Dr. Susan Winters ☕️

Imagine training your whole life just for a casting director to stare at you and say, “You’d make an excellent shrub for Bad Bunny

#BadBunny #ArtSky #MusicSky

Topol’s wellness advice: don’t buy wellness stuff.

Also Topol: please buy my wellness book right here stacked behind me. 🤝😂

The U.S. men’s cross-country ski team met the press in Tesero this week, masked up and ready to race 🇺🇸🎿
Even at the Olympics, staying healthy matters. Masks aren’t politics, they’re performance protection. 🦠💪 #TeamUSA #WinterOlympics #COVIDAware #MedSky

A Tiny Antibody Just Crushed the Coronavirus’s Secret Weak Spot Llama antibodies clamp the coronavirus shut at its weakest spot—leaving the virus powerless to mutate or infect.

A tiny antibody just exposed the coronavirus’s secret weak spot — and crushed it. 🧬 This could be the start of a universal coronavirus shield.

#ScienceBreakthrough #COVID19 #Biotech #Antibody #FutureOfMedicine #ViralScience #MedSky

CDC Refuses to Take Blame for Measles Spiraling out of Control In a WSJ editorial this week, CDC principal deputy director Ralph Abraham tried to push back against criticism.

RFK Jr’s CDC: “Vaccines are dangerous!”

Also RFK Jr’s CDC: “We have no idea why measles is everywhere.”

Who knew ignoring immunology would backfire?

#Measles #CDC #VaccinesWork #Satire

Can it run Doom?

😆

bsky.app/profile/docw...

Intranasal neomycin evokes broad-spectrum antiviral immunity in the upper respiratory tract Respiratory virus infections in humans are a significant global health concern, causing a wide range of diseases with substantial morbidity and mortality worldwide. This underscores the urgent need for effective interventions to reduce the burden of ...

Reminder as flu season clobbers everyone: 1 “nose-first” paper worth bookmarking 👇

Intranasal Neosporin paper: flips on nasal innate antiviral genes (ISGs) and reduced flu/SARS-CoV-2 in animals, with a small human pilot.

Interesting signals, still waiting on human trials
#Flu #BlueSky #MedSky

Frontiers | Metabolic impact of polyphenol-rich aronia fruit juice mediated by inflammation status of gut microbiome donors in humanized mouse model Background: The Aronia melanocarpa fruit is emerging as a health food owing to its high polyphenolic content and associated antioxidant activity. Antioxidant...

Aronia berry juice vs. a high-fat diet: in a humanized mouse model, a single daily shot of this polyphenol bomb helped preserve gut bugs, boost barrier-supporting metabolites, and temper metabolic fallout, especially when donors had a more inflamed microbiome
#GutHealth #MedSky #NutritionScience

Frontiers | Metabolic impact of polyphenol-rich aronia fruit juice mediated by inflammation status of gut microbiome donors in humanized mouse model Background: The Aronia melanocarpa fruit is emerging as a health food owing to its high polyphenolic content and associated antioxidant activity. Antioxidant...

Aronia berry juice vs. a high-fat diet: in a humanized mouse model, a single daily shot of this polyphenol bomb helped preserve gut bugs, boost barrier-supporting metabolites, and temper metabolic fallout, especially when donors had a more inflamed microbiome
#GutHealth #MedSky #NutritionScience

There’s still time
🤞

'Punching down': Comedian Jon Stewart under fire as mockery falls flat with progressives Comedian Jon Stewart is under fire over his decision to "punch down" at COVID-cautious people still choosing to wear a mask.During a Dec. 11 episode of "The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart," the comedian...

Mixed. Jon Stewart mocking people who still mask isn’t edgy, it’s lazy. When your jokes target the medically vulnerable instead of the powerful, that’s not satire, it’s punching down.

Two-panel cartoon of a golden retriever. In the first panel the dog looks annoyed and says, ‘I’m not allowed to bring sticks inside.’ In the second panel, the same dog stares at a fully decorated Christmas tree and says, ‘but apparently entire trees are ok.

The injustice is real

#FunnyDogs #Art #Bluesky

🎄🐶🎅🏻

Are we living in a parallel universe? The strange physics of Stranger Things Nature speaks to theoretical physicists to explore the real theories that inspired the hit series. Warning: contains spoilers.

Stranger Things is fiction, but the Upside Down is built on real physics ideas like the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.

Quantum events split reality into countless branches. No portals yet, but the math still works

#StrangerThings #QuantumPhysics #SciComm #Science #Art

What video games were released the year you were born?

#VideoGames #Art #Birthdays #NewYear

What video games were released the year you were born?

#VideoGames #Art #Birthdays #NewYear

Are we living in a parallel universe? The strange physics of Stranger Things Nature speaks to theoretical physicists to explore the real theories that inspired the hit series. Warning: contains spoilers.

Stranger Things is fiction, but the Upside Down is built on real physics ideas like the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.

Quantum events split reality into countless branches. No portals yet, but the math still works

#StrangerThings #QuantumPhysics #SciComm #Science #Art

Two-panel cartoon of a golden retriever. In the first panel the dog looks annoyed and says, ‘I’m not allowed to bring sticks inside.’ In the second panel, the same dog stares at a fully decorated Christmas tree and says, ‘but apparently entire trees are ok.

The injustice is real

#FunnyDogs #Art #Bluesky

🎄🐶🎅🏻

Manifesting both knockouts and the right outfit. Preparedness is fashion’s true superpower

This study shows that a very common gene variant (MTHFR C677T) plus routine blood chemistry can help identify which people are more likely to get very sick from COVID, moving risk from “random bad luck” toward something we can measure and eventually modify
#COVID19 #LongCOVID #BlueskyScience #MedSky

He made beer that’s also a vaccine. Now controversy is brewing An NIH scientist’s maverick approach reveals legal, ethical, moral, scientific and social challenges to developing potentially life-saving vaccines.

Virologist Chris Buck just brewed the world’s first “vaccine beer” by engineering yeast to make BK polyomavirus proteins—self-testing pints in his own kitchen while skirting the usual FDA path and freaking out bioethicists, antivaxxers, and regulators alike
#ScienceNews
#Bioethics #Vaccines

Increased Risk of Herpes Zoster in Adults ≥50 Years Old Diagnosed With COVID-19 in the United States AbstractBackground. Case reports have described herpes zoster (HZ) in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). However, this constitutes low-qual

COVID-19 does more than hit the lungs — a massive US claims study of 1.9M adults 50+ found a 15–24% higher risk of shingles after COVID, and 21% higher if hospitalized with COVID 🔥🦠
#MedSky #Bluesky #COVID19 #HerpesZoster #VZV #Vaccines #PublicHealth

Flu’s link to cardiovascular disease shows why vaccination is essential Influenza isn’t just a respiratory disease. Measures to stop its transmission, such as vaccination, could prevent thousands of heart-attack deaths.

Every winter, thousands don’t die *from* the flu — they die *because* of it.

Flu infections can trigger heart attacks and strokes.
A flu shot isn’t just protection from a virus — it’s protection for your heart. ❤️💉

#HeartHealth #PublicHealth #Vaccines #InfluenzaAwareness #MedSky

‘Lots of transmission is out there’: Flu hospitalizations spike rapidly in Colorado The flu season started at the end of September, beginning of October. Since then, the state dashboard is showing a surge of hospitalizations, cases spiking a bit earlier than usual.

This is not “just a cold” season, it’s a policy failure: not many Coloradans have gotten a flu shot while a more severe strain rips through and fills hospital beds. Wear a mask in crowded indoor spaces, get your vaccine, and stop giving the virus a free ride to grandma’s house #Flu #MedSky #Art

Fever-Proof Bird Flu Variant Could Fuel the Next Pandemic New research reveals why bird flu poses such an unusual danger to humans: it can keep multiplying even at temperatures that normally shut viruses down.

🔥 BIRD FLU JUST LEVELED UP 🦠
New research shows some avian flu viruses can keep multiplying even at fever temperatures, meaning one of our key defenses might no longer stop them. If this version ever jumps efficiently to humans, we are in serious trouble.
#BirdFlu #H5N1 #MedSky #GlobalHealth

Scientists Announce a Physical Warp Drive Is Now Possible. Seriously. Humans are one step closer to traveling at faster-than-light speeds.

Scientists just dropped a legit warp drive model in a peer-reviewed journal, no exotic negative energy, just real-physics spacetime bubbles bending their way toward the stars. #WarpDrive #StarTrek #Physics #SciFi #Space #STEM #ScienceNews #Futurism #Art

Scientists Announce a Physical Warp Drive Is Now Possible. Seriously. Humans are one step closer to traveling at faster-than-light speeds.

Scientists just dropped a legit warp drive model in a peer-reviewed journal, no exotic negative energy, just real-physics spacetime bubbles bending their way toward the stars. #WarpDrive #StarTrek #Physics #SciFi #Space #STEM #ScienceNews #Futurism #Art

🚀 A shelf-stable, oral COVID vaccine was already a big swing 💊🦠
Now it’s got a new engine 🔥: a partner-investor stepping in 💰🤝 and giving the program real momentum again 📈⚡️

$VXRT $DVAX #Vaccines #Biotech #COVID19

🚀 A shelf-stable, oral COVID vaccine was already a big swing 💊🦠
Now it’s got a new engine 🔥: a partner-investor stepping in 💰🤝 and giving the program real momentum again 📈⚡️

$VXRT $DVAX #Vaccines #Biotech #COVID19