Sam Waller
@samwalmd.bsky.social
Oncologist, Husband, Father, Widower, Occasional Clarinetist, Living in Venice
I am five days older than the sexiest man alive.
November 16, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I am five days older than the sexiest man alive.
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Recently visited the Glass Flowers at Harvard, a collection of 4,300 extraordinarily realistic glass models of plants crafted by the Blaschkas, a father and son team of sculptors
That’s right, these are all made primarily of GLASS — a fact difficult to accept given how accurate & lifelike they are
That’s right, these are all made primarily of GLASS — a fact difficult to accept given how accurate & lifelike they are
November 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Recently visited the Glass Flowers at Harvard, a collection of 4,300 extraordinarily realistic glass models of plants crafted by the Blaschkas, a father and son team of sculptors
That’s right, these are all made primarily of GLASS — a fact difficult to accept given how accurate & lifelike they are
That’s right, these are all made primarily of GLASS — a fact difficult to accept given how accurate & lifelike they are
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This is actually good spin, or would have been. But the fact that the Democratic cave happened without even a coordinated, agreed-upon message like this indicates the depth of the leadership void.
November 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
This is actually good spin, or would have been. But the fact that the Democratic cave happened without even a coordinated, agreed-upon message like this indicates the depth of the leadership void.
A neuropeptide fueled tumor growth in vitro, but deletion of its receptor halted the process.
www.the-scientist.com/migraine-dru...
www.the-scientist.com/migraine-dru...
Migraine Drugs Could Provide New Treatment for Gastrointestinal Cancers
Australian researchers found that a neuropeptide fueled tumor growth in vitro, but deletion of its receptor halted the process.
www.the-scientist.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
A neuropeptide fueled tumor growth in vitro, but deletion of its receptor halted the process.
www.the-scientist.com/migraine-dru...
www.the-scientist.com/migraine-dru...
RFK Jr has no need for evidence. He just knows things.
www.technologynetworks.com/drug-discove...
www.technologynetworks.com/drug-discove...
Pregnancy Paracetamol Use Not Clearly Tied to Autism or ADHD
Researchers say confidence in the findings of existing evidence is low to critically low, and suggest that any apparent effect seen in previous studies may be driven by shared genetic and environmenta...
www.technologynetworks.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
RFK Jr has no need for evidence. He just knows things.
www.technologynetworks.com/drug-discove...
www.technologynetworks.com/drug-discove...
Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo di notte
November 11, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo di notte
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Dems. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Dems. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
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Across the US, oncologists are discovering that one of their greatest challenges isn’t just fighting tumors but navigating a lucrative global wellness universe that has captured the imagination of patients. Much of the advice is inaccurate, even harmful.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Cancer Misinformation: When Influencers Co-Opt Care
Experts explore the messy intersection between evidence-based cancer care and an enticing wellness industry dominated by social media influencers who often spread cancer misinformation.
www.medscape.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Across the US, oncologists are discovering that one of their greatest challenges isn’t just fighting tumors but navigating a lucrative global wellness universe that has captured the imagination of patients. Much of the advice is inaccurate, even harmful.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
At least there is some good news from DC.
Breaking News: The Supreme Court denied a request to consider overturning its landmark decision to legalize same-sex marriage a decade ago. nyti.ms/3Ju2Ayd
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
At least there is some good news from DC.
The creators of the chatbot certainly can. When a product is used the way its creators intended and it causes damage, the creators are responsible for that damage.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/m...
A Teen in Love With a Chatbot Killed Himself. Can the Chatbot Be Held Responsible?
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
The creators of the chatbot certainly can. When a product is used the way its creators intended and it causes damage, the creators are responsible for that damage.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/m...
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it is darkly humorous that after all these years, the Republican health insurance plan ends up being to end health insurance
Trump: "I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE."
November 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
it is darkly humorous that after all these years, the Republican health insurance plan ends up being to end health insurance
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Gender markers shouldn't even be on passports at all in the first place. They are unnecessary and I'm glad Justice Jackson hints at this. They weren't even added until 1972 when women started to be able to travel independently of their husbands and fathers.
November 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Gender markers shouldn't even be on passports at all in the first place. They are unnecessary and I'm glad Justice Jackson hints at this. They weren't even added until 1972 when women started to be able to travel independently of their husbands and fathers.
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Long live the sandwich tosser!
November 6, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Long live the sandwich tosser!
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“The Government also insists that gender identity is not a meaningful basis for identification—strangely begging the question why sex markers are required on passports at all.”
The Supreme Court's decision to let the Trump White House implement its anti-trans passport policy is vile, and I appreciate Jackson going out of her way to include in her dissent, for the record, the administration's language justifying the policy. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![TRUMP v. ORR
JACKSON, J., dissenting
identity. From 1992 to 2010, passport applicants who
wished to obtain passports with sex markers that were dif-
ferent from the sex assigned to them at birth had to submit
evidence of surgical reassignment. In 2010, the State De-
partment began allowing passport applicants to submit a
doctor’s certification avowing that they had undergone clin-
ical treatment for gender transition. Beginning in 2021, the
State Department allowed applicants to self-select the sex
marker that matched their gender identity.
Through it all, the indisputable point of a passport re-
mained: to “attes[t] to the identity and nationality of the
bearer.” 22 CFR §51.1 (2024). The State Department’s sex-
marker policies have thus long demonstrated that what is
important for identification purposes is the bearer’s gender
identity today.
No matter. On January 22, 2025, the agency overhauled
the rules for sex markers on passports, reverting to its pre-
1992 practices. Its Passport Policy now requires that all
new passports reflect the holders’ sex assigned at birth.
Why? Because two days earlier, on January 20, President
Trump issued Executive Order No. 14168, characterizing
transgender identity as “false” and “corrosive” to American
society. 90 Fed. Reg. 8615 (2025). The order asserted that
“the policy of the United States” is “to recognize two sexes,
male and female,” which it defined based on the sex as-
signed “at conception.” Ibid. And the order directed the
Secretary of State to require that any new government-is-
sued identification documents reflect the holder’s “biologi-
cal” sex. Id., at 8615–8616. The State Department re-
sponded by rescinding its prior sex-identification policies
moving forward; transgender Americans who had previ-
ously obtained passports with sex markers reflecting their
gender identity rather than their sex assigned at birth
could continue to use those documents until they expire.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:55 PM
“The Government also insists that gender identity is not a meaningful basis for identification—strangely begging the question why sex markers are required on passports at all.”
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The Supreme Court's decision to let the Trump White House implement its anti-trans passport policy is vile, and I appreciate Jackson going out of her way to include in her dissent, for the record, the administration's language justifying the policy. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
November 6, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The Supreme Court's decision to let the Trump White House implement its anti-trans passport policy is vile, and I appreciate Jackson going out of her way to include in her dissent, for the record, the administration's language justifying the policy. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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It’s out! Over the past few months, my colleagues and I at @unbreaking.org have been working to document the political, legal, and economic maneuvers the US administration has used to undermine medical research funding. We hope you’ll find it useful!
Read it here:
Read it here:
Medical Research Funding: Timeline — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
unbreaking.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
It’s out! Over the past few months, my colleagues and I at @unbreaking.org have been working to document the political, legal, and economic maneuvers the US administration has used to undermine medical research funding. We hope you’ll find it useful!
Read it here:
Read it here:
Like a rash, it is spreading to the outside of the building.
November 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Like a rash, it is spreading to the outside of the building.
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The real choice Democrats face is not between a continuing resolution that allows the government to function normally or a government shutdown.
Under the Trump regime, the government is not functioning normally. It is already shutting down.
Democrats must not legitimize Trump's coup.
Under the Trump regime, the government is not functioning normally. It is already shutting down.
Democrats must not legitimize Trump's coup.
November 6, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The real choice Democrats face is not between a continuing resolution that allows the government to function normally or a government shutdown.
Under the Trump regime, the government is not functioning normally. It is already shutting down.
Democrats must not legitimize Trump's coup.
Under the Trump regime, the government is not functioning normally. It is already shutting down.
Democrats must not legitimize Trump's coup.
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Donald's complete inability to understand how *anything* works is only exceeded by his ridiculous delusions of grandeur.
November 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Donald's complete inability to understand how *anything* works is only exceeded by his ridiculous delusions of grandeur.
Palazzo Ducale, Mantova
November 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Palazzo Ducale, Mantova
"conversion of the party of Wall Street and the country club into the party of the working class"
The Republican Party is not the party of the working class. It is the party that exploits working-class voters to deliver favors to billionaires.
The Republican Party is not the party of the working class. It is the party that exploits working-class voters to deliver favors to billionaires.
In Opinion
“The government shutdown has forced to the surface growing tensions between President Trump’s absolute control of the Republican Party and the pressures created by the conversion of the party of Wall Street and the country club into the party of the working class,” Thomas Edsall writes.
“The government shutdown has forced to the surface growing tensions between President Trump’s absolute control of the Republican Party and the pressures created by the conversion of the party of Wall Street and the country club into the party of the working class,” Thomas Edsall writes.
Opinion | It Would Be Trump’s Honor to Pay for Food Stamps
When Republicans sing Kumbaya.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"conversion of the party of Wall Street and the country club into the party of the working class"
The Republican Party is not the party of the working class. It is the party that exploits working-class voters to deliver favors to billionaires.
The Republican Party is not the party of the working class. It is the party that exploits working-class voters to deliver favors to billionaires.
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Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
I am hearing good news from America!
November 5, 2025 at 5:38 AM
I am hearing good news from America!