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PhD student at Columbia University Medical Center Climate activist I study the immunometabolism of bacterial pneumonias, especially those caused by 𝘗𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘦𝘳𝘶𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘴𝘢 He/him
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It was awesome being a part of this rally, and AOC’s thesis was extremely important. Be a wrench in DOGE’s gears.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Trump: I AM A KING! NYT: Trump displays a "fondness for regal themes"

submitted 4 days ago • 394 comments

Measles virus is an odd one. Sometimes, 7-10 years after recovering, people develop SSPE. Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. Over ~3 years, one's brain build up scar tissue, leading to dementia, seizures, paralysis, then death. Weird! If only there was a way to prevent that...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Wahoo!!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Perfect timing while there's multiple outbreaks around the world of viral hemorrhagic fevers right now (Ebola and Marburg), AND bird flu. Hooray!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I've been able to brush off most of the erasure of trans people from government websites, but this one is REALLY getting under my skin. It's just complete revisionist history. How fucking dare they Old vs. new

submitted 10 days ago • 186 comments

1/11 Something else about this EO stood out to me and is important to discuss. Note that when they say "toxic materials" as an area of focus, they're not talking about leaded pipes and paint, asbestos, or carcinogenic emissions from industrial facilities. They're talking about vaccines.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Free Wendy Williams

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The only celebrity comeback I wanted this year was Lady Gaga, not polio. I wonder if RFK Jr. is invested in the tiny coffin industry, seems like he could do some serious insider trading.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

ASM bending-over backwards to comply shows they neither care about nor are willing to defend their community. This is genuinely heartbreaking: we need coalitions to hold the line with us and protect vulnerable groups now more than ever.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Fellow environmental health researchers and health professionals of all stripes: (With effusive thanks and admiration to the heroes who did this work. #ScienceForThePeople)

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Happy to report that PubMed isn't censored at this time. I've been checking the phrases "LGBT" and "transgender", and the number of hits has increased since yesterday.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Not to make light of a bad situation but this trade war might get goofy really fast. Hyper-specific targeting of products feels like something that can quickly spiral in a weird direction.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Truly the only rational way to interpret everything. Chaos -> more power up in the air to grab. That's why they blocked the distribution of paid-for antiretrovirals, and not just new purchases. (That, or they genuinely might not be aware that ✨everyone✨ can get HIV).

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

submitted 22 days ago • 605 comments

If you search "LGBT" on the CDC website, every result is a dead link. Erasure at the societal and scientific level at this scale has horrible implications... www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Thousands of children under the age of 6 died of Covid-19. The very young and the very old are the most at-risk age groups for bad outcomes from communicable diseases.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Citing a rise in autism diagnoses and implying a rise in case rates is disingenuous. Before we learned how to diagnose cancer, there were 0 cancer diagnoses. Who would've thought?!

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

RFK Jr. might just end the chronic disease epidemic! The issue with vaccines, antibiotics, and other public health measures are that we now regularly live past our 30’s. If you cure old age by taking those away, we won’t have to worry about stuff like neurodegenerative diseases anymore. Yay🩷

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

If an HIV+ person takes their meds religiously and are undetectable", they cannot infect anyone. Within a few weeks of discontinuation, you become contagious again. That's all the time it takes. So much work by public health heroes can be undone immediately. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

JFC Trump just purported to ban gender affirming care for minors based on the garbage science of WPATH, rejecting the conclusions of every major medical org in America as "junk science." I think my heart is going to explode

submitted 26 days ago • 10 comments

Look. Even if, somehow, Elon doesn't have the mens rea of a nazi, he's a nazi. Someone who willingly advances the agenda of nazis for personal gain is a nazi. I am of the opinion that he truly believes the bigoted crap he says. But even if he doesn't; let's do the math here friends.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments