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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

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Alexander Morgan, MD PhD @alexmorgan.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

@elsabirch.bsky.social and I had a great time at the @glasscannonnetwork.bsky.social retreat and got to play @deltagreen.bsky.social with @sydneygayle.bsky.social which was a lot of fun. If you are interested in TTRPGing, check out some of GCN’s great content. @chaosium.bsky.social

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Alexander Morgan, MD PhD @alexmorgan.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

The US needs to be making its own medicines, especially for the new generation of personalized medicines (genomic, cell therapies, etc). We believe AI/automation is how that will happen. 🇺🇸💊 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/articles/u-s...

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U.S. VCs Race to Tap China’s Biotech Innovation

Western drugmakers, investors increasingly aim to acquire Chinese compounds.

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Based on the replies l, it looks like there a lot of fed workers on @bsky.app I just wanted to say THANK YOU. I can't imagine the shit you are going through right now Thanks for your service to our country

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

There are so many ways to rev up our immune response against cancer. Here, the oncolytic viruses www.cell.com/cancer-cell/...

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

This is exactly what happened to me, except that my story ends with a near death experience and an emergency D&C after transfusion. Pregnant women in Texas are in danger. And I worry most about Black women who experience medical racism. www.propublica.org/article/pors...

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A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.

Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.

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Alexander Morgan, MD PhD @alexmorgan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Got a cool book on Die Brücke artist Kirchner. He was a leader of German Expressionism in the first two decades of the 20th century with a somewhat haunting style of rendering the figure.

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Alexander Morgan, MD PhD @alexmorgan.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

His arrest and attempted deportation seem very much like a writ of attainder to me. The President can pardon federal crimes, but not convict them.

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Alexander Morgan, MD PhD @alexmorgan.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

There is the important element that the jobs DOGE is cutting are US jobs, including a lot of veterans who live in states who voted for Trump.

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Yohan J John @dryohanjohn.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

In fact the opposite has generally been the case: we discover insight into micro-level phenomena as a result of developing accurate meso-scale theories. Thermodynamics came before statistical mechanics and served as the key constraint on it. ...

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Alexander Morgan, MD PhD @alexmorgan.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

For those with a medical background, I think learning startup related finance is no harder, and with a lot of overlap, to learning how to manage ins and outs and electrolytes.

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Alexander Morgan, MD PhD @alexmorgan.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

SRE’s may have more in common with emergency room physicians in things like personality and hobbies than I would have at first considered.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Calling yourself a king doesnt make you a king. Delivering an all-time banger of a speech on St. Crispin’s Day does.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Back on the other website I made a whole thread on the size of ocean animals in relation to Bernie Sanders. These crabs are so much bigger than people realize

A screen shot showing that the Japanese spider crab is taller than Bernie sanders when he’s sitting down

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Alexander Morgan, MD PhD @alexmorgan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The one thing I like about his stated goals is the focus on general wellness: nutrition and fitness. The approach to infectious disease is terrifying.

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Alexander Morgan, MD PhD @alexmorgan.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

One thing I never understand is all the criticism of the USFDA and their regulatory science. It’s the most data driven government organization in the world, willing to quickly change its mind with new data. It’s not perfect of course, but it’s regulation by rationality not emotion, very rare.

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Alexander Morgan, MD PhD @alexmorgan.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Investment in basic research has been one of the main pillars of economic growth in the US. Discovery combined with the free market system that can turn those innovations into scalable/distributable new products & services improves quality of life, and wealth in a non zero-sum way.

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The story behind RFK Jr. in Samoa's measles crisis has never been reported. He wasn't there to spread misinformation about vaccines (though he did). He wanted to study a "natural experiment" of unvaccinated kids. “I can’t imagine anything less ethical or more cruel.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Experts saw Samoa's plunging vaccination rates as a crisis. RFK Jr. saw an opportunity.

New details show how Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then chair of an anti-vaccine group and now Trump’s pick for health secretary, sought to exploit a deadly vaccine accident.

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Alexander Morgan, MD PhD @alexmorgan.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Does our country owe its existence to inoculation (the precursor to vaccination)? Historians seem to think so, in that George Washington's controversial decision to inoculate the Continental Army against smallpox seems to have saved the Army from destruction. www.battlefields.org/learn/articl...

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Washington Inoculates an Army

No other word conjured up more fear among 18th century Americans than the word “smallpox.” The communicable and dreaded disease was a scourge and for...

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Madeleine Swann @madeleineswann.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Vincent Price's dramatic soufflé

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Alexander Morgan, MD PhD @alexmorgan.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I have a Curta II, and a Curta I will be arriving in the post shortly. Love this piece of engineering.

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Alexander Morgan, MD PhD @alexmorgan.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Well, JP Morgan SF Healthcare week is over. It’s Friday night, so I am pounding some shots, #PauHana. FWIW, I tried to fist bump instead of shaking hundreds of hands, washed my hands a lot, etc, but I still got got.

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Alexander Morgan, MD PhD @alexmorgan.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

When I prepare green tea (sencha or matcha) at home, I like it actually be green, basically so it looks like Ecto Cooler, which means the catechins and other key compounds in it have not oxidized. Here is how I do this…

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Alice Walsh @scoutrager.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Reposting this guide from twitter because I COOKED here. (and still refer to this at work even now!)

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

"When Mexico sends its people, they're sending their best. They're sending firefighters to help solve American problems. They're bringing fire fighting uniforms. They're bringing fire fighting equipment. They're bringing kittens down from trees. And all, I assume, are good people."

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Alexander Morgan, MD PhD @alexmorgan.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

My favorite piece of content this Sunday morning:

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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Galen Buckwalter, 68, shared with me his harrowing tale of being forced to flee the Eaton fire alone on his wheelchair through dark streets and fierce winds, dodging debris as fire neared his home. “In emergencies, disabled people are the last to get services…We have no system. You’re on your own”

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Fleeing the LA fires alone on a wheelchair: ‘I had to take my chances’

An evacuation order when the Eaton fire threatened Galen Buckwalter’s Sierra Madre home triggered a nightmare odyssey through chaotic streets

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Elsa Birch @elsabirch.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

That's a wrap on the conference coordination with @alexmorgan.bsky.social for this round of @pacsym.bio #psb25

A closet rod over suitcases with various blue green aloha shirts. Each occurs in a pair of large and smaller women's size or a dress. Blue with small sharks, fruit orchard, trees with birds, navy with pink bird of paradise prints

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Alexander Morgan, MD PhD @alexmorgan.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I am very much enjoying the new book, Convential Boy, by @cstross.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy. Wonderfully referential to recent books in the series through an in fiction TTRPG. torpublishinggroup.com/a-convention...

torpublishinggroup.com

A Conventional Boy

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Alexander Morgan, MD PhD @alexmorgan.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Great talk by @suinlee.bsky.social at @pacsym.bio #psb25 on interpretability approaches for AI systems in radiology, and generally the process/approach to quality/reliability assurance for healthcare system AI robustness and generalizability. paperswithcode.com/method/shap

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Papers with Code - SHAP Explained

SHAP, or SHapley Additive exPlanations, is a game theoretic approach to explain the output of any machine learning model. It connects optimal credit allocation with local explanations using the classi...

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 06/01/2025

Features of Adulthood xkcd.com/3034

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