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M. Natasha Rajah 🇨🇦 @mnrajah.bsky.social · 18h

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Dave Blake @blakestah.bsky.social · 19h

It Is already disastrous.

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Dave Blake @blakestah.bsky.social · 1d

You from SC?

I pretty much don't care about the sauce but my pork cooks 11 hrs and my brisket around 20.

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Dave Blake @blakestah.bsky.social · 5d

Bhattacharya graduated medical school but is not a physician.

Being a physician means you passed USMLE and are currently licensed.

Bhattacharya did neither.

Makary is a physician and surgeon and could be delicensed for making false/misleading claims.

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Dave Blake @blakestah.bsky.social · 6d

In the SAINT protocol, TMS is applied to pfc that projects to the subcallosal cingulate using an intermittent protocol to cause increased suppression of SCC which relieves suppression at NAcc.
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Dave Blake @blakestah.bsky.social · 6d

Helen Mayberg stimulates the subcallosal cingulate too relieve depression because it protects to and inhibits the nucleus accusers.
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Dave Blake @blakestah.bsky.social · 6d

These occur in programming sessions.

Different contacts on a DBS lead are temporarily stimulated to explore clinical benefit and adverse effect profile.

All adverse effects from stimulation cease once stimulation apps.

These findings dovetail well with Mayberg's work and the SAINT protocol.
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Dave Blake @blakestah.bsky.social · 6d

Dodger bats were red hot in the Reds series.

Dave Blake @blakestah.bsky.social · 7d

Double congratulations!

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 7d

The fiscal year is over.

So how was the NIH appropriation committed?

A long thread with institute by institute results about where the money went.

a white cat is sitting on a box with the words where written on it .

ALT: a white cat is sitting on a box with the words where written on it .

media.tenor.com

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Dave Blake @blakestah.bsky.social · 7d

Tactile roughness.

Sounds interesting.

Dave Blake @blakestah.bsky.social · 7d

It seems the cost and risk would be very low, and the potential improvements in health outcomes could be pretty high.

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Dave Blake @blakestah.bsky.social · 7d

Musing at lunch yesterday.

Would there be advances in healthcare if, when an endovascular surgeon does a coronary angiogram, they do a head angiogram and vice versa?

I mean, if there is stenosis in the coronary RCA, isn't there also possible stenosis in (head) MCA or basilar or PICA or PCA?
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Dave Blake @blakestah.bsky.social · 7d

Appropriations failure. Non-essential government work is shutdown.

www.opm.gov/policy-data-...

US OPM - DC area Federal Government Operating Status : Due to a lapse in appropriations, Federal Government operations vary by agency.

Welcome to opm.gov

www.opm.gov

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Dave Blake @blakestah.bsky.social · 8d

37% fewer R awards this year with the same budget.

And no ADRD funding whatsoever.

NIH killed Alzheimer Research this year. Against a Congressional Mandate.

I'm sure it will be a non-answer from the NIH Director to Congress in coming months.

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Dave Blake @blakestah.bsky.social · 8d

Fat Bear Week 2025 voting finals are today from noon to 9 pm EDT.

Vote your conscience.

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Dave Blake @blakestah.bsky.social · 8d

Once again, a shutdown appears likely after today 9/30.

Please get anything you need from ERA Commons and any communications you may need from SROs and POS.

Down the rabbit hole we go….

Dave Blake @blakestah.bsky.social · 16d

For the scientists out there, please download anything you may need from ERA Commons before Oct 1. If there is a shutdown, it will go dark. SROs and POs will likely not respond to your emails, also, and study sections will not meet.

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Dave Blake @blakestah.bsky.social · 9d

Betting markets at 80% for a Wednesday shutdown and rising quickly.

Dave Blake @blakestah.bsky.social · 9d

www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/09/...

'We're headed to a shutdown,' Vance says after Trump meeting with leaders ends

Democrats have insisted that any short-term funding deal to avoid a shutdown of the U.S. government include an extension of enhanced Obamacare subsidies.

www.cnbc.com

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Dave Blake @blakestah.bsky.social · 9d

It appears the markets were driven by the pre-meeting statements by Thune and Trump that nothing other than a clear CR would be acceptable (Trump used a pejorative insult on top of that).

We’ll see what happen today, but I expect it is down the rabbit hole we go…

Dave Blake @blakestah.bsky.social · 9d

I have not seen anything new reported but being markets are at 67% for a Wednesday govt shutdown.

Scientists remember to grab things you may need from ERA Commons before end of day tomorrow.

Dave Blake @blakestah.bsky.social · 10d

10/1 shutdown betting odds down from over 70% to 58% at kalshi and polymarket as Monday meeting at White House is scheduled.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/27/p...

Top congressional leaders will meet Trump at the White House on Monday as shutdown looms | CNN Politics

The top four congressional leaders will meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, multiple sources told CNN, as Washington works to avoid a looming government shutdown.

www.cnn.com

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Dave Blake @blakestah.bsky.social · 10d

This jury service was not optional. 23 people had to be there or else the sheriff would be sent to find them. Each juror had this legal obligation.

That did not change the quorum.

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Dave Blake @blakestah.bsky.social · 10d

We had the same quorum rules and rules of indicting, but it was not federal.

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Dave Blake @blakestah.bsky.social · 10d

When I served, 23 people were legally obligated to be present each session, and we never had less than 21 present. We had a good prosecutor, nearly all votes were unanimous.

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Dave Blake @blakestah.bsky.social · 10d

The standard for a grand jury is "probable cause" to hold a trial, and not "beyond a reasonable doubt". If a grand jury outcome is not unanimous or nearly so, it is a really bad sign for the prosecution.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 11d

I reviewed the court transcript.

It’s true that only 14 grand jurors voted in favor of the Comey indictment, but the total number of grand jurors who voted is not specified.

The minimum number required for a quorum is 16; the maximum is 23.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 12d

New on MSNBC: According to the court transcript, only 14 of the 23 grand jurors voted in favor of indicting James Comey on the two counts that went forward.

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