leils
@leils.bsky.social
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.
@elienyc.bsky.social talking truth and drinking from a Death Star mug….
a woman is sitting at a table with her hands folded in front of her .
ALT: a woman is sitting at a table with her hands folded in front of her .
media.tenor.com
October 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
@elienyc.bsky.social talking truth and drinking from a Death Star mug….
@dukesurgery.bsky.social -a great day of golf! Thanks to UNC Surgery for hosting!!!
October 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
@dukesurgery.bsky.social -a great day of golf! Thanks to UNC Surgery for hosting!!!
Chili cook-off?? @dukesurgery.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Chili cook-off?? @dukesurgery.bsky.social
This seagull seems… judgey.
September 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This seagull seems… judgey.
Someone decided to dig. Someone got a bath. FAFO.
August 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Someone decided to dig. Someone got a bath. FAFO.
@dukevascular.bsky.social There was a dress code for journal club… #VascularSurgery
August 12, 2025 at 10:58 PM
@dukevascular.bsky.social There was a dress code for journal club… #VascularSurgery
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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.
It’s going to take decades to repair the damage done by this administration.
May 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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.
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 🔙
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 🔙
a cartoon character from bob 's burgers wearing a pink bunny hat says this is fine
Alt: Louise from bob 's burgers wearing a pink bunny hat and staring into the distance. Her left eye is twitching with stress. The caption says "this is fine"
media.tenor.com
May 16, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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 🔙
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 🔙
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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...
“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...
NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.
A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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...
“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...
March 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Nearly half a billion dollars ($484M) lost in the NC research triangle alone
Where TF are Thom Tillis & Ted Budd?
Where TF are Thom Tillis & Ted Budd?
Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.
Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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March 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Nearly half a billion dollars ($484M) lost in the NC research triangle alone
Where TF are Thom Tillis & Ted Budd?
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:
Voting Rights Act at 60: Congress Could Hit New Low with SAVE Act
The new legislation would require American citizens to produce documents like a passport or birth certificate to register to vote.
www.brennancenter.org
March 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The SAVE Act may as well be called the anti-voting rights act. Here’s why:
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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 ...
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 ...
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 a statement.
www.wral.com
March 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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 ...
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 ...
Everything in this thread is true.
So how are things at the VA? Stressful. The patients keep needing care. They ask how we are. They’re frustrated. They see that the satellite lab is closed, and they hear about people leaving. They ask if we’ll still be there for them and we tell them “I hope so.”
Ugh. 8/9
Ugh. 8/9
March 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Everything in this thread is true.
We are super excited to welcome Jordyn O’Dell to our Duke Vascular Surgery family! Congrats and welcome, Jordyn!!! #MatchDay2025 @dukevascular.bsky.social
March 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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...
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...
March 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
‼️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...
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...
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?
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?
March 20, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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?
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?
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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
March 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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
@elsieross.bsky.social as visiting professor at @dukevascular.bsky.social
March 18, 2025 at 11:50 PM
@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.
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.
One close Trump adviser simply says that the president’s ultimate leverage against certain judges who try to stand in the way of his agenda is that the judiciary does not command an army, while the president of the United States does.
'Move Fast': Inside Team Trump's Furious Defiance of the Courts
Donald Trump's advisers are attacking judges for daring to “control” him. Trump wants the one objecting to his deportation plans to be “IMPEACHED!!!”
www.rollingstone.com
March 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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.
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.
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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...
Israel resumes war in Gaza with airstrikes against Hamas: 200 Palestinians reported dead
Israeli officials told Axios they notified the Trump administration in advance of the airstrikes and briefed it on the objectives.
www.axios.com
March 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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...