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Michael Rockman, MD, PhD

@dataexplorer21.bsky.social
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Cardiology Fellow🫀Ion Channel Biophysics⚡️Aspiring electrophysiologist physician-scientist #Cardiosky

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Michael Rockman, MD, PhD @dataexplorer21.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
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Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself
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Michael Rockman, MD, PhD @dataexplorer21.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Structure of CFTR bound to (R)-BPO-27 unveils a pore-blockage mechanism @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Michael Rockman, MD, PhD @dataexplorer21.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Senate committee endorses NIH budget increase, rebuking Trump administration’s proposed 40% cut @statnews.com
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Senate committee endorses NIH budget increase, rebuking Trump administration’s proposed 40% cut
Senators from both parties endorsed a $400 million increase to the budget of the National Institutes of Health on Thursday
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Michael Rockman, MD, PhD @dataexplorer21.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Great clinician, scientist, and even better person! www.medicine.wisc.edu/news/0725202...
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Dr. Amish Raval named to Endowed Professorship in Cardiovascular Medicine
Amish Raval, MD, professor, Cardiovascular Medicine, has been named to a new Endowed Professorship in Cardiovascular Medicine thanks to a significant gift from a grateful patient family. The endowment...
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Michael Rockman, MD, PhD @dataexplorer21.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Phenomenal learning at the week long ACP board review course in Philadelphia!
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Michael Rockman, MD, PhD @dataexplorer21.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Great to catch up with PhD advisor in Philly Once a mentor always a mentor 👍
Former student and PhD advisor having happy dinner
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Evangelos K. Oikonomou @ekoikonomou.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Check out #PanEcho, now in @jama.com ✅ open weights ✅ multiview multitask reporting ✅ international validation ✅ works with POCUS Amazing effort @cardslab.bsky.social @giholste.bsky.social @rohankhera.bsky.social + @atlaswang.bsky.social, Márton Tokodi & Attila Kovács #CardioSky #EchoSky
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Michael Rockman, MD, PhD @dataexplorer21.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
"A terrifying imbalance lies at the heart of every doctor-patient relationship: The doctor can ask practically anything about the patient... The patient knows almost nothing about the person in the white coat...” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/w...
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Real Doctors of New York Spill Their Guts
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Nature Reviews Cardiology @natrevcardiol.nature.com · 22/06/2025
New online! Mechano-energetic uncoupling in heart failure #CardioSky
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Mechano-energetic uncoupling in heart failure
Nature Reviews Cardiology, Published online: 22 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41569-025-01167-6In this Review, the authors focus on the tight interaction between cardiac mechanics and mitochondrial energetics, discuss how this mechano-energetic coupling is disturbed in various acquired and inherited forms of heart failure, and summarize the established and emerging treatments for heart failure that target this mechano-energetic uncoupling.
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Diana Voss @dianavoss.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
What. The. Fuq. 😩 My previous #studentloan payment was ~$250. Even though no payment is currently required, I have faithfully made that same payment each month. But now #Trump has killed my #science 🧪 job options through #NIH cuts and on top he wants a rent note. How are other trainees coping rn?
Upcoming Payments from student loan company shows $0 due for May - July, but $1766.14 due starting in August 2025.
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Bailey Bowcutt @baileybowcutt.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I'm a current Harvard graduate student and I found out today that I had my NSF GRFP terminated without notification. I was awarded this individual research fellowship before even choosing Harvard as my graduate school
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Nature @nature.com · 10/05/2025
Innovation takes time US scientists who received renewals from the NIH over the past four decades produced more novel research than those who didn’t go.nature.com/44s6cc5
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Renewal of NIH grants linked to more innovative results, study finds
Nature - Survey of hundreds of scientists’ work suggests that cutting off funding disrupts focus and reduces the novelty of research.
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boehninglab @boehninglab.com · 02/05/2025
Budget released today: 40% cut to NIH 50% cut to NSF If enacted, this will destroy academic research in the United States. It will also have a major trickle down effect on the entire academic ecosystem
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Colm Atkins, PhD @atkinscolm.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Welp, it begins. Sigma Aldrich.
To maintain our operational integrity and continue delivering the service and quality our customers rely on, we have made the decision to implement a tariff surcharge. This temporary surcharge is in lieu of a tariff cost passthrough and protects our customers from experiencing the full impact of the broad tariff rates, some of which are very high. By leveraging a surcharge, we retain flexibility to adjust or remove the surcharge if the situation changes in the coming weeks or months.

Effective May 5, the surcharge will be applied to product orders shipped to locations in the United States which reflects the tariffs' broader impacts on our overall global supply chain processes, including production and procurement costs in addition to any direct costs on products. This charge will appear as a separate line item on quotes and invoices.
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Nature @nature.com · 01/05/2025
Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice,” according to an email seen by Nature. go.nature.com/44Ugf9V
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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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Michael Rockman, MD, PhD @dataexplorer21.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I'm in! Poster part two
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Michael Rockman, MD, PhD @dataexplorer21.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Amazing time at the m AAP/ASCI/APSA meeting with great science and friends!
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Society of General Physiologists @sgpweb.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
🚨The application deadline for the 2025 SGP Excelsior Award is 1 June 2025. Learn more and apply at sgpweb.org/awards/excel...
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Michael Rockman, MD, PhD @dataexplorer21.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
"American science is the envy of the world, but this global leadership is now threatened by draconian cuts to federal support of biomedical research through the defunding of grants and drastic reductions in funding for essential research costs and infrastructure."
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David Winchester @drdavemd.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Contemporary management of HF with improved EF, specifically thoughts on who and when to peel back medical therapies. www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/... @jaccjournals.bsky.social #cardiosky
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Management of Heart Failure With Improved Ejection Fraction: Current Evidence and Controversies
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Michael Rockman, MD, PhD @dataexplorer21.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
"Those who do not accept vaccination remain susceptible to the infections against which the vaccines were developed, and they serve as vectors for the spread of the infections to unvaccinated individuals" www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
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I put the ‘R’ in the MMR vaccine, and I’m scared that, like measles, rubella could make a comeback under RFK Jr. |Opinion
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s efforts to make the use of the MMR vaccine voluntary are not only letting loose measles but also will allow mumps and rubella to return to America.
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Michael Rockman, MD, PhD @dataexplorer21.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
America’s Brightest Minds Will Walk Away www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o... ⁦
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Opinion | America’s Brightest Minds Will Walk Away
Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.
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Henry Han @hancardiomd.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Conduction system pacing: promoting the physiology to prevent HF Background and Clinical perspectives of HBP and LBBP area in HF link.springer.com/article/10.1... #HF #CardioSky #CardioEd @cardioobdoc.bsky.social @drrajivsankar.bsky.social @annakatebarton.bsky.social @vietheartpa.bsky.social
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NPR @npr.org · 01/04/2025
Some 2,000 scientists, including dozens of Nobel Prize winners, have signed an open letter warning that the U.S. lead in science is being "decimated" by the Trump administration's cuts to research.
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Top scientists warn that Trump policies are causing a 'climate of fear' in research
Some 2,000 scientists, including dozens of Nobel Prize winners, have signed an open letter warning that the U.S. lead in science is being "decimated" by the Trump administration's cuts to research.
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Michael Rockman, MD, PhD @dataexplorer21.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs
In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.
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Michael Rockman, MD, PhD @dataexplorer21.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Great @sgpweb.bsky.social EPIC seminar on BK channel auxiliary subunits! So much mechanism could be uncovered by this investigation
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American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) @theaacr.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
At today's Congressional Forum, Dr. Larry Saltzman testified that NIH-funded research was crucial to his 15-year survival with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. "For patients waiting on the next treatment, time is everything. These cuts could rob us of the time we need most."
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Ed Twomey @cryoet.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Here's our newest study: we reveal the molecular principles of neuronal excitation by glutamate, and how physiological temperatures influence this process. www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/d41... Led by @anish-mondal07.bsky.social, published in @natureportfolio.nature.com
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Now and competitive renewals 2/3
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Joy Wu, MD, PhD @joyywu.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Well stated. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h...
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openRxiv @openrxiv.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
openRxiv has arrived! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences. openrxiv.org/introducing-... #openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 19/03/2025
Science and celebration of it should not pause!
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Michael Rockman, MD, PhD @dataexplorer21.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Was smooth to collaboratively write the manuscript with other residents using google docs. Recommendations: ✅ All but one author only has "commenting" privileges so it is easy to keep track of who writes what ✅ Paperpile is amazing for citations on google docs 🤓
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Michael Rockman, MD, PhD @dataexplorer21.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
🔔 High clinical suspicion given recent travel and admission labs ➡️ Empiric treatment with doxycycline and blood smear for review ➡️ Direct visualization of ‼️spirochetes‼️ in smear by pathology and presumptive diagnosis made ➡️ ID consult, plan, discharged same day
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Michael Rockman, MD, PhD @dataexplorer21.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
🚨📝🐞 Check out a new case report describing prompt diagnosis and treatment of Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever identified in Wisconsin wmjonline.org/wp-content/u...
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Gabriela K Popescu @popstarlab.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Congrats Shujia and team! An antidepressant mechanism underlying the allosteric inhibition of GluN2D-incorporated NMDA receptors at GABAergic interneurons | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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An antidepressant mechanism underlying the allosteric inhibition of GluN2D-incorporated NMDA receptors at GABAergic interneurons
A compound targeting the GluN2D subunit in GABAergic interneurons offers a unique approach for antidepressant treatment.
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Michael Rockman, MD, PhD @dataexplorer21.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Strong Wisconsin delegation at the Gordon conference on cardiac arrhythmia mechanisms 🇮🇹
Wisconsin scientists in beautiful Tuscany Italy
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Michael Rockman, MD, PhD @dataexplorer21.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
First day of Cardiac Arrhythmia Mechanisms GRC today in Tuscany Italy! 🍷🔬
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Gabriela K Popescu @popstarlab.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I totally crashed this one! @renaeryan.bsky.social @francesbiophys.bsky.social @frettinglab.bsky.social, Gail, and Teresa. #BPS2025
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Michael Rockman, MD, PhD @dataexplorer21.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Worst flu season in over a decade is not the time for this. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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Trump administration yanks CDC flu vaccine campaign
As flu rages, the Trump administration has pulled the plug on a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention flu immunization campaign that targeted high-risk groups, including pregnant women.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/02/2025
The cost-saving claims don’t hold up. Every dollar in NIH research grants generates $2.46 in economic activity, research shows—a total of $93 billion in 2023 alone. “It’s incredible to me that we would give up this thing that has such obvious societal benefits,” says biologist Mark Peifer.
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America will pay dearly for the NIH’s mindless war on wokeness and DEI
Colleges, businesses, patients, students, workers, and US excellence will all suffer—and for what?
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Michael Rockman, MD, PhD @dataexplorer21.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Love this review "Management of Electrical Storm" ⚡️ @jaccjournals.bsky.social www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/...
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Michael Rockman, MD, PhD @dataexplorer21.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
"We found that cholesterol depletion significantly increased the sensitivity of the whole cell [hERG] current to inhibition by ibutilide, while decreasing the currents sensitivity to dofetilide and amiodarone at negative membrane potentials.” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Effect of the Membrane Environment on Pharmacologic Inhibition of hERG K+ Channel Activity
hERG encodes KV11.1 voltage-gated K+ channels, which generate the rapidly activating delayed rectifier K+ current that contributes to repolarization o…
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Journal of General Physiology @jgp.org · 30/01/2025
This review from Worawan Limpitikul and Ivy Dick @ummedschool.bsky.social considers the inactivation mechanisms of Caᵥ1 and Caᵥ2 voltage-gated calcium channels and their role in normal physiology and pathophysiology. buff.ly/40B8WAo #Biophysics #MolecularPhysiology #IonChannels
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Welp. This is unusual.
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 31/01/2025
A study in Nature Medicine reports greater mortality from infectious and parasitic diseases, injuries and respiratory and cardiovascular diseases associated with exposures to flooding events in the US, particularly floods caused by tropical cyclones and heavy rain. #Medsky 🧪
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Large floods drive changes in cause-specific mortality in the United States - Nature Medicine
Analyses of death records over the two decades in the United States reported greater mortality from infectious and parasitic diseases, injuries and respiratory and cardiovascular diseases associated with exposures to flooding events, particularly floods caused by tropical cyclones and heavy rain.
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Michael Rockman, MD, PhD @dataexplorer21.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
““I’m very worried about the next generation of scientists. We need the very best and brightest to go into science. We know that when funding is low, and when respect for science is low, that it really hurts the next generation.” @nature.com ‬⁩
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‘High anxiety moment’: Biden’s NIH chief talks Trump 2.0 and the future of US science
Monica Bertagnolli details her concerns about Robert F. Kennedy Jr and his ‘Make America Healthy Again’ campaign.
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Michael Rockman, MD, PhD @dataexplorer21.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Seems more important than ever... support the NIH and NSF
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brian_delisle @bpdelisle.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
🚨🫀⏰ Delisle et al 😉 review circadian mechanisms and sudden cardiac death🧬 Day-night cycles in ion channel regulation and myocardial protection impact arrhythmia risk💓👉 www.jmcc-online.com/article/S002... #IonChannels #Circadian #CardioSky #Arrhythmias #Physiology
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Circadian influences on sudden cardiac death and cardiac electrophysiology
Cardiologists have analyzed daily patterns in the incidence of sudden cardiac death to identify environmental, behavioral, and physiological factors that trigger fatal arrhythmias. Recent studies have...
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