Gregg Gonsalves
@gregggonsalves.bsky.social
Epidemiologist. AIDS Activist. Dog lover. New Haven.
The Science That U.N.C. Sacrificed to Avoid the Wrath of Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/11/13/u...
How the University of North Carolina Tried to Avoid Trump’s Wrath
The University of North Carolina’s chancellor tried to protect the school from the Trump administration. Work on cancer, suicide, AIDS and coronaviruses was hit anyway.
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THIS SATURDAY! Stand Up for Yale will join student and faculty groups in the Democratize Yale coalition for an on campus town hall about the free speech, academic freedom, and university governance issues plaguing the university. Join us - in person or online! www.standupforyale.org/news/invitat...
Invitation: A Yale Community Town Hall (Sat. Nov. 14, 4-6 p.m.) — STAND UP FOR YALE
Stand Up for Yale, the Yale College Council, the Endowment Justice Collective, and the Yale chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) invite Yale faculty, students, staff, an...
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This is a big one, Yale grads! We invited President McInnis, who declined. But we're holding the town hall anyway! Hope you can make it to testify in person or remotely!
Stand Up for Yale@standupforyale.org · 2d agoTHIS SATURDAY! Stand Up for Yale will join student and faculty groups in the Democratize Yale coalition for an on campus town hall about the free speech, academic freedom, and university governance issues plaguing the university. Join us - in person or online! www.standupforyale.org/news/invitat...
“A good childhood should not be a privilege that some people can buy, but something all American children have access to" - Economist Kathryn Anne Edwards
Here’s What It Will Really Take To Fix America’s Economy
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Great election take from @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 2d ago"2026 was a vibe shift election. You can sense it, right? After Democrats’ sweeping win, something feels different. The change is larger than a shift in governmental power, reverberating in the culture, shifting expectations." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-first-vi...
@perrybaconjr.bsky.social thanks for posting this. Students, faculty and alums have been pushing McInnis on the DoJ settlement, academic freedom, freedom of assembly, university governance for months. She has refused any engagement and issues form letters to anyone who contacts her.
Perry Bacon@perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 2d agoShe bet hard on the rightward shift being permanent and will be reluctant to backtrack. (And the board likely wanted an anti-woke figure). But glad to see such strong pushback to her fascist-friendly leadership.
She bet hard on the rightward shift being permanent and will be reluctant to backtrack. (And the board likely wanted an anti-woke figure). But glad to see such strong pushback to her fascist-friendly leadership.
Yale AAUP@aaupyale.org · 3d ago8 meeting requests. 0 meetings. Since May 2025, Yale AAUP says President Maurie McInnis has declined eight requests to meet with chapter leaders about academic freedom, federal negotiations, and faculty governance. Yale Daily News: bit.ly/YDN_DeclinedMeetings
2/2 Further aligning NSF leadership w/OSTP (& OMB) in service to administration priorities will undermine investigator-initiated research. Will this increase efficiency? Of a certain kind. If approved, NSF will become more efficient at undermining its mission to advance the progress of science.
Here is how I think about this nomination. 1/2 OSTP wants NSF to become the research arm of its 'New Golden Age of Science' = privatized and AI-ified. OSTP is led by Michael Kratsios. Nomination for NSF is Jim O'Neill. Both are non-scientists and former Thiel associates.
Union of Concerned Scientists@ucs.org · 2d agoJim O’Neill is an unacceptable choice to lead the National Science Foundation. Members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee should reject his nomination in next Wednesday’s vote. Here’s why 🧵⬇️
“We’re constantly told about the importance of dialogue on this campus and listening across differences,” said Yale AAUP President Daniel Martinez HoSang. Meaningful dialogue must include faculty organizations, even when they disagree with university leadership.
Just ignore that @NYTimes' click-bait "waste it on woke" interview. Christine Lui doesn't matter. Keep organizing. Keep your eyes on the prize. The NY Times is just transparent in its hatred for the left. The paper, its owners and editors, aren't independent, objective, they are on a mission.
Great piece by @chrisgeidner.bsky.social. www.lawdork.com/p/scott-colo...
On Scott Colom’s historic victory in Mississippi, the power of courage, and a belief in a better future
“All I did was have the courage to imagine a night like this,” the senator-elect said from the stage in Jackson, Mississippi. He will be the state’s first Black senator since 1881.
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Scott Colum's victory speech. Just sit down and listen. www.youtube.com/live/Ax7vHW0...
Scott Colom speaks after HISTORIC Mississippi Senate WIN
YouTube video by MS NOW
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On collaboration, conformists and the need for scientists, clinicians and public health workers to defend a multi-racial democracy, a Third Reconstruction, in the United States. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Never Let Trump’s Elite Enablers Forget What They’ve Done
Universities, scientists, law firms, and many other powerful institutions are about to start pretending they never rolled over for the president. But we know better.
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Every day health professionals see 💔 The vulnerability of being uninsured 📉 Steep declines in health insurance coverage ⏰ Time & $$ poured into administration 🌎 Medicare for All would make a world of difference ➡️ Congressional leadership decisions play a pivotal role in making it possible
Larry Levitt@larrylevitt.bsky.social · 3d agoWins by progressive candidates have jumpstarted a conversation about Medicare for All. That doesn't mean it's going to pass, but does mean it could play a big role in the 2028 presidential campaign. That depends, however, on having a candidate in the race who will champion it.
So as Frances Lee opines on last week's elections, it's important to note that few in her own profession of political science offered any criticism of her disastrous and frankly arrogant foray (w/ Stephen Macedo) into biomedical science/public health.
Joshua Weitz@joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 5d agoHow PUP failed us: instead of spending even a fancy coffee's worth of $ on "In Covid's Wake" as part of PUP's annual sale, consider branching out to understand the pandemic threats we still face and the consequences of grievance on science & public health. joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/revisionis...
And, for those who want to understand the science and history of efforts to confront airborne transmission then I recommend turning to a master of craft and a book that is gripping from the first page:
Air-Borne by Carl Zimmer: 9780593473597 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best Science Books of 2025 The fascinating, untold story of the air we breathe, the hidden life it contains, and invisible dangers that can turn the world upside dow...
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And yes, I wrote a book that dives into the silent spread of COVID and how to develop and deploy effective countermeasures to confront potential pandemics, even before vaccines/treatments are available (issues that remain even more salient now, unfortunately).
Asymptomatic
The Silent Spread of COVID-19 and the Future of Pandemics
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There is Michael Lewis' new book "Blockers" on those who stepped up to confront the administration: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/b...
Elon Musk Promised to Gut the Deep State. Did He Go Too Far?
A new book celebrates the federal bureaucrats who were quietly doing their jobs when the Department of Government Efficiency started squeezing them out last year.
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How PUP failed us: instead of spending even a fancy coffee's worth of $ on "In Covid's Wake" as part of PUP's annual sale, consider branching out to understand the pandemic threats we still face and the consequences of grievance on science & public health. joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/revisionis...
Appears to be no penalty for missing "wide right" (in NFL terms)—predicting outcomes in GOP favor. Heavy penalty for missing "wide left"— forecasting HRC or K Harris win. See also: Politics coverage in most mainstream outlets.
Laura Bassett@lebassett.bsky.social · 5d agoOn the verge of winning Mississippi, Scott Colom points a finger at the Cook Political Report and other election prognosticators and says they hamstrung candidates like him and Louisiana’s Jamie Davis by rating their races unwinnable
I co-founded @defendpublichealth.bsky.social after the elections in 2024 to push back against what I knew were going to be terrible attacks on public health, healthcare and science. We're not out of the woods yet. Please consider a year-end gift. givebutter.com/defend-publi...
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Support DPH to build power for public health justice in 2027
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Meow. Toot-toot! I've just read 30 job applications and now am reduced to this. One post on BlueSky led me down this rabbit hole. www.youtube.com/playlist?app...
Katze vs. Gartenbahn
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“Did you ever see diner interviews with people who opposed Trump?…Did you hear their voices regularly reflected in the coverage? No, you didn’t. The media pretty much ignored their presence… Instead, they interviewed Trump fans who were still Trump fans.” presswatchers.org/2026/11/what...
What’s missing from every story about Tuesday’s anti-Trump rout | Press Watch
Elite media has a superiority complex and a mental block
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The New York Times@nytimes.com · last wk.In deep-red Texas, conservatives are trying to make sense of what just happened to their longtime Republican stronghold. We visited a men’s bible study as they gathered for the first time since the state flipped in the midterm election.
🥙 & Economic relief including for children & families, who are disproportionately affected by food and housing insecurity, with lifelong consequences
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I think that so many elite institutions and people with important jobs staying on X persuaded many of them the median american voter was a greek statue avatar hailing the thousand year trumpenreich and complaining about race mixing bsky.app/profile/sara...
sarah jeong@sarahjeong.bsky.social · 2w agolmao at all the tech billionaires who saw 2024 and went "mandate???" and tied themselves and their entire fucking industries inextricably to a sinking ship
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social calls on the new Congress to step up on public health and start to undo the damage caused by RFK Jr, Russell Vought, Jay Bhattacharya and Memhet Oz. www.defendpublichealth.org/press-releas...
New Congress Must Fight to Save Public Health | Defend Public Health
With a dramatic shift in control, the new Congress that begins work in January must move swiftly to rescue U.S. public health from the tide of destruction and disinformation perpetrated by HHS Secreta...
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