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Martha Carlson

@marthacarlson.bsky.social
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Preferably outside. Stage IV HER2+ breast cancer since 2015. Occasionally ragey cancer advocate. Write about my experiences for Cure + co-host of Our MBC Life podcast

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Dear People On Medicare, BEFORE you vote. Go to medicare.gov & check your Part D RX plan for 2027 vs. 2026. Mine went up 3x the amount in a YEAR. That is Donald Trump & RFK Jr. REMEMBER that when you cast your ballot!🗳️💙
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My middle daughter at nyc protest yesterday #IAmJaneDoe
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Patient Centered Dosing Initiative brings attention to how treatment doses in metastatic breast cancer need to be better understood. This team has been changing minds since 2020 thru patient-led research. Learn more in a new podcast #CanSky #OncoSky podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
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Developing Story: How PCDI Is Changing the Way We Think About Dosing
Podcast Episode · Live from Stage 4: MBC News for Us, by Us · October 6 · 1h
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I can’t read the article but ongoing studies *are* looking at diet/exercise “prescriptions” that 🤞 will lead to insurance/cancer center change. Access (cost, avail providers, time, dx stage) barriers have to be removed & need real training for docs about talking to patients to 🛑 shame & blame
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It was so fun & out of my usual activities to “moderate” the Metastatic Breast Cancer Alliance evening w/Dr Neil Iyengar. I use quotes because, it mostly entailed pointing at people to ask their questions about lifestyle interventions & MBC. #CanSky
Neil Iyengar, a leading voice and researcher on the effects of lifestyle interventions in breast cancer, on stage at the Metastatic Breast Cancer Alliance 2026 member summit
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Read the 🧵. I’ve lived w/Stage IV for 10 years, far beyond the norm. This stuff is profoundly upsetting. We want control but we are fed misinformation on one side while on the other are docs we can usually trust but who often just don’t know who will do well and who will not or why with hard meds
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Not saying there aren’t/couldn’t be good things but right now, no
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Will finish excerpt; wanted to tell you about recent experiences: 1 ms 2 reviews legit suspicion ms was fed into AI & reviews w/nonsense generated; moderated talk w/researcher clinician who touched on how poor AI was in collecting knowledge from a series of scientific posters (looked good but wrong)
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What are clinicians going to do about lines after TDXd in metastatic breast cancer? I hope it gets better than this ⬇️ for the sake of myself and so many people I know www.thebreastonline.com/action/showP...
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Me biking to effing cancer treatment where there is a safe path for most of the way but that one block stretch with nothing but too many semis & cars with pissed off drivers😩 There is a VA hospital, Loyola Medical Center, Ronald McDonald House, a CTA/Pace bus stop & ZERO path or even a sidewalk
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Was in Atlanta for a metastatic breast cancer summit and squeezed in a visit to High Museum during final days of the wonderful Amy Sherald exhibit
All three images are by Amy Sherald, maybe most known for her portrait of Michelle Obama. Here, the first is of a man on a tractor; the middle is of a girl, titled Freeing Herself Was One Thing…”; the third is of a woman wearing a sweater with a row of shoes pictured on it titled “To Tell Her Story You Must Walk in Her Shoes”
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skeematic.bsky.social @skeematic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A large majority will indeed even admit to it. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Isolate, Inebriate, Intimidate, Repeat: High Rates of Sexual Force Against Women Are Reported When Young Men Given Anonymous Surveys - Lucia F. O’Sullivan, Scott T. Ronis, 2026
Few studies survey men who have remained undetected after engaging in acts of sexual aggression against women. Most survey women who were targets of sexual aggr...
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undugdirt @intergint-systems.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Me: I think AI is going to make us dumber. People I work with: 5000 REASONS YOU ARE WRONG Jensen Huang: It's going to make us dumber. It already made me dumber.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21/09/2026
Bruh can you imagine
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It is! A number of the collected works feature the loon www.cropart.com/Resist.pdf
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Amazing art. As someone in the midwest where crop art is always a fair attraction, these pieces are substance and art❤️
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton spent 80 years proving you could have big hair, a bigger heart, a brilliant mind and absolutely no patience for anyone who underestimated you. She gave us unforgettable songs, free books for millions of children, and enough wit, rhinestones and kindness to light up Tennessee.
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
That is just shocking. I know it shouldn’t shock me but it does. Awful
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Sunny #caturday to all
Ellie, smallish mostly black tuxedo cat, lying on the table in a bit of sun this morning (instead of attacking me)
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
On its way to an NYC friend with with hopes she will feel the whimsy of this #Chicago #WhiteSox
Wearing a Pop Hat from the White Sox game, sending it to NYC at the special request from a friend
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Exactly
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
August 14 is the 91st Anniversary of the signing of Social Security. If it were up to members of the GOP it would not make it to the 92nd. Help me REMIND them that Social Security is OUR money. We earned it & we have the RECEIPTS. Reply with🔐 🔐🔐🔐🔐🔐🔐🔐🔐
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Really enjoyed this book!
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Seems likely to just add more people & corps to the milking of the terrible US healthcare system
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This cruelty has no need but cruelty. Haiti remains deeply dangerous; a country in the throes of anarchy. Hundreds of thousands of people are SAFE. They are safe. They are safe here and the nation has decided to make them unsafe. We are embarking on a tragedy and we cannot look away. We cannot.
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This is the Research report from the PCDI ADC survey data. These drugs can work wonders but they can also be hard on us. I hope you get the exactly the treatment you need! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42227000/
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A Patient-Led Survey of Antibody Drug Conjugate Usage and Dosing for People Living With Metastatic Breast Cancer - PubMed
Scientific advancements have led to more people living longer with metastatic breast cancer (MBC). Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) offer a promising treatment option, but currently approved ADCs are a...
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This is work that follows long talks with @amybeumer.bsky.social in late 2025 as we wondered what was going on w/dose reductions and ADCs. We all knew someone reducing doses due to side effects but wondered how irl compared to clinical trial results. Amy died of metastatic breast #cancer in June💔
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I am really proud and happy to see this published. It accompanies our research report on the Patient Centered Dosing Initiative’s survey of people with Stage IV breast cancer treated with ADCs. #cancer #cancersky #cansky journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The destruction of research?
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Oh my I never saw this as off Twitter. All my love to your family.
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
All the editors were fans (or became fans) of their respective magazines’ focus and respected the readers. That definitely showed
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Years and years ago I was an editor at Sterling MacFadden, publisher of Daytime TV & other soap opera (& other fan mags) magazines. It was the best paid job of my life—fun staff, weird/fun/difficult interviews with actors, lots of writing & lots of creative freedom. Love seeing these flashbacks❤️
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I don’t go on there but as a regular person, and a cancer patient, it was quite a place for awhile in terms of connection and knowledge sharing. Bluesky is not that sadly. Many friends continue to use it for cancer connections even tho it isnt the same
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Getting a jump on #caturday
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💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
🔴🔥‼️ MORE of this 🔥 rep rashida tlaib • russell vought
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The cicadas 🎶🎶 right now, the best part of summer #illinois #midwest
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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development
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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
They just opened a cowardly short 14-day public comment period. Make your voices heard. PLEASE. Link Below 🔗👇🏽 eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home...
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BLM National NEPA Register
The Bureau of Land Management National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Register allows you to review and comment on plans and project documents. Search by office, NEPA number, Project name, year, and ...
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gwpda.bsky.social @gwpda.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This is the URL to register protest against destruction of Chaco Canyon: eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home...
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BLM National NEPA Register
The Bureau of Land Management National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Register allows you to review and comment on plans and project documents. Search by office, NEPA number, Project name, year, and ...
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The forward to reissue of Wendell Berry’s Unsettling of America is 🔥. “To have some is to need more, and after that, more and more…to be successful now is to achieve the satisfaction of one’s greed”
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Spongebob Mr Krabs' Greedy Crazy Eyes
ALT: Spongebob Mr Krabs' Greedy Crazy Eyes
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
😔
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Always better to be informed imo
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Good advice—fortunately have a great cardio-oncologist. Looks like a good resource❤️
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The tech was telling me that a lot of aortic issues come down to genetics/are hereditary (I don’t know if this is accurate). Glad your friend is doing well!
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I had an echo yesterday and asked the tech about this as she observed my heart and regretted it almost instantly😳
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
“One Proclamation reduces the size of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument from approximately 1.87 million acres to approximately 181,500 acres. Another Proclamation reduces the size of the Bears Ears National Monument from approximately 1.36 million acres to approximately 121,100 acres”
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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Modifies Two National Monuments, Restoring Sensible Land Management
RIGHTSIZING UTAH NATIONAL MONUMENTS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed Proclamations modifying two Utah national monuments, the Bears Ears National
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Sounds about 2026
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
There are incredible new cancer drugs every year that are showing promise at defeating cancers that were previously guaranteed death sentences — and the Trump administration is doing everything it can to illegally kill the grants that fund the research. MAHA indeed!
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Former Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) says in an interview this week that his tumors shrunk by 80% thanks to new cancer drug
Ben Sasse: "I'm down 99%, in five months, of how much cancer is in my blood."
8:04 PM • 7/10/26 • 353K Views
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Google's total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025. This is the biggest increase in their electricity consumption ever, writes @ketanjoshi.co It reflects the "obscene energy hunger" of bloated generative AI systems. ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...
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Google’s exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloat
Google’s latest report reveals a completely unprecedented rise in energy consumption – more than any of us expected. Generative AI is a climate carbon bomb.
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K Morrell @morrellk.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
bookmark @molly.wiki 's new site tracking AI and crypto industry spending on political races influence.citationneeded.news - can dig in and see what is happening in your area. Voters are mostly unaware...
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Tech Influence Watch
Tracking cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence industry influence on 2026 elections in the United States.
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