Janette Bennett
@janettebennett.bsky.social
Writer & editor focused on global health. Concerned about climate change, conflict & the inequalities that drive it all. Inspired by kindness, good conversation, indigenous forests, beach walks & wide open spaces. Please, no DM
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The RFK, jr effect.
December 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The RFK, jr effect.
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📅 Planning to take part in #AIDS2026?
Conference dates & submission deadlines for abstracts, scholarships, satellites, pre-conferences & more are all in one place.
Visit our key dates page for everything you need to know to stay on track! 👇
Conference dates & submission deadlines for abstracts, scholarships, satellites, pre-conferences & more are all in one place.
Visit our key dates page for everything you need to know to stay on track! 👇
Key dates | AIDS 2026
Key dates for AIDS 2026, the 26th International AIDS Conference Join our mailing list to receive the latest updates on registration, submissions, scholarships, volunteering and more.
www.iasociety.org
December 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
📅 Planning to take part in #AIDS2026?
Conference dates & submission deadlines for abstracts, scholarships, satellites, pre-conferences & more are all in one place.
Visit our key dates page for everything you need to know to stay on track! 👇
Conference dates & submission deadlines for abstracts, scholarships, satellites, pre-conferences & more are all in one place.
Visit our key dates page for everything you need to know to stay on track! 👇
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The numbers vary from study to study but hundreds of thousands of people have died because of Elon Musk and Marco Rubio illegally disbanding USAID — a body count on par with the first eight years of the Syrian civil war — In just seven months. It’s mass death that is simply unfathomable in scale.
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The numbers vary from study to study but hundreds of thousands of people have died because of Elon Musk and Marco Rubio illegally disbanding USAID — a body count on par with the first eight years of the Syrian civil war — In just seven months. It’s mass death that is simply unfathomable in scale.
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🌡️ A hotter world is a sicker, more unequal world.
A new @unep.org assessment warns the world is on track for ~2.8°C of warming — with an overshoot of 1.5°C now likely within a decade.
🚨This is not only a climate story. It’s a health equity emergency.
@consilium.europa.eu #COP30
📖⬇️ & 🙏🔁
A new @unep.org assessment warns the world is on track for ~2.8°C of warming — with an overshoot of 1.5°C now likely within a decade.
🚨This is not only a climate story. It’s a health equity emergency.
@consilium.europa.eu #COP30
📖⬇️ & 🙏🔁
World On Track For 2.8°C Warming As Paris Agreement Overshoot Now Inevitable - Health Policy Watch
The world is heading for 2.8°C of warming by century's end under current policies, according to a United Nations assessment released Tuesday.
healthpolicy-watch.news
November 6, 2025 at 6:14 AM
🌡️ A hotter world is a sicker, more unequal world.
A new @unep.org assessment warns the world is on track for ~2.8°C of warming — with an overshoot of 1.5°C now likely within a decade.
🚨This is not only a climate story. It’s a health equity emergency.
@consilium.europa.eu #COP30
📖⬇️ & 🙏🔁
A new @unep.org assessment warns the world is on track for ~2.8°C of warming — with an overshoot of 1.5°C now likely within a decade.
🚨This is not only a climate story. It’s a health equity emergency.
@consilium.europa.eu #COP30
📖⬇️ & 🙏🔁
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New evidence shows combining cash and support boosts livelihoods and stability. Investing in people pays off. 💸🌏
theconversation.com/can-south-af...
#Politics
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#Politics
Can South Africa’s social grants help people make a better life? Research offers hope
South Africa is looking for ways to use social grants to promote economic inclusion.
theconversation.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 AM
New evidence shows combining cash and support boosts livelihoods and stability. Investing in people pays off. 💸🌏
theconversation.com/can-south-af...
#Politics
theconversation.com/can-south-af...
#Politics
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A quirky observation in 1967 launched a field of research: bigger signatures often signal bigger egos. Today, CEOs can be measured by their pen strokes — and large signatures can bring in twice the fundraising revenue, according to a social psychologist.
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November 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM
A quirky observation in 1967 launched a field of research: bigger signatures often signal bigger egos. Today, CEOs can be measured by their pen strokes — and large signatures can bring in twice the fundraising revenue, according to a social psychologist.
tcnv.link/QUuFY4j
tcnv.link/QUuFY4j
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Anti-malaria funding cuts could lead to ‘deadliest resurgence ever’, study warns
Anti-malaria funding cuts could lead to ‘deadliest resurgence ever’, study warns
Expected reduction in contributions by wealthy countries likely to cost millions of lives and billions in lost growth
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Anti-malaria funding cuts could lead to ‘deadliest resurgence ever’, study warns
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Do you know what a group of frogs is called?
AN ARMY
AN ARMY
October 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Do you know what a group of frogs is called?
AN ARMY
AN ARMY
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Solidarity is the only way
October 14, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Solidarity is the only way
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Printing presses kept their letters in cases.
Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.
This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’
Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?
MAJUSCULE and minuscule.
Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.
This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’
Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?
MAJUSCULE and minuscule.
October 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Printing presses kept their letters in cases.
Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.
This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’
Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?
MAJUSCULE and minuscule.
Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.
This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’
Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?
MAJUSCULE and minuscule.
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Inside the everyday Facebook networks where far-right ideas grow
Inside the everyday Facebook networks where far-right ideas grow
The Guardian spent a year studying an online community trading in anti-immigration sentiment and misinformation. Experts say such spaces can play a role in radicalisation
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Far-right Facebook groups are engine of radicalisation in UK, data investigation suggests
Far-right ideas are gaining ground. They are thriving in online worlds which are not easily visible to large swathes of the public but which spread misinformation that has real-world consequences.
Take last year. In the summer of 2024, riots broke out across parts of the UK, fuelled by misinformation that spread on social media. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Inside the everyday Facebook networks where far-right ideas grow
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In AVAC's legal case, #SCOTUS ruled to give the Administration a free pass to run out the clock on $4B in #foreignaid —funds Congress already appropriated for #globalhealth programs.
#AVAC denounces this misguided ruling & its dangerous precedent. Read our statement: avac.org/blog/us-supr...
#AVAC denounces this misguided ruling & its dangerous precedent. Read our statement: avac.org/blog/us-supr...
September 27, 2025 at 3:04 AM
In AVAC's legal case, #SCOTUS ruled to give the Administration a free pass to run out the clock on $4B in #foreignaid —funds Congress already appropriated for #globalhealth programs.
#AVAC denounces this misguided ruling & its dangerous precedent. Read our statement: avac.org/blog/us-supr...
#AVAC denounces this misguided ruling & its dangerous precedent. Read our statement: avac.org/blog/us-supr...
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"The actual magnitude of the effect is breathtaking."
In Major Breakthrough, Scientists Successfully Treat Devastating Brain Disease Huntington's for the First Time
A research team says that for the first time in history, it's successfully treated Huntington's disease, a devastating, inherited disorder.
trib.al
September 25, 2025 at 3:20 AM
"The actual magnitude of the effect is breathtaking."
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Today, harmful stories are shaping the global conversation, constraining policy ambition.
Our new report identifies how to overcome these stories.
PUBLIG GOOD: Building a winning narrative to bring the world together
By Jonathan Glennie & Ben Phillips
globalcooperation.institute/public-good-...
Our new report identifies how to overcome these stories.
PUBLIG GOOD: Building a winning narrative to bring the world together
By Jonathan Glennie & Ben Phillips
globalcooperation.institute/public-good-...
Public Good Narrative Project - Global Cooperation Institute
September 2025
globalcooperation.institute
September 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Today, harmful stories are shaping the global conversation, constraining policy ambition.
Our new report identifies how to overcome these stories.
PUBLIG GOOD: Building a winning narrative to bring the world together
By Jonathan Glennie & Ben Phillips
globalcooperation.institute/public-good-...
Our new report identifies how to overcome these stories.
PUBLIG GOOD: Building a winning narrative to bring the world together
By Jonathan Glennie & Ben Phillips
globalcooperation.institute/public-good-...
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Incredible humanizing story on the harms caused by the Trump regime's claims that Tylenol taken during pregnancy causes autism.
1.) It doesn't.
2.) It opens the door for blaming parents for "causing" autism.
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
1.) It doesn't.
2.) It opens the door for blaming parents for "causing" autism.
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
‘I’m literally shaking:’ Canadian parent of children with autism reacts to Trump’s claims
When Christina Collura’s son, Luca, was 3 years old, she received confirmation that he was on the spectrum. The journey to helping him took a detour this week, following U.S. President Donald Trump’s ...
www.ctvnews.ca
September 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Incredible humanizing story on the harms caused by the Trump regime's claims that Tylenol taken during pregnancy causes autism.
1.) It doesn't.
2.) It opens the door for blaming parents for "causing" autism.
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
1.) It doesn't.
2.) It opens the door for blaming parents for "causing" autism.
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
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Brilliant piece on how to engage in conversation with strangers about vaccines and public health
@statnews.com @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/09/06/c...
@statnews.com @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/09/06/c...
I inserted myself into a conversation at a bar about Covid and vaccines. Here’s what happened
What happened when a public health scientist overheard four men sharing misinformation about Covid — and decided to talk to them about it.
www.statnews.com
September 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Brilliant piece on how to engage in conversation with strangers about vaccines and public health
@statnews.com @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/09/06/c...
@statnews.com @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/09/06/c...
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The country’s defensive shields against disease are shattering, in ways that could take decades, even generations, to mend, @katherinejwu writes:
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
A Massive Vaccine Experiment
In just seven months, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has undone decades of vaccine synchrony.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 2:57 AM
The country’s defensive shields against disease are shattering, in ways that could take decades, even generations, to mend, @katherinejwu writes:
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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recap thread: the reason in the Washington Post I called the State Department announcement on lenacapavir today "anemic & performative" is because 1) volumes (2m over 3 years) are ABSURDLY unambitious compared w/PrEP need & capacity for rapid scale up
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Trump administration to help share new HIV drug with impacted nations
The plan to target pregnant and breastfeeding mothers will be administered through PEPFAR. Critics said it appeared to sidestep LGBTQ+ people.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 5, 2025 at 3:37 AM
recap thread: the reason in the Washington Post I called the State Department announcement on lenacapavir today "anemic & performative" is because 1) volumes (2m over 3 years) are ABSURDLY unambitious compared w/PrEP need & capacity for rapid scale up
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... >>
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... >>
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In under 24h following the newly identified outbreak of #Ebola in the DRC, the virus has been isolated, sequenced and the virus sequence data made publicly available.
virological.org/t/the-16th-e...
virological.org/t/the-16th-e...
The 16th Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in Bulape Health Zone, Kasai, Democratic Republic of the Congo: A new spillover event from an unknown reservoir host
Background The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is currently facing concurrent outbreaks including mpox, cholera and malaria (1-4). The Ministry of Public Health, DRC has declared the 16th Ebola...
virological.org
September 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
In under 24h following the newly identified outbreak of #Ebola in the DRC, the virus has been isolated, sequenced and the virus sequence data made publicly available.
virological.org/t/the-16th-e...
virological.org/t/the-16th-e...
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The Trump administration says they're the "most transparent" in history. But when I asked the Department of Homeland Security who writes their social media posts, something extremely weird happened: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“The most transparent administration in history” refuses to say who’s behind their batshit social media
Government trolls spread cruel memes and "textbook propaganda” on behalf of Trump.
www.motherjones.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The Trump administration says they're the "most transparent" in history. But when I asked the Department of Homeland Security who writes their social media posts, something extremely weird happened: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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If you are worried about misinformed U.S. federal guidance on vaccines and preventative health measures right now, here’s a list of well sourced and science backed alternative sources of information.
A thread that you can bookmark for future reference and pass on to others 🧵
A thread that you can bookmark for future reference and pass on to others 🧵
August 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
If you are worried about misinformed U.S. federal guidance on vaccines and preventative health measures right now, here’s a list of well sourced and science backed alternative sources of information.
A thread that you can bookmark for future reference and pass on to others 🧵
A thread that you can bookmark for future reference and pass on to others 🧵
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I will die on this hill:
it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.
it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.
August 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I will die on this hill:
it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.
it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Vaccines don’t cause autism. This visual analysis shows how a father-son duo manipulated data despite no connection between vaccines and autism, writes Jess Steier.
Vaccines don’t cause autism. This visual analysis shows how a father-son duo manipulated data despite no connection between vaccines and autism, writes Jess Steier.
Opinion | The Playbook Used to ‘Prove’ Vaccines Cause Autism
Data can easily be manipulated to show causation that doesn’t exist.
nyti.ms
August 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Vaccines don’t cause autism. This visual analysis shows how a father-son duo manipulated data despite no connection between vaccines and autism, writes Jess Steier.
Vaccines don’t cause autism. This visual analysis shows how a father-son duo manipulated data despite no connection between vaccines and autism, writes Jess Steier.