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Kathie Ferbas, PhD
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Virologist, Executive Director ACTG Laboratory Center
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Reposted by Kathie Ferbas, PhD
gregggonsalves.bsky.social
I wanted to remind everyone about the "Save AIDS Research" livestream that will go live on YouTube this Tuesday (9/16) at 11:00am EDT. We have an amazing program of 70+ speakers who will be sharing their latest research. Get all the details at www.saveaidsresearch.org.
24 Hours to Save AIDS Research
www.saveaidsresearch.org
September 15, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Reposted by Kathie Ferbas, PhD
saveaidsresearch.bsky.social
Don't miss 24 Hours to Save AIDS Research, featuring HIV experts including Judith Currier, Phoebe Mbabazi, Sunil Suhas Solomon, Nyaradzo Mgodi, and many more! Register bit.ly/45U1keO and join us on YouTube bit.ly/45Qftts. #HIV #saveAIDSresearch #HIVresearch
September 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Reposted by Kathie Ferbas, PhD
gregggonsalves.bsky.social
Come join us on September 16th at 11AM ET until 11AM the next morning for 24 Hours to Save AIDS Research from from the attacks by the Trump Administration. @saveaidsresearch.bsky.social
A press release with a red banner logo reading “24 Hours to Save AIDS Research.” Contact: Jenna Conley. The event is described as a nonpartisan online marathon taking place on Tuesday, September 16, 2025, at 11:00 am ET, to highlight HIV research advances and warn against federal funding cuts. Organizer Gregg Gonsalves, PhD (Yale School of Public Health), stresses the transformation of HIV research over four decades and the risk posed by funding cuts. The event will stream on YouTube, with registration open, and include over 70 speakers from around the world covering prevention, cure, co-morbidities, basic science, behavioral and social science, and treatment advances. Judith Auerbach, PhD (UCSF), underscores the multidisciplinary success of HIV research. The release warns of unprecedented attacks on science, with HIV research particularly vulnerable. Mitchell Warren (AVAC) calls US federal funding foundational for HIV progress, warning that its loss threatens millions of lives. A press release excerpt for the event “24 Hours to Save AIDS Research”. The text explains that cuts to HIV research could set back progress by decades and cost millions of lives. The event will showcase the value of HIV science through 24 hours of presentations, discourse, and Q&A. Organizer Jeff Wickersham, PhD (Yale School of Medicine), emphasizes the grassroots, community-driven nature of the effort. The release notes global support from research institutions, advocacy groups, and public health organizations, with more details available on the website. It provides links to register, watch on YouTube (September 16, 2025, at 11:00 am ET), and follow updates on Instagram and Bluesky. A disclaimer states that organizers are participating in a personal capacity, not representing their institutions.
September 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Reposted by Kathie Ferbas, PhD
fayelands.bsky.social
@actgnetwork.bsky.social
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social
@hptn096beta.bsky.social
@apha.org
saveaidsresearch.bsky.social saveaidsresearch.bsky.social @saveaidsresearch.bsky.social · Sep 3
Thank you to the many organizations supporting 24 Hours to Save AIDS Research! #HIV #saveAIDSresearch #HIVresearch
September 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Reposted by Kathie Ferbas, PhD
drdemetre.bsky.social
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
Breaking News: Read three top CDC officials' resignation emails.
The end of an era.
insidemedicine.substack.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Reposted by Kathie Ferbas, PhD
gregggonsalves.bsky.social
#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/
August 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Reposted by Kathie Ferbas, PhD
gregggonsalves.bsky.social
The @NYTimes has done a fantastic job on explaining what the Trump administration’s savage
cuts to biomedical research mean: cures that won’t happen. Please share this widely. This is a catastrophe. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.
www.nytimes.com
August 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Reposted by Kathie Ferbas, PhD
gregggonsalves.bsky.social
Want to see the economic impact of #NIH grant cuts in your community? Check out @joshuasweitz.bsky.social and colleagues' project here. Tell your friends and neighbors what is happening. scienceimpacts.org
SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research
Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide
scienceimpacts.org
August 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Reposted by Kathie Ferbas, PhD
gregggonsalves.bsky.social
“...disinformation, conspiracy theories & political violence is getting scarier by the day. I’m very worried about how this is now going beyond defunding of infectious diseases & public health to political violence against the people working in those fields."

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/u...
After Years of Anger Directed at C.D.C., Shooting Manifests Worst Fears
www.nytimes.com
August 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Reposted by Kathie Ferbas, PhD
docdelrio.bsky.social
www.al.com/politics/202... “Academic Health Centers are like tropical rainforests: They take decades to develop and weeks to destroy.”
Only you can save Birmingham’s medical rainforest: op-ed from UAB researcher
he fuel that propels Academic Health Centers like UAB comes, in large part, from NIH funding.
www.al.com
June 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
kferbas.bsky.social
lisaguerrero.bsky.social Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · Jun 14
Only about 10K people live in Malibu but between 500-1000 showed up to the #NoKings protest here. My sign.👇🏽
(also, ZERO counter protesters)
June 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Reposted by Kathie Ferbas, PhD
luckytran.com
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.
The list includes several well-known critics of vaccines. The eight new members, a significant decline from the 17 that previously served on the panel, include: Dr. Joseph R. Hibbeln, a psychiatrist and nutritional scientist who previously worked on nutritional neuroscience at the NIH; Dr. Martin Kulldorf, an epidemiologist formerly at Harvard Medical School, who has served on an FDA safety committee as well as the vaccine subgroup of ACIP; Retsef Levi, a professor of operations management at the MIT Sloan School of Management; Dr. Robert Malone, a physician who conducted early research on mRNA vaccine technology; Dr. Cody Meissner, a professor of pediatrics at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, who has previously held advisory roles at CDC and FDA, including as an ACIP member; Dr. James Pagano, an emergency medicine physician; Vicky Pebsworth, a nurse with a PhD in public health, who has previously served on FDA vaccine advisory committees; Dr. Michael Ross, an obstetrician and gynecologicist, who has served on a CDC advisory committee for the prevention of breast and cervical cancer.
June 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Reposted by Kathie Ferbas, PhD
fayelands.bsky.social
They'd rather throw away 12 million dollars worth of contraceptives and HIV meds than give it away to the people it was slated to go to.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Trump team set to destroy $12m worth of HIV drugs and contraceptives bought by USAID
The life-saving drugs and contraceptives have been sitting in warehouses since January
www.independent.co.uk
June 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Reposted by Kathie Ferbas, PhD
drrabbithole.bsky.social
Show your support for the #BethesdaDeclaration and the NIH mission. Join a growing list of prominent scientists, Nobel Prize winners, cancer survivors, patient families, and concerned citizens by adding your name. 7/7 actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...
ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff
Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.
actionnetwork.org
June 9, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Reposted by Kathie Ferbas, PhD
drsl.bsky.social
The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.

www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
May 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Reposted by Kathie Ferbas, PhD
shematologist.medsky.social
Just a reminder that the HPV vaccine literally PREVENTS CANCER and the series can be started as early as 9 years of age.
February 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
kferbas.bsky.social
January has been a lot. Not much survived the fires here, but the candy dish that was always full at my Grandparent’s house somehow persevered. A little broken, a lot sooty, but it survived. Just like me.
January 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
kferbas.bsky.social
Going to be a long night here.
newsbreakinglive.bsky.social News Breaking LIVE @newsbreakinglive.bsky.social · Dec 10
Brand new video of Franklin Fire wildfire burning in Malibu, California, threatening structures
December 10, 2024 at 10:34 AM
Reposted by Kathie Ferbas, PhD
marcelias.bsky.social
Jeff Bezos and I were both in the news today.

Bezos is making nice with Trump.
Kash Patel has said that I am an enemy of the GOP.

He owns the Washington Post.
I founded Democracy Docket.

Both rely on paid subscriptions. Which do you want to support? www.democracydocket.com/member-me/
December 5, 2024 at 12:47 AM
Reposted by Kathie Ferbas, PhD
shematologist.medsky.social
Good morning!

Thankful for all of you turkeys out there but especially those that want to help us feed others.

#HCWvsHunger 2024 starts tonight at 6pm EST.

You can help in many ways
🍎 post/repost
🍎 donate to any org fighting hunger & log donation at HCWvsHunger.org
🍎 invite everyone you know
Healthcare Workers vs Hunger
Healthcare workers vs Hunger is an annual friendly competition between teams of healthcare workers to help relieve food insecurity.
HCWvsHunger.org
November 28, 2024 at 1:49 PM
Reposted by Kathie Ferbas, PhD
dworkin.bsky.social
I love this.
A restaurant board sign that reads: “we are not all in the same boat. We are in the same storm. Some have yachts. Some have canoes. And some are drowning. Just be kind and help when you can.
November 24, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Reposted by Kathie Ferbas, PhD
stuffydoll.bsky.social
From brick to bone. From hospital to home. Trans rights, now and forever.
A post for the Transgender Day Of Remembrance in which I remind people that “Now more than ever, remember us. Remember that we will fight. Remember that we will never really cease to be and that we will keep extensive records of who was truly on our side and who was not”
November 20, 2024 at 11:14 PM
Reposted by Kathie Ferbas, PhD
pnwdreadpirate.bsky.social
Grimmway Farms.

Sounds like the setting for a Dickens novel.

abc7ny.com/post/1-death...
1 death reported in E. coli outbreak linked to carrots; 39 cases across country, CDC says
Health officials are warning of a deadly E. coli outbreak linked to organic carrots infecting 39 people across 18 states.
abc7ny.com
November 18, 2024 at 5:09 AM
Reposted by Kathie Ferbas, PhD
helenbranswell.bsky.social
The US joins the list of countries that has detected clade Ib #mpox. A person who recently traveled from eastern Africa was diagnosed with the disease in San Mateo County, California. Sounds like a mild case. My story: www.statnews.com/2024/11/16/m...
First U.S. case of new mpox strain detected in California
California has detected the country’s first case of a new mpox strain in a person who recently traveled from Eastern Africa
www.statnews.com
November 16, 2024 at 7:44 PM
Reposted by Kathie Ferbas, PhD
tmprowell.bsky.social
Wondering why so many people have mycoplasma (aka walking pneumonia) lately? Here’s a clue.

Just published: after propensity matching, those w/ prior #COVID19 infection were about 3x more likely to get mycoplasma than those without #COVID: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#MedTwitter #MedSky
Lancet
https://thelancet.com/journals/lanwp…
November 16, 2024 at 12:50 PM