Andy Vaughan
@vaughandy.bsky.social
Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. My lab does “lung stuff” and regenerative biology. Leges sine Moribus vanae. I took the liberty of ironing your homework. www.vaughanlab.com
Looking forward to reading this one: Rebalancing NTRK2 isoforms promotes vascular regeneration in bronchopulmonary dysplasia: Cell Stem Cell www.cell.com/cell-stem-ce...
Rebalancing NTRK2 isoforms promotes vascular regeneration in bronchopulmonary dysplasia
Zhang et al. uncover a pathological NTRK2 isoform switch in gCaps that impairs vascular
regeneration in bronchopulmonary dysplasia. Restoring full-length NTRK2 reverses vascular
and alveolar defects i...
www.cell.com
January 9, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Looking forward to reading this one: Rebalancing NTRK2 isoforms promotes vascular regeneration in bronchopulmonary dysplasia: Cell Stem Cell www.cell.com/cell-stem-ce...
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The woman shot and killed by the ICE agent had a child who is 6. The father died in 2023, leaving the child as an orphan now. 💔💔
‘She was an amazing human being’: Mother identifies woman shot, killed by ICE agent
Renee Nicole Good, 37, lived in the Twin Cities with her partner.
www.startribune.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:40 PM
The woman shot and killed by the ICE agent had a child who is 6. The father died in 2023, leaving the child as an orphan now. 💔💔
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In his 2019 memoir The Threat, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe quotes first-term Trump saying Venezuela was “the country we should be going to war with, they have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.”
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Trump's Venezuela Attack: It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!
Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves.
zeteo.com
January 3, 2026 at 1:53 PM
In his 2019 memoir The Threat, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe quotes first-term Trump saying Venezuela was “the country we should be going to war with, they have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.”
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Jfc come on
Harvard officials are reportedly secretly investigating two students for their roles in drawing scrutiny to the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and ex-president Larry Summers
Harvard Secretly Investigates Students Over Larry Summers Video on Epstein
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Jfc come on
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An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
December 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
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2/2 … with how Rob Reiner responded to the death of Charlie Kirk:
December 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
2/2 … with how Rob Reiner responded to the death of Charlie Kirk:
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Like yes, Trump is a fascist. But, there have been fascists who aren’t also dickhead, rich kid, sociopathic pedophile rapists. The guy is clearly a scumbag who is out to scam everyone.
You have to be such a mark to fall for it. I have a hard time believing any adults are that stupid.
You have to be such a mark to fall for it. I have a hard time believing any adults are that stupid.
December 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Like yes, Trump is a fascist. But, there have been fascists who aren’t also dickhead, rich kid, sociopathic pedophile rapists. The guy is clearly a scumbag who is out to scam everyone.
You have to be such a mark to fall for it. I have a hard time believing any adults are that stupid.
You have to be such a mark to fall for it. I have a hard time believing any adults are that stupid.
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Although Trump’s abhorrent political beliefs are ultimately more damaging to the nation, his reprehensible personality is more shocking to me on a personal level.
I can’t fathom how anyone can support someone who is so obviously a terrible human being.
I can’t fathom how anyone can support someone who is so obviously a terrible human being.
December 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Although Trump’s abhorrent political beliefs are ultimately more damaging to the nation, his reprehensible personality is more shocking to me on a personal level.
I can’t fathom how anyone can support someone who is so obviously a terrible human being.
I can’t fathom how anyone can support someone who is so obviously a terrible human being.
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I know I've been beating this drum for over seven years now, but Donald Trump is a very and truly sick man who should be in a mental or penal institution and certainly not the White House.
December 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I know I've been beating this drum for over seven years now, but Donald Trump is a very and truly sick man who should be in a mental or penal institution and certainly not the White House.
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In case you are wondering what being a federally funded researcher looks like these days: the shutdown required that NIH cancel over 370 peer review meetings, impacting the review of over 24,000 applications. As a result the percentage of applications discussed will be reduced from 50% to 30-35%.
December 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
In case you are wondering what being a federally funded researcher looks like these days: the shutdown required that NIH cancel over 370 peer review meetings, impacting the review of over 24,000 applications. As a result the percentage of applications discussed will be reduced from 50% to 30-35%.
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Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
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In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.
November 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.
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so we’re all clear Leavitt and her brother are using ICE to ‘settle’ a custody dispute, yes? utterly disgusting, monstrous, and corrupt.
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
![REVERE, Mass. —
A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts.
The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.
Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana.
Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreiacyzixchgacpjse7wyra342opgjsvdxzqdrkxq55zzqah65zyeae@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
so we’re all clear Leavitt and her brother are using ICE to ‘settle’ a custody dispute, yes? utterly disgusting, monstrous, and corrupt.
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Fantastic win in Maryland. As the Trump admin attempts to destroy vital research, @uam-umd.bsky.social is fighting back & winning...& they're not done yet. As they celebrate this win, they're pushing for greater transparency, support for faculty & an academic freedom fund.
Faculty, join your union!
Faculty, join your union!
We @uam-umd.bsky.social won. Faculty packed town halls, talked to their colleagues and collected hundreds of petition signatures. Now UMD is coughing up $8.75m, during a deficit, to fund faculty whose research is under attack. Not enough, but a helluva thing for a union the state calls illegal.
$8.75M Investment Supports ‘Research Resilience’… | Maryland Today
UMD, MPower Funds Combine to Help Preserve Institutional Capabilities, Lab Operations and More
today.umd.edu
November 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Fantastic win in Maryland. As the Trump admin attempts to destroy vital research, @uam-umd.bsky.social is fighting back & winning...& they're not done yet. As they celebrate this win, they're pushing for greater transparency, support for faculty & an academic freedom fund.
Faculty, join your union!
Faculty, join your union!
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Played him like a fiddle.
November 21, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Played him like a fiddle.
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Of note: Mamdani did seemingly go on the record, again, in the White House, next to Trump - affirming that he thinks the dude's a fascist. He said "yes" to the reporter, after Trump said "I don't mind". We are living in the strangest of timelines.
November 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Of note: Mamdani did seemingly go on the record, again, in the White House, next to Trump - affirming that he thinks the dude's a fascist. He said "yes" to the reporter, after Trump said "I don't mind". We are living in the strangest of timelines.
This seems terrible. Also “geographic balance” of funding decisions? Talk me down on this
November 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
This seems terrible. Also “geographic balance” of funding decisions? Talk me down on this
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The media attention brought a lot more eyes, including active service members & veterans, to something a pissant Hegseth flunky had slipped into a new edition.
We did our job helping to raise attention, and they responded. The meter moved a step in the right direction if brief.
Take the small win.
We did our job helping to raise attention, and they responded. The meter moved a step in the right direction if brief.
Take the small win.
In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The media attention brought a lot more eyes, including active service members & veterans, to something a pissant Hegseth flunky had slipped into a new edition.
We did our job helping to raise attention, and they responded. The meter moved a step in the right direction if brief.
Take the small win.
We did our job helping to raise attention, and they responded. The meter moved a step in the right direction if brief.
Take the small win.
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At this stage there’s literally no reason to believe the admin, even if it releases more than you’d expect, are being forthcoming. It’s the opposite of conspiracy theory to look at the proudly lawless pattern of deception and raw power that this trump admin has engaged in then to conclude they’d…
November 18, 2025 at 11:16 PM
At this stage there’s literally no reason to believe the admin, even if it releases more than you’d expect, are being forthcoming. It’s the opposite of conspiracy theory to look at the proudly lawless pattern of deception and raw power that this trump admin has engaged in then to conclude they’d…
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The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...
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WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.