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Tanya Wildes @tanyawildes.bsky.social · May 8

I’m gonna be digesting this quote for awhile. (From “Practicing the Way” by John Mark Comer)

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JAMA @jama.com · Apr 24

Viewpoint: Political interference in the medical profession threatens evidence-based standards of care and the autonomy of health care professionals. https://ja.ma/4iuXJZ5

Intrusion in the Practice of Medicine

This Viewpoint discusses the importance of medical professionals and experts protecting modern medicine and public health by defending the profession’s unique expertise and ability to set the standard of care.

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Michael L. Barnett @mlbarnett.bsky.social · Apr 22

Women's Health Initiative defunded after 30 years and 5,000 publications

www.whi.org/md/news/whi-...

4/20/2025

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Tanya Wildes @tanyawildes.bsky.social · Apr 22

ASCO is coming up in June! I gotta get my beads out again!

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Healio @gohealio.bsky.social · Nov 20

Monique A. Hartley-Brown, MD, MMSc, turns life challenges into the desire and initiative to “change things for the better."

Hear her advice, her legacy and her "why" in our interview with her below!

www.healio.com/news/hematol... #MedSky

Physician uses life’s challenges to ‘change things for the better’

Monique A. Hartley-Brown, MD, MMSc, turns life challenges into the desire and initiative to “change things for the better.” Hartley-Brown, a physician in the department of hematology...

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Mar 4

We want to know—why are YOU standing up for science?

Whether it's a commitment to evidence-based policy, a drive to protect our planet, or the personal impact of recent events on your career, we want to feature your story.

Head to standupforscience2025.org/science-stor... to share yours ☀️

Why I Stand Up for Science

Science shapes our world, drives innovation, and protects our future—but it needs voices like yours to defend and champion it. We want to hear your story. Why do you stand up for science?Is it beca…

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Jonathan Maxerman Berman, PhD @jonathanberman.bsky.social · Mar 4

If you're looking for a way to defy the tweet about not protesting on campus this is a good start

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Mar 4

On Friday, we Stand Up for Science in locations Nationwide (& internationally!) to support science as a public good that benefits everyone.

Join us! Visit www.standupforscience2025.org for more information & other ways to get involved ☀️

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Mike-ghoul Half-man @michaelhoffman.bsky.social · Feb 27

The leadership and staff at the NIH institute who processed 100 grants in an afternoon are heroes. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

By this point, NIH lawyers were grim in their prognosis. If the agency moved forward with slashing indirect cost rates, they explained, individual staff members could be prosecuted for failing to comply with a congressional directive. On February 10, Sean R. Keveney, HHS’s acting general counsel, sent a memo to Flick Melanson that included a directive in bold, italicized font: All payments that are due under existing grants and contracts should be un-paused immediately.

Two days later, Lauer, the extramural-research director, issued a memo authorizing his colleagues to resume issuing awards—what should have been the agency’s final all-clear to return to normalcy.

Even then, the staff remained divided on how to proceed. Some institutes immediately began sending out awards: Lauer’s email spurred one institute, a current official told me, to process 100 grants in a single afternoon.

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DrMHB @drmhb.bsky.social · Feb 18

Fond memories of 2024. Myeloma woMMen docs making a difference. Get ready 2025! 😜😘

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Matthew Wollenweber @mjw.bsky.social · Jan 20

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Dr June M McKoy @drjunejd.bsky.social · Jan 18

NIH Director, Dr. Monica Bertagnolli exits stage left…

Having served in the lead role since November 2023, kudos to Dr Bertagnolli for setting a research agenda for the 138 year old institute that considered the health issues of ALL Americans. Thanks for your selfless service @drjunejd.bsky.social

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Tanya Wildes @tanyawildes.bsky.social · Jan 17

I had this hilarious dream last night. I was dying, but it wasn't sad - more like in the Disney movie Coco, going across a flower bridge. I'm halfway across the bridge and I stopped cold and yell, “Wait I've still got econsults in my Epic inbasket!"

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Tanya Wildes @tanyawildes.bsky.social · Jan 11

My toxic trait is making sweeping assumptions about someone’s character by how they drive in a grocery store parking lot.

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Gabriel Bosslet @gbosslet.bsky.social · Dec 30

Life in America will be better for everyone when we divorce health coverage from employment and acknowledge that health care is a right, not a privilege

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/28/o...

Opinion | My Restaurant Was Named One of New York City’s Best. Here’s Why It Closed. (Gift Article)

My story is one small part of an ongoing struggle for restaurant workers and culinary culture.

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Mike Thompson, MD, PhD, FASCO @mtmdphd.bsky.social · Dec 28

Personalized ranges for blood-test results enable precision diagnostics [Dec 11, 2024] @StevenMeex & @AakreMoberg - @Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41... #hemeonc #oncopath

Personalized ranges for blood-test results enable precision diagnostics

Benefits of tracking if a person’s results differ from their setpoints.

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Tanya Wildes @tanyawildes.bsky.social · Dec 27

So I’ll enter the arena again. My non-academic SIL asked Why?
Great❓what are my motives? I joked that it was since Mr Dr Wildes is already Full Prof & that chafed. But I do think partly I still want to Prove that I Am Enough.
So my plan is to proceed with packet while also working to not want it.

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Tanya Wildes @tanyawildes.bsky.social · Dec 27

2025 hopes: Promotion to full professor?As I sit in a small town cafe in Northern WI, I hear the words flung at me 8 years ago before Assoc “You’re not ready.” Those words burned my world down & made me rebuild it all, finding my identity in who I am (a child of God) rather than what I’d done.

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Tanya Wildes @tanyawildes.bsky.social · Dec 25

It is well with my soul…

2024 was relentless and, quite frankly, horrible. I found some healing this AM. May the Hope that is Christmas rest on you as well. ❄️

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · Dec 24

If universities want to retain female faculty they need to deal with the people who create hostile workplaces.

That means actually dealing with sexual harassers, assholes, bullies, and every else who scores high on the dark triad.

If not, you will lose your best people over and over again.

Nicole McNeil @nicolemmcneil.bsky.social · Dec 24

“Women leave or consider leaving [faculty positions] because of workplace climate more often than work-life balance.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty

Women faculty are more likely to leave their jobs than men, most often due to workplace climate, rather than work-life balance.

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Tatiana Prowell, MD @tmprowell.bsky.social · Dec 24

#MedSky
One of the most concerning things to me about #AI is how confident it is even when it has no idea what it’s talking about. Who’s training the AI? 🤔

Just one example: behold the radius, the ulna, and a spare?

#WomenInMedicine #WomenInSTEM #WomenInTech

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Roli Roberts @roliroberts.bsky.social · Dec 16

IT'S OFFICIAL! From today, @plos.org and its journals are no longer posting on Twitter/X. If you want to carry on hearing about great science in our journal, follow @plosbiology.org on Bluesky here: bsky.app/profile/plos...

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DrMHB @drmhb.bsky.social · Dec 16

Please support our multiple myeloma patients by donating to … give.themmrf.org/fundraiser/5151350

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Tanya Wildes @tanyawildes.bsky.social · Dec 15

I’m an introvert who will be spending Christmas in a 3BR lake cottage with 10 people and am contemplating if people would notice if I made myself a little nest in the furnace room to escape to…

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Dr. RShatsky @dr-rshatsky.bsky.social · Dec 15

ASCO has arrived folks!! Let’s keep up this momentum! please follow the links below! #OncSky #CanSky #CancerBS #BCSM

Jon Lim, MRCP PhD @drjonlim.bsky.social · Dec 14

📣 ASCO is now here 🦋!
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#OncSky #AcademicSky #MedSky #Oncology #CancerResearch

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Tanya Wildes @tanyawildes.bsky.social · Dec 14

This is why I ❤️ my new city:

Omaha is COVERED in ice & shining bright with kindness today. Ice storm hit last evening while teens at a 🤖 tourney. Took us 90 min going 5-15mph to get them.

One of their friends 🚗 got stuck - couldn’t make it up hill & an Omaha resident took him in for the night. ❤️

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