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I wrote last year about the US Administration's plans to eviscerate Optional Practical Training, America's largest single source of global STEM talent: www.piie.com/blogs/realti... That came to pass. The White House is sharpening its tools to shatter OPT, and thus kneecap many US universities.

Exclusive | U.S. Weighs $100,000 Fee for Foreign Students Wanting to Work After GraduationThe proposed policy would particularly affect Silicon Valley, Wall Street and universities.www.wsj.com

I don't know why Peggy Honein was removed from her position, but there is no one I would trust more to lead the Ebola response. I've known her for more than 15 years and she's one of the best epidemiologists and leaders I've had the honor of working with.

But there's a difference between accountability and making one person the vessel for every frustration with an impossibly complicated crisis. Over time, Fauci became a symbol for everything people felt had gone wrong, whether he was responsible for it or not.

re cyclospora and every other outbreak: no one’s talking about the most critical part of CDC that RFK Jr destroyed — the purge of senior leadership and all their years of experience. outbreak responses are fundamentally broken without the head attached and he intentionally decapitated the agency

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🎉Some great news Congress appropriated $600M for Gavi, the organization that funds vaccines for half the world’s kids But the anti-vaxx activist RFK Jr froze the money—which would have caused an estimated 600,000 child deaths The State Dept will now over-ride RFK Jr & give Gavi the money 👏 1/2

This is a well-produced segment. I encourage you to watch so you can hear the noise for yourself. The professor of environmental health science that they interviewed called it an “unprecedented new noise source.”

Neighbors say noise from Michigan data center is 24/7 and upending their livesOne Michigan community has been experiencing the reality of a data center next door for a couple of years now, and they say the sound has changed their lives.www.wxyz.com

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Yes! Read David Michaels's books. You'll never look at epidemiology the same way again. For quicker reads, here are some of the readings I assign to my students when I teach about manufacturing doubt. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34139265/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16030337/

💼 Boston University School of Public Health is hiring faculty in Environmental Health. 🔗 More information: https://members.iseepi.org/classifieds/moreinfo.php?cid=70736371 💻 ISEE Job Board: https://members.iseepi.org/members/classifieds5.php?org_id=ISEE

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Happy 🎂William Carter Jenkins b #OTD 1945 (d 17 Feb 2019) The Tuskegee whistle-blower epidemiologist, he was first to publicize the Tuskegee Syphilis Study (“the most unethical study in US history”) in the Drum (an anti-discrimination newsletter). 1/3 🧵

Anyway, running a “MAHA is right about public health” editorial the week CDC finally starts explicitly spreading the vaccine-autism link is a choice, and unfortunately some people in public health have gotten where they are by making bad, loud choices. Posting isn’t the work folks….

As a commenter pointed out - misses in public health kill people. That's why data and evidence are so important.

Once you see this, you can’t unsee it. The Motte and Bailey gambit is powering the attacks on NIH. IDC Replication crisis Risk averse peer review Translation Incremental research …

Further analysis of Packalen & Bhattacharya article, where they claimed #NIH-funded research was slow to pick up on new ideas. I argue that their approach is flawed, and I present an analysis that shows the exact opposite. pubpeer.com/publications...

AcademyHealth is working to understand a significant new development affecting AHRQ-funded research. Researchers across the country are reaching out after receiving notices from AHRQ regarding grant funding changes. If you received a notice, please contact us: advocacy@academyhealth.org

Huge, important job. Comms and leadership at NIH. Please apply. This is public service. “…responsible for planning, directing, and executing nat’l health and research communication efforts…” Civil service SES position. Please share- this one is important for NIH. hr.nih.gov/careers/open...

"In little-noticed court documents, federal officials acknowledged this month that they had terminated the funding 'based solely' on political criteria, targeting projects in states that were represented by Democrats and had voted for Kamala Harris..." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for HimFederal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.www.nytimes.com

🚨Breaking🚨: NIH is terminating health disparities research grants again. This time, they may successfully avoid legal challenges by giving specific reasons for their decisions. One grant so far, more to come. Exclusive @science.org by me and @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH is again terminating grants that the Trump administration dislikesWith cancellation of health disparities project, agency may be testing new way to legally kill politically sensitive grantswww.science.org