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Christina Homer

@christinahomer.bsky.social
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Physician scientist fascinated by fungi, studying Valley Fever/Coccidioides. Escape room enthusiast. TBTL ten. Opinions are my own personal viewpoint.

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Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Excited to have a photo quiz published in CID on a topic near and dear to my heart. You can try you hand at the diagnosis here: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
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A Lung Transplant Recipient With Unusual Cells on a Biopsy From a Pulmonary Nodule
A 59-year-old man who underwent a bilateral orthotopic lung transplant 13 years prior presented with cough and chest pain. His transplant history was remar
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Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Excited that there is a new faculty search open in the MMI department at OHSU! Assistant or Associate Professor in Portland, Oregon | Careers at Portland, OR (Marquam Hill) share.google/nLtTxQct8FsD...
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Assistant or Associate Professor in Portland, Oregon | Careers at Portland, OR (Marquam Hill)
The successful applicant will develop an independent, vibrant research program, collaborate effectively with current investigators, and contribute to teaching and service. OHSU offers a highly interac...
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Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Stand up for Science Portland! Thanks everyone for coming out to support the importance of science for society and our future!
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Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Hope to see you there Saturday!
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Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Join me on March 7th to make our voices heard that we need science now more than ever! Donate now for today, tomorrow, and the years to come. act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...
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Help power the Summer Fight For Science movement!
Donate now to help mobilize the fight for science and democracy. Every contribution matters!
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Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I am hiring a research assistant for the Homer lab at OHSU in Portland, Oregon! We work on an important, mysterious, and fascinating fungal pathogen, Coccidioides, that causes Valley Fever. Please send in your application if you are interested! externalcareers-ohsu.icims.com/jobs/37567/s...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/10/2025
Rep. Rosa DeLauro: "On the food stamp issue, the money is there! Let them not get away with saying they can't do it. Their political will isn't there to feed the people who rely on the SNAP program which is the most effective anti-hunger program in the USA."
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Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Disappointed by the bias in this headline in the New York Times - both parties blocked federal worker pay and the GOP actually blocked more federal workers from being paid.
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Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
No Kings Protest in San Jose - baby's first protest because this is too important to sit out!
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Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS in San Francisco” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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NO KINGS in San Francisco · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Join National Nurses United, Indivisible SF, and 50501 SF for No Kings in San Francisco. We will gather at Embarcadero Plaza and Sue Bierman Park ...
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Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Investment in scientific research drives the economy!
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Pregnant women can't access the #COVID vaccine. If they get #COVID and develop a fever, they can't take Tylenol? 🫠. Both COVID infection and untreated maternal fever increase the risk of bad outcomes for both fetus and mother ranging from preterm delivery to death. None of this is pro-life.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I am begging all news reporters who cover the "tylenol and vaccines cause autism" press conference PLEASE lead your reporting and headlines with facts and caveat that these assertions were not backed by any scientific evidence but rather the whims and feelings on unqualified non-scientists
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Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I'm thrilled to join the #OHSU ID faculty in early 2026, where I will continue my work to find a cure for the fungus #Coccidioides, which causes Valley Fever. Thanks to #UCSF for a wonderful 15 years of medicine & science. Excited for this new chapter ahead! Recruiting for the Homer Lab soon!
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Quinn Sievers @quinnsievers.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
As a first-year oncology fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York City I had the privilege of rotating through all of the clinics. Lung, beast, ovarian, leukemia, lymphoma. 1/7
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 06/07/2025
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Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
@nphstuff.bsky.social finished Box 2 and enjoyed all the very slick puzzles! Saw some cool parallels with the Lost Cabinet 😁
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Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Extremely saddened to see the Supreme Court decision today denying equal protection to transgender children and, at the same time, the end of the LGBTQIA suicide hotline. 😥 Everyone deserves medical treatment!
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Mother to child transmission of HIV is completely preventable with antiretroviral drugs. We cannot go back to the 80s and 90s of the HIV epidemic.
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Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
This is gotta be intentional. But it’s also just weird! How many NYT readers were at protests? What % of subscribers? A substantial %! How can it not be seen as newsworthy, especially given the readership?
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Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Happy for the opportunity to attend a protest today with my parents 💜
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Cris Luu @ariyassa.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
#nokings in SF
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Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
#nokings San Jose, CA
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Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
San Jose gathering for #NoKings #50501. Great turnout and energy for this peaceful and powerful crowd!
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
This is not hard. Every Republican member of Congress should join Democrats in condemning this administration’s vicious arrest of Sen Padilla. “A Republic if you can keep it” is now.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Senator Padilla was forcibly removed from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference in Los Angeles while attempting to ask a question. Padilla was thrown down and handcuffed. A senator in his own state! (He has since been released.) The Trump regime is out of control.
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Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS 50501 San Jose Protest” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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NO KINGS 50501 San Jose Protest · No Kings
**50501 San Jose is partnering with Indivisible San Jose to protest the Trump administration and Project 2025.** June 14th is Flag Day and Donald Trump's birthday. Please join us for a protest and ma...
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 10/06/2025
My message to Trump’s NIH Director? No one in America wants us to do LESS cancer research. No one is asking Trump to make it harder to cure Alzheimer's disease. Yet Trump is cutting all of this NOW and demanding an $18 BILLION cut to NIH next year. Not on my watch.
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Alt-IRS @alt-irs.altgov.info · 11/06/2025
LA occupation is costing us over $130 million. Now expanding to more cities. Military vanity parade costs us $45 million and counting. Trump golfing costs us $4 million each. Elon... STFU about being fiscally responsible, GOP!
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This is a reasonable suggestion. Anyone who wants to be a Democratic leader should be willing to be in LA now. And I don’t mean with a TV crew, or behind a lectern, or giving interviews, but simply to stand with the community and engage in congressional fact-finding. And to tell any reporter that.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
‼️ This is absolutely absurd. Trump is actively manufacturing a crisis. The Pentagon just announced that he’s federalizing another 2,000 California National Guard troops bringing the total to 4,000, plus 700 active-duty Marines heading into LA. This is a military occupation, not public safety.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 17/05/2025
The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity: 1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas… 2) enabled by Engineering Innovations… 3) based on Science Research in Universities… 4) funded by Grants from the US Government. It’s time more people understood this.
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
My ongoing request: If your NSF or NIH grant was terminated--whether at Harvard or elsewhere--please report it here. NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h... NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h... Our trackers are actively used in lawsuits and are often the only record that terminations ever occurred.
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Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I'm very proud that our manuscript performing high-density transcriptomics of the fungal pathogen Coccidioides is officially out in print. New biology in the infectious spore stage, interesting mechanisms of regulation, and we hope a great resource for the field! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Transcriptomic atlas throughout Coccidioides development reveals key phase-enriched transcripts of this important fungal pathogen
Coccidioides is a neglected fungal pathogen that forms a unique structure, the spherule, to cause disease. This study provides the first high-density transcriptomic analysis of Coccidioides developmen...
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Mary Prahl, MD @mkprahl.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
My amazing colleague Dr. Victoria Chu highlighting the important work of CDC, and critical need for continued infectious disease support and funding. Helicopter rappelling is just one of many of her incredible accomplishments @ucsfchildrens.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...
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She jumped from a helicopter while at the CDC: ‘That’s the nature of public health’
Rappelling from a helicopter was not part of Victoria Chu’s job description. Her work as a disease detective typically included collecting and analyzing data.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Death rates in pregnancy DOUBLED during 2020-2021, and there are mountains of evidence showing COVID infection leads to significantly worse outcomes for pregnancy & baby. There are also mountains of evidence showing COVID vaccination has no adverse effects on pregnancy or baby but does protect them.
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Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Please consider contributing ideas to this website which is tracking all the wonderful benefits we have received so far from federally-funded research! (and check out all the cool examples gathered thus far) publicusaresearchbenefits.com Protect research in the US to keep these benefits coming!
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Searchable database of tangible benefits that federally-funded research gave us.
A crowd-sourced site. Health and Well-being. National Security. Prosperity.
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Martha W. Alibali @marthaalibali.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
"Imagine the auto industry without 3D printing. NSF funded that. Artificial intelligence? NSF. MRI machines that help doctors diagnose you? NSF. Doppler radar technology that makes aviation safer by conquering wind shear? NSF. Duolingo‘s underlying programming? NSF. The internet itself? NSF."
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/05/2025
Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb.)
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Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and…
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
NIH is ending billions of dollars in foreign subawards, jeopardizing thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more. Unless foreign researchers secure funding directly from NIH by October — a tall order for any researcher — clinical trials abroad and other research will shut down.
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Exclusive: NIH to end billions of dollars in foreign research grants
Move by US biomedical agency jeopardizes thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 02/05/2025
🔔BREAKING🔔 The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding. This is censorship disguised as oversight. Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3): www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
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Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Congratulations @nathanlo.bsky.social for this study - raising attention that we need to get vaccination rates back up to prevent measles from becoming extremely common again
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
" I also hope each person reading this will do something to help get public health research back on track in this country. Everyone benefits from it — including you." Powerful, gut wrenching must read personal essay. Read. Share. Don't look away! www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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The Trump Administration Just Made Catastrophic Cuts That Will Affect You Or Someone You Know
"I deeply regret not doing more as a researcher until now to share the goodness, humanity and impact of our work with the American public. I hope it’s not too late."
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Nathan Lo @nathanlo.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
🧵1/N New study published in @jama.com on re-emergence of vaccine-eliminated infectious diseases under declining vaccination in the US. We model long-term risk and conditions for return to endemicity for measles, rubella, polio, & diphtheria. Collab w/ @Mathewkiang.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
A tragic turn of events for understanding the health of 50.5% of our population. This has been a landmark study and such a waste to end it early and disassemble the massive infrastructure built to yield new insights into women's health.
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Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I guess tech billionaires only believe in freedom of expression when it targets vulnerable groups and isn't revealing their hypocrisy. Thank you to Seth Rogan for speaking up on behalf of science! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/a...
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Seth Rogen’s Trump Jokes Are Edited Out of Awards Broadcast (Gift Article)
While presenting an award at the Breakthrough Prize ceremony this month, Mr. Rogen said President Trump had “single-handedly destroyed all of American science.”
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Alex Tsiatas @atsiatas.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
DUH! I'm so tired of supposed leaders in my industry falling behind this administration, and it's about time they realized their callousness.
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Silicon Valley's gamble on Trump isn't paying off
Tech stocks have tumbled since Trump took office. More about the mindset that led much of the Valley to support him in the first place.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Last night in my newsletter, I wrote about an important court case you probably haven't heard about. An Alabama group, the Yellowhammer Fund, helps women go to states where abortion is legal to obtain one. They sued the state's AG for threatening to prosecute joycevance.substack.com/p/a-case-to-...
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Grievances 16-19 in Declaration of Independence 16. "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world" 17. "For imposing taxes on us without our consent" 18. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial" 19. "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"
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