Tzvi Pollock, PhD @tzvi-pollock.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Very excited to announce our new Sex Hormones and Hormone Therapy collection at Communications Medicine! HRT is an extremely impactful intervention and yet research into best practices is lacking, and treatment so often relies on anecdote and individual clinicians. 121
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDEmerge Australia @emergeaustralia.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Monash Uni is recruiting adults 18+ with long COVID for a dietary fibre study. Includes study foods, 2 Alfred Hospital visits, samples + short check-ins. Info: zurl.co/3YcZZ Survey: zurl.co/RlK7V 💙 033
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 28/05/2026Neutrino Project xkcd.com/3249/ 162966302
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDDrug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Well. This is startling. “At least one of the NIH’s 27 institutes and centres has lost so many GMSs that it has asked early-career researchers, including postdocs and graduate students, who work in the NIH’s own labs to consider working temporarily as a GMS on a volunteer basis” 23019
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDPhillyPhile215 @phillyphile215.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Philly Philly representin’ again this International ME Awareness Day, thanks to @tinayesenofski.bsky.social @solveme.bsky.social and @pecoconnect.bsky.social 👏👏👏 Scrolling atop the Philly skyline May 11-13th! #LightUpForMECFS #MEAwarenessDay2026 #InternationalMEAwarenessDay #MEcfs 22914
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDAndrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Actual “AI” literacy would involve explaining why it's not and never will be a reliable source of information nor will it ever be a replacement for research or creativity. 3396159
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDDr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 29/04/2026An Opus from my Long C-19 Colleagues from across the world. Lead author, @profmarkfaghy.bsky.social ... Total CHAMPION‼️ My contribution... Sleep Medicine🙏🏻 www.nature.com/articles/s43...nature.comCurrent status and future perspectives on the mechanistic and pathophysiological understanding of long COVID - Communications MedicineFaghy et al., review the current literature on Long COVID pathophysiology, linking immune dysregulation, viral persistence, and vascular injury to enduring symptoms. They highlight evidence to guide f... 411648
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Not so marvelous news. ~95,000 scientists have left the federal government since the Trump regime took over.nytimes.comProminent Climate Scientist Resigns From NASA, Citing Trump’s Attack on Science 2131211247
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDPaul Voosen @voosen.me · 24/03/2026Our story on the science takeaways from Ignition day is up now. Skepticism is warranted about this aggressive timeline and how much scientific payoff you get from these tiny helicopters -- we'll follow how it develops.science.orgNASA plans to send a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars in 2028Spacecraft would release helicopters to explore martian surface 1294
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhD🎃 Zack o' Lantern 🎃 @zackdavisson.com · 25/03/2026There is no ethical Harry Potter consumption. If you MUST do it, have the good sense to feel bad about it and keep it your shameful secret, knowing you are actively hurting people. 1031971
Tzvi Pollock, PhD @tzvi-pollock.bsky.social · 26/03/2026The ignorance on display is so staggering, every time. 030
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDIsabel @isabelott.bsky.social · 24/03/2026the secretary of health and human services says “your stomach microbiome is plants.” if i hadn’t quit drinking 5 years ago i’d be in trouble 4644
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDAdam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Clip from yesterday’s BBC South report about the #MECFS Alliance event on the future of #MECFS and #LongCOVID research. Sam, an ME patient, says the government failing to fund further research after the success of DecodeME is “absolutely disgraceful”. 22614
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 11/03/2026It's looking increasingly like these guys thought that if they could wreak more death and destruction than the other side then they would be respected as strong powerful men and they would "win" and that would make them big important heroes. Very possibly they had no rationale deeper than that. 7125792156
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDThe Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 24/02/2026The idea that humans sit atop an evolutionary hierarchy dates back to 1866, when a scientist drew the first tree of life with "Man" at the top. This inaccurate view still shapes how we think of the animal world, despite decades of genomic evidence proving evolution has no hierarchy. buff.ly/055hdSobuff.lyNo animal alive today is ‘primitive’ – why are so many still labeled that way?All species alive today, from chimpanzees to bacteria, are cousins that each have equally long lineages, rather than ancestors or descendants of one another. 35122
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDCommunications Medicine @commsmed.nature.com · 18/11/2025💡 NEW Collection! ⚕️🩺 Submit your research on ‘Diagnosis and Care of Sepsis’ to this cross-journal collection with @natcomms.nature.com and Scientific Reports! www.nature.com/collections/...nature.comDiagnosis and Care of SepsisWith this cross-journal Collection, the editors at Communications Medicine, Nature Communications, and Scientific Reports invite manuscripts that highlight ... 011
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDbetsy ladyzhets 😷 @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Today @thesicktimes.org: Some musicians are prioritizing COVID-19 precautions at concerts, protecting themselves and their fans while making the shows more inclusive. By @katiechow.bsky.social: thesicktimes.org/2026/02/17/t...thesicktimes.orgThese artists are making concerts safer with COVID-19 precautions - The Sick TimesWhile most of the music industry has “moved on,” COVID-conscious performers have been working to prevent their shows from being superspreaders. 1469
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDPatrick @ps-on.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Backsliding in the US happening quicker than other 21st century cases. www.ft.com/content/b474... 317592
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDElle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 02/02/2026And not to put too fine a point on it, but a president who ran on eliminating “illegal” immigrants created a ton more “illegal” immigrants by canceling a bunch of actual real legal statuses. He took people off the path that everyone says they want people on. 142297709
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20/01/2026Literally a Nazi tactic, stealing from people who are fleeing bsky.app/profile/domi... 1428140
Tzvi Pollock, PhD @tzvi-pollock.bsky.social · 21/01/2026It feels small right now, given the ethnic cleansing campaign and war of international aggression, but if the US ever contributed anything good to this world it was investment in the Sciences, and the damage to that infrastructure will be felt for generations in so many horrible ways... 000
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17/01/2026This idea is absolutely brain-dead and absolutely everywhere. 842822411
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDSooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 18/01/2026I put myself through the entire interview. Trust me when I tell you that Gavin "dank memes" Newsom agrees with him on EVERYTHING. I literally says "I agree with you" on EVERYTHING. Ben "extremely unpopular even with MAGA" Shapiro gets very combative with him and Gavin capitulates EVERY time. 772979712
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDDr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 18/01/2026Another thing that I do to support my students is that I acknowledge what’s happening, and I don’t pretend that stuff like this is normal, and that everything’s fine. I have had students tell me that they feel like they’re going crazy because they see what is happening but no one will speak of it. 311435
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDPolicyLab at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia @policylabchop.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Our partners at CHOP’s Vaccine Education Center are cutting through the noise this season with 4 timely resources to help families make informed decisions. See the roundup ⤵️ policylab.chop.edu/blog/chops-v...policylab.chop.eduCHOP’s Vaccine Education Center Elevates Science-backed Recommendations in 200 WordsEditor’s note: In this post, we round up just a few of the many timely resources our partners at the Vaccine Education Center have produced to help guide informed decision making. As we head into… 012
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 20/12/2025The thing about RFK jr. being a terrible head of health and human services is like…yeah. Yeah, he is literally the worst possible person for the job. 1223884407
Tzvi Pollock, PhD @tzvi-pollock.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Incorrect pronouns now safely discarded! Happy to be fully myself where I can. ❤️🏳️🌈 020
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDScience Magazine @science.org · 13/11/2025A retreat from investments in drugs and vaccines will leave the U.S. less prepared for the next viral scourge, experts warn. scim.ag/47F3Yapscim.agThe Trump administration is dismantling efforts to fight the next pandemicA retreat from investments in drugs and vaccines leaves U.S. less prepared for the next viral scourge, experts warn 47233
Tzvi Pollock, PhD @tzvi-pollock.bsky.social · 14/11/2025The barring of collaboration - scientific collaboration!! - across borders is just more evidence that border themselves do way more harm than good. 021
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/11/2025seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous 332130512216
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDJoshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 05/11/2025A competent opposition party could make transphobia absolutely toxic for the GOP. 434067
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDLiz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Getting vaccinated is much safer than getting Covid 14815
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDLunatic Asylum 🏳️⚧️ @thephase.bsky.social · 05/11/2025The fact that Staten Island is the only borough to go Cuomo simply convinces me that the whole island should be Atlantis'd, or perhaps Lemuria'd. 001
Tzvi Pollock, PhD @tzvi-pollock.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Love for my darkest fears to be proven wrong. 000
Tzvi Pollock, PhD @tzvi-pollock.bsky.social · 29/10/2025We love a vindictive power structure that makes systemic decisions based on their childish tantrums! At least it's only human lives and livelihoods that are at stake. 😌 100
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/10/2025As an educator, as a fellow woman in science, I’m fucking horrified that Lia Smith who was just a year from graduation felt her only option was to take her own life. I lay her death at the feet of all the people hounding trans women athletes like her, you fucking monsters 10968237
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 28/10/2025BREAKING: At least 18 Palestinians have been killed and about 50 others injured in Israeli air strikes across Gaza, medical sources on the ground told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/11lhsx 20343303
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDFifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 29/10/2025There has never been a time when SNAP was withheld nationwide, but this shutdown will break the streak. The public has proof of genocide, pedo rings, foreign collusion, gaslighting, surveillance, urban occupation, police brutality, human trafficking, family separation, etc...and now mass starvation. 0195103
Tzvi Pollock, PhD @tzvi-pollock.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Well at least the past few years have taught us that disease control isn't a particularly important field! 🙃 010
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 15/10/2025All I can add to the “we reject universal masking” discourse is that it’s not about masks. You aren’t rejecting universal masking, which never happened; you’re rejecting having to think about wearing a mask, and maybe feeling badly about thinking about masks. Can’t help you there. 7919225
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDbetsy ladyzhets 😷 @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Fascinating new paper: higher levels of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater correlate with higher health-related absences from work. "COVID-19 may have created a new year-round baseline for work absences that is similar to influenza season conditions before the pandemic," the authors write.jamanetwork.comEnduring Outcomes of COVID-19 Work Absences on the US Labor MarketThis cohort study examines the extent to which COVID-19 continues to generate work absences and decrease labor force participation beyond the pandemic period in the US. 517765
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDDon Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 16/10/2025This is almost literally what the English Civil War was fought over. 512371597
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDAlicia Ault @aliciaault.bsky.social · 15/10/2025From @washingtonpost.com Health Brief: a screenshot of the 982 people RIFed from HHS. Majority--596--from CDC. The total was released as part of lawsuit filed by AFGE, the federal workers' union. #Medsky #IDSky #politics #epidemiology #shutdown 145
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDC.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 15/10/2025I hesitate to elevate this comment—IME people aware of how uninformed it is are in the majority on Bsky—but worth observing that this coming from eg the NYT opinion page is part of why RFK has an opening to pretend to be better on Long Covid than liberals. They’ve made the bar that low. 96911
Tzvi Pollock, PhD @tzvi-pollock.bsky.social · 15/10/2025This and what everyone is saying. Not everyone seems to understand how dire the accurate threat assessment remains to this day. 😷😷😷 020
Reposted by Tzvi Pollock, PhDSilke 🌏 @verygoodmissjones.bsky.social · 14/10/2025It is next to impossible to rationally assess the threat environment. People do not test, and mingle even when symptomatic. In addition, a good part of transmission is asymptomatic. Best approximations of infection risk can be made based on wastewater testing, where available, and indoor air quality 1892