Ted Cybulski
@tedc.cc
interested in breathing | CF, bronchiectasis, computers
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65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.
November 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.
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U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis just took the bench. She's expected to rule on a request for a preliminary injunction governing the use of force by federal agents in Chicago.
Good morning. Back in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis, who is expected to rule in 20 minutes on the use of force by federal agents against protesters and journalists in Chicago.
'It's a disgrace': Chicagoans describe jarring encounters with feds as judge prepares to rule on 'blitz'
From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
November 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis just took the bench. She's expected to rule on a request for a preliminary injunction governing the use of force by federal agents in Chicago.
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A friend of mine in Chicago just shared a video on IG of an ICE operation near her house. The operation happened just minutes before the neighborhood Halloween parade. ICE used tear gas and multiple parents had to wash their kids' (including toddlers) eyes out.
October 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
A friend of mine in Chicago just shared a video on IG of an ICE operation near her house. The operation happened just minutes before the neighborhood Halloween parade. ICE used tear gas and multiple parents had to wash their kids' (including toddlers) eyes out.
An amazing plenary at #NACFC 2025 about the multi-system effects of aging in CF with Ahmet Uluer and Karen von Berg. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHg8...
NACFC 2025 | A Breath of Fresh Age: Redefining Growing Older With Cystic Fibrosis
YouTube video by Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
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October 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
An amazing plenary at #NACFC 2025 about the multi-system effects of aging in CF with Ahmet Uluer and Karen von Berg. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHg8...
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15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵
October 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵
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In a national cohort of veterans, the 2024–2025 Covid-19 vaccine was linked to reduced risks of emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and deaths from Covid-19 across the overall cohort and in various subgroups. Full study results: nej.md/47anKdz
#MedSky #IDSky
#MedSky #IDSky
October 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
In a national cohort of veterans, the 2024–2025 Covid-19 vaccine was linked to reduced risks of emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and deaths from Covid-19 across the overall cohort and in various subgroups. Full study results: nej.md/47anKdz
#MedSky #IDSky
#MedSky #IDSky
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I am proud of MIT, where our branch of AAUP has voted unanimously to endorse this statement urging MIT leadership and the MIT Corporation to reject the Compact wholesale
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Letter Regarding Compact
MIT Chapter of the American Association of University Professors October 6, 2025 Statement on the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” MIT has been invited by the federal governmen...
docs.google.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I am proud of MIT, where our branch of AAUP has voted unanimously to endorse this statement urging MIT leadership and the MIT Corporation to reject the Compact wholesale
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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The Chicago Department of Health is encouraging Chicagoans to get vaccinated as respiratory virus season kicks up — and that includes the latest COVID-19 shot. blockclubchi.co/4pOUm3I
October 1, 2025 at 2:00 AM
The Chicago Department of Health is encouraging Chicagoans to get vaccinated as respiratory virus season kicks up — and that includes the latest COVID-19 shot. blockclubchi.co/4pOUm3I
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The 2026 ATS New Faculty Boot Camp will have tailored sessions for the Basic (PhD) Scientist track. Also, for the first time, non-U.S./Canadian residents can apply for admittance to the 2026 Basic (PhD) Scientist track! Registration details coming soon for 2026!
September 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The 2026 ATS New Faculty Boot Camp will have tailored sessions for the Basic (PhD) Scientist track. Also, for the first time, non-U.S./Canadian residents can apply for admittance to the 2026 Basic (PhD) Scientist track! Registration details coming soon for 2026!
I got my covid shots through the hospital when they first became available. Closest I've felt to being an astronaut.
I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was
August 10, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I got my covid shots through the hospital when they first became available. Closest I've felt to being an astronaut.
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Let us pay tribute to the speed hump, an unsung hero of street safety.
These prosaic protrusions of pavement can work wonders -- and at minimal cost.
My deep dive, in Bloomberg 🧵
These prosaic protrusions of pavement can work wonders -- and at minimal cost.
My deep dive, in Bloomberg 🧵
All Hail the Humble Speed Hump
These simple, cheap traffic-calming devices are both effective and wildly popular with (most) residents. Here’s why more cities are going all-in on speed humps.
www.bloomberg.com
August 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Let us pay tribute to the speed hump, an unsung hero of street safety.
These prosaic protrusions of pavement can work wonders -- and at minimal cost.
My deep dive, in Bloomberg 🧵
These prosaic protrusions of pavement can work wonders -- and at minimal cost.
My deep dive, in Bloomberg 🧵
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My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.
July 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.
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Very sorry to hear about the death of Tom Lehrer at age 97. The cleverest, funniest singer/songwriter of all time, even if he lost interest in the whole business pretty quickly? www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIlJ...
Tom Lehrer - National Brotherhood Week
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July 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Very sorry to hear about the death of Tom Lehrer at age 97. The cleverest, funniest singer/songwriter of all time, even if he lost interest in the whole business pretty quickly? www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIlJ...
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Excited to launch our AlphaGenome API goo.gle/3ZPUeFX along with the preprint goo.gle/45AkUyc describing and evaluating our latest DNA sequence model powering the API. Looking forward to seeing how scientists use it! @googledeepmind
June 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Excited to launch our AlphaGenome API goo.gle/3ZPUeFX along with the preprint goo.gle/45AkUyc describing and evaluating our latest DNA sequence model powering the API. Looking forward to seeing how scientists use it! @googledeepmind
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Google's Notebook LM flagged this provision (among many others) when I asked it which parts of the Big Beautiful Bill might be considered the worst parts. It excludes medical and dental residencies from Public Service Loan Forgiveness.
June 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Google's Notebook LM flagged this provision (among many others) when I asked it which parts of the Big Beautiful Bill might be considered the worst parts. It excludes medical and dental residencies from Public Service Loan Forgiveness.
Patrick Stump from Fall Out Boy once asked me for the time at the Shelter in Detroit.
Didn't know who he was until they went on later, super nice dude.
Didn't know who he was until they went on later, super nice dude.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Patrick Stump from Fall Out Boy once asked me for the time at the Shelter in Detroit.
Didn't know who he was until they went on later, super nice dude.
Didn't know who he was until they went on later, super nice dude.
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The ATS condemns the HHS Sec. Kennedy’s unilateral decision to dismiss all members of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). This decision undermines decades of medical and scientific that have been vital to safeguarding public health.
apnews.com/article/kenn...
apnews.com/article/kenn...
RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines.
apnews.com
June 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The ATS condemns the HHS Sec. Kennedy’s unilateral decision to dismiss all members of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). This decision undermines decades of medical and scientific that have been vital to safeguarding public health.
apnews.com/article/kenn...
apnews.com/article/kenn...
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"Create a journal for replication work". 🙄
This comes up time again as if there aren't existing places to put replications. PLOSOne will taken them, plenty of other journals will, and bioRxiv has had an article type called "Confirmatory Results" since we launched in 2013!
This comes up time again as if there aren't existing places to put replications. PLOSOne will taken them, plenty of other journals will, and bioRxiv has had an article type called "Confirmatory Results" since we launched in 2013!
JB plans for NIH: give grants for replication work. Create journal for replication work. Evaluate on metrics including efforts to facilitate replication, not just influence.
AH raises: funding this will take money from somewhere else. JB kind of shrugs this off but...FY2026 budget is a 40% cut.
AH raises: funding this will take money from somewhere else. JB kind of shrugs this off but...FY2026 budget is a 40% cut.
June 9, 2025 at 11:53 PM
"Create a journal for replication work". 🙄
This comes up time again as if there aren't existing places to put replications. PLOSOne will taken them, plenty of other journals will, and bioRxiv has had an article type called "Confirmatory Results" since we launched in 2013!
This comes up time again as if there aren't existing places to put replications. PLOSOne will taken them, plenty of other journals will, and bioRxiv has had an article type called "Confirmatory Results" since we launched in 2013!
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I helped explain to the Chicago Tribune the enourmous and irrational damage the NIH funding freeze is causing at Northwestern. “You’re at risk of losing an entire next generation of scientists" "it’s terrifying; it’s completely senseless." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/07/w...
Worried Northwestern lab directors describe ‘bleak’ atmosphere in wake of Trump research funding freeze
The Trump administration’s freezing of $790 million in federal research funding for Northwestern University has left concerned lab directors without key grants and forced the university to spend mi…
www.chicagotribune.com
June 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I helped explain to the Chicago Tribune the enourmous and irrational damage the NIH funding freeze is causing at Northwestern. “You’re at risk of losing an entire next generation of scientists" "it’s terrifying; it’s completely senseless." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/07/w...
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Have you ever wondered what the ATS Public Advisory Roundtable (PAR) does? On this ep. of the ATS Breathe Easy podcast, Donna Appell, RN, explains how the group keeps the patient perspective front and center, with host Patti Tripathi.
Watch the full episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFR0...
Watch the full episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFR0...
June 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Have you ever wondered what the ATS Public Advisory Roundtable (PAR) does? On this ep. of the ATS Breathe Easy podcast, Donna Appell, RN, explains how the group keeps the patient perspective front and center, with host Patti Tripathi.
Watch the full episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFR0...
Watch the full episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFR0...
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Here is my checklist transferring a patient out of ICU
✅ 2 things to check in computer (labs, vitals)
✅ 2 people to talk to (RN, RT)
✅ 2 things to clean up (meds, lines)
The absolute *key* is talking to the RN & RT. They know the minute-to-minute details of patient care needs & trajectory. #2/2
✅ 2 things to check in computer (labs, vitals)
✅ 2 people to talk to (RN, RT)
✅ 2 things to clean up (meds, lines)
The absolute *key* is talking to the RN & RT. They know the minute-to-minute details of patient care needs & trajectory. #2/2
June 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Here is my checklist transferring a patient out of ICU
✅ 2 things to check in computer (labs, vitals)
✅ 2 people to talk to (RN, RT)
✅ 2 things to clean up (meds, lines)
The absolute *key* is talking to the RN & RT. They know the minute-to-minute details of patient care needs & trajectory. #2/2
✅ 2 things to check in computer (labs, vitals)
✅ 2 people to talk to (RN, RT)
✅ 2 things to clean up (meds, lines)
The absolute *key* is talking to the RN & RT. They know the minute-to-minute details of patient care needs & trajectory. #2/2
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No NIH training grants have been funded since February
Other training grants focused on broadening participation in science have been terminated
Some institutions’ *awarded* grants are not being reimbursed
The current administration is proposing drastic cuts in the 2026 NIH and NSF budgets
Other training grants focused on broadening participation in science have been terminated
Some institutions’ *awarded* grants are not being reimbursed
The current administration is proposing drastic cuts in the 2026 NIH and NSF budgets
June 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
No NIH training grants have been funded since February
Other training grants focused on broadening participation in science have been terminated
Some institutions’ *awarded* grants are not being reimbursed
The current administration is proposing drastic cuts in the 2026 NIH and NSF budgets
Other training grants focused on broadening participation in science have been terminated
Some institutions’ *awarded* grants are not being reimbursed
The current administration is proposing drastic cuts in the 2026 NIH and NSF budgets
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sorry, one more pearl:
If suspect blasto, consider starting empiric voriconazole (or isavuconazonium/posaconazole). Azoles are safer than amphotericin, so the risk/benefit ratio is more favorable if you're wrong. Definitive confirmation can take time.
more: emcrit.org/ibcc/blastom...
If suspect blasto, consider starting empiric voriconazole (or isavuconazonium/posaconazole). Azoles are safer than amphotericin, so the risk/benefit ratio is more favorable if you're wrong. Definitive confirmation can take time.
more: emcrit.org/ibcc/blastom...
Blastomycosis
CONTENTS Basics Epidemiology Clinical manifestations Acute pulmonary blastomycosis Radiology Chronic pulmonary blastomycosis Radiology Disseminated blastomycosis Laboratory evaluation Treatment Podcas...
emcrit.org
May 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
sorry, one more pearl:
If suspect blasto, consider starting empiric voriconazole (or isavuconazonium/posaconazole). Azoles are safer than amphotericin, so the risk/benefit ratio is more favorable if you're wrong. Definitive confirmation can take time.
more: emcrit.org/ibcc/blastom...
If suspect blasto, consider starting empiric voriconazole (or isavuconazonium/posaconazole). Azoles are safer than amphotericin, so the risk/benefit ratio is more favorable if you're wrong. Definitive confirmation can take time.
more: emcrit.org/ibcc/blastom...
Bingo. If your claim is that effectively no disruptive life science got done between 2000 and 2010, either your metric is wrong or disruption doesn't matter.
If your test for ground-breaking discoveries can’t detect the discovery of RNAi, or of CRISPR-Cas9, or the cryoEM resolution revolution or Alphafold2, maybe it’s not a very good test.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
May 26, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Bingo. If your claim is that effectively no disruptive life science got done between 2000 and 2010, either your metric is wrong or disruption doesn't matter.
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Makary and Prasad have a sounding board piece written in NEJM about the future of COVID-19 vaccine regulation at the FDA.
Some thoughts:
Some thoughts:
An Evidence-Based Approach to Covid-19 Vaccination | NEJM
This article from the FDA compares broad U.S. recommendations on Covid vaccination with those from other countries and announces the adoption of an evidence-based approach to such recommendations.
www.nejm.org
May 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Makary and Prasad have a sounding board piece written in NEJM about the future of COVID-19 vaccine regulation at the FDA.
Some thoughts:
Some thoughts: