Michelle Broaddus

Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.

NEJM and public health group are launching rival to CDC’s MMWR publication Two institutions are coming together to create an alternative to the CDC’s vaunted Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

🧪Farm workers in California are falling sick with H5N1 symptoms. RFK Jr. has ordered to not test or report cases, to keep it under wraps.

Shady actions like this, to keep the public in the dark is why NEJM & CIDRAP are launching weekly public health alerts, free for the public.

‘Instability and whiplash’ as CDC slashes 1,300 jobs before reinstating half Trump administration says 700 notices were sent in error, while former top CDC officer says ‘they didn’t think through what they were doing’

"No IRB in the world would approve it." That's what every researcher has told me about saline placebo trials to test vaccines we already have.

The CDC just got rid of its entire IRB. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

Turtle Island Decolonized — The Map Center Every map instantly creates two types of people: those who make the maps and those that are mapped. Every map represents a world view and a perspective and I’m so delighted to offer this piece that sh...

Anyway. I've partnered with @decolonialatlas.bsky.social to distribute their incredible map of North America from an Indigenous perspective with all placenames in the native language. Paper ones sold at cost. www.mapcenter.com/store/p/turt...

AuDHD woman who forgot to text you back a decade ago wondering if it’s too late An AuDHD woman who forgot to reply to your message ten years ago has spent the subsequent decade deliberating over how to re-instigate contact, sources have claimed.  Freya Emerson, 35, reportedly…

Freya Emerson, 35, reportedly failed to respond to your casual request for a coffee as she didn’t know how to explain to you that she was overwhelmed and unavailable without making it sound like she didn’t like you – and has felt terrible about it ever since.

🧪Excited to co-present this @standupforscience.bsky.social event next week with UW's Dr. Ryan Kelly

We'll cover how to effectively engage in public comments, to help shape public policy at all levels, federal to local. Attend in person or virtually!

RSVP: act.standupforscience.net/events/power...

There are some very strange things going on at the Library of Congress. I’m doing searches for news articles from the Civil Rights Era. Political cartoons. That sort of thing. They used to be easily found.

That stuff is VERY hard to find now. Things are missing, people.

Okay fantastic.

Now I want you to read these replies and think to yourself hot damn, I might feel like shit is going really awry but that's a lot of people out there just all invested in adding to the well being of anyone who needs to be helped, or held, or comforted, or protected.

We got this.

They found 38 unmarked graves of Indigenous children at Immaculate Conception Mission in South Dakota and it didn't make the news outside of Indian Country.

It’s really hard to find a therapist who can counsel people with actual real threat scenarios, like this one.

For example, I don’t think I have “haters”. I have actual coordinated attacks on my safety and wellbeing, sir or ma’am.

Same with political conflicts like these.

We need new professional models that don’t assume stable salaries, institutional subsidies, or invisible labor.

If we want history to thrive, we need to rethink how we value and pay for its work. 10/

I wanted to remind everyone about the "Save AIDS Research" livestream that will go live on YouTube this Tuesday (9/16) at 11:00am EDT. We have an amazing program of 70+ speakers who will be sharing their latest research. Get all the details at www.saveaidsresearch.org.

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If you haven't already, you may appreciate Sarah Kendzior's book They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent.

Academics and activists have tried to help people see that social problems are structural--that people's struggles often stem from the way systems of power and privilege prevent them from getting by or getting ahead. That kind of structural thinking is inoculation against authoritarianism.

most industries have failed to communicate, especially in light of the USA eviscerating funding, is that science and engineering is not something you can just “discover” and “learn” once but, instead, they require steady application and continuous support over time or else you risk losing it.

U.S. senator wants DOGE out of sensitive payment system for farmers Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., wants the USDA to revoke high-level access granted to the Department of Government Efficiency to a database that controls payments and loans to farmers and ranchers.

Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., wants the USDA to revoke high-level access granted to DOGE to a database that controls payments and loans to farmers and ranchers.

I'll put a plug in for the City Watch. Like Granny, Sam Vimes really understands people (and People). And they both draw their power up from the very soles of their boots.

Its been a week since this ruling.

So... have any of you actually had terminated "DEI-Related" grant funding restored?

#Academicsky #NIH #psychscisky

What explicates this choice and justifies it as ethical?

Despite being considered an absolute, inviolate identity, patients are not viewed as a source of ✨knowledge✨; instead, inclusion is seen as a hoop to jump through to receive funding; and as a virtue signal rather than engaging ethically. 🧵

Art Activities Help Med Students Unwind Duke School of Medicine provides art-based interventions to combat anxiety and promote well-being and relaxation.

Phones and social media often gets blamed for the youth mental health crisis. But if we're going to let correlation be a proxy for causation, then why aren't we making the same case about how the rise of high-stakes academics has crowded out music and art?

www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

They mean healthy fetuses, the pregnant person is irrelevant from their perspective.

"Remaining Native" is One of the Best Running Films of 2025 The new documentary, screening at the Outside Festival, shares the pain of American Indian history—and the resilience and strength of young Paiute runner Kutoven Stevens.

www.outsideonline.com/culture/book...

Native Tribes Sue U.S. Over Abuse and Deaths at Boarding Schools

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

Indigenous scientists are fighting to protect their data — and their culture They’re worried about the loss of their research.

“Indigenous data sovereignty ultimately goes deeper than servers and technology” Loved this story from @yessfun.com 🧪
www.theverge.com/features/664...

Two-Eyed Seeing and other Indigenous perspectives for neuroscience - Nature Combining Indigenous insights with neuroscience methods through Two-Eyed Seeing can broaden the understanding of brain function and mental wellbeing by merging reductionist and holistic perspectives a...

Another article on Indigenous knowledge perspectives. Oh! this is what DIVERSITY means. "We discuss how Two-Eyed Seeing can bring breadth of knowledge and humility to the development of research and clinical practices for brain health. "
#science #philsci
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Making Wisconsin: A speedy review of 300 years of Milwaukee's immigration history Waves of immigration to Milwaukee have made our home a multicultural and vibrant city. But it hasn't always been a warm welcome. Here's a rundown of immigration to Milwaukee and Wisconsin.

www.wuwm.com/race-ethnici...

Amid the Milwaukee lead crisis, a laid-off CDC scientist volunteered his expertise. It wasn’t so simple After his job was cut, a CDC scientist volunteered to help Milwaukee respond to the lead crisis in its public schools. For now, he's in limbo.

Milwaukee needs help tracing kids who were exposed to lead in schools. A member of the #CDC lead poisoning team — a team laid off in the the DOGE cuts last month — volunteered to go help. But in these strange times, even an offer of help poses challenges. www.statnews.com/2025/05/12/l...

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Participation is limited to those 18+ who are mental health professionals (broadly defined)/trainees in mental health fields.

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