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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 16d

Pregnant women can't access the #COVID vaccine. If they get #COVID and develop a fever, they can't take Tylenol? 🫠.
Both COVID infection and untreated maternal fever increase the risk of bad outcomes for both fetus and mother ranging from preterm delivery to death.
None of this is pro-life.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 16d

I am begging all news reporters who cover the "tylenol and vaccines cause autism" press conference PLEASE lead your reporting and headlines with facts and caveat that these assertions were not backed by any scientific evidence but rather the whims and feelings on unqualified non-scientists

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Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · 28d

I'm thrilled to join the #OHSU ID faculty in early 2026, where I will continue my work to find a cure for the fungus #Coccidioides, which causes Valley Fever. Thanks to #UCSF for a wonderful 15 years of medicine & science. Excited for this new chapter ahead! Recruiting for the Homer Lab soon!

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Quinn Sievers @quinnsievers.bsky.social · Jul 6

As a first-year oncology fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York City I had the privilege of rotating through all of the clinics. Lung, beast, ovarian, leukemia, lymphoma. 1/7

Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Jul 6

Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · Jul 6

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Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · Jun 24

@nphstuff.bsky.social finished Box 2 and enjoyed all the very slick puzzles!

Saw some cool parallels with the Lost Cabinet 😁

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Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · Jun 18

Extremely saddened to see the Supreme Court decision today denying equal protection to transgender children and, at the same time, the end of the LGBTQIA suicide hotline. 😥 Everyone deserves medical treatment!

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · Jun 16

Mother to child transmission of HIV is completely preventable with antiretroviral drugs. We cannot go back to the 80s and 90s of the HIV epidemic.

IAS - the International AIDS Society @iasociety.bsky.social · Jun 16

"As the withdrawal of US funding disrupts treatment and halts crucial research in #SouthAfrica, clinics fear the resurgence of mother-to-child transmission of the virus" via @theguardian.com

‘I don’t want my boy to be positive’: pregnant women face sky-high viral loads as cuts hit HIV care in Africa

As the withdrawal of US funding disrupts treatment and halts crucial research in South Africa, clinics fear the resurgence of mother-to-child transmission of the virus

www.theguardian.com

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Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social · Jun 15

This is gotta be intentional. But it’s also just weird! How many NYT readers were at protests? What % of subscribers? A substantial %!

How can it not be seen as newsworthy, especially given the readership?

Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · Jun 15

I count 49 news headlines on the NYT mobile app home page right now, not including opinion, sports or cooking. None of them are about the massive protests yesterday.

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Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · Jun 14

Happy for the opportunity to attend a protest today with my parents 💜

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Cris Luu @ariyassa.bsky.social · Jun 14

#nokings in SF

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Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · Jun 14

Estimated turnout at least several thousand!

Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · Jun 14

#nokings San Jose, CA

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Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · Jun 14

San Jose gathering for #NoKings #50501. Great turnout and energy for this peaceful and powerful crowd!

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · Jun 12

This is not hard. Every Republican member of Congress should join Democrats in condemning this administration’s vicious arrest of Sen Padilla. “A Republic if you can keep it” is now.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Jun 12

Senator Padilla was forcibly removed from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference in Los Angeles while attempting to ask a question.

Padilla was thrown down and handcuffed. A senator in his own state! (He has since been released.)

The Trump regime is out of control.

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Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · Jun 11

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS 50501 San Jose Protest” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

NO KINGS 50501 San Jose Protest · No Kings

**50501 San Jose is partnering with Indivisible San Jose to protest the Trump administration and Project 2025.** June 14th is Flag Day and Donald Trump's birthday. Please join us for a protest and ma...

www.mobilize.us

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · Jun 10

My message to Trump’s NIH Director? No one in America wants us to do LESS cancer research.

No one is asking Trump to make it harder to cure Alzheimer's disease.

Yet Trump is cutting all of this NOW and demanding an $18 BILLION cut to NIH next year. Not on my watch.

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Alt-IRS @alt-irs.altgov.info · Jun 11

LA occupation is costing us over $130 million. Now expanding to more cities.

Military vanity parade costs us $45 million and counting.

Trump golfing costs us $4 million each.

Elon...

STFU about being fiscally responsible, GOP!

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · Jun 9

This is a reasonable suggestion. Anyone who wants to be a Democratic leader should be willing to be in LA now.

And I don’t mean with a TV crew, or behind a lectern, or giving interviews, but simply to stand with the community and engage in congressional fact-finding.

And to tell any reporter that.

LeslieResists2TheEnd @spideymac.bsky.social · Jun 9

Well, Mr. Seth Abramson, how about

Every Democratic elected leader head to LA to stand in solidarity with the protesters against Trump's staged and illegal national guard and Marine call up for no other reason than he can and wants us Californians to bend our knees to his illegitimate rule.

SO?

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Jun 10

‼️ This is absolutely absurd. Trump is actively manufacturing a crisis. The Pentagon just announced that he’s federalizing another 2,000 California National Guard troops bringing the total to 4,000, plus 700 active-duty Marines heading into LA. This is a military occupation, not public safety.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · May 17

The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity:

1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas…
2) enabled by Engineering Innovations…
3) based on Science Research in Universities…
4) funded by Grants from the US Government.

It’s time more people understood this.

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · May 14

My ongoing request:

If your NSF or NIH grant was terminated--whether at Harvard or elsewhere--please report it here.

NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h...

NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h...

Our trackers are actively used in lawsuits and are often the only record that terminations ever occurred.

Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · May 14

NSF appears to be terminating hundreds of its grants to Harvard, per internal sources at NSF and at Harvard. At least one division has had all its grants cut.

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Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · May 16

Frustratingly, I'm finding a number of typos were introduced into the final draft without our knowledge. If you run into any confusing sentences, please refer to the biorxiv version or let me know - happy to clarify! I definitely don't want this to be a barrier to the science being understood.

Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · May 16

I'm very proud that our manuscript performing high-density transcriptomics of the fungal pathogen Coccidioides is officially out in print. New biology in the infectious spore stage, interesting mechanisms of regulation, and we hope a great resource for the field!
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Transcriptomic atlas throughout Coccidioides development reveals key phase-enriched transcripts of this important fungal pathogen

Coccidioides is a neglected fungal pathogen that forms a unique structure, the spherule, to cause disease. This study provides the first high-density transcriptomic analysis of Coccidioides developmen...

journals.plos.org

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