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Nicole Gottdenker

@gottdenk.bsky.social

Disease ecologist and wildlife pathologist studying impacts of anthropogenic environmental change on infectious diseases. Music, nature, and art lover. She_her_hers. Anti- fascist.

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a man in a suit and tie is sitting next to an older woman who is smiling and says bitty ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting next to an older woman who is smiling and says bitty

So according to rfk moms should breastfeed for as long as possible......

09.12.2025 00:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
β€œA screenshot of a text article discussing a December 5, 2025 ACIP vote to change the longstanding universal hepatitis B vaccination policy for newborns to an individualized decision for infants born to mothers who test negative. The article states that many public health experts and state leaders criticize the change as politically motivated and not evidence-based. Below, a bulleted list names states and health bodies urging rejection of the new guidance:
β€’ California – Governor Gavin Newsom calls the decision reckless and says the state will continue recommending the universal birth dose.
β€’ Illinois – Governor J.B. Pritzker notes a new law allowing state-specific vaccine recommendations and says Illinois will not abide by the ACIP decision.
β€’ Massachusetts – Governor Maura Healey calls the vote dangerous and wrong, and says the state will continue recommending the universal newborn vaccine.
β€’ New York City – Health officials say NYC will continue to strongly recommend hepatitis B vaccination for all newborns.
β€’ West Coast Health Alliance (California, Washington, Oregon) – Issues a joint statement urging rejection of the new guidance due to lack of credible evidence.”

β€œA screenshot of a text article discussing a December 5, 2025 ACIP vote to change the longstanding universal hepatitis B vaccination policy for newborns to an individualized decision for infants born to mothers who test negative. The article states that many public health experts and state leaders criticize the change as politically motivated and not evidence-based. Below, a bulleted list names states and health bodies urging rejection of the new guidance: β€’ California – Governor Gavin Newsom calls the decision reckless and says the state will continue recommending the universal birth dose. β€’ Illinois – Governor J.B. Pritzker notes a new law allowing state-specific vaccine recommendations and says Illinois will not abide by the ACIP decision. β€’ Massachusetts – Governor Maura Healey calls the vote dangerous and wrong, and says the state will continue recommending the universal newborn vaccine. β€’ New York City – Health officials say NYC will continue to strongly recommend hepatitis B vaccination for all newborns. β€’ West Coast Health Alliance (California, Washington, Oregon) – Issues a joint statement urging rejection of the new guidance due to lack of credible evidence.”

I woke up this morning to see that many states across the country have decided to #REJECT the decision to scrap the #HBV vaccine birth dose by #ACIP. Here are some (alt-text included). But who will be left behind? 1/

06.12.2025 10:51 β€” πŸ‘ 554    πŸ” 186    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 12
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The Italian university professors’ oath of allegiance to fascism (1931) Β«I swear fidelity to the King, to his Royal successors and to the Fascist regime, and I swear to respect the [National Fascist Party’s] Statute and the other laws of the State, and to fulfil …

Sound familiar? Trump and Mussolini are two peas in a pod. "Only twelve out of some 1200 university professors refused to swear [their allegiance to Mussolini] in 1931." Who will bow down to fascism a century later? blognostrumuva.wordpress.com/2017/04/11/t...

04.10.2025 13:13 β€” πŸ‘ 85    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

He's simply the bestest

29.09.2025 22:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Threatening Vulnerable People Is No Way to Mourn Someone Who Was Murdered Those who had nothing to do with the violence against Charlie Kirk are being menacedβ€”just like always.

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

21.09.2025 07:26 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Students hanging with turtles outside the Odum School of Ecology Building

19.09.2025 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If you missed Dr Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas at British Science Festival in Liverpool yesterday talking about her work to connect animals through tech, check this out! πŸ¦œπŸ’» #BSF25

12.09.2025 07:51 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Yesterday I wrote about how Turning Point put many of us on the Professor Watchlist

What I didn't write about was the years of harassment from the right, including rape, deportation & death fantasies that played out in my messages, comments in the stories about me & voice mails. That’s his legacy.

11.09.2025 04:17 β€” πŸ‘ 118    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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Do better, People magazine 🀣
that's a weevil not a kissing bug πŸ˜‰

08.09.2025 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Former CDC immunizations chief: β€˜I only see harm coming’ with RFK Jr. leading HHS Former CDC immunizations chief Dr. Demetre Daskalakis said he’s concerned with the direction the agency is going and about people’s health care needs going forward.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/for...

31.08.2025 13:53 β€” πŸ‘ 212    πŸ” 64    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 4
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Full or Associate Professor in Infectious Disease Modeling APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

Excited to announce a search for an Associate or Full Professor in Infectious Disease Modeling at Penn State's Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics. Details at link and below.

psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

26.08.2025 12:40 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The rich can build a prison in 24 hours, but just not homeless shelters.

01.07.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 626    πŸ” 199    πŸ’¬ 67    πŸ“Œ 16

Time to take a time out to watch '28 weeks later' online in preparation to take the family to the movies and watch '28 years later' on the big screen.

21.06.2025 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🧬Happy Transposon Day!

πŸŽ‰Each year on the 16th of June we commemorate the birthdate of the founder of transposable element research, Barbara McClintock (1902-1992).

#TransposonDay2025 #MobileDNAjournal

16.06.2025 12:05 β€” πŸ‘ 55    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Impressive! That is amazing mommying- what i normally do is take my son to walmart or publix bakery and ask him to pick out which cake he wants

15.06.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The late, great Dr Richard Levins knew better about the National Academy of Sciences many years ago.

05.06.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s just all so dark, so perverse, so sick.

16.05.2025 00:27 β€” πŸ‘ 62    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.

www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

02.05.2025 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 619    πŸ” 508    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 19

Beautiful- do they bite?

28.04.2025 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.

3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie).

Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

11.04.2025 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 21239    πŸ” 10556    πŸ’¬ 849    πŸ“Œ 894

Check out the great things @joshuasweitz.bsky.social has done with his colleagues!

11.04.2025 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Visualization of cuts to health research by house districts at scienceimpacts.org

Visualization of cuts to health research by house districts at scienceimpacts.org

Update via #SCIMaP now broken down by house districts

Our interdisciplinary team has expanded efforts to communicate the economic impacts of White House proposed cuts to health research.

Find out how your community may be impacted.

Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org

10.04.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 55    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 6

'O my Dog!'

30.03.2025 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just found out NIH has officially canceled our grant, a longitudinal study of Alzheimer's disease in Black Americans. I cannot even put into words how angry I am. The truth is they are canceling it because it has Black in the title. That's it, there is no other reason to do this.

21.03.2025 20:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1843    πŸ” 793    πŸ’¬ 51    πŸ“Œ 42
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Visited the Legacy Museum and Sculpture Garden in Montgomery, Alabama today. A critically important place and a must-see.

22.03.2025 02:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread (Gift Article) The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say.

The Great Barrington Declaration, but for chickens.

RFK Jr. is truly the stupidest motherfucker.

18.03.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1963    πŸ” 471    πŸ’¬ 118    πŸ“Œ 128
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Toward the Cooperative University: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Membership in the AAUP In 1937, at the tender age of sixty-nine, W. E. B. Du Bois paid a $4 membership fee and joined the American Association of University Professors. Du Bois was several years into his second stint as a p...

Since I’ve now completely abandoned the other site and am still relatively new here, I’ll flag a few pieces I published this year.

For @aaup.bsky.social on Du Bois, higher ed labor, and the idea of the university as a member cooperative. 1/
www.aaup.org/article/towa...

29.12.2024 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 101    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 3

Thanks for saying this.

07.03.2025 11:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump’s Nationalist Conservative White Christian Agenda | MR Online The Trump-orchestrated blitzkrieg exposition of a Nationalist Conservative White Christian Agenda raises a series of questions, including: What are the internal contradictions within the US ruling cla...

Trump’s Nationalist Conservative White Christian Agenda by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research (authored By Deborah Veneziale, Senior Fellow): mronline.org/2025/02/28/t... (in Chinese: www.guancha.cn/DeborahVenez...).

01.03.2025 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Recuerden que el viernes se hace boycott econΓ³mico. No compren nada. Ni echen gasolina. No usen tarjeta de crΓ©dito. HΓ‘ganse sentir.

26.02.2025 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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