Wanda Pratt (she/they)

People are being targeted now. How long before they come for me or you?

Trans health, research programs ordered to stop by Trump administration Despite litigation, federal officials are moving to cut off funding for efforts to improve the health of transgender people, leaving organizations in limbo.

All funding in any way related to transgender people has been pulled. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

This is erasure of people and their safety. It matters.

Data and communication are gold What the hell is going on?

Vast amounts of CDC health data are still unavailable (e.g., disease surveillance updates, outbreak dashboards), and huge amounts of data are being systematically CHANGED, endangering the integrity of that data and any studies using that data. yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/data-and-c...

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

CDC ordered mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. This will delay or destroy important medical research! open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

Perfect timing as I'm prepping my class review session. It doesn't make sense exactly as is for my class on Designing for Health and Wellness, but I'm stealing a few ideas.

Opinion | Jay Bhattacharya and the Vindication of the ‘Fringe’ Scientists His NIH nomination, years after being maligned for questioning lockdowns, is a boon for real science.

Never thought we would be referenced in the Wall Street Journal, but makes sense as their case example of "liberal group-think in science" for our work on detecting hidden bias in patient-doctor interactions. Scary times ahead. www.wsj.com/opinion/jay-...

Sky Follower Bridge - Chrome Web Store Instantly find and follow the same users from your Twitter follows on Bluesky.

I just used the Chrome extension Sky Follower Bridge to automatically find the people I followed before on Twitter. When I followed the instructions, it worked well for me: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...