Meredith Whitaker, PhD
@merwright13.bsky.social
Mom. Birder. 🦠 enthusiast. Assoc Medical Director Alphabet Health. Alumna Weill Cornell GS, Ehrt Lab, Princeton '13. She/her.
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@katrinamillerphd.bsky.social & I took a look at over 400 active National Science Foundation grants that got killed in the past few days. Here's our story (gift link) nyti.ms/4jp4aOx
National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards (Gift Article)
The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.
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April 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
@katrinamillerphd.bsky.social & I took a look at over 400 active National Science Foundation grants that got killed in the past few days. Here's our story (gift link) nyti.ms/4jp4aOx
Took a walk down memory lane for the PLOS ECR Community blog, sharing insights for entering medcomms from academia and how ISMPP can be a helpful resource. If you have a student or postdoc in your life considering medcomms, send it their way!
Meredith Whitaker, PhD, shares her 5-year journey into #MedComms—showing how writing and science intersect. If you’re considering a career in medical communications, check out her insights and tips! 🔗https://buff.ly/ffNBqU8 #MedPubs
From SciComms to MedComms: An Intro to Medical Communications - ECR Community
If you’re trying to find a career where you can use your writing skills—this post is for you. Allow me to reintroduce…
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April 11, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Took a walk down memory lane for the PLOS ECR Community blog, sharing insights for entering medcomms from academia and how ISMPP can be a helpful resource. If you have a student or postdoc in your life considering medcomms, send it their way!
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"How do we know where to draw the line, and when it is time to resist?"
This Viewpoint discusses scientific, medical, and public health actions taken so far during the first week of the administration. #MedSky https://ja.ma/3EeRo5K
This Viewpoint discusses scientific, medical, and public health actions taken so far during the first week of the administration. #MedSky https://ja.ma/3EeRo5K
How Should Health Care and Public Health Respond to the New US Administration?
This Viewpoint discusses scientific, medical, and public health actions, including withdrawing from the World Health Organization, taken so far during the first week of the Trump administration.
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April 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
"How do we know where to draw the line, and when it is time to resist?"
This Viewpoint discusses scientific, medical, and public health actions taken so far during the first week of the administration. #MedSky https://ja.ma/3EeRo5K
This Viewpoint discusses scientific, medical, and public health actions taken so far during the first week of the administration. #MedSky https://ja.ma/3EeRo5K
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John Green has written a new, already best-selling nonfiction book on tuberculosis that asks a pointed question: Why does a fully curable disease still kill more than a million people a year? Read or listen to our conversation with the author. nyti.ms/4l6WykQ
March 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
John Green has written a new, already best-selling nonfiction book on tuberculosis that asks a pointed question: Why does a fully curable disease still kill more than a million people a year? Read or listen to our conversation with the author. nyti.ms/4l6WykQ
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From Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia
American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.
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March 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
From Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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What is the status of vaccines that have been developed for poultry to prevent the outbreak of H5N1?
Yoshihiro Kawaoka, PhD, addresses this question in the first episode of a new podcast, “NEJM Outbreaks Update.”
Listen to the full episode: nej.md/3XwnzEa
#MedSky #IDSky
Yoshihiro Kawaoka, PhD, addresses this question in the first episode of a new podcast, “NEJM Outbreaks Update.”
Listen to the full episode: nej.md/3XwnzEa
#MedSky #IDSky
March 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
What is the status of vaccines that have been developed for poultry to prevent the outbreak of H5N1?
Yoshihiro Kawaoka, PhD, addresses this question in the first episode of a new podcast, “NEJM Outbreaks Update.”
Listen to the full episode: nej.md/3XwnzEa
#MedSky #IDSky
Yoshihiro Kawaoka, PhD, addresses this question in the first episode of a new podcast, “NEJM Outbreaks Update.”
Listen to the full episode: nej.md/3XwnzEa
#MedSky #IDSky
*Screams into the void*
Scientists at the CDC were ordered late on Friday to withdraw any pending publications, at any scientific journal, that mention terms such as “transgender,” “immigrant,” “L.G.B.T.” or “pregnant people.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
Live Updates: Trump Signs Orders Imposing Steep Tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 2:25 AM
*Screams into the void*
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Bernie Sanders grilling RFK Jr for selling anti-vaccination onesies is the energy I needed today.
January 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Bernie Sanders grilling RFK Jr for selling anti-vaccination onesies is the energy I needed today.
My first Bluesky post: sharing excitement about a new tuberculosis book! The forum is different but my interests are the same 🦠
“We know how to live in a world without tuberculosis. But we choose to not live in that world”
I’m so excited to read @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social new book!!
Please stay tuned for my interview with John in March!
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I’m so excited to read @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social new book!!
Please stay tuned for my interview with John in March!
everythingistb.com
January 26, 2025 at 11:40 PM
My first Bluesky post: sharing excitement about a new tuberculosis book! The forum is different but my interests are the same 🦠
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One of the CDC's weekly health publications was not published on its regular schedule, and some data about flu and vaccinations wasn't updated.
Under communications freeze, CDC updates some important health data but not others
One of the CDC's weekly health publications was not published on its regular schedule, and some data about flu and vaccinations wasn't updated.
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January 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
One of the CDC's weekly health publications was not published on its regular schedule, and some data about flu and vaccinations wasn't updated.