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American Society of Anesthesiologists @asahq.bsky.social · Jun 4

June is Pride Month! 🏳‍🌈🌈 ASA is committed to providing meaningful support to all of our members, including those in the LGBTQ community. We celebrate the contributions of LGBTQ individuals to medicine and society.

#Pride #PrideMonth

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · May 19

If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

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Liz Whitlock, MD, MSc @lizwhitlockmd.bsky.social · May 19

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"Sustaining this progress will be especially vital to future domestic medical advances & the prosperity of millions of Americans in future generations."

Could not agree more. Investing in research makes America great. Suppressing it makes America weak.

Medical and Scientific Research Makes America Great

Those who care about America's global leadership, should be alarmed by deep funding cuts to the NSF and NIH.

time.com

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American Society of Anesthesiologists @asahq.bsky.social · May 19

ASA has joined over 20 national medical specialties to express concern about the impact of recent Congressional proposals on Medicaid beneficiary coverage. Members, learn more from ASA President Dr. Donald Arnold: community.asahq.org/mmo/5-19-25

#anesthesiology #anesthesiology

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Maria Glymour @mariaglymour.bsky.social · May 18

Thinking today about the visionary Richard Suzman, who saw the necessity of cross-national data to understand health in the US and embedded values of data & research sharing in HRS and intn'l sister studies. A credit to #NIA and a force still. #PublicHealth #EpiSky
www.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/h...

Richard Suzman, 72, Dies; Researcher Influenced Global Surveys on Aging (Published 2015)

www.nytimes.com

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Liz Whitlock, MD, MSc @lizwhitlockmd.bsky.social · May 16

This is how it should work!! Thank you for correcting the record. 💕

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Liz Whitlock, MD, MSc @lizwhitlockmd.bsky.social · May 15

Inspiring start to the FAER MRTG meeting! I don't find FAER on Bsky, but shout out to @asahq.bsky.social 's support of US anesthesiology's research arm. Deeply needed especially in today's climate!

Liz Whitlock, MD, MSc @lizwhitlockmd.bsky.social · May 15

Wonderful message from Dr. Holden Thorp (EIC @science.org ) about @elisabethbik.bsky.social identifying fabricated data, sometimes in Science papers, & "trusted colleague" in the scientific publishing process. Deeply important for public trust to run towards, not away from, corrections.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · May 11

See this? It's called a non-inferiority trial. It compares the new vaccine with the current vaccines to see if the new vaccine does better. This new vaccine did.

Placebo-controlled trials are not needed to test most new vaccines. Demanding them will only reduce vaccine access. Which is the point.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · May 10

Nobel Prize winning science.

Moderna's combo Covid and flu mRNA shot outperforms current vaccines in large trial

A combination shot would make it easier for people to get vaccinated against Covid and the flu at the same time.

www.nbcnews.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Apr 8

I support the US garment industry. I don't believe in making life harder for immigrants or erecting blanket tariffs. So how can we reshore some of our US garment manufacturing without xenophobia or protectionism? Here's my view. 🧵

A photo of the Southwick manufacturing plant before it closed. The photo shows a bunch of people at various sewing stations. This was located in Massachusetts.

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Liz Whitlock, MD, MSc @lizwhitlockmd.bsky.social · Mar 18

Yikes. 😳 I feel for the SROs who are going to try to handle this, elegantly and with the highest integrity as they always do, but somehow 3x as fast as usual? 😬 They are acutely aware of how critical this is. It's a tough position.

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Anesthesiology Journals @anesthesiology.bsky.social · Mar 18

“Target trial emulation” is an observational research framework that helps investigators avoid pitfalls in study design and analysis. In a new Readers' Toolbox, Messinger et al. present an overview of the framework and considerations for research: ow.ly/teg450VfPLQ

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · Mar 14

Sure, this is bad for Johns Hopkins, bad for its employees, bad for America, bad for the world, but that's just the price we have to pay for the eugenics project of bored billionaires who long for the good old days of apartheid.

Federal Cuts Prompt Johns Hopkins to Cut More Than 2,000 Workers

The university, a leader in scientific research, has been hard hit by the Trump administration’s cuts, which will slash at least $800 million from its budget.

www.nytimes.com

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · Mar 14

A lot of the “achievements” of western civilization actually kind of suck but one thing that definitely does not suck is how half our children don’t die anymore

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Anesthesiology Journals @anesthesiology.bsky.social · Mar 14

The Anesthesia Research Council steering committee formed an AI expert workgroup to evaluate the current state of AI in anesthesiology, provide examples of future AI applications, and identify barriers to AI progress. Read their recommendations: ow.ly/Lhka50VfOrt

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Liz Whitlock, MD, MSc @lizwhitlockmd.bsky.social · Mar 14

Fantastic article about suppression of intellectual freedom, starting with science and universities, from a fellow academic/research mom. 😓 Scary, scary times. Call, write, demonstrate, communicate the importance of science as part of America's freedom!!
minnesotareformer.com/2025/03/13/i...

If we don’t act now, we risk losing the institutions that keep our society open, informed and free • Minnesota Reformer

History shows us the dangers of suppressing opposing views.

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · Mar 13

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.

Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization

Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...

www.thelancet.com

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Liz Whitlock, MD, MSc @lizwhitlockmd.bsky.social · Mar 11

👋 me too! shopping locally & intentionally has been good in all possible ways except for how my kids are assholes in a store bc we inadvertently neglected to teach them how to behave while shopping. 😐 too much delivery during critical neural plasticity periods.

Amy Vinson @imswimming.bsky.social · Mar 10

In a matter of 6 weeks, I have completely changed my spending habits. Not with my fists in the air, but it was just that shopping at certain places of prior convenience now felt dirty.

Now I’m more local. And Costco. Or consuming less.

I’m far from the only one…

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Liz Whitlock, MD, MSc @lizwhitlockmd.bsky.social · Mar 9

ADRCs provide incredible care to people w healthy aging & w cognitive complaints, AND are driving the next therapeutics and strategies to help preserve cognitive health.

Alzheimer's disease and related dementias will affect nearly all of us if we're lucky to live long enough, btw.😐 We need these!

Mike Greicius @mikegreicius.bsky.social · Mar 3

🧪The Alzheimer's Disease Research Center program is a crown jewel in the NIA's funding portfolio. 35 centers in red, blue and purple states put data in a single repository working towards a shared goal of curing AD. Funding for center renewals is on hold.
tinyurl.com/yc2pr626
#standupforscience2025

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John Gruber @gruber.foo · Mar 7

Years ago my wife got me a t-shirt with this delightful sequence from "Curious George Takes a Job". I wore that t-shirt out.

Curious George finds a bottle of ether in the hospital, and gets curious about it.

The man in the yellow hat finds Curious George passed out, happy as a clam.

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Liz Whitlock, MD, MSc @lizwhitlockmd.bsky.social · Mar 3

I use PubMed, oh, I dunno, 80 times a week?? If they wanted to cripple research this is a horrifically effective move. 😓

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Feb 26

The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · Feb 26

Very grateful to our @scripps.edu President/CEO Pete Schultz, for this OpEd in @sandiegouniontribune.com on the key importance of research institutions in U.S. biomedical science and how federal support is critical to fuel new discoveries and medicines.

www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/02/25/o...

Opinion: Science funding cuts are based on flawed logic. Here’s the truth.

Earlier this month, the National Institutes of Health issued supplemental guidance indicating it would immediately impose a 15% cap on indirect costs for research grants, an unprecedented and abrup…

www.sandiegouniontribune.com

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Liz Whitlock, MD, MSc @lizwhitlockmd.bsky.social · Feb 26

Hey... That's a causal interpretation of an analysis which wasn't designed for causal inference. When the abstract says "association," it's incorrect to conclude the antidepressants "accelerate" the decline. Please be careful; oversimplifying distorts messages & risks worsening mistrust of science.

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · Feb 26

Here's an example of "government waste"

In 1982, at least 7 people in the Chicago area died from poisoned Tylenol

The killer was never found, but government scientists figured out how the packages were tampered with

That's why we have safety seals

*Regulations are one way we protect ourselves*

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