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Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on board? Me: Yes, but I'm not that kind of... Flight attendant: It's 11:52 PM and the passenger in 37F has a conference abstract due in seven minutes. It's currently 50 words over the limit. Me: Okay. I'm here.
July 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
lborrell.bsky.social
This is what a dictatorship regimen look like. Wake up people!
#PublicHealth #EpiSky #SocialEpi #AcademicSky
usha.bsky.social Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · Feb 2
Not just CDC. NIH sites also being scrubbed, including the Office for Research on Women's Health which @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social says is a pale shadow of what it was + void of information. This when NASEM says women's health research is woefully underfunded. www.statnews.com/2025/02/01/c...
CDC advisers push agency to explain data removal, say when info will be restored
Information on topics such as gender, teens' behavior, and infectious diseases was removed from the CDC's website.
www.statnews.com
February 2, 2025 at 1:48 AM
lborrell.bsky.social
This type of censorship is the making of a dictatorship. People wake up! #EpiSky #PublicHealth #SocialEpi
February 1, 2025 at 1:26 AM
socialepi.bsky.social
My deepest thanks to @natureportfolio.nature.com for spotlighting my research on #LongCOVID. Grateful to help further our understanding of this critical #PublicHealth issue. #SocialEpi #EpiSky #EconSky
April 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
leeworden.bsky.social
Thread about new preprint on dynamics and impacts of COVID-19 outbreaks in California state prisons
#PoliticalEpi #SocialEpi #PublicHealth #EpiSky #IDSky 😷 #RStats
leeworden.bsky.social Lee Worden @leeworden.bsky.social · Jan 25
New paper! 4+ years in the making, now preprinted. Here's a thread about it.
In June 2020 I was asked to help analyze the COVID-19 outbreak just starting in the San Quentin State Prison, to see if the disease was spreading faster in some buildings than others.
January 25, 2025 at 1:14 AM
lborrell.bsky.social
The sad part is that maternal mortality will continue to increase given the current disregard for women health and #PublicHealth as a whole
#EpiSky #SocialEpi
@statnews.com
April 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
mkellyirving.bsky.social
Look what I finally received in the post!!

A real life copy of “Health Inequality” 3rd edition that Mel @zetkin.bsky.social & I have been working on for the last 2 years!

Would you be interested is a wee thread about this ed? If so, I’ll prepare one

It’s a good #socialepi & social science primer
My hand holding up a copy of a book titled “Health Inequality” in front of house plants & a window
November 16, 2024 at 12:57 PM
johnsnowsociety.bsky.social
AJE Advances: Research in Epidemiology is the newest #OpenAccess journal from @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social and the Society for Epidemiologic Research.
A good home for papers on emerging methods incl. #socialepi #spatialepi

academic.oup.com/ajeadvances/...
October 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
ises-epi.bsky.social
Thanks for helping us reach a milestone of 2,000 followers on Bluesky, more than we had on that other platform! 🎉🍾

Later this month, we'll be announcing more planned events 🎫 in the next few months—please stay tuned & thanks again for all of your support!

#SocialEpi #SDoH #EpiSky #PublicHealth
March 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
lborrell.bsky.social
Voting is a stronger social determinant of health than education #Vote #SDoH #EpiSky #SocialEpi #PublicHealth #HealthEquity
January 8, 2026 at 12:57 PM
lborrell.bsky.social
Indeed this tutorial is excellent to learn and teach #Intersectional #MAIHDA @clarerevans.bsky.social @andybebop.bsky.social and all. #HealthInequity #EpiSky #SocialEpi
December 21, 2024 at 1:13 PM
lborrell.bsky.social
#GenderEquity & #Academia: Women in academia have almost five times the amount of childcare-related responsibilities that men have.
#SocialEpi #EpiSky

Motherhood derails women’s academic careers — these data reveal how and why www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Figure
March 30, 2026 at 3:57 PM
lborrell.bsky.social
The removal of DEI language is happening! #PublicHealth #EpiSky #SocialEpi

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
How federal agencies have already changed their websites under Trump
“Diversity” has been deleted. “Climate resilience” is now a popular substitute for “climate change.” And “pregnant people” has been replaced by “pregnant women.”
www.washingtonpost.com
February 1, 2025 at 12:26 PM
socialepi.bsky.social
Grateful to @mtosterholm.bsky.social for summarizing my recent long COVID study—published in @commsmed.nature.com—on the latest @cidrap.bsky.social podcast, "Public Health Policy Is Political".

You can read my full paper here:
www.nature.com/articles/s43...

#SocialEpi #EpiSky #PublicHealth #MedSky
cidrap.bsky.social CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · Apr 17
New "Osterholm Update" podcast episode! @mtosterholm & @cvdall cover the ongoing measles outbreak, the latest US federal public health cuts, new studies on long COVID, vaccine news for Novavax, seasonal flu, & H5N1

www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
April 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
mariaglymour.bsky.social
JenDoleac's economics of crime podcast (www.probablecausation.com) is great for people entering epi or any quant research field. They emphasize how they got the data, how much work it was to compile, and the challenges of causal identification. Plus the topics are 🔥. #EpiSky #AcademicSky #SocialEpi
September 2, 2024 at 6:00 PM
lborrell.bsky.social
Please see below strong Statement from @apha.org Executive Director Georges C. Benjamin, MD: "I ask my colleagues to join me and speak up. Secretary Robert Kennedy is a danger to the public’s health and should resign or be fired."
#PublicHealth #EpiSky #SocialEpi

www.apha.org/news-and-med...
Secretary Kennedy and his policies are a danger to the public’s health
www.apha.org
April 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
lborrell.bsky.social
The ripple effects of these cuts will last our lifetime and beyond…This paper is just underscoring the tip of the iceberg!

#GenderEquity #EpiSky #SocialEpi #PublicHealth
erictopol.bsky.social Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Mar 23
$2.45 billion NIH grant cuts and ~2300 terminated active research grants were DOGE'd in early 2025
Who were most affected?
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Early career and women researchers
March 24, 2026 at 12:25 PM
lborrell.bsky.social
“The clear message here is that these are two distinct constructs [race/ethnicity and genetic ancestry], they mean different things, and they should not be used interchangeably,” said Luisa Borrell
@cuny.edu @cunysph.bsky.social
#EpiSky #SocialEpi
www.statnews.com/2025/06/05/n... via @statnews.com
Massive NIH study challenges use of race as a proxy for genetic ancestry in research
A large government study shows that Americans’ self-reported race is a poor proxy for their genetic ancestry.
www.statnews.com
June 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
socialepi.bsky.social
Look forward to sharing findings from my long COVID study to be published in Communications Medicine early next week.

The title is "A nationwide study of risk factors for long COVID and its economic and mental health consequences in the United States"

#LongCOVID #SocialEpi #EpiSky #PublicHealth
March 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
lborrell.bsky.social
No surprising finding! I cannot resist to wonder how this will apply to women in #Academia where all the -ism are ubiquitous #AcademicSky #EpiSky #PublicHealth #SocialEpi
luckytran.com Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Dec 18
New study finds that women born in the most sexist U.S. states experienced faster memory decline in later years compared to women born in the least sexist states. The difference was equivalent to nine years of cognitive aging.
Sexism Is a Risk Factor for Memory Decline Among Women
Columbia researchers have found that women born in the most sexist U.S. states experience faster memory decline in later life compared to women born in the least sexist states.
www.cuimc.columbia.edu
December 19, 2024 at 1:02 PM
ises-epi.bsky.social
Ten Simple Rules for Making Good Oral Presentations

Rule 1: Talk to the Audience

Rule 2: Less is More

Rule 3: Only Talk When You Have Something to Say

Rule 4: Make the Take-Home Message Persistent

Rule 5: Be Logical

#SocialEpi #EpiSky 😷
#PublicHealth 🛟
#MedSky #AcademicSky
Ten Simple Rules for Making Good Oral Presentations Ten Simple Rules for Making Good Oral Presentations
December 31, 2024 at 11:38 AM
lborrell.bsky.social
Please see below the new ICMJE Guidance issued in response to the US Government changes related to publications. #EpiSky #PubliHealth #SocialEpi @alfredomorabia.bsky.social

www.icmje.org/news-and-edi...
ICMJE | News & Editorials
www.icmje.org
February 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
lborrell.bsky.social
We saw this coming: "[T]he U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), NIH will not only block new funding for the university, but also stop paying investigators working on all existing NIH projects."

#PublicHealth #EpiSky #SocialEpi

www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia University
Amid negotiations with Trump, the university could risk losing nearly $700 million
www.science.org
April 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
lborrell.bsky.social
Sweeping changes and more research scrutiny could be on the way for the US National Institutes of Health #EpiSky #SocialEpi #Epidemiology #PublicHealth

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Major biomedical funder NIH poised for massive reform under Trump 2.0
Sweeping changes and more research scrutiny could be on the way for the US National Institutes of Health.
www.nature.com
November 18, 2024 at 10:06 PM
lborrell.bsky.social
On the first day of the new NIH Director, the Chiefs of NIAID, NICHD, NIMHD and NINR were informed that they were being placed on administrative leave. Together, these leaders were in charge of US$9 billion in funding at the NIH. #PublicHealth #EpiSky #SocialEpi

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs
In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.
www.nature.com
April 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM