Natalia Alvim
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Natalia Alvim
@nataliaalvim.medsky.social
· Nov 11
Dear colleagues, I have created this feed a while ago, to connect all health care professionals who migrated from the Deceased Social Media to Bluesky. #medtwitter #medsky
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GOOD NEWS! A groundbreaking study in MORE THAN 1,000 people reveals that cancer patients who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy lived dramatically LONGER than those who didn’t. In some cases, their survival rate was DOUBLED.
November 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! A groundbreaking study in MORE THAN 1,000 people reveals that cancer patients who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy lived dramatically LONGER than those who didn’t. In some cases, their survival rate was DOUBLED.
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Hey familia! Just a reminder that there's a community space for Latine accounts across all of Bluesky! All you have to do is post the hashtag #AddToLatinsky once and all of your future posts will be added to the feed.
Join the Barrio!
Join the Barrio!
November 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Hey familia! Just a reminder that there's a community space for Latine accounts across all of Bluesky! All you have to do is post the hashtag #AddToLatinsky once and all of your future posts will be added to the feed.
Join the Barrio!
Join the Barrio!
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NEW: Basking in the destruction of America’s public health, anti-vaxxers are trying to bring Robert Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” anti-science agenda to Europe.
www.importantcontext.news/p/anti-vaxxe...
www.importantcontext.news/p/anti-vaxxe...
Anti-Vaxxers Plan to “Make Europe Healthy Again”
An anti-vaxxer sitting on the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee pitched European parliament members on “MEHA.”
www.importantcontext.news
October 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
NEW: Basking in the destruction of America’s public health, anti-vaxxers are trying to bring Robert Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” anti-science agenda to Europe.
www.importantcontext.news/p/anti-vaxxe...
www.importantcontext.news/p/anti-vaxxe...
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clacs.berkeley.edu/anti-fascist...
Weird. They had “ANTIFA” in the 40s? And not this America. And it isn’t referring to Germany? Huh.
Weird. They had “ANTIFA” in the 40s? And not this America. And it isn’t referring to Germany? Huh.
The Anti-Fascist Demonstrations of 1942 and the Rise of Mass Nationalism in Brazil
Event Description Alexandre Fortes, Professor of Contemporary History at the Federal Rural University in Rio de Janeiro, will discuss his paper "The Anti-fascist Demonstrations of 1942 and the Rise of...
clacs.berkeley.edu
October 18, 2025 at 3:46 AM
clacs.berkeley.edu/anti-fascist...
Weird. They had “ANTIFA” in the 40s? And not this America. And it isn’t referring to Germany? Huh.
Weird. They had “ANTIFA” in the 40s? And not this America. And it isn’t referring to Germany? Huh.
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How conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic
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How conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic
The COVID pandemic likely began when the virus jumped from animals to humans, and didn’t start in a lab. But false narratives continue to circulate.
theconversation.com
August 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
How conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic
theconversation.com/...
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🧪 A really good 🧵
RFK Jr plans to remove experts of a task force that decides what screening procedures are covered by insurance under the ACA. The USPSTF has been around since 1984.
So typical of him to confuse evidence based decision making with “woke” .
The propaganda does not stop.
RFK Jr plans to remove experts of a task force that decides what screening procedures are covered by insurance under the ACA. The USPSTF has been around since 1984.
So typical of him to confuse evidence based decision making with “woke” .
The propaganda does not stop.
1/ This is a long 🧵, so buckle up & I hope you read till the end.
The HHS Secretary, is planning to remove all 16 members of the USPSTF the expert panel that decides which preventive services (cancer screenings, HIV prevention meds) must be covered by insurers under the Affordable Care Act.
The HHS Secretary, is planning to remove all 16 members of the USPSTF the expert panel that decides which preventive services (cancer screenings, HIV prevention meds) must be covered by insurers under the Affordable Care Act.
July 29, 2025 at 12:14 PM
🧪 A really good 🧵
RFK Jr plans to remove experts of a task force that decides what screening procedures are covered by insurance under the ACA. The USPSTF has been around since 1984.
So typical of him to confuse evidence based decision making with “woke” .
The propaganda does not stop.
RFK Jr plans to remove experts of a task force that decides what screening procedures are covered by insurance under the ACA. The USPSTF has been around since 1984.
So typical of him to confuse evidence based decision making with “woke” .
The propaganda does not stop.
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Essa matéria é muito dolorosa, mas tem que ler. Mostra que o mundo inteiro precisa parar tudo, exigir um cessar-fogo urgente e permitir a entrada massiva de ajuda humanitária em Gaza. Milhares de crianças estão em iminente risco de vida.
www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...
www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...
Experts warn: Gaza children facing acute malnutrition, long-term medical support needed
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www.haaretz.com
July 29, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Essa matéria é muito dolorosa, mas tem que ler. Mostra que o mundo inteiro precisa parar tudo, exigir um cessar-fogo urgente e permitir a entrada massiva de ajuda humanitária em Gaza. Milhares de crianças estão em iminente risco de vida.
www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...
www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...
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THIS IS HUGE! The FIRST 100% effective HIV PrEP drug, Lenacapavir, is APPROVED AND GOING GLOBAL. The makers are providing AFFORDABLE access to the drug in the United States AND beyond, signing ROYALTY-FREE licensing agreements with SIX generic manufacturers to produce AND supply it.
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July 28, 2025 at 1:08 AM
THIS IS HUGE! The FIRST 100% effective HIV PrEP drug, Lenacapavir, is APPROVED AND GOING GLOBAL. The makers are providing AFFORDABLE access to the drug in the United States AND beyond, signing ROYALTY-FREE licensing agreements with SIX generic manufacturers to produce AND supply it.
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Esse estudo que o Ioannidis cometeu, bicho... O cara subestimou a pandemia, agora subestima o efeito das vacinas.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Lives and life-Years Saved From COVID-19 Vaccination
This comparative effectiveness study analyses the number of lives and life-years saved worldwide among those who had been vaccinated during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020-2024 years.
jamanetwork.com
July 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Esse estudo que o Ioannidis cometeu, bicho... O cara subestimou a pandemia, agora subestima o efeito das vacinas.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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He was a covid minimiser, and he's now a vaccine benefit minimiser. It is good that even then it's 2.5 million lives saved. But other studies by more reliable researchers found many more lives were saved.
July 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
He was a covid minimiser, and he's now a vaccine benefit minimiser. It is good that even then it's 2.5 million lives saved. But other studies by more reliable researchers found many more lives were saved.
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This decision is antithetical to public health. COVID-19 in pregnancy, particularly in the third trimester, is extremely dangerous and aside from the elderly infants younger than 6 months have the highest risk of hospitalization from COVID. They are critically dependent on maternal antibodies.
Exclusive | HHS to Stop Recommending Routine Covid Shots for Children, Pregnant Women
CDC currently recommends that everyone six months and older receive the vaccines
www.wsj.com
May 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM
This decision is antithetical to public health. COVID-19 in pregnancy, particularly in the third trimester, is extremely dangerous and aside from the elderly infants younger than 6 months have the highest risk of hospitalization from COVID. They are critically dependent on maternal antibodies.
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T cell exhaustion isn’t about severe fatigue or tiredness. It’s a state where T cells with reduced power dominate after chronic or repeated exposure to threats like cancer or persistent infections. It is a state, already initiated in precursors from the very beginning of a T cell response.
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May 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
T cell exhaustion isn’t about severe fatigue or tiredness. It’s a state where T cells with reduced power dominate after chronic or repeated exposure to threats like cancer or persistent infections. It is a state, already initiated in precursors from the very beginning of a T cell response.
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Call your senators
Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
www.science.org/content/arti...
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Call your senators
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The anti-science spiral continues…
Alberta replacing top public health official as province deals with measles outbreak /via @globeandmail www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
“Ms. Smith came to power in part by harnessing angst from vaccine skeptics…”
Dark Age 2.0
Alberta replacing top public health official as province deals with measles outbreak /via @globeandmail www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
“Ms. Smith came to power in part by harnessing angst from vaccine skeptics…”
Dark Age 2.0
Alberta replacing top public health official as province deals with measles outbreak
A statement from Alberta Health Services says that Mark Joffe’s contract expired April 14, and the government has launched a search for a permanent replacement
www.theglobeandmail.com
April 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The anti-science spiral continues…
Alberta replacing top public health official as province deals with measles outbreak /via @globeandmail www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
“Ms. Smith came to power in part by harnessing angst from vaccine skeptics…”
Dark Age 2.0
Alberta replacing top public health official as province deals with measles outbreak /via @globeandmail www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
“Ms. Smith came to power in part by harnessing angst from vaccine skeptics…”
Dark Age 2.0
This doc goes where Adolescence barely scratches. I think everyone, especially those who have teenagers kids.
April 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
This doc goes where Adolescence barely scratches. I think everyone, especially those who have teenagers kids.
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This is a very well done short video and full-length lesson plan around data literacy and interpreting graphs. It's designed from 9th grade on up, and I think it would work nicely in our college course as well.
Q: How do we grow #dataliteracy skills?
A: We worked with scientists to develop the PPSTT framework to help students make sense of graphs & figures. Part of a free unit for grades 9–uni; #openaccess thanks to NSF funding to Dr. Tom Luhring at WSU 🧪 #scicomm #edusky youtube.com/shorts/zDRqw...
A: We worked with scientists to develop the PPSTT framework to help students make sense of graphs & figures. Part of a free unit for grades 9–uni; #openaccess thanks to NSF funding to Dr. Tom Luhring at WSU 🧪 #scicomm #edusky youtube.com/shorts/zDRqw...
PPSTT…the secret to reading graphs like a scientist #dataliteracy 📈
YouTube video by Galactic Polymath
youtube.com
March 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
This is a very well done short video and full-length lesson plan around data literacy and interpreting graphs. It's designed from 9th grade on up, and I think it would work nicely in our college course as well.
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Misinformation isn’t just an online problem — it’s a public health crisis calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu... via @calgaryherald.com
Me: "Fact-checking, media literacy and pre-bunking — teaching people to recognize misinformation before they encounter it — are proven strategies..."
Me: "Fact-checking, media literacy and pre-bunking — teaching people to recognize misinformation before they encounter it — are proven strategies..."
Misinformation isn’t just an online problem — it’s a public health crisis
Misinformation isn’t just an online problem – it’s a public health crisis
calgaryherald.com
March 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Misinformation isn’t just an online problem — it’s a public health crisis calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu... via @calgaryherald.com
Me: "Fact-checking, media literacy and pre-bunking — teaching people to recognize misinformation before they encounter it — are proven strategies..."
Me: "Fact-checking, media literacy and pre-bunking — teaching people to recognize misinformation before they encounter it — are proven strategies..."
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Já recebi de vários o estudo das máscaras e COVID, e to preparando um conteúdo sobre.
Porém o estudo não estabelece causalidade, tá? Não dá pra estabelecer causalidade, pelo estudo, que máscaras foram incapazes de conter transmissão ou foram perigosas
Cuidado com distorções
Porém o estudo não estabelece causalidade, tá? Não dá pra estabelecer causalidade, pelo estudo, que máscaras foram incapazes de conter transmissão ou foram perigosas
Cuidado com distorções
March 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Já recebi de vários o estudo das máscaras e COVID, e to preparando um conteúdo sobre.
Porém o estudo não estabelece causalidade, tá? Não dá pra estabelecer causalidade, pelo estudo, que máscaras foram incapazes de conter transmissão ou foram perigosas
Cuidado com distorções
Porém o estudo não estabelece causalidade, tá? Não dá pra estabelecer causalidade, pelo estudo, que máscaras foram incapazes de conter transmissão ou foram perigosas
Cuidado com distorções
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Featuring quotes by @greyson.bsky.social & @formerantivax.bsky.social.
Note the importance of lack of judgement here. If you're going to interact w/folks who haven't vaccinated their kids, being assholes to them isn't a great strategy. You don't know their reasoning. /1
Note the importance of lack of judgement here. If you're going to interact w/folks who haven't vaccinated their kids, being assholes to them isn't a great strategy. You don't know their reasoning. /1
Formerly anti-vax parents on how they changed their minds: ‘I really made a mistake’
www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...
www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...
Formerly anti-vax parents on how they changed their minds: ‘I really made a mistake’
Researchers believe personal stories are more persuasive than facts alone in addressing vaccine skepticism
www.theguardian.com
March 1, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Featuring quotes by @greyson.bsky.social & @formerantivax.bsky.social.
Note the importance of lack of judgement here. If you're going to interact w/folks who haven't vaccinated their kids, being assholes to them isn't a great strategy. You don't know their reasoning. /1
Note the importance of lack of judgement here. If you're going to interact w/folks who haven't vaccinated their kids, being assholes to them isn't a great strategy. You don't know their reasoning. /1
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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have developed a nasal COVID-19 vaccine that BLOCKS transmission of the virus. This suggests vaccines delivered directly to the nose or mouth could play a CRITICAL role in containing the spread of respiratory infections. Phase I clinical trials HAVE BEEN APPROVED! 🧪🧵⬇️
February 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have developed a nasal COVID-19 vaccine that BLOCKS transmission of the virus. This suggests vaccines delivered directly to the nose or mouth could play a CRITICAL role in containing the spread of respiratory infections. Phase I clinical trials HAVE BEEN APPROVED! 🧪🧵⬇️
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Unscientific censorship and erasure (which is NOT editorial "revision") has no place in academic journals. There is no excuse for you as the publisher to not unequivocally oppose this happening in your journals. 🧪
With regard to the specific case reference in the blog post, the request for revision did not come from anyone employed by Sage but from external editors who are subject to their employer's regulations.
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February 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Unscientific censorship and erasure (which is NOT editorial "revision") has no place in academic journals. There is no excuse for you as the publisher to not unequivocally oppose this happening in your journals. 🧪