Reposted by Hallie Dolin, MD, PhDPedinska @pedinska.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Half my career was spent doing lab research in support of this goal. To be privileged enough to see it reached is humbling. To be aware enough to know that this kind of success will be denied future researchers because of this administration is anguish. 741354 0
Hallie Dolin, MD, PhD @halliedolin.bsky.social · 27/07/2025I was so lucky to get to sing this song at #ASMicrobe2025 (courtesy of @asm.org), thanks to the generosity of Dr. Sheldon Campbell at @yalepathology.bsky.social. Learn about dengue, but don't contract it! #ClinMicro #PathSky #IDSky www.youtube.com/watch?app=de....youtube.comA Song About a Virus - Hallie Dolin, M.D. , Ph.D.YouTube video by American Society for Microbiology 041 0
Reposted by Hallie Dolin, MD, PhDGabriele Pollara @gpollara.bsky.social · 08/06/2025🔽 antibiotic sales for livestock 👉 🔽 antibiotic resistance in livestock. Livestock = an important, *modifiable* reservoir of #AMR #IDSky #ClinMicro @bsacandjac.bsky.socialacademic.oup.comDecreasing antimicrobial resistance in representative UK livestock species was associated with reduced total sales of antimicrobials in the last decadeAbstractBackground. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in pathogenic bacteria is a leading global health crisis estimated to currently contribute to human mort 0113 0
Hallie Dolin, MD, PhD @halliedolin.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Oh, I need to remember this one. Thanks for the chart! 010 0
Reposted by Hallie Dolin, MD, PhDMegan @megothelioma.bsky.social · 11/06/2025This young patient's blood was loaded with reticulocytes and polychromatic RBCs. I think it's cool how it gets a blue tinge. #hematology #pathsky 011 0
Reposted by Hallie Dolin, MD, PhDDr Satoshi Akima, FRACP @toshiakima.bsky.social · 08/06/2025“The infectivity of NB.1.8.1 was significantly higher (2·5-fold; p<0·0001) than that of LP.8.1. NB.1.8.1 binds more strongly to ACE2 than LP.8.1.5 … the increased fitness of NB.1.8.1 is due to its augmented infectivity rather than its increased immune evasion”. 210034 0
Reposted by Hallie Dolin, MD, PhDMax Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 02/06/2025DOGE is now reviewing every NIH grant that goes out, I reported last week. That review is AI-driven and is screening for DEI, trans health, China, vaccine hesitancy, and the institutions to whom Trump has blocked funding, @hannahnatanson.bsky.social reports. Gift link: wapo.st/3HhnPSt 35935553 0
Hallie Dolin, MD, PhD @halliedolin.bsky.social · 01/06/2025I finished my #FlashFictionChallenge2025 story for @nycmidnight.bsky.social's Round 1! Just crossing my fingers from here on out. 140 0
Reposted by Hallie Dolin, MD, PhDBetty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 01/06/2025May 31, 2025 - World No Tobacco Day! #TobaccoExposed #WNTD #WorldNoTobaccoDay 022 0
Reposted by Hallie Dolin, MD, PhDElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 01/06/2025 135159643802 0
Hallie Dolin, MD, PhD @halliedolin.bsky.social · 01/06/2025I think I spent two hours earlier writing seven pages of notes...my hand is tired! 010 0
Reposted by Hallie Dolin, MD, PhDHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/05/2025“The number of cavities and decayed teeth in American children and teens (ages 0–19) will increase by an estimated 7.5 percentage points over the first five years. That means there will be 25.4 million more rotten teeth in the mouths of children and teenagers.”arstechnica.comRFK Jr.’s fluoride ban would ruin 25 million kids’ teeth, cost $9.8 billionThe modeling estimates don’t account for other costs, like parents’ lost work. 57524 0
Hallie Dolin, MD, PhD @halliedolin.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Shout-out to the time one of my brothers called the gross room "the renal colony." #PathSky 🤣 000 0
Reposted by Hallie Dolin, MD, PhDSanjay Mukhopadhyay @smlungpathguy.bsky.social · 24/05/2025#pathsky #pathology #pulmpath #pathbugs #crittersonbluesky Cryptococcosis 0102 0
Reposted by Hallie Dolin, MD, PhDBlood Journals Portfolio @bloodjournals.hematology.org · 16/05/2025🔊How I Treat Transfusion Medicine (part 1) 🎧 buff.ly/fTDgAcL #hemesky @ericawood.bsky.social 001 0
Reposted by Hallie Dolin, MD, PhDBK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Every time I see a case of severe malaria requiring IV artesunate I am reminded of how completely bonkers drug pricing in the US is. A treatment course anywhere else in the world is <100$ in the US it's $30,000. Pls take malaria prophylaxis if indicated for travel.🙏🏽 www.statnews.com/2021/06/11/u...statnews.comUnaffordable treatment for severe malaria highlights U.S. drug market pitfallsIt is shocking to think that U.S. citizens may receive better treatment for severe malaria at lower cost in a low-income country than they would at home. 516842 0
Reposted by Hallie Dolin, MD, PhDLux @pathparazzi.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Another case from this past week. Lung biopsy for new lung nodule suspected to be cancer. Nearly thought I had to sign out medical lung but then I saw granulomas with asteroid bodies. And then the numerous yeast! Currently pending cultures and PCR. #PathSky 041 0
Reposted by Hallie Dolin, MD, PhDBetty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 29/03/2025WHO alert on US measles outbreak adds new genetic details www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/who-...cidrap.umn.eduWHO alert on US measles outbreak adds new genetic detailsThe genotype in the Texas outbreak has also been identified in samples from patients in New Mexico and Kansas. 145 0
Hallie Dolin, MD, PhD @halliedolin.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Another joke for #PathSky: A GI pathologist comes home looking super upset. Her husband asks her what's wrong, and she says "I'm dealing with a complicated a**hole situation at work." "Wow. Did they hire someone horrible?" he asks. "No," the GI pathologist says, "I meant that literally." 020 0
Reposted by Hallie Dolin, MD, PhDDr Tatiana Hitchen @txhitchen.bsky.social · 17/03/2025A little indistinct - calcium pyrophosphate crystals in pseudogout #PathSky 072 0
Reposted by Hallie Dolin, MD, PhDAlexander Nader, Einschauer, Pathologist @alexnader.eurosky.social · 19/03/2025www.google.com/imgres?imgur... When I started as trainee '86, I found Whartin-Finkeldeys in a measles tonsil. Now, 39 years later, I have to find them again. Pseudoscience sucks, go get vaccinations . #pathskygoogle.comGoogle Image Result for https://imagebank.hematology.org/getimagebyid/62893?size=2 072 0
Hallie Dolin, MD, PhD @halliedolin.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Presentation photo from today at @fanexpocleveland.bsky.social! I had an amazing time teaching and am so happy to have been given the opportunity. 020 0
Hallie Dolin, MD, PhD @halliedolin.bsky.social · 16/03/2025And from my Facebook, 2023. #PathSky 0100 0
Hallie Dolin, MD, PhD @halliedolin.bsky.social · 14/03/2025A blast from the past - my attempt at humor in the class group chat, first year of residency, before I switched to clinical pathology only. 😂 #PathSky 030 0
Reposted by Hallie Dolin, MD, PhDThomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Having had a kid die of measles in my arms as a doctor in the DR Congo, I respectfully disagree that this would be better. Vaccines save lives. www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-it-wo...thedailybeast.comRFK Jr.: It Would Be Better if ‘Everybody Got Measles’“The measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Sean Hannity on Fox News. 891918502 0
Reposted by Hallie Dolin, MD, PhDJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/03/2025A quick post-cruise refresher from me before I do any serious delving into any particular current events: Fuck fascists Fuck -phobes Fuck wealthy sociopaths Fuck immigrant-haters Fuck sexists Fuck anyone who wants to invade Canada and/or Mexico Fuck vaccine deniers Fuck this administration Etc, etc 2828340884 0
Reposted by Hallie Dolin, MD, PhDASM @asm.org · 10/03/2025ASM staff joined the crowd of scientists & citizens who participated in the #standupforscience2025 rally in D.C. (one of many around the world)! While the rallies are over, the need to stand up for science continues. Check out our Action Center for ways to stay involved: asm.org/articles/pol... 0279 0
Reposted by Hallie Dolin, MD, PhDMiguel Perales MD @drmiguelperales.bsky.social · 09/03/2025#internationalwomensday 7/n Altered microbial bile acid metabolism exacerbates T cell-driven inflammation during GVHD @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social - led by @mskcancercenter.bsky.social Sarah Lindner pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38429422/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.govAltered microbial bile acid metabolism exacerbates T cell-driven inflammation during graft-versus-host disease - PubMedMicrobial transformation of bile acids affects intestinal immune homoeostasis but its impact on inflammatory pathologies remains largely unknown. Using a mouse model of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD... 112 0
Reposted by Hallie Dolin, MD, PhDAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/03/2025This is actually depressingly common. A lot of people arrested in the NY metro area get sent to Louisiana or other parts of the Deep South where there are many big detention centers. 625298 0
Reposted by Hallie Dolin, MD, PhDMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone. 234249209112 0
Hallie Dolin, MD, PhD @halliedolin.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Pathology joke for #PathSky: What did the hematopathologist text his girlfriend? . . . . . "Send nodes." (When I told this one to our head of hematopathology, he thought the punchline would be "I'm having a blast." No, but I should have thought of that!) 010 0
Reposted by Hallie Dolin, MD, PhDKrys Johnson-O'Leary, MPH, PhD @krysmjo.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Sick people can be contagious for up to FOUR days before showing symptoms. And particles from a contagious person can stay in the air for TWO HOURS after they leave. Amazing biologically. A nightmare for this #EpiMomma. 05325 0
Reposted by Hallie Dolin, MD, PhDJo Duflou @jduflou.bsky.social · 07/03/2025All too commonly seen. #pathsky#forensky www.smh.com.au/world/north-...smh.com.auGene Hackman died of heart disease a week after his wifeAuthorities initially ruled out foul play after the bodies were discovered on February 26. Immediate tests for carbon monoxide poisoning were negative. 012 0
Reposted by Hallie Dolin, MD, PhDKevin Keel @ucpath.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Coolest biopsy of the week! A coenurus from the brain of a cat. This tapeworm larvae has multiple invaginated scolices. The cat was doing well when discharged 7 days post op. #VetPath #PathSky #Parasites #Histopathology 072 0
Hallie Dolin, MD, PhD @halliedolin.bsky.social · 08/03/2025If you see the ghost of a big primate, is it an ape-arition? *cricket sounds* Thank you; I'll be here all week. 000 0
Reposted by Hallie Dolin, MD, PhDBrian Wasik @brianrwasik.bsky.social · 08/03/2025We are likely gonna find out a lot of surprising things about Measles exposure in generational cohorts with mixed coverage and memory and I DO NOT WANT TO LEARN ANY OF THEM. 434893 0
Reposted by Hallie Dolin, MD, PhDRichard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 08/03/2025If this happens, expect: -a load of bad secondary, data dredge analyses by fringe ppl claiming 1 chance p<.05 finding that means zip; posted on paper servers to look legit -Sci community wasting hrs. debunking them -Antivax cries of "Sci is gatekeeping!" when bad work can't land in legit journals 37621 0
Reposted by Hallie Dolin, MD, PhDThe Onion @theonion.com · 07/03/2025CEO Worked Way Up From Son Of CEO theonion.com/ceo-wor... 93114791313 0
Hallie Dolin, MD, PhD @halliedolin.bsky.social · 08/03/2025(3/3) Seriously, though, Eliot's crown is ABSOLUTELY Aegon the Conqueror's crown (book version, exemplified in the Amok art). It's uncanny. I took a look at a screenshot at one point and went "Wait a minute, now THAT'S Baelor, just with eyeliner and better dress sense." Coloring, features, and all. 000 0
Hallie Dolin, MD, PhD @halliedolin.bsky.social · 08/03/2025(2/3) I'll be nerding out dressed as High King Eliot, or per friend, "Glam Baelor Breakspear." If by a miracle @levgrossman.bsky.social sees this, he may get the ref! (Baelor: buck convention, punish your dumb nephew, and grow a real spine. "Perfect prince", OK. Dude has better PR than he deserves.) 110 0
Hallie Dolin, MD, PhD @halliedolin.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Hey, all! #MedSky #PathSky I'm super excited to present a panel about medical/pathology explanations for sci-fi/fantasy at @fanexpocleveland.bsky.social, 3/22/25, 11:45 AM. Fandoms include: Star Trek, Star Wars, Tolkien, A Song of Ice and Fire, and my months-long hyperfixation, The Magicians (1/3). 140 0
Reposted by Hallie Dolin, MD, PhDEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Just published @science.org A basis—lung inflammation—for #LongCovid (PASC) in the experimental model, and a potential therapy [driven by alveolar macrophages and loss of their peroxisomes (Figure)] www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 15369121 0
Reposted by Hallie Dolin, MD, PhDThanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Well, I guess it’s good #Pepper is sharing “her” bed with our house guest. She’s a snuggler. #CatsofSky 4481 0
Reposted by Hallie Dolin, MD, PhDCMI Communications @cmicomms.bsky.social · 06/03/2025#IDSky #Clinmicro #MedSky 022 0
Reposted by Hallie Dolin, MD, PhDCharles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 06/03/2025The 10 Democrats who voted to censure Rep. Al Green: Ami Bera, Calif. Ed Case, Hawaii Jim Costa, Calif. Laura Gillen, N.Y. Jim Himes, Ct. Chrissy Houlahan, Pa. Marcy Kaptur, Ohio Jared Moskowitz, Fla. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, Wash. Tom Suozzi, N.Y. clerk.house.gov/Votes/202562 40221122 0
Reposted by Hallie Dolin, MD, PhDElizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 06/03/2025New escalation of direct censorship of fully vetted research that is well underway, at significant cost, & employing many highly-skilled people who will face immediate layoffs without warning When you stop a research project in the middle, you don't get half of the information. You may waste it all 3233114 0
Reposted by Hallie Dolin, MD, PhDMegan @megothelioma.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Never seen such a beautiful bone marrow core in all my days 😍 #hematology #pathsky #pathology #hematopathology 083 0