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A 20-year-old cancer vaccine may hold the key to long-term survival Two decades after a breast cancer vaccine trial, every participant is still alive—an astonishing result for metastatic disease. Scientists found their immune systems retained long-lasting memory…

Two decades after a small Duke breast cancer vaccine trial, every participant is still alive — a rare outcome for metastatic disease. When researchers looked closer, they found the women’s immune systems still carried “memory” cells that recognised the cancer. buff.ly/MNeRhJh
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We have had some water fountains that would like a word.

What It Means to Be ‘Touch-Starved’ Research says that our health can suffer when we don’t experience enough physical contact. Here’s how to get more.

Hugging your Valentine this weekend might make you happy, but it can also boost your health. ❤️

Among its benefits, physical contact can promote heart health, brain activity and cortisol levels.

Learn more at The New York Times: https://ow.ly/S6R150Yc41J #ISpyPhysiology #ValentinesDay 🧪

When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. “Do they expect students not to be anarchists?” he said. “What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up”

Benzene at 200: From oil by-product to aromatic icon The history of ‘everyone’s favorite hexagon’ illustrates the resonance of basic science and how discoveries build over time

Benzene was first discovered 200 years ago by Michael Faraday; it would become a cornerstone of organic chemistry by the mid-19th century. cen.acs.org/people/Benze...

#chemsky 🧪

Joy is subversive.

I'd like someone to support me by looking at how many times the word 'massage' is mentioned so we can talk about how the cultural baggage, hige expenses, and over policing can be addressed. @buffywicks.bsky.social @jessearreguin.bsky.social @scottwiener.bsky.social @mayoradenaishii.bsky.social

I used a transfer service for my playlists. first 500 were free. The whole lot cost me $5.

That is what I switched to as well.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

All the sweet chaos of a Kermit the Frog and young kids sketch.

Monthly Magical Friendship Rumpus Hour on Zoom Join Dr. Irby and Suz for a free monthly gathering where connection, curiosity, and community take center stage. Each month, we’ll come together for a lightly facilitated, deeply human hour exploring ...

Perimenopause, Hormones, Fascia, and Subjective Pause! This is a conversation many of us are already having quietly with our clients, our own bodies, and our treatment rooms. This hour is a chance to bring it into the open, with physiology, clinical nuance, and lived experience.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
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It's only slightly less convenient for a short lived adjustment period.

Swaps I have made or are in progress: Google Workspace -> Proton; Google Maps -> Organic Maps; Spotify/Apple -> Tidal; streaming services -> Libby, Kanopy; Amazon -> haven't used it in years and years.

Other suggestions?

Heads are going to explode 💥

Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.

All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.
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Small ice cubes in hands and squeeze over the sink while ignoring a depression's worth of dishes in the sink. You know what? Use the bathroom sink, as a little treat.

An image from a scientific paper showing two people stuffed into some kind of scanning machine and the resulting scan. I think the scan is actually a CT, but the principle remains! Also shown is a crosssection of the resulting scans.

Turns out it would be pretty easy to substantially lower the cost of MRIs.

But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.

this is incredible! massive s/o to a real one Dr. Raquel Martin

pls watch it in full and check the caption of the instagram post

www.instagram.com/p/DUGzPqnETjr/

Do we have to upgrade to privacy compliant EHRs?

Are we now going to have to comply with OSHA healthcare rules?

Who knows?

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Two apple saplings in a terraced garden. Or a Terranced garden. Lol

Finally found a home for my apple trees on the Shulgin Farm.

Meet Merry and Scottie.

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They are pippins. 🍏🍏

If I can support you in any way, LMK.

Would love to see materials on the regulation of bodywork as a policing problem rather than a healthcare benefit!! We are not considered alt or allied in many places.

Is this course available to meeeee? Looks amazing.

Monthly Magical Friendship Rumpus Hour on Zoom Join Dr. Irby and Suz for a free monthly gathering where connection, curiosity, and community take center stage. Each month, we’ll come together for a lightly facilitated, deeply human hour exploring ...

Join Dr. Irby and Suz for a free monthly gathering where connection, curiosity, and community take center stage. Each month, we’ll come together for a lightly facilitated, deeply human hour exploring topics in bodywork and expanded states.

@zoedubus.bsky.social

Well done!

You can hear Zoe's presentation at the Touch with Substance conference with the replays at unwindlearning.com

@scipsychedelics.bsky.social

Very cool. Was there a view into peripheral myelin?

We still don't have CE requirements. We still can't bill health insurance. We still have suspended certification requirements. The vast majority of us are still are working without benefits.