Jeanne Erdmann
@jeanne-erdmann.bsky.social
Independent health and science journalist, Contributor, The Craft of Science Writing, former executive board member Association Health Care Journalists, co-founder, @theopennotebook.bsky.social, dog lover, ice dancer, Official US Figure Skating.
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Yes, you still need to get your flu vaccine. Now. www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-va...
With an absent CDC and mismatched 'subclade K' flu strain, experts face upcoming season with uncertainty
www.cidrap.umn.edu
November 16, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Yes, you still need to get your flu vaccine. Now. www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-va...
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I will translate from NPRese
Scientists are alarmed because the Trump admin has gutted the CDC and USDA at a time when this virus could jump to a threat to humans anyday now.
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Scientists are alarmed because the Trump admin has gutted the CDC and USDA at a time when this virus could jump to a threat to humans anyday now.
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Migrating wild birds are spreading the virus to domesticated flocks, increasing the risk of eventually seeing a human outbreak. Scientists are troubled by the muted federal response. n.pr/4913a0E
Bird flu surges among poultry amid a scaled back federal response
Migrating wild birds are spreading the virus to domesticated flocks, increasing the risk of eventually seeing a human outbreak. Scientists are troubled by the muted federal response.
n.pr
November 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I will translate from NPRese
Scientists are alarmed because the Trump admin has gutted the CDC and USDA at a time when this virus could jump to a threat to humans anyday now.
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Scientists are alarmed because the Trump admin has gutted the CDC and USDA at a time when this virus could jump to a threat to humans anyday now.
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As I’ve explained: one of the best ways to protect your heart health is to keep up with your Covid and flu vaccinations. Don’t listen to antivaccine activists they don’t care about you or your family www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...
Covid and Flu Can Triple Your Risk of Heart Attack
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:02 AM
As I’ve explained: one of the best ways to protect your heart health is to keep up with your Covid and flu vaccinations. Don’t listen to antivaccine activists they don’t care about you or your family www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...
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The regime is saying it’s woke for a man to be diagnosed with breast cancer. It’s not even a joke.
NEW: A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica sets up new roadblocks to care for male veterans with breast cancer.
The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive order about “restoring biological truth” in government.
The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive order about “restoring biological truth” in government.
Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage
A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive order about “restoring biological truth” in government.
www.propublica.org
October 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The regime is saying it’s woke for a man to be diagnosed with breast cancer. It’s not even a joke.
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In this video I discuss some aspects of shingles and the benefits of the shingles vaccination
October 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
In this video I discuss some aspects of shingles and the benefits of the shingles vaccination
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I’m experimenting with some short videos on infectious disease topics. Here’s one on measles — highlighting some aspects that I find most important to keep in mind. Taking requests for other topics or questions I can address.
October 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I’m experimenting with some short videos on infectious disease topics. Here’s one on measles — highlighting some aspects that I find most important to keep in mind. Taking requests for other topics or questions I can address.
Absolutely everything we do at @theopennotebook.bsky.social stems from our commitment to supporting community, equity and professional growth. If TON has helped you in any way, please consider celebrating our 15th birthday with a donation.
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Everything we do at The Open Notebook stems from our commitment to supporting community, equity, and professional growth. If TON has helped you hone your craft, build your career, or connect with journalists worldwide, please consider giving back, today, on our 15th birthday. 🧪
The Open Notebook's 15th Anniversary - The Open Notebook
For 15 years, The Open Notebook has been the trusted home for journalists worldwide who cover science. What started as an experiment to demystify the craft of science writing has grown into a vital, g...
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October 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Absolutely everything we do at @theopennotebook.bsky.social stems from our commitment to supporting community, equity and professional growth. If TON has helped you in any way, please consider celebrating our 15th birthday with a donation.
All donations today are matched.
All donations today are matched.
Happy 15th Birthday to @theopennotebook.bsky.social With @siricarpenter.bsky.social at the helm we're not a little side project anymore. TON is an indispensable resource for the science journalists worldwide.
15 years ago, I could not have imagined this day. I couldn’t have imagined—as @jeanne-erdmann.bsky.social and I set out on a little side project to interview some journalists in hopes of strengthening our own understanding and skills—
October 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Happy 15th Birthday to @theopennotebook.bsky.social With @siricarpenter.bsky.social at the helm we're not a little side project anymore. TON is an indispensable resource for the science journalists worldwide.
On the eve of @theopennotebook.bsky.social's 15th birthday, here are here are 15 stories we love from the archives. #TON15 🧪
Tomorrow, we turn 15 years old! In honor of this birthday milestone, here are 15 stories we love from the archives. #TON15 🧪
The Open Notebook Turns 15: A Letter from Siri - The Open Notebook
It's TON's birthday week! Our Executive Director, Siri Carpenter, reflects on TON's humble beginnings as a blog, our current programs serving all journalists who cover science, and our vision for the ...
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October 24, 2025 at 12:50 AM
On the eve of @theopennotebook.bsky.social's 15th birthday, here are here are 15 stories we love from the archives. #TON15 🧪
From humble beginnings to fifteen years, 600 articles—over 1.5 million words.
Please consider donating to @theopennotebook.bsky.social on October 24
Please consider donating to @theopennotebook.bsky.social on October 24
In just two days, we celebrate 15 years! In that time, we’ve…
✍️Published more than 600 articles—over 1.5 million words!—on the craft of science writing
🌐Translated more than 100 of these stories into Spanish
📚Written 2 books! ...
#TON15
✍️Published more than 600 articles—over 1.5 million words!—on the craft of science writing
🌐Translated more than 100 of these stories into Spanish
📚Written 2 books! ...
#TON15
The Open Notebook's 15th Anniversary - The Open Notebook
For 15 years, The Open Notebook has been the trusted home for journalists worldwide who cover science. What started as an experiment to demystify the craft of science writing has grown into a vital, g...
www.theopennotebook.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
From humble beginnings to fifteen years, 600 articles—over 1.5 million words.
Please consider donating to @theopennotebook.bsky.social on October 24
Please consider donating to @theopennotebook.bsky.social on October 24
I've been with @theopennotebook.bsky.social since my dear friend @siricarpenter.bsky.social scratched out a few ideas for what we thought would be a modest little website. Fifteen years later it's a site that empowers journalists to tell science stories
Here's how you can keep us going
Here's how you can keep us going
A letter from @siricarpenter.bsky.social: "The TON team and I have dedicated our work to empowering journalists to tell stories that matter. We envision a world in which all journalists have the skills and confidence they need to produce evidence-based reporting that engages and informs the public."
The Open Notebook Turns 15: A Letter from Siri - The Open Notebook
It's TON's birthday week! Our Executive Director, Siri Carpenter, reflects on TON's humble beginnings as a blog, our current programs serving all journalists who cover science, and our vision for the ...
www.theopennotebook.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I've been with @theopennotebook.bsky.social since my dear friend @siricarpenter.bsky.social scratched out a few ideas for what we thought would be a modest little website. Fifteen years later it's a site that empowers journalists to tell science stories
Here's how you can keep us going
Here's how you can keep us going
Reposted by Jeanne Erdmann
Most of us who are covid conscious understand that widespread masking is not returning.
But masking in healthcare facilities should be an easy ask.
Getting folks to mask when they’re sick should be an easy ask.
Cleaning the air should be an easy ask.
It’s time we adapt!
But masking in healthcare facilities should be an easy ask.
Getting folks to mask when they’re sick should be an easy ask.
Cleaning the air should be an easy ask.
It’s time we adapt!
October 21, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Most of us who are covid conscious understand that widespread masking is not returning.
But masking in healthcare facilities should be an easy ask.
Getting folks to mask when they’re sick should be an easy ask.
Cleaning the air should be an easy ask.
It’s time we adapt!
But masking in healthcare facilities should be an easy ask.
Getting folks to mask when they’re sick should be an easy ask.
Cleaning the air should be an easy ask.
It’s time we adapt!
Here's what can happen when you co-found a journalism non-profit with your dear friend @siricarpenter.bsky.social
Happy 15th Birthday @theopennotebook.bsky.social
Happy 15th Birthday @theopennotebook.bsky.social
It’s our birthday week! (Who else likes to celebrate birthday week!?)
On Oct. 24, The Open Notebook turns 15 and we’re gearing up for a special challenge! We believe in the work we’ve done, and we know it’s more important than ever.
On Oct. 24, The Open Notebook turns 15 and we’re gearing up for a special challenge! We believe in the work we’ve done, and we know it’s more important than ever.
The Open Notebook's 15th Anniversary - The Open Notebook
For 15 years, The Open Notebook has been the trusted home for journalists worldwide who cover science. What started as an experiment to demystify the craft of science writing has grown into a vital, g...
www.theopennotebook.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Here's what can happen when you co-found a journalism non-profit with your dear friend @siricarpenter.bsky.social
Happy 15th Birthday @theopennotebook.bsky.social
Happy 15th Birthday @theopennotebook.bsky.social
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Journalists always have a responsibility to critically evaluate scientific claims and—especially in the current landscape—"to communicate that uncertainty is the nature of science—it's baked in not as a weakness of science but as a strength of science,” says @rachelzamzow.bsky.social.
Miss the excellent panel last week from @shorensteinctr.bsky.social on open science practices and trust in research? TON Deputy Executive Director @rachelzamzow.bsky.social was a crucial part of the discussion. You can watch here. 🧪
How Can Open Science Practices Increase Trust In Research?
YouTube video by Shorenstein Center
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October 18, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Journalists always have a responsibility to critically evaluate scientific claims and—especially in the current landscape—"to communicate that uncertainty is the nature of science—it's baked in not as a weakness of science but as a strength of science,” says @rachelzamzow.bsky.social.
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If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
August 31, 2025 at 3:46 PM
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
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Everyone in public health, healthcare and biomedical research has been screaming this for months. It’s time for RFK Jr to go. Everyone, please, please get on the phone to your members of Congress. Call them every day. This man is that dangerous.
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns
“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”
www.advocate.com
August 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Everyone in public health, healthcare and biomedical research has been screaming this for months. It’s time for RFK Jr to go. Everyone, please, please get on the phone to your members of Congress. Call them every day. This man is that dangerous.
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NEW: The president, who has framed mental health as a national crisis, paused rules to hold insurers accountable for unlawfully denying coverage. And Congress cut funding to the agency that enforces insurers’ equal treatment of mental and physical health.
Trump’s Rollback of Rules for Mental Health Coverage Could Lead More Americans to Go Without Care
The president, who has framed mental health as a national crisis, paused rules to hold insurers accountable for unlawfully denying coverage. And Congress cut funding to the agency that enforces insure...
www.propublica.org
August 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
NEW: The president, who has framed mental health as a national crisis, paused rules to hold insurers accountable for unlawfully denying coverage. And Congress cut funding to the agency that enforces insurers’ equal treatment of mental and physical health.
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As Jeanne says, @theopennotebook.bsky.social began 15 years ago as a labor of love. But it takes more than love to put together the hundreds of articles, courses, mentoring programs and more that TON offers. To be blunt, it takes money. We could use your help! www.theopennotebook.com/donate
June 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
As Jeanne says, @theopennotebook.bsky.social began 15 years ago as a labor of love. But it takes more than love to put together the hundreds of articles, courses, mentoring programs and more that TON offers. To be blunt, it takes money. We could use your help! www.theopennotebook.com/donate
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This is unprecedented. The AMA and other medical professional societies speak as one on respiratory virus vaccines and in their own way, say the Trump Administration cannot be trusted with your health. www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...
An open letter to the American public on respiratory virus vaccines
Read an open letter to the general public from the AMA and medical societies reaffirming support for vaccination to protect against flu, COVID-19, and RSV.
www.ama-assn.org
June 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
This is unprecedented. The AMA and other medical professional societies speak as one on respiratory virus vaccines and in their own way, say the Trump Administration cannot be trusted with your health. www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...
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June 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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The advent of germ theory, vaccines, sanitation, and antibiotics, in this view, indirectly lead to an increase in social services, and a decrease in capital punishment, murder, slavery, and torture. In effect, it raised the value of human life in human eyes.
May 17, 2025 at 2:28 AM
The advent of germ theory, vaccines, sanitation, and antibiotics, in this view, indirectly lead to an increase in social services, and a decrease in capital punishment, murder, slavery, and torture. In effect, it raised the value of human life in human eyes.
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The deeper meaning behind "almost no healthy children die of the measles" is that, when children do die of the measles, it's only ever because they were already ill. And the deeper meaning behind that is "well, we can't save 'em all." And that's just...17th century thinking.
May 17, 2025 at 2:28 AM
The deeper meaning behind "almost no healthy children die of the measles" is that, when children do die of the measles, it's only ever because they were already ill. And the deeper meaning behind that is "well, we can't save 'em all." And that's just...17th century thinking.
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✨FREELANCE SCIENCE JOURNALISTS✨
Hi! I’m the Trending News Editor at Live Science & we’re looking to expand our pool of trending freelance science writers
These stories need a 24h turnaround and cover all areas of science, from medicine to climate change, archaeology and zoology
Details below 👇
Hi! I’m the Trending News Editor at Live Science & we’re looking to expand our pool of trending freelance science writers
These stories need a 24h turnaround and cover all areas of science, from medicine to climate change, archaeology and zoology
Details below 👇
May 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM
✨FREELANCE SCIENCE JOURNALISTS✨
Hi! I’m the Trending News Editor at Live Science & we’re looking to expand our pool of trending freelance science writers
These stories need a 24h turnaround and cover all areas of science, from medicine to climate change, archaeology and zoology
Details below 👇
Hi! I’m the Trending News Editor at Live Science & we’re looking to expand our pool of trending freelance science writers
These stories need a 24h turnaround and cover all areas of science, from medicine to climate change, archaeology and zoology
Details below 👇
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Calling ASD a “disease” is stigmatizing and without basis. Tracking people with ASD in a database is fascistic and terrifying.
April 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Calling ASD a “disease” is stigmatizing and without basis. Tracking people with ASD in a database is fascistic and terrifying.
Thanks @gregggonsalves.bsky.social - these conditions cover so many of us or our loved ones...and migraines, don't forget about migraines
If you or someone you love has cancer, cardiovascular disease, dementia, Parkinson’s disease, or diabetes, you have likely benefitted from the university’s federally funded discoveries in care and treatment. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The Cost of Defunding Harvard
If you or someone you love has cancer, cardiovascular disease, dementia, Parkinson’s disease, or diabetes, you have likely benefitted from the university’s federally funded discoveries in care and tre...
www.newyorker.com
April 22, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Thanks @gregggonsalves.bsky.social - these conditions cover so many of us or our loved ones...and migraines, don't forget about migraines