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Drmaypole @drmaypole.bsky.social · 3h

As a pediatrician caring for some of the most vulnerable in our society--children with complex conditions, congenital syndromes, neurodevelopmental issues--we should mark this move for the disaster that it is. Special ed saves money and improves over LIFETIMES.
www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...

Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education

Multiple sources tell NPR that, as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education.

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grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 2h

Excellent Krugman post summarizing it nicely.

Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 3h

'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
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-trump-...

How Trump Is Making China Great

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

paulkrugman.substack.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 58m

"Show them you're not afraid. Do it for the country. For the Constitution. For your family. For yourself. Do it for your freedom. While you still can."

This is excellent. Every Dem strategist who thinks there's risk in engaging these debates should watch it for guidance.

Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 2h

On October 18th, millions of brave Americans will stand up and peacefully protest against the authoritarian disease metastasizing under Donald Trump.

No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social

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Benjamin D. Greenbaum @bengrbm.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you @mskcancercenter.bsky.social for highlighting our work on #viralmimicry in our genome, its evolution, the selective forces on it, and its potential role in cancer.

A great years long collaborative effort with @petrsulc.bsky.social, @daniel-decarvalho.bsky.social, & many great colleagues!

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center @mskcancercenter.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. @bengrbm.bsky.social has tried to shed light on the innate immune system and how it affects cancer cells as they evolve.

Now Dr. Greenbaum’s lab has been taking a deep dive into modeling viral mimicry, trying to understand how this could shape cancer cells’ development process. bit.ly/3VWadA8

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

“.. the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections.”

@nytimes.com #OKgov
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 4d

We can't have "world class" clinical research in Ireland when clinician-investigators don't have time for research, or when clinician-investigators with substantial research funding in place can't even count on their clinical back-fill to be in place. Shambles.

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Gregory Riely @rielymd.bsky.social · 4d

This figure from review article by Jordi Remon, Maurice Perol, et al. nicely shows the variety of approaches being studied in patients with stage III lung cancer. @natrevclinonc.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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David Shaywitz @dshaywitz.bsky.social · 5d

TFW it sinks in that no one actually reads anything. Not when you cognitively recognize this, but when you viscerally understand it and know it to be true.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 5d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 7d

ICE agents shot a U.S. citizen Saturday on Chicago’s South Side
They are creating chaos
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Federal agents shoot woman in Chicago neighborhood after allegedly being rammed, boxed in by cars, DHS says

The woman, as well as a man whom authorities say was involved in the chaos, were facing charges Sunday morning.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 9d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Drmaypole @drmaypole.bsky.social · 11d

At the Epic’s house.
IYKYK
#graphicmedicine
#dotphrase

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 11d

Rather remarkable that the Trump administration response to a government shutdown is "let's inflict as much pain as possible on as many Americans as possible"

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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 11d

"What is happening in this country is happening because science is bad for tyrants, and always has been"

Science Vs @sciencevs.bsky.social · 11d

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥

We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪

Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇

open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 11d

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 11d

Some problems have simple solutions. This new “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” is one. The answer is simply saying no.

Simple does not mean easy. But Brown, Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Univ of AZ, UPenn, USC, UT Austin & UVA must understand what they’ll lose if they sign on.

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Gregory Riely @rielymd.bsky.social · 11d

"Don’t dedicate your life to scams, slop, and the exploitation of compulsion."

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 11d

Don’t dedicate your life to frying people’s brains with hacking human weakness for compulsive behaviors.

www.slowboring.com/p/capitalism...

Capitalism needs honor and ethics

Don’t dedicate your life to scams, slop, and the exploitation of compulsion.

www.slowboring.com

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · Sep 10

Live @onclive.bsky.social from today. Me and Culver - such a life of firsts - AIDS in San Francisco in the 80s, the first gene therapy at the NCI, industry, advocacy and missions ti Central America. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

How a Career of Hearing and Amplifying Patient Voices Has Reached the Pinnacle of Patient Advocacy: With D. Ross Camidge, MD, PhD; and Ken Culver, MD

Podcast Episode · How This Is Building Me · 09/10/2025 · 1h 8m

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Fred Hutch @fredhutch.org · 11d

The Cancer AI Alliance (CAIA) today unveiled its first collaborative #AI platform for #cancerresearch. The secure, scalable, multi-cloud platform uses federated learning, maintaining data security and privacy while learning from millions of clinical data points. https://bit.ly/4nvm3NF

Cancer AI Alliance unveils first collaborative AI platform for cancer research - Cancer AI Alliance

Secure, scalable, multi-cloud platform using federated learning aims to accelerate cancer discoveries and treatments

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Sanjay Mukhopadhyay @smlungpathguy.bsky.social · 12d

#pathsky sign up now!!

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Gregory Riely @rielymd.bsky.social · 12d

a useful new paper on initial therapy of BRAF mut lung cancer. Retrospective data, but important question.
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resulting from collaboration among 17 institutions including @mskcancercenter.bsky.social @danafarber.bsky.social @mdanderson.bsky.social

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Drmaypole @drmaypole.bsky.social · 12d

Suddenly Sunday eve/ #Mondaymorning. Did you get that stuff done you said you would “Over The Weekend?” Retreat to the Emergency Office!
#worklifebalance

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 12d

The Damage Done: @marianneguenot.bsky.social tells the story of clinical trials derailed by the administration's reckless science policy, across kidney disease, HIV, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer. Years of work and money thrown away, at times just short of a cure.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The damage done - Nature Medicine

When clinical trials are suddenly halted by US funding cuts, there are repercussions for investigators and patients, and they do not stop at borders.

www.nature.com

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 12d

First we created a culture where you don't have to understand basic statistical ideas and methods to analyze quantitative data from samples. This was a wonderful innovation, as it removed barriers to publishing whatever the fuck you wanted. Using "AI" to just invent the data is the next logical step

Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 12d

A lot of psych is already conducted with online convenience samples & ppl are probably excited about silicon samples bc it would allow them to crank out more studies for even less 💸

How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data.
www.science.org/content/arti...

AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds

Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 14d

1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs.

2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar.

3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."

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Wafik S. El-Deiry, MD, PhD, FACP @weldeiry.bsky.social · 14d

An insurance company is introducing a new threat to American medicine

www.statnews.com/2025/09/29/c...

An insurance company is introducing a new threat to American medicine

Prior authorizations were once a narrow tool to contain costs. Downcoding could be next.

www.statnews.com

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