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Pakistan has launched its first nationwide HPV vaccination campaign, a historic step to protect nearly 13 million girls from cervical cancer.

At the heart of the campaign are doctors like Dr Saima Zubair, whose advocacy in twelve languages has helped build trust where it matters most. 🧵

Immunological associations in post-infective fatigue syndromes including Long COVID—a systematic review and meta-analysis These findings provide cautious support for persistent immune activation in PIFS, but warrant further replication. Future studies should include better documentation of acute infection and PIFS case c...

The body of evidence for persistent activation of the immune system in #LongCovid and related post-infective syndromes
www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...

Image of 2 anaesthetists getting their gowns and caps fitted ahead of the Ceremony of Diplomates presentation.

Happy Diplomates Day 🎉

Today, we celebrate our members who passed the Final FRCA exam in the year to May 2025 🙌

Congratulations on your success and achievements. We hope you have a lovely day at the ceremony and are feeling proud! 👨‍🎓🎓👩‍🎓

#MedSky #AnSky

I think the peripheral norad regimens seem pretty important as a change to practice/bridge to cvc

a man says " look deep into my eyes you 're under arrest " in front of a woman ALT: a man says " look deep into my eyes you 're under arrest " in front of a woman

Tomorrow we continue with Pete Hart’s @intensiveperson.bsky.social suggestions.
He just proposes the debate so back off, no need to send the cops around.
His debate is….
“Awareness without recall is a perfectly acceptable outcome of general anaesthesia”
#MedSkyDebate

Thanks so much for keeping this going!

New position: Stochastic Systems Modeling postdoc.

#science #career #jobs #sciencejobs #job #jobsearch
#postdoc #postdocposition

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RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary will be catastrophic for science & public health. If this man who has spent forty years eroding trust in science and public health is installed in this role, there may truly be no turning back.

If you’re unfamiliar with his history, start with this article I wrote last year:
news.immunologic.org/p/rfk-jr-as-...

Please stop endangering the lives of all of us—and not just Americans, but the world.

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Reminder:

RFK Jr has made MILLIONS demonizing a vaccine that blocks viral infections AND prevents CANCERS

Cervical cancer
Penile cancer
Oropharyngeal cancer (throat)
Vaginal cancer
Anal cancer
Vulvar cancer

I guess he DOESN’T care about reducing chronic illness after all…

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I hope you’re all enjoying this descent into madness.

The important thing to remember is what while I can’t sing, neither can eels, so this little jingle is very scientifically accurate.

So please. Get an eel facts advent calendar. You don’t have to wait until Christmas for eels. EelFacts.Net

Feels terrifyingly correct

Super interesting study. I find that communicating uncertainty in a confident/helpful manner was one of the most important skills I learnt in ICU. This is not often explicitly discussed by communication teaching but clearly is essential given these findings.

Vintage tandem bike

Schwinn Twinn Deluxe tandem bike

Took a break from the news, cleaned up grandma’s antique 1958 Schwinn Chicago Deluxe Twinn Tandem Bike and took it for a spin #bikesky

Annoying high evolutionary fit.

a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine . ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine .

Vibes

Secretary Kennedy: On August 8, 2025, a gunman opened fire on the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), killing DeKalb County Police Officer David Rose and leaving public health workers at the CDC and around the nation fearing for their safety after years of increasing threats following the COVID-19 pandemic. 1 While the investigation is ongoing, early reports suggest that the gunman, who fired nearly 500 rounds during the attack, was motivated by his misinformation-fueled belief that his depression and suicidality were caused by the COVID-19 vaccine.2 Just hours before a police officer was brutally murdered and CDC headquarters would be scarred with bullets, forcing hundreds employees into lockdown, Dr. Robert Malone, whom you recently appointed to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), uploaded a post to his personal blog that included an image of a revolver loaded with a single bullet and the words “Five out of six scientists have proven that Russian roulette is harmless.”3 Less than 48 hours after the attack, Dr. Malone issued a meme-filled post that included violent and threatening images that appeared to be directed at government officials, writing, “if you need a disarmed society to govern, you suck at governing.”4

Dr. Malone has displayed an unfathomable failure of judgment and heartlessness for the family of slain Officer Rose, and for the thousands of CDC staff on whom the work of ACIP depends. Dr. Malone’s escalating and violent rhetoric—including in the aftermath of this tragic incident—has no place on a panel responsible for determining immunization recommendations for children and adults throughout our country. I therefore call on you to immediately fire Dr. Malone from his role on ACIP. The shooting of a police officer in the line of duty is not only a criminal act—it is an assault on the stability and safety of our communities. Law enforcement officers and public health officials already face serious risks in their work protecting the public. Those risks are heightened by ideologically motivated attacks, which send a chilling message about the normalization of violence in public discourse. A federal agency must absolutely avoid even the appearance of legitimating such statements by keeping in a position of power someone who makes them. 5 Last week’s profound tragedy shows the harms that result from replacing science with zealotry – not only the increased risk of disease, but also ideologically motivated violence. Appointing Dr. Malone and retaining him in this role would seem to legitimate incendiary rhetoric and dangerous misinformation. Your response must begin with the immediate firing of Dr. Malone, but should rightly include restoring the entire ACIP panel that existed before it was decimated last June. At that time, you replaced 17 sitting members, whose qualifications and expertise were unchallengeable, with conspiracy theorists and purveyors of misinformation. In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about these firings, you lamented that, without your actions, “the current Trump administration would not have been able to appoint a majority of new members until 2028.”6 Your comment shows how thoroughly the Trump Administration has confused independent scientif…

I sincerely hope that last week’s attack will demonstrate to you what should have been obvious from the beginning: Dr. Malone has no business being on ACIP, and the firings you ordered to put him there should never have occurred. Sincerely, Richard Blumenthal Ranking Member Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

After the shooting at CDC, Sen. Blumenthal is calling for HHS Secretary Kennedy to fire Dr. Robert Malone — whose Substack posts and other writings are objectively unhinged and tinged with violence — from ACIP and restore the expert panel Kennedy gutted. www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

hard to not interpret this as a casual threat of more violence

"At no other time in modern history has a country so throughly turned its back on its core national strengths."— @vermontgmg.bsky.social
Gift link
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

By sending troops to D.C. and eyeing Oakland, Trump continues targeting Black-led cities Trump’s focus on Washington D.C. is part of a larger pattern in which the president has suggested cities with majority-Black populations are hotbeds of crime and corruption.

Trump’s focus on Washington D.C. is part of a larger pattern in which the president has suggested cities with majority-Black populations are hotbeds of crime and corruption.

Science is effectively dead in the US for at least the next 3½ years, and will then take another several years to even get started again. Canceled research doesn’t just uncancel itself, and scientists who find opportunity elsewhere won’t just come flocking back.

The damage is generational.

Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.

How many times a week do you think about the sirens? #askingforafriend

Yaaaaas adaptive clinical trials for the win!

Great thread from @wired.com about longevity grift. 👇🏻 It sells really well. Nobody asks about trials, any data, just push the idea that people can live longer or even forever.

I find it wild that smart people I know with often science/engineering backgrounds aren't applying their reasoning for this when buying this.

Generational public health sabotage

Cher in CLUELESS saying "and may I remind you it does not say RSVP on the Statue of Liberty" is officially left of the Democratic Party

if only doctors had warned us it was dangerous

RFK Jr. has just cancelled all HHS research projects on mRNA vaccines, announcing that HHS has ended $500 million in funding for them.

This is a man who just demanded randomized clinical trials for COVID19 vaccines, and now he’s refusing to fund them.

In our episode on the #NIH , @analog-ashley.bsky.social shared examples of the life-changing scientific careers kickstarted by federal funding for diversity in science programs. Don't let them rewrite this narrative; these programs benefit all of us
www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis...