Jessie Seiler
MPH, PhD in epidemiology | she/her | science writer focused on health misinformation at Center for Science in the Public Interest | affiliate faculty, University of Washington Public Health | opinions my own but I'm sure we all agree that my cat is cute
- Reposted by Jessie Seilerthe Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
- Reposted by Jessie SeilerFor #BlackHistoryMonth we're offering 40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation
- Reposted by Jessie SeilerGeorgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:
- Reposted by Jessie SeilerYou don’t know your role yet maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer. In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.
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- This is missing “Give my cat a really nice life with all the window perches she could ever want” and “Dissociate on the bus home from campus at the end of every single day as a way of achieving work-life balance” but otherwise it’s pretty spot on
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- Reposted by Jessie SeilerIf you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before) Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...
- A beloved mentor died on Monday. His kindness was a big part of how I survived college. His intellect, ethics, and politics all greatly influenced who I am as a person and as a teacher. So my students are all his students. I'll keep trying to live up to what I learned from him. Thanks, Mr. Tuck.
- Reposted by Jessie Seiler1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
- Reposted by Jessie SeilerMy partner @jasoncapsaicin.bsky.social made a step by step guide on how to break up ice in your neighborhood in Minnesota. Enjoy!
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- Hey all, any suggestions for researchers who are really well-versed in the methodological issues with Wakefield's autism studies? I'm looking for someone to interview for an upcoming article. Re-posts for visibility appreciated! #EpiSky #AcademicSky
- The fashy meat/dairy aesthetic is... a lot. Nostalgia, performative/toxic masculinity, and whiteness are each a hell of a drug.
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- Got questions about the changes in federal nutrition policies from this week? Dietician Jessica Knurick, Phd, RDN breaks it down for you here.
- "During one of the much smaller disasters that preceded the really big disaster, I met a lot of my neighbors online. I can’t remember if we set up the WhatsApp group because of the pandemic or the civil disorder or both." www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
- If you're looking for an in-depth explanation of the science behind why saturated fat is still bad for you, no matter what the influencers are getting paid to tell you:
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- Reposted by Jessie SeilerThe end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.
- Reposted by Jessie SeilerIf your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States
- Reposted by Jessie SeilerThis is your city — that means that you belong here, you have a right to be here and to live a dignified life, whatever your background and whatever your income. wilson.seattle.gov/2026/01/02/m...
- I'm not a "younger American" but I'm not fooled by this pearl-clutching because I remember when Richard Spencer (a Nazi) was describing himself as a moderate on his dating profile in 2022. No conservatives, no moderates, nobody who doesn't share my values and my willingness to act on them.
- Reposted by Jessie SeilerHere's a really easy New Year's Resolution: If you're sick with something contagious, you will stay home if your circumstances allow. If you can't stay home, you will mask around others until there is no possibility you are contagious. By making these choices, you will literally save lives.
- Ok now they're just making stuff up
- I got a few books for myself and one (linked) for my niece and nephew! This really is a great sale every year, check it out. www.akpress.org/we-move-toge...
- We're having our biggest sale of the year at akpress.org (50% off ALL AK Press titles, audiobooks, and AK merch!). It's keeping us very busy, but our warehouse heroes are crushing it! If you haven't ordered yet, you have till 9am PST on Thursday... what are you waiting for??
- Betrayed! (I took the big bug outside rather than allowing Mookie to play with it to death, so she spent a while shoving her face into the chair and sulking.)
- Loved this short read! Luddites weren't opposed to new tech, but rather to the consequences of that tech: profit flowing to the already-wealthy, de-skilling of labor, and destruction of communities. We see the same threats to our students and fields, so why not learn what we can from the Luddites?
- Teach like a Luddite! In which I join @philnichols.bsky.social and @anterobot.bsky.social to argue for a Luddite praxis in education grounded in three elements: embracing strategic playfulness; developing localized tactics; and building networks of resistance. Read the article at Kappan:
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- Such good news! There’s a lot of misinfo out there about this (spread by influencers trying to cash in usually) but folic acid is the safe and effective way to prevent neural tube defects. www.cspi.org/article/foli...
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- Reposted by Jessie SeilerIt's the most wonderful time of the year: the AK Press 50% off sale! Get ALL of our published titles—plus all AK merch—half price, now through 9am on 1/1. Start the new year off with some new reads: www.akpress.org/published-by...
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- Reposted by Jessie SeilerThe planned hepatitis B birth-dose trial in Guinea-Bissau raises serious ethical concerns. Withholding a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborns to answer speculative questions is an absence of equipoise with real downstream harms for trust in vaccines. bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...
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- The statement says "the team will randomize newborns to receive the hepatitis B vaccine at birth (the future policy) or no hepatitis B vaccine at birth (the current policy)." So we're just assuming the second group will get the vaccine at 6 weeks, it seems like? Loss to follow up is gonna be rough
- This article cites a statement from Bandim saying the study will give 'some infants the vaccine at birth, and others the “standard of care” in Guinea-Bissau, which is to provide the vaccine at 6 weeks of age.' Can anyone find that statement? @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social @gavinyamey.bsky.social
- This article cites a statement from Bandim saying the study will give 'some infants the vaccine at birth, and others the “standard of care” in Guinea-Bissau, which is to provide the vaccine at 6 weeks of age.' Can anyone find that statement? @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social @gavinyamey.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jessie SeilerIf we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
- Reposted by Jessie SeilerAlso that you don't need a community -- why ask a friend for help with code or grammar or paper suggestions etc when you can just consume this product?
- Guys I get Christmas now
- Any faculty have advice on how to fix your heart after a rough quarter? There's so much tension in classrooms these days, the students are struggling, I'm struggling.... Maybe this is just what academic public health is now. Ugh. .... This is just year three of teaching, I can't be burned out 🫠
- Reposted by Jessie SeilerThis entire weekend
- Reposted by Jessie SeilerSteve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
- We make a plan for this every quarter. I can’t describe the weight this brings into our classrooms, knowing that the plan won’t be enough. My heart is breaking for the Brown community.
- Reposted by Jessie SeilerAS A PROFESSOR, I AM ASKING HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS? HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON? HOW??????????
- Reposted by Jessie SeilerEach semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
- Reposted by Jessie SeilerPrasad, Makary and others who claim that COVID19 vaccines killed 10 children are not telling the truth. According to @jeremyfaust.bsky.social, the committee that worked on this question reported that there were ZERO deaths that they were certain were caused by the vaccines. Well worth reading.
- Vitamin and supplement companies will say anything to get you to but their products. But they won't email me back when I ask for a copy of that "human clinical trial" they say they did! Well, Ritual won't anyway. Here's my latest article. www.cspi.org/article/foli...
- Reposted by Jessie SeilerHanding back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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- it’s early in the season to be driven bonkers by the Long Dark but here we are I guess
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- Somebody at UW SPH who makes around 4 times what I do a year presented this AI garbage slide as part of a presentation about budget woes and impending layoffs at our school of public health. Yup, that says University of Mashington.
- Reposted by Jessie SeilerUW Epidemiology’s Marie Spiker is helping shape safer, smarter hyperlocal food sharing. Her research explores how people use community fridges and micropantries so new sensor tech supports real community needs—reducing waste and improving access.
- Reposted by Jessie SeilerListen to @gregggonsalves.bsky.social: "Race, gender, and sexuality may be a third rail of American politics for some, but for those of us in public health and biomedicine, these issues are central to our work, and improving the health and well-being of Americans depends on facing them head-on."
- Reposted by Jessie SeilerUW Epidemiology’s Helen Chu warns that delaying hepatitis B vaccination leaves newborns vulnerable. As ACIP moves to end universal birth-dose guidance, experts stress what’s at stake for infant protection.
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- This afternoon, they'll try to gut the childhood vaccine schedule. I'm writing an article about this right now, but "Among children born during 1994–2023, routine childhood vaccinations will have prevented... 1,129,000 deaths." Over a million deaths in one generation of kids.
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- In this commentary, we talk about the role that appeals to decorum play in upholding white supremacy culture in public health. Today, I'm watching Robert Malone silence actual vaccine experts, who are begging ACIP to listen to the science, by wielding appeals to decorum.
- Here's something else to remember: "Among children born during 1994–2023, routine childhood vaccinations will have prevented approximately 508 million cases of illness, 32 million hospitalizations, and 1,129,000 deaths." The people who want to take vaccines away are criminals.
- I teach a required class on racism in public health to undergrads. They could spot this for the racist bullshit that it is, and there's no reason this "scientist" shouldn't be laughed out of this room and the field. There's no room for this garbage in public health.
- Oops, should have said, this is a new commentary by me and Dr. Nadia Abuelezam.
- "In 1993, Martinez introduced a manuscript on race, racism, and white supremacy with the following declaration: ‘Let me begin by admitting that I have an axe to grind. A bell to toll, a grito to shout, a banner to wave.’ We too feel that we are surfacing with a scream for our field...."
- Teaching keeps getting harder because:
