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Bluecollar Biochemist

@bcbiochemist.bsky.social
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Dad, Med School Assc Dean/Professor; grandson of Palestinian/Lebanese immigrants; Vaccines work; support 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️kids; He/Him/neurochem Views are my own…though my employer devotes significant effort to DEI initiatives, so there are some shared values

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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I see Bill Cassidy learned nothing from his disastrous support of JFK Jr….
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I got to meet @dramy.bsky.social today and you didn’t. Bet you can’t top that!
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
@wrenispinkle.bsky.social Tigers/Padres to open the season!
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
For a show called “Legacy of Monsters” there is a disturbing lack of monsters…
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Starting a new medical school is fun. I hired my first faculty member 6 months ago. She is a wonderfully bright pharmacology professor. Great teacher, wonderful researcher... ...then today I found out she doesn't like Ted Lasso... Guess I'll have to fire her and look for a new pharmacologist..
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Ok, Buckeye, I’m hear to (finally) take my lumps…if any of you make it down to the Riverfront, first beer is on me… @blitz-y.bsky.social @mementomorty.bsky.social @thetirednurse.bsky.social @tom.medsky.social
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Would have been absolutely insane if they had overturned that score
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
@mementomorty.bsky.social @blitz-y.bsky.social @thetirednurse.bsky.social It’s almost kickoff time! First time watching The Game since moving to Ohio…could either be a fun week or a miserable year ahead for me!
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
All the people complaining that they won't be able to understand Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show...I wonder if they would have the same complaint Pearl Jam was selected instead...
Very easily understood Pearl Jam lyrics...
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I saw a post where Emma Watson got pulled over and my first thought was “she’s old enough to drive now?” She’s 35… Gods, I’m old…
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Hey @wrenispinkle.bsky.social Love seeing your Padres fight it out with the Dodgers…
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I’ve largely given up on social media of late…so what brings me back to Blue Sky? Dogs. Show me your dogs. @drmichellelarue.bsky.social can we gay a Larry update? It’s been ages since I’ve seen his wonderful, enormous nose!
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
These are my Detroit Tigers! Tesla sought to place ads with the Tigers for 7 million dollars a year. Detroit said “no thanks” and gave a reason!
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Hey @wrenispinkle.bsky.social How ‘bout them Tigers! Once again getting the best of your Padres!
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
JFC, @schumer.senate.gov where the hell are the Dems? Stop rolling over and do something!
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
So it seems @schumer.senate.gov is willing to just roll over and hand the country over to Putin's puppet...we are in this situation because the dems have no backbone
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
For the first week of #BlackHistoryMonth, lets start by tackling misinformation by highlighting one of the first scientists and Badass Biochemists to engage in debunking pseudoscience! The amazing Alma Levant Hayden! A biochemist of a truly historical level of badassery! @fda.gov
A infographic describing the amazing Alma Levant Hayden, one of the first African Americans to be employed at the FDA and a truly historical-level Badass Biochemist
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Match Day is about 2 months away…how’s that going to work with a federal funding freeze? Anyone want to hazard a guess as to how much residency programs at research universities depend on NIH and other federal dollars? What will GME look like without those resources?
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Leaving the WHO is monumentally stupid…
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
My current M2 class is getting ready to enter dedicated Step 1 studying in a week. All the stats I use to predict Step 1 success has me very excited about how this class is going to perform. This has been one of my favorite classes in 20ish years, not just academically, they have been a fun group
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
My Facebook memory today was reminding me why I have cat-like reflexes…because my then 4-year old took out his frustrations of his Thomas tracks not connecting to his Geotracks by throwing their respective trains at my head…
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
In retrospect, perhaps grabbing the cast iron pot isn’t the best way to ascertain if it is too hot to grab…
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Wordle 1,294 2/6 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I’m not normally a Wordle sharer, but it was kinda cool that all the letters of my starting word were present in the solution today, but in an order that none of them were in the correct place
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
The Storm says happy Christmas, Hanukkah, Saturnalia, Solstice or whatever you and yours celebrate!
Disgruntled cat not understanding why he isn’t the center of attention today
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Didn’t realize cat-box Saturday was a thing…but I’ll participate…or rather Stormy will…
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Taking trash talking across two platforms! @docwithbowtie.bsky.social #GoLions
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Literal Nazi’s walk through downtown Columbus Ohio GOP: *crickets* Michigan beats Ohio State (again) Ohio GOP: Flag planting should be a felony!! And they claim progressives are soft…
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
The bad news: a grand total of zero of my M1 and M2 students went to Ohio State for their undergrad degree, so I had a lot of pent up gloating during the week. The good news: The majority of my M1 and M2 students are Bears fans, so I did get to release some of that gloating! #GoBlue #GoLions
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
After three wonderful editions of The Game, I’m here to take my lumps…go ahead and give me that pent up hell, @mementomorty.bsky.social and @blitz-y.bsky.social But still, #GoBlue!
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
And just when you thought these appointments couldn't get more ridiculous, this is who is going to be in charge of educating our kids... thehill.com/regulation/c...
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Trump transition team leader named in WWE ‘ring boys’ lawsuit
Linda McMahon, who is co-leading former President Trump’s transition team, is named in a new lawsuit accusing World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) leaders of allowing years of sexual abuse of …
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I’m going to take this opportunity to point out that at one of my previous institutions I taught a Nutritional Biochemistry course for M2s and had an entire 3-hour block covering the evaluation of dietary supplements. A third of that session was devoted to debunking claims made on the Dr. Oz show
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
What…and I mean this as strongly as possible…the fuck?! Teaching med students to combat misinformation is rapidly turning urgent… www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/sh...
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Trump picks Dr. Oz to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Trump will nominate Mehmet Oz as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service, potentially putting the TV personality, former physician and failed U.S. Senate candidate in charge of ...
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Any curricular folks out there? Any good alternative to ExamSoft for secure assessments and linking items to learning objectives and outcomes?
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
If you love olives like I do, you’re probably going to want to be here for my chicken with a Lebanese slant…
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
STILL the hill I’m dying on… The best animated movie ever made…and the John Powell score is utter perfection!
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Happy accidents Many years ago the med school I was at was looking to make connections to support scholarships for students from inner cities. I found the executive director of the Shepherd Foundation on Twitter, an organization that does just that. So I arranged a Zoom call with her…(1/2)
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Who makes better grape leaves than me? Nobody The answer is nobody
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
17 people from our program went to #AAMC24 last week...the best we could do was 6 of us for the group photo...
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Wasting the best running back in history? I remained a fan through that Misusing the best WR of his generation? I remained a fan through that 0-16? I remained a fan through that If this turns out to be a Super Bowl year, fair warning, friends...I am going to be absolutely insufferable! #GoLions
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Not officially traveling until I’ve spilled coffee on my light colored shirt…
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
What Dems do better: Economy Crime Health Care Education Immigration Domestic Budget Foreign Relations What the GOP does better: Propaganda What wins elections: Propaganda
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
My wife, opening my Reddit app on my phone and seeing all the food subreddits I’m subscribed to: “I was expecting regular porn, not food porn…”
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
So…are we sharing pumpkin pictures, or what?
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
This weekend I uttered a sentence I have never imagined in my life ever speaking: “Well, at least we’ve got the Lions!”
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
This came across my reels this morning…am I actually Finnish?
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
How 'bout them Tigers, @wrenispinkle.bsky.social?!
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
One step closer to a Tigers-Padres Series, @wrenispinkle.bsky.social
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
In line behind a cringey middle aged dude hitting on the high school aged cashier… “So, do you work here?” Dude…my lord…
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Bluecollar Biochemist @bcbiochemist.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
Now that we have gifs, I can communicate effectively! The last hurdle for leaving Twitter!
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