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It's National Handwashing Awareness Week! Simple but powerful: proper handwashing prevents infections, stops disease spread, and saves lives. Our infectious disease experts remind you 20 seconds with soap & water is your first line of defense. #HandwashingWeek #InfectionPrevention #CUIMC
December 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Diabetes affects 37M Americans. Thyroid disorders impact millions more. Our Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism conducts critical research in metabolic disease, hormone regulation, and endocrine cancers. The future of endocrine care starts here. #Endocrinology #DiabetesResearch #CUIMC
December 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Autoimmune diseases affect millions, but answers are emerging. Our Division of Rheumatology is uncovering the mechanisms behind lupus, RA, and other conditions—transforming how we diagnose and treat inflammatory disease. #Rheumatology #AutoimmuneResearch #CUIMC #MedicalScience
December 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Meet the speakers!🎤

Session 2 "Gene Regulation & Chromatin Dynamics"

Sophie Polo (@polosophie.bsky.social, Univ. Paris Cité), Viviana I. Risca (@vivrisca.bsky.social, Rockefeller), Kikue Tachibana (MPI of Biochemistry) & Zhiguo Zhang (CUIMC).

Join us in March!
#ISC26DNArepair #SFB1361 #IMBMainz
December 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Hope drives our oncology research. Our Division of Hematology & Medical Oncology is developing personalized cancer therapies that target tumors while preserving quality of life. Every patient deserves precision care. #CancerResearch #PrecisionMedicine #CUIMC #Oncology
December 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Congratulations to Dr. Liliya Abrukin, named 2025 NY ACEP Unsung Hero CUIMC ED! @NYACEP

nyacep.org/liliya-abruk...
November 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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“A Crisis of Trust: The University, Regulatory Science, and the Ethical Challenges of Our Time”

🕐 1–2 PM ET | VP&S Amphitheater 1 (CUIMC) & Online via Zoom
October 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Hospitals have used UVC light to disinfect surfaces for decades, and in 2017, CUIMC researchers showed its promise: far-UVC could safely inactivate airborne pathogens from living creatures without harming its host. ☀️

...So why isn’t it everywhere yet?

Find out in the newest #PhotonicsFocus Issue:
Far-UVC fix: The wavelength that harms viruses, not humans
Safe for skin but deadly to pathogens, far-ultraviolet C light could help fight the next pandemic—but only if engineers can build a cheap and efficient light source first.
spie.org
October 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
cancerdynamics.bsky.social
Congratulations to IICD member @brentstockwell.bsky.social who was awarded an NCI P01 grant with Xuejun Jiang (MSK) and Wei Gu (CUIMC).

Read more: cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/news/brent-s...

cc: @columbiacancer.bsky.social @mskcancercenter.bsky.social @columbiamed.bsky.social
Brent Stockwell
October 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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NeuroRAD-FM, a foundation model for neuro‑oncology, boosted balanced accuracy at CUIMC from 0.744 to 0.785 and raised CDKN2A/2B AUC from 0.73 to 0.92. Read more: https://getnews.me/neurorad-fm-ai-foundation-model-boosts-neuro-oncology-predictions/ #neuroradfm #neurooncology #ai
NeuroRAD-FM: AI Foundation Model Boosts Neuro‑Oncology Predictions
September 22, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Columbia University: We won't pay you a living wage, and we insist you pay more for your health benefits..

but here's some food and bad karaoke to make up for it

Gee, thanks 😒

@columbiauniversity.bsky.social @1199seiu.org

#ColumbiaUniversity #CUIMC #NoThanks
July 31, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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U.S. Opens Antitrust Investigation Into NewYork-Presbyterian

.. keep an eye on this

#NewYorkPresbyterian #CUIMC #ColumbiaUniversity #NYP #NYC #healthcare
U.S. Opens Antitrust Investigation Into NewYork-Presbyterian
www.nytimes.com
July 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
cameronlmitchell.bsky.social
Columbia University = the Trump Regime

They are one and the same now

#CUIMC #ColumbiaUniversity

@columbiauniversity.bsky.social
July 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Out today in the Columbia Spectator — faculty from CUIMC Stands Up & CU Faculty Alliance reframe the narrative about antisemitism at Columbia through an analysis of the HEALS data. Read it here ⬇️

www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...
Reframing the narrative on antisemitism at Columbia: What the data says
In March, President Donald Trump’s administration abruptly terminated numerous federally funded scientific research projects at Columbia. According to personal correspondence with multiple Columbia Un...
www.columbiaspectator.com
July 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
cuimcstandsup.bsky.social
We couldn’t have said it better ourselves:

“I don’t think the values of the Trump administration are the values of the Columbia medical faculty. In fact, I am certain they are not. We have made a deal with the devil. Those don’t usually work out.”

We can confirm ‼️
I don't think the values of the Trump administration are the values of the Columbia medical faculty. In fact, I am certain they are not. We have made a deal with the devil. Those don't usually work out. 1 And far from all of them were on board with a deal. See the web page of CUIMC Stands Up, a group of medical faculty who have and continue to oppose any deal under these circumstances. They have even launched a satirical newsletter, check it out!
July 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Thank you to Rise Up, Columbia for the astute analysis as usual and the footnote shoutout to CUIMC Stands Up!

We’re a group of medical campus faculty & staff firmly against the exchange of our values for grant funds, even as our jobs & careers are at risk.

🔗 open.substack.com/pub/riseupco...
Columbia's Agreement with the Federal Government RISE UP, COLUMBIA TODAY AT 12:17 PM The Columbia administration has finally done what many of us have urged it not to do: it has signed a bad agreement with the federal government to address the government's phony concerns about Columbia. Here is the document. And here, importantly, is President Shipman's letter outlining her view of the document.
July 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Columbia Buys Back Its Federal Grants and Sells Off Its Spine

#CUIMC #TheSpecter #CUIMCStandsUp

@columbiauniversity.bsky.social
Post #8 — CUIMC Stands Up
Columbia Buys Back Its Federal Grants and Sells Off Its Spine By The Specter Editorial Board
www.cuimcstandsup.org
July 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
cameronlmitchell.bsky.social
So Columbia University can afford to pay Trump’s $220M extortion but still claim they can't afford to pay their @1199seiu.org SSA employees a living wage??

We demand a #FairContract now!

@columbiauniversity.bsky.social #CUIMC #UnionStrong
July 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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We're still negotiating with #ColumbiaUniversity for a fair contract

But they want us to pay MORE for our health care

Our answer?
Absolutely not!

#HandsOffOurHealthCare
#UnionStrong @1199seiu.org

@columbiajournalism.bsky.social #CUIMC
July 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
cameronlmitchell.bsky.social
#ColumbiaUniversity doesn't value their @1199seiu.org #Union employees

In negotiations for a new contract, they refuse to budge on making us pay MORE for health benefits

While NOT offering a living wage increase

We demand a #FairContract now!

@columbiauniversity.bsky.social
#UnionStrong #CUIMC
July 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
cameronlmitchell.bsky.social
We want benefits, not ice cream!

#CUIMC is currently showing staff appreciation with an ice cream social

But ice cream doesn't pay the bills

We deserve a fair contract NOW!
@columbiauniversity.bsky.social @1199seiu.org

#UnionStrong #ColumbiaUniversity #NYC
July 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
cameronlmitchell.bsky.social
1199SEIU SSA #Union Employees deserve a fair contract
NOW

#ColumbiaUniversity can't survive w/out the hard work of employees like me who keep them in business

#UnionStrong #CUIMC
@columbiauniversity.bsky.social
July 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
amparodo.bsky.social
7 Garden South Hospitalist Unit is associated with the Milstein Hospital Building at CUIMC (Columbia University Irving Medical Center) they told me i have to stay per psychiatry. i need to go home! they’re gaslighting me. someone please help me!
July 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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So far ~250 Columbia affiliates have signed a petition calling to remove Shoshana Shendelman from CU Board of Trustees + boards of CUIMC & VP&S: www.bit.ly/Remove-Trustee

After an FDA warning letter ‼️ she allegedly misled investors re: company prospects

Read more: theintercept.com/2025/05/27/c...
Columbia Trustee Got Sued for Securities Fraud — Then Left Her Pharma Firm Under a Cloud
Columbia trustee Shoshana Shendelman sold millions in stock as she was going back and forth with the FDA. Then the drug got rejected.
theintercept.com
July 1, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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June 30, 2025
Columbia University ICE Protest - NYC

Activists with the Irving Medical Center held photos of students that have been targeted for deportation due to political speech.
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June 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM