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Physician-scientist, Radiologist, Prof & Lab Head in NYC Imaging & treating cancer using particles faster than light + others. Science, Music, Art and History lover and connoisseur. Opinions solely mine and not my employer's or lab members'.

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grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · Nov 12

“I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it, or thinking about it.”
Leonard Bernstein

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grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 16m

Deleted post with a pic which I labeled misleadingly as being taken IN Portland, OR. It was by AP from a German photographer (Bimmer), probably done in Hamburg at the G8 summit.
But it stylizes the situation in Portland still nicely and is a great picture.

grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 19m

Ah. Then I will delete it. I assume then that it is from Hamburg and the G8 summit as photographer is in Hamburg and Polizei is of course (also) German.
Got hot from my wife. Apparently AP posted it as this is how Portland feels now.

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grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 4h

Now do one on the cancelled and defunded pediatric brain tumor consortium.
Kids with brain cancer thrown off therapy and trials closed as no funding. That is what they are doing.
To feed the ego of one tiny man and fill his and their pockets.
www.childrensbraintumorproject.org/2025/08/29/n...

Long-Standing Consortium, PBTC, Loses Federal Funding

NEW YORK TIMES FEATURES THE END OF FEDERAL FUNDING FOR PBTC

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grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 4h

So so many of these stories.

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NPR @npr.org · 19h

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 5h

Excellent Krugman post summarizing it nicely.

Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 5h

'There is, however, one big difference between Trump’s trade policy and China’s. Namely, the Chinese appear to know what they’re doing.'
@pkrugman.bsky.social
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How Trump Is Making China Great

Why we’re going to lose the trade war, and much more besides

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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 5h

How Trump Is Making China Great

Why we’re going to lose the trade war, and much more besides

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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 1d

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grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 22h

I wonder do they actually believe themselves the BS they spew or are they among each other laughing about the idiots who believe them still.

grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 23h

He could excommunicate Vance…

grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 1d

Because the Venn diagram is just one circle

a white circle is glowing in the dark on a black background

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grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 1d

Eugenics. Survival of the fittest.

grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 1d

a group of people are standing around a fountain in a crowd .

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grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 1d

The NCI payline dropped.

grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 1d

Eugenics Phantasie of survival of the fittest.
Who though says that THEY are the fittest?

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 1d

When 2 life science discoveries converge: solving a ~3 decade mystery of extraordinary longevity and healthspan + an essential cell danger sensor
And related ongoing clinical trials!
erictopol.substack.com/p/a-long-awa...

A Long-Awaited Longevity Mystery Solved

Spotlighting an essential human biologic pathway targeted by drugs in clinical trials

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 1d

elmo from sesame street is dancing with a stick in his hand

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grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 1d

a row of stormtroopers walking down a hallway in a black and white photo .

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grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 1d

a man with curly hair says " we 're all shocked " while wearing a pink scarf

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 3d

Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

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grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 1d

So, we are in Anne Frank territory now.

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grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 1d

For eternity. After some real bad Indian food.

grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 1d

Hope he sues for arrest without warrant.

grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 1d

Especially since they are not allowed to look at their work email which is the only way to find out if they still have a job.