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Rheum Cat

@rheumcat.bsky.social
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Salute to me, I’m your rheumatology queen. Rheumatologist in Boston. Clinical researcher. Cats, baking, reading, Taylor Swift references.

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Anne Lipton, MD, PhD @annelipton.bsky.social · 2h
Fall in Vancouver.❤️🍁🧡 #autumn #fall #October #Vancouver #BritishColumbia #Canada
Tree canopy bursting with orange, red, yellow, and a few green leaves under a blue sky.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 3h
Let's do this! We're watching The Love Hypothesis. Ali Hazelwood doesn't understand how bodies work and this movie doesn't understand how higher ed works. Should be an amazing time. If you want a hint of how bad the higher ed is, just watch this trailer. m.youtube.com/watch?v=xwda...
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The Love Hypothesis - Official Trailer | Prime Video
YouTube video by Prime Video
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Mariano Aguirre @aguirreernst.bsky.social · 14h
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A Quietly Shattering Memoir by a Man Detained by ICE for His Beliefs
Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist and former Columbia graduate student, offers an account of his ordeal and explains why his work continues.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 4h
#buttonsmania #caturday
a tux cat sleeping in a loaf in soft dramatic light from a blinded window behind her
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мɑгκ @drumrollplease.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh, mythical Costco churro, how I love thee. Let me bite the ways.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 4h
Apologies the link in OP was the link for institutional letter. Here is the link for individual letters: actionnetwork.org/letters/acti...
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Action Alert: Urge Congress to Demand Release of Overdue HIV Research NOFOs
Overview Over the past months, there have been multiple delays in ensuring that the HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials Networks (CTNs) and Centers for AIDS Research (CFAR) receive their notices to renew their ...
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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 5h
We were at Coolidge Corner reminding folks to vote early and in person @deborahelizabeth.bsky.social @activistevenings.bsky.social
I’m wearing a yellow T-shirt and orange cap and Deborah is wearing a gray bucket hat and holding her yellow banner
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 5h
Appropriated funding for HIV research is currently being held by HHS. Several research programs will stop if these funds are not released including clinical trials. Please take 2 mins to sign this letter and demand congress act to release these funds. savehivfunding.org/organization...
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 16h
apex predator
a tux cat sitting on her buns and propped up against a pillow, doing a split in the air as she cleans one of her legs. a very dignified caturday
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Joe Calhoun @jbc3.bsky.social · 9h
I see your apex predator and raise you mine #Caturday
Russian Blue cat caught in mid-yawn, looking like she has no eyes and a very misshapen head
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Julia Goolia @juliagoolia9.bsky.social · 6h
College spring break, Daytona, 1991. A guy in our group passed out drunk. All the women painted his nails and giggled. He was so mad when he woke up — did not find it funny at. all. I wonder if he thinks about that when he reads about college sexual assault. His daughter is a college freshman.
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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 8h
that one guy hogging the mic after your conference talk when you’re a woman
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 10h
"After measles swept through her household, the young woman wanted to get vaccinated. Her doctor said she couldn't because she had leukemia and the treatments had weakened her immune system" @bachynski.bsky.social
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A 20-year-old Amish woman with leukemia got measles and died in Pa.’s largest outbreak in three decades
After measles swept through her household, the young woman wanted to get vaccinated. Her doctor said she couldn't because she had leukemia and the treatments had weakened her immune system.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 8h
We all know why I’m really here
Stage being set up for the Linda Lindas
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 23h
My end-of-life patient told me she wanted her favorite Domino's pizza--feta & spinach with Alfredo. So of course, I ordered it to the #ICU. And yes, when she insisted that I sit down & eat a slice with her, I did. Her nurse told me she has never seen anything like this 😊@3wishesprogram.bsky.social
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 11h
The image is of a four panel comic. The title reads "Poltergeist".
In the first panel we see a woman with a worried expression on her face. She says, "stuff keeps moving around my house."
In the second panel the same woman says "I'm terrified. I can't sleep."
In the third panel we see a ghost holding a candle and a pillow that reads "live laugh love". The ghost is zooming through the house.
In the fourth panel we see the same ghost hanging up a frame and thinking, "home decor is my passion".
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 7h
WE’RE GONNA BE OK. I’m sure this blew out the audio on my phone tho lol
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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 6h
black cat OBVIOUSLY
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Florence or Copenhagen - hard to pick
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Sunny, about 70F
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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 7h
NIH makes yet again new LOW number of grants report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/...
Table from NIH showing drop of nearly 8,000 grants vs 2023
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Chrystal Starbird @drstarbird.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And about how the systems in which science operates can exclude promising talent from non-traditional backgrounds: open.spotify.com/episode/20x4...
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Standard Deviation S2 E2: The Advocacy Tax
Out of Patients with Matthew Zachary · Episode
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Chrystal Starbird @drstarbird.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We are excited to share research, but I want to take some time to share a little about myself. I LOVE science, but I also spend a lot of time advocating for more inclusive science. This work is promoted by my own obstacles in pursuing science which I talk about here: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Transforming myself and academia for good
Dr. Chrystal Starbird is the winner of the first Rising Black Scientist Award for a post-graduate scholar. For this award, we asked emerging Black scientists to tell us about the experiences that spar...
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⸸ 𝖋𝖆𝖊 ⸸ @ohmypennywise.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I sure do have big dick energy for someone with no dick and no energy.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11h
Wrote a thing Monday. Got held back and is a weekend read at the Guardian today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
While the criminal justice system should address reports of rape, we know that rates of conviction are appallingly low for a number of reasons. Although, thanks to feminist interventions, the legal system is better equipped to understand this crime and less prejudiced against victims, we will not change the world through that means.

After rape allegations at Cornell University, why are women again being urged to talk to their sons? Why not men?
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Sexual assault arises in part through both the entitlement and the desire to abuse and dehumanize women, which is in part about definitions of both masculinity and femininity: masculinity in that domination, violation and degradation are seen as status-enhancing, femininity in the perception that women’s bodies are for men to use, women’s voices and rights to be ignored.

The most compelling thing I’ve read in response to the Cornell case is in an essay by feminist writer Soraya Chemaly. She cites anthropologist Peggy Sanday, who told her that there are “rape-prone” and “rape-free” societies: “She found that in rape-free cultures, women have far more authority, status, safety and freedom.”

They’re societies in which women’s rights to bodily and social self-determination are respected, and a man who violates those rights would face severe consequences. “Rape-prone cultures, on the other hand, treat rape as an entitlement in a system that revolves around masculine contests and hierarchies.”

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 12h
That photo is appalling—it is truly pathetic deeply offensive ahistorical caucacity White people who want the “freedom” to die from vaccine-preventable diseases & the “freedom” to allow their kids to die from vaccine-preventable diseases are comparing their “struggle” to the civil rights movement🤯
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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 11h
#Caturday is for boxtrolls, says Saya, who’s grown too big now for this box!
A grey kitten with yellow irises surrounding large dark pupils and a dark nose-tip is sitting partially in a cardboard box, with her butt hanging out of the box in the back. She’s facing the camera, with a predatory/startled look on her face, and perked up ears pulled slightly back
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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 12h
Of interest to @rheumepi.bsky.social @kristenyoung.bsky.social #ACR26 abstract where authors fed clinical vignettes with varied demographics into LLMs to get recs. Cases were SLE+LN, LBP s/o axSpA, positive ANA. Strongest recs for rheum referral if white male for axSpA case (not surprising)
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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 12h
So apparently there’s a company that runs events where profs (mostly STEM) do “fun” topical lectures in bars and it’s a way of enticing burnt out gen-Z folks who want to escape brainrot and I love this and feel like we humanists could significantly undercut them…
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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 12h
lol- this med is so good. Seems like the vast majority of people would end up on 9mg and then titrating back to something like 4mg. This will be individualized, but the rate of people stopping 12mg or titrating down was real (i.e. it was TOO effective). www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Retatrutide, a Triple Hormone Receptor Agonist, for Treatment of Obesity | NEJM
Retatrutide is a triple-receptor agonist of glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide, glucagon-like peptide-1, and glucagon receptors. In this phase 3, randomized, double-blind trial, we assign...
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ChriSCREAMa Stephens (🐯🏈💜💛) @christinastephens.bsky.social · 13h
What idiot scheduled a mammogram for me at 8 a.m. on a Saturday
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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 18h
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Kate Glenn @findingtangle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Palestinian solidarity is officially a centrist position.
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Kate Glenn @findingtangle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And there are a lot of not primarily politics focused communities still on X that exhibit symptoms of this phenomenon. You can say they aren’t on there for politics but that doesn’t mean the propaganda and algorithmic tone isn’t impacting them.
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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Realized I hadn’t listened to Maisie’s latest album in awhile so remedying that
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Very cool to live in a country where "people who survived state executions" is an actual cohort that researchers study
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 02/10/2026
This summer, ICE arrests of people with no convictions or pending charges more than doubled. Arrests of people with charges or convictions rose under 20%. DHS says it targets the worst of the worst. The data say otherwise. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ices-summe...
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ICE’s Summer Enforcement Surge Driven by People with No Criminal History
The latest data from Deportation Data Project shows that ICE has never arrested so many people — and never so many people without any criminal history.
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ceej @ceej.online · 02/10/2026
incredible news: we’re having the same arguments over and over for the rest of time
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A 17 month old infant nearly died of E coli sepsis after her mum fed her raw goat milk. The milk had been purchased from a farm recommended to her by a Facebook group run by her chiropractor. There's so much to unpack in this story. I'm glaf the kid is alive www.propublica.org/article/cali...
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Though ICE has shifted to less visible tactics since the start of the year, the number of immigration arrests is higher than ever, including in rural and suburban areas, such as much of Maine." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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ICE got ‘quieter’ – then killed a father in Maine. Now watch groups are shifting their tactics too
ICE-watchers get creative after the killing of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, as Trump’s immigration crackdown takes a more secretive approach
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump administration restores 988 LGBTQ+ youth crisis line. Asked about trans callers, HHS cites ‘gender ideology extremism’ www.advocate.com/health/menta...
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Trump restores 988 LGBTQ+ youth crisis line. Asked about trans callers, HHS cites ‘gender ideology extremism’
The Advocate asked federal officials what transgender and nonbinary young people can expect when they seek help.
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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
started raining during my telemedicine therapy appointment as I was sitting on the lawn
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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Donate to support those impacted by ICE raids in New Bedford, MA resist.networkforgood.com/projects/266...
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Donate here for Mujeres Victoriosas
Mujeres Victoriosas is a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating, empowering, and creating spaces where all women can develop leadership, increase their self-esteem, and take action together aga...
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Not the worst outrage of this admin, not by a long shot, but diverting 1/5th of the NSF's research budget is awful
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
it's really hard not to speculate here, but she is in critical condition and my best guess is that she is on a ventilator and other life-saving devices and medications with a poor prognosis
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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I want to take two weeks off and go be on a warm deck somewhere with lots of access to coffee, so I can review all these #ACR26 abstracts and come up with new ideas for grants
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026
wonderful reminder of the funniest dynamic of the mayoral race, where sliwa clearly liked mamdani and was delighted to see him humiliate cuomo also, more politicians should do this! get your flu shots!
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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 02/10/2026
it’d be cool if we had a set of rules about the process of how to determine “what we need to fund”
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emma ✿ @opaliteskies.swifties.social · 02/10/2026
My first attempt at carrot cake! 🥕🍂 I’m going to give this one to my in-laws and my bestie I’m seeing tomorrow. I need a cake tin now..
A homemade carrot cake with little carrot decorations around the sides and leaves in the middle. In the background is an autumnal candle and a cook book with the cake recipe
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