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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙

@drlaurahaynes.bsky.social

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Miami native & U Miami🙌🏽 grad now in Connecticut’s Farmington valley Immunologist/Gerontologist/Professor #TrustScience #VaccinesWork Opinions are my own & do not represent my employer

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · Jan 3

About me: I’m an immunologist & gerontologist. I study how aging influences immunity including the response to vaccines.
#VaccinesWork
#VaccinesSaveLives
#VaccinesDoNotCauseAutism

a sticker that says vaccines save lives on it

ALT: a sticker that says vaccines save lives on it

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 59m

Morning Francine 🌞

Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 2h

Really not good 😞

Nature @nature.com · 2h

The US government shutdown, about to enter its third week, is starting to take a toll on US science

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Scientists lose jobs and grants as US government shutdown takes a toll

Hundreds of people at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have received layoff notices, and work at many federal laboratories has been suspended.

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 2h

They certainly do Jim😫

Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 2h

I missed this yesterday: great news for Sandy Hook families. Alex Jones needs to STFU and pay what he owes

Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 23h

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just rejected Alex Jones' appeal and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him by the Sandy Hook Elementary School families

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 9h

Destroying public health is how you make a country health again, obviously

WIRED @wired.com · 15h

Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January. www.wired.com/story/cdc-te...

A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone

Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 2h

Important point: public colleges are considered part of the government. The First Amendment limits the legal authority they have over their employees’ speech. This is especially true when an employee is speaking as a private citizen

The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 9h

Can a professor be fired for what they post online?

A new wave of lawsuits is testing how far First Amendment protections really go on college campuses, especially at public universities.

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#polisky #college #FirstAmendment

What the First Amendment doesn’t protect when it comes to professors speaking out on politics

American colleges and universities have traditionally encouraged free speech. Recent dismissals of professors are eroding their commitment to this core mission.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 9h

basic research on wacky things like Gila monster venom are what gave us GLP-1 drugs that are treating diabetes, obesity, & addiction in new ways

this piece from @whyy.org is great

an analogy: navigation apps are great but don't tell you how to climb Mt. Everest & survive

whyy.org/segments/oze...

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 2h

Well shit

Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 9h

Welp—CDC’s entire data team for its legendary national health and nutrition survey (NHANES)—our health census—has been laid off. Now we are flying blind to nutrition and chronic disease status in the U.S.—is this supposed to help us be MAHA? www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off

NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

www.statnews.com

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 2h

#WomenInStem 🧪

Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 5h

Six Pasteur scientists win 2025 L’Oréal-UNESCO Young Talents! 🌟 Yolène: Caribbean plants vs dengue mozzies; Leah: gastruloid biophysics; Marion: cancer immunotherapy; Eulalie: menstruation genetics; Sabrina: fixing hearing nerve; Marie: TB & sarcoid immunity. #WomenInScience

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 5h

Let’s walk through how to recognize a seizure in a bystander or loved one, and what to do in those crucial moments after a seizure begins, with guidance from a neurologist:

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Recognizing when someone is having a seizure – and how you can help during those first critical moments

What you don’t do: Don’t shout at them, don’t put things in their mouth and don’t let them get near things that are sharp or hard in case of a fall.

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 2h

This is scary…vaccinate your kids

Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 3h

www.npr.org/2025/10/12/n...

U.S. measles cases continue to climb, with outbreaks across the country

In South Carolina, more than 150 unvaccinated schoolkids are under quarantine after being exposed to measles. Across the U.S., total case counts could be even higher than the official number.

www.npr.org

Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 2h

Good morning 🌞
Happy Humpday everyone

a picture of a camel with the words guess what day written above it

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 2h

OH MY
Haven’t the 🍊🤡 cult learned to not come for @crockett.house.gov yet?

Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 15h

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 11h

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 12h

Same here…I’m trying to deny that I’m getting older but it’s happening anyway 😬

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 14h

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 12h

In case you were wondering, yes this was funded by NIH and your tax dollars

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 12h

And here is the original publication

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Plasma phosphorylated tau 217 and phosphorylated tau 181 as biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration: a retrospective diagnostic performance study

Both p-tau217 and p-tau181 had excellent diagnostic performance for differentiating patients with Alzheimer's disease syndromes from other neurodegenerative disorders. There was some evidence in favou...

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 12h

Here’s more about the blood test
www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/al...

Blood Test Discerns Alzheimer's From Other Dementia With High Accuracy

Plasma p-tau moves another step closer to clinical use

www.medpagetoday.com

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 12h

Another cool advancement for those of us getting older: FDA cleared a novel biomarker for Alzheimer’s Disease that can be used in primary care settings

MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 13h

FDA cleared the Elecsys pTau181 test as the first blood-based biomarker to aid in the initial assessment of Alzheimer's disease and other causes of cognitive decline that can be used in the primary care setting.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/alzheimersdisease/117920

Alzheimer's Blood Test Cleared for Primary Care Use

Elecsys pTau181 test can help rule out Alzheimer's-related amyloid pathology

www.medpagetoday.com

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15h

It's really not about politics anymore. The apparatus of the Republican Party has simply become a haven for bad people.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 12h

Listen to Obama

(I really miss him)

Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 12h

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES

DAY 14 OCTOBER 2025

THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES

ICYMI. . . FOR ME THIS CLIP IS WORTHY OF SHOWING AGAIN & AGAIN

THE IMPORTANCE OF CALIFORNIA VOTING YES ON PROP 50

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
PLEASE LISTEN
CALIFORNIANS GET EVERYONE TO VOTE
YES ON PROP 50

WE THANK YOU !!!

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 12h

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 13h

Definitely

Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 14h

I’m thinking that these folks easily fall into the “deplorable” category

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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