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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, 36 people shared 169 posts with it — around 6 a day. Activity is down 5% versus the previous week, peaking on Sep 4 with 10 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 🧵
apnews.com/article/vacc...
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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.
sciencecollaborative.org/….
sciencecollaborative.org
Data Preservation – The Science Collaborative
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📅 Reminder: The deadline to submit your abstract for this year's call for late breakers is tonight at 23:59 CET.
We look forward to reviewing your submissions!
#EpiSky #IDSky
ESCAIDE @escaide.eu
You could still get the chance to present your research at ESCAIDE 2026! The call for late breakers is now open, and the deadline for submissions is 23 September 2026. We welcome abstracts in all areas applied to infectious disease and public health. Learn more: www.escaide.eu/en/abstracts...
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Interesting work tracing the measles virus involved in the West Texas outbreak.
"Measles virus genomes from Texas clustered closely with other D8 measles genotypes from North America, including those from Arizona, Utah, and South Carolina."
#CDC #IDsky #EpiSky #MMR #pediatrics
wwwnc.cdc.gov
Whole-Genome Sequencing of Measles Virus from 2025 Outbreak, Texas, USA
Measles Virus Outbreak, Texas, USA
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Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research
@spercomms.bsky.social
about 10 hours ago Our 40th Annual Meeting is June 14-15, 2027 in Detroit, MI. sper.org/annual-meeti...
Deadlines:
Symposium submissions: September 23 – October 28
Abstract submissions: November 23 – January 28
Award nominations: December 2 – February 3
Registration will open on January 13
#EpiSky
sper.org
Annual Meeting – SPER
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🧪 #TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #pulmsky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence
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The next generation of American scientists is fading away
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The next generation of American scientists is fading away
While the Trump administration racks up ‘wins’ in its anti-woke crusade, the US is eroding its talent pipeline
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RFK Jr.’s tricks for hiding the outbreak are even stranger than you think
#episky #medsky #measles #cdc
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2/ We find that growing smoking-mortality associations can largely be explained by the age composition of smokers shifting older, where mortality is higher.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexu…. #demography #episky #publichealth @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social
academic.oup.com
Why the mortality penalty of smoking is rising over time
Abstract. The adverse association between smoking and mortality is well known, yet estimated risks for smokers have risen markedly in recent decades. Expla
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Per Florida DOH: 152 cases of locally acquired dengue have been reported in 2026 in Hillsborough (134), Miami-Dade (7), Orange, Palm Beach, Pasco (2), and Pinellas (7), with onset in July (21), August (124), and September (7).
#mosquitos #arbovirus #EpiSky #IDSky
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Overall cancer incidence decreases for men, slight increase for women, per annual CDC, ACS, NCI report. Good news is that lung cancer incidence and deaths have decreased.
#EpiSky #publichealth #pulmonary #oncology
acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, featuring 21st century progress against lung cancer
The American Cancer Society, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Cancer Institute, and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries collaborate to provide annu...
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Another day, another peer review full of LLM-generated "reviews". (Full of nonsense, and also violates the norms of the journal)
There's no reason to submit a manuscript for publication anymore...
#academicsky #episky
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📹 The recording of the GSIDD Latin America Outreach event is available on the GSIDD YouTube channel! #IDsky #EpiSky 🧪
ℹ️ Session in Spanish, slides in English.
🔗: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U….
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LATAM Session Sep2026 recording
YouTube video by Global Society for Infectious Disease Dynamics
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How can prisons eliminate #ViralHepatitis?
Join us for a webinar that will introduce you to the European Toolkit for the Elimination of Viral Hepatitis in Prisons, and provide you with examples from prisons in IT & FR.
🗓️ 23 September - 15:00-16:00 CEST
bit.ly/4xd60YN
#IDsky #EpiSky
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American Journal of Infection Control @ajicjournal.bsky.social
🚨 Hospitals with higher use of an MDRO alert tool placed patients into contact precautions faster (median 2.1 vs 6.3 hours). Why it matters: Faster identification may strengthen infection prevention efforts. 🔗 www.ajicjournal.org/article/S019... #IPsky #IDsky #MDRO #InfectionPrevention
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