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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky

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he/him Prof @dukemedschool.bsky.social Anesthesiology. Immigrant. Fights against chemicals that hurt you. Research on chemosensation, pain, TRP channels, toxicology & tobacco control. Views my own. #TobRegSky feed. 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇺🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🟧

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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 13d

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Great reporting by Leslie Liang for @theexamination.org on the risk of nicotine analogues creeping into consumer products such as e-cigarettes and oral pouches. Thanks for the interview !

‘Nicotine-free’ vapes and pouches promise a buzz without the downsides. Health concerns remain.

Outlaw Dip, Spree Bar and other nicotine alternatives aren’t regulated in many countries. Researchers warn about health risks and misleading marketing.

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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 1h

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97.9 The Hill WCHL & Chapelboro.com @wchlchapelboro.bsky.social · May 28

Despite 2024 seeing a drop in opioid overdoses, UNC epidemiologist Nabarun Dasgupta says the work is far from over.

Read more here:

'This is Not Over': UNC Scientist on Decline in Overdose Deaths, Fighting Opioid Epidemic - Chapelboro.com

Dasgupta spoke with 97.9 The Hill’s Brighton McConnell about recent data from the CDC and his lab’s efforts to address the opioid crisis.

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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 1h

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Congrats to our neighbor @uncchapelhill.bsky.social Nabarun Dasgupta for being awarded a 2025 MacArthur Fellowship honoring his work on opioid drug harm reduction, at the bench and in the community !!
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Nabarun Dasgupta

Combining scientific studies with community engagement to reduce deaths and other harms from drug use.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 1h

This video is part of the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom's series, "Faculty on the Front Lines," which spotlights ten AAUP members who share their stories of repression and resistance in the face of partisan interference and violations of academic freedom.

Learn more at the link below👇

Faculty on the Front Lines

Faculty on the Front Lines:AAUP Members Share Stories of Repression and Resistance"Faculty on the Front Lines" is a series documenting the stories of AAUP members. While some of these participants hav...

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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 1h

Seems that at least some law schools are complicit in the destruction ? By providing the ideological fodder to justify whatever violence their graduates are meting our right now ?

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 4h

Omar won! He won! 🤩 So wonderful!

From Palestinian refugee to Nobel glory: Omar Yaghi’s incredible journey

Born in Amman to refugee parents, Yaghi rose from humble roots to reshape modern chemistry

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 9h

My quote of the day

If you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started.

John McCain

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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 4h

#neuroskyence

Zoe McElligott @nanopharmnc.bsky.social · 4h

October 9th is the deadline for poster submissions for #WCBR2026 please share! www.winterbrain.org

one more day left for poster submissions to Winter Brain 2026

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Gitta Coaker @gittacoaker.bsky.social · 1d

UNC Chapel Hill is hiring an Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology. Per Jeff
Dangl MPMI candidates are also highly desired in the search. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Assistant Professor

The Department of Biology at UNC Chapel Hill (https://bio.unc.edu/) is searching to hire a tenure track Assistant Professor to study critical questions in Plant Molecular Biology.We seek candidates wh...

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Matthis @ Real Scientists DE @realscientists.de · 2d

Die Geschichte der Heinrich-Heine-Universität geht - indirekt - zurück bis ins Jahr 1907. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt wurde in Düsseldorf eine Akademie für praktische Medizin gegründet. Ab 1923 konnte an der Medizinischen Akademie Düsseldorf grundständig Medizin studiert werden, ab 1931 auch Zahnmedizin.

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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 3d

#neuroskyence

Greg Jefferis @jefferis.bsky.social · 3d

Exciting news for #drosophila #connectomics and #neuroscience enthusiasts: the Drosophila male central nervous system connectome is now live for exploration. Find out more at the landing page hosted by our Janelia FlyEM collaborators www.janelia.org/project-team....

Male CNS Connectome

A team of researchers has unveiled the complete connectome of a male fruit fly central nervous system —a seamless map of all the neurons in the brain and nerve cord of a single male fruit fly and the ...

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Donovan Maust @dtmaust.bsky.social · 3d

This really makes one question the investment of time in study section if our assessments are basically going to be ignored.

For now I’ll probably continue basically because I want to help the poor SROs.

Sigh.

Mallory Harris, PhD @malar0ne.bsky.social · 3d

IMO this hasn't gotten enough attention: a recent memo at NIH announces that peer review will be devalued in determining which grants get funded, granting more power to political appointees to make decisions based on the admin's whims over scientific merit

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Changes at NIH Give Political Appointees Greater Power To Fund or Block Research - KFF Health News

The National Institutes of Health’s long-held standard of peer review for grantmaking has been subverted by President Donald Trump and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, who gave unprecedented power to po...

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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 3d

"USMS, ICE, and USSS did not document if force was used in accordance with policy. Documenting such reviews will help ensure that they review all reportable uses of less-lethal force."

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KaminskiMed @kaminskimed.bsky.social · 3d

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Finally! Our call on the U.S. medical community & establishment to break their silence on Gaza is out today at the New England Journal of Medicine. This is the first publication describing Gaza's human made humanitarian catastrophe in the Journal!!
www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

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Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social · 4d

My friend Naftali Kaminski is an Israeli physician, a professor at Yale, and the child of Holocaust survivors. For me he is a model of absorbing his parents' stories intensely, looking the horror of the 20th century in the eyes, and drawing the lesson of radical empathy for the suffering of others.

Standing by Our Colleagues in Gaza — A Plea to the U.S. Medical Community | NEJM

In the face of Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza’s health system and the catastrophic famine caused by the devastation, U.S. physicians have an ethical obligation to respond and support immediate ch...

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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 3d

#PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky 🛟💊🫁

Standing by Our Colleagues in Gaza — A Plea to the U.S. Medical Community

Standing by Our Colleagues in Gaza — A Plea to the U.S. Medical Community | NEJM

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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 3d

Tear gas: Senators decry lack of federal safety assessment

Questions posed about the safety of tear gas remain unanswered, even after more than a dozen U.S. senators asked a congressional watchdog to look into the issue.

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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 3d

"U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Secret Service (USSS), U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), and U.S. Park Police (USPP)—were missing basic information, such as time, location, type of munition used, or circumstances surrounding the use of force.

Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 3d

"Most agencies' less-lethal force reporting was missing information that would be useful for determining if the force was applied in accordance with agency policy. type of munition used, or circumstances surrounding the use of force.Specifically, reports from six agencies Federal Protective Service"

Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 3d

It's tear gas time again. Remember, in 2020, the General Accountability Office (GAO), reported insufficient accountability of federal agencies for their tear gas use and was unable to determine if tear gas was used safely.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

CPD just relieved feds from this line too. Then a moment later the feds gassed the whole area, including the cops.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 4d

A strong statement from the Dartmouth President regarding the "Compact"

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Response to the ‘Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education’ | Office of the President

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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 4d

#PedSky #MedSky #neuroskyence #neurosci #PainResearch 🧪🛟💊

Cordero-Vásquez Lab @cvlab.bsky.social · 5d

Our new PNAS paper "Enhanced PIEZO1 function contributes to the pathogenesis of sickle cell disease" is out: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 1/3

Enhanced PIEZO1 function contributes to the pathogenesis of sickle cell disease | PNAS

Sickle cell disease (SCD), an inherited blood disorder caused by a mutation in the β-globin gene, is characterized by sickle erythrocytes that are ...

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Allen Institute @alleninstitute.org · May 1

Open call for Next Generation Leaders!

Our NGL program recognizes early career scientists with fresh and innovative perspectives. For 3 years, NGLs contribute to ongoing research and initiatives at the Allen Institute.

Apply by June 3. alleninstitute.org/about/people...

Next Generation Leaders

The Next Generation Leaders program at the Allen Institute aims to support emerging and diverse early-career researchers in bioscience who will contribute to cultivating new ideas to make a broad, tra...

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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 4d

Japan faces Asahi beer shortage after cyber-attack

The drinks giant said this week that the attack had a major impact on its domestic operations.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 4d

Justice Jackson's sharp dissent accuses her Republican-appointed colleagues of abusing the court's shadow docket "to allow this Administration to disrupt as many lives as possible, as quickly as possible." She also takes a dig at their refusal to write opinions explaining their actions.

exigency or any other pru dent threshold limitation on the exercise of our discretion— and wordlessly override the considered judgments of our colleagues. We once again use our equitable power (but not our opinion-writing capacity) to allow this Administration to disrupt as many lives as possible, as quickly as possible.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 6d

Welcome to Heaven, Dr. Jane Goodall. You made the world a better place.

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