Seth Judson

Rats filmed snatching bats from air for first time Stunning hunting behaviour captured in German cave

Rats catching bats—a new pathway for zoonotic disease? Happy Halloween!
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Postdoctoral Position in Infectious Diseases - Judson (PI) 2025-2026 University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!

Job alert! We are hiring a postdoc focused on Arbovirus epidemiology and modeling to join our group at UCLA. Please share and apply below
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Hiring: Senior Research Data Analyst | Seth Judson, MD, MHS We’re hiring! We have a unique opportunity to join our team, the Translational Infectious Disease Eco-epidemiology (TIDE) lab at UCLA, as our Senior Research Data Analyst. Our mission is to improve t...

We’re hiring a Senior Research Data Analyst for our group—the Translational Infectious Disease Eco-epidemiology (TIDE) lab. This will be a foundational role to help improve detection and mitigation of zoonotic and vector-borne diseases
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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."

It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Inside the C.D.C., a Growing Sense of Despair

After six months of turmoil, the loss of the new director and a round of high-profile resignations marks a new low at the CDC

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www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...

These letters of resignation from CDC officials are VERY MUCH worth your time.

PLEASE READ AND PROPAGATE.

⚠️ “We are flying blind, and there is nothing organized at the White House to protect us. We can’t detect, we can’t protect, and we would certainly respond later than other countries” should a pandemic occur.

Nearly 4,000 NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program The employees who have chosen to leave the agency amount to about 20% of NASA's workforce.

4,000 NASA workers are leaving through deferred resignation. "The cuts amount to an estimated 20% of NASA's workforce" www.npr.org/2025/07/26/n...

Thank you! Hope you are doing well!

I'm thrilled that today I returned to UCLA as an Assistant Professor-in-Residence in the Division of Infectious Diseases.

I’m building an interdisciplinary team focused on globally emerging zoonotic and vector-borne diseases. More info soon!
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West Nile morbidity and mortality in a Mid-Atlantic healthcare system, 2013-2024 We investigated West Nile cases in a Mid-Atlantic healthcare system, finding significant morbidity and mortality from neuroinvasive disease, notably among immunocompromised patients. Encephalitis was ...

As we head into West Nile season it is key to remember that there are still no treatments or vaccines for humans, so prevention is key.

We found significant impact of West Nile on our patient population over the last decade, highlighting this issue

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Research done at Rocky Mountain Labs has played a pivotal role in responding to infectious disease threats, including vector-borne diseases, Ebola, and COVID-19. It is a special place and has a major impact on the local community. Thinking of colleagues and community members there
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Exclusive: NIH to end billions of dollars in foreign research grants Move by US biomedical agency jeopardizes thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.

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New NIH Guide Notice about foreign subawards

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What is the yellow fever vaccine stockpile? Yellow fever can spread quickly and kill between 30% and 60% of its severely-afflicted victims. However, an emergency stockpile of vaccine doses has been helping halt epidemics for a quarter of a…

Yellow fever kills 30-60% of severely affected patients and an outbreak can double in size every 5-7 days. That's why the global emergency stockpile of 6 million #yellowfever vaccine doses is so crucial ➡️ bit.ly/42CaOLs

Day by day, how Trump is roiling science and health STAT is tracking, day by day, what's happened in the words of science and health during the first months of the Trump administration.

I made a timeline of all the actions in Trump's (almost) first 100 days that have upended science and health. It was staggering to me to see it all in one place, even though I reported on many on these events. www.statnews.com/2025/04/24/t...

I still remember vividly the relief and celebrations among healthcare workers on the first day that COVID-19 vaccines arrived in our hospital.
To see the process that led to those vaccines and other medical advancements being actively dismantled is devastating

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Joining fellow concerned citizens in our nation’s capitol today because science saves lives, and in the words of speaker @itaiyanai.bsky.social, science delivers

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NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs

My experiences as a NIH postbac were critical to my growth as a physician-scientist—that program is now in jeopardy.

The incredible NIH scientists I worked with made discoveries to fight Ebola and COVID-19—they are now losing their jobs

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Tragic Childhood Death from Measles Reminds Us That Some Don't Understand Either the Medical Significance or the Human Heart My ID colleague Dr. Adam Ratner, Chief of Pediatric ID at NYU Medical Center, just published an insightful and remarkably timely book called Booster Shots:  The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncer...

If someone thinks the measles outbreak and childhood death in Texas are "not unusual" or "happens all the time", they are deeply misinformed. h/t @adamratnermd.bsky.social for the inspiration.

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Graduate Reductions Across Biomedical Sciences (2025)

We are crowd sourcing reductions in graduate admissions and hiring freezes across biomedical research and higher ed in response to pauses in NIH funding and EO’s. If you have information if you could add to this spreadsheet, it would be greatly appreciated!: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard

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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Judge largely blocks Trump’s executive orders ending federal support for DEI programs A federal judge on Friday largely blocked sweeping executive orders from President Donald Trump that seek to end government support for programs promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. U.S. Distri...

Appreciate our city of Baltimore and the Baltimore US District Judge leading the defense of DEI programs which are critical for health and well-being
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Having seen many patients with influenza in the ICU this winter, the losses in our preparedness for seasonal flu and H5N1 over the past weeks also makes me worried. A helpful thread below on what recent decisions mean for vaccine preparedness
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Stunned federal workers brace for the real-world repercussions of Trump's purges The Trump administration could face political backlash from voters in Republican and Democratic states who suddenly find a host of services vanish.

The repercussions of these decisions will increase risk of global and local catastrophic events—from wildfires to outbreaks
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Thinking about colleagues at the CDC and currently in EIS. These cuts will make the US and the world less prepared for emerging infectious diseases.

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Opinion | American Science is Under Attack (Gift Article) The Trump administration hobbles research and endangers the public health.

From Harold Varmus (Former NIH and NCI Director and Nobel laureate)

Why Would We Undermine the Marvel of American Science?

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“there is always hope for something else, something better…” I appreciate this advice and this important article today from @gregggonsalves.bsky.social on how communities can respond to science denialism and threats to public health

CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.

CDC DATASETS on 1.28.2025

According to @altcdc.bsky.social

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. archive.org/details/2025...

You need to know which data set you would like. Use CTRL+F to find a keyword from the list.

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Yellow background. Different CDC websites that have been removed. Some are in black and white. Others are purple or red and green.

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