Katherine Quinn
@kgmquinn.bsky.social
Associate Professor and health equity researcher | Trying to read more poetry and kill fewer houseplants | My heart is in Milwaukee |
“Here’s to the little things that make baseball beautiful. Here’s to baseball’s version of David using slingshots on the sport’s Goliaths. Here’s to the Brewers, however long they continue the fun.”
www.nytimes.com/athletic/655...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/655...
There’s a lesson for the rest of baseball in the Brewers’ recent run of success
Milwaukee isn't perfect – but their style of play could benefit large and small-market teams alike.
www.nytimes.com
August 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
“Here’s to the little things that make baseball beautiful. Here’s to baseball’s version of David using slingshots on the sport’s Goliaths. Here’s to the Brewers, however long they continue the fun.”
www.nytimes.com/athletic/655...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/655...
These cuts to SNAP will be devastating. Other aspects of this initial proposal include new work requirements and preventing future administrations from increasing benefits in response to emergencies like COVID-19 or a recession.
In the budget reconciliation bill, House Republicans are trying to cut SNAP by $295 billion. This would cut it in third in what would be by far the largest SNAP cut in history.
This would rip food assistance away from millions of people, including households with children as young as 7 years old.
This would rip food assistance away from millions of people, including households with children as young as 7 years old.
May 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
These cuts to SNAP will be devastating. Other aspects of this initial proposal include new work requirements and preventing future administrations from increasing benefits in response to emergencies like COVID-19 or a recession.
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There’s a real rearranging of the deck chairs on the Titanic vibe going on in academia right now.
a man in a tuxedo is playing a violin in front of a crowd
Alt: a man in a tuxedo is playing a violin in front of a crowd of people trying to evacuate the ship
media.tenor.com
May 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
There’s a real rearranging of the deck chairs on the Titanic vibe going on in academia right now.
Harvard's response is pretty incredible and inspiring. Other universities and colleges should take note. This is how you stand up for your values.
To everyone (justifiably) applauding @harvard.edu 's response to the fed. administration's demands: that letter is only part of the story. Harvard's new website went public in coordination with Harvard Pres. #AlanGarber 's letter. It's completely revamped--and it's brilliant. www.harvard.edu. (1/8)
Harvard University
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.
www.harvard.edu
April 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Harvard's response is pretty incredible and inspiring. Other universities and colleges should take note. This is how you stand up for your values.
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Jeneen Interlandi at @nytimes.com nails it. This is senseless destruction. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/o...
Opinion | What Is Actually the Point of Treating the N.I.H. Like This?
Efficiency is not being enhanced, nor is waste being eliminated at the N.I.H. Scientists are just left to wonder: Why?
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Jeneen Interlandi at @nytimes.com nails it. This is senseless destruction. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/o...
This is such an important and under-reported issue with NIH grant reviews right now. Submitted proposals are not being peer-reviewed with little to no justification.
SCOOP: You've heard about the NIH terminating grants. I've learned of another, less visible way it's disrupting science: It’s removing some applications from peer review. Not rejecting them, but putting them on hold without saying why or if they'll ever be reviewed. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
The Quiet Way the NIH Is Stalling Some Research Before It Starts
A number of grant proposals have disappeared from scientists’ review pipelines, with little explanation. Applicants are bewildered and frustrated.
www.chronicle.com
April 3, 2025 at 3:01 AM
This is such an important and under-reported issue with NIH grant reviews right now. Submitted proposals are not being peer-reviewed with little to no justification.
In his 2019 SOTU, Trump celebrated HIV research stating, "scientific breakthroughs have brough a once distant dream within reach" and pledged funds to "eliminate the HIV epidemic in the United States within 10 years . . . we have made incredible strides." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tru...
Trump pledges to end HIV/AIDS epidemic, fight childhood cancer
In his 2019 State of the Union address, President Trump promised to "defeat AIDS in America and beyond.” He said also that he would ask lawmakers for money to fight childhood cancer.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
In his 2019 SOTU, Trump celebrated HIV research stating, "scientific breakthroughs have brough a once distant dream within reach" and pledged funds to "eliminate the HIV epidemic in the United States within 10 years . . . we have made incredible strides." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tru...
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I just listened to #TheDaily episode on "On COVID's Wake" with Frances Lee & Stephen Macedo where they make a categorical statement that non-pharmaceutical interventions didn't work during the pandemic. The evidence does not support this categorical claim. 1/
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Non-pharmaceutical interventions and covid-19 burden in the United States: retrospective, observational cohort study
To evaluate the adoption and discontinuation of four broadly used non-pharmaceutical interventions on shifts in the covid-19 burden among US states. Retrospective, observational cohort study. US state...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
March 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I just listened to #TheDaily episode on "On COVID's Wake" with Frances Lee & Stephen Macedo where they make a categorical statement that non-pharmaceutical interventions didn't work during the pandemic. The evidence does not support this categorical claim. 1/
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The cuts to HIV research are unprecedented and will have vast public health consequences. The rapidly growing list of terminated grants is devastating.
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has expanded its cuts to science funding, terminating a growing list of research projects that now encompasses hundreds of grants funding studies on a wide range of topics — from HIV in children to reducing mould exposure and its effect on asthma.
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March 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The cuts to HIV research are unprecedented and will have vast public health consequences. The rapidly growing list of terminated grants is devastating.
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An urgent modelling study finds ending US PEPFAR funding and other reductions in international aid could result in up to 10 million more HIV infections and up to 2.9 million HIV related deaths in just the next 5 years.
A grim return to a time when we did not have the ability to treat or prevent HIV.
A grim return to a time when we did not have the ability to treat or prevent HIV.
March 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
An urgent modelling study finds ending US PEPFAR funding and other reductions in international aid could result in up to 10 million more HIV infections and up to 2.9 million HIV related deaths in just the next 5 years.
A grim return to a time when we did not have the ability to treat or prevent HIV.
A grim return to a time when we did not have the ability to treat or prevent HIV.
This iconic Milwaukee gay bar is closing its doors today. It’s a huge loss for the city and gay community. They were so much more than a bar.
After 56 years in business, This Is It!, an LGBTQIA+ bar in Downtown Milwaukee, has shuttered. http://dlvr.it/TJQXQ2
March 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
This iconic Milwaukee gay bar is closing its doors today. It’s a huge loss for the city and gay community. They were so much more than a bar.
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The Trump Administration is maintaining the NIH grant freeze despite lawsuits challenging the order, a Nature article reported today.
Science funding in the US is already lagging, leaving researchers in limbo.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Science funding in the US is already lagging, leaving researchers in limbo.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order
The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.
www.nature.com
February 21, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The Trump Administration is maintaining the NIH grant freeze despite lawsuits challenging the order, a Nature article reported today.
Science funding in the US is already lagging, leaving researchers in limbo.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Science funding in the US is already lagging, leaving researchers in limbo.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I wish I had something more insightful and intelligent to say, but this new “warning” on federal websites like the YRBS is insane. I can’t believe we’re doing this.
February 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I wish I had something more insightful and intelligent to say, but this new “warning” on federal websites like the YRBS is insane. I can’t believe we’re doing this.
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not sure what's worse about the DOGE site: unsecured databases, leaking of classified information, or these chart crimes
February 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
not sure what's worse about the DOGE site: unsecured databases, leaking of classified information, or these chart crimes
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If you are joining us, change your @bluesky banner!!!
February 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
If you are joining us, change your @bluesky banner!!!
What are your plans March 7th? Join me in Madison, friends. Details to come.
Get in dorks, we're going protesting!
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL
Because science is for everyone!
Find us at standupforscience2025.org
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL
Because science is for everyone!
Find us at standupforscience2025.org
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
February 11, 2025 at 10:21 PM
What are your plans March 7th? Join me in Madison, friends. Details to come.
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Happy International Women and Girls in Science Day!
I #standupforscience2025 because women and girls belong in here and 💫 the whole world 💫 benefits from not limiting scientific investigation to men and male organisms!!
Why do you stand up for science?
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
I #standupforscience2025 because women and girls belong in here and 💫 the whole world 💫 benefits from not limiting scientific investigation to men and male organisms!!
Why do you stand up for science?
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
February 11, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Happy International Women and Girls in Science Day!
I #standupforscience2025 because women and girls belong in here and 💫 the whole world 💫 benefits from not limiting scientific investigation to men and male organisms!!
Why do you stand up for science?
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
I #standupforscience2025 because women and girls belong in here and 💫 the whole world 💫 benefits from not limiting scientific investigation to men and male organisms!!
Why do you stand up for science?
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
Appreciate @bmj.com calling this out. "It is absurd that the scientific record be treated with such disregard. It is egregious that a country’s public health agency, or any government authority, should demand the erasure of any terminology, particularly medically relevant terminology."
February 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Appreciate @bmj.com calling this out. "It is absurd that the scientific record be treated with such disregard. It is egregious that a country’s public health agency, or any government authority, should demand the erasure of any terminology, particularly medically relevant terminology."
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Several CDC websites and datasets related to HIV, LGBTQ people, youth health behaviors and more have been removed after the agency was directed to comply with an executive order from President Donald Trump.
CDC websites, datasets taken down as agency complies with Trump executive order | CNN
Several US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention websites and datasets related to HIV, LGBTQ people, youth health behaviors and more have been removed after the agency was directed to comply with...
www.cnn.com
January 31, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Several CDC websites and datasets related to HIV, LGBTQ people, youth health behaviors and more have been removed after the agency was directed to comply with an executive order from President Donald Trump.
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The removal of #HIV- and #LGBTQ-related resources from the websites of CDC and other health agencies is deeply concerning.
Access to this information is crucial for ID and HIV health care professionals.
Our full statement: https://buff.ly/42AO8LI
Access to this information is crucial for ID and HIV health care professionals.
Our full statement: https://buff.ly/42AO8LI
January 31, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The removal of #HIV- and #LGBTQ-related resources from the websites of CDC and other health agencies is deeply concerning.
Access to this information is crucial for ID and HIV health care professionals.
Our full statement: https://buff.ly/42AO8LI
Access to this information is crucial for ID and HIV health care professionals.
Our full statement: https://buff.ly/42AO8LI
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BREAKING NEWS: Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.
Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies
Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.
www.npr.org
January 31, 2025 at 9:58 PM
BREAKING NEWS: Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.
There are still good people, doing good work, making sure we get through this in one piece.
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Silencing Science Tracker | Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
climate.law.columbia.edu
January 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
There are still good people, doing good work, making sure we get through this in one piece.
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The people now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two, Noah Peters and James Sherk, have links to the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.
January 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The people now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two, Noah Peters and James Sherk, have links to the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.
On Dem Senator Whitehouse:
“there is something so quintessentially American about millions of ordinary people potentially suffering from myriad public health crises because one rich old boy wanted to do a solid for his University of Virginia Law School roommate”
newrepublic.com/post/190669/...
“there is something so quintessentially American about millions of ordinary people potentially suffering from myriad public health crises because one rich old boy wanted to do a solid for his University of Virginia Law School roommate”
newrepublic.com/post/190669/...
Democratic Senator Ready to Do Dumbest Thing (Vote to Confirm RFK Jr.)
What is Sheldon Whitehouse thinking?
newrepublic.com
January 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
On Dem Senator Whitehouse:
“there is something so quintessentially American about millions of ordinary people potentially suffering from myriad public health crises because one rich old boy wanted to do a solid for his University of Virginia Law School roommate”
newrepublic.com/post/190669/...
“there is something so quintessentially American about millions of ordinary people potentially suffering from myriad public health crises because one rich old boy wanted to do a solid for his University of Virginia Law School roommate”
newrepublic.com/post/190669/...
The CDC’s MMWR has been published "without a break every week since 1960 and its predecessor publications did so weekly since 1887.”
The inability to provide timely communications to health professionals about myriad public health crises is deeply troubling.
The inability to provide timely communications to health professionals about myriad public health crises is deeply troubling.
Trump's Gag Order Halts CDC Publication www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi... For the first time in its more than 60-year history, the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) did not go out as scheduled.
Trump's Gag Order Halts CDC Publication
MMWR did not publish as usual at 1 p.m. today
www.medpagetoday.com
January 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The CDC’s MMWR has been published "without a break every week since 1960 and its predecessor publications did so weekly since 1887.”
The inability to provide timely communications to health professionals about myriad public health crises is deeply troubling.
The inability to provide timely communications to health professionals about myriad public health crises is deeply troubling.