Laura Lewandowski
@lupusdnadoc.bsky.social
Global lupologist, pediatrician, mother, avid reader. Writing good science and bad poetry. Citizen of earth. Runner. Seeking truth and excellent ice cream. Views are my own and do not reflect my employer
#Rheumsky
#Rheumsky
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Can’t wait to be all in for #KidVengers fighting hunger in #HCWvsHunger
6pm 11/27/25 - be there or be square
6pm 11/27/25 - be there or be square
5 years ago I started a team competition on Twitter to raise $ to fight hunger.
@tmprowell.bsky.social gave us a hashtag & much needed organization
Our team of teen volunteers work wonders in the background & we’ve raised >$3.1 million!
Competition starts tomorrow, join us?
HCWvsHunger.org
@tmprowell.bsky.social gave us a hashtag & much needed organization
Our team of teen volunteers work wonders in the background & we’ve raised >$3.1 million!
Competition starts tomorrow, join us?
HCWvsHunger.org
Healthcare Workers vs Hunger
Healthcare workers vs Hunger is an annual friendly competition between teams of healthcare workers to help relieve food insecurity.
HCWvsHunger.org
November 27, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Can’t wait to be all in for #KidVengers fighting hunger in #HCWvsHunger
6pm 11/27/25 - be there or be square
6pm 11/27/25 - be there or be square
I am honored to be featured in this amazing photo essay that highlights the importance and complexity of understanding autoimmune diseases like #lupus. It is an honor to take care of my amazing patients and to work towards better therapies for better health 🔬🩺
apnews.com/photo-essay/...
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PHOTO ESSAY: Scientists trying to unravel one of the body's biggest mysteries
A peek inside some leading research labs shows how scientists-turned-detectives are painstakingly decoding what causes autoimmune diseases and how to stop the immune system from attacking you instead ...
apnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I am honored to be featured in this amazing photo essay that highlights the importance and complexity of understanding autoimmune diseases like #lupus. It is an honor to take care of my amazing patients and to work towards better therapies for better health 🔬🩺
apnews.com/photo-essay/...
apnews.com/photo-essay/...
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Yeah this has become the utter pain of what we once had. Used to be you'd run to Google for a trusted and quick search and now I try to avoid it when I can
Legit ruined their own product to the point of being unrecognizable
Yeah this has become the utter pain of what we once had. Used to be you'd run to Google for a trusted and quick search and now I try to avoid it when I can
Legit ruined their own product to the point of being unrecognizable
November 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Yeah this has become the utter pain of what we once had. Used to be you'd run to Google for a trusted and quick search and now I try to avoid it when I can
Legit ruined their own product to the point of being unrecognizable
Yeah this has become the utter pain of what we once had. Used to be you'd run to Google for a trusted and quick search and now I try to avoid it when I can
Legit ruined their own product to the point of being unrecognizable
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11 years ago today, 12 year old Tamir Rice was gunned down by police officers on Cleveland’s west side.
The officer shot him within seconds of arriving at the park he was playing in.
Tamir’s life mattered. It still does. My thoughts are with his family today.
The officer shot him within seconds of arriving at the park he was playing in.
Tamir’s life mattered. It still does. My thoughts are with his family today.
November 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
11 years ago today, 12 year old Tamir Rice was gunned down by police officers on Cleveland’s west side.
The officer shot him within seconds of arriving at the park he was playing in.
Tamir’s life mattered. It still does. My thoughts are with his family today.
The officer shot him within seconds of arriving at the park he was playing in.
Tamir’s life mattered. It still does. My thoughts are with his family today.
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Vaccines save lives.
And no, they do not cause autism.
And no, they do not cause autism.
November 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Vaccines save lives.
And no, they do not cause autism.
And no, they do not cause autism.
Feeling like you want to sprinkle some goodness into the world?✨🌎
Also feeling busy/overwhelmed ? 😰🥱
Do I have the option for you!!!!
Just ordered my #HCWvsHunger sweatshirt AND made a donation- all in one fell swoop!
Check out the links below and get in on one of the best times of the year! 🔗 💜
Also feeling busy/overwhelmed ? 😰🥱
Do I have the option for you!!!!
Just ordered my #HCWvsHunger sweatshirt AND made a donation- all in one fell swoop!
Check out the links below and get in on one of the best times of the year! 🔗 💜
🤩Gear up in anticipation of the start of #HCWvsHunger in 6 days!
✅Order swag now to proudly wear the week after Thanksgiving.
There are 2 @hcwvshunger.bsky.social collections:
1️⃣ www.bonfire.com/healthcare-w...
2️⃣ link 👇👇
@tmprowell.bsky.social
@shematologist.medsky.social
@kemimdrad.bsky.social
✅Order swag now to proudly wear the week after Thanksgiving.
There are 2 @hcwvshunger.bsky.social collections:
1️⃣ www.bonfire.com/healthcare-w...
2️⃣ link 👇👇
@tmprowell.bsky.social
@shematologist.medsky.social
@kemimdrad.bsky.social
HCWvsHunger 2.0 | Bonfire
Buy HCWvsHunger 2.0 merchandise that supports World Central Kitchen Incorporated. Featuring Navy Zip Up Hoodies, professionally printed in the USA.
www.bonfire.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Feeling like you want to sprinkle some goodness into the world?✨🌎
Also feeling busy/overwhelmed ? 😰🥱
Do I have the option for you!!!!
Just ordered my #HCWvsHunger sweatshirt AND made a donation- all in one fell swoop!
Check out the links below and get in on one of the best times of the year! 🔗 💜
Also feeling busy/overwhelmed ? 😰🥱
Do I have the option for you!!!!
Just ordered my #HCWvsHunger sweatshirt AND made a donation- all in one fell swoop!
Check out the links below and get in on one of the best times of the year! 🔗 💜
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Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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“Since 1998, independent researchers have conducted more than 40 high-quality studies involving over 5.6 million people. The conclusion is clear and unambiguous: There’s no link between vaccines and autism." -Dr. Susan Kressly, AAP President on recent changes to the CDC's website
November 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
“Since 1998, independent researchers have conducted more than 40 high-quality studies involving over 5.6 million people. The conclusion is clear and unambiguous: There’s no link between vaccines and autism." -Dr. Susan Kressly, AAP President on recent changes to the CDC's website
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Alice Wong was a luminary, and her light will shine on for many years to come. this is a beautiful tribute from @thesicktimes.org co-founder @mileswgriffis.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Alice Wong was a luminary, and her light will shine on for many years to come. this is a beautiful tribute from @thesicktimes.org co-founder @mileswgriffis.bsky.social
I mean, if you insist…
As the owner of an independent bookstore, I must ask all of y'all to do the opposite of this forever and ever, amen.
I am not allowed to buy more books until I read the ones I already own
November 9, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I mean, if you insist…
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James Watson, the sexist racist who stole Rosalind Franklin’s ground breaking research on DNA, created his own (sadly widely believed) genius mythology with a popular book, is dead.
In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
November 7, 2025 at 11:14 PM
James Watson, the sexist racist who stole Rosalind Franklin’s ground breaking research on DNA, created his own (sadly widely believed) genius mythology with a popular book, is dead.
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My ask of any science enthusiasts who tell the story of Rosalind Franklin:
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism
have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant
but neglected, a heroine t...
www.thelancet.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
My ask of any science enthusiasts who tell the story of Rosalind Franklin:
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
Great summary of 2025 ACR guidelines for SLE Treatment by the peerless @mithurheum.bsky.social
#SLE #lupus
#SLE #lupus
🆕 2025 ACR Guideline for Treatment of Systemic #Lupus Erythematosus 🦋
Just Released: Nov 3 #ACR25 🔥
🔸Review organ-specific treatment recommendations
🔸Steroid & HCQ Use Guidance
🔸Management of Comorbidities
➠ Read the Full Guideline here: acr.tw/47mkegj
#RheumSky #SLE #Rheumatology
Just Released: Nov 3 #ACR25 🔥
🔸Review organ-specific treatment recommendations
🔸Steroid & HCQ Use Guidance
🔸Management of Comorbidities
➠ Read the Full Guideline here: acr.tw/47mkegj
#RheumSky #SLE #Rheumatology
November 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Great summary of 2025 ACR guidelines for SLE Treatment by the peerless @mithurheum.bsky.social
#SLE #lupus
#SLE #lupus
Just completely in awe of the performance by Yesavage in Game 5 tonight!
Incredible talent and poise under pressure from the rookie!
Incredible talent and poise under pressure from the rookie!
It was simply a World Series masterpiece from Toronto Blue Jays rookie pitcher Trey Yesavage.
He tossed a seven-inning gem with 12 strikeouts as the Blue Jays win Game 5 of the World Series.
Highlights ➡️ tinyurl.com/yndpwb9n
#WANTITALL #BlueJays #TreyYesavage #MLB
He tossed a seven-inning gem with 12 strikeouts as the Blue Jays win Game 5 of the World Series.
Highlights ➡️ tinyurl.com/yndpwb9n
#WANTITALL #BlueJays #TreyYesavage #MLB
October 30, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Just completely in awe of the performance by Yesavage in Game 5 tonight!
Incredible talent and poise under pressure from the rookie!
Incredible talent and poise under pressure from the rookie!
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Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
October 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
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🫶🏾🙏🏾🇯🇲
#Melissa makes landfall in southwestern Jamaica near New Hope as a powerful category 5 hurricane. For the latest updates visit hurricanes.gov
October 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
🫶🏾🙏🏾🇯🇲
Prayers for all those in the Caribbean in the path of this storm 🙏🏽
#Melissa unfortunately is still intensifying. A 9am EDT Tropical Cyclone Update indicates that winds are up to 180 mph, with an estimated minimum pressure of 896 mb.
You can see how GLM lightning has 📈 in the past hour, encircling the eye, with eye WV temp still increasing!
You can see how GLM lightning has 📈 in the past hour, encircling the eye, with eye WV temp still increasing!
October 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Prayers for all those in the Caribbean in the path of this storm 🙏🏽
For anyone in need of food assistance:
Starting this week, Capital Area Food Bank is providing free food assistance to furloughed federal workers & contractors struggling to make ends meet because of the government shutdown. Simply show your government work I.D. & stock up on shelf-stable items & fresh produce.
October 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
For anyone in need of food assistance:
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They should invent a way out that isn't through
October 23, 2025 at 8:30 AM
They should invent a way out that isn't through
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R.I.P. ICON D’Angelo 🙏🏾🕊️
October 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
R.I.P. ICON D’Angelo 🙏🏾🕊️
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This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was just announced:
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...
This seems like a good opportunity for me to explain a bit about peripheral immune tolerance and where the prizewinners' work comes in 🧵
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...
This seems like a good opportunity for me to explain a bit about peripheral immune tolerance and where the prizewinners' work comes in 🧵
October 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was just announced:
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...
This seems like a good opportunity for me to explain a bit about peripheral immune tolerance and where the prizewinners' work comes in 🧵
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...
This seems like a good opportunity for me to explain a bit about peripheral immune tolerance and where the prizewinners' work comes in 🧵
Congratulations to the 2025 Nobel in Medicine Winners!
And a great day for immunology nerds to tell everyone how cool T Regs are!
THEY ARE SO COOL 😎
And a great day for immunology nerds to tell everyone how cool T Regs are!
THEY ARE SO COOL 😎
BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance"
Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize
Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize
October 7, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Congratulations to the 2025 Nobel in Medicine Winners!
And a great day for immunology nerds to tell everyone how cool T Regs are!
THEY ARE SO COOL 😎
And a great day for immunology nerds to tell everyone how cool T Regs are!
THEY ARE SO COOL 😎
Reposted by Laura Lewandowski
Reposted by Laura Lewandowski
Today, Oct.2nd, is the anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder by Saudi agents.
October 2, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Today, Oct.2nd, is the anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder by Saudi agents.
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Today we mourn the loss of Jane Goodall, one of the most passionate animal advocates the world has ever known. Through her work, she showed that wild animals can be intelligent and sentient beings, worthy of our appreciation and protection. She will be greatly missed.
people.com/jane-goodall...
people.com/jane-goodall...
Jane Goodall Dies at 91 While on Speaking Tour: She Was a 'Tireless Advocate' for Nature
Jane Goodall, the renowned conservationist and animal welfare advocate who became the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees after spending decades studying them in the wild in Tanzania's Gombe Stream...
people.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Today we mourn the loss of Jane Goodall, one of the most passionate animal advocates the world has ever known. Through her work, she showed that wild animals can be intelligent and sentient beings, worthy of our appreciation and protection. She will be greatly missed.
people.com/jane-goodall...
people.com/jane-goodall...