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American Society of Anesthesiologists @asahq.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

June is Pride Month! 🏳‍🌈🌈 ASA is committed to providing meaningful support to all of our members, including those in the LGBTQ community. We celebrate the contributions of LGBTQ individuals to medicine and society. #Pride #PrideMonth

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 19/05/2025

If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

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Liz Whitlock, MD, MSc @lizwhitlockmd.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

time.com/7286127/medi... "Sustaining this progress will be especially vital to future domestic medical advances & the prosperity of millions of Americans in future generations." Could not agree more. Investing in research makes America great. Suppressing it makes America weak.

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Medical and Scientific Research Makes America Great

Those who care about America's global leadership, should be alarmed by deep funding cuts to the NSF and NIH.

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American Society of Anesthesiologists @asahq.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

ASA has joined over 20 national medical specialties to express concern about the impact of recent Congressional proposals on Medicaid beneficiary coverage. Members, learn more from ASA President Dr. Donald Arnold: community.asahq.org/mmo/5-19-25 #anesthesiology #anesthesiology

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Maria Glymour @mariaglymour.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Thinking today about the visionary Richard Suzman, who saw the necessity of cross-national data to understand health in the US and embedded values of data & research sharing in HRS and intn'l sister studies. A credit to #NIA and a force still. #PublicHealth #EpiSky www.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/h...

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Richard Suzman, 72, Dies; Researcher Influenced Global Surveys on Aging (Published 2015)

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Liz Whitlock, MD, MSc @lizwhitlockmd.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

This is how it should work!! Thank you for correcting the record. 💕

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Liz Whitlock, MD, MSc @lizwhitlockmd.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Inspiring start to the FAER MRTG meeting! I don't find FAER on Bsky, but shout out to @asahq.bsky.social 's support of US anesthesiology's research arm. Deeply needed especially in today's climate!

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Liz Whitlock, MD, MSc @lizwhitlockmd.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Wonderful message from Dr. Holden Thorp (EIC @science.org ) about @elisabethbik.bsky.social identifying fabricated data, sometimes in Science papers, & "trusted colleague" in the scientific publishing process. Deeply important for public trust to run towards, not away from, corrections.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

See this? It's called a non-inferiority trial. It compares the new vaccine with the current vaccines to see if the new vaccine does better. This new vaccine did. Placebo-controlled trials are not needed to test most new vaccines. Demanding them will only reduce vaccine access. Which is the point.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I support the US garment industry. I don't believe in making life harder for immigrants or erecting blanket tariffs. So how can we reshore some of our US garment manufacturing without xenophobia or protectionism? Here's my view. 🧵

A photo of the Southwick manufacturing plant before it closed. The photo shows a bunch of people at various sewing stations. This was located in Massachusetts.

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Liz Whitlock, MD, MSc @lizwhitlockmd.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Yikes. 😳 I feel for the SROs who are going to try to handle this, elegantly and with the highest integrity as they always do, but somehow 3x as fast as usual? 😬 They are acutely aware of how critical this is. It's a tough position.

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Anesthesiology Journals @anesthesiology.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

“Target trial emulation” is an observational research framework that helps investigators avoid pitfalls in study design and analysis. In a new Readers' Toolbox, Messinger et al. present an overview of the framework and considerations for research: ow.ly/teg450VfPLQ

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Sure, this is bad for Johns Hopkins, bad for its employees, bad for America, bad for the world, but that's just the price we have to pay for the eugenics project of bored billionaires who long for the good old days of apartheid.

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Federal Cuts Prompt Johns Hopkins to Cut More Than 2,000 Workers

The university, a leader in scientific research, has been hard hit by the Trump administration’s cuts, which will slash at least $800 million from its budget.

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

A lot of the “achievements” of western civilization actually kind of suck but one thing that definitely does not suck is how half our children don’t die anymore

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Anesthesiology Journals @anesthesiology.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The Anesthesia Research Council steering committee formed an AI expert workgroup to evaluate the current state of AI in anesthesiology, provide examples of future AI applications, and identify barriers to AI progress. Read their recommendations: ow.ly/Lhka50VfOrt

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Liz Whitlock, MD, MSc @lizwhitlockmd.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Fantastic article about suppression of intellectual freedom, starting with science and universities, from a fellow academic/research mom. 😓 Scary, scary times. Call, write, demonstrate, communicate the importance of science as part of America's freedom!! minnesotareformer.com/2025/03/13/i...

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If we don’t act now, we risk losing the institutions that keep our society open, informed and free • Minnesota Reformer

History shows us the dangers of suppressing opposing views.

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world. Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization

Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...

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Liz Whitlock, MD, MSc @lizwhitlockmd.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

👋 me too! shopping locally & intentionally has been good in all possible ways except for how my kids are assholes in a store bc we inadvertently neglected to teach them how to behave while shopping. 😐 too much delivery during critical neural plasticity periods.

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Liz Whitlock, MD, MSc @lizwhitlockmd.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

ADRCs provide incredible care to people w healthy aging & w cognitive complaints, AND are driving the next therapeutics and strategies to help preserve cognitive health. Alzheimer's disease and related dementias will affect nearly all of us if we're lucky to live long enough, btw.😐 We need these!

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John Gruber @gruber.foo · 07/03/2025

Years ago my wife got me a t-shirt with this delightful sequence from "Curious George Takes a Job". I wore that t-shirt out.

Curious George finds a bottle of ether in the hospital, and gets curious about it.

The man in the yellow hat finds Curious George passed out, happy as a clam.

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Liz Whitlock, MD, MSc @lizwhitlockmd.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I use PubMed, oh, I dunno, 80 times a week?? If they wanted to cripple research this is a horrifically effective move. 😓

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 26/02/2025

The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Very grateful to our @scripps.edu President/CEO Pete Schultz, for this OpEd in @sandiegouniontribune.com on the key importance of research institutions in U.S. biomedical science and how federal support is critical to fuel new discoveries and medicines. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/02/25/o...

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Opinion: Science funding cuts are based on flawed logic. Here’s the truth.

Earlier this month, the National Institutes of Health issued supplemental guidance indicating it would immediately impose a 15% cap on indirect costs for research grants, an unprecedented and abrup…

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Liz Whitlock, MD, MSc @lizwhitlockmd.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Hey... That's a causal interpretation of an analysis which wasn't designed for causal inference. When the abstract says "association," it's incorrect to conclude the antidepressants "accelerate" the decline. Please be careful; oversimplifying distorts messages & risks worsening mistrust of science.

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Here's an example of "government waste" In 1982, at least 7 people in the Chicago area died from poisoned Tylenol The killer was never found, but government scientists figured out how the packages were tampered with That's why we have safety seals *Regulations are one way we protect ourselves*

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Megan Hagenauer @mhagenauer.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

🔬🧪🥼🧠🦠📈🟦 Behind the scenes, the Trump administration has "brought biomedical research to the brink of crisis by holding up much of the $47 billion the United States spends on the field every year." Article gifted from @nytimes.com - read it for free without a subscription.

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President Trump vs. Medical Research (Gift Article)

How government cuts are slowing research.

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Liz Whitlock, MD, MSc @lizwhitlockmd.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Rep. Mullin, you're the only one of my 3 Congressmen who, when I've called to discuss the catastrophic NIH interference, has had a *real-life staffer* immediately answer the phone. 💕 I've appreciated that very much. I hope you stay safe & feel better soon, from this UCSF physician-researcher!!

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Jarmin Yeh @jarminyeh.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

We met with policymakers about the importance of federal programs that support biomedical research and discovery. Proposed NIH F&A cuts to 15% would cost UCSF ~$200M annually, threatening life-saving research. We urge protecting the current rate negotiation system.

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Mary C. Politi, PhD @mcpoliti.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

"In a world of ideological and partisan division, health should be the ultimate nonpartisan good. We do the research we do so that more people can live long, healthy lives, and live them as they wish to live them." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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The Value of Academic Health Research

In the past month, the academic health research community in the US has been rocked by the new administration’s efforts to curtail health research expenditures. In the form of “Supplemental Guidance t...

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Miguel Hernan @miguelhernan.org · 18/02/2025

1/ When using observational data for #causalinference, emulating a target trial helps solve some problems... but not all problems. In a new paper, we explain why and when the #TargetTrial framework is helpful. www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/... Joint work with my colleagues @causalab.bsky.social

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JAMA @jama.com · 18/02/2025

"Without research to point toward a healthier country, there will be poorer national health and less capacity to do what people do...on either end of the political spectrum." Read the Editorial by JAMA Health Forum EIC Sandro Galea and JAMA EIC @kbibbinsdomingo.bsky.social. ja.ma/4b6Z2LJ #MedSky

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Our best wishes go out to all the amazing NIH people who were removed. We see your service and your good work. We will do whatever we can to fight. Take care of yourself and then when you’re ready, jump back in the fray. 💕 1/

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Maria Glymour @mariaglymour.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

We need to shout from the rooftops how and why NIH funded health research is important, and what is accomplished with this work: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art... We're not just doing this because we secretly love reformatting our biosketches & spending weekends writing grants. #EpiSky

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How Federal Funding Propels the SPH Research Making a Difference in People’s Lives

With federal research funding cuts looming for academia and medical centers across the US, we take at look at how federally funded research at SPH has produced tangible results that benefit real lives...

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JAMA @jama.com · 15/02/2025

JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods: Factorial clinical trial designs allow for the simultaneous evaluation of multiple treatments and their interactions. ja.ma/41iGzZj #MedSky

Figure. Treatment Groups in an Example 2 x 2 Factorial Clinical Trial

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JAMA @jama.com · 13/02/2025

Viewpoint: Political interference in the medical profession threatens evidence-based standards of care and the autonomy of health care professionals. ja.ma/4hAB9hU #MedSky

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JAMA @jama.com · 12/02/2025

"Few have questioned who should own hospitals and other essential health care resources." This Viewpoint discusses the collapse of the Steward Health Care system and the conflict between financial ambition and clinical mission. ja.ma/4hzhXkH #MedSky

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Krista Harrison, PhD @kristalynharrison.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Disruptive events among people with dementia are times to reevaluate preferences and care planning, bc decline is likely coming Great paper from colleagues @ucsfgeriatrics.bsky.social and Mount Sinai, including @alexsmithmd.bsky.social

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Megan Hagenauer @mhagenauer.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

🔬🧪🥼🧠🦠📈🟦 Between Feb 3-10, 2024: NIH issued 513 grant awards totaling $218,273,053. Between Feb 3-10, 2025: NIH issued just 11 grant awards totaling $4,981,089. I.e., since the courts ordered a full resumption in grant funding, NIH still only approved a handful of grants - 2.2% of typical volume

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JAMA @jama.com · 11/02/2025

Private equity acquisitions of US hospitals have increased over the past decade, and such acquisitions were associated with a worsening of patient care experience compared to non-acquired hospitals. ja.ma/4hQZu2L #MedSky

Figure 1. Trends in Patients’ Global Rating of Hospitals Before and After Private Equity Acquisition

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Dr. Jeffrey Millman @jeffreymillman.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

We made it on Cell's 2014-2024 timeline! :) #T1D #StemCells #CellTherapy www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

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Londyn Robinson, MD @londyloo.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I have a confession . . . I was an “overhead cost”. I was a beaker washer, agar plate pourer, research secretary. I was paid by “overhead cost” fees. Loved it. Those “overhead cost” jobs allowed this rural kid to become a physician. Please tag how #OverheadCostJob impact u.

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Megan Hagenauer @mhagenauer.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

🧬🦠🧠🥼🧪📈🟦 @ebi.embl.org: Many scientists are worried that vital biomedical data housed in U.S. government databases is at risk. Which aspects of NCBI are mirrored on EMBL-EBI? Do you plan to back up more U.S. data? @altcdc.bsky.social @altnih4science.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Scientists globally are racing to save vital health databases taken down amid Trump chaos

The mass-archiving effort is in response to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removing some of its web pages.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025

6. The policy does not just affect funding going forward. All existing NIH grants will have their indirect rates cut to 15% as of today, the date of issuance. For a large university, this creates a sudden and catastrophic shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars against already budgeted funds.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

🧵 When Medicine and Science Ignores Diversity, People Die. 1/ Ignoring diversity in medicine and science is deadly. From unethical experiments to life-threatening misdiagnoses, history is replete with examples of how neglecting race, gender, and identity costs lives. A thread of concrete examples.

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Marie Will, MD, PhD @marie-will.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Today, we are one step closer to the next pandemic, just as the people in charge proudly proclaim that they don’t believe in either vaccines or infectious diseases. Without public health communication, we are flying blind. If I haven’t been posting, it’s because I am literally at a loss for words.

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Jill Filipovic @jillfilipovic.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I honestly feel like I am losing my mind because the scale of what is happening just does not seem to be registering for most people and is not being reflected on the pages (or webpages) of our national newspapers.

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