karagavin.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

That feeling when your 16 year old breaks the news about the US joining the war on Iran to you because she saw it on social media.

submitted 20 minutes ago • 0 comments

Just heard Metal by the Beths and wondered if @shematologist.medsky.social was aware of this homage to blood iron levels…. youtu.be/YrVEgP0LkDA?...

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

I hate hot weather, and I’m dreading the coming heat wave and the chance that the power grid will fail because of everyone in the eastern half of the US blasting their AC at once. So, I wrote this, with the help of a @umich.edu emergency physician: www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/h...

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Over one in four (27%) physicians and surgeons at U.S. hospitals, rising to one in three in FL (37%), CA (33%), NY (33%), and TX (31%), are immigrants. Policies aimed at restricting immigration could negatively impact the health and well-being of Americans. @kff.org www.kff.org/racial-equit...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Inside sources told me the CDC's massive HIV surveys have been halted. This essentially wastes $72 million already spent, years of effort, and 30K people's time. Stopping the next round of surveys means trying to curb HIV in the dark. Inefficient to say the least. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

From a gene discovery @umich.edu & @sickkidsto.bsky.social to an effective treatment: Dr Collins uses his own work to illustrate why we need basic science & tech transfer: “Now…young people with cystic fibrosis are planning for retirement instead of an early funeral.” www.aamc.org/news/former-...

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

At the University of Michigan, researchers found that SARS-CoV-2 hijacks the host cell’s Golgi apparatus by lowering GRASP55 and raising TGN46, fragmenting the Golgi to boost viral assembly and secretion—highlighting a potential antiviral target. journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I appeared on Michigan Minds, the @umich.edu podcast series, to discuss some of my recent work on how ill health influences voting and how Trump influences global and US health policy.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This cat could kill fascists, or at least wound them, but for now he is content to read @brittlestar.com’s book.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

The death toll this past #flu season took on kids continues to climb. In its latest flu update, #CDC reports on another 4 deaths, bringing the total to date to 250 — an extraordinary number. 89% of the kids for whom vaccination status was known weren't fully vaccinated. www.cdc.gov/fluview/surv...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

🔴CDC urges summer camps to check measles immunity of kids and staff as U.S. nears record cases (1,197 in 2025). 🔴Camps should verify MMR vaccination or past infection to prevent outbreaks. 🔴Measles is highly contagious and spreads fast. buff.ly/g7ifnQC #pedsky #medsky #idsky 🛟😷

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Thank you to all who listened! Happy to give this talk again! #histmed #medhist

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Tonight, I'm speaking about @umich.edu medical history at Ann Arbor's Top of the Park festival! Just in time, I finished this Google map that has every single location where we've provided patient care, done research, or educated future physicians, nurses & scientists since 1850: michmed.org/NYAyW

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Researchers: please read & share this excellent piece in @sigmaxi.bsky.social ‘s magazine @americanscientist.org by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social about the importance of communicating about your work to non-scientists, and how to do it! #scicomm www.americanscientist.org/article/%E2%...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

The trend is still in Bluesky's favour. X is still larger but very regularly Bluesky easily eclipses it in terms of research being shared. Linda Yaccarino claimed X had 600m users in April. Bluesky has 36m accounts created in total.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Local groups seeking to organize one of these should reach out to the hospital communications office - both to let them know it’s a supportive protest & to get some info on what percentage of their patients are covered by Medicaid. Also ask if you can use any green space near public sidewalks.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

If you're heading to the #AnnArbor Summer Festival (Top of the Park) on Thursday night, stop by the Annex tent in the 7 pm hour! I'll be speaking about U-M medical history as part of the Nerd Nite event. Also on tap: a talk on space science and a talk on pop culture. Details: annarbor.nerdnite.com

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Listen to the Iranian opposition www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

#scicomm job alert!

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Important read from all 17 highly qualified ACIP members who recently dismissed - read and share widely jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

“Historically, no one lived past age 35” "I’ve heard so many versions of this claim, including recently from a menopause doctor (implying menopause is not “natural” because noone lived long enough to go through it). Every time someone states this “fact,” a demographer loses a piece of their soul"

submitted 5 days ago • 115 comments

15 JUNE 1775, PHILADELPHIA: The Continental Congress votes unanimously to appoint “George Washington, Esq.” to the rank of “General … to command all the continental forces, raised, or to be raised, for the defence of American liberty,” at a salary of $500 a month.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Good job Michigan! #nokings www.freep.com/story/news/l...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

“a $20 billion reduction in biomedical research will reduce economic output throughout the US by $51 billion” (h/t @meganranney.bsky.social) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

How to Be an Activist When You're Unable to Attend Protests There's more than one way. |Teen Vogue https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-be-an-activist-when-youre-unable-to-attend-protests

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.

submitted 7 days ago • 1420 comments

Thank you @debbiedingell.house.gov @abdulelsayed.bsky.social & @ranjeevpuri.bsky.social for coming to the Belleville #NoKings protest! It meant a lot to all of us on the organizing crew to have you there.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

#standupforscience #nokings

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

With federal changes to vaccine policy & recommendations underway, here's our overview of insurance coverage requirements for vaccines by payer, as linked to ACIP/CDC. As we show, federal changes mean consumers could lose access to free vaccines. www.kff.org/other/issue-...

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

Hearing the Brian Wilson interview on @nprfreshair.bsky.social today spurred me to add some new info & links to a story I wrote on psychosis a few years ago. That includes a new online course that even offers CME credit. See it here: www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/w... #mentalhealth #medsky

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Exclusive: In fight over research overhead funding, universities propose alternatives to Trump’s cuts www.statnews.com/2025/06/13/n...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

New #medhist overview from J. Alex Navarro, assistant director of one of our affiliated centers. #histmed

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

There are some days when the news can be overwhelming and leave you feeling sad and afraid. Today is one of them. Try to remember that the good in the world has always outnumbered the bad, stroke a cat and enjoy the sunshine x (Pic @imageplotter.bsky.social)

submitted 8 days ago • 62 comments

Excellent #publichealth thread about vaccine trials, with links to the papers that show how each was tested before approval…

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Great news for @umich.edu health care and #mentalhealth research! A new $40M gift will help fund our first Oakland County facility (on the former Kmart HQ site in Troy) and support depression prevention . Thank you to the Eisenberg Family! @srijansen.bsky.social

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

#NoKings is Saturday! Find the nearest march and register to attend: bit.ly/3ZBQIPc

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Incredible progress has been made on #sicklecell treatment - not just the headline-grabbing gene therapy that costs $$$$$$, but a less-heralded effort to increase use of effective, inexpensive medications & care that are underused. That effort is now in jeopardy: www.statnews.com/2025/06/11/s...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: After firing expert scientists on the CDC's vaccine advisory committee, RFK Jr. has named their replacements. The new committee contains many figures known for spreading disinformation about vaccines and COVID including Robert Malone and Martin Kulldorff. This is bad.

submitted 10 days ago • 69 comments

Defy them then, or else hold close thy lips.

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

Incredible progress has been made on #sicklecell treatment - not just the headline-grabbing gene therapy that costs $$$$$$, but a less-heralded effort to increase use of effective, inexpensive medications & care that are underused. That effort is now in jeopardy: www.statnews.com/2025/06/11/s...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Proud to have helped get this @umich.edu Experts Advisory out to media today - thanks @adamlauring.bsky.social and colleagues for being willing to contribute a quote on deadline about the ACIP vaccine panel debacle: www.newswise.com/articles/sud... #publichealth #idsky

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

RFK Jr justifies firing scientists on the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee due to “conflicts of interest.” Yet RFK Jr made almost $100K a year from anti-vax lawsuits and almost $90K a month from his anti-vax nonprofit. The person with the biggest conflict of interest at HHS is the one leading it.

submitted 11 days ago • 56 comments

On June 9, 2025, something unthinkable happened. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired every single member of the CDC’s ACIP, the very experts who shape the vaccine schedules that keep our communities healthy. relentlessschoolnurse.com/2025/06/10/t...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Your astonishing artifact this week is a 3,400-year-old statuette of a horse on wheels pulling the sun. 🏺🧪

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

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. www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/r...

submitted 12 days ago • 23 comments

Great news about a study of Michigan’s expansion of Medicaid for pregnant women and new moms! @um-ihpi.bsky.social #GoBlue

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments