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@drlaurahaynes.bsky.social

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Miami native & U Miami🙌🏽 grad now in Connecticut’s Farmington valley Immunologist/Gerontologist/Professor #TrustScience #VaccinesWork Opinions are my own & do not represent my employer

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · Jan 3

About me: I’m an immunologist & gerontologist. I study how aging influences immunity including the response to vaccines.
#VaccinesWork
#VaccinesSaveLives
#VaccinesDoNotCauseAutism

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 12m

You have to watch this...it's fucking excellent!!!!

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Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 24m

Great thread from my friend @drdind.bsky.social about today’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry announcement

DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 5h

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Today's Nobel Prize in Chemistry is for the discovery and stabilization of metal-organic frameworks, stable networks of metal ions and carbon (organic) molecules

Applications of these porous compounds include catalysis and pollution remediation

Example of metal-organic framework formed by reacting chromium ion clusters with organic compound and hydrofluoric acid

Electron microscope image of a periodic array of super tetrahedra of the previous image

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 1h

Definitely!

Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 6h

We are so fucked

Dave nλ=2dsinθ @xtaldave.xtaldave.net.ap.brid.gy · 9h

Senate Confirms Neil Jacobs, ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist, to Lead NOAA - The New York Times

Holy shit America 😳

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/us/politics/senate-neil-jacobs-noaa.html

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 8h

A great prize reflecting the power of synthetic inorganic chemistry and self-assembly.

Omar Yaghi did his postdoctoral work with RH Holm, my PhD advisor.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 8h

Breaking News: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi for developing metal-organic frameworks.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry Is Awarded for Development of New Molecular Architecture

The prize was awarded on Wednesday to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 8h

Banning “dangerous gain-of-function” pathogen research is actually just banning pathogen research. TB causes chronic disease, the supposed cornerstone of the MAHA movement. Hard to see ending TB research on treatments as anything but another targeted attack on science in service of destroying it.

Rock Lab @rocklabtb.bsky.social · 8h

Ditto. Thanks for this Sarah. www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/g...

The NIH ordered me to stop my ‘dangerous’ gain-of-function research. It isn’t dangerous at all

Safe gain-of-function research is necessary to identify new treatments for diseases like for tuberculosis — but the NIH has imposed unfounded stops.

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 7h

Cartoon-You’re no longer insured, but hey, nice hat!

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 6h

This thread 😞

Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 7h

The older you get, the more you experience people getting sick & dying.

Or NEEDING to die & not being allowed to do it painlessly.

I assume lots of us were alive & conscious when Jack Kevorkian was being hounded by the State for helping people commit suicide.

Because... GOD SAYS NOT TO.

Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 7h

Holy shit…they are shooting priests…how can anyone think that this is ok?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 7h

Morning Jim🌞

Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 7h

BTW, the University of California is raking in Nobel Prizes this week!!!

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 7h

Congratulations 🥳🥳🥳
#NobelPrize

Nature @nature.com · 7h

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi, who developed a class of extremely porous materials known as metal-organic frameworks, have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry

go.nature.com/3VRBAv4

Chemistry Nobel for team who developed massively porous ‘super sponge’ materials

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi pioneered the creation of metal-organic frameworks, which can capture and store molecules such as carbon dioxide.

go.nature.com

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 7h

Morning everyone…it’s Humpday and we are halfway through another week from hell. Have some coffee & let’s get it going

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 17h

I mean watch this. It’s unhinged. That’s why it was so dangerous to normalize Bhattacharya, Prasad, Kulldorff, and Makary.

They made people paranoid and angry. We are seeing that manifest today.

There is an overwhelming amount of such content. Just watch.

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 17h

“Kennedy is very effective at using obviously untrue, pseudoscientific garbage to justify wildly irresponsible and dangerous health policies. Lying about monovalent MMR will be one more feather in his cap, with the next generation of Americans paying the price.”

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote a thing about how this split the MMR up into monovalents is bullshit that Andrew Wakefield cooked up. It will be used to strip access to the MMR.

The MAHA movement continues to destroy public health.

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The Monovalent Mirage

A pretend alternative to the MMR exists, just ask Andrew Wakefield

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 16h

This is so important: Even small drops in vaccination rates for US children can lead to disease outbreaks

The most important thing you can do as a parent is to keep your kids up to date on required vaccines

theconversation.com/even-small-d...

Even small drops in vaccination rates for US children can lead to disease outbreaks

Most states require childhood vaccinations for measles, mumps, tetanus, rubella, chickenpox and whooping cough.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 1d

My quote of the day

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 16h

Excellent starter pack Doc & thanks so much for including me!

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 16h

If you’re looking for some really great science activists to follow, you will love Doc’s new starter pack
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Thanks so much for including me Doc!!!

#ScienceMatters
#FundScience
#VaccinesWork
#VaccinesSaveLives

DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 17h

The Nobel Prizes, 5 of 6 having so far gone to US based scientists, are a reminder of why we must stand up for science against this horrid administration. Here are some great Scientist Activists to follow.

go.bsky.app/14W5Rdk

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 17h

Definitely! No union busting coffee for me

Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 18h

Just saw the preseason women’s basketball rankings. Look at who’s #1!!!!

#UConn

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 18h

Susanbeth is so spot on. This is what we have to do now!!

#ShopLocal

Susanbeth5781 @susanpatrick1.bsky.social · 18h

What a difference a year makes. I have adjusted to shopping for groceries at farmers markets and locally owned chains. Money stays in the community and my Spanish has become very fluent😀 And ta da, I am totally resisting Amazon Prime days. I did watch the harvest moon. So much more rewarding.

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 18h

Thanks Patti😘

Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 18h

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES

DAY 7 OCTOBER 2025

THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES

Our Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva still not sworn in
ICE RAMPANT ALL OVER
Republicans will not negotiate on Healthcare

SO, for a smile
A sing-along 🎶 from the great @ericswalwell.bsky.social thank you !

"MAN CHILD "

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 18h

Anyone who thinks that this is ok has a very serious problem

Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 19h

I do not like to see posts like this. Sending healing vibes to Dolly 🥰

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