Alicia Rizzo
@rizzolab.bsky.social
Our lab at the University of Pittsburgh seeks to understand the mechanisms by which the glycocalyx contributes to the pathogenesis of critical illness and develop glycan-targeted precision medicine approaches to treat ARDS and sepsis. #pccm #ats
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Officer David Rose was murdered in the line of duty, protecting our community from domestic terrorism.
He leaves behind a pregnant wife and two young children. Let’s stand with his family after this terrible loss:
Link:
give.cdcfoundation.org/give/715122#...
He leaves behind a pregnant wife and two young children. Let’s stand with his family after this terrible loss:
Link:
give.cdcfoundation.org/give/715122#...
August 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Officer David Rose was murdered in the line of duty, protecting our community from domestic terrorism.
He leaves behind a pregnant wife and two young children. Let’s stand with his family after this terrible loss:
Link:
give.cdcfoundation.org/give/715122#...
He leaves behind a pregnant wife and two young children. Let’s stand with his family after this terrible loss:
Link:
give.cdcfoundation.org/give/715122#...
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They don’t care about their own MAGA base. They just want more money for their donor class.
July 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
They don’t care about their own MAGA base. They just want more money for their donor class.
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It’s amazing how fast they can build a concentration camp: “Alligator Alcatraz”— but they can’t manage to fix a levee, fund a hospital, or get clean water to poor communities.
July 2, 2025 at 2:18 AM
It’s amazing how fast they can build a concentration camp: “Alligator Alcatraz”— but they can’t manage to fix a levee, fund a hospital, or get clean water to poor communities.
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This has always been the GOP's strategy:
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode deficits
3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode deficits
3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
June 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
This has always been the GOP's strategy:
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode deficits
3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode deficits
3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
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June 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
May 31, 2025 at 4:43 AM
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
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New story up in Nature from @maxkozlov.bsky.social
NIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE
Court documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
NIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE
Court documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com
May 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
New story up in Nature from @maxkozlov.bsky.social
NIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE
Court documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
NIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE
Court documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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“If you haven’t been poor, don’t legislate for the poor.” - Rep Lateefah Simon, CA-12
May 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
“If you haven’t been poor, don’t legislate for the poor.” - Rep Lateefah Simon, CA-12
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Proud of Harvard for pushing back, exercising some creativity, and, maybe, helping folks get some needed education.
Harvard is making many of their online government courses FREE.
I just signed up for "Citizen Politics in America".
They even asked me my Gender.
pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
Harvard is making many of their online government courses FREE.
I just signed up for "Citizen Politics in America".
They even asked me my Gender.
pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
Government | Harvard University
Browse the latest Government courses from Harvard University.
pll.harvard.edu
May 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Proud of Harvard for pushing back, exercising some creativity, and, maybe, helping folks get some needed education.
Harvard is making many of their online government courses FREE.
I just signed up for "Citizen Politics in America".
They even asked me my Gender.
pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
Harvard is making many of their online government courses FREE.
I just signed up for "Citizen Politics in America".
They even asked me my Gender.
pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
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This is one of the best ads I have ever seen and I can’t believe I missed it
May 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This is one of the best ads I have ever seen and I can’t believe I missed it
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Looks like someone isn’t going to meet the criteria for “fully successful” on his end of year review. That’s going to be tough to have in his eOPF when we RIF. 🥴
April 25, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Looks like someone isn’t going to meet the criteria for “fully successful” on his end of year review. That’s going to be tough to have in his eOPF when we RIF. 🥴
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increasing failure of the administration to do its job
An update to show the seismic crash in NIH funding. The left side shows NIH has issued almost no "new" awards since Trump took office. Even renewals (you receive a 5 year award, but each year they renew it), which should be mushed into the lines above it, is shockingly low.
April 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
increasing failure of the administration to do its job
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Pitt faculty petition University leadership to stand up and fight...
www.publicsource.org/national-day...
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Pitt scholars urge resistance to Trump attacks on higher ed
As the Trump administration makes demands of Harvard and other universities, local scholars and their allies asked Pitt to ‘stand up.’
www.publicsource.org
April 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Pitt faculty petition University leadership to stand up and fight...
www.publicsource.org/national-day...
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www.publicsource.org/national-day...
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This is our moment in history to stand.
April 19, 2025 at 8:49 PM
This is our moment in history to stand.
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This Friday!
Join us Fri, April 11 @ 4pm ET for an important and timely webinar:
Advocacy in a New Administrative Era: Focus on Early Career Professionals
Ft. Gary Ewart (Chief, ATS Advocacy and Gov't Relations) & Jack Iwashyna, MD @iwashyna.bsky.social (JHU)
Link to register👇
tinyurl.com/AdvocacyForE...
Advocacy in a New Administrative Era: Focus on Early Career Professionals
Ft. Gary Ewart (Chief, ATS Advocacy and Gov't Relations) & Jack Iwashyna, MD @iwashyna.bsky.social (JHU)
Link to register👇
tinyurl.com/AdvocacyForE...
American Thoracic Society | Advocacy in a New Administrative Era:…
The American Thoracic Society is the world's leading medical society dedicated to accelerating the advancement of global respiratory health through…
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April 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This Friday!
Marching for science!!
March 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Marching for science!!
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Grab your lab coat and stand up for science!
March 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Grab your lab coat and stand up for science!
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In 1967, Pittsburgh's inner city produced America’s first EMT service. Comprised solely of Black men and women recruited from the city’s Hill District neighborhood, the paramedics of Freedom House Ambulance became trailblazers in providing pre-hospital and CPR care.
February 28, 2025 at 4:53 AM
In 1967, Pittsburgh's inner city produced America’s first EMT service. Comprised solely of Black men and women recruited from the city’s Hill District neighborhood, the paramedics of Freedom House Ambulance became trailblazers in providing pre-hospital and CPR care.
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My colleagues and I have a piece out today in NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/o...
Opinion | Censored Science Can’t Save Lives
Progress cannot occur if scientists are barred from asking certain questions.
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
My colleagues and I have a piece out today in NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/o...
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Great to be in conversation with such smart, thoughtful hosts @pulmpeeps.bsky.social, and with the brilliant @iwashyna.bsky.social. It’s even motivated me to get back on this app…
New @pulmpeeps.bsky.social podcast about potential impact of NIH cuts, if allowed to stand, on pulmonary and critical care medicine
This was a good conversation, and I'd love to hear your thoughts
www.pulmpeeps.com/2025/02/18/9...
This was a good conversation, and I'd love to hear your thoughts
www.pulmpeeps.com/2025/02/18/9...
February 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Great to be in conversation with such smart, thoughtful hosts @pulmpeeps.bsky.social, and with the brilliant @iwashyna.bsky.social. It’s even motivated me to get back on this app…
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This is a picture of my son taken soon after he was born. I suffered from a very rare pregnancy complication. But thanks to physicians at the University of Michigan and a lot of US funded research, he was born healthy. Please post, who has Science Saved for you? #WhoScienceSaves #MedSky
February 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
This is a picture of my son taken soon after he was born. I suffered from a very rare pregnancy complication. But thanks to physicians at the University of Michigan and a lot of US funded research, he was born healthy. Please post, who has Science Saved for you? #WhoScienceSaves #MedSky
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Today, President Trump ordered the firing of federal employees who are still in their probation period. "The firing of federal employees will have immediate and adverse health consequences for the American public," said ATS President Irina Petrache, MD, ATSF. Read more: shorturl.at/nNegx
American Thoracic Society | Advocacy
The American Thoracic Society is the world's leading medical society dedicated to accelerating the advancement of global respiratory health through…
site.thoracic.org
February 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Today, President Trump ordered the firing of federal employees who are still in their probation period. "The firing of federal employees will have immediate and adverse health consequences for the American public," said ATS President Irina Petrache, MD, ATSF. Read more: shorturl.at/nNegx
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The ATS applauds 22 state attorneys general in challenging NIH medical research funding cut. Friday's NIH action to cut life-saving medical research is prohibited by law. www.nbcboston.com/news/local/n...
Mass. leads court challenge on Trump's cuts to medical research funding
Over 20 states are suing the Trump administration over planned cuts to funding at medical and public health research institutions nationwide. The coalition of 22 state attorneys general is challenging...
www.nbcboston.com
February 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The ATS applauds 22 state attorneys general in challenging NIH medical research funding cut. Friday's NIH action to cut life-saving medical research is prohibited by law. www.nbcboston.com/news/local/n...