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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM

@jennifernuzzo.bsky.social

Epidemiology and global health security policy. thepandemiccenter.org

5,854 Followers  |  535 Following  |  341 Posts  |  Joined: 06.11.2023  |  1.983

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His Off-the-Grid Vacation Was Interrupted by Winning a Nobel Prize

“I certainly didn’t expect to win the Nobel Prize,” he said from a hotel in Montana. “It never crossed my mind.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/h...

07.10.2025 18:24 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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People are awesome.

04.10.2025 15:04 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | Why Young Men Are Losing Faith in Science

Thoughtful perspective from @adamfrank4.bsky.social
"I believe the first step out of the maze for young men begins by reasserting to them the virtue of hard work — an often grueling but indispensable part of finding the right answers in science."
🎁 link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...

03.10.2025 15:07 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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NASA has 36 projects you can help with right now

The US government is shutdown, but with your help US led science doesn’t have to stop. share.google/tR3Pmgk6jLJE...

01.10.2025 18:38 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | What Really Drives Vaccine Hesitancy

"while a healthy lifestyle and good parenting are important, they are not adequate protection against infectious disease. This was made tragically clear when one unvaccinated child died of measles this year while her siblings in the same house recovered." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

30.09.2025 17:41 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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In the race to attract the world’s smartest minds, China is gaining on the US | CNN A Princeton nuclear physicist. A mechanical engineer who helped NASA explore manufacturing in space. A US National Institutes of Health neurobiologist. Celebrated mathematicians. And over half a dozen...

"Chinese universities see changes in the US as ‘a gift from Trump,’ professor says" www.cnn.com/2025/09/29/c...

29.09.2025 16:41 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Excited for the Cosmic Collisions: Supergiant vs Neutron Star author event with @marckuchner.bsky.social today at 4pm at @jeffkinney.bsky.social’s @anunlikelystory.bsky.social in Plainville, MA!

27.09.2025 19:31 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Join us today at noon ET for a conversation with @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social & @mtosterholm.bsky.social (@cidrap.bsky.social) where they will discuss how we can safeguard access to lifesaving vaccines and prepare for the next pandemic.

Register here ⤵️
brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

26.09.2025 15:07 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Add Denmark to the list of countries who are making a play for US scientists worried about their abilities to continue to do research in the US.

26.09.2025 14:34 — 👍 360    🔁 90    💬 16    📌 6
Economic loss from the White House's NSF FY 2026 Proposed Budget

Economic loss from the White House's NSF FY 2026 Proposed Budget

New from #SCIMaP - analysis of the White House’s Proposed FY 2026 National Science Foundation Budget.

Take-home: Slashing NSF by >50% will lead to ~$11 billion in economic loss and extensive job loss and reduced training opportunities in communities nationwide.

Report: osf.io/e8rnc

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24.09.2025 20:47 — 👍 196    🔁 143    💬 7    📌 18
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@wsj.com Experts like @mtosterholm.bsky.social are stepping up to protect science with projects like the Vaccine Integrity Project to keep vaccine guidance evidence-based
www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Hear from him & @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social on 9/26, 12 PM ET
Register: brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

24.09.2025 16:01 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | Trump, Tylenol and the Plaintiffs Bar The acetaminophen link to autism is based on weak evidence pushed by RFK Jr. and his legal allies.

"Perhaps no one told Mr. Trump about this trial lawyer campaign, but the costs of his intervention aren’t benign. He’s raising public fear about a useful medicine in a way that could harm maternal and fetal health. Whatever happened to do no harm?"
www.wsj.com/opinion/tyle...

24.09.2025 13:28 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | Dr. Prasad, the FDA’s Grim Reaper Blocking a therapy for late-stage melanoma will cost many lives.

“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is disrupting the Health and Human Service Department in nearly all the wrong ways.”

www.wsj.com/opinion/dr-p...

23.09.2025 01:20 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Join us Firiday 9/26 at 12:PM ET for a conversation with
@jennifernuzzo.bsky.social and @mtosterholm.bsky.social (@cidrap.bsky.social) in discussion on how we can safeguard access to lifesaving #vaccines and prepare for the next pandemic.

Register here 👇
brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

22.09.2025 17:28 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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View from the coffee shop.

20.09.2025 14:27 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

“To be clear, he said there was no science or data, but that he still expected you to change the schedule?” Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) asked.

“Correct,” Monarez responded.

17.09.2025 18:22 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Ousted CDC director says Kennedy plans to change pediatric vaccine schedule Ousted CDC director Susan Monarez told lawmakers that her boss, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., told her he plans to change the childhood vaccine schedule this month.

❗❗❗“He did not have any data or science to point to” ❗❗❗

www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/m...

17.09.2025 15:22 — 👍 33    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 1
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Divet stomping.

13.09.2025 23:01 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I’m starting to see a number of countries placing ads on social media to recruit researchers from the US.

12.09.2025 23:53 — 👍 21    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 0
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U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. on X: "Chair Cassidy Commits to Work with Secretary Kennedy to Stop Whooping Cough Outbreak, Asks him to Encourage Vaccination WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today committed to https://t.co/kotHRAfhqP" / X Chair Cassidy Commits to Work with Secretary Kennedy to Stop Whooping Cough Outbreak, Asks him to Encourage Vaccination WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today committed to https://t.co/kotHRAfhqP

Cassidy is asking RFK Jr. to encourage vaccination, amid whooping cough outbreak in Louisiana:
x.com/senbillcassi...

12.09.2025 19:57 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

A child died from a rare complication of a measles infection contracted before s/he was old enough to be vaccinated. Another heartbreaking reminder of the danger that measles infections pose.

11.09.2025 23:15 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

"Global health programs are not charity. They are insurance policies and the most affordable protection we have against future pandemics. Containing outbreaks at their source costs millions. Letting them spread costs billions — and lives."

11.09.2025 17:05 — 👍 42    🔁 23    💬 0    📌 0

😂

11.09.2025 14:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Advice please! My 12yo wants to host a private server to play Minecraft with his friends. He’s looking at ShockByte 3gb budget plan. Is this safe/secure? I’m very leery of kids+tech.

11.09.2025 13:31 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0
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The Jarring Contradiction at the Heart of Kennedy’s Agenda

“Far from cracking down on food and farming practices, Mr. Kennedy’s MAHA commission report on Tuesday defended existing pesticide review procedures and, in some cases, called for loosening food regulations”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

11.09.2025 13:05 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Vaccines and C.D.C. Chaos Expose Tensions Between Trump and Kennedy

"the secretary has lately caused consternation among some of the president’s aides and the president himself for a series of negative headlines about chaos inside the CDC, and about his views on vaccines."
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

10.09.2025 14:53 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | You Might Have Already Fallen for MAHA’s Conspiracy Theories

"the people peddling anti-health-care content — people now empowered by and working in the Trump administration — have raked in their share of the $460 billion wellness industry, profiting from the paranoia they fueled."

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...

09.09.2025 15:43 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself

8 of the 10 top-ranked research institutions worldwide are in China. Only 1 is in the United States.

"If this does not constitute a Sputnik moment, it is hard to imagine what would."

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

08.09.2025 18:28 — 👍 133    🔁 49    💬 4    📌 5

“Respondents said they place their greatest trust in doctors and nurses when it comes to vaccine information, including 76% of Trump voters.

About 73% of Trump voters and 83% of swing voters agreed that vaccines save lives.”

06.09.2025 18:29 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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