grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️
@grimmrad.bsky.social
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'.
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
Leonard Bernstein
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Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
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I will be phone banking for Aftyn this weekend.
I am trying to have something else to be thankful for next week.
The more the merrier
@aftynbehn.bsky.social
@standupforscience.bsky.social
@cdelawalla.bsky.social
I am trying to have something else to be thankful for next week.
The more the merrier
@aftynbehn.bsky.social
@standupforscience.bsky.social
@cdelawalla.bsky.social
TAKE ACTION! Hit the phones with us on Saturday and Sunday for @aftynbehn4tn, and help bring sanity back to science policy. Sign up at zurl.co/5aOiP (linked in our bio) to get started. All you need is a phone and a zeal for action!
November 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I will be phone banking for Aftyn this weekend.
I am trying to have something else to be thankful for next week.
The more the merrier
@aftynbehn.bsky.social
@standupforscience.bsky.social
@cdelawalla.bsky.social
I am trying to have something else to be thankful for next week.
The more the merrier
@aftynbehn.bsky.social
@standupforscience.bsky.social
@cdelawalla.bsky.social
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'Clinician–researcher David Simon (...) says the CAR-T therapies have since entered phase I and II clinical trials for autoimmune conditions including systemic sclerosis, myositis and rheumatoid arthritis. Phase III trials are also under way for lupus and myasthenia gravis'
‘They don’t have symptoms’: CAR-T therapies send autoimmune diseases into remission
Engineered T cells that have been used to treat ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus show promising results.
www.nature.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
'Clinician–researcher David Simon (...) says the CAR-T therapies have since entered phase I and II clinical trials for autoimmune conditions including systemic sclerosis, myositis and rheumatoid arthritis. Phase III trials are also under way for lupus and myasthenia gravis'
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"A YouTuber dropped his camera to the bottom of the ocean and recorded a deep-sea animal that no one has been able to identify."
petapixel.com/2025/11/25/y....
petapixel.com/2025/11/25/y....
YouTuber Drops Camera in Ocean and Films an Unknown Deep-Sea Species
'So what species is this one? The answer is we have no idea.'
petapixel.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:57 AM
"A YouTuber dropped his camera to the bottom of the ocean and recorded a deep-sea animal that no one has been able to identify."
petapixel.com/2025/11/25/y....
petapixel.com/2025/11/25/y....
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Maria Skłodowska (Marie Curie) was born in Warsaw, Poland, in November 1867.
She was:
👏 the first person to win two Nobel Prizes (Physics in 1903, Chemistry in 1911).
👏 the first woman laureate.
Prizes were awarded in Stockholm on 10 Dec each year.
@nobelprize.org
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemi...
She was:
👏 the first person to win two Nobel Prizes (Physics in 1903, Chemistry in 1911).
👏 the first woman laureate.
Prizes were awarded in Stockholm on 10 Dec each year.
@nobelprize.org
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemi...
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911 was awarded to Marie Curie, née Skłodowska "in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by th...
www.nobelprize.org
November 25, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Maria Skłodowska (Marie Curie) was born in Warsaw, Poland, in November 1867.
She was:
👏 the first person to win two Nobel Prizes (Physics in 1903, Chemistry in 1911).
👏 the first woman laureate.
Prizes were awarded in Stockholm on 10 Dec each year.
@nobelprize.org
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemi...
She was:
👏 the first person to win two Nobel Prizes (Physics in 1903, Chemistry in 1911).
👏 the first woman laureate.
Prizes were awarded in Stockholm on 10 Dec each year.
@nobelprize.org
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemi...
This is so cool.
A 13-year search for one of the world's rarest flowers in Indonesia ends in a 'magical experience'
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Researcher cries after finding rare flower in Indonesia
A team of researchers describe the "magical" experience of finding a rare species of flower in bloom deep in the Sumatran rainforest after a 23-hour trek.
www.abc.net.au
November 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
This is so cool.
It just shot our Thanksgiving plans.
November 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
It just shot our Thanksgiving plans.
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Before DOGE, systems meant to serve millions of people were being run by a few harried employees using outdated systems. And now, after DOGE, they are being run by even fewer, even more harried employees on those same outdated systems!
So, DOGE, What Would You Say You Did Here?
An exit interview
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Before DOGE, systems meant to serve millions of people were being run by a few harried employees using outdated systems. And now, after DOGE, they are being run by even fewer, even more harried employees on those same outdated systems!
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"I asked Offit if he saw a way to reverse the public’s rising distrust in science. “I don’t think there is any way to regain that trust other than have the viruses do the education, and the bacteria do the education, and then people will realize they paid way too high a cost,” he said."
Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right?
How an outsider, once ignored by the public-health establishment, became the most powerful man in science
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:09 AM
"I asked Offit if he saw a way to reverse the public’s rising distrust in science. “I don’t think there is any way to regain that trust other than have the viruses do the education, and the bacteria do the education, and then people will realize they paid way too high a cost,” he said."
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Drug development costs $1-3 billion and takes 10-15 years to prove a drug is safe // effective, then 30% of Americans immediately decide it's poison because a guy in Macedonia pretending to be from Massachusetts said so on X...
November 25, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Drug development costs $1-3 billion and takes 10-15 years to prove a drug is safe // effective, then 30% of Americans immediately decide it's poison because a guy in Macedonia pretending to be from Massachusetts said so on X...
1st amendment anyone?!
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 AM
1st amendment anyone?!
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Took this one tonight at sunset up on La Cumbre Peak and I don't hate it! #Sunset #Photography #SantaBarbara
November 24, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Took this one tonight at sunset up on La Cumbre Peak and I don't hate it! #Sunset #Photography #SantaBarbara
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The NIH is 1% of the federal budget. It's responsible for saving Americans today and far into the future. Yet, the Trump admin is hell bent on hobbling the NIH. Millions of dollars in lost research on cancer, Alzheimers and diabetes can't be fixed by thoughts, prayers, and beef tallow. #impeachrfk
November 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The NIH is 1% of the federal budget. It's responsible for saving Americans today and far into the future. Yet, the Trump admin is hell bent on hobbling the NIH. Millions of dollars in lost research on cancer, Alzheimers and diabetes can't be fixed by thoughts, prayers, and beef tallow. #impeachrfk
Another nice day in one of the greatest cities.
November 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Another nice day in one of the greatest cities.
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Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
And they taste good as well!!
November 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
And they taste good as well!!
Now I want to see the cheese!
November 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Now I want to see the cheese!
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"The circle is the synthesis of the greatest oppositions. It combines the concentric and the eccentric in a single form and in equilibrium. Of the three primary forms, it points most clearly to the fourth dimension."
- W.Kandinsky -
🖼️ : "Circles in a Circle", 1923, oil on canvas
#Quotes #Art
- W.Kandinsky -
🖼️ : "Circles in a Circle", 1923, oil on canvas
#Quotes #Art
November 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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November 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social you got to up the game here.
Conduct NY Phil?
Sing in a Met production?
Play with Mr. Perlman in Carnegie?
She is awesome. Good for Boston!
Conduct NY Phil?
Sing in a Met production?
Play with Mr. Perlman in Carnegie?
She is awesome. Good for Boston!
November 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social you got to up the game here.
Conduct NY Phil?
Sing in a Met production?
Play with Mr. Perlman in Carnegie?
She is awesome. Good for Boston!
Conduct NY Phil?
Sing in a Met production?
Play with Mr. Perlman in Carnegie?
She is awesome. Good for Boston!
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Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
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Well, this is chilling AF.
The Department of Education is suing Penn (in their quest for "combat antisemitism") requesting detailed information about Jewish faculty and staff.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The Department of Education is suing Penn (in their quest for "combat antisemitism") requesting detailed information about Jewish faculty and staff.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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storage.courtlistener.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Well, this is chilling AF.
The Department of Education is suing Penn (in their quest for "combat antisemitism") requesting detailed information about Jewish faculty and staff.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The Department of Education is suing Penn (in their quest for "combat antisemitism") requesting detailed information about Jewish faculty and staff.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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