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Maria Smilios

@mariasmilios.bsky.social
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Award winning author The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis Adjunct Columbia University SPH Keynote speaker @penguinrandomhouse #endtb #gunsafety #factsmatter #womenmatter (www.mariasmilios.com)

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TBFighters @tbfighters.org · 26/12/2025
Wealth has a large impact on quality of care, or even if one gets care, as individuals like Dr. Robitzek saw in his personal and professional life. How does income impact a person’s experience with TB, both today and in the past? #TBReaders
A quote card with a light tie dye background. "No disease, especially tubrculosis, should be about capital. - Dr. Edward Robitzek in The Black Angels by Maris Smilios"
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PLOS Global Public Health @plosglobalpublichealth.org · 01/12/2025
NEW: The “Why, why, why” of tuberculosis – Why storytelling is integral to the fight against TB by @leslieenane.bsky.social @madhupai.bsky.social @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social @mariasmilios.bsky.social & Handaa Enkh-Amgalan speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2025/12/01/t...
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The “Why, why, why” of tuberculosis – Why storytelling is integral to the fight against TB
In this disorienting situation, stories and narratives are essential. We need to tell the story about our collective human fight against Mycobacterium tuberculosis, one that centers the survivors, nur...
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The Union @theunion.org · 02/12/2025
A powerful feature of this year’s #UnionConf was the inclusion of four authors breathing new life into TB advocacy. 📘Stigmatized, Handaa Enkh-Amgalan 📙Phantom Plague, @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social 📗The Black Angels, @mariasmilios.bsky.social 📕Everything is Tuberculosis, @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
It was a huge honor for me to moderate a panel with authors of 4 new books on tuberculosis at @theunion.org conference in Copenhagen Big thanks to @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social @mariasmilios.bsky.social & Handaa Please watch the recording 👇🏽 youtu.be/rI629blqReM
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Maria Smilios @mariasmilios.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Thank you @madhupai.bsky.social for your fierce advocacy and for uplifting these stories that we tell. But mostly thank you for making this happen ❤️
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
So pleased to meet @mariasmilios.bsky.social in person! She kindly agreed to attend our biggest tuberculosis conference to talk about her book "The Black Angels" - the story of Black nurses who helped find a cure for tuberculosis Read more at www.mariasmilios.com
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Wonderful to hear @mariasmilios.bsky.social speak about lessons from her book The Black Angels to our present day crisis in TB @theunion.org conference in Copenhagen www.mariasmilios.com/the-black-an...
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Carole Mitnick @cdmitpih.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
For those who care about TB—and humanity—this is a terrific and well-referenced article about the death and destruction sown by the current U.S. administration. www.cidrap.umn.edu/tuberculosis... thank you @cidrap, for this comprehensive reporting. @tbfighters.org @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
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Experts warn loss of USAID endangers the fight against deadly TB
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NPR @npr.org · 11/09/2025
New research estimates that as many as 2.2 million more people could die of tuberculosis if U.S. cuts to foreign aid become permanent.
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TB is the #1 killer among infectious diseases. A new study says its toll could mount
New research estimates that as many as 2.2 million more people could die of tuberculosis if U.S. cuts to foreign aid become permanent.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Interviewing 1 TB book author = cool Interviewing 4 amazing TB book authors = amazing! @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social @mariasmilios.bsky.social & Handaa Enkh-Amgalan Join us in Copenhagen at @theunion.org Conference in November! conf2025.theunion.org
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Delighted that 4 amazing authors will join Union TB conference this year! Thrilled to be moderating the panel with @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social, @mariasmilios.bsky.social, Handaa Enkh-Amgalan, @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social Read about their TB books 👇🏽 communities.springernature.com/posts/tb-an-...
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Maria Smilios @mariasmilios.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I’m honored to be part of this incredible group of authors Using my voice & the story of the Black Angels to help eradicate this disease beside such extraordinary & dedicated people TB research has been such a gift 🙏 @madhupai.bsky.social @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social @nadinesmith.bsky.social
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
TB is the # 1 infectious killer of humankind. We know how to control this disease, but have chosen not to. New books by @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social @mariasmilios.bsky.social & Handaa Enkh-Amgalan bring fresh advocacy communities.springernature.com/posts/tb-an-...
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Tuberculosis - new warriors take on an old enemy
TB has affected humans for centuries. In 2025, it is the number 1 infectious killer of humankind. We know how to control this disease, but have chosen not to. Four new books bring attention to this an...
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Hamilton Cain @hamiltoncain.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
I fell hard for @lauriestories.bsky.social's "The Aviator and the Showman" and you will, too: it's a glorious work of narrative nonfiction. Out next week from @vikingbooks.bsky.social. Here's my review for @latimes.com: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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Review: 'The Aviator and the Showman' untangles Amelia Earhart's fateful marriage — and thrill-seeking ambition
'The Aviator and the Showman,' Laurie Gwen Shapiro's vibrant account of Amelia Earhart's union with a publicity-seeking publisher, unpacks the mystery surrounding her final flight.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
The United States government is no longer able to protect us from real hazards, such as flash floods, because it’s shifting funds to fake hazards, such as a non-existent immigrant crime wave. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
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As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas
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Maria Smilios @mariasmilios.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Let’s not mince words: these are concentration camps in the Everglades And yes those are cages
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ember loves bay ridge @embernic.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Currently reading… The Black Angels (74th book of 2025) #Booksky 📚
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Ariaa® @ariaa.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Can I get a hallelujah? 😇😉
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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
The US led the way in fighting malnutrition, and USAID provided a miracle peanut paste that brings kids back from the brink -- until now. Starvation is a problem that we can actually solve, but we're now retreating from the fight. Here's what I found in West Africa: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...
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Opinion | This Problem Is Easy to Solve
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Daniel Bastiaanse @indodragon.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 20/06/2025
With all these Feds in masks, MAGA has to be concerned. Remember during Covid they all thought it was unhealthy and you rebreathe diseases! Make Agents Healthy Again!
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Maria Smilios @mariasmilios.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Charlatans running the country
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
"If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived."
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Richard Ferro, MD MSc @richferro.com · 10/06/2025
I was a medic at the Santa Ana protests in OC today. I watched police fire tear gas, flash bangs, & rubber bullets into crowds of men, women, & children. Other medics and I were clearly marked with red crosses, and the police were targeting us. One of the most fucked up things I’ve ever seen.
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Maria Smilios @mariasmilios.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Trump’s America👇 Guys raging over a street sign for the Black Angels & my book that tells their story This fury is born from a culture that fears truth, science, & Black history I share this b/c I refuse to let them erase these women again @nadinesmith.bsky.social @madhupai.bsky.social
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Sarah Rose @thesarahrose.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Gillibrand’s phone lines are wide open today too Tell her New York women deserve to go to work without being groped and sexual assault doesn’t belong in Gracie Mansion She stood for survivors in Minnesota what about her own constituents in NYC?
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
NSF grant funding has been cut in half. What does it mean for science? Plus, how a new blood test helps diagnose Alzheimer’s—and what its limitations are:
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
During #WW1, artists like Anna Coleman Ladd created masks for disfigured soldiers. The metal was painted with hard enamel to resemble the recipient's skin tone. Ladd used real hair to create the eyelashes, eyebrows and moustaches. Had it not been for her efforts, many would have lived in isolation.
A black and white photo from the First World War. There is a soldier seated in the foreground. He is wearing a metal mask that has a mustache. Behind him is a woman holding a paint brush. This is Anna Coleman Ladd, the artist who created the mask.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 27/05/2025
When Americans raised concerns about RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine views, he said he was "not gonna take away vaccines from anybody." But now he's taking them away from millions of mommas and babies. Vaccine recommendations should be based on science, not RFK Jr.'s political agenda.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Bone-chilling read "Better for Americans to be as gullible & easily manipulated as the people who buy brain pills from right-wing podcasts, use ivermectin to treat COVID, or believe that vaccines are “weapons of mass destruction” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The New Dark Age
The Trump administration has launched an attack on knowledge itself.
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Chuck the Vampire Slayer 🧛🏻 @sazeracla.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Get it anyway. They don’t recommend it? That doesn’t mean they forbid it. Yet. Find an ethical doctor who will give it to you and/or your kid anyway. Or lie.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
The US is not a safe place for conferences www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears
Some meetings have been put on hold in response to foreign researchers’ travel concerns.
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Maria Smilios @mariasmilios.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
⭐️SALE⭐️ Read abt the Black Angels who risked their lives caring for TB patients during a dreadful time in history: the pre-antibiotic age of the Great Depression in country entrenched in the horror of Jim Crow And helped cure TB And were forgotten @nadinesmith.bsky.social @madhupai.bsky.social
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Maria Smilios @mariasmilios.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
⭐️SALE⭐️ Read abt the Black Angels who risked their lives caring for TB patients during a dreadful time in history: the pre-antibiotic age of the Great Depression in country entrenched in the horror of Jim Crow And helped cure TB And were forgotten @nadinesmith.bsky.social @madhupai.bsky.social
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/05/2025
DURBIN: How can we give hope to people across the country who are suffering from so many diseases when our government is cutting back on that research? RFK Jr: I do not know about any cuts to ALS research D: I just read them to you! R: I didn't know about them until you told me about them
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Maria Smilios @mariasmilios.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
This viral AI generated amateur “historical” video is full of dangerous misinformation abt the Black Angels For example, the nurses weren’t allowed to wear masks & they are no longer erased & so much more Please stop believing these videos Read the full story in my book @nadinesmith.bsky.social
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
it would be cool if some members of the mainstream media cared as much about this administration lying about who's running the agency dismantling the federal government as they do about the former president’s age
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Angie Mangino @angiemangino.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Nicole Saraniero writes NYC has named a street honoring the "Black Angels," nurses who risked their lives treating TB patients when others wouldn't, capturing the emotional reunion of surviving nurses and descendants at Sea View Hospital. #History
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NYC Street Name Honors Black Angels Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
The last surviving Black Angels of Sea View Hospital gathered with descendants for a special tribute!
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Maria Smilios @mariasmilios.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Virginia Allen, one of the last living Black Angels, on the street naming, TB & the cure "It’s significant not only for Staten Island & the nurses that worked there, but for the world” Read their story in my book: The Black Angels 📕 @nadinesmith.bsky.social @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
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David Moskowitz @mosker.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Something good for your morning. (And read the book: I wrote about it for @stoptbusa.bsky.social 's monthly TBWire...and then we did another article on it from a different board member. Lots of perspectives with the same message: #WorthReading
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Maria Smilios @mariasmilios.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Virginia Allen, one of the last living Black Angels, on the street naming, TB & the cure "It’s significant not only for Staten Island & the nurses that worked there, but for the world” Read their story in my book: The Black Angels 📕 @nadinesmith.bsky.social @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
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Sarah Rose @thesarahrose.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Frank is mad about DEI and wants her deported also authors get letters
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Maria Smilios @mariasmilios.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Meet Frank L. He’s mad at my book & the street naming that honors the Black nurses who saved lives during the TB crisis He calls it “woke DEI lies” But this isn’t wokeness, it’s American history #trumpsamerica @nadinesmith.bsky.social @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social #historymatters #theblackangels
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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Some really (genuinely!) good news for your Tuesday: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCZj...
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Maria Smilios @mariasmilios.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Meet Frank L. He’s mad at my book & the street naming that honors the Black nurses who saved lives during the TB crisis He calls it “woke DEI lies” But this isn’t wokeness, it’s American history #trumpsamerica @nadinesmith.bsky.social @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social #historymatters #theblackangels
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Maria Smilios @mariasmilios.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I hoped my book would help the Black Angels be seen for their work during a dreadful time in history: the pre-antibiotic age of the Great Depression in country entrenched in the horror of Jim Crow Yesterday it happened Share their story @nadinesmith.bsky.social @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
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Maria Smilios @mariasmilios.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I hoped my book would help the Black Angels be seen for their work during a dreadful time in history: the pre-antibiotic age of the Great Depression in country entrenched in the horror of Jim Crow Yesterday it happened Share their story @nadinesmith.bsky.social @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
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Maria Smilios @mariasmilios.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Stop normalizing this. It’s not a “deal.” It’s a mess made from a deranged felon cosplaying as president who’s now trying to clean it up. And the average American consumer is going to pay for it. Literally.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
You can download a free copy of our book on tuberculosis! www.mcgill.ca/tb/files/tb/...
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Nadine Smith @nadinesmith.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Kudos to @mariasmilios.bsky.social who recovered this important history and continues to push for this story to be told. It isn’t just a vital piece of history…it is just as relevant today as science takes a back seat to politics of hate and endangers us all. youtu.be/WQf6a-fs1Vo
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Author Maria Smilios Joins The Five 8 1/2
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