Jon Shaffer

Public health people have to get themselves organized to fight back, otherwise we're toast. If we don't, the eugenic madness coming from Trump, RFK Jr., Oz, etc is going to kill lots of people. Here I share some thoughts about how we can start to organize: www.infectiousdose.com/post/from-ev...

incredible that universities are actively paying for their own self-destruction.

Defend Public Health asked for folks to tell us why they are public health voters. From experiencing polio to an encounter with a rabid bat, here’s what some of them had to say.

Be a public health voter. Because your health and your community's health is on the ballot. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social

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Really enjoyed this ep of @techpolicypress.bsky.social 's The Sunday Show with @alondra.bsky.social , Emily Tucker and @justinhendrix.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/the-edge-dia... >>

I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.

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“Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” US candidates should push this too.

Anthem. Yr Op-Ed Won’t Get You Into Heaven Anymore open.spotify.com/track/4r8CW5...

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

Upton Sinclair noted, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” But Du Bois offers a more penetrating explanation: a man might even sacrifice his material wages to preserve the “public and psychological wage” of whiteness.

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

Just to be clear... Prop 40 is a ONE-TIME retroactive tax. It applies ONLY to billionaires and would tax just 5% of their wealth — which grew 30% in 2025. California's billionaires would still be worth $2T+ AFTER the tax. The revenue will fund healthcare for millions of Californians. Vote YES.

Eat the rich.

Let’s go.

i really do think that a successful impeachment and removal of hegseth is a live possibility if dems win the senate. he is a genuine disaster.

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The capital-aligned obsession with the fantasy of mechanical objectivity is evergreen.

Fuck these fascists.

rereading Karl Mannheim

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

I am once again humbly saying that decisions about technology deployment on our campuses are almost always made by people who have never set foot in the classroom or done research. Most of these new technology deployments, like CircleAI here, are wholly unproven. www.chronicle.com/article/ceo-...

The Ebola epidemic that began in the DRC earlier this year has achieved a grim new milestone, turning up in a third region of the African continent, the widest footprint of any Ebola outbreak to date. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/h...

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part of the concerted campaign to enclose, privatize, and alienate experts from their professional caregiving knowledge and ethical practice.

Elon Musk threatens Congress.

📚 Now reading: Sarah Klein (2026). Modeling as Theater and Other Questionable Research Practices Compiling some snippets here. Check out the full paper 📝 muse.jhu.edu/article/1001... Will also add this thread to my page here: irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/02/15/%... (h/t @olivia.science ) 1/🧵

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MacOS running like absolute shit and Apple Mail basically nonfunctional since the latest update. Nothing new, but "AI" makes everything suck.

wow, would like to read more about this. sounds deeply fucked up.

Effective Altruism: From Decolonizing to "Re-Colonizing" Global Health www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

This election season, vote to defend public health. Join @defendpublichealth.bsky.social and endorse the People’s Health Platform today. www.defendpublichealth.org/peoples-heal...

these fascists can burn in hell

Entering a Golden Age of phrenology. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

I think that these decisions will be looked back on with deep regret before too long. We must reassert faculty control of universities and boot out the corporate tools currently in charge.

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The decoupling of outlet from impact in American sociology. kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...

AI ethicists be like

"Measurement on the Color Line: Scientific Instruments & Making of Human Categories" curated by Evelynn Hammonds "traces development of present-day notions of race thru sciences, measurements, & data that produced them" @ Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments @harvardmuseums #HPS 🧪 🗃️

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"Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding." www.ahmath.org/statements

You should read this.

Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination -- Arundhati Roy www.equator.org/articles/aru... 🧵