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@elinorejkaufman.bsky.social
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Trauma surgery. Injury prevention. Health services research. Philly. Queer all year. 💔🍉 Doesn’t want to fight Cerberus. she/her

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elinore @elinorejkaufman.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I’m just mad because ruining the workplace would have made a banger Halloween costume but it’s not going to be relevant next year (I mean it’s already not relevant).
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elinore @elinorejkaufman.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Hey that’s me! Incredible honor to be selected among a huge pool of extraordinary researchers here @pennmedcso.bsky.social
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elinore @elinorejkaufman.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
There’s some intense user testing going on out there! Great study to work on with my 2 amazing students, co-1st authors Grayson Graham and Colby Wilson. Look out for them!
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Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting @handle.invalid · 23/09/2025
"One would institute red flag laws... The others would ban devices that convert semi-automatic guns to automatic fire, require background checks for long gun purchases, and ban weapons that can avoid magnetometer detection, like 3D printed “ghost guns.”"
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Pa. House Democrats advance a package of bills to toughen state gun laws • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
After a high profile string of deadly shootings, Democratic lawmakers in the state House are moving to tighten Pennsylvania’s firearm laws.
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elinore @elinorejkaufman.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Help extend essential medical care in Gaza: www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...
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Rebuild Al-Shifa: Help Us Build a 140-Bed Hospital Extension in the Heart of Gaza City
A Life-Saving Extension at Gaza’s Most Vital Hospital Site Goal: $737,000 USDWhy We’re Rebuilding Al-ShifaAl-Shifa Hospital, once the beating heart of Gaza’s healthcare system, now stands in ruins. Af...
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elinore @elinorejkaufman.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I remain in awe of my colleagues in Gaza, not only surviving, not only providing care, but also collecting data. Here, a case that would have been a challenge anywhere, managed in a makeshift unit with minimal supplies but maximum skill: tsaco.bmj.com/content/10/2... @tsaco.bsky.social
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Managing complex pancreatic and hepatic trauma in Gaza under wartime conditions
A patient presented during a mass casualty event after an airstrike with abdominal injuries from penetrating fragments and the blast wave. The patient was hemodynamically unstable and was transferred ...
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elinore @elinorejkaufman.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
HVIPs work.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Surprisingly effective things Zohran Mamdani ran on: -free buses -rent freeze -halal cart for $8 instead of $10 -taxing the 1% -no cost childcare -city-owned grocery stores -a Department Of Community Safety for mental health programs and crisis response -building affordable housing -why Cuomo sucks
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elinore @elinorejkaufman.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Congratulations New York!
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elinore @elinorejkaufman.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Kids find stuff.
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elinore @elinorejkaufman.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
ICYMI: ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/res...
ldi.upenn.edu
Trump Cuts to Violence Prevention Programs Likely to Increase Deaths
Sweeping cuts to violence-prevention programs are likely to reverse years of progress in reducing gun violence
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
🚨 ALERTA PHILLY 🚨 Hearing from a very credible local source that there may be ICE action tomorrow (Sunday 6/8) in the following areas: 5th and Washington Ave 7th and Snyder Ave 5th and McKean/Wolf Chinatown Let your neighbors know to stay safe and be vigilant. Be ready. Be water.
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elinore @elinorejkaufman.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
The exonerative tense!
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Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting @handle.invalid · 30/05/2025
The Cure Violence program run by New Kensington Community Development Corporation, is one of 350 groups learning their Justice Department grants would end early.
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PA violence prevention programs hit by federal funding cuts
CLARIFICATION: The grant from Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency is helping to keep program staff employed. An earlier version of the story said it was helping to expand the program.…
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Congressman Glenn Ivey (MD-04) @ivey.house.gov · 26/05/2025
Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
"I am getting very sick & tired of having to go onto news programs because journalists aren't allowed in to point out what is happening here... this is a televised slaughter. History will not judge us kindly." I spoke today to Dr Tom Potokar, UK surgeon in Gaza: Full intv: zeteo.com/p/televised-...
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JAMA @jama.com · 13/05/2025
“We are only slowly beginning to understand the impact that social media is having on violence. In the 21st century we really need to invest in this space.” @upenn.edu professor and @nam.edu member Desmond Patton shares his perspective while attending #JAMASummit.
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diazadrian.bsky.social @diazadrian.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Hospitals acquired by PE show a 2.7 pp ↑ in 30D surgical mortality, driven by a 3.9 pp ↑ in failure to rescue. We need enforceable nurse‑staffing minimums, full ownership transparency, and federal review of PE transactions. @andrewmibrahim.bsky.social @um-ihpi.bsky.social bit.ly/432VyWP
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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of protesters have now gathered outside a federal courthouse in downtown Milwaukee to support Judge Hannah Dugan
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Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting @handle.invalid · 11/04/2025
"Pennsylvania has found a solution — invest in communities to fuel their own solutions. Let those closest to the violence rebuild the structures and resources they need to prevent the next case." Opinion:
readingeagle.com
Investing in our lives through violence prevention (opinion)
Community violence intervention workers make a big difference in Pennsylvania, and more can be done.
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The Trace @thetrace.org · 10/04/2025
In February, epidemiologists published a landmark study calculating pregnancy-associated violence by state, and the report suggests a strong connection to firearm legislation and reproductive protocols.
thetrace.org
Maternal Homicide Is Very Common — Particularly in These States
When epidemiologist Maeve Wallace first began publishing national data on pregnancy-associated homicide and suicide nine years ago, she knew that more granular numbers would be essential to…
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
"Fortunately for our students, Cornell is not a business. We are a university. And universities, despite rapidly escalating political, legal and financial risks, cannot afford to cede the space of public discourse and the free exchange of ideas." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Universities Should Not be Afraid of Contentious Ideas
Higher education cannot cede the space of public discourse and the free exchange of ideas.
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elinore @elinorejkaufman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Thank you to the injury center.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 03/04/2025
You can read Sarah Roby’s beautiful letter here:
nytimes.com
Inside the C.D.C., a Final ‘Love Letter’ Before Mass Layoffs (Gift Article)
The agency’s injury center was among the departments that were largely gutted in Tuesday’s wave of dismissals. Read a staff member’s letter to colleagues while they awaited their fates.
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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
Excerpt from Rutgers University Senate resolution calling for a Mutual Academic Defense Compact. The excerpt reads:

"BE IT RESOLVED THAT, the Rutgers University Senate urges the President of Rutgers University to formally propose and help establish a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC) among all members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, under this compact, all participating institutions shall commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund. This fund shall be used to provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement;"
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Nicola Griffith SHE IS HERE out now! @nicolaz.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Do no sleepwalk into autocracy. Keeping your head down will not save you. Instead, your institution—school, nonprofit, church—needs to do what Rutgers is: flocking behaviour. Band together. Be solid. Face reality—together. It does work.And there's no other choice than to sleepwalk into the horror.
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Now this, this is the way to defeat an autocrat
So many of us are sleepwalking into autocracy. Here's how to defeat an autocrat—flocking behaviour. It works. It works a lot better than keeping your head down.
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elinore @elinorejkaufman.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
GO @booker.senate.gov
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Coryn Wolk @corynwolk.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
This is an expansion of methods/infrastructure that have been going on for +-10 years. Not in a "this isn't new!" way, but in a "they are maximizing existing systems" way. Ruha Benjamin and Dorothy Roberts have laid it out well. psmag.com/social-justi...
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Gang Databases Are a Life Sentence for Black and Latino Communities
Ending up on a gang database if you're brown or black is easy—you only have to be suspected of association. Getting off a gang database? That's much harder.
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elinore @elinorejkaufman.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
This is the right way.
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elinore @elinorejkaufman.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Thanks @theguardian.com for helping us get this piece of the word out.
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Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting @handle.invalid · 28/03/2025
“Firearm violence has been considered a health care crisis since 1968."
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AMA applauds SCOTUS decision upholding the ATF’s regulation of ghost guns
SCOTUS today recognized the authority of the ATF in the regulation of ghost guns which will help keep untraceable weapons out of the hands of dangerous criminals.
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NJ Spotlight News @njspotlightnews.org · 25/03/2025
A new study from the NJ Gun Violence Research Center revealed that less than 1% of more than 3,000 gun owners surveyed nationwide have used their firearm for self-defense within the last year. Roughly 92% have never used a firearm to protect themselves.
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Rutgers study debunks argument that guns make people safer | Video | NJ Spotlight News
Interview: Mike Anestis, executive director of New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center
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Dan Semenza @daniel-semenza.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Defensive gun use is rare but gun violence exposure is far too common. Check out this interview re: our new study in @jama.com Open from @mikeanestis.bsky.social. Watch the full interview for important thoughts on very real threats to our work @ the GVRC. www.njspotlightnews.org/video/rutger...
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Rutgers study debunks argument that guns make people safer | Video | NJ Spotlight News
Interview: Mike Anestis, executive director of New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center
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Lauren Forrest @laurenforrest.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
1/x My NIH grant that would collect data to help *prevent suicidal thoughts and behaviors* among LGBTQ+ people was terminated today, along with many other LGBTQ+ focused grants. These terminations make no sense scientifically. Here's why:
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/03/2025
Maine caved and enacted a trans sports ban at the University level but it's still not enough. Stop capitulating, they won't stop taking from you. They'll keep going until there's nothing left.
A screenshot of a social media post from Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) dated March 22, 2025, at 7:39 AM. The post discusses the State of Maine apologizing for a statement made by their Governor regarding men playing in women's sports at the White House Governor’s Conference. Trump asserts that the Governor herself has not apologized and demands a direct apology and a commitment to avoid such "unlawful challenges" to the Federal Government. The post ends with “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!! DJT.” Below the post, engagement metrics show 2.29k ReTruths and 9.58k Likes.
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Mike Anestis, PhD @mikeanestis.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The federal government has unleashed a war on science and is not only causing death and disease by terminating grants, but are also doing so with cruel and baseless messaging, because cruelty is the point. My research has been fine so far, but we can’t just force those affected to voice outrage.
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elinore @elinorejkaufman.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Daily OOO reply for 3/20/2025 My response to your request will be delayed because I am finishing up a stack of paperwork related to federal funding, all of which may be futile. Also I’m on call and have laryngitis.
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elinore @elinorejkaufman.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Maybe this is the kind of progress that should never have needed to happen, but it is progress.
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elinore @elinorejkaufman.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Exactly this. The universities must stand together and stand for what they have always said they stand for.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 18/03/2025
“Another Round of Senseless Mass Killing”: Report from Gaza Hospital as Israeli Strikes Kill 400+ www.democracynow.org/2025/3/18/ga...
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“Another Round of Senseless Mass Killing”: Report from Gaza Hospital as Israeli Strikes Kill 400+
Israel has shattered the Gaza ceasefire agreement with Hamas, launching a massive wave of airstrikes overnight that killed hundreds of people across the Palestinian territory and wounded many others. ...
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The Trace @thetrace.org · 17/03/2025
Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker’s budget proposal fully funds the city’s violence prevention programs, which officials say were instrumental in reducing homicides and shootings by more than 35 percent last year.
thetrace.org
Philadelphia Moves to Bolster Violence Prevention As Federal Funds Evaporate
Mayor Cherelle Parker’s budget would maintain programs that she says helped drive down shootings. Still, uncertainty persists under President Donald Trump.
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elinore @elinorejkaufman.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Jessica Beard and I are in the @inquirer.com today with the connections between ….all this… and gun violence. www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
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Trauma surgeons in Philadelphia brace for levels of gun violence from 2020 | Opinion
We face new attacks on research — with communication blackouts, funding freezes, and cuts at the NIH — that threaten to halt the progress we’ve made since 2020.
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PennLDI @pennldi.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Emergency Medicaid enrollment post-injury can help patients avoid catastrophic costs. A new study finds these patients use more health care than uninsured patients, but the downstream effects are unclear. Read more about this program here: ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/res...
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A Special Medicaid Program To Speed Eligibility Still Leaves Delays in Care
Trauma surgeons Elinore Kaufman and Diane Haddad noticed that some of their patients at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania were waiting a long time to be discharged.
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
On March 8, DHS agents abducted Mahmoud Khalil, a US permanent resident & student activist for Palestinian rights, from his New York apartment. Mahmoud was targeted for his political speech & activism in support of Palestinian freedom and for an end to the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 09/03/2025
1. Major news in transgender care. Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines. They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the Cass Review in England. Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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New German, Swiss, And Austrian Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Slam Cass Review
The recommendations, released by the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany, come at a time when US politicians erroneously claim that Europe is "pulling back" on transgender care.
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Food. Water. Medicine. Electricity. Two days ago the Israeli government announced it was blocking all humanitarian aid into Gaza — a horrific collective punishment on Palestinian families across Gaza during the month of Ramadan. According to international law, collective punishment is a war crime.
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elinore @elinorejkaufman.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The nod for “I see you, fellow queer” but now I need it updated for “I see you, fellow queer, employed by a hostile state, getting by as the tentative structures of safety are ripped apart”
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 27/02/2025
For ease of sharing, I created a tinyurl for it: tinyurl.com/Dogesux
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The Heritage DOGE Survey | The Heritage Foundation
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 27/02/2025
Since they want feedback—might as well give it to them! Do I believe DOGE is effective? No Do I support $125 million to “push critical race theory in public health”? Sure do Do I support $3M for a transgender health website? Yes indeedy!

$45 million for a "diversity and inclusion" scholarship in Burma.

• Not supportive

• Somewhat supportive

• Very supportive

$3 million for "girl-centered climate action" in Brazil.

• Not supportive.

• Somewhat supportive

• Very supportive

$125 million to push critical race theory in public health policy.

• Not supportive

• Somewhat supportive

• Very supportive

$280,000 for "diverse" bird watcher groups.

• Not supportive

• Somewhat supportive

• Very supportive

$3,267,000 to build a transgender health guide website meant to "increase access to gender-affirming care," also known as mutilation.
Do you support the following real-life uses of taxpayer dollars?
• Not supportive$3,267,000 to build a transgender health guide website meant to "increase access to gender-affirming care," also known as mutilation.
• Not supportive
• Somewhat supportive
• Very supportive
Do you believe the federal government needs to be responsible with taxpayer dollars and not spend more money than it takes in?
• Yes
• No
• Undecided
Do you support significant cuts to the federal budget to eliminate budget deficits and pay down the national debt?
• Yes
• No
• Undecided
Do you believe The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will be an effective tool for eliminating excessive government spending?
• Yes
• No
• Undecided
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Dr. Antifa Wine Mom, MD, MPH @surgeonsupermom.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The people who knew how to turn it off were fired last week and no one could figure out how to get in touch with them. 😂
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