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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky

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he/him Prof @dukemedschool.bsky.social Anesthesiology. Immigrant. Fights against chemicals that hurt you. Research on chemosensation, pain, TRP channels, toxicology & tobacco control. Views my own. #TobRegSky feed. 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇺🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🟧

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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 18d

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Great reporting by Leslie Liang for @theexamination.org on the risk of nicotine analogues creeping into consumer products such as e-cigarettes and oral pouches. Thanks for the interview !

‘Nicotine-free’ vapes and pouches promise a buzz without the downsides. Health concerns remain.

Outlaw Dip, Spree Bar and other nicotine alternatives aren’t regulated in many countries. Researchers warn about health risks and misleading marketing.

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 2h

Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

Ohio State changes policy on group conferences after Trump administration threats

A federal investigation into potentially discriminatory practices at Ohio State prompted the university to change its policies regarding conferences.

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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 3h

Retired philosophy professor is OK with cuts to cancer research, public health until his friends are allowed to wear racist Halloween costumes on campus again.

Opinion | As a professor, I’ve seen woke and MAGA censorship. Which is worse?

Both attacks on free speech are devastating for academia, but in different ways.

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North Carolina Republicans Plan to Redraw Congressional Map to Add a Seat

North Carolina Republicans Plan to Redraw Congressional Map to Add a Seat

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Reuters @reuters.com · 19h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 17h

NIH Study Sections are on hold...again. drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/n...

NIH Study Sections are on hold…again.

The primary input to deciding on the merit of proposals submitted to the NIH for potential funding, as most of my remaining blog audience well knows, is the outcome of the initial peer-review proce…

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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 17h

Not sure if mice would chew nicotine gum !

Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 21h

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Heroic infectious disease investigators protecting the United States were smeared and laid off. They now have to put their shattered lives back together.

They Fought Outbreaks Worldwide. Now They’re Fighting for New Lives.

They Fought Outbreaks Worldwide. Now They’re Fighting for New Lives.

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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 1d

"Vascular dysfunction was evident with or without nicotine in the e-liquid, but nicotine exposure (50 mg/ml e-liquid) resulted in short-term memory deficits, evidence of neuronal damage, and increased astrocyte interaction with endothelial cells in 6- and 12-month-old offspring. "

Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 1d

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Nicotine influence on cerebrovascular and neurocognitive function with in utero electronic cigarette exposure
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Nicotine influence on cerebrovascular and neurocognitive function with in utero electronic cigarette exposure

Abstract figure legend Rodent pregnancy exposure to electronic cigarette (E-cig) aerosol occurred from gestational day (GD)2 until G21 (birth). We evaluate the cerebrovascular function [i.e. middle c...

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Shaun @zooropean.bsky.social · 1d

So much for another relic from my childhood:

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MTV is Shutting Down Its Last Music Channels, Marking the End of an Era | Cord Cutters News

Paramount Global has delivered a devastating blow to music fans worldwide, announcing the permanent shutdown of five iconic MTV music channels by December 31, 2025 according to the BBC. For 44 years, ...

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 1d

The biggest problem with the not judging people by the standards of today is that all of the people committing crimes against humanity have almost always had contemporaries telling them this was wrong

Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 1d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 1d

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

An EPA report found that the forever chemical PFNA interferes with human development and likely causes damage to the liver and male reproductive systems.

The agency has sat on the report for months. “Scientifically, it was done,” said one scientist.

By @fastlerner.bsky.social

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.

Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 1d

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More than half of CDC staffers recently fired by Trump administration have been reinstated

More than half of CDC staffers recently fired by Trump administration have been reinstated | CNN

Hundreds of staff fired from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention late Friday have been reinstated, according to the American Federation of Government Employees.

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Alex Kwan @alexkwan.bsky.social · 1d

This one hits close to home. Jim is my office neighbor. Absolutely devastating.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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Max Boykoff @maxboykoff.bsky.social · 2d

We're hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in Dept of Environmental Studies at University of Colorado Boulder with expertise in energy & environmental policy, and emphases on sustainability & decarbonization. The job ad is here, apply by the Nov 14 deadline! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies

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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 2d

Big fail ! They should have hired @mnitabach.blackskycomra.de as style advisor.

Dressing a Yale professor in crisis: The designer behind Julia Roberts’ outfits in Luca Guadagnino’s new film.

Dressing a professor in crisis: The designer behind Julia Roberts’ outfits in Luca Guadagnino’s new film ‘After the Hunt’ | CNN

From working on the latest film costumes for Julia Roberts and Ayo Edebiri, to designing for French luxury label Celine, Giulia Piersanti has a strong hand in clothing some of the world’s most stylish...

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 2d

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 2d

“The report is typically one of the first places where information about U.S. disease outbreaks is disseminated. “

Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 2d

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The next pandemic will not be televised.

“Almost the entire staff behind the CDC’s flagship publication, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, have been fired.“

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‘It’s a massacre’: CDC battered by government shutdown firings

The White House’s mass firing of CDC staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease, according to four people familiar with t...

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taz @taz.de · 2d

In „Amrum“ wird auch Nordfriesisch gesprochen. Damit rückt der neue Film von Fatih Akin eine Minderheitensprache ins Zentrum, die in Deutschland gerne überhört wird. 👉 taz.de/!6118499/

„Wenn eine Sprache, in der ein Mädchen ‚foomne‘ und ein Backofen ‚oonk‘ heißt, ein Dialekt des Deutschen sein soll, dann kann Niederländisch auch gleich für Deutsch erklärt werden.“

taz-Autor Gunnar Hinck liebt Fatih Akins neuen Friesen-Film und sagt: Friesisch ist kein Dialekt des Deutschen, sondern eine eigene Sprache
Eine Mutter steht mit ihren beiden Kindern auf einem Feld. Die Familie ist ländlich gekleidet. Die Mutter hält ein Pferd an der Leine fest, während alle drei den Blick in die Ferne richten.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 3d

RIFed:
Office of Science (OS) - MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)

MMWR is crucial to quickly disseminate info about infectious disease.

Like the famous MMWR in 1981 about an outbreak of pneumocystis pneumonia among gay men in LA. That was the first mention of what is now known as AIDS

June 5, 1981—The First Report of AIDS in the U.S.

By Erika Mills ~ In the June 5, 1981 edition of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the CDC described a rare lung infection among a group of gay men in Los Angeles. This article, titl…

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 3d

Trump admin plans to RIF 1100-1200 HHS employees according to court filing

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 3d

Pres. Kornbluth articulates such moral clarity in this rejection of the proposed “compact”:

“the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone”

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Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 3d

#PainResearch #neuroskyence

Anna Schreiber 🧠🧬 @annaschreiber.bsky.social · 3d

It’s #FluorescenceFriday !
iPSC-derived sensorimotor organoid with some neurons and microglia 🧠TUJ1 🟢, IBA1 🔴 and DAPI 🔵

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 3d

I can confirm EPA

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