Khyobeni Mozhui
@benimoz.bsky.social
My research areas: genomics, epigenetics, biology of aging, health disparities, etc.
My favorite things: running, sunsets, walks with audiobook, e-ink devices, wearable tech, and not-winter-time.
[views/opinions are my own]
My favorite things: running, sunsets, walks with audiobook, e-ink devices, wearable tech, and not-winter-time.
[views/opinions are my own]
Our paper on epigenetics and trans health care is now officially published!! 😃 As part of YJBM's issue on Epigenetics (we made the editor's pick!).
This was in collaboration with brillaint folks at Rhodes College and University of Melbourne. ☺️
medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/issues/
This was in collaboration with brillaint folks at Rhodes College and University of Melbourne. ☺️
medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/issues/
Current, Future, & Past Issues
June 2025: Epigenetics September 2025: History of Medicine December 2025: Neglected Tropical Diseases and Parasites (submission deadline: July 1, 2025)
medicine.yale.edu
July 4, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Our paper on epigenetics and trans health care is now officially published!! 😃 As part of YJBM's issue on Epigenetics (we made the editor's pick!).
This was in collaboration with brillaint folks at Rhodes College and University of Melbourne. ☺️
medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/issues/
This was in collaboration with brillaint folks at Rhodes College and University of Melbourne. ☺️
medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/issues/
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After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.
April 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.
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The reality of sex and gender is complicated. It calls for nuanced examination and thought. The public sphere is terribly bad at this. Add in the close ties between gender and people's self-image, and the issue is ripe for demagoguery.
Or you could just be kind to people different from you.
Or you could just be kind to people different from you.
The U.K. Supreme Court rules that Britain's equalities law defines a woman as someone born biologically female. The ruling means a transgender person with a certificate that recognizes them as female should not be considered a woman for equality purposes.
UK Supreme Court rules that equalities law defines a woman as someone born biologically female
The Supreme Court has ruled that the U.K. equalities law defines a woman as someone born biologically female.
bit.ly
April 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The reality of sex and gender is complicated. It calls for nuanced examination and thought. The public sphere is terribly bad at this. Add in the close ties between gender and people's self-image, and the issue is ripe for demagoguery.
Or you could just be kind to people different from you.
Or you could just be kind to people different from you.
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For a presentation I am giving, I made a wordcloud of the titles of the NIH grants that were canceled. It is clear about the unscientific goals of this administration
March 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
For a presentation I am giving, I made a wordcloud of the titles of the NIH grants that were canceled. It is clear about the unscientific goals of this administration
Yesterday I ate healthy mostly. So I think it’s ok to eat this today… like all 3.5 servings of it…? 😅 #vendingmachinelunch
March 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Yesterday I ate healthy mostly. So I think it’s ok to eat this today… like all 3.5 servings of it…? 😅 #vendingmachinelunch
Trans people have historically been excluded from biomedical research and this has created vast knowledge gaps and deficits in their medical care. In our new pre-print, we examine the dynamics of epigenetic biomarkers during the first year of hormone therapy among transgender participants. (1/3)
March 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Trans people have historically been excluded from biomedical research and this has created vast knowledge gaps and deficits in their medical care. In our new pre-print, we examine the dynamics of epigenetic biomarkers during the first year of hormone therapy among transgender participants. (1/3)
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We’ve handed power in the US to people who simply don’t share the values of Western democracy.
NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated.
The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west).
My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...
The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west).
My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...
March 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
We’ve handed power in the US to people who simply don’t share the values of Western democracy.
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The purge continues: NIH canceling funding for research on trans people. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/new-trump-...?
New: Trump-controlled NIH begins targeted purge of LGBTQ+ research.
Citing "agency priorities," some grants were terminated on Friday, leaving researchers with uncertain futures.
insidemedicine.substack.com
March 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The purge continues: NIH canceling funding for research on trans people. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/new-trump-...?
Our new preprint on how societal inequities can "get under the skin" and influence biological aging and health. This provides molecular evidence for the "weathering hypothesis" and how racial discrimination and inequity erodes our bodies at the DNA level.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Epigenetic entropy, social disparity, and health and lifespan in the Women’s Health Initiative
The pace of aging varies between individuals and is marked by changes in DNA methylation (DNAm) including an increase in randomness or entropy. Here, we computed epigenetic scores of aging and entropy...
www.medrxiv.org
March 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Our new preprint on how societal inequities can "get under the skin" and influence biological aging and health. This provides molecular evidence for the "weathering hypothesis" and how racial discrimination and inequity erodes our bodies at the DNA level.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Is eRA commons down? Trying to log in via auth.nih.gov but that site can’t be reached. @altnih4science.bsky.social
March 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Is eRA commons down? Trying to log in via auth.nih.gov but that site can’t be reached. @altnih4science.bsky.social
In case anyone thought that DOGE’s firing of federal employees was about “efficiency”. It’s mainly ideology driven. www.r-bloggers.com/2025/02/poli...
Political ideology and DOGE layoffs | R-bloggers
This post reproduces Dr. Adam Bonica's analysis into the relationship between the ideological alignment of government agencies and the targeting of layoffs by the Department of Government Efficiency (...
www.r-bloggers.com
February 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
In case anyone thought that DOGE’s firing of federal employees was about “efficiency”. It’s mainly ideology driven. www.r-bloggers.com/2025/02/poli...
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MAHA==Measles Are Here Again
February 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
MAHA==Measles Are Here Again
If you own TSLA stocks, consider selling them. Bulk selling is another way to devalue a stock. TSLA is fickle and erratic and now driven by corruption.
This is NOT a financial advice; this is about resisting and fighting the oligarchy and tyranny.
This is NOT a financial advice; this is about resisting and fighting the oligarchy and tyranny.
February 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
If you own TSLA stocks, consider selling them. Bulk selling is another way to devalue a stock. TSLA is fickle and erratic and now driven by corruption.
This is NOT a financial advice; this is about resisting and fighting the oligarchy and tyranny.
This is NOT a financial advice; this is about resisting and fighting the oligarchy and tyranny.
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Chronic disease: Americans are sick because our society is sick. Companies keep people in poverty by refusing to pay a living wage. Working two jobs means no time for exercise or even rest. We tie healthcare to corrupt health ins. companies that won’t pay. Structural racism harms people of color.
February 14, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Chronic disease: Americans are sick because our society is sick. Companies keep people in poverty by refusing to pay a living wage. Working two jobs means no time for exercise or even rest. We tie healthcare to corrupt health ins. companies that won’t pay. Structural racism harms people of color.
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We'd like to make sure as many scientists, physicians, and members of the public see these posts as possible.
We'd like to make sure as many scientists, physicians, and members of the public see these posts as possible.
January 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Also, please repost and follow.
We'd like to make sure as many scientists, physicians, and members of the public see these posts as possible.
We'd like to make sure as many scientists, physicians, and members of the public see these posts as possible.
This account is for sharing info with US scientists, both extramural and intramural to NIH, about attacks on science in the US.
Education is power, and we can help advocate for science and medicine together. 💪🧪
We are a team of NIH people. Please ask us questions you might have.
Education is power, and we can help advocate for science and medicine together. 💪🧪
We are a team of NIH people. Please ask us questions you might have.
February 10, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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I demand the asteroid rethinks this timeline and hit us now.
February 8, 2025 at 3:49 AM
I demand the asteroid rethinks this timeline and hit us now.
Came up with their own definition of sex and gender, claims it's "biological truth", then goes around scrubbing data and empirical evidence that contradicts them, and now censoring scientists and crippling the biomedical sciences.
They bonkers!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
They bonkers!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
US health agency seeks to cut gender-related terms from scientific papers
The mandate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention follows an executive order from president Donald Trump, and applies to research not yet published.
www.nature.com
February 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Came up with their own definition of sex and gender, claims it's "biological truth", then goes around scrubbing data and empirical evidence that contradicts them, and now censoring scientists and crippling the biomedical sciences.
They bonkers!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
They bonkers!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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As democracy is being dismantled and the economic and political status of the US is being trashed, people who get their info from Fox News have no idea.
![Current Fox News web page headlines:
* Musk rips 'fraudulent' taxpayer handouts as DOGE team uncovers shady financial secrets
* Newly elected Dem Party leader [David Hogg] called for defunding the police, abolishing ICE
* Dem melts down after Harris loss: Trump is 'psychotic,' 'white supremacy' underlines it all
* DNC lambasted for 'beyond parody' leadership vote that included singing, gender rules](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7odhgjrqjyqrjqvzxxmqzlz6/bafkreig3s5aojectq6exworhrre6kawaglmx7sceasnkjovcrhqv6inytm@jpeg)
February 2, 2025 at 10:25 PM
As democracy is being dismantled and the economic and political status of the US is being trashed, people who get their info from Fox News have no idea.
Barely a week since this news from 22 Jan. And it has sadly not aged well.
www.latimes.com/world-nation...
www.latimes.com/world-nation...
Trump fires heads of TSA, Coast Guard and guts key aviation safety advisory committee
President Trump fired the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard and eliminated all the members of a key aviation security advisory group
www.latimes.com
January 31, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Barely a week since this news from 22 Jan. And it has sadly not aged well.
www.latimes.com/world-nation...
www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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Encouraging diversity among scientists is ethically right and also leads to better science.
January 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Encouraging diversity among scientists is ethically right and also leads to better science.
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The anti-trans stuff is the worst. Bigotry dressed up as science, all in the name of craven political advantage. A tale as old as politics.
Emily Yoffe got a preview of Trump’s gender executive orders: www.thefp.com/p/trumps-day...
January 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The anti-trans stuff is the worst. Bigotry dressed up as science, all in the name of craven political advantage. A tale as old as politics.
Dear friends,
Here are four portraits of ephemeral snowflakes that landed on my sleeve this morning.
Love,
From a so-called “snowflake”
Here are four portraits of ephemeral snowflakes that landed on my sleeve this morning.
Love,
From a so-called “snowflake”
January 20, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Dear friends,
Here are four portraits of ephemeral snowflakes that landed on my sleeve this morning.
Love,
From a so-called “snowflake”
Here are four portraits of ephemeral snowflakes that landed on my sleeve this morning.
Love,
From a so-called “snowflake”
@bsky.app I’m waiting for your instagram-like app. We need a stronger alternative to META/X. TikTok will also very likely soon genuflect to the overlords.
January 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
@bsky.app I’m waiting for your instagram-like app. We need a stronger alternative to META/X. TikTok will also very likely soon genuflect to the overlords.