@rwidome

I'm an epidemiologist (#epitwitter) at the UMN SPH. I like rabbits. I like iced tea. I also like plots that involve time travel. Also: @rwidome@mastodon.social

 Minneapolis!
directory.sph.umn.edu/bio/sph-epidemiology-community-hea/rachel-widome
Joined April 2009
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Could the ~3 interesting accounts/people that are still only posting here PLEASE move over to Bluesky? I miss you and it's really annoying to have to log into this thing to see what's up with you. 😃
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Noel Brewer@noelTbrewer10 Jun 2025
It’s been an honor to serve as a voting member of ACIP. I’m so grateful to the extraordinary CDC staff who partnered with us on our work. And to Melinda Wharton, the ACIP Secretary who I’ve long looked up to as a public health leader.
Helen Branswell 🇨🇦
@HelenBranswell9 Jun 2025
This is the big one: Kennedy is firing the entire #ACIP in a move he says is needed to restore confidence in vaccines. "It scares me to think of what’s ahead,” Mike Osterholm of CIDRAP told me. statnews.com/2025/06/09/rfk-…

Health secretary RFK Jr. abruptly fires CDC vaccine advisory panel

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken the extraordinary step of firing the expert panel that advises the CDC.

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On #academictwitter people refer to a #HiddenCurriculum of informally acquired knowledge about how our world works that not everyone has equal access too. I want to do some unhiding of this, in a few threads over the next few weeks... Today = letters of recommendation! 1/n
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@threadreaderapp please thread this!
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Are you thinking about applying for a MPH (Master of Public Health) degree program this year? I direct the MPH in epidemiology program at @PublicHealthUMN, and in today's unhiding of the #hiddencurriculum thread, I'll share my tips on how to put together a strong application.
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please unroll @ThreadReaderApp
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I wrote a piece in the Minnesota Reformer about how the Trump Administration is wrecking the future of biomedical and public health research by trashing diversity programs and freezing scientific advisory meetings: minnesotareformer.com/2025/0…

Commentary: Chaotic cuts to NIH will threaten America's leadership in innovation, hurt American...

NIH research delivers an estimated $2.50 of economic activity for every $1 spent.

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cc: @Ilhan, @amyklobuchar, @TinaSmithMN
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I wrote about the "health freedom" movement currentaffairs.org/news/heal…

'Health Freedom' is a Fraud. What We Need is a Right to Health

The “health freedom” movement’s political ascendance has come about in a time of deep institutional mistrust. But it is a sham that will not actually make people healthier. To achieve this, we need...

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Melissa and I wrote a piece about our work being censored by the US government. minnpost.com/community-voice…

Our published work in a government journal curiously disappeared

Several studies for a CDC journal were purged without explanation before a judge’s order restored them. That's unacceptable.

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Please, for me, at least cross post on Bluesky. It's just one more thing for me to do to remember to stop by here occasionally to see what the 3 interesting people who are still exclusively posting here might have said.🤣
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The worst thing about being an epidemiologist is knowing you shouldn’t eat batter
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I really should warn people of this at our Spring program info sessions. So they go into the MPH with eyes open
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Rachel Widome@rwidome21 Nov 2024
You don't have to leave Twitter but could you please also start posting on BlueSky so I can reduce the amount of things I need to check? For me, please?
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You don't have to leave Twitter but could you please also start posting on BlueSky so I can reduce the amount of things I need to check? For me, please?
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The internet is increasingly full of bad data analyses and fake science. If you want to avoid getting sucked in by nonsense, then it's a good idea to learn how science is supposed to work. Lucky for you, Epidemiology An Introduction is here to help! @OxUniPress
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Keith Ellison
@keithellison5 Nov 2024
Ellison says Minnesota will share in $49 million settlement over drug company fraud kimt.com/news/health/ellison…

Ellison says Minnesota will share in $49 million settlement over drug company fraud

Iowa one of the 50 states and territories to share in the settlement money.

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derek guy
@dieworkwear4 Nov 2024
It's November 5th, 2024. Thousands of men look at their shoe closet, realizing they threw out their dress sneakers bc of my tweets. They only have uncomfortable dress shoes and decide not to walk to the polls. Kamala Harris wins. We now have communism.
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Some of my top statistical pet peeves below:
Justin Feldman@jfeldman_epi3 Nov 2024
You could teach a pretty informative, semester-long course on the dozen ways that this is wrong
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lisa bodnar@lisabodnar16 Oct 2024
Pitt Public Health is hiring 2 tenure-stream faculty in the Dept of Epidemiology! Epi methods (assist/assoc) and social epi (all ranks). Come join our team! Links to both positions here and in the thread below. #epitwitter Open Epi Methods job: cfopitt.taleo.net/careersect…
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WBOB@IamWBOB9 Oct 2024
So #WBOBProud! sph.umn.edu/news/sph-assista…

SPH Assistant Professor Katie Berry Receives NIH Director's Early Independence Award - School of...

The National Institutes of Health has recognized University of Minnesota School of Public Health (SPH) Assistant Professor Katie Berry with its 2024 NIH

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