Erik Ranheim
@ranheim.bsky.social
Husband, father to 4, hematopathologist and immunologist, woodworker, and restorer of prairies. Current day job is chairing the Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine at the University of Wisconsin but opinions are my own
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Minnesota is the best of us.
January 23, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Minnesota is the best of us.
Dead and injured children. Florida parents - you are endangering your children sending them to school. And these children will be endangering everyone when they go home and into the community. Blood on the hands of Desantis, RFK, and everyone providing cover to this anti-science medieval insanity.
Senator Bill Cassidy voted to confirm RFK - the deaths that result from this are on his (and every other Republican senator)'s conscience.
Bill Cassidy: “We’re going to start having vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks at school.”
September 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Dead and injured children. Florida parents - you are endangering your children sending them to school. And these children will be endangering everyone when they go home and into the community. Blood on the hands of Desantis, RFK, and everyone providing cover to this anti-science medieval insanity.
This rosin weed had 8 bumblebees sleeping on it this morning, including these two that were sharing. Extraordinary numbers of bumblebees out this year.
August 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This rosin weed had 8 bumblebees sleeping on it this morning, including these two that were sharing. Extraordinary numbers of bumblebees out this year.
As with the targeting of NIH grants decried by a Mass. judge yesterday, this is straight up bigotry and cruelty. UW has a program aimed at reducing farmer suicides - because their rate of suicide is tragically high - should that work not be done because it only targets farmers?
Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
June 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
As with the targeting of NIH grants decried by a Mass. judge yesterday, this is straight up bigotry and cruelty. UW has a program aimed at reducing farmer suicides - because their rate of suicide is tragically high - should that work not be done because it only targets farmers?
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Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts.
Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵
Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵
February 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts.
Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵
Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵
First attempt at extensive use of epoxy in a spalted and ant-eaten piece of black cherry I milled from a storm downed tree on the property. Took a remarkable volume of epoxy and many rounds but really like the result
February 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
First attempt at extensive use of epoxy in a spalted and ant-eaten piece of black cherry I milled from a storm downed tree on the property. Took a remarkable volume of epoxy and many rounds but really like the result
As previously flagged by my colleague [email protected], NIH cannot consider new grants due to this end run around the judiciary. These are real people, trying to do good, having their careers damaged and livelihoods threatened for what? More cancer? www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...
Federal Register hold makes ‘end run’ around court pause on NIH funding freeze
NIH-related updates to the Federal Register, which are required for the scheduling of study sections and advisory councils, are on hold indefinitely, according to an email reviewed by <i>The Transmitt...
www.thetransmitter.org
February 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
As previously flagged by my colleague [email protected], NIH cannot consider new grants due to this end run around the judiciary. These are real people, trying to do good, having their careers damaged and livelihoods threatened for what? More cancer? www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...
Any physician involved in promoting this mass death policy should lose their license and practice privileges
Madness, insanity. www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...
Louisiana Department of Health ends mass vaccinations, bans seasonal vaccine promotion
Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham sent a directive to state health workers Thursday ending long-standing mass vaccination clinics and banning staff from promoting seasonal vaccines.
www.theadvocate.com
February 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Any physician involved in promoting this mass death policy should lose their license and practice privileges
Thrilled that we will soon be joined by co-author Jeffrey Nirschl at UW Pathology as a new faculty member.
A vision-language foundation #AI model for cancer from 50 million path images, a million path-text images, with high performance for predicting clinical outcomes, relapse, response to immunotherapy and other benchmarks
nature.com/articles/s41...
@nature.com (bad name for model—MUSK)
nature.com/articles/s41...
@nature.com (bad name for model—MUSK)
A vision–language foundation model for precision oncology - Nature
Trained on unlabelled, unpaired image and text data, the Multimodal transformer with Unified maSKed modeling excelled in outcome prediction, image-to-text retrieval and visual question answering, pote...
nature.com
January 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Thrilled that we will soon be joined by co-author Jeffrey Nirschl at UW Pathology as a new faculty member.
State government actively seeking to increase death and suffering for their citizens and increase the overall costs of the health care system. The high price of ignorance.
This is outrageous: “Staffers were also told that it applies to every aspect of the health department's work: Employees could not send out press releases, give interviews, hold vaccine events, give presentations or create social media posts encouraging the public to get the vaccines.”
Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots
An NPR investigation found Louisiana health officials told staff to stop promoting vaccines for COVID, flu and mpox, holding flu shot events or otherwise encouraging the public to get those vaccines.
www.npr.org
December 20, 2024 at 3:55 PM
State government actively seeking to increase death and suffering for their citizens and increase the overall costs of the health care system. The high price of ignorance.
Happy Holidays from the UW Dept of Pathology and our clever residents
December 18, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Happy Holidays from the UW Dept of Pathology and our clever residents
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I participated in a faculty panel a few weeks ago in which senior (ahem) faculty gave advice on careers in academia by pretending luck had very little to do with our success. One piece of advice riled me up, in which it was argued that a reason for their success was their ability to say no. 1/
December 9, 2024 at 3:16 AM
I participated in a faculty panel a few weeks ago in which senior (ahem) faculty gave advice on careers in academia by pretending luck had very little to do with our success. One piece of advice riled me up, in which it was argued that a reason for their success was their ability to say no. 1/
Black cherry burl bowl complete #woodturning
November 27, 2024 at 12:02 AM
Black cherry burl bowl complete #woodturning
A beautiful conversation to remind us all of another time when national leaders turned away from science and empathy. andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/anderson-c...
Anderson Cooper And Me On Grief
An old friend asks me about the AIDS crisis and losing my parents, and talks about his brother's suicide and the death of his dad. Listen now on the Dishcast.
andrewsullivan.substack.com
November 15, 2024 at 9:40 PM
A beautiful conversation to remind us all of another time when national leaders turned away from science and empathy. andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/anderson-c...