@bourdeauduke.bsky.social
HIV public health researcher & informed citizen
Glad to see this @wired.com guide on high quality masks! A KN95 can help protect you and your loved ones from COVID-19 and other airborne viruses, especially during this busy travel season. I only wish Wired wrote about the pandemic in the present tense 🙏😷
www.wired.com/story/best-d...
Even the usually apolitical National Academy of Sciences has stepped up to call out the dangerous distortion of reality by RFK Jr.'s CDC on vaccines and autism.
www.nationalacademies.org/news/stateme...
As someone who has worked in HIV for 35+ years, I can tell you Carl is a consummate scientific leader. We’ve been lucky to have him at head of DAIDS. The only thing that wins here is the virus.
24.11.2025 10:21 — 👍 270 🔁 61 💬 4 📌 2🧵 The claim that a political leader “personally instructed” the CDC to abandon its scientific conclusions about vaccines is more than troubling — it is a direct attack on the foundations of evidence-based medicine.
22.11.2025 04:28 — 👍 95 🔁 36 💬 2 📌 3Following @ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social was all I needed before scrambling for the bleach
22.11.2025 07:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And Masters in Public Health 🙁
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“It’s horrifying, it’s embarrassing, it’s scary, it’s heartbreaking—it’s all of those things."
@kieraevebutler.bsky.social spoke with five CDC staffers on Thursday and Friday to gauge their reactions to the announcement.
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Here’s my new longish opinion article on the Baker Institute website outlining the damage to biomedicine MAHA hopes to achieve, and how push back in productive ways
www.bakerinstitute.org/research/rea...
The CDC, now led by RFK Jr., has updated its website to promote a debunked theory on vaccines and autism.
“DO NOT TRUST THIS AGENCY. This is a national embarrassment,” says ex-CDC vaccines chief Dr. Demetre Daskalakis. www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-up...
Fire him.
20.11.2025 04:46 — 👍 97 🔁 21 💬 3 📌 0In response to the changes, Dr. Frank Han, a pediatrician and cardiologist and scientific advisor to @accountabilityji.bsky.social, told me “The CDC has fully turned into the antivaccine personal mouthpiece of RFK Jr and can no longer be trusted.“
20.11.2025 05:00 — 👍 243 🔁 69 💬 2 📌 4Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months. Part 1.
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A new profile of RFK Jr offers fresh insights into how he works, the bond he shares with Trump, & how he's moved HHS “from evidence-based decision-making to decision-based evidence-making." Story by @chelseacirruzzo.bsky.social, @caseyross.bsky.social, & me:
www.statnews.com/2025/11/18/r...
But, really, always include alt-text. It's what good people do.
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Call and response comic. Who are we? CEOs What do we want? AI! AI to do what? We don't know! When do we want it? Right now!
Pick your industry, fits 'em all
18.11.2025 03:26 — 👍 432 🔁 94 💬 5 📌 3
The second Trump administration’s deep federal spending cuts, including at the NIH, have halted at least 383 clinical trials, affecting more than 74,000 patients, according to a new analysis.
www.fiercebiotech.com/research/nih...
While the government was shut down, 379 NIH study section meetings (containing 24,380 grant applications) were postponed. NIH is committed to getting these reviewed, but please be patient and understanding with staff, as this is a complex and heavy lift.
13.11.2025 13:25 — 👍 161 🔁 63 💬 0 📌 14
Research on brain disorders may slow as young neuroscientists struggle to find jobs and research grants. n.pr/4pgmAna
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Given that Trump's most consistent MO is to accuse others of the wrongs he himself committed ("they tried to steal the election!" "they committed fraud on their loan documents!"), this is the ultimate tell.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
Most decisions that are problematic happen at the editorial level.
Many talented frontline reporters exist, including at the NYT.
I can see how criticisms might make them feel defensive, but I wish they directed their energies at the structures within which they work rather than than at readers.
All these connections might seem strange til you realize how few people are involved, how tiny Epstein's world was. It's a tiny, horrible bubble of privilege and power, where people see forcibly taking sex or elections as no big deal. As their birthright.
Let the Epstein files burn it all down. 6/
This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
12.11.2025 22:59 — 👍 17215 🔁 3365 💬 127 📌 129
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Democrats at every level of power could simply repeat "he must resign" over and over and over again. It's what the GOP would do if the situation were reversed. Further erode his power by pushing him to lash out more.
12.11.2025 16:15 — 👍 3079 🔁 733 💬 17 📌 1As Trump & MAGA decimate scientific research & the federal science agencies, I’m authoring legislation to fund scientific research in California. If the federal government won’t lead on science, California will.
12.11.2025 00:38 — 👍 75 🔁 13 💬 8 📌 1Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.
11.11.2025 14:50 — 👍 5325 🔁 1085 💬 273 📌 44Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
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The Bean Book from the Rancho Gordo Kitchen
It's only $35 for Christ's sake
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