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Salute to me, I’m your rheumatology queen. Rheumatologist in Boston. NIH-funded clinical researcher. Epidemiology. Cats, baking, reading, Taylor Swift references. https://profiles.bu.edu/Jean.Liew

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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 12h

RFK Jr, resign

I’m wearing a mint green hoodie that says THE LIFE OF AN NIH-FUNDED SCIENTIST in orange on the back

I’m at a protest and giving a thumbs up

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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 2h

Cats are liquid and he is especially a liquid because he is Miso Soup

Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 2h

To mock someone for being "political and angry"? You're probably the normal amount of political and angry. We should all be more political and angrier tbh.

Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 2h

I'm sorry that this relationship has turned out like this.
But, on a positive note, you sound very mature to have the level of insight that you do, especially your recognition that it's them and not you.

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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 3h

But yeah I went from being blocked for being a Swiftie to being mass followed by blue wave accounts

Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 3h

Dude no one wants to see this, not even me with a cat who commits the same crimes

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 5h

So to summarize:

- There is a pattern where Vought makes the RIFs too wide, apparently to flood the zone with sh*t and see who will draw protests.
- They restore some people after outrage and work by us.
- But we are still left with many who remain fired at the end.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 5h

Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win.

But at NIH we have seen this exact play before.

It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture.
A 🧵:

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 4h

this is a good way to describe pain sensitization

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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 4h

Also some gratitude to @rheumepi.bsky.social for talking me through self-care first. Self-care over professional responsibilities, always.

Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 4h

We have so much appreciation for Honey on here

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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 4h

The reclining position is reminiscent of Elizabeth Taylor in the Cleopatra film poster, but the ropes aren't in the poster

Old fashioned movie poster for Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor

She's shown in a gold dress reclining on a gold bed/chaise type of thing

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 20h

JB wants you to believe he’ll stop trmp when he won’t even stop the Illinois state police from attacking residents

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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 4h

Omg that's so cute

Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 4h

this is worse than the "TACO" meme

It's real people, real lives, real careers.
And it's our health at stake, through all these actions.

Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 4h

Whoops! Trump’s team “mistakenly” fired hundreds of CDC scientists — including the very experts fighting measles and deadly outbreaks — and is now scrambling to rehire them.

America’s public health is being dismantled by sheer incompetence. #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky
#SciSky 🧪 #NurseSky #IDSky

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 4h

This look is amazing though!

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Michele Okoh |🖤🩶🤍💜|🔺🐘 @okohlaw.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the Portland way.

LA: we will fight you.
Chicago: we will fight you.
PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 6h

I enjoyed reading this piece

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11h

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 7h

I had a t-shirt with Bloo on it but I was older, like in college

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 8h

Policy, comms, ethics, and science management (the people who clear science docs — determine whether they meet scientific standards) heavily hit.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report staff are gone.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 8h

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11h

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 9h

Surgical colleague appreciation for @tsengjennifer.bsky.social

But I also miss seeing your cooking posts 🍳

Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 9h

Every week he greets me as “Dr Jean”

Me in a green hoodie giving a peace sign with an older man holding up a protest sign

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 11h

The first reports of what would eventually be called AIDS and its causative agent identified as HIV were published in the MMWR in 1981 alerting health care and public health systems across the country. A tremendous loss for public health.

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