Vignesh Raman
@vigneshraman.bsky.social
Thoracic Surgeon. Duke trained. Tamil nomad from Singapore. Thoracic surgery, oncology, literary fiction, Indian classical music, justice, and equity. He/him. 🏳️🌈
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Another great piece from @aniloza.bsky.social on how cutting words harms science and erases human beings.
Every day I am heartened by the community of NIH people who are pushing back. @nihvigils.bsky.social @27unihted.bsky.social @savehealthresearch.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...
Every day I am heartened by the community of NIH people who are pushing back. @nihvigils.bsky.social @27unihted.bsky.social @savehealthresearch.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...
Scientists had to change more than 700 grant titles to receive NIH funding. Health disparities researchers fear what’s next
The titles of more than 700 multi-year NIH grants have been changed this year, according to an analysis by Jeremy Berg, a former agency official
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October 30, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Another great piece from @aniloza.bsky.social on how cutting words harms science and erases human beings.
Every day I am heartened by the community of NIH people who are pushing back. @nihvigils.bsky.social @27unihted.bsky.social @savehealthresearch.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...
Every day I am heartened by the community of NIH people who are pushing back. @nihvigils.bsky.social @27unihted.bsky.social @savehealthresearch.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...
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>2,100 research projects funded by the NIH were terminated in 2025...In this comment, patients, care partners, and scientists share our perspective about what's at stake...and why advocacy is essential to our path forward @natureportfolio.nature.com @apha.org @aclu.org www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
>2,100 research projects funded by the NIH were terminated in 2025...In this comment, patients, care partners, and scientists share our perspective about what's at stake...and why advocacy is essential to our path forward @natureportfolio.nature.com @apha.org @aclu.org www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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What's happening to Colbert and Kimmel is diabolical, absolutely. But censorship to this degree has been happening. People simply ignored it bc it happened to Black and Brown people first. Melissa Harris Perry, Tiffany Cross, Joy Reid, Don Lemon. Marc Lamont Hill. Karen Attiah just this week.
September 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
What's happening to Colbert and Kimmel is diabolical, absolutely. But censorship to this degree has been happening. People simply ignored it bc it happened to Black and Brown people first. Melissa Harris Perry, Tiffany Cross, Joy Reid, Don Lemon. Marc Lamont Hill. Karen Attiah just this week.
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i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation
Harvard Ends Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program as Trump Targets Race in Admissions | News | The Harvard Crimson
By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.
www.thecrimson.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation
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Black women have every right to be furious. The irresponsible choices of white voters has for many of us, taken our livelihood with consequences for our homes, the education of our children, our ability to care for parents.
It’s unconscionable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
It’s unconscionable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit
www.nytimes.com
August 31, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Black women have every right to be furious. The irresponsible choices of white voters has for many of us, taken our livelihood with consequences for our homes, the education of our children, our ability to care for parents.
It’s unconscionable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
It’s unconscionable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
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They’re not saying it because msm has refused to report on the truth about racism & white supremacy in this country in any sustained manner. They will say “Democratic cities” over and over. But what of Portland, Seattle, Nashville, Jacksonville, Miami?
It’s the thing the msm won’t say or touch — Trump is trying to break black America over his knee www.oliverexplains.com/p/donald-tru...
August 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
They’re not saying it because msm has refused to report on the truth about racism & white supremacy in this country in any sustained manner. They will say “Democratic cities” over and over. But what of Portland, Seattle, Nashville, Jacksonville, Miami?
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RFK Jr must resign and I believe those of us who work in healthcare, public health, health research, or any related field should demand his resignation
this is a picture of CDC parents waiting to be reunited with their children at 11:00pm after 5 hours of lockdown
August 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
RFK Jr must resign and I believe those of us who work in healthcare, public health, health research, or any related field should demand his resignation
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I don’t have a problem with someone evaluating my science abilities if I have the ability to examine theirs.
Let’s do televised qualifying exams for all the political appointees who will be evaluating science grants and proposals. Let’s start with directors of institutes and cabinet secretaries.
Let’s do televised qualifying exams for all the political appointees who will be evaluating science grants and proposals. Let’s start with directors of institutes and cabinet secretaries.
August 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I don’t have a problem with someone evaluating my science abilities if I have the ability to examine theirs.
Let’s do televised qualifying exams for all the political appointees who will be evaluating science grants and proposals. Let’s start with directors of institutes and cabinet secretaries.
Let’s do televised qualifying exams for all the political appointees who will be evaluating science grants and proposals. Let’s start with directors of institutes and cabinet secretaries.
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Right-wingers are so insecure and covetousness that after they gathered public goods, land, economy and education for themselves they wanted the one thing we had: the story of oppression.
They want this more than anything else b/c of the powerful narrative & culture we created from it.
They want this more than anything else b/c of the powerful narrative & culture we created from it.
When I saw the headline I assumed the “civil rights” bit was going to be some clunky metaphor, but no, this WSJ columnist is sincerely urging Caitlin Clark to sue for reverse race discrimination under a hostile work environment theory www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
August 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Right-wingers are so insecure and covetousness that after they gathered public goods, land, economy and education for themselves they wanted the one thing we had: the story of oppression.
They want this more than anything else b/c of the powerful narrative & culture we created from it.
They want this more than anything else b/c of the powerful narrative & culture we created from it.
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NEW: A JAMA study finds that "between August 2022 and December 2024 ... Idaho lost 94 of the 268 OBGYN physicians practicing obstetrics."
Just 20 new OBGYNs moved to Idaho in that time, "and 114 of the 268 baseline obstetricians" stopped practicing, left the state, or retired.
Just 20 new OBGYNs moved to Idaho in that time, "and 114 of the 268 baseline obstetricians" stopped practicing, left the state, or retired.
Change in OB/GYN Physicians Practicing Obstetrics After the Dobbs Decision
This cohort study evaluates changes in the number of obstetrics and gynecology physicians practicing in Idaho after the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court decision.
jamanetwork.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM
NEW: A JAMA study finds that "between August 2022 and December 2024 ... Idaho lost 94 of the 268 OBGYN physicians practicing obstetrics."
Just 20 new OBGYNs moved to Idaho in that time, "and 114 of the 268 baseline obstetricians" stopped practicing, left the state, or retired.
Just 20 new OBGYNs moved to Idaho in that time, "and 114 of the 268 baseline obstetricians" stopped practicing, left the state, or retired.
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Delighted to see this story out and collaborate with amazing teams led by @jdegregori.bsky.social Mercedes Rincon & @roelvermeulen.bsky.social. Proud to see science propelled by our lab @cdi-einstein.bsky.social expanded to better understand cancer dormancy. Congrats! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Respiratory viral infections awaken metastatic breast cancer cells in lungs - Nature
Mouse models show that respiratory infections from viruses such as influenza and SARS-CoV-2 can trigger metastasis of dormant breast cancer cells in the lungs, a finding supported by epidemiological d...
www.nature.com
July 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Delighted to see this story out and collaborate with amazing teams led by @jdegregori.bsky.social Mercedes Rincon & @roelvermeulen.bsky.social. Proud to see science propelled by our lab @cdi-einstein.bsky.social expanded to better understand cancer dormancy. Congrats! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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PO just confirmed that our 5th percentile R01 is not getting funded. Past NCI Payline at 4 percent. Cant believe it.
July 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
PO just confirmed that our 5th percentile R01 is not getting funded. Past NCI Payline at 4 percent. Cant believe it.
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Heard from #AHRQ that the entire grants staff has been let go! They are unable to issue funds for grants already funded, let alone fund new grants. This is outrageous and will make Americans poorer and sicker. Why? A brief thread about just some recent AHRQ-funded research: #MedSky #HealthPolicy
July 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Heard from #AHRQ that the entire grants staff has been let go! They are unable to issue funds for grants already funded, let alone fund new grants. This is outrageous and will make Americans poorer and sicker. Why? A brief thread about just some recent AHRQ-funded research: #MedSky #HealthPolicy
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Framing this around “viewpoint diversity” and the supposed expediency of tracking professors’ political donations is absolutely brilliant. www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
A dive into the Board of Visitors’ political donations
Here is a look at Board members’ political donations — all but one of whom has records of political donations which are overwhelmingly to Republican candidates and campaigns.
www.cavalierdaily.com
July 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Framing this around “viewpoint diversity” and the supposed expediency of tracking professors’ political donations is absolutely brilliant. www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
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"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."
The United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass Statelessness
This scenario, until recently, might have read like a dystopian projection. But after the court’s decision on Friday, it is no longer hypothetical.
slate.com
June 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."
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kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes
June 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes
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It's not useful but I just can't believe we let people who believe this shit within light years of power
May 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
It's not useful but I just can't believe we let people who believe this shit within light years of power
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New study led by Kriyana Reddy and @drlolafayanju.bsky.social finds that increased distance to care prolongs time to surgery (TTS) for rural patients with breast cancer. But rurality, independent of distance, has an intrinsic protective effect on TTS.
The Effect of Rurality on Time to Surgery and Overall... : Annals of Surgery
hip between rurality, proximity to care, TTS, and OS remains unknown.
Methods:
We identified females≥18 years with stage 0-III breast cancer diagnosed 2004-2019 who received upfront surgery in the ...
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April 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
New study led by Kriyana Reddy and @drlolafayanju.bsky.social finds that increased distance to care prolongs time to surgery (TTS) for rural patients with breast cancer. But rurality, independent of distance, has an intrinsic protective effect on TTS.
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"The NIH budget has not increased in more than 20 years despite research being more expensive to conduct. This is a necessary data point for policymakers to consider as they determine funding priorities." 🧪
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jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
NIH Funding Has Stagnated Since 2003
This Viewpoint explores how funding has changed at the National Institutes of Health over time and discusses how continued investment is necessary to maintain the current level of biomedical research.
jamanetwork.com
April 23, 2025 at 2:55 AM
"The NIH budget has not increased in more than 20 years despite research being more expensive to conduct. This is a necessary data point for policymakers to consider as they determine funding priorities." 🧪
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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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.