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Robert S Miller MD

@rsm2800.bsky.social

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Oncologist/informaticist, former Chief Medical Science Officer @ CancerLinQ. Now living my best retired life. Husband, dad, classical/choral music lover🎶 Twitter survivor. Come for the oncology content, stay for the daily music posts. He/him .. more

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Robert S Miller MD @rsm2800.bsky.social · 23h

Virtual choirs via Zoom were all over YouTube during COVID, but composer/conductor Eric Whitacre was an early pioneer going back many years. Here is his “Sleep” (lyrics by Charles Anthony Silvestri) from 2011. Masterful www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WhW...

Eric Whitacre - Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir 2.0, 'Sleep'

YouTube video by EricWhitacreVEVO

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Robert S Miller MD @rsm2800.bsky.social · 2d

Missed opportunity: Study using Flatiron data showed that nearly 1/2 of pts with metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer & BRCA1/2 alterations did not receive a PARP inhibitor, despite evidence of these drugs improving OS jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

PARP Inhibitors in Metastatic Prostate Cancer Harboring BRCA1/2 Alterations

This cohort study assesses the use of poly(adenosine diphosphate-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors in patients with metastatic castration–resistant prostate cancer harboring BRCA1/2 alterations.

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Robert S Miller MD @rsm2800.bsky.social · 2d

Congrats Sanjay!

Yale Cancer Center @yalecancer.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to Dr. Sanjay Aneja, recipient of an
@americancancersoc.bsky.social Research Scholar Grant.
With the four-year, approximately $1M award, the #AnejaLab aims to leverage their innovative AI-based algorithms to personalize #prostatecancer treatments.

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Yale Cancer Center @yalecancer.bsky.social · 2d

Robert S Miller MD @rsm2800.bsky.social · 2d

Rachael Price and yMusic cover Jackson Browne’s “These Days” www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYcb...

These Days - Jackson Browne (chamber ensemble version) | stories, Rachael Price & yMusic

YouTube video by stories

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Reposted by Anna O. Law, Jan W. Mueller, Jacob Montgomery , and 6 more Anna O. Law, Jan W. Mueller, Jacob Montgomery, Robert S. Miller, Rebecca Tushnet, Jacob T. Levy, Brian Keegan, Victor Pickard, Lisa Diedrich

Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 3d

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

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Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

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Robert S Miller MD @rsm2800.bsky.social · 3d

“He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven” by Slovenian Composer Ambrož Čopi, text from the 1899 William Butler Yeats poem. Performed by the KGBL Chamber Choir at the Taipei International Choral Festival in 2018, conducted by the composer www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfsV...

Ambrož Čopi – HE WISHES FOR THE CLOTHS OF HEAVEN | KGBL Chamber Choir

YouTube video by KGBL Chamber Choir

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Robert S Miller MD @rsm2800.bsky.social · 3d

Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

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Robert S Miller MD @rsm2800.bsky.social · 4d

Prior auth (PA) isn't just a hassle for providers. In a study of pts w/ cancer with treatment requiring PA, half reported direct involvement by themselves or a family member in obtaining their most recent PA. Data to be presented at the 2025 ASCO Quality Care Symposium www.asco.org/about-asco/p...

Prior Authorization Often Places Burden on Patients With Cancer, Delays Care - ASCO

According to a new study, three out of four people with cancer surveyed had to go through at least one recent prior authorization between 2022 and 2024. In half of those cases, patients and families w...

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Robert S Miller MD @rsm2800.bsky.social · 4d

You just wish that at least 1 time David Bowie and Freddie Mercury had performed “Under Pressure” live together, but it was not meant to be. But this live recording of Queen playing it in Montreal in 1981 is still pretty amazing www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN3g...

Queen - Under Pressure 1981 Live Video Full HD

YouTube video by NEA ZIXNH

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Rosa Lafer-Sousa @rosalafersousa.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 Are you an alum from one of the 9 universities Trump is attempting to extort right now?

✍️ Sign this petition to defend your university, free speech, and democracy. I signed.

This is a time for courage, not capitulation.
#JustSayNo #Compact 🧪🧠🧬

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Trump attacks 9 universities: Sign the alumni petition to defend your school now

Are you an alum outraged by Trump's attacks on universities? Defend your school now by signing this alumni petition in support of these 9 universities as well as campus communities across America.

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Robert S Miller MD @rsm2800.bsky.social · 8d

I certainly hope my alma mater University of Virginia tells them to pound sand on this one www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

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Robert S Miller MD @rsm2800.bsky.social · 15d

Last music post for a little while since I’m traveling for the next couple of weeks. Jacob Collier (playing his 5-string guitar) and a volunteer choir sing his “Little Blue” www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQvz...

Jacob Collier - Little Blue | @MahoganySessions

YouTube video by Jacob Collier

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Robert S Miller MD @rsm2800.bsky.social · 16d

A stunning rendition of Sinéad O'Connor’s delicate and touching "This Is To Mother You" performed by Austin-based Conspirare www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy6D...

Conspirare performs "This Is To Mother You" by Sinéad O'Connor

YouTube video by ConspirareChoir

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Robert S Miller MD @rsm2800.bsky.social · 17d

The incredible Yuja Wang on piano performs Nikolai Kapustin’s “Toccatina” from his 8 Concert Etudes Op. 40 in 2022 www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3mV...

Yuja Wang performs Kapustin's Toccatina from his 8 Concert Etudes Op. 40 at the VF 2022

YouTube video by medici.tv

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Gregory Riely @rielymd.bsky.social · 18d

Appropriately critical commentary on cochrane reviews as the apply to matched targeted therapy by @viveksubbiah.bsky.social Journal of Clinical Oncology ascopubs.org/doi/full/10....

Precision Oncology and Modernizing Evidence Standards: A Critical Commentary on the Cochrane Review

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Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Elena Litchman, Tom Clark , and 8 more Dorothy Bishop, Elena Litchman, Tom Clark, Jacob Montgomery, Robert S. Miller, Devon Greyson, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Alan Richardson, David R. Miller, Samantha Brennan, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 18d

This MAGA/MAHA/Trump/RFK Jr/Dr Oz/Dr Bhattacharya press conference right now is quite possibly the worst press conference—from the viewpoints of medicine, public health, & medical ethics—that I’ve ever seen. These men are so shameless & deeply irresponsible. Wherever happened to science & evidence?

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Robert S Miller MD @rsm2800.bsky.social · 18d

A choral version of Laura Mvula's "Sing To The Moon" performed by the Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, conducted by Anna Lapwood before she was a social media and organ music superstar www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRSJ...

Laura Mvula: Sing to the Moon (choral arrangement)

YouTube video by Anna Lapwood

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Robert S Miller MD @rsm2800.bsky.social · 19d

Big news indeed: Last week the FDA approved SQ pembro for all solid tumor indications in adults and kids 12+ for which IV pembro was approved. Will be interesting to see the financial analysis of the impact on total cost of care www.fda.gov/drugs/resour...

FDA approves pembrolizumab and berahyaluronidase alfa-pmph

On September 19, 2025, the Food and Drug Administration approved pembrolizumab and berahyaluronidase alfa-pmph (Keytruda Qlex, Merck) for subcutaneous injection

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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 21d

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Winner of mRNA Nobel Prize says ACIP member’s claim that Covid vaccines persist is “absolutely impossible”

In a Q&A with STAT, Nobel winner Drew Weissman addressed concerns raised about Covid shots at a recent meeting of federal vaccine advisers.

www.statnews.com

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Robert S Miller MD @rsm2800.bsky.social · 21d

How does she hit those high notes? Broadway star Lindsay Mendez sings cabaret fav “Meadowlark” at 54 Below, a cool nightspot in NYC I’ve been to a couple of times www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHAP...

Lindsay Mendez - "Meadowlark"

YouTube video by 54 Below

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Robert S Miller MD @rsm2800.bsky.social · 22d

"Vuelie” by the Norwegian vocal ensemble Cantus, musical themes that inspired Disney’s Frozen www.youtube.com/watch?v=schn...

Cantus - Beck: Vuelie

YouTube video by CantusVEVO

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Robert S Miller MD @rsm2800.bsky.social · 23d

I recently discovered this contemporary Italian composer of sacred choral music, Claudio Dall'Albero from Rome, who writes beautiful contrapuntal textures with modern touches. Here is the Choir of Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge singing his “Pater Noster” www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkUu...

Claudio Dall'Albero Pater Noster DAVID SKINNER Villa Torlonia

YouTube video by Marcella Medaglia Management

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Robert S Miller MD @rsm2800.bsky.social · 24d

The Cape Town Youth Choir performs “Iza Ngomso (Come Tomorrow)” at their Dec 2020 virtual graduation ceremony. From composer Christopher Tin’s song cycle The Drop That Contained the Sea. Text from the HW Longfellow poem “Keramos” translated into Xhosa www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaVt...

Iza Ngomso (Come Tomorrow) - Lyric Video - Christopher Tin - Cape Town Youth Choir

YouTube video by Cape Town Camerata

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Robert S Miller MD @rsm2800.bsky.social · 25d

David Lang’s very cool but challenging (rhythmically and otherwise) piece “Increase” (2002), performed by Orkest De Ereprijs, a small contemporary ensemble from the Netherlands specializing in new music www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wZA...

DAVID LANG - Increase (2002)

YouTube video by Orkest De Ereprijs

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Robert S Miller MD @rsm2800.bsky.social · 26d

Everyone, and I mean everyone, should read about what is happening to the cancer research infrastructure in the US—->Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer

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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 27d

Withdrawing from the War on Cancer: an extraordinarily successful scientific research system that took decades to build, saved millions of lives and generated billions of dollars in profits is being dismantled in short order. @jonathanmahler.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer

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Robert S Miller MD @rsm2800.bsky.social · 28d

From JCO OP: OK Computer! Reflections on How Artificial Intelligence Saved Cancer Care ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.... <---heh, let's hope

OK Computer! Reflections on How Artificial Intelligence Saved Cancer Care | JCO Oncology Practice

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Robert S Miller MD @rsm2800.bsky.social · 28d

Dougie MacLean and a backing chorus of Scottish (and American) superstars perform his classic “Caledonia” live in 1989 www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9IY...

CALEDONIA (2013) DOUGIE MACLEAN with BARBARA DICKSON, EDDI READER/MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER/RALPH McTELL

YouTube video by Barbara Dickson