Jen S
@jenski555.bsky.social
Science & public health nerd. Big fan of words and music.
“I don’t know how to explain why you should care about other people.” Also: “Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum.”
“I don’t know how to explain why you should care about other people.” Also: “Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum.”
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We partnered with 5calls.org on the script to oppose Dave Weldon as CDC director. A total of 10,536 calls were made within a relatively short span of time using that script. His nomination was withdrawn.
We did this together and we can do it again.
We did this together and we can do it again.
March 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
We partnered with 5calls.org on the script to oppose Dave Weldon as CDC director. A total of 10,536 calls were made within a relatively short span of time using that script. His nomination was withdrawn.
We did this together and we can do it again.
We did this together and we can do it again.
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As #Trump #Musk #Memoli & #Vought destroy the National Institutes of Health remember these facts. What they are doing is a crime. Thanks to @amfarofficial.bsky.social.
March 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
As #Trump #Musk #Memoli & #Vought destroy the National Institutes of Health remember these facts. What they are doing is a crime. Thanks to @amfarofficial.bsky.social.
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RFK Jr. thinks that a clinical trial should be done for the entire childhood vaccine schedule. Here’s why that will never happen.
1. You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical.
1. You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical.
February 19, 2025 at 2:45 AM
RFK Jr. thinks that a clinical trial should be done for the entire childhood vaccine schedule. Here’s why that will never happen.
1. You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical.
1. You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical.
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52 US Senators voted to confirm an HHS Secretary who told them 2 weeks ago that Black people have different immune systems
52-48, Senate votes to confirm RFK Jr. as the next Health and Human Services secretary.
All Republicans voted YES except one: Mitch McConnell, who joined all Democrats in voting NO.
All Republicans voted YES except one: Mitch McConnell, who joined all Democrats in voting NO.
February 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
52 US Senators voted to confirm an HHS Secretary who told them 2 weeks ago that Black people have different immune systems
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“Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has stopped reporting flu surveillance data through WHO platforms, including FluNet and FluID, as it normally would as part of the Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System (GISRS).“
As CDC Stops Sharing Flu Data with WHO, Trump Endangers Health - Public Citizen
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has stopped…
www.citizen.org
February 13, 2025 at 4:39 AM
“Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has stopped reporting flu surveillance data through WHO platforms, including FluNet and FluID, as it normally would as part of the Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System (GISRS).“
Breaking: Phoenix Children’s Hospital is closing their gender care program, leaving vulnerable kids without other options. @katiehobbs.bsky.social please intervene!! Kids will suffer because of this.
February 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Breaking: Phoenix Children’s Hospital is closing their gender care program, leaving vulnerable kids without other options. @katiehobbs.bsky.social please intervene!! Kids will suffer because of this.
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Have a look at the map below and call or write your elected representatives about how much money your state stands to lose with the NIH’s IDC rate cap at 15%. For Arizona, it’s $43,881,528. That kind of cheddar might just wake up a few Republicans.
How much will your state lose with the new NIH indirect funding cap?
(From James S Murphy at Education Reform Now, link to article in 1st reply.)
(From James S Murphy at Education Reform Now, link to article in 1st reply.)
February 11, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Have a look at the map below and call or write your elected representatives about how much money your state stands to lose with the NIH’s IDC rate cap at 15%. For Arizona, it’s $43,881,528. That kind of cheddar might just wake up a few Republicans.
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Do I have this right? Elon Musk - the guy in charge of preventing wasteful spending - dropped $40M on a Super Bowl ad?
We could permanently house 800 homeless veterans for $40M. Or provide five million meals to the hungry. Or replace lead pipes in 8,500 homes.
We could permanently house 800 homeless veterans for $40M. Or provide five million meals to the hungry. Or replace lead pipes in 8,500 homes.
February 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Do I have this right? Elon Musk - the guy in charge of preventing wasteful spending - dropped $40M on a Super Bowl ad?
We could permanently house 800 homeless veterans for $40M. Or provide five million meals to the hungry. Or replace lead pipes in 8,500 homes.
We could permanently house 800 homeless veterans for $40M. Or provide five million meals to the hungry. Or replace lead pipes in 8,500 homes.
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Hi friends! Many of you have asked how you can help defend public health. Please check back at 5:30 PM EST for an effort to combat Musk’s Superbowl propaganda campaign against USAID. We will need help from anyone who can, and it’ll be as easy as a push of a button! 💕@defendpublichealth.bsky.social
February 9, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Hi friends! Many of you have asked how you can help defend public health. Please check back at 5:30 PM EST for an effort to combat Musk’s Superbowl propaganda campaign against USAID. We will need help from anyone who can, and it’ll be as easy as a push of a button! 💕@defendpublichealth.bsky.social
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To the people I know who voted for him,
You know how I feel about him.
There’s nothing I could say about him that you don’t already know.
But as this next chapter of our nation begins, I just want you to know:
I am going to hold you responsible.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-the-peo...
You know how I feel about him.
There’s nothing I could say about him that you don’t already know.
But as this next chapter of our nation begins, I just want you to know:
I am going to hold you responsible.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-the-peo...
To The People I Know Who Voted for Him,
To the people I know who voted for him,
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
February 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
To the people I know who voted for him,
You know how I feel about him.
There’s nothing I could say about him that you don’t already know.
But as this next chapter of our nation begins, I just want you to know:
I am going to hold you responsible.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-the-peo...
You know how I feel about him.
There’s nothing I could say about him that you don’t already know.
But as this next chapter of our nation begins, I just want you to know:
I am going to hold you responsible.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-the-peo...
What is going on with the 9 star flag that is on the CDC website right now?
February 2, 2025 at 6:11 AM
What is going on with the 9 star flag that is on the CDC website right now?
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If you're a journalist downloading CDC data today, please consider filling out this form so we have a centralized guide to who has what. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Downloaded CDC Data And Where To Find It
Journalists and scientists are downloading a bunch of public health data they suspect might be at risk of deletion. Instead of all of us privately reinventing the wheel over and over, what if we share...
docs.google.com
January 31, 2025 at 5:30 PM
If you're a journalist downloading CDC data today, please consider filling out this form so we have a centralized guide to who has what. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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⚠️RFK Jr just told the US Senate that he does not know if COVID vaccines saved millions of lives.
2.4 million lives were saved by the COVID vaccines in the first 8 months alone.
COVID vaccines prevented >18.5 million US hospitalizations, 3.2 million deaths and saved $1.15 trillion in the US alone
2.4 million lives were saved by the COVID vaccines in the first 8 months alone.
COVID vaccines prevented >18.5 million US hospitalizations, 3.2 million deaths and saved $1.15 trillion in the US alone
January 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
⚠️RFK Jr just told the US Senate that he does not know if COVID vaccines saved millions of lives.
2.4 million lives were saved by the COVID vaccines in the first 8 months alone.
COVID vaccines prevented >18.5 million US hospitalizations, 3.2 million deaths and saved $1.15 trillion in the US alone
2.4 million lives were saved by the COVID vaccines in the first 8 months alone.
COVID vaccines prevented >18.5 million US hospitalizations, 3.2 million deaths and saved $1.15 trillion in the US alone
#RFK is woefully ignorant about Medicaid. He said premiums & deductibles are too high, but patients qualify for Medicaid because they are below the poverty line (or have certain disabilities), they don’t pay premiums or deductibles. This man can’t be confirmed! #rfknomination
January 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
#RFK is woefully ignorant about Medicaid. He said premiums & deductibles are too high, but patients qualify for Medicaid because they are below the poverty line (or have certain disabilities), they don’t pay premiums or deductibles. This man can’t be confirmed! #rfknomination
It’s incredibly rich of #RFK to cite our COVID death rate as a reason for promoting his chronic disease agenda. I would love to hear someone ask him how he plans to address the social determinants of health, which play the largest role in our chronic disease (and Covid!) rate. #rfknomination
January 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
It’s incredibly rich of #RFK to cite our COVID death rate as a reason for promoting his chronic disease agenda. I would love to hear someone ask him how he plans to address the social determinants of health, which play the largest role in our chronic disease (and Covid!) rate. #rfknomination
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77 Nobel Prize winners, doctors, nurses, and even his own family oppose RFK Jr. He’s willing to deny life-saving vaccines for political power and personal profit. His dangerous misinformation put our children at risk. He has no place in public health. #StopRFK
January 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
77 Nobel Prize winners, doctors, nurses, and even his own family oppose RFK Jr. He’s willing to deny life-saving vaccines for political power and personal profit. His dangerous misinformation put our children at risk. He has no place in public health. #StopRFK
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“I coached football long enough to know that, when somebody draws up a playbook, they plan on using it.” @governorwalz.mn.gov
We told you.
We told you.
We told you.
We told you.
We told you.
We told you.
January 29, 2025 at 12:25 AM
“I coached football long enough to know that, when somebody draws up a playbook, they plan on using it.” @governorwalz.mn.gov
We told you.
We told you.
We told you.
We told you.
We told you.
We told you.
#RFK jr was asked a basic question about dual eligible patients (low income + senior) and gave such a completely absurd answer, that anyone in the healthcare field should see he doesn’t have even an elementary understanding of the system he wants to lead. #rfkconfirmation
January 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
#RFK jr was asked a basic question about dual eligible patients (low income + senior) and gave such a completely absurd answer, that anyone in the healthcare field should see he doesn’t have even an elementary understanding of the system he wants to lead. #rfkconfirmation
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Breathe. Embrace your free time. Pour into your community. Respect what you can't control. Reject nihilism. Remember pace and perspective. Burnout is the enemy and helps no one, least of all yourself, and should be stridently avoided. That's the only way we're gonna get through this. And we will.
January 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Breathe. Embrace your free time. Pour into your community. Respect what you can't control. Reject nihilism. Remember pace and perspective. Burnout is the enemy and helps no one, least of all yourself, and should be stridently avoided. That's the only way we're gonna get through this. And we will.
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We are a new national coalition of more than 1500 public health professionals, has led an effort to send >3500 letters to U.S. Senators to oppose RFK Jr.’s nomination to HHS Secretary. Concerns include his unfounded beliefs about vaccines, raw milk, and HIV.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/u...
RFK Jr. Would ‘Significantly Undermine’ Public Health, a Group of Experts Says
A coalition opposing the nominee for health secretary includes faculty members from leading U.S. academic institutions, including public health schools at Yale and Havard.
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
We are a new national coalition of more than 1500 public health professionals, has led an effort to send >3500 letters to U.S. Senators to oppose RFK Jr.’s nomination to HHS Secretary. Concerns include his unfounded beliefs about vaccines, raw milk, and HIV.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/u...
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THIS is how you do it. @warren.senate.gov is the only Senator that I know of who is throwing down the gauntlet on RFK Jr. What a letter. More Senators should have her courage and resolve.
January 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
THIS is how you do it. @warren.senate.gov is the only Senator that I know of who is throwing down the gauntlet on RFK Jr. What a letter. More Senators should have her courage and resolve.
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I’m so tired of him as well.
January 7, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I’m so tired of him as well.
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This is the shock doctrine of disaster capitalism playing out in real time. They are hoping to numb us with their outrageous cabinet picks so that we zone out and become too disoriented to effectively thwart their intended outcomes.
November 19, 2024 at 11:00 PM
This is the shock doctrine of disaster capitalism playing out in real time. They are hoping to numb us with their outrageous cabinet picks so that we zone out and become too disoriented to effectively thwart their intended outcomes.