Reposted by Rheum CatAnne Lipton, MD, PhD @annelipton.bsky.social · 2hFall in Vancouver.❤️🍁🧡 #autumn #fall #October #Vancouver #BritishColumbia #Canada 0101
Reposted by Rheum CatDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 3hLet'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...m.youtube.comThe Love Hypothesis - Official Trailer | Prime VideoYouTube video by Prime Video 16864
Reposted by Rheum CatMariano Aguirre @aguirreernst.bsky.social · 14hwww.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/b...nytimes.comA Quietly Shattering Memoir by a Man Detained by ICE for His BeliefsMahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist and former Columbia graduate student, offers an account of his ordeal and explains why his work continues. 011
Reposted by Rheum Catpublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 4h#buttonsmania #caturday 214515
Reposted by Rheum Catмɑгκ @drumrollplease.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Oh, mythical Costco churro, how I love thee. Let me bite the ways. 3371
Reposted by Rheum CatBK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 4hApologies the link in OP was the link for institutional letter. Here is the link for individual letters: actionnetwork.org/letters/acti...actionnetwork.orgAction Alert: Urge Congress to Demand Release of Overdue HIV Research NOFOsOverview 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 ... 097
Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 5hWe were at Coolidge Corner reminding folks to vote early and in person @deborahelizabeth.bsky.social @activistevenings.bsky.social 0111
Reposted by Rheum CatBK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 5hAppropriated 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...savehivfunding.org 24629
Reposted by Rheum CatJoe Calhoun @jbc3.bsky.social · 9hI see your apex predator and raise you mine #Caturday 0263
Reposted by Rheum CatJulia Goolia @juliagoolia9.bsky.social · 6hCollege 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. 1398
Reposted by Rheum CatClaire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 8hthat one guy hogging the mic after your conference talk when you’re a woman 1184
Reposted by Rheum CatJacqueline 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.socialinquirer.comA 20-year-old Amish woman with leukemia got measles and died in Pa.’s largest outbreak in three decadesAfter 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. 27463196
Reposted by Rheum CatMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 8hWe all know why I’m really here 138612
Reposted by Rheum CatThanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 23hMy 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 1412544199
Reposted by Rheum CatMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 7hWE’RE GONNA BE OK. I’m sure this blew out the audio on my phone tho lol 228733
Reposted by Rheum CatJack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 7hNIH makes yet again new LOW number of grants report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/... 21313
Reposted by Rheum CatChrystal Starbird @drstarbird.bsky.social · 02/10/2026And about how the systems in which science operates can exclude promising talent from non-traditional backgrounds: open.spotify.com/episode/20x4...open.spotify.comStandard Deviation S2 E2: The Advocacy TaxOut of Patients with Matthew Zachary · Episode 142
Reposted by Rheum CatChrystal Starbird @drstarbird.bsky.social · 02/10/2026We 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...cell.comTransforming myself and academia for goodDr. 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... 35018
Reposted by Rheum Cat⸸ 𝖋𝖆𝖊 ⸸ @ohmypennywise.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I sure do have big dick energy for someone with no dick and no energy. 39138
Reposted by Rheum CatRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11hWrote a thing Monday. Got held back and is a weekend read at the Guardian today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 8323111
Reposted by Rheum CatProf Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 12hThat 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🤯 36914
Reposted by Rheum CatMadhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 11h#Caturday is for boxtrolls, says Saya, who’s grown too big now for this box! 0336
Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 12hOf 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) 122
Reposted by Rheum CatDr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 12hSo 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… 1442947
Reposted by Rheum CatMike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 12hlol- 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....nejm.orgRetatrutide, a Triple Hormone Receptor Agonist, for Treatment of Obesity | NEJMRetatrutide 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... 121
Reposted by Rheum CatChriSCREAMa Stephens (🐯🏈💜💛) @christinastephens.bsky.social · 13hWhat idiot scheduled a mammogram for me at 8 a.m. on a Saturday 2291
Reposted by Rheum CatKate Glenn @findingtangle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Palestinian solidarity is officially a centrist position. 16811
Reposted by Rheum CatKate Glenn @findingtangle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026And 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. 031
Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Realized I hadn’t listened to Maisie’s latest album in awhile so remedying that 140
Reposted by Rheum CatDhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026NEW: 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.socialwired.comICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir DatabaseDHS 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. 12429131741
Reposted by Rheum CatDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Very cool to live in a country where "people who survived state executions" is an actual cohort that researchers study 924955
Reposted by Rheum CatAustin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 02/10/2026This 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...austinkocher.substack.comICE’s Summer Enforcement Surge Driven by People with No Criminal HistoryThe latest data from Deportation Data Project shows that ICE has never arrested so many people — and never so many people without any criminal history. 59045
Reposted by Rheum Catceej @ceej.online · 02/10/2026incredible news: we’re having the same arguments over and over for the rest of time 653087454
Reposted by Rheum CatBK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A 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...propublica.orgA 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... 912636
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...theguardian.comICE got ‘quieter’ – then killed a father in Maine. Now watch groups are shifting their tactics tooICE-watchers get creative after the killing of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, as Trump’s immigration crackdown takes a more secretive approach 142
Reposted by Rheum CatLiz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Trump administration restores 988 LGBTQ+ youth crisis line. Asked about trans callers, HHS cites ‘gender ideology extremism’ www.advocate.com/health/menta...advocate.comTrump 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. 046
Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026started raining during my telemedicine therapy appointment as I was sitting on the lawn 130
Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Donate to support those impacted by ICE raids in New Bedford, MA resist.networkforgood.com/projects/266...resist.networkforgood.comDonate here for Mujeres VictoriosasMujeres 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... 130
Reposted by Rheum CatMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Not the worst outrage of this admin, not by a long shot, but diverting 1/5th of the NSF's research budget is awfulnytimes.comNational Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by CongressThe 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. 47344
Reposted by Rheum CatMemento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026it'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 prognosisapnews.com 2117921
Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I 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 060
Reposted by Rheum CatMicah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026wonderful 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! 342828369
Reposted by Rheum CatSeth Trueger @mdaware.org · 02/10/2026it’d be cool if we had a set of rules about the process of how to determine “what we need to fund” 1152
Reposted by Rheum Catemma ✿ @opaliteskies.swifties.social · 02/10/2026My 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.. 11642