Vignesh Raman

Right-wingers are so insecure and covetousness that after they gathered public goods, land, economy and education for themselves they wanted the one thing we had: the story of oppression.

They want this more than anything else b/c of the powerful narrative & culture we created from it.

Change in OB/GYN Physicians Practicing Obstetrics After the Dobbs Decision This cohort study evaluates changes in the number of obstetrics and gynecology physicians practicing in Idaho after the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court decision.

NEW: A JAMA study finds that "between August 2022 and December 2024 ... Idaho lost 94 of the 268 OBGYN physicians practicing obstetrics."

Just 20 new OBGYNs moved to Idaho in that time, "and 114 of the 268 baseline obstetricians" stopped practicing, left the state, or retired.

Respiratory viral infections awaken metastatic breast cancer cells in lungs - Nature Mouse models show that respiratory infections from viruses such as influenza and SARS-CoV-2 can trigger metastasis of dormant breast cancer cells in the lungs, a finding supported by epidemiological d...

Delighted to see this story out and collaborate with amazing teams led by @jdegregori.bsky.social Mercedes Rincon & @roelvermeulen.bsky.social. Proud to see science propelled by our lab @cdi-einstein.bsky.social expanded to better understand cancer dormancy. Congrats! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Brilliant paper! Congrats to all!

He was a wonderful governor in a hostile climate, true to his values and always of high integrity. Excited for him to be a senator!

Been using it over 15 years and swear by it!

PO just confirmed that our 5th percentile R01 is not getting funded. Past NCI Payline at 4 percent. Cant believe it.

Heard from #AHRQ that the entire grants staff has been let go! They are unable to issue funds for grants already funded, let alone fund new grants. This is outrageous and will make Americans poorer and sicker. Why? A brief thread about just some recent AHRQ-funded research: #MedSky #HealthPolicy

How Trump Killed Cancer Research Attempting to eliminate funding for certain kinds of “woke” studies, the Trump administration erased hundreds of millions of dollars being used for cancer research.

www.wired.com/story/how-tr...

This Wired article is very succinct and easily communicates the destruction of science. Well done and thanks for sharing.

From your mouth to… I’m not optimistic that Congress (either side of the aisle) sees science funding as a priority.

This makes sense! How about in the health system there? Each dept has to cut 20% of its budget (as the article hinted) at Duke and also somehow increase productivity.

Exactly. The people who are actually generating the work...

The article doesn't mention the pay cuts, if any, that high level leadership and administrators bloating the entire institution will take. My guess: slim to none. Faulting the nose-to-the-ground scientists benefits nobody.

LA Animal Services has over 1000 dogs right now with capacity for only 700. They especially need people to adopt big dogs. Here’s Suki, an 8 month old puppy we brought home from the shelter just about two weeks ago!

Hm. Only 33 recurrences in the cohort but 11 covariates in the model?

Gender Disparities in Compensation of Practicing Cardiothoracic Surgeons: Analyzing the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Compensation Survey - PubMed Gender pay disparities exist among cardiothoracic surgeons, even when accounting for experience and productivity. Reasons for these disparities, including parenthood penalty, need to be further studie...

Thanks for sharing this. My mentor Dr Cherie Erkmen is doing a lot of work to uncover these disparities in cardiothoracic surgery. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40543696/

Paris is an awesome city. We were excited to find a significant Tamil community there as well, primarily from Sri Lanka. We were able to get by speaking Tamil or French the whole time we were there and also treated to some amazing banana leaf meals ('elai chappadu')! Thanks for sharing this story.

World’s premier cancer institute faces crippling cuts and chaos | CNN The Trump administration’s broadsides against scientific research have caused unprecedented upheaval at the National Cancer Institute, the storied federal government research hub that has spearheaded ...

New hair-raising piece from CNN about the National Cancer Institute...

www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/h...

One of the experiments that first drew me to biology and experimental science. Thank you for sharing the obituary.

And beyond journos, to physicians/surgeons and scientists as well, who claim they only have engagement on X but incidentally consume right wing disinformation and increasingly parrot it in both public and private spaces. It has had ramifications on the culture of institutions.

There appear to be close to a million undocumented immigrants from Europe and Canada in the US now as well. Wonder how come we don't see them being rounded up by ICE? www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

A dive into the Board of Visitors’ political donations Here is a look at Board members’ political donations — all but one of whom has records of political donations which are overwhelmingly to Republican candidates and campaigns.

Framing this around “viewpoint diversity” and the supposed expediency of tracking professors’ political donations is absolutely brilliant. www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

For this reason, I am very careful about the advice I give medical students interested in surgery. I have polled many of my attendings in training and about half didn’t think they’d pick surgery again.

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The United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass Statelessness This scenario, until recently, might have read like a dystopian projection. But after the court’s decision on Friday, it is no longer hypothetical.

"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."

I’m confident Dems will not meet the moment.

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

What I appreciate about you is regardless of the prevailing politics of your geography, you have consistently communicated a message of progressive policies and high integrity. Kudos from North Carolina.