions.

www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
NSERC - Latest News - Launch of the new Harmonized Tri-agency Scholarship and Fellowship programs
As announced in Budget 2024, the scholarship and fellowship programs administered by the three federal research funding agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) – have been streamlined into a new harmonized talent program called the Canada Research Training Awards Suite (CRTAS) that will open for applications in summer 2025.
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca

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Theresa O @theresalouiseo.bsky.social · Jul 16
📣 Looking for a postdoc? Is Interdisciplinary Population Health Research your jam?

Apply NOW to the Population Health Postdoc at U of Minnesota!!

Recruiting scholars from various disciplinary social science & public health doctorates. OH Yah. Fall '25 start. Apps due July 21st lnkd.in/gUeEqEDB
The University of Minnesota Training Program in Population Health Science produces scientists who understand that complex health problems result from multiple interacting layers of influence that unfold over chronological, biological, & historical time. We offer cross-training in the biology and etiology of disease as well as in the social sciences, including engaging in independent and collaborative population health research supervised by interdisciplinary teams of faculty; training in a large, vibrant interdisciplinary research center; and intensive mentoring and professional socialization designed to integrate trainees from various disciplinary backgrounds to prepare them for outstanding careers as population health scientists. We elicit postdoctoral fellowship applications from scholars with doctorates in health and social science disciplines to study population health research topics aligned with the priorities of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, Population Dynamics Branch. Examples of target recruitment disciplines include: sociology, developmental science, public health, epidemiology, demography, geography, economics, health policy, public policy, environmental health, psychology, geography, health behavior, anthropology, history, or related disciplines. Multiple positions available. Applications due Monday July 21. https://pop.umn.edu/training/postdoctoral

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · Jul 1
Republicans want to rip healthcare away from 17 million Americans with Trump’s Tax Scam.
HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL LOSE HEALTH CARE IN YOUR STATE? THAT’S 17 MILLION LIVES REPUBLICANS ARE PUTTING AT RISK @warren.senate.gov

Reposted by Tamara Dubowitz, Anya Plutynski

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · Jun 30
I really don’t understand how anyone in this administration, or anyone who supports them, sleep at night.
USAID cuts could lead to 14 million deaths over the next five years, researchers say
An analysis published Monday in the medical journal The Lancet projects that cuts to the agency will lead to more deaths from diseases like AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.
www.nbcnews.com

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · Jun 30
Trump's Tax Scam is a disaster.

We need GOP senators’ phones to be ringing off the hooks: indivisible.org/reso...

And when their voicemails fill up, use this tool to send an email: act.indivisible.org/...
Blue graphic with white letters reads: Trump's Big Ugly Bill: Forces nearly a trillion dollars in cuts to Medicaid, the largest cut to the life-saving program ever by a factor of FOUR Gives ICE a larger budget than many militaries around the world Strips healthcare away from 5% of Americans Kicks 11.8 million people off SNAP benefits Not only cuts funding for green energy but actually taxes it, threatening to balloon energy costs and eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs Represents the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in US history Indivisible logo at the bottom

Reposted by Tamara Dubowitz, Carlos Carroll

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · Jun 22
This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.

Reposted by Juliet B. Schor, Tamara Dubowitz

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · Jun 22
An act of war weeks in planning but unauthorized by Congress against a country that Trump's own director of intelligence testified under oath was not close to getting a nuclear weapon.

Reposted by Víctor M. Montori, Joseph S. Ross, Tamara Dubowitz

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · May 31
I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.
quote on a dark blue and purple background from Sudip S. Parikh, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), criticizing proposed cuts to science funding in the FY26 U.S. federal budget. The quote reads: “If enacted, the FY26 budget request would end America’s global scientific leadership. The cuts to science would imperil our nation’s future health, security and prosperity. This budget proposal stands in stark contrast to the President’s call for a renewed commitment to American scientific leadership. Congress has demonstrated a bipartisan commitment to investment in research and must do so again to answer the President’s call.” The quote is attributed to Sudip S. Parikh, CEO of AAAS and Executive Publisher of the Science family of journals. The AAAS logo appears at the bottom right.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · May 21
13588 comments yesterday...now 14393. Let's get this over 15000 today!

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Tamara Dubowitz @tamaradubowitz.bsky.social · May 19
Definitely Pgh people who will make this happen!! Follow @pgh-health-science.bsky.social to start connecting!!!

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RNS @rns.org · Apr 29
"We cannot allow the fight against antisemitism to be twisted into a wedge issue, used to justify policies that target immigrants and other minorities, suppress free speech, or erode democratic norms," the letter read.
religionnews.com/2025/04/28/5...
550 US rabbis sign letter condemning Trump's antisemitism policy
(RNS) — The letter comes after a poll found that most American Jews oppose the way President Donald Trump is handling antisemitism.
religionnews.com

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Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social · Apr 29
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Apr 27
I really wish reporters would stop saying that there is an effort by the Trump administration to combat antisemitism. It is quite the opposite. There is an effort to foment antisemitism.
forward.com/fast-forward...
Columbia staff receive texts asking if they're Jewish, as government hunts antisemitic harassment on campus
Barnard employees received the text as Columbia University students plan a new tent encampment to protest the Israel-Hamas war.
forward.com

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Apr 24
ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS

We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.

1/n
a cartoon of a man holding a frying pan and a spoon with red alert written above him
ALT: a cartoon of a man holding a frying pan and a spoon with red alert written above him
media.tenor.com

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · Apr 22
BREAKING: we won! A federal judge has enjoined the administration's shut down of Voice of America

Another success for the Constitution and for us @sddaction.bsky.social & our many wonderful partners & clients

More details to follow--stay tuned!

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · Apr 18
Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwestern (including med schools)

Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants

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Tamara Dubowitz @tamaradubowitz.bsky.social · Apr 16
This is a profound loss to science and to anyone who cares about our food system.
kevinh-phd.bsky.social Kevin Hall @kevinh-phd.bsky.social · Apr 16
After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.

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Tamara Dubowitz @tamaradubowitz.bsky.social · Apr 16
Read this.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/o...
Opinion | It’s Time to Protect America From America’s President (Gift Article)
Trump’s authoritarian actions are vandalizing the American project.
www.nytimes.com

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Kevin Hall @kevinh-phd.bsky.social · Apr 16
After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.

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Tamara Dubowitz @tamaradubowitz.bsky.social · Apr 15
"Participate in protests to find and share solidarity, but above all, remember: your work is an act of resistance. Every experiment, every line of code, every collaboration defies those who would silence science. Keep going."

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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · Apr 14
Hey, US scientists: break the outrage addiction, says this Brazilian researcher. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Dear US researchers: break the outrage addiction. I survived the besieging of science. So can you
As I watch US researchers respond to threats against science, I’m reminded of when scientists in Brazil navigated a similar storm.
www.nature.com

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Apr 14
This video shows the fire damage inside the Pennsylvania Governor’s mansion.

Governor Shapiro’s reaction to the arson attack is on my timeline.

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PGHS - Pittsburgh Healthcare Workers and Scientists @pgh-health-science.bsky.social · Apr 13
Faculty, staff, students, trainees, alumni of #Pittsburgh:

We’ve written a letter calling on #Pitt leadership to protect academic freedom, research, and inclusion.

This is our moment to stand together.

Sign here: tinyurl.com/PittLetter
Defend intellectual freedom, scientific discovery, and community safety at the University of Pittsburgh
An open letter from University of Pittsburgh faculty, students, and staff mobilizing in response to threats to intellectual freedom, research funding, and democracy, calling upon Pitt leadership to st...
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Tamara Dubowitz @tamaradubowitz.bsky.social · Apr 11
Happy Birthday!!! And enjoy the happy celebrations! Thank you for all you have been doing!!

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PGHS - Pittsburgh Healthcare Workers and Scientists @pgh-health-science.bsky.social · Apr 8
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Weekly reminder that Republicans in Congress are trying to cut vital health insurance to give tax cuts to the billionaires

More than 400000 people in #Allegheny and surrounding counties are on #Medicaid per pa.gov

Call your representatives, this WILL affect us
How Billions in Medical Cuts Would Hurt Pittsburgh
Podcast Episode · City Cast Pittsburgh · 04/08/2025 · 30m
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