Abigail Amey
@abigailamey.bsky.social
Posts mainly music, dogs, science, gin, coffee. PhD in biochemistry. Favourite job? Klute, Durham. Occasional scientist/writer/editor.
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This is the first step to being able to completely change the recommended immunization schedule however he wants. If vaccines are removed from the schedule, they aren't covered by insurance or Vaccines for Children, eliminating access for ~40-50% of kids who get their vaccines thru VFC. 2/n
June 10, 2025 at 1:43 AM
This is the first step to being able to completely change the recommended immunization schedule however he wants. If vaccines are removed from the schedule, they aren't covered by insurance or Vaccines for Children, eliminating access for ~40-50% of kids who get their vaccines thru VFC. 2/n
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THIS IS A BIG DEAL. This is the most egregious and dangerous thing Kennedy has done yet to remove access to #vaccines. (It’s also what that I & many others explicitly predicted & feared before he was confirmed.) He can now fill this CDC committee w anti-vaccine people. 1/n
apnews.com/article/kenn...
apnews.com/article/kenn...
RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines.
apnews.com
June 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
THIS IS A BIG DEAL. This is the most egregious and dangerous thing Kennedy has done yet to remove access to #vaccines. (It’s also what that I & many others explicitly predicted & feared before he was confirmed.) He can now fill this CDC committee w anti-vaccine people. 1/n
apnews.com/article/kenn...
apnews.com/article/kenn...
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He's right. "Nothing short of devastating"
By @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
By @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
June 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
He's right. "Nothing short of devastating"
By @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
By @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Bit of unexpected biodiversity in rhododendron dell in Kew Gardens this afternoon
May 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Bit of unexpected biodiversity in rhododendron dell in Kew Gardens this afternoon
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In 15 yrs of reporting, I've never had so many health & biomed researchers & outreach orgs tell me they're afraid to talk w/press or barred from speaking bc of new comms policies.
I understand the fear of losing funds. I don't know if silence does more harm than good. If you can speak up, pls do.
I understand the fear of losing funds. I don't know if silence does more harm than good. If you can speak up, pls do.
March 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
In 15 yrs of reporting, I've never had so many health & biomed researchers & outreach orgs tell me they're afraid to talk w/press or barred from speaking bc of new comms policies.
I understand the fear of losing funds. I don't know if silence does more harm than good. If you can speak up, pls do.
I understand the fear of losing funds. I don't know if silence does more harm than good. If you can speak up, pls do.
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March 19, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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I'm delighted to say our highly secure and productive OpenSAFELY platform has received a further £17 million in funding from Wellcome, including for a new mental health data project. More here, and clips from Today on Radio4 this morning too!
www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...
www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...
Game-changing new funding from Wellcome for OpenSAFELY and mental health data | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
This morning the Today programme on Radio 4 did two great spots on OpenSAFELY.
www.bennett.ox.ac.uk
February 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I'm delighted to say our highly secure and productive OpenSAFELY platform has received a further £17 million in funding from Wellcome, including for a new mental health data project. More here, and clips from Today on Radio4 this morning too!
www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...
www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...
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I see they started with the copyeditors.
![Screenshot of a Trump EO, white text on a dark blue background, which reads “PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS: COMMENCING THE REDUCTION OF THE FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY
ECEXUTIVE [sic] ORDER
February 19, 2025](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nf66nltcbiomd5u3fpj4b42v/bafkreig4bvxsokots2k35tfvdighlp7skvmsqgdhtkvvf532eppn3bqg6a@jpeg)
February 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I see they started with the copyeditors.
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Use this form to tell us how the new US administration is affecting your research, or suggest future coverage
https://go.nature.com/42SyoUu
https://go.nature.com/42SyoUu
Are the Trump team’s actions affecting your research? How to contact Nature
Use this form to share information with Nature’s news team, or to make suggestions for future coverage.
go.nature.com
February 13, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Use this form to tell us how the new US administration is affecting your research, or suggest future coverage
https://go.nature.com/42SyoUu
https://go.nature.com/42SyoUu
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If the UK was really, really smart, it would now plough tens of billions into research centres and take in all the American academics fleeing the US. Spoiler: the UK is not smart. 🇬🇧
8. It is difficult to overstate what a catastrophe this will be for the US research and education systems, particular in biomedical fields.
It is deliberate and wanton devastation entirely out of scale with any concern about DEI activities on campuses.
The goal is destroy US universities.
It is deliberate and wanton devastation entirely out of scale with any concern about DEI activities on campuses.
The goal is destroy US universities.
February 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
If the UK was really, really smart, it would now plough tens of billions into research centres and take in all the American academics fleeing the US. Spoiler: the UK is not smart. 🇬🇧
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Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
INTRODUCTION
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February 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
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In case you're interested in where The BMJ stands on Presidential Executive Orders banning certain language from research communications www.bmj.com/content/388/... @kamranabbasi.bsky.social @jocalynclark.bsky.social #SciencePublishing #SciComm #AcademicSky #ResearchIntegrity
Medical journal editors must resist CDC order and anti-gender ideology
The news that on 31 January 2025 the Trump administration instructed scientists employed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to withdraw or retract articles from medical and sci...
www.bmj.com
February 5, 2025 at 10:48 AM
In case you're interested in where The BMJ stands on Presidential Executive Orders banning certain language from research communications www.bmj.com/content/388/... @kamranabbasi.bsky.social @jocalynclark.bsky.social #SciencePublishing #SciComm #AcademicSky #ResearchIntegrity
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🧵 A chilling compilation of news reports that reads almost like science fiction…
There is also this from our own pages. And there will be more (alas!)
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
There is also this from our own pages. And there will be more (alas!)
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
January 28, 2025 at 6:41 AM
🧵 A chilling compilation of news reports that reads almost like science fiction…
There is also this from our own pages. And there will be more (alas!)
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
There is also this from our own pages. And there will be more (alas!)
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The current invasion of politics into science puts us on a slippery slope that has a known outcome.
As bio major in 1980s USSR I trained with geneticists who barely survived Stalin's purges for their science.
I thus have 1 degree of separation from that outcome.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
As bio major in 1980s USSR I trained with geneticists who barely survived Stalin's purges for their science.
I thus have 1 degree of separation from that outcome.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The pushback against state interference in science: how Lysenkoism tried to suppress Genetics and how it was eventually defeated
Genetics in the Soviet Union (USSR) achieved state-of-the-art results and had reached a peak of development by the mid-1930s due to the efforts of the scientific schools of several major figures, incl...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
January 26, 2025 at 11:07 PM
The current invasion of politics into science puts us on a slippery slope that has a known outcome.
As bio major in 1980s USSR I trained with geneticists who barely survived Stalin's purges for their science.
I thus have 1 degree of separation from that outcome.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
As bio major in 1980s USSR I trained with geneticists who barely survived Stalin's purges for their science.
I thus have 1 degree of separation from that outcome.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Most mother-to-child HIV transmission happens during the birth. In those cases, children not immediately put on HIV drugs are at particularly high risk of death between two and six months of age.
The administration's stop work order is for three months. It must be waived for PEPFAR.
The administration's stop work order is for three months. It must be waived for PEPFAR.
PEPFAR is *currently providing* lifesaving HIV treatment for 20.6 million people, including 566,000 children, as of Sept. 30, 2024.
That treatment is now in serious jeopardy.
I'm sure people in the administration don't want half a million kids on their conscience.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...
That treatment is now in serious jeopardy.
I'm sure people in the administration don't want half a million kids on their conscience.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...
Trump Pauses Disbursements to Program Supplying H.I.V. Treatment Worldwide
Pepfar, which is estimated to have delivered lifesaving treatment to as many as 25 million people in 54 countries, faces a funding delay of as long as 180 days.
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Most mother-to-child HIV transmission happens during the birth. In those cases, children not immediately put on HIV drugs are at particularly high risk of death between two and six months of age.
The administration's stop work order is for three months. It must be waived for PEPFAR.
The administration's stop work order is for three months. It must be waived for PEPFAR.
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Every week, I check the CDC's Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report. This week for the first time in its 60 years it was not published on schedule. American healthcare workers all over the country are less informed about health crises that affect their patients. CDC led reports matter a 🧵
January 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Every week, I check the CDC's Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report. This week for the first time in its 60 years it was not published on schedule. American healthcare workers all over the country are less informed about health crises that affect their patients. CDC led reports matter a 🧵
Can’t believe I missed this being shot so close to home!
January 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Can’t believe I missed this being shot so close to home!
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todays satirical diary from @hugorifkind.bsky.social
January 11, 2025 at 8:18 AM
todays satirical diary from @hugorifkind.bsky.social
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It's seed catalogue (garden porn) season and I'm enjoying the names of fruit & vegetable varieties: twister cauliflower, crisphead lettuce, purple majesty potatoes, fire 'n ice radishes, saffron prolific squash, mortgage lifter tomatoes
December 31, 2024 at 2:21 PM
It's seed catalogue (garden porn) season and I'm enjoying the names of fruit & vegetable varieties: twister cauliflower, crisphead lettuce, purple majesty potatoes, fire 'n ice radishes, saffron prolific squash, mortgage lifter tomatoes
Somehow only my second visit to St Paul’s in 30 years of living in London
December 11, 2024 at 7:21 AM
Somehow only my second visit to St Paul’s in 30 years of living in London