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konor @konvonkay.bsky.social · Mar 29

Thesis? Defended ☑️
Questions? Fielded ☑️
Policies for better HIV prevention and control in the United States? As of lately, not great, but we keep fighting 🔺

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konor @konvonkay.bsky.social · Mar 22

It’s almost like criminalizing homelessness and treating people inhumanly leads to worse outcomes for communities. The intersectionality of healthcare, housing, and human rights is well established at this point, now make a plan !

Behavioral Health and Homelessness | Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative

Behavioral health challenges both contribute to and are exacerbated by homelessness. To better understand behavioral health and homelessness, we examined data from the California Statewide Study of Pe...

homelessness.ucsf.edu

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konor @konvonkay.bsky.social · Mar 11

And yet, still no bookmark feature ?! What are you doing ???

konor @konvonkay.bsky.social · Mar 4

🦠 AAV9 proves itself as powerfully therapeutic AND has the potential to cure rare diseases 👏🏼

Exciting to see hard work payoff!
Can’t acknowledge this pub without acknowledging existence of systemic barriers to medicines for rare diseases too.

I thank the academy (Tenaya) and of course my mice.

AAV9-mediated MYBPC3 gene therapy with optimized expression cassette enhances cardiac function and survival in MYBPC3 cardiomyopathy models - Nature Communications

Loss-of-function mutations in Myosin Binding Protein C3, MYBPC3, are the most common genetic cause of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Here, the authors present an AAV9-based gene therapy system with an o...

www.nature.com

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konor @konvonkay.bsky.social · Feb 17

Love you Keith Haring ♥️

Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · Feb 16

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990.
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
#LGBTplusHistoryMonth

A square canvas. Only the top corner is filled with Harings distinctive figures, rendered in Lavender, the rest is blank.

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konor @konvonkay.bsky.social · Feb 17

Okay and ????

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konor @konvonkay.bsky.social · Feb 5

Truly the saddest recognition I’ve ever received. Mourning the CDC today 💔

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konor @konvonkay.bsky.social · Feb 1

They need some milk

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · Jan 15

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012.

Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.

A thread.

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konor @konvonkay.bsky.social · Jan 23

Perhaps the beginning of the end for Meta?

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konor @konvonkay.bsky.social · Jan 18

theintercept.com/2025/01/13/i...

Queer, HIV-Positive, and Running Out of Medication in Gaza

A year in Palestine, living in fear of not just genocide — but AIDS.

theintercept.com

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konor @konvonkay.bsky.social · Dec 4

I love you Charli #Charlixcx
I want you to see me Fred !
#againandagainandagainandagain
Unsurprising to me– drop your wrapped below!

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konor @konvonkay.bsky.social · Dec 4

I love this !!

konor @konvonkay.bsky.social · Nov 21

okay 👍🏼

konor @konvonkay.bsky.social · Nov 20

As a fellow big data contributor, this is a HUGE day for functional biology and science! We're now much closer to "uncovering the intricate details of how the genes in our cells shape life."

#open #ethical #comprehensive

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

The Human Cell Atlas: towards a first draft atlas

In a collection of research articles and related content, the Human Cell Atlas consortium presents tools, data and ideas towards the generation of their first draft atlas of cells in the human body.

www.nature.com

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konor @konvonkay.bsky.social · Nov 20

Drive down your little country road for more that 10 miles, you might find out so much more than just “Do WoMeN hAvE a PeNiS?!”

konor @konvonkay.bsky.social · Nov 20

Hahaha obsessed, I’m gonna use this myself. Thanks for sharing

konor @konvonkay.bsky.social · Nov 19

you’re* lol

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konor @konvonkay.bsky.social · Nov 19

Hope you’ve discovered by now that you that you CAN in fact just post a clown gif without an ill-thought out and mind-numbingly stupid comparison.

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konor @konvonkay.bsky.social · Nov 18

Inaugural Blueskeet !
A major milestone completed –my work with VUMC’s Dpt of Health of Policy outlined the fruitfulness and feasibility of including rural Tennessee counties in the CDC’s Emerging Infections Program (COVID-19, influenza, and RSV). #VUMedicine #VU #EIPDay

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konor @konvonkay.bsky.social · Nov 17

“both pretty bad” is a bit egregious I’ll say