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Klar Yaggi MD, MPH @klaryaggi.bsky.social · Jun 8

Ourt own Naftali Kaminskisi shares lessons vital for navigating today’s challenging climate for science and healthcare:

🔹 Hold firm to your core values while adapting to changing environments.
🔹 Neutrality isn’t an option in critical moments.
🔹 Choose battles carefully to avoid burnout

Klar Yaggi MD, MPH @klaryaggi.bsky.social · Jun 8

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Are You Recruitable?

Podcast Episode · Leadership Currency with Dr. Doug McKinley · 05/26/2025 · 42m

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Klar Yaggi MD, MPH @klaryaggi.bsky.social · May 22

Science is under siege

Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · May 22

Good cover @economist.com

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Klar Yaggi MD, MPH @klaryaggi.bsky.social · May 22

Impeach Trump

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · May 21

BREAKING NEWS: Trump has taken possession of his bribe, in contravention of federal criminal statute and the Constitution. He’s hiding behind the USAF and DOJ to intimidate Congress—which must initiate impeachment proceedings.

Bribery is one of two enumerated impeachable offenses.

Much more here:

BREAKING NEWS: Trump-Qatar Scandal Reaches Its Apex As Trump Commits Impeachable Federal Felony in Public

Don’t let anyone gaslight you into memory-holing what’s happened. This report’s author is a NYT-bestselling Trump biographer, retired criminal defense lawyer, and former federal criminal investigator.

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Klar Yaggi MD, MPH @klaryaggi.bsky.social · May 22

Providing critical health information is one of its main functions. #publichealthbalckout #scienceunderseige

NPR @npr.org · May 21

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

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Klar Yaggi MD, MPH @klaryaggi.bsky.social · May 22

Springsteen’s not just Born to Run—he’s born to speak truth. Total badass move including those remarks on the EP. We need everyone, famous or not, to call out injustice, stand up, and speak truth to power. Silence is complicity.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · May 22

After Bruce Springsteen criticized the Trump administration on tour, the president said he should “KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT.” Springsteen, undeterred, included his comments on a new release.

Springsteen Releases EP Including Remarks That Angered Trump

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Crownfell preorder: Nov 18 @weheart.games · May 14

I've never seen "running government like a business is bad, actually" illustrated as plainly and clearly as this:

Screenshot of a post from weaselle from Jun 18, 2024:

I've said it before and i'll say it again: what we want is for these things to be run like a HOUSEHOLD... a home. A household still has a budget and an income and resources to manage; all the moving parts are the same but the focus is different.

A business will let every person in it die a terrible death if it makes the business profit. A household will spend it's last dollar to keep the people in it safe and healthy.

A household will use money as a resource to add value to the lives of the people in the household. A business will use people as a resource to add monetary value to the business.

We don't want a government run like a business, we want a country run like a household. Because we live here.

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Irina Marinov @irinaclimatemom.bsky.social · May 19

This is brilliant. Let’s do it!

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · May 18

Our goal is to have 1000 SUFS Teach Ins across the US, by 9/30.

*GASP* 😮

We know, it's a big goal.

If you've received tax dollars for your science, you have a responsibility to inform *your* community what is at stake: public health, the economy, innovation, and America's global leadership.

Host a teach in. Share science with your community....protest style! Calling back to the teach ins of 1965, we are taking to parks, pubs, & churches to tell our neighborhoods about how the budget cuts will impact them.

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Klar Yaggi MD, MPH @klaryaggi.bsky.social · Apr 26

Don't Be a Sucker
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Don't Be a Sucker

A sucker, in American slang, is a person who is easily taken advantage of.

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Klar Yaggi MD, MPH @klaryaggi.bsky.social · Apr 19

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Klar Yaggi MD, MPH @klaryaggi.bsky.social · Apr 19

The State Department is changing its mind about human rights

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The State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rights

The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses.

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Klar Yaggi MD, MPH @klaryaggi.bsky.social · Apr 14

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Olympic Diving Coach Ron O’Brien

The Art of the Rip and the Ripple Effect

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Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · Apr 9

About 90% of the Venezuelans deported to El Salvador had no criminal record in the US, according to a review of records by Bloomberg News.
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About 90% of Migrants Deported to El Salvador Had No US Criminal Record

Trump administration officials have described the men deported to El Salvador prisons last month as “the worst of the worst,” suggesting they were gang members involved in murder, rape and kidnapping.

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Klar Yaggi MD, MPH @klaryaggi.bsky.social · Apr 9

T Big leap in diagnostic AI: AMIE outperforms physicians on many fronts. But before robots replace doctors, two questions:

Who carries the legal risk if AI gets it wrong? Will patients ever feel truly cared for without a human in the loop?

Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Apr 9

2 important papers @nature.com today indicate the potential for A.I. to improve diagnostic accuracy and overall clinical performance for patient management and interactions
nature.com/articles/s41...

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Klar Yaggi MD, MPH @klaryaggi.bsky.social · Apr 9

Thank you for posting these papers. Big leap in diagnostic AI: AMIE outperforms physicians on many fronts. But before robots replace doctors, two questions:

Who carries the legal risk if AI gets it wrong? Will patients ever feel truly cared for without a human in the loop?

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Klar Yaggi MD, MPH @klaryaggi.bsky.social · Apr 9

Thank you for posting these papers. Big leap in diagnostic AI: AMIE outperforms physicians on many fronts. But before robots replace doctors, two questions:

Who carries the legal risk if AI gets it wrong? Will patients ever feel truly cared for without a human in the loop?

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Klar Yaggi MD, MPH @klaryaggi.bsky.social · Apr 9

Thank you for sharing. Big leap in diagnostic AI: AMIE outperforms physicians on many fronts. But before replacing doctors with robots, two questions:

Who carries the legal risk if AI gets it wrong?
Will patients ever feel truly cared for without a human in the loop?

Klar Yaggi MD, MPH @klaryaggi.bsky.social · Apr 9

We absolutely should communicate public wins, but not everything needs a podium and press conference. Real leadership is knowing when to speak and when to let the work speak for itself.

Would love to see both parties find that balance between silent competence and performative governance.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Apr 9

We went from 4 years of an Admin that never promoted/hyped their accomplishments (to their detriment), to an Admin that calls daily press conferences to promote/hype things that the govt does on a fairly routine basis. Maybe Dems can find a happy medium at some point.

Klar Yaggi MD, MPH @klaryaggi.bsky.social · Mar 29

Our shared takeaway is that the pursuit of meaning is noble and universal, but we must also recognize who gets to walk that path. True self-actualization doesn’t stop with personal fulfillment—it expands to help others rise, too.

Klar Yaggi MD, MPH @klaryaggi.bsky.social · Mar 29

Her critique reminded me of Maslow’s hierarchy: self-actualization sits at the top, but only after more basic needs — safety, belonging, stability — are met. Brooks’s message rings true, but it also presumes that access to resources and autonomy are available to all.

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Klar Yaggi MD, MPH @klaryaggi.bsky.social · Mar 29

My wife, however, had a different reaction. She found the piece troublingly narrow — it featured only male figures and implicitly privileged those with the freedom to explore their passions without caregiving burdens or structural barriers.

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Klar Yaggi MD, MPH @klaryaggi.bsky.social · Mar 29

David Brooks’s March 27 essay beautifully illuminates the winding, often painful path to self-fulfillment — sparked by enchantment, sustained by discipline. His portrait of vocation and craftsmanship as sources of meaning resonated deeply with me.

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Klar Yaggi MD, MPH @klaryaggi.bsky.social · Mar 29

Opinion | How to Have a Passionate Life

Why people do things that are unpleasantly hard.

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Klar Yaggi MD, MPH @klaryaggi.bsky.social · Mar 26

Presenting March Napness—a playful twist on March Madness, to support rescued bears who love a good snooze.

Join the fun and sign up here: www.fourpawsusa.org/our-stories/...

Brought to you from your friends at the Yale Centers for Sleep Medicine!

#MarchNapness #SavetheBears #YaleSleep

March Napness 2025

Inspired by March Madness, a contest to see which bear will be the champion of sleep.

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KaminskiMed @kaminskimed.bsky.social · Mar 26

Honored to be among those elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering - and also really proud of Dr. Erica Herzog!!
#ThisIsYalePCCSM

Yale PCCSM @yalepccsm.bsky.social · Mar 25

Congratulations to Drs. Herzog and Kaminski for being elected to CT Academy of Science and Engineering!! 🎉 Read more at the link below 👇🏻

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Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering Elects 12 From YSM

Twelve Yale School of Medicine faculty members are among the leading experts in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine newly elected to the

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