Hi all; all our tutorial articles and such are on indefinite hiatus; due to a series of technical glitches we've lost all our previous and pending materials. We hope to resume soon but given the time required for each article, it can't be an immediate priority.
As we say goodnight, a reminder that from lifesaving research to community care, Black innovators have shaped public health at every turn.
We honor their brilliance, resilience, and impact. Black history is American history. Just a few public health heroes below.
Happy Black History Month!
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Indeed! It's a shame that, much like any good advice, that's far too often blatantly ignored.
Ah, how could we have forgotten. I suppose that idea was still bacon.
As promised a few days ago, I'm excited to present our community response guide to chemical agents.
www.broadlyepi.com/community-ex...
We look at what the most common so-called "riot control" weapons are, how to identify them, as well as how to treat and mitigate exposure.
🧪 reskeets appreciated!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze0X...
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.
So, what's everyone's bets on what the current administration will do to cover up this latest Epstein file release?
A) US Stikes Iran
B) We "somehow" get imported cases of Nipah Virus
C) Insurrection Act is illegally used to invade Minnesota (more) and Oregon (more)
D) Something astoundingly dumb
There were years
(many years)
in which friends and family
would accuse me
of being too pessimistic,
yes, there were years
(many years)
in which friends and family
would accuse me
of being too pessimistic,
but those years are over,
and now I miss them,
oh, how I miss them.
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jan 29 PinkNews: Despite strong lobbying efforts by anti-trans Sex Matters, human rights body Council of Europe votes 3-to-1 to ban ‘conversion therapy’ across its 26 member states. UK Labour MP Kate Osborn brought the motion & 10k ppl in UK wrote in support of it.
“Bullying countries into complying with anti-rights and extremist ideology is despicable and unacceptable. The imperialist goals of this administration are on full display in this policy’s conditions to receive U.S. foreign assistance.”
- Anu Kumar, Ipas President
🧪 New CPH Focus: Confounding Variables & Effect Modification. Learn how to spot the difference, analyze data correctly, and avoid common exam traps, with clear examples and practice questions. 🛟 As always, a like and a share are greatly appreciated!
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Screenshot of a LinkedIn post from the OpenStreetMap account marked “URGENT.” The post asks for technology journalists to cover a story about new risks to open data. It explains that OpenStreetMap is experiencing unprecedented bot scraping activity: instead of a few IPs making very large numbers of requests, there are now hundreds of thousands of coordinated IP addresses each making a small number of requests, making blocking ineffective. The post quotes senior site reliability engineer Grant Slater, who says OSM is being hammered by scrapers using residential proxy or embedded SDK networks, creating real costs for the volunteer-run project. Hashtags include #opendata, #OpenStreetMap, #AI, #Bots, and #Abuse. The post ends by noting the irony that OSM data is free to use, yet these bot attacks pose an unnecessary risk to the entire project.
Open Street Maps might be seeing some trouble according to their LinkedIn, as further attacks on open data increase. OSM has been absolutely critical to public health and public service tools for years.
#MapSky #geography
Before anti-vaxxers we had HIV denialists. It is wild how history repeats itself. Reading this piece is like traveling back in time. So many similarities with what we are witnessing right now with the anti science anti vaccine brigade. History repeats itself, we keep choosing not to learn from it.
🧪 Epi Explained: Herd Immunity 🛟
This week we're breaking down how herd immunity actually works, and why high vaccination coverage matters for protecting entire communities, including people who can’t be vaccinated.
Quick, clear, and a little spicy at times.
buff.ly/Hm86fgh
#PublicHealth #IDSky
please remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota.
people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.
The climatologist told me
historians
will wonder
why we didn’t do more.
The epidemiologist told me
historians
will wonder
why we didn’t do more.
The activist told me
historians
will wonder
why we didn’t do more.
The historian told me
that nobody
listens to historians.
What's the difference between Swine Flu and Bird Flu?
One requires Oinkment, the other requires Tweetment.
🚨 The WH is now using disasters to take away state’s rights.
Read this thread while it is still allowed.
I sent my friend
an article about how
the “US government has lost
more than 10,000 STEM PhDs
since Trump took office,”
and my friend
(who is one of those 10,000)
replied that: “lost”
is a funny way of spelling
“were fired or driven out.”
To quote many a social movement, "Silence is violence", and friends, they're trying to commit violence against you in ways that should have been left in the history books.
Infectious diseases do not magically disappear just because you stop tracking and reporting. This is dangerous.
When diseases spread in silence, outbreaks go undetected for much longer and containment is more difficult.
All of this means more avoidable deaths.
www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
May he rest, and his work continue on!
There is a cost to science denial.
🧪 New CPH Focus: Methods to Reduce Bias in Epidemiology. Learn how randomization, blinding, and standardization strengthen study validity, all with clear examples and CPH-style practice questions 🛟
👉 buff.ly/frFViGN #PublicHealth #CPH #CertifiedInPublicHealth #Bias
The UK has lost its measles elimination status, the World Health Organization has announced.
Vaccine disinformation is a worldwide pandemic that is killing us.
American Life Insurance Companies have a fantastic ability to do a psy-op on ICE by simply not allowing a policy for anyone who works with ICE/DHS due to "extreme risk". I'd certainly think carefully about my actions if I knew my loved ones would be on their own if I bit the big one.
A useful infographic for protestors. Actually, with my background in CBRN/Public Health, would a community guide to identification and remediation of chemical agents be of interest?
Honestly a secret service contingent vs a gaggle of ICE idiots wouldn't be the match-up I'd expect, but I can't say I wouldn't be invested in the idea.
People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.