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Science geek who believes science is for everyone! ALL should be included in the scientific process! All views shared are personal.
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🧪 Adding- Brugge had a 7 yr #NIH #breastcancer grant worth $7 million. It was arbitrarily canceled by Trump. This resulted in slowing down of ongoing projects. Six of her staff have left. This also impacts talented immigrants on work visas, afraid to speak out.
www.wbur.org/news/2025/09...
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A quest to end breast cancer slows as the Trump-Harvard dispute drags on
Joan Brugge's research into breast cancer is one of hundreds of projects at Harvard caught up in an ongoing dispute with the Trump administration over the university’s handling of antisemitism on camp...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
🧪 Adding- Brugge had a 7 yr #NIH #breastcancer grant worth $7 million. It was arbitrarily canceled by Trump. This resulted in slowing down of ongoing projects. Six of her staff have left. This also impacts talented immigrants on work visas, afraid to speak out.
www.wbur.org/news/2025/09...
www.wbur.org/news/2025/09...
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🧪This is a must watch. Please watch tonight's episode @60minutes.bsky.social.
Joan Brugge is an eminent scientist that was one of the first pioneers of 3D culture in breast cancer. She had two of her grants canceled last spring.
We used her protocols to develop our own for our research.
Joan Brugge is an eminent scientist that was one of the first pioneers of 3D culture in breast cancer. She had two of her grants canceled last spring.
We used her protocols to develop our own for our research.
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
🧪This is a must watch. Please watch tonight's episode @60minutes.bsky.social.
Joan Brugge is an eminent scientist that was one of the first pioneers of 3D culture in breast cancer. She had two of her grants canceled last spring.
We used her protocols to develop our own for our research.
Joan Brugge is an eminent scientist that was one of the first pioneers of 3D culture in breast cancer. She had two of her grants canceled last spring.
We used her protocols to develop our own for our research.
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
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Very well done story on 60 Minutes about the harms of grant terminations and freezes at Harvard with Joan Brugge, Don Engbar, David Liu, and a very compelling young cancer patient, now cured with Liu's technology.
Transcript and video here
www.cbsnews.com/news/researc...
Transcript and video here
www.cbsnews.com/news/researc...
Battle between Trump and universities hurting scientific research in need of federal funding
Federal research funding to universities has fueled breakthroughs for years. The White House is pressuring universities to align with the president's political agenda, or risk losing their funding.
www.cbsnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Very well done story on 60 Minutes about the harms of grant terminations and freezes at Harvard with Joan Brugge, Don Engbar, David Liu, and a very compelling young cancer patient, now cured with Liu's technology.
Transcript and video here
www.cbsnews.com/news/researc...
Transcript and video here
www.cbsnews.com/news/researc...
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I wrote this in September.
I was worried Dems would get nothing from the shutdown. I was later convinced that Dems might get ACA subsidies renewed in exchange for ending the shutdown, and this would be worth the stand-off.
If that doesn't happen though:
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/democrats-...
I was worried Dems would get nothing from the shutdown. I was later convinced that Dems might get ACA subsidies renewed in exchange for ending the shutdown, and this would be worth the stand-off.
If that doesn't happen though:
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats Should Use the Impending Government Shutdown to Force RFK Jr.'s Resignation.
An impending government shutdown presents an opportunity. This is the best way to leverage that.
insidemedicine.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I wrote this in September.
I was worried Dems would get nothing from the shutdown. I was later convinced that Dems might get ACA subsidies renewed in exchange for ending the shutdown, and this would be worth the stand-off.
If that doesn't happen though:
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/democrats-...
I was worried Dems would get nothing from the shutdown. I was later convinced that Dems might get ACA subsidies renewed in exchange for ending the shutdown, and this would be worth the stand-off.
If that doesn't happen though:
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/democrats-...
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This is a very quick break down of what happened in the Senate over the weekend.
While I'm more than disappointed that they just took the L on ACA help, it is good to see SNAP & furloughed feds catch a much needed break.
Call your reps. Hit @resist.bot. We're not out of the woods yet. Stay loud.
While I'm more than disappointed that they just took the L on ACA help, it is good to see SNAP & furloughed feds catch a much needed break.
Call your reps. Hit @resist.bot. We're not out of the woods yet. Stay loud.
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
This is a very quick break down of what happened in the Senate over the weekend.
While I'm more than disappointed that they just took the L on ACA help, it is good to see SNAP & furloughed feds catch a much needed break.
Call your reps. Hit @resist.bot. We're not out of the woods yet. Stay loud.
While I'm more than disappointed that they just took the L on ACA help, it is good to see SNAP & furloughed feds catch a much needed break.
Call your reps. Hit @resist.bot. We're not out of the woods yet. Stay loud.
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Curious as to how much more you’ll pay if @democrats.senate.gov decide your health isn’t worth fighting for?
Check out this calculator tool that shows what your ACA premiums will look like if @schumer.senate.gov and the Dems cave:
www.kff.org/interactive/...
Check out this calculator tool that shows what your ACA premiums will look like if @schumer.senate.gov and the Dems cave:
www.kff.org/interactive/...
Calculator: ACA Enhanced Premium Tax Credit
The ACA’s enhanced premium tax credits are set to expire at the end of 2025. This calculator estimates how much out-of-pocket premiums would increase for families if Congress does not extend the credi...
www.kff.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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The Democratic Party needs new leadership.
No more wimps.
No more wimps.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The Democratic Party needs new leadership.
No more wimps.
No more wimps.
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My quote of the day
I have spent my life fighting for our country and our values. When those values are jeopardized, when our democracy is threatened, I believe it is our responsibility to speak out and demand accountability.
Mikie Sherril
I have spent my life fighting for our country and our values. When those values are jeopardized, when our democracy is threatened, I believe it is our responsibility to speak out and demand accountability.
Mikie Sherril
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
My quote of the day
I have spent my life fighting for our country and our values. When those values are jeopardized, when our democracy is threatened, I believe it is our responsibility to speak out and demand accountability.
Mikie Sherril
I have spent my life fighting for our country and our values. When those values are jeopardized, when our democracy is threatened, I believe it is our responsibility to speak out and demand accountability.
Mikie Sherril
“If it gets funded…”
Millions of people are waiting on scientific progress to help them live normal lives.
Millions of people are waiting on scientific progress to help them live normal lives.
Autoimmune diseases affect as many as 50 million Americans and millions more worldwide. They're hard to diagnose and treat, and they're on the rise. Now, scientists are decoding the biology behind these debilitating diseases in hopes of eventually treating the causes, not just the symptoms.
Disease of 1,000 faces shows how science is tackling immunity’s dark side
It's one of medicine's biggest mysteries — why sometimes our immune system attacks our own bodies. Autoimmune diseases affect as many as 50 million Americans and millions more worldwide.
bit.ly
November 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
“If it gets funded…”
Millions of people are waiting on scientific progress to help them live normal lives.
Millions of people are waiting on scientific progress to help them live normal lives.
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@altairforce.altgov.info is less than 200 follows from reaching an Ask Me Anything (AMA) milestone.
Click the follow button and get some questions ready.
Click the follow button and get some questions ready.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:42 AM
@altairforce.altgov.info is less than 200 follows from reaching an Ask Me Anything (AMA) milestone.
Click the follow button and get some questions ready.
Click the follow button and get some questions ready.
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@hcrichardson.bsky.social is doing the work here, explaining the complexities of the past hours.
Please stay informed as to why actions are taken past the what has happened.
Confusion is weakness. Let's take what we learn to those who may have missed it.
Please stay informed as to why actions are taken past the what has happened.
Confusion is weakness. Let's take what we learn to those who may have missed it.
ICYMI (like I did): Say what you want about Schumer, but we gotta give him credit for having made this chess move.
The more you know…
The more you know…
Shutdown Offer | Explainer
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
@hcrichardson.bsky.social is doing the work here, explaining the complexities of the past hours.
Please stay informed as to why actions are taken past the what has happened.
Confusion is weakness. Let's take what we learn to those who may have missed it.
Please stay informed as to why actions are taken past the what has happened.
Confusion is weakness. Let's take what we learn to those who may have missed it.
A great read on some science history:
Bluetorial-Jim Watson
I met Jim Watson a few times but did not know him well. However, I was greatly influenced by his book “The Double Helix”. He was a complicated human being with some very, very bad features, but some good contributions.
What follows is my personal perspective.
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I met Jim Watson a few times but did not know him well. However, I was greatly influenced by his book “The Double Helix”. He was a complicated human being with some very, very bad features, but some good contributions.
What follows is my personal perspective.
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a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
ALT: a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
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November 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
A great read on some science history:
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And for more intel, national @pbs.org is not lowering their membership fees for ANY member stations, so there is complete fault on both sides of this. Even smaller stations that are in blue states are suffering due to federal funding cuts AND the actions of national PBS. Holding them accountable for
November 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
And for more intel, national @pbs.org is not lowering their membership fees for ANY member stations, so there is complete fault on both sides of this. Even smaller stations that are in blue states are suffering due to federal funding cuts AND the actions of national PBS. Holding them accountable for
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If you’re at Vanderbilt or associated with the Quillen VA, YELL IN MY DIRECTION 😈
It’s time to get political, dorks!
It’s time to get political, dorks!
November 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
If you’re at Vanderbilt or associated with the Quillen VA, YELL IN MY DIRECTION 😈
It’s time to get political, dorks!
It’s time to get political, dorks!
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I can’t help but see the historical parallels to the Know Nothing Party of the 1850s. Know nothing Johnson emulates the nativism, bigotry, and feigned ignorance popularized by the party between 1844-1860.
May his political death be hastened, yet live long and suffer, he can know nothing in prison.
May his political death be hastened, yet live long and suffer, he can know nothing in prison.
November 8, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I can’t help but see the historical parallels to the Know Nothing Party of the 1850s. Know nothing Johnson emulates the nativism, bigotry, and feigned ignorance popularized by the party between 1844-1860.
May his political death be hastened, yet live long and suffer, he can know nothing in prison.
May his political death be hastened, yet live long and suffer, he can know nothing in prison.
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Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
James Watson in his own words
“Some anti-Semitism is justified” “Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them” “Japan should be bombed for d…
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November 8, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
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Now online! Longitudinal ultrasensitive ctDNA monitoring for high-resolution lung cancer risk prediction
Longitudinal ultrasensitive ctDNA monitoring for high-resolution lung cancer risk prediction
Longitudinal ultrasensitive ctDNA detection improves disease stratification accuracy, demonstrates clinical utility for adjuvant therapy, and reveals insights into characteristic features of relapse in patients with non-small cell lung cancer.
dlvr.it
November 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Now online! Longitudinal ultrasensitive ctDNA monitoring for high-resolution lung cancer risk prediction
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Through conversations with Congress we have learned that Sec Noem and FEMA’s Senior Official Performing the duties of administrator are MIA when it comes to responding to congressional inquiries. 😳 #TransparencyMatters
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November 8, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Through conversations with Congress we have learned that Sec Noem and FEMA’s Senior Official Performing the duties of administrator are MIA when it comes to responding to congressional inquiries. 😳 #TransparencyMatters
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DC federal judge blocks Trump administration from using furloughed employee email accounts to send partisan messages about government shutdown
Judge says administration “commandeered” email accounts of federal civil servants
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Judge says administration “commandeered” email accounts of federal civil servants
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Memorandum & Opinion – #25 in AMERICAN FEDERATION OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (D.D.C., 1:25-cv-03553) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM OPINION regarding 24 Order granting Plaintiff's 9 Motion for Summary Judgment, denying Defendants' 15 Cross-Motion for Summary Judgment. See full Memorandum Opinion for details. Signed by J...
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November 7, 2025 at 11:41 PM
DC federal judge blocks Trump administration from using furloughed employee email accounts to send partisan messages about government shutdown
Judge says administration “commandeered” email accounts of federal civil servants
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Judge says administration “commandeered” email accounts of federal civil servants
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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I understand the pressures, but this is short-sighted.
But they get their grants back (for now).
But they get their grants back (for now).
November 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I understand the pressures, but this is short-sighted.
But they get their grants back (for now).
But they get their grants back (for now).
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Absolutely this! 👇
Raise a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight and honor her memory and scientific contributions
NYT obituary of Jim Watson.
A long and fairly balanced view of a complicated man who participated in one of the greatest discoveries in biology.
[Gift Link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
A long and fairly balanced view of a complicated man who participated in one of the greatest discoveries in biology.
[Gift Link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
November 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Absolutely this! 👇
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So, NIH seems to have opened some high-level, director-of-institute type positions today, with a window of only two weeks. During a shutdown. Hm.
hr.nih.gov
November 7, 2025 at 9:07 PM
So, NIH seems to have opened some high-level, director-of-institute type positions today, with a window of only two weeks. During a shutdown. Hm.
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Remember when Congress controlled the budget?
Cute. 😏 That was so 1791.😉
Now it’s executive-branch roulette 🎰 with community health grants.
Public health isn’t supposed to depend on who’s behind the desk at OMB, currently Russ Vought.
Cute. 😏 That was so 1791.😉
Now it’s executive-branch roulette 🎰 with community health grants.
Public health isn’t supposed to depend on who’s behind the desk at OMB, currently Russ Vought.
November 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Remember when Congress controlled the budget?
Cute. 😏 That was so 1791.😉
Now it’s executive-branch roulette 🎰 with community health grants.
Public health isn’t supposed to depend on who’s behind the desk at OMB, currently Russ Vought.
Cute. 😏 That was so 1791.😉
Now it’s executive-branch roulette 🎰 with community health grants.
Public health isn’t supposed to depend on who’s behind the desk at OMB, currently Russ Vought.