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Devon Greyson
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Academic & writer. 🇨🇦Applied Public Health Chair. I study health information practices & interventions, often pertaining to vaccination and/or gender. I also bicycle & drink coffee a lot, and write fiction a little. Recovering classical bassist. .. more

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · Mar 5
2025 update because I'm not seeking to hire anyone or sponsor any new students right now. Possible exceptions for people who are *really* allied with my funded work (e.g., on mpox vax, vax misinfo) and/or have access to external funding (e.g., fellowship, home nation). Lab is at capacity for now.
greyson.bsky.social Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · Feb 11
Prospective students: Here's what you need to know if you think you might want to work with me (a thread):

1. I'm not looking to recruit new students at the moment. (There could be some exceptions, especially for research-oriented Master's students in my school or interdisciplinary studies.)

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 12h
Language matters. Discourse shapes attitudes, shapes policy, shapes lives.
walkerbragman.bsky.social Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 14h
SCOOP: The Department of Health and Human Services has been using the term “sex-rejecting procedures” to describe gender-affirming care for transgender and nonbinary individuals.

The term is not clinical or medical. It comes from a Christian Right group.

www.importantcontext.news/p/hhs-is-usi...
HHS Has Been Using Anti-Trans Language From a Christian Right Think Tank
The department refers to gender-affirming care as “sex-denying procedures,” a term coined by the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
www.importantcontext.news

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 12h
Very interesting thread on US life expectancy since before the C19 pandemic.
michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social Prof. Michael Fuhrer @michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social · 1d
Drilling down into US life expectancy.

The two big reasons that life expectancy is higher in 2024 than 2023 (and 2019):

➡️Drug overdose deaths are lower
➡️Covid deaths are lower

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michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social Prof. Michael Fuhrer @michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social · 1d
Your periodic reminder that neither the clot-shot-turbo-cancer nor the airborne-AIDS apocalypses eventuated.

Americans are healthier and living longer lives now* than pre-pandemic.

apnews.com/article/cdc-...

*2024 data, but 2025 will be even better

Reposted by Devon Greyson, Felicity Callard, Samantha Brennan , and 1 more

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 14h
SCOOP: The Department of Health and Human Services has been using the term “sex-rejecting procedures” to describe gender-affirming care for transgender and nonbinary individuals.

The term is not clinical or medical. It comes from a Christian Right group.

www.importantcontext.news/p/hhs-is-usi...
HHS Has Been Using Anti-Trans Language From a Christian Right Think Tank
The department refers to gender-affirming care as “sex-denying procedures,” a term coined by the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
www.importantcontext.news

Reposted by Devon Greyson

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Prof. Michael Fuhrer @michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social · 1d
Drilling down into US life expectancy.

The two big reasons that life expectancy is higher in 2024 than 2023 (and 2019):

➡️Drug overdose deaths are lower
➡️Covid deaths are lower

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michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social Prof. Michael Fuhrer @michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social · 1d
Your periodic reminder that neither the clot-shot-turbo-cancer nor the airborne-AIDS apocalypses eventuated.

Americans are healthier and living longer lives now* than pre-pandemic.

apnews.com/article/cdc-...

*2024 data, but 2025 will be even better

Reposted by Devon Greyson, Amy W. Ando, Erin O’Donnell , and 1 more

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 3d
Again, if you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.
nome.bsky.social Nome @nome.bsky.social · 3d
Just because good news is worth celebrating:

There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.

HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.

Reposted by Ben H. Ansell, Will Jennings, John R. Hutchinson , and 20 more

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4d
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.

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 4d
My GenX roots show when I won't call anyone who isn't a radical feminist a TERF.

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 4d
Would we say this is more type 2 (false connection) or type 3 (misleading content) from among the 7 types in First Draft's Information Disorder framework? I guess it might depend on the details of how the article is written (just clickbait headline, or context omitted from article too).

Reposted by Martin McKee, Elizabeth Stokoe, Tuomas Mattila , and 3 more

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James Munday @jdmunday.bsky.social · 4d
Our paper modelling transmission risk in schools is published in Nature Communications. **The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools** doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 5d
Whew, NIH paylines were already lower than ideal, meaning less than 1 in 5 applications got funded. Wonder what they are now?

What are institutions doing for ECRs whose tenure/contract renewal so often rested on finally getting an R?
jeremymberg.bsky.social Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 5d
These are the curves for new and competitive renewal grants.

The number of new awards is increasing slightly, but only slightly.

17 out of 25 institutes and centers with funding authority have now made awards.

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A line graph showing the number of new and competitive renewal awards for fiscal years 2021-2026. The curve for fiscal year 2026 is essentially zero on this scale with 121 awards compared to close to 3000 awards to the same date in earlier years.

Reposted by Devon Greyson

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 5d
Please watch and share this. Boycotts, resistance, protests work. In the United States, and Canada too.
Rachel Maddow on Hanover County ICE Detention Center
YouTube video by Rob McCausland
youtube.com

Reposted by Devon Greyson

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 5d
These are the curves for new and competitive renewal grants.

The number of new awards is increasing slightly, but only slightly.

17 out of 25 institutes and centers with funding authority have now made awards.

3/4
A line graph showing the number of new and competitive renewal awards for fiscal years 2021-2026. The curve for fiscal year 2026 is essentially zero on this scale with 121 awards compared to close to 3000 awards to the same date in earlier years.

Reposted by Alan Richardson

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 6d
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brunojnavarro.bsky.social Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 6d
A newborn baby has died in New Mexico from a Listeria infection that state health officials say was likely contracted from raw (unpasteurized) milk that the baby’s mother drank during pregnancy.
Newborn dies after mother drinks raw milk during pregnancy
Raw milk is promoted by anti-vaccine Health Secretary Kennedy.
arstechnica.com

Reposted by Devon Greyson

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 6d
A newborn baby has died in New Mexico from a Listeria infection that state health officials say was likely contracted from raw (unpasteurized) milk that the baby’s mother drank during pregnancy.
Newborn dies after mother drinks raw milk during pregnancy
Raw milk is promoted by anti-vaccine Health Secretary Kennedy.
arstechnica.com

Reposted by Devon Greyson

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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 6d
When I see AI art used for...like anything...I immediately click away. I'm not reading your article, your whatever, if you're using that shit.

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 7d
Recalling the infectious disease outbreaks in the concentration camps of the first Trump era, and considering the current measles outbreaks, this was only a matter of time, but I really have been dreading it. I don’t even know what’s reasonable to hope for here. Rapid public health response?
cidrap.bsky.social CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 7d
At least 2 measles cases confirmed inside Texas detention center

DHS said all movement within the facility has stopped.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/l...

Reposted by Devon Greyson

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 7d
At least 2 measles cases confirmed inside Texas detention center

DHS said all movement within the facility has stopped.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/l...

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 9d
Have you been to Canada? The mainstream treats are so…milky. Not just chocolate, but including chocolate. (Also, light roast coffee. Oy.)

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 9d
Milk chocolate.

Reposted by Smith

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 9d
Seeing stories of uptick in telehealth appointments in Minneapolis as clients/patients too afraid to go out in person. Our studies of the 2020-21 shift to remote care recognized virtual services could have benefits beyond COVID but I never imagined Anne Frank zooming a therapist.

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 10d
When anti-mask-wearing laws were being proposed/passed, clinically vulnerable lives were devalued for what seemed like ridiculous argument that the COVID cautious were hiding faces for criming reasons. Now ICE et al are hiding their faces for criming reasons. Every accusation seems a confession.

Reposted by Juan Cole, Devon Greyson

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10d
The right-wing push against the average citizen masking was never just about COVID19.

Masking was banned in several jurisdictions because it hampers facial recognition.
ICE Agents Film Protesters & Immigrants as Part of Facial Recognition Push
ICE and CBP are using facial recognition technology to facilitate President Trump’s mass deportation campaign. With a smartphone app, immigration officers can scan faces of people they encounter and q...
www.democracynow.org

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 12d
I guess Ex-FIFA is making alternate plans, even if FIFA isn't. I didn't know that 4 countries whose teams qualified are not going to be allowed into the US. www.npr.org/2026/01/27/g...

Reposted by Devon Greyson

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Nsikan Akpan @monscience.bsky.social · 14d
Bird flu antibodies found in cow in the Netherlands, a first outside of U.S. - Jon Cohen www.science.org/content/arti...
Bird flu antibodies found in cow in the Netherlands, a first outside of U.S.
Dead cat led to discovery, but officials stress no further spread of H5N1 has been detected
www.science.org

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 14d
#Vaccine & #PublicHealth / #HealthPoli experts: are there other countries who don’t have a functional public NITAG so vaccine guidance is issued by professional medical associations or similar?
ameracadpeds.bsky.social The American Academy of Pediatrics @ameracadpeds.bsky.social · 14d
Today marks a major moment for child health: the AAP has released its updated 2026 childhood and adolescent immunization schedule. Updated annually to reflect the latest scientific evidence, this year’s schedule is formally endorsed by 12 leading medical and healthcare organizations.
bit.ly/4r5KbaQ

Reposted by Helen Burstin, Devon Greyson, Smith

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The American Academy of Pediatrics @ameracadpeds.bsky.social · 14d
Today marks a major moment for child health: the AAP has released its updated 2026 childhood and adolescent immunization schedule. Updated annually to reflect the latest scientific evidence, this year’s schedule is formally endorsed by 12 leading medical and healthcare organizations.
bit.ly/4r5KbaQ

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 15d
And research funding/scientifuc agencies, before postsecondary education is gobbled up by the private sector in an effort to survive.

Reposted by Devon Greyson, Robert C. Richards

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Saskia Popescu @saskiapopescu.bsky.social · 15d
Public health giant William Foege, who helped eradicate smallpox, has died at 89 www.statnews.com/2026/01/25/w... via @statnews.com
Public health giant William Foege, who helped eradicate smallpox, has died at 89
‘I wish we could have spared him from seeing that’: Friends of Bill Foege on his legacy, and his anger over anti-vaccination.
www.statnews.com

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 16d
Yeah. My brain keeps trying to connect dots & sensemake but truly these are horrors.

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 16d
Ok. Yeah, I think it’s been known for a while. That autism diagnosis rates are surprisingly high, and vaccination rates fell after antivax targeting, leading to an outbreak or two. What is new to me is investigation into fraud (potentially connecting these & ppl in/near current US federal actors).