Ximena Levander, MD, MCR she/her/ella
@ximenalevander.bsky.social
PDX Addiction med doc & health services researcher. Improving care for people who use(d) drugs; perinatal SUD and mental health; psychedelics/psilocybin. East coast --> PNW, Bike commuter, Ice cream connoisseur, Dog lover, toddler mom, harm reductionist
Why is he so obsessed with us?? Spent a glorious fall Saturday at a Portland farmers market with friends and family. We are doing great and don’t want you so bye.
September 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Why is he so obsessed with us?? Spent a glorious fall Saturday at a Portland farmers market with friends and family. We are doing great and don’t want you so bye.
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What do you do when CDC no longer gives vaccine advice based on science? YOU BYPASS THEM!
West Coast Health Alliance (CA, OR, WA, HI) recs based on facts buff.ly/I4oWZfX
New Mexico COVID vax for all buff.ly/84mZXoN
Massachusetts insurance must cover COVID vax buff.ly/zAfAZsd
#medsky #pedsky 🛟😷🧪
West Coast Health Alliance (CA, OR, WA, HI) recs based on facts buff.ly/I4oWZfX
New Mexico COVID vax for all buff.ly/84mZXoN
Massachusetts insurance must cover COVID vax buff.ly/zAfAZsd
#medsky #pedsky 🛟😷🧪
September 5, 2025 at 12:16 AM
What do you do when CDC no longer gives vaccine advice based on science? YOU BYPASS THEM!
West Coast Health Alliance (CA, OR, WA, HI) recs based on facts buff.ly/I4oWZfX
New Mexico COVID vax for all buff.ly/84mZXoN
Massachusetts insurance must cover COVID vax buff.ly/zAfAZsd
#medsky #pedsky 🛟😷🧪
West Coast Health Alliance (CA, OR, WA, HI) recs based on facts buff.ly/I4oWZfX
New Mexico COVID vax for all buff.ly/84mZXoN
Massachusetts insurance must cover COVID vax buff.ly/zAfAZsd
#medsky #pedsky 🛟😷🧪
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In response to the dismantling of the CDC, California, Oregon, and Washington have launched the West Coast Health Alliance, which will make their own science-based vaccine guidelines, and make sure vaccines are accessible to everyone.
September 3, 2025 at 6:18 PM
In response to the dismantling of the CDC, California, Oregon, and Washington have launched the West Coast Health Alliance, which will make their own science-based vaccine guidelines, and make sure vaccines are accessible to everyone.
We LOVE our cargo bike. One of the best purchases we have made and it has definitely replaced a car so yes it was a big upfront cost but can already see the value
While enjoying some post-1st-day-of-school ice cream, someone at the shop (who had seen our family of 4 arrive via 1 cargo bike, our @bunchbike.com )asked where we got it & how much it cost.
Their face 🤯 when I said the price. Before I could respond a cashier interjected “cheaper than my car!”
1/3
Their face 🤯 when I said the price. Before I could respond a cashier interjected “cheaper than my car!”
1/3
September 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
We LOVE our cargo bike. One of the best purchases we have made and it has definitely replaced a car so yes it was a big upfront cost but can already see the value
Really great and important clip about how people forget how much work women did before major public health interventions (clean water, pasteurization) keeping their family SAFE. “We're going back to tradition and we don't know what it was"
It's easy to pretend that you don't need a safety net when women are doing the work of keeping you safe, unseen.
When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine,"
That's... usually not the case!
In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.
We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?
youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
That's... usually not the case!
In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.
We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?
youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
September 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Really great and important clip about how people forget how much work women did before major public health interventions (clean water, pasteurization) keeping their family SAFE. “We're going back to tradition and we don't know what it was"
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This is such a no-brainer that the lack of a coordinated response feels deeply damning. A Democratic leadership team that can't mobilize an instant all-hands-on-deck effort on RFK Jr. isn't a leadership team at all.
I know Democrats are overwhelmed (or rudderless, if you are less charitable) by the sheer volume of Trump authoritarian moves, but I’d like to see them unified behind specific goals like “RFK Jr is a threat to public health and needs to go.”
August 28, 2025 at 3:42 AM
This is such a no-brainer that the lack of a coordinated response feels deeply damning. A Democratic leadership team that can't mobilize an instant all-hands-on-deck effort on RFK Jr. isn't a leadership team at all.
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What’s the over/under on this just being a big bottle of methylene blue?
August 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM
What’s the over/under on this just being a big bottle of methylene blue?
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Kulldorff calls for the establishment of a CDC work group examining whether or not children today get too many vaccines and cumulative harms of that. This is explicitly anti-vaccine propaganda and senseless. When new vaccines are evaluated in prelicensure clinical trials, you do not...
June 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Kulldorff calls for the establishment of a CDC work group examining whether or not children today get too many vaccines and cumulative harms of that. This is explicitly anti-vaccine propaganda and senseless. When new vaccines are evaluated in prelicensure clinical trials, you do not...
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Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements
April 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements
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SCOOP: You've heard about the NIH terminating grants. I've learned of another, less visible way it's disrupting science: It’s removing some applications from peer review. Not rejecting them, but putting them on hold without saying why or if they'll ever be reviewed. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
The Quiet Way the NIH Is Stalling Some Research Before It Starts
A number of grant proposals have disappeared from scientists’ review pipelines, with little explanation. Applicants are bewildered and frustrated.
www.chronicle.com
April 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
SCOOP: You've heard about the NIH terminating grants. I've learned of another, less visible way it's disrupting science: It’s removing some applications from peer review. Not rejecting them, but putting them on hold without saying why or if they'll ever be reviewed. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
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I can’t compete with this
April 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I can’t compete with this
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my new theory is that once you have a certain amount of money and wealth you start to go crazy and detach from reality. that number is different for everyone. for me it's $20
April 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
my new theory is that once you have a certain amount of money and wealth you start to go crazy and detach from reality. that number is different for everyone. for me it's $20
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It’s stunning to me that the New York Times did not put the story on the bloodbath at the NIH, CDC, and FDA on its front page this morning.
April 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
It’s stunning to me that the New York Times did not put the story on the bloodbath at the NIH, CDC, and FDA on its front page this morning.
The National survey on drug use and health (NSDUH) is the only national longitudinal survey tracking mental health and substance/drug use in the US. Now gone. Unbelievable they would gut this whole group at SAMHSA…there is NO WAY to replace a longitudinal data collection instrument.
The entire SAMHSA staff that manages the National Survey on Drug Use and Health has been terminated. This is the only survey that tracks mental health and substance use trends in the US.
We really are flying blind now.
We really are flying blind now.
April 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The National survey on drug use and health (NSDUH) is the only national longitudinal survey tracking mental health and substance/drug use in the US. Now gone. Unbelievable they would gut this whole group at SAMHSA…there is NO WAY to replace a longitudinal data collection instrument.
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The entire SAMHSA staff that manages the National Survey on Drug Use and Health has been terminated. This is the only survey that tracks mental health and substance use trends in the US.
We really are flying blind now.
We really are flying blind now.
April 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The entire SAMHSA staff that manages the National Survey on Drug Use and Health has been terminated. This is the only survey that tracks mental health and substance use trends in the US.
We really are flying blind now.
We really are flying blind now.
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When the stakes are this high, incompetence is not an option.
Pete Hegseth should resign.
Mike Waltz should resign.
Pete Hegseth should resign.
Mike Waltz should resign.
March 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
When the stakes are this high, incompetence is not an option.
Pete Hegseth should resign.
Mike Waltz should resign.
Pete Hegseth should resign.
Mike Waltz should resign.
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Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book.
March 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book.
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This is one of the biggest threats to Americans' personal data in decades. If you're a 23andMe customer, I strongly urge you to delete your data to protect it from whoever the new buyer might be. Here’s how:
March 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
This is one of the biggest threats to Americans' personal data in decades. If you're a 23andMe customer, I strongly urge you to delete your data to protect it from whoever the new buyer might be. Here’s how:
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Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
March 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
Feel this
March 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Feel this
Truly a nightmare scenario. Pregnant woman didn’t realize she had measles delivers at hospital in Lubbock Texas exposing whole labor & delivery unit including newborn babies to highly contagious virus with serious potential for long term complications and even death - 100% preventable with vaccines
Newborn babies exposed to measles in Texas hospital: staff is scrambling to control the damage. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... via @nbcnews.com @erikaedwards.bsky.social
Newborn babies exposed to measles in Texas hospital
Infants barely three days old are receiving antibody injections to help protect against the virus. Nearly 300 cases have been reported in the outbreak.
www.nbcnews.com
March 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Truly a nightmare scenario. Pregnant woman didn’t realize she had measles delivers at hospital in Lubbock Texas exposing whole labor & delivery unit including newborn babies to highly contagious virus with serious potential for long term complications and even death - 100% preventable with vaccines
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A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
March 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
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Telling researchers to keep doing the work & adapt while weathering the storm ain't gonna cut it. American higher education simply cannot survive this systematic dismantling and attack. There's no weathering a category 5 hurricane. Many will simply leave if this continues
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts
Local and international health research efforts are already winding down as the university braces for even more potential cuts.
www.wsj.com
March 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Telling researchers to keep doing the work & adapt while weathering the storm ain't gonna cut it. American higher education simply cannot survive this systematic dismantling and attack. There's no weathering a category 5 hurricane. Many will simply leave if this continues
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
“If governing bodies are serious ab creating better & more opportunities for women, [they should focus on] proven research which consistently finds unequal treatment of women’s sports in participation opportunities, funding & resources, access to facilities & infrastructure, & media coverage.”
March 9, 2025 at 5:48 AM
“If governing bodies are serious ab creating better & more opportunities for women, [they should focus on] proven research which consistently finds unequal treatment of women’s sports in participation opportunities, funding & resources, access to facilities & infrastructure, & media coverage.”
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