Stanford Medicine Depts of Epidemiology and Population Health and Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine invite applications for a joint faculty position in pharmacoepidemiology. Please share or get in touch if you’re interested! facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/pharmac...

Pharmacoepidemiology - Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor - Stanford University, California, United States

Assistant, Associate, Full ProfessorDepartment of Epidemiology and Population HealthDepartment of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain MedicineStanford University School of Medicine The Department o...

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Stanford Medicine Depts of Epidemiology and Population Health and Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine invite applications for a joint faculty position in pharmacoepidemiology. Please share or get in touch if you’re interested! facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/pharmac...

Pharmacoepidemiology - Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor - Stanford University, California, United States

Assistant, Associate, Full ProfessorDepartment of Epidemiology and Population HealthDepartment of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain MedicineStanford University School of Medicine The Department o...

facultypositions.stanford.edu

Very excited to share that our #lupus diagnostic #bias in primary care study was just published! Thank you to the wonderful team of collaborators and coauthors, and all of the participants. cc: first author @alyssahowren.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Effect of race and sex on lupus diagnosis in primary care: A randomized factorial survey study

Background Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a heterogeneous autoimmune rheumatic disease whose epidemiology and clinical prognosis vary by race and sex. Observed disparities in SLE may be partly ...

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Am probably late to this conversation but question: does changing the #vaccine schedule eventually translate into lack of coverage by #insurance for those? Seems like the current answer is "No" but this feels like something to watch closely over time.

Manuscript and grant reviewers in biomedical sciences: Do you have any major pet peeves when it comes to formatting of papers or grants that you're reviewing? Anything else not format-related? I'm putting together some recommendations for trainees in our #epidemiology program. Thanks!

Thanksgiving timed sales are a great way to figure out what mailing lists you are on

Election Day!

Please include confidence intervals with your relative risks (risk ratios, odds ratios, hazard ratios, etc) and not just the RR and a p-value. Bonus points for other measures too, but need to see how wide those intervals are not just whether they are significant. #postconferencefeedback

So excited that this work is out. Thank you to all the great collaborators and coauthors involved in this work! Great work by first author @amadeia.bsky.social lupus.bmj.com/content/12/2...

Risk of preterm delivery and early pregnancy hydroxychloroquine use from a Californian lupus cohort

Objective Pregnant patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have 2-3 times higher risk of preterm delivery (PTD). Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is recommended during pregnancy and may reduce PTD ri...

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And like that a 1-yr sabbatical comes to an end. Enjoying the day with family and getting ready for the new challenges. What an odd time to have been offline in public health and what a critical time to be ready and rested to get back to it. Wish me luck!

The Trump administration has announced that the US will rewrite past climate reports, in a clear attempt to erase scientific history and undermine the consensus on human-caused climate change.

US to rewrite its past national climate reports

US President Donald Trump's administration is revising past editions of the nation's premier climate report -- its latest move to undermine the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming.

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Much of the regulations at USDA have been removed; consume anything at your own risk.

Boar's Head plans to reopen troubled deli meat plant, but reports of sanitation problems persist

The Boar's Head deli meat plant at the heart of a deadly food poisoning outbreak is set to reopen in the coming months.

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I come from a family of pediatricians and have longed for my dad to have the opportunity to dress down RFK Jr, who is a true no-nothing menace. Thank you Congresswoman Schrier.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · last yr.

MUST SEE: Congresswoman Schrier nails conspiracy theorist and unfortunate HHS Secretary, RFK Jr., on the value of vaccines—and it’s glorious. Schrier also happens to be the first pediatrician in Congress.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... One Minnesota lawmaker and her spouse were fatally shot and a second lawmaker and his spouse were injured in separate "politically motivated" shootings at their homes in eastern Minnesota. Suspect, who authorities say had been impersonating law enforcement…

Minnesota politician shot and killed, another injured in 'politically motivated assassination'

The assailant, who is still at large, allegedly impersonated a police officer.

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New work out with colleagues from Karolinska including @elizabetharkema.bsky.social and many more!

The Lancet Rheumatology@thelancetrheum.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW RESEARCH—Exposure to #hydroxychloroquine in early #pregnancy and incidence of pre-eclampsia and pre-term delivery in patients with systemic #lupus erythematosus in Sweden: a nationwide population-based cohort study bit.ly/3FBPz3J @rheumepi.bsky.social Plus, linked Comment bit.ly/3Tknh0D

Excited to share that our next paper on evaluating diagnostic and treatment patterns in chronic illness is out - this time, exploring how race and gender may influence decision making in #neurology www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Influence of race and gender on variability in clinical decision-making in neurology - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Influence of race and gender on variability in clinical decision-making in neurology

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Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

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•••MEASLES ALERT••• A traveler with measles was at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey for several hours while infectious this week. Anyone who was in Newark Airport's Terminal B on Monday between 12:30 and 4:00 p.m. may have been exposed to measles — considered by health…

With the destruction of federal funding for research, people have been hoping foundations fill in some of the gaps. HHMI decided to suspend their competitions AFTER applicants had already spent hours working on the application.

In the face of book bans in our public libraries and schools, Little Free Libraries serve as vital distribution points for free access to banned books. Help expand access to these stories by celebrating #LFLweek through May 17: lflib.org/lfl-week @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social #UniteAgainstBookBans

I always knew the “vaccines cause autism” crowd used sketchy science. But this is the second time I’ve looked into a super popular analysis, only to discover that they didn’t even have the data they claim to have. Now I’m curious how much of this “research” is just straight up lies.

Dr Ellie Murray, ScD@epiellie.bsky.social · last yr.

FACT CHECK: This viral graph from twitter claims to *prove* vaccines cause autism. But there's something fishy about the data! Let's dive in.

they want you sick and preferably dead www.reuters.com/business/hea...

US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts

The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by Reuters.

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PLEASE don’t buy into Amazon’s booksale this week. They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions. Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

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It is open comment time (until May 23) for the proposed OPM rule to remove civil servant protections (Schedule F) www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... #ArmchairResistance Please share @altnps.bsky.social @altspaceforce.altgov.info @altfws.altgov.info @altcdc.altgov.info @altfda.altgov.info

Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a rule to increase career employee accountability. Agency supervisors report great difficulty removing employees for poor performance or misconduc...

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So excited to dig into this sci-fi thriller by @pfracassi.bsky.social

If you're an academic on BlueSky, there's a fairly good chance that your employer is on this "list"

Adam Harris@adamhsays.com · last yr.

The Ed. Department's Office for Civil Rights sent letters to 60 additional institutions "warning them of potential enforcement actions" for "violations relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination" including Harvard, Brown, Stanford, Princeton, UNC, and several UC's

“...A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants [of NurembergTrials], a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” Captain G. M. Gilbert, Army psychologist assigned to watching defendants at the Nuremberg trials