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AliciaDWright

@aliciadwright.bsky.social
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Program Manager ID/TB/HIV/Cancer/Rare Diseases, US & International Research Projects 💃🏽🐶🐈‍⬛📸🌳🌹🌅☕️🍷📖✍🏼💻🩻🇲🇽🇺🇸

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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Nature [Unofficial] @nature.com.web.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
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Tuberculosis treatment has advanced — now we need to stop drug resistance dragging us backwards
Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02963-x The next major advancement in TB might not be a new drug, but a better understanding of how and why resistance to medicines emerges.
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Aedes aegypti
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🇻🇪”The Silent Aftershock: Preventing #Tuberculosis Transmission and Treatment Interruption in Venezuela’s Post-Earthquake Shelters” ‼️🔎”TB is not expected to surge within days because of the earthquake itself. Yet disasters can disrupt every layer of TB control: early diagnosis, treatment…”
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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🤔Why do we need a new vaccine for TB? 👶The one vaccine currently licensed is over 100 years old, and while it is effective in protecting infants and young children against severe forms of the disease, its protection wanes as the patient gets older. The new vaccines fill the gap.
gavi.org
New “blockbuster” tuberculosis vaccines could save seven million lives by 2050
Next-generation TB vaccines, expected to become available from 2029, could deliver major health and economic gains, helping to save an estimated 7.3 million lives, generate up to US$ 135 billion in ec...
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🔎 “Effectiveness of Isoniazid Preventive Treatment among Contacts of Multidrug-Resistant #Tuberculosis: A Systematic Review and Individual-Participant Meta-Analysis”
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🇦🇺”Earlier diagnosis, culturally responsive and community-led approaches, strengthened Aboriginal health workforces and action on social and structural determinants are needed to ensure #Tuberculosis is addressed rather than forgotten in Australia.”
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🔎”Safety of #tuberculosis preventive treatment among people receiving or about to initiate immunosuppressive medications: a systematic review and meta-analysis”
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
👟🐶🐾📸🦆🧘🏻‍♀️
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s Friday 🙌🏼 ☺️🍷🎶🎹🎤
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Elton Jhon & Lady Gaga- Benny and The Jets - Lady Gaga & the Muppets'
YouTube video by TraduccionMonsters
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Amesh Adalja @ameshaa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“According to an analysis by Partners in Health, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is withholding $1.35 billion in bilateral funding that was previously approved by Congress for tuberculosis (TB), malaria, HIV..” www.cidrap.umn.edu/hivaids/advo...
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Advocates, lawmakers call for release of congressionally approved global health funds
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🤐I will let the experts to review👇 FDA Launches Expedited IND Pilot, Begins Accepting Applications Application open until 30-OCT-2026 The FDA’s Expedited IND Pilot webpage 🔗⤵️ www.fda.gov/industry/fda...
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FDA Launches Expedited IND Pilot, Begins Accepting Applications
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced the final design of the Expedited Investigational New Drug (IND) Pilot.
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🇲🇽Viva Mexico!!!! 🎉🪅🎶🎺🎻🪉💃🏻
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 13/09/2026
Another year full of climate extremes... Did you know the last 100 days have all set new daily records for global sea surface temperatures? Learn more about our rapidly warming oceans in our webinar this week, & bring your questions! 📣 Register in advance: climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026
The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Sometimes we just need Barry White🤗 When life is too stressful, Just breathe and dance 💃🏽🪩 Good night 🎶🍷
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Barry White - Cant Get Enough Of You Love Babe (Remix)
YouTube video by Marco Bitencourt
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
👟🐶🐾🌤️🦆🧡Sunsets 🤗
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TAGHIVscience @taghivscience.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Information now posted and open for public comment: www.niaid.nih.gov/about/niaid-...
niaid.nih.gov
Public Hearing of NIAID Proposed Reorganization
BackgroundThe National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), conducts and supports biomedical research to better understand, treat, and...
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🔎”…but if we want new ideas rather than rehashed versions of old ones we need to turn away from the narcissistic seductions of the infinite customisation offered by chatbots…we must use AI critically, not blindly. But to accomplish this, we must also think critically, not blindly…”
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🧐”Westervelt… singles out “the tech bros [who], armed with algorithms and data, take Lee’s quote about facts being open to interpretation and turn it into millions of splintered realities” and thus wage “an information war against their own people.””⤵️
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🆘🚨”…announcing a proposed overhaul of the NIAID clinical research program with few details and a brief comment period. Changes of the magnitude suggested deserve a lengthier and meaningful opportunity for input from researchers,clinicians,community partners,and other stakeholders including Congress”
medpagetoday.com
Docs Alarmed by NIH Plan to Redirect Medical Research $$ to Pentagon
Few details are available on the proposal, which has a 5-day comment period
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
😳🥶⚠️”preventing harms from these systems…It might look more like sociology than computer science-figuring out why certain groups of A.I.agents collaborate peacefully,while others turn to crime and destruction to get what they want…This time,humans regained control.Next time, we might not be so lucky”
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
🧐🇲🇽 Good time to remember the Hummingbirds = Colibríes in Mexican culture: “pre-Columbian and modern Mexicans to ascribe to the hummingbird, and value in themselves, attributes such as authenticity, braveness, intrepidness, skill, readiness and strength of will.” www.aav.org/news/615010/...
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The Hummingbird in Mexican Culture - Association of Avian Veterinarians
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
To comment on the proposed reorganization of NIAID: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... Deadline: Sep 18!
federalregister.gov
Notice of Public Hearing: NIAID Proposed Reorganization
Pursuant to the NIH Reform Act of 2006 (42 U.S.C. 281(d)(4)), notice is hereby given that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) w...
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
🤦🏻‍♀️👇🏻”The agreement would establish a pathway to move funding out of the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the country’s premier infectious-disease research institute, to support defence initiatives and will last 10 years”
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🆘🚨🤦🏻‍♀️👇🏻 “There are no good outcomes if we remain above 1.5°C. Across the globe, extreme heatwaves are already proving that #climate impacts will strike faster, hit harder, and last longer - costing more lives and causing deeper disruption” #ClimateChange
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
👟📸😌”Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”-Anne Frank
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
BART Simpson: “This is the HOTTEST summer of my life”

Homer Simpson: “This is the COLDEST summer of the rest of your life”
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🧐🖼️”Romanticists…powerful symbols of the disease. It was believed that they possessed heightened sensibility, and that their work was elevated because of consumption’s effect... In reality, the slow growth rate of M. #tuberculosis bacteria usually causes a lengthy deterioration for its victims.”
asm.org
Tuberculosis and the Fatal Beauty of Romanticism
Dying for beauty: Tuberculosis (TB) shaped the Romantic ideal—delicate, ethereal and tinged with mortality. Examine how TB influenced Romantic Period fine arts and how that influence is felt today.
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
📰”Vanderbilt Health informatics leader will head the world’s largest biomedical library and the nation’s leading funder of biomedical informatics and data science research.”
news.vumc.org
Peter Embí named Director of the National Library of Medicine at NIH
Vanderbilt Health informatics leader will head the world’s largest biomedical library and the nation’s leading funder of biomedical informatics and data science research.
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🧐🎨🇹🇷”End-stage #tuberculosis in a portrait by Osman Hamdi Bey?An icono diagnostic interpretation”-H.Elbe “TB was a major public health problem in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire.This study presents an iconodiagnostic analysis of Kökenoğlu Rıza Efendi(1871)” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“The more we learn about TB’s ability to spread,the more opportunities we will have to design effective strategies that will make an impact on a global scale…therapies that target the transmission stage of the #Tuberculosis life cycle could complement existing Rxs and help slow the(MDR)emergence..."
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
👟🐶🐾📸⛅️🧘🏻‍♀️ "You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds." - Henry Thoreau
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
😔🇳🇵💔”The flood has left more than 10,000Nepalis homeless and 50,000 without electricity, water and connectivity.The loss of 14 hydropower plants has removed eight per cent of Nepal’s grid capacity and four regional clinics have been washed away, leaving tens of thousands without primary medical care”
thetimes.com
Teacher saved 1,643 children from Nepal flash floods
Rajendra Dadabi says the pupils were terrified but fear gave them the energy to flee the rising waters close to the border with Tibet
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
😌🎧🎶 A wonderful joy the last album from Sir Anthony Hopkins: “Life is a Dream” 🧏🏻‍♀️&🧘🏻‍♀️ #AnthonyHopkins: And the Waltz Goes On (Arr. Rieu) · Anthony Hopkins · Philharmonia Orchestra · Gustavo Dudamel
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Anthony Hopkins: And the Waltz Goes On (Arr. Rieu)
YouTube video by Anthony Hopkins - Topic
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Happy #Caturday 😼 Cat 😽🕰️ Time 📝💡 ☑️shelter time to pamper cats ☑️therapy 😌🙆🏻‍♀️ ☑️Catfeine🐈‍⬛🐈➕☕️ #Cats & #Coffee 🙋🏻‍♀️📸🤎🐱 #adopt #petsarefamily #catsky #rescuecats #lovecats
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Really love how this piece turned out! @standupforscience.net nautil.us/the-resistan...
nautil.us
The Resistance Is Here
The Resistance Is Here: They didn’t plan to be activists. But scientists have united to overturn Trump’s drastic cuts to science.
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Chris Marcum 📖 @csmarcum.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This excellent reporting by @ryanequinn.bsky.social is consistent with my understanding of what's happening with 2 CFR 200 given the Collins amendment to the CR that prohibits implementation until after December. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
insidehighered.com
Agencies Move to Implement OMB’s Proposed Grants Takeover
The Education Department and National Science Foundation have suggested regulations that would adopt core aspects of the White House Office of Management and Budget’s proposal—even though it’s not fin...
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🆘🚨⏰🧨 “The countries that benefited most from decades of fossil fuel-driven growth have a particular responsibility to cut emissions rapidly. They also have far greater resources to do so. A just transition away from coal, oil and gas towards renewable energy is therefore a matter of global justice.”
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🆘🚨 ✍🏻Submit a public comment on the NIH RFI ⏰🧨 DEADLINE: OCTOBER 13, 2026 “Why Your Comment Matters NIH requests public comments on the proposed changes to reporting of peer review outcomes. Speak up about how the changes will affect you and NIH-funded science.” 🧪 🤔WHY and HOW? 🤦🏻‍♀️Please READ👇🏻
27unihted.substack.com
NIH wants to shroud peer review scores. Here’s what you can do about it.
Authored by anonymous current and former NIH workers with experience in peer review
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
✍🏼”Accountability grounded in provenance,context and correctly assigned responsibility can strengthen science and government.Selective exposure instead puts uncertainty itself on trial,making future advisers less candid,institutions less transparent and societies less prepared for the next emergency”
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
🔎”This review shows how immune modulation in diabetes mellitus impacts the susceptibility of getting infections like #tuberculosis, COVID-19 and HIV and the outcome of these infections.” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
🇵🇭🩻”Computer-aided detection pragmatic threshold calibration in TB ( #Tuberculosis ) active case finding: A mixed-methods study in Tondo, Manila
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
🤔”A key factor in predicting ( #Tuberculosis ) infectious transmission was not just the total ventilation rate but, more importantly, the local pattern of airflow driven by the design — such as air leakage, inflow and outflow locations, and forces created by an infected individual.”
news.mit.edu
The importance of indoor airflow patterns in spreading airborne disease
Scientists explored how some lab-based environments can promote or mitigate the spread of respiratory infectious diseases such as tuberculosis.
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Miren Gurutxe 🌹🌹🌹 🇵🇸 @mirentxu255.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
On 🐶🐾 #Dog International Day, a tribute to Charlie: my incondicional gift of love 💝 🐶 Charlie was born special (4 legs, 3 paws🐾), and different is better🥰 Special needs: 🤗 Hugs & walks He is🤎 Brown, and ‘Brown’ is beautiful🐶 ⭐️Incredible loud burper 🐶😳😬 And yes, He adopted Me 🐶💞🙋🏻‍♀️ #adopt #Dogs
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
😌💚And don’t forget her efforts to protect nature🦅, providing funds to natural disasters victims and making awareness about the negative effects of #climatechange: “We’re just mistreating Mother Nature — that’s like being ugly to your mama."— #DollyParton www.momscleanairforce.org/dolly-parton...
momscleanairforce.org
Dolly Parton’s Special Take on Climate Advocacy
As the world mourns Dolly Parton, who died at her home in Nashville on Tuesday, August 25, it feels important to also celebrate her climate advocacy.
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
🚨‼️”Policymakers are big parts of the systems that help cause, prevent, treat and care for different health conditions. They control the flow of funding and other resources… If you want to fix any system, you’ve got to consider all parts of that system.”
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
⏳🗓️ Memories 😌💛🏥 It was 2020, research teams were exhausted, but unstoppable working hard around the world. At Vanderbilt this was more than a gift, it was hope: “ #vaccine, vaccine vaccine…” 🎶🎤👸 #DollyParton #Covid
youtu.be
Dolly Parton’s major Vanderbilt donation supported COVID-19 vaccine | WNT
YouTube video by ABC News
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
⏳🗓️2022 🦸‍♀️ “Parton made a previous $1 million gift to VUMC in April 2020 in honor of her longtime friend, Naji Abumrad, MD, professor of Surgery, to increase scientific knowledge and advance the battle against COVID-19 by supporting research teams working urgently to perfect treatments and cures.”
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Dolly Parton donates $1 million to pediatric infectious disease research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Dolly Parton is donating $1 million to pediatric infectious disease research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center to help in the fight against serious infectious diseases such as coronavirus that h...
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