Melody Schreiber

theguardian.comControversial US-backed vaccine trial in African newborns haltedHepatitis B study in Guinea-Bissau that was to be funded by CDC and that drew global backlash ‘will not move forward’

BREAKING: The hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau "will not move forward," the lead researcher says. “The solution is clear here: Take the money and vaccinate as many kids as you can,” @pauloffit.bsky.social told me: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

@katestarbird.bsky.social

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Excellent thread. "You just have to stay curious and try to infect others with that curiosity"

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Kate Starbird

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Our election research team put out an article today explaining how the prediction markets (e.g. Kalshi, Polymarket) — and social media posts featuring visualizations from those platforms — may feed election rumors & conspiracy theories around the U.S. midterms: uwcip.substack.com/p/what-to-kn...

uwcip.substack.comWhat to Know About Election Forecasting and Prediction Markets This NovemberWhat to Expect When We’re Electing

theguardian.com‘It’s a mess right now’: RFK’s sweeping changes place new vaccines in limboHealth secretary’s effort to alter makeup of ACIP panel means no new recommendations coming – even as new vaccines are approved

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Anytime a new opioid hits the market, I worry the most about people who aren't regular users -- people who use at parties, or who got clean but relapsed. You think you know what you can handle but this changes everything.

Your Local Epidemiologist@ylepidemiologist.bsky.social

10/ Finally, there was a 2nd death related to cychlorphine, a synthetic opioid, in CA. The drug is about 10 times more potent than fentanyl and has been found in counterfeit pills made to look like Xanax, Adderall, and oxycodone. It’s also difficult to detect with routine hospital opioid screens.

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Dorit Reiss

@doritreiss.bsky.social

"US vaccine recommendations are in limbo, access to vaccines is suffering, and some of the uncertainty may continue for years following major blows to vaccination by the Trump administration, experts say." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... via @melodyschreiber.com @theguardian.com

This has GOT to be awkward for Mehmet Oz

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

"well actually Oz is Turkish" yes that makes demeaning an entire group of people more palatable

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Dan Diamond

@ddiamond.bsky.social

washingtonpost.comCDC’s deputy director to leave Trump administration after six monthsJennifer Shuford, who had been Texas’s health commissioner, was part of a team hired to restore confidence in the agency.

SCOOP: The CDC's deputy director is leaving. Jen Shuford, an infectious-disease physician who had been Texas's health commissioner, was hired to help restore trust in CDC. Now she's out after six months. More with @lenasun.bsky.social.

This is so fucking sad

CIDRAP@cidrap.bsky.social

Kenya reports 2nd Ebola death as Nigeria races to understand transmission of index patient The second patient to die in Kenya was a close relative of the index patient. Read more: https://bit.ly/4yIcsry 📷: World Bank / Vincent Tremeau

Little Miss Muffet was proteinmaxxing with those curds and whey

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Guttmacher

@guttmacher.org

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Shield laws made it possible for over 90,000 people in total-ban states across the US to receive abortion pills by mail in 2025. Our Monthly Abortion Provision Study shows telehealth abortion has been crucial to expanding access nationwide. More via @jamanetworkopen.com: https://gu.tt/4kin6Sd

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Canonically there are 38 types of Bluesky users

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The learning loss / child experimentation crowd suspiciously quiet

Erin Kissane@kissane.myatproto.social

Just a reminder that there is no good data to support these uses in K12, we are just testing it live all on kids who won’t ever be these ages again and can’t get them back if we fuck it up.

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My cheesecake cravings are off the charts

foxbaltimore.comBeyond license plates: Maryland police eye tech that picks up Bluetooth, Wi-FiA company that supplies license-plate readers to police across central Maryland is now selling a tool that also detects Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and other wireless sign

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"A company that supplies license-plate readers to police across central Maryland is now selling a tool that also detects Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and other wireless signals given off by personal devices in passing vehicles" foxbaltimore.com/news/local/b...

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Police in PG County are piloting it 🙃

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Children's interest in collecting keychains is inversely related to how many keys they have

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When I was a kid, I had dozens of novelty keychains. Now that I have actual keys, I have... one? Until it falls off

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Marisa Kabas

@marisakabas.bsky.social

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Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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Mike Nellis

@mikenellis.bsky.social

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

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Counterpoint: we live in a global society on an interconnected planet and it's good, actually, to pay attention

ghost malone ergo propter bones@proptermalone.bsky.social

I think this is broadly correct but it’s a symptom not a cause- the reason I’m deeply invested in the democratic choices of e.g. Brazil is that there’s a really big difference between Lula and Bolsonaro! a characteristic of democracy is that it allows for very frequent big direction changes

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Americans have long ignored the rest of the world, generally, and it's really short-sighted and puzzling

huffpost.comViral 3-Year-Old Soccer Star ‘Traumatized’ After Police Were Called In The Middle Of The Game“They called the police on a 3-year-old because he’s too good,” Nevada’s father, Don, can be heard saying in the video.

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I say "Americans" but what I mean is certain Americans. I have friends and neighbors from Brazil, for example, and I want to be able to talk to them about their interests

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Phil Lewis

@phillewis.bsky.social

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I spoke to the mom of the 3-year-old soccer star who was left "thinking he did something wrong" after a league official called police "due to a disturbance between parents" The youth sports league said they launched a review and reached out to the family

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH

@gavinyamey.bsky.social

“US vaccine recommendations are in limbo, access to vaccines is suffering, & some of the uncertainty may continue for years following major blows to vaccination by the Trump administration” I have been genuinely surprised at the speed & magnitude of RFK Jr’s dismantling of vaccination in the US 😢

Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com

There's no ACIP in the US right now -- and there won't be for the foreseeable future because RFK Jr isn't reconstituting the group. That is already having consequences for new vaccines, which don't have ACIP recommendations. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Colette Delawalla, PhD

@cdelawalla.bsky.social

At face, the lack of an ACIP board seems like a DC red tape thing, but this is a sneaky eugenics effort. When vaccines are not recommended by ACIP, they are not covered by insurance or available for free through Medicaid…meaning the most physically and financially vulnerable don’t have access.

Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com

“The Amish are our control group" pauloffit.substack.com/p/rfk-jrs-co...

pauloffit.substack.comRFK Jr.’s “Control Group”In July 2021, while speaking to a large Mennonite crowd in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, RFK Jr. made two accurate predictions.

womensenews.orgCEO and Pregnant; Yahoo! But Wait a Minute . . . – Women's eNewsMarissa Mayer is taking the helm of a major technology company while pregnant. That makes this the perfect opportunity to re-evaluate a broken system for parental leave that has allowed us to lag far ...

THIS Marissa Mayer? womensenews.org/2012/07/ceo-...

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social

cool, cool

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To be clear I think it's great that she loved her work enough to go straight back to it and I also think this sort of thing sets an impossible and unhealthy standard

defector.comThe U.S.-Funded Plan To Kill Infants In Africa By Withholding Vaccines Has Been Thwarted | DefectorThis week, one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s most malevolent plots was finally brought to a halt when police in Guinea-Bissau raided the offices of Danish researchers who intended to carry out a hepatiti...

The thing is, an assignment like this helps a parent articulate their child's unique strengths so they can better support them. Cheating on the homework catches up to you eventually.

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Sabrina Imbler

@sabs.bsky.social

I wrote an explainer of the evil, terrible thing that almost happened with our tax dollars in Guinea-Bissau defector.com/the-u-s-fund...

THIS Marissa Mayer? womensenews.org/2012/07/ceo-...

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social

cool, cool

"Mayer plans to take only a few weeks off and will even work during that break."

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Kent Lind

@camasonian.bsky.social

Replying to @noupside.bsky.social

Even before it was illegally demolished, USAID spent basically NOTHING in Latin America. He is just talking completely out of his ass as usual. This was the distribution of foreign aid in 2023. Notice that Latin America and the Caribbean combined is down there at 0.1%

I interviewed Lula back in the day and he struck me as very engaged on public health and global development

yahoo.comColorado priest from Uganda released after 13 months in ICE detention in AuroraAfter 13 months in an Aurora immigrant detention center, where he became reliant on a wheelchair as his health deteriorated, a Ugandan priest who has lived in Colorado for more than 25 years was relea...

I must admit I did not expect him to run for a third and fourth term but apparently no one is truly out of politics

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Matt Shipman (he/him)

@shiplives.bsky.social

The priest is being carried because the guards took his wheelchair. This is comic book villain stuff. But it’s real, and it’s happening in our country. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

nps.govI Didn't Know That!: Leave the Leaves (U.S. National Park Service)I Didn't Know That!: Leave the Leaves

Or just let them mulch where they lay!

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

your yearly PSA: want to do something positive wrt the ecosystem while saving yourself a bunch of time and effort? skip the bagging and just rake leaves into a pile wherever convenient (bonus points if you do it under a tree). www.nps.gov/articles/000...

Everyone freaking out about the Cheesecake Factory is not the Cheesecake Factory demographic

If you were, you would know that's not the insulting part of what Obama said

theguardian.com‘Invasive and extreme’: doctors fight anti-trans measure requiring genital exams for student athletesA Washington referendum has drawn broad opposition from adults who work with queer and trans teens

But no objections to the Saddam Hussein part

Scott Lemieux@lemieuxlgm.bsky.social

"The party left me. I used to be a Democrat, but know that Obama has made fun of Trump for making the White House look like a dictator designed an over-the-top chain restaurant I favor starving African children and bringing measles back"

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Rachel Maddow

@maddow.bsky.social

conservatives in washington state want freedom and small government in the form of state-mandated genital exams for high school students: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Rowling seems deeply misogynistic in general

Billie Jean Sweeney@billiejsweeney.bsky.social

Rowling *never* writes about women’s rights, workplace discrimination or the threats to women from predatory men. I tracked her posts for five months: Well over 200 hateful transphobic smears. Not a single post about women’s actual concerns or needs None

www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

dailykos.comStates force hospitals to offer more financial aid—and it’s working in OregonFor patients, the switch meant direct relief from high healthcare costs…

Air circulation in cars can be absolutely terrible

Jessica Ellis@baddestmamajama.bsky.social

RFK decided to once again target maskers in a speech, laughing about going to LA and seeing people driving in their cars while masked. And I want to make sure people know that studies have shown that the reason someone might wear a mask in their car is that it's none of your fucking business.