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U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos
Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard
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#EpiSky is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 54 people shared 172 posts with it — around 6 a day. Activity is down 25% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 10 with 11 posts.
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A whole generation of early career scientists and physician-scientists, including colleagues and myself, are particularly vulnerable to these funding freezes and cuts, with jobs and careers depending on federal grants.
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#Episky
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Smith, who played for the 49ers, Raiders, and Cowboys, was found unresponsive in a car, then declared dead. He had numerous concussions during his career. His family is sending his brain to Boston U to examine it for CTE.
#NFL #trauma #neuroscience #NeuroSky #Episky
www.theguardian.com
Former NFL star Aldon Smith’s brain to be donated for CTE research after death at 36
The family of former NFL star Aldon Smith is donating the player’s brain to the Boston University CTE Center to research the effects of repetitive brain injuries
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Welcome to newbies transferring from toxic sites. Which of you should I be following? #academicsky #episky 🧪 #healthpolicy #medsky
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🧪 #PublicHealth is under attack in the US, and among those to fall may be a mainstay of #EpiSky and #MedSky : The CDC's MMWR. We at Broadly Epi want to introduce an open, searchable MMWR database as a response. It's a work in progress, but we will keep at it. www.broadlyepi.com/broadl….
www.broadlyepi.com
Broadly Epi MMWR Archive Database - Broadly Epi
Explore Public Health Records with the Broadly Epi MMWR Archive Database What is the Broadly Epi MMWR Archive Database? Created as a collaborative effort among…
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Woooooooo ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Someone’s done it - archived the entire datasets of the US CDC before the orange toddler could destroy them.
#episky #medsky #academicsky
Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info
The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...
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Scientists of the world, this is happening on our watch and we need to face it down. Evidence-based medicine weaponised for overtly ideological purposes. We do not need randomised trials of 'vaccine' versus 'no vaccine' when those vaccines have *already* been shown to be safe & effective.
#episky 🧪
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
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.
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The outrage of a no bid contract on autism to an engineering school that doesn't even have a department of epidemiology or neuroscience is only exceeded by the choice of recipient, a data scientist who last published on autism in 2020 and thinks like Wakefield. 🧪 #episky 🧵
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Trump administration to award a no-bid contract on research into vaccines and autism
Federal health officials intend to award a no-bid contract to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to investigate whether there is a link between vaccinations and autism.
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*drumroll* 🥁
Independent SAGE website has had a revamp. Now easily searchable with all reports and briefing sessions neatly archived. Take a look!
@independentsage.bsky.social #medsky #episky #healthpolicy #academicsky
independentsage.org
independentsage.org
Independent SAGE – Independent scientific advice on the COVID-19 crisis, for the UK government and public.
Independent SAGE: Independent scientific advice on the COVID-19 crisis, for the UK government and public.
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Great thread on new data showing updated COVID vaccine strongly boosts neutralization to new variants-good news for overall strategy of regularly updating vaccine to keep pace with SARS-CoV-2 evolution.
Go get your updated shot before the holidays if you haven't already! #episky
Bloom lab @jbloomlab.bsky.social
I wanted to highlight this pre-print by David Ho’s group on the neutralizing antibody response to new (XBB.1.5-based) COVID vaccine booster, as it illustrates some points related to paradigm of updating SARS-CoV-2 vaccines to keep pace w viral evolution. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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#publichealth #episky #epidemiology 🧪
I am assembling a catalogue of efforts to preserve data relevant to public health from federal sites. Please LMK if I have missed any.
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Data Preservation – The Science Collaborative
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#Medsky🧪 #Oncosky #episky #publichealth @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social @natureportfolio.nature.com #Breastcancer is a leading cause of death in women under 50 in 🇬🇧 Using a new risk assessment tool,
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Breast cancer checks missing lots of at risk younger women, says study
Up to 95% of younger women who are at higher risk of developing breast cancer are being missed by current NHS checks, researchers warn.
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Uganda:
No change since 21 June.
Uganda has reported a total of 20 confirmed cases, including 2 deaths. 15 cases had travel links to the DRC.
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Risk assessment for EU/EEA remains unchanged - VERY LOW.
More info: bit.ly/ECDCEbolaDRC
#EpiSky #Bundibugyo #OutbreakResponse #Uganda #DRC
bit.ly
Ebola disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda
On 17 May 2026, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Ebola virus disease outbreak caused by Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda a Public Health Emerge...
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They also look at how surveillance, preparedness and climate adaptation can help reduce these risks.
Listen to the full episode on:
📺 YouTube: youtu.be/1FY_I4RayY0
🎧 Spotify: bit.ly/ECDConAir76
🎶 SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/ecdc_eu/ecdc...
#Heatwaves #IDsky #EpiSky #PublicHealth #ClimateChange
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ECDC: on Air - Episode 76 - A. Kaźmierczak & C. Gossner - Not Just A Hotter Summer
YouTube video by ECDC
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📢 Registration is now open for the 3rd "Artificial Intelligence in Public Health Research" Symposium!
📅 9–10 September 2026
📍 Berlin, Germany
Join international experts for two days of interdisciplinary exchange on #AI in #PublicHealth.
👉️ Register by 31 August:
rki.de/ai-symposium...
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1/6 🦠 CDC WARNS OF JALAPEÑO SALMONELLA OUTBREAK 🦠
A new foodborne illness is sweeping the U.S., with 345 cases and 36 hospitalizations across 27 states.
The CDC has traced the source to jalapeño peppers.
Source: Scientific American
#MedSky #IDSky #EpiSky #FoodSafety #Salmonella
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#PedSky #MedSky #pulmsky #EpiSky #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence🛟🫁
"The Trump administration is considering an executive order on vaccines and autism that could be released as soon as next week"
www.reuters.com
Trump administration considers order on autism and vaccines, source says
The Trump administration is considering an executive order on vaccines and autism that could be released as soon as next week, a person familiar with the discussions said on Thursday.
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#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #pulmsky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence
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Philip Morris launches $1.2 billion Aurora Zyn nicotine factory as critics warn of teen health risks
sentinelcolorado.com
Philip Morris launches $1.2 billion Aurora Zyn nicotine factory as critics warn of teen health risks - Sentinel Colorado
'When we go in the right direction and work together, we can make things happen in record time' — Jared Polis
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Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research @spercomms.bsky.social
The Department of Epidemiology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and the Molecular Epidemiology Center for Biomedical Research Excellence is hiring a tenure track associate professor! Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/172455
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Uganda:
No change since 21 June.
Uganda has reported a total of 20 confirmed cases, including 2 deaths. 15 cases had travel links to the DRC.
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Risk assessment for EU/EEA remains unchanged - VERY LOW.
More info: bit.ly/ECDCEbolaDRC
#EpiSky #Bundibugyo #OutbreakResponse #Uganda #DRC
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Ebola disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda
On 17 May 2026, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Ebola virus disease outbreak caused by Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda a Public Health Emerge...
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It's kinda wild you can purchase hospital discharge data in the USA and then use it to produce an article that while interesting, isn't peer-reviewed.
#episky
ProPublica @propublica.org
The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%. (Published May 2025)
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More food safety fun. CDC now reporting that jalapenos tainted with salmonella have led to 36 hospitalizations in 27 states. This is very likely to be an undercount.
Jalapenos were grown by Coast Citrus Distributors; used by Qdoba and Chipotle.
#pathogens #IDsky #EpiSky
www.cdc.gov
Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Jalapeños
Information about a <em>Salmonella</em> outbreak linked to jalapenos.
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#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #pulmsky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence
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American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network @acscan.bsky.social
The @fda.gov just authorized four new flavored nicotine pouches, compromising the fight against cancer and threatening to sustain youth nicotine use. In the U.S., one-third of all cancer deaths are a result of tobacco use, and tobacco is the leading cause of preventable death.
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