Frank I. Scott, MD MSCE
@frankiscottmd.bsky.social
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Gastroenterologist specializing in IBD and epidemiology at the University of Colorado, APD of GI Fellowship program, Co-Director of GI Outcomes Research Group, Co- Director of IBD QORUS, avid philly sports fan, cyclist
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Appropriately so. Easily the most peripheral and unnecessary subscription I have. Garmin is my recorder, any serious analytics are happening in trainerroad or trainingpeaks. I often wonder why i still even pay for Strava, other than an easy interface for the grams.
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lotta potential cavities in that basket of cookies though. He's looking out for your future dental health
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Excited for the 7th annual IBD101 course, hosted by @amcollegegastro.bsky.social in Dallas, TX today! Fantastic educational program for first year gi fellows
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Apparently more so for some than others?
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Help us give a warm Colorado welcome 🌞🏔️to our newest IBD Faculty member- Dr. Siobhan Proksell! Dr. Proksell is an IBD specialist focusing on fertility & pregnancy in patients w/ IBD. Welcome to the team! @jchristiemd.bsky.social @frankiscottmd.bsky.social @benclickmd.bsky.social
Welcome new University of Colorado Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology faculty member, Siobhan Proksell, MD! Dr. Proksell is an IBD specialist with a focus on fertility and pregnancy in patients managing IBD.
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atoosarabiee.bsky.social
A new but tested and tried mentorship method 👇🏼

Near-Peer mentorship 😊
@drjessicadavis.bsky.social
Thank you for spearheading the project

#liversky

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frankiscottmd.bsky.social
I think the 11th edition of the newspeak dictionary is due any day now, right?
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Everything that is old is new again.
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cugastrohep.bsky.social
#TaylorKarlMD and #ThomasEnkeMD took home the Dr. Marshall Freedman Award for outstanding academic and clinical records! Recipients are chosen based on academic achievements, clinical abilities, & leadership during their fellowship. Congrats! 🎉💪 @jchristiemd.bsky.social @frankiscottmd.bsky.social
Taylor Karl, MD and Thomas Enke, MD are presented with the Dr. Marshall Freedman award by Drs. Jennifer Christie and Frank Scott. Taylor Karl, MD and Thomas Enke, MD are presented with the Dr. Marshall Freedman award by Dr. Frank Scott.
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“As many, for better or worse, currently believe in microorganisms like bacteria and viruses,a focus on the humors often gets a bad rap….”
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petergleick.bsky.social
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.
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cugastrohep.bsky.social
📅Come see us @ #DDW2025 @ddwmeeting.bsky.social! Check out our full lineup👇, and join us at Digestive Disease Week 2025 for our cutting-edge research🔬 and insight 🧐on advances in GI/Hep. See you there! @bilalmohammadmd.bsky.social @swatipatelmd.bsky.social medschool.cuanschutz.edu/docs/librari...
The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology will attend Digestive Disease Week 2025!
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B A N A N A S
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1. This is so poorly written that the sentence that is -- I think -- supposed to convey a semi-veiled legal threat is incomprehensible.

2. I'm jealous of whichever lawyer gets to write the response.
A letter from the acting US Attorney for DC, requesting information from the editor of the medical journal CHEST about how it selects articles
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Maybe the real liberation was the friends we made along the way
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We can feel the pain of our grants not being funded and recognize that our ideal careers are both a mix of clinical work and research, and that this blows up this balance. Regardless of how our patients are being hurt by this administration in addition to that. It’s a bad few months for Hippocrates
frankiscottmd.bsky.social
“Moneys just like a construct, man”
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In what way is this improving the health of Americans? How is this making it safer at home or at work or abroad?
marisakabas.bsky.social
New — Here is a running list of Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) offices that have either been fully eliminated or gutted into non-functionality as a result of today's mass firings (provided to me directly by a CDC staffer):
NCCDPHP
Division of Reproductive Health
Division of Population Health 
   BCSB 
   EPI branch
   Prevention Research Translation Branch
Office of Smoking and Health  

NCHHSTP
Division of TB elimination
-Communication, Education, and Behavioral Studies Branch 
PBEMB
 
GLOBAL 
Division of HIV and TB 
Communications Branch
SPIN
SPICE
PBEMB
MCHB
HIDMSB
EHSRB
Scientific Integrity Branch

NCEH 
Division of Environmental Science/Practice Asthma and Air Quality branch 
















NCIRD 
ISD/Partnerships 

NIOSH 
Miner safety 
Health effects lab division 
Respiratory health division 

NCBDDD
Office of the Director 
Disability Health 

NCIPC 
Division of Violence Prevention
Division of Injury Prevention 
OD
Office of Health Equity

OCOO
Office of Human Resources
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sjjphd.bsky.social
I know we are exhausted from the no really this meets the textbook definition of fascism conversation, but exhibit G.

There is a way to resist this both from inside museums and from outside by collectively choosing to learn, archive, and protect the knowledge they want to erase.
Trump targets 'improper ideology' at Smithsonian museums in new executive order
The order states that Vice President JD Vance will be in charge of efforts to prohibit federal funding for Smithsonian programs that are not in line with the administration's goals.
www.nbcnews.com
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
NEW! Sworn declarations filed last night confirm the Trump admin sent INNOCENT people to rot in prison El Salvador, including a professional soccer player jailed and tortured by the Maduro regime, who entered this country LEGALLY to seek asylum, and who has NO CRIMINAL RECORD in either country.
I am the immigration attorney for Jerce Reyes Barrios, born in January 16, 1989 in Venezuela. 2. In February and March 2024, Mr. Reyes Barrios marched in two demonstrations in Venezuela protesting the authoritarian rule of Maduro. At the second demonstration, he was detained and taken to a clandestine building where he was tortured (electric shocks and suffocation) along with other demonstrators. 3. Shortly after his release, he fled Venezuela for the United States. He registered with CBP One in Mexico, then presented himself to CBP officials on the day of his appointment. He was taken into custody and detained at Otay Mesa Detention Facility in September 2024. 4. We applied for asylum, withholding of removal, and CAT protection in December 2024. His final individual hearing is set for April 17, 2025 before Judge Robinson at the Otay Mesa Immigration Court. 5. On March 15, 2025, Mr. Reyes Barrios was deported to El Salvador with no notice to counsel or family. It was not until March 18, 2025 that counsel was able to reach an ICE official and learn that he had in fact been deported. 6. Mr. Reyes Barrios was/is a professional soccer player in Venezuela. He has never been arrested or charged with a crime. He has a steady employment record as a soccer player, as well as a soccer coach for children and youth. 7. Initially, Mr. Reyes Barrios was placed in maximum security at Otay Mesa and accused of being a Tren de Aragua gang member. The accusation is based on two things. First, he has a tattoo on his arm of a crown sitting atop a soccer ball with a rosary and the word "Dies." OHS alleges that this tattoo is proof of gang membership. In reality, he chose this tattoo, because it is similar to the logo for his favorite soccer team Real Madrid. See logo below. [pictures of the tattoo and the pictures of the logo]. 8. Second, OHS reviewed his social media posts and found a photo of Mr. Reyes Barrios making a hand gesture that they allege is proof of gang membership. 9. After submitting a police clearance from Venezuela indicating no criminal record, multiple employment letters, a declaration from the tattoo artist who rendered the tattoo, and various online images showing similar soccer ball/crown tattoos and explaining the meaning of the hand gesture, Mr. Reyes Barrios was transferred out of maximum security. 10. Nevertheless on March 10th or 11th, he was transferred from Otay Mesa to Texas without notice. Then, on March 15, 2025, he was deported to El Salvador. Counsel and family have lost all contact with him have no information regarding his whereabouts or condition.
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Fantastic start to #RockyMountainIBD in Park City UT this AM, with Ann Flynn providing an excellent review on obesity and its interaction with IBD, as well as the safety of GLP1s when indicated in this population.
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This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
benion
Grieving a wasted life
At a point in life when there are far too many days behind than ahead, one tends to
re-elected in contrast to standing up for the
reflect on a life lived. In my lifetime decades
greater good?
were devoted to protecting America. Sacri
A compromised Supreme Court recently
fices were made both by myself and my fam-
trotted out a shallow token standards of
Ily in military service. The tip of the spear:
conduct for themselves. Apparently it's
Countless weeks over the years were spent
not a bribe to accept favors after a deci-sion; only before. Corporations are people?
living at the end of a runway on alert with an Really? Whatever happened to Superman's armed B-52 as generations of aviators have motto of "truth, justice, and the American done before and since.
way?"
The purpose: if required, be airborne
Pay-to-play is the theme of the day. Un-
in minutes on a one-way trip bringing a
challenged and uncontested blatant conflicts
nuclear Armageddon to an adversary. Fly:
of interest abound. The rule of law is situ-
ing the unfriendly skies over North Viet-
ational if adhered to at all. America can no
nam provided a brief interlude, but overall,
longer be trusted. The unbridled pursuit of
this long line of silent sentinels stood firm
power and wealth driven by unquenchable
to protect America by deterring external
greed has left service above self and Con-
threats to our freedoms and way of life
stitutional norms in the dustbin of a quaint
across the decades. I was privileged to serve past. with men and women of integrity imbued
Recently the VA said exposure to Agent
with a sense of service.
Orange is the probable cause of the can-
I'm truly grateful that the B-52s we flew, which were built tough, were engineered
cers I live with. Actually I suspect it's more from yet unspecified sources, which cause
on scientific principles and fabricated by experienced, skilled workers rather than
military pilots to have significantly higher
founded on mere beli…