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Sarah D. Wald

@sarahdwald.bsky.social
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environmental humanities prof at U of Oregon | Environmental justice | Living with MBC (she/her)

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Sarah D. Wald @sarahdwald.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Getting Elacestrant combos approved and thus accessible is going to be a big deal for many MBC patients.
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Sarah D. Wald @sarahdwald.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
An important negative trial!
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Breastcancer.org @breastcancerorg.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
New research from #SABCS25 suggests acupuncture may help ease “chemo brain.” 🎧 Hear Dr. Jun Mao of @mskcancercenter.bsky.social explain more about the results of his research on our podcast today: bit.ly/4pE6TH1 #BreastCancer #Breastcancerresearch
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’ I have been forced to move my classes online. If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.
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Laila Agrawal, MD IF @lailaagrawalmd.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
So much great research coming out at #ASCO25 that will have a major impact for patients with #breastcancer And as a community med onc, thrilled to see new data come out for several agents we have in clinical trials & can offer to our patients close to home! 🏡
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UT MD Anderson Cancer Center @mdanderson.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Researchers at MD Anderson are leading the way with studies like the Diet and Immune Effects Trial (DIET), which explores how diet may impact response to cancer treatment. New results from this important study will be shared at #ASCO25. Learn more: spr.ly/63324N2YtA #EndCancer
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Nutrivention: Food as medicine
Nutrivention is using dietary interventions to impact response to cancer treatment. Increasing fiber intake can improve response rates for patients undergoing immunotherapy treatment for melanoma because fiber is a food source for beneficial bacteria in our gut microbiome. Increasing fiber intake to even just 30 grams per day may lead to positive changes.
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
In advance of #ASCO25, @cmannunziata.bsky.social told me, “We are worried that the cuts to the NIH will drastically impact our ability to do research, to find these new molecular mechanisms of cancer and develop new cures. If we don't have the funding to do the research, this will not happen.”
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Salutedomani @salutedomani.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
#ASCO25: Artificial Intelligence assistance can help improve accuracy in identifying HER2-Low and HER2-Ultralow breast cancers, avoid misclassification www.saluteh24.com/il_weblog_di...
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#ASCO25: Artificial Intelligence assistance can help improve accuracy in identifying HER2-Low and HER2-Ultralow breast cancers, avoid misclassification
“Accurate HER2 scoring is important to ensure that patients receive the best treatment for their breast cancer. This international study shows that an AI-assisted approach improved HER2 scoring, inclu...
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United Academics of the University of Oregon, AAUP-AFT 3209 @uauoregon.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Join us for the Final Quackdown practice picket, march, and rally on Friday, March 14th, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., starting at the Ford Alumni Center. A massive turnout sends a powerful message—drop everything and be there!
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United Academics of the University of Oregon, AAUP-AFT 3209 @uauoregon.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Look for UA in today's Eugene Weekly. There is an article on page five and this beauty!
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Julia Maués @itsnotpink.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
This could mean we patients won’t get the next breakthrough treatment.
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Josh Kluever @joshkluever.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
🗃️ CFP for a special issue of The Public Historian.
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Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
That’s the same basic idea behind the current system of indirect cost rates for universities. A university has buildings with labs and furniture and electricity and IT systems (and on and on). They don’t need to buy those things all over again each time a new research study is funded. 7/
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Five.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 31/01/2025
From @aaup.bsky.social, what to do if ICE is on your campus.
ICE On Your Campus
Questions to Ask Your Administration
1. What is campus policy with regard to working with federal immigration authorities?
2. Who should faculty contact in the event that they are approached by ICE agents?
3. What private/limited-access spaces can you make available where ICE agents cannot enter unless they have a valid warrant?
4. Are you planning to communicate with students, staff, and faculty about their privacy rights? These rights include the right to deny immigration officers entry to their homes (including dorms) unless officers have a judicial warrant, and the right to not respond to the questions or statements of an immigration officer who is seeking to enter their home without a judicial warrant.
5. Are you planning to communicate guidance that, if a federal immigration enforcement officer seeks to enter a limited-access area on campus, students and workers should ask the officer for their name, identification number, agency affiliation, and business card, and inform the officer that they are not obstructing their process but need to contact the campus legal counsel for assistance?
6. What campus authority should students contact if they are contacted by ICE?
What Chapter Leaders Can Do Now
1. Provide to faculty any campus plan or policy and any campus authority contact.
2. Create a list of immigration attorneys who can be contacted in case of emergencies day and night.
3. Distribute a family preparedness plan template to your members. Example: aaup.org/ILRC-plan
4. Conduct Know Your Rights sessions for your members; these do not have to be done by an attorney.
Recommendations for Organizing on Your Campus
Engage members via a petition, open letter, high-participation meeting, in-person demonstration, or other collective action to demand that your campus administrators:
1. Not comply with ICE to detain or deport students, faculty, or staff unless legally required to do so.
2. Ensure that noncitizens understand the difference between an …
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Sarah D. Wald @sarahdwald.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I’m trying to figure out where all my cancer meds are manufactured tonight while worrying about access and shortages. It sure is a fun time to have cancer!
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Let’s try something. We here at @altnih4science.bsky.social want to boost descriptions of NIH-funded science. If you’re a scientist with a post or thread that describes your work, please tag us or DM us, and we’ll repost. We’ll use the #NIHFundsGreatScience hashtag so people can read in future. 🧪
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METAvivor @metavivor.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Follow this link to find out how to advocate for MBC patients in light of the recent directive to halt external communications from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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Advocate in Response to HHS Directive | METAvivor
METAvivor is a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing awareness of advanced breast cancer and equity in research and patient support.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 28/01/2025
NEW: My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health care from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.
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High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 28/01/2025
Formerly incarcerated firefighter Eddie Herrera just wants people to treat incarcerated firefighters like human beings.
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What it’s like to be an incarcerated firefighter  - High Country News
Eddie Herrera, a formerly incarcerated firefighter, talks about the job and how he sees what’s happening in Los Angeles.
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Phil Rocco @philiprocco.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
random sampling of 100 major grant-in-aid programs in no particular order and with no particular selection rule.
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Jennifer Justice @heyajj.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
#Eugenics on a global scale
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Sarah D. Wald @sarahdwald.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Who knew “and then they came for the cancer patients” was gonna be so high up in the poem?
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Sarah D. Wald @sarahdwald.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Does anyone have advice on how to write a strong appeals letter? My insurance company won’t cover the medications keeping my liver, brain, and bone mets (from breast cancer) stable. I feel like my life is riding on this appeal…because it kinda is. #bcsm #cancer
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Maximus @maximustm.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I was set to enter a clinical trial in February. It's since been canceled. You are spot on with "cancer itself will not agree to such a delay." #Cansky
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Most folks do not understand how far in advance the planning and logistics of NIH grants take. We prepare for months or years for these submissions for one of 3 cycles per year. This study section cancellation delays grants by at least 6 months when study sections are cancelled.
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christine liu / two photon art @christineliu.art · 25/01/2025
Today a reporter reached out to me after seeing posts I made on Bluesky about what’s going on at NIH. Keep typing, keep talking, keep shouting, because your voice goes beyond the void.
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Faith Crittenden MD MPH @faithdaniellemd.medsky.social · 22/01/2025
I know there’s a lot happening, but this is critical: Study sections at the NIH have been shut down. ➡️ No reviews = No grants ➡️ No grants = No research ➡️ No research = No NIH This threatens the future of science & medicine. #MedSky #HealthPolicy #NIH
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🪩🧪discotuba🧪🪩 @discotuba.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Oncology starter pack volume 1 (all cancer types). go.bsky.app/GKXp9Fy Scroll up for more including the #ASCO #GI25 starter pack I created specifically for 🚨🧪GI cancer research coverage🧪🚨. Have a favorite abstract? Post a link and ask to join! Don't forget the🧪!
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Sarah D. Wald @sarahdwald.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The landmark 1994 Executive Order on Environmental Justice is among those rescinded. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...
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Trump scraps Clinton-era environmental justice order
The 1994 executive order was considered a launching pad for federal efforts to overcome long-standing environmental discrimination.
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Jackie Flynn Mogensen @jackiefmogensen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
If you're a researcher impacted by the NIH/CDC/FDA travel and communication pause and are open to chatting about your experience, big or small, please reach out to me at jmogensen@motherjones.com or DM for Signal
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United Academics of the University of Oregon, AAUP-AFT 3209 @uauoregon.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Let's do this!
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Michiel vd Meent @mvdmeent.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Similar thing here. My wife is working on registration of a new anti-cancer drug. Received info today that FDA activities have been halted, registration process suspended for an unspecified period… 🤪
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Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸 @jessagoldberg.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
The number of people in my life who are at this very moment currently fighting with health insurance companies over procedures and medications they need is so infuriating. Our whole country's approach to healthcare in every way is absolutely terrible. The whole system needs to be trashed.
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Sarah D. Wald @sarahdwald.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Waiting to find out if the insurance company will cover the first treatment in over a year that has fully stabilized the cancer is terrifying. #ThisIsMBC #bcsm
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Stacey Tinianov, MPH @coffeemommy.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Advocacy makes a difference 🎉 A week ago I shared w/ Dr. Alistair Thompson that "right-sizing treatment" is preferred terminology to "de-escalation." Latter can imply 'less than" which, in absence of strong health/disease literacy, can be terrifying. Today he shared that info his #SABCS24 preso
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Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
#sabcs24 #cancer
Cup of coffee with Stage IV Needs More
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Julia Maués @itsnotpink.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
To build on the progress shared at #SABCS24 for triple-positive MBC ( #PATINA), when treatments stop working, is it the HER2 or HR component driving resistance? Need a biomarker! Patients want the most mileage from every treatment! PS: Finally, +++ is being treated differently from HER2+/HR–.
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Dr. Don S Dizon @drdonsdizon.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
@bsky.app more than adequately picked up what was lost from Twitter when it comes to medical conferences. #sabcs24 was a throwback to those old days of following posts, seeing different perspectives on data, and seeing colleagues in San Antonio. #hcsm has a new home. #oncsm #oncsky
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Ilana Schlam @ilanaschlam.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Wrapping up another fantastic #SABCS! Amazing, practice-changing data were presented. I’ve updated the algorithms and added key studies from the meeting— I finally ran out of space in HR+ disease! #SABCS24 @oncoalert.bsky.social
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Sarah D. Wald @sarahdwald.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
The poster spotlight on brain mets this am is fantastic and so exciting/hopeful for better options for treatments to come across subtypes. #SABCS24
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Tatiana Prowell, MD @tmprowell.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
#SABCS24 #bcsm #OncSky #MedSky Finally, if you have Qs about #compassionateuse of investigational agents (not only for #cancer) because you can’t access #clinicaltrials, the Regan-Udall Expanded Access Navigator is a huge help! Check it out! navigator.reaganudall.org @oncoalert.bsky.social
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Sarah D. Wald @sarahdwald.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
“Cancer patients are your biggest supporters b/c our lives depend on your success.” - patient advocate Christine Hodgdon #SABCS24
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The Breast Cancer Research Foundation @bcrfcure.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Congratulations to BCRF investigator Dr. Steffi Oesterreich for receiving this year’s AACR (@theaacr.bsky.social) Distinguished Lectureship in Breast Cancer Research Award at #SABCS24. She has made groundbreaking contributions in translational breast cancer research. @sabcs.bsky.social
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Sarah D. Wald @sarahdwald.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Age is an independent predictor of brain mets across all bc subtypes (yes, even er+\her2-). Younger women are at higher risk. Dr. Diana Cittelly’s fascinating discussion of estrogen and brain mets went well beyond this but as someone diagnosed under 40 with MBC, I wish I knew this earlier. #SABCS24
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Kelly Shanahan @stage4kelly.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Today’s Alamo Breast Cancer Foundation session today starts out honoring one of the greatest advocates I’ve ever known, a good friend, a clinical trial hero Sheila Johnson. May she rest in power. #SABCS24
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Matt Sikora @mjsikora.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Dr Davis gave an inspiring talk this morning, phenomenal re what's possible in parallel multi-omic approaches to understanding biological vs social drivers of cancer health disparities. #SABCS24
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Paolo Tarantino, MD @ptarantinomd.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
‼️When you thought you had the #SABCS24 program figured out, here’s the PRACTICE-CHANGING #PATINA trial being added! For the impatient ones, press release here: www.businesswire.com/news/home/20... If you’re in San Anyonio, though, make sure to attend the data presentation today by Otto Metzger!
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