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Vascular surgeon, sailor, lover of good fun and friends, obsessed data nerd. Native NYer living in the south. Comments are my own. Klaatu barada nichto. Temba, his arms wide.
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RFK Jr. is reportedly going to forbid government scientists from publishing in the world’s most respected medical journals — the Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, etc. It’s going to take decades to repair the damage done by this administration.

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Please check in with your fed friends. It's kinda stressful here You’re fired You’re rehired You’re refired You’re staying but your team is fired Your team is staying but your funding’s cut You’re moving across the country, maybe Restraining order 🛑 Restraining order against the restraining order 🔙

submitted 42 days ago • 33 comments

wck.org/news/gaza-up...

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fortune.com/2025/04/15/u... Are we great yet???

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www.science.org/content/arti... It just keeps getting worse….

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Trump ends promising cancer research. USA! USA! “Two patients’ treatments using the experimental therapy had to be delayed because NIH’s capacity to make personalized cell therapies has been slowed by the firing of highly skilled staff..." www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

submitted 73 days ago • 179 comments

@elienyc.bsky.social Today’s reading….

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Nearly half a billion dollars ($484M) lost in the NC research triangle alone Where TF are Thom Tillis & Ted Budd?

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The SAVE Act may as well be called the anti-voting rights act. Here’s why:

submitted 93 days ago • 25 comments

🤬 www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

submitted 92 days ago • 6 comments

NC Health and Human Services Department to cut 80 jobs, lose $100 million in federal funding The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' reductions are due to the federal government's "abrupt and immediate termination of several federal grants," a department spokesperson said in ...

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Everything in this thread is true.

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We are super excited to welcome Jordyn O’Dell to our Duke Vascular Surgery family! Congrats and welcome, Jordyn!!! #MatchDay2025 @dukevascular.bsky.social

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‼️Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander (NOT Musk) may have found actual fraud. The federal judge stops Musk's team from 'unbridled access' to MILLIONS of American’s Social Security private data! www.reuters.com/legal/us-jud...

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some thoughts.... here are where our 2021 tax dollars went. Want to minimize what we spend on healthcare? Expand Medicaid, considering a no-for profit model. Want to get more money from elsewhere to help w social security?

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

submitted 100 days ago • 609 comments

@elsieross.bsky.social as visiting professor at @dukevascular.bsky.social

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Legit, fascist talk from those closest to the President and advising him. In any normal timeline, these people would, at the very least, be run out of their jobs on a rail. Congress has the power NOW to stop this. I fear that no one is coming to save us and we’ll have to do this ourselves.

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

hard not to conclude every Gazan is going to get exiled or killed, with Trump's full support www.axios.com/2025/03/18/i...

submitted 101 days ago • 33 comments

the fallout continues. I have a dear friend who works for a private sector company (analytics software). He was fired yesterday due to the uncertainty in academia and the government research sector. It's just going to get worse. I've called all my senators and reps. Why don't they care?

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

serious question: Why are the creators of PEPFAR silent? Why are George W. Bush and Laura Bush not saying anything??? Why have power and platform if you don't use them?

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