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lfralston posted an update 2 months ago
The Georgia Public Health Association just canceled its annual conference. https://www.gapha.org/annual-meeting-conference/
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GPHA Annual Meeting and Conference - GPHA: Georgia Public Health Association
With regret, the Executive Committee of the Georgia Public Health Association must announce the cancellation of the 2025 GPHA Conference. Given the current pause in federal funding, and due to directives received from the Georgia Department of Public Health, travel … Continue reading
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What? Why?
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lfralston posted an update 2 months ago
My apologies for my earlier post about the “50501” call for protest. I’m hearing from various local activist groups that this is extremely fishy and should not be considered safe or legitimate. Mea culpa, and next time I will do my due diligence first before putting people at risk!
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Looks like this event actually happened and got some news coverage, even a Wikipedia page.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/us/politics/trump-protests-50501-project-2025.html
Saw some articles on Newsweek, abc news, USA Today also.
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lfralston posted an update 2 months ago
New Harvard Library data preservation initiative: https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01/30/preserving-public-u-s-federal-data/
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Preserving Public U.S. Federal Data | Library Innovation Lab
Preserving Public U.S. Federal Data | Library Innovation Lab
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Thanks to you and Aurora for the links. I have added a page to the site. https://sciencecollaborative.org/public-health-data-archives/
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lfralston posted an update 2 months ago
Per NPR, the CDC has removed a ton of info from its website, including info on HIV, the Social Vulnerability Index, and the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System. https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/31/nx-s1-5282274/trump-administration-purges-health-websites
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Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies
Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.
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They also took down the Household Pulse Survey which houses the Long Covid data. 😡
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lfralston posted an update 2 months ago
Road to Zero coalition receives Stop Work order. From an email received today:
“NSC Road to Zero Resources are Temporarily Unavailable
We regret to inform you that as of Jan 30, 2025, the Road to Zero Coalition has received a Stop Work Order from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. We are seeking clarification from NHTSA on…
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lfralston posted an update 2 months ago
From today’s open thread at askamanager.org, here’s what purports to be a first-hand look at those OPM emails. https://www.askamanager.org/2025/01/open-thread-january-31-2025.html#comment-4996540
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open thread - January 31, 2025
It’s the Friday open thread! The comment section on this post is open for discussion with other readers on any work-related questions that you want to
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lfralston posted an update 2 months ago
“Funding Freeze” was just rescinded. I’m sure this won’t be the end of it. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-administration-rescinds-funding-freeze-directive-memo-shows/story?id=118229342
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Trump administration rescinds funding freeze directive, memo shows
Trump’s administration has rescinded its sweeping directive that sought to pause potentially trillions in loans, grants and financial assistance, according to a memo.
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lfralston posted an update 2 months ago
SAFEGUARDING RESEARCH
For those who, like me, are worried about disappearing datasets, websites, etc., here are some folks who are working on that problem: https://safeguarding-research.discourse.group/
safeguarding-research.discourse.group
Organizing to safeguard as much publicly available research, GLAM-collections, etc. pp. as possible.
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This is critically important. I was just in a conversation yesterday about how to raise money for this effort.
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