Dita Gratzinger

Kicking them out of the military

Revoking their driver’s licenses

Banning them from restrooms

Stripping them of housing/job protection

Banning gender affirming care for adults

It’s utter dehumanization & erasure.

We must pass a federal civil rights law ending this hate & overriding these laws.

Guinea worm nears worldwide elimination with only 10 cases in 2025 To date, the World Health Organization has certified 200 countries free of Guinea worm.

Guinea worm nears worldwide elimination with only 10 cases in 2025

To date, the World Health Organization has certified 200 countries free of Guinea worm.

Four various smiling portraits of Renee Nicole Good and a sign that reads, “Rest in power Renee Nicole Good” in a collage with attribution.

Renee Nicole Macklin Good was a mother, neighbor, spouse, person of faith, artist, award-winning poet, & according to her wife, Becca, “lived by an overarching belief: there is kindness in the world & we need to do everything we can to find it where it resides & nurture it where it needs to grow.”

Fighting for Breath: The FDA’s Lax Generic Drug Rules Put Her Life at Risk Lung transplant patient Hannah Goetz’s life depended on the generic version of the critical drug tacrolimus. It was supposed to be equivalent to the brand-name medication — but the FDA doesn’t always ...

Tacrolimus, which helps prevent rejection of transplanted organs, only works if the dose is calibrated within a very narrow range.

Any amount outside that window can be dangerous.

But not all generic versions of the drug may meet that standard.

Delighted to share our work on how inborn errors of #immunity manifest in lymph node architecture, just published in Virchows Archiv urldefense.com/v3/__https:/... @springernature.com

ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.

He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.

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Today's the print release of a #RibackLab and #GoodellLab collaboration— we’re excited to share the visual story behind the science, including the dramatic artwork that inspired how we thought about aberrant function of NPM1c - which occurs in about 1 in 3 adult acute myeloid leukemias (#AML).

New Evidence-based Guideline—Standardize the laboratory workup and diagnosis of #Amyloidosis https://brnw.ch/21wXMU6

#CAPguidelines #pathology #pathsky

A look at our LIS installation at Hôpital Dalal Jamm. On site staff and our LIS Deployment Lead in the U.S. worked together to walk through analyzer interfacing step by step. or Comp Pro Med’s donated software & technical support.
#Pathysky #Globalhealth #Africa #Publichealth

How ProPublica Investigated a Bird Flu Outbreak in America’s Heartland Early this year, bird flu ripped through 80 farms in Ohio and Indiana. Using genetic markers, wind simulations, satellite imagery, property records and more, we found that the virus could’ve been airb...

NEW: Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. The USDA didn’t test the theory after a disastrous Midwestern outbreak.

Here’s how we did.

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JAMA research letter, published online October 29, 2025, shows geographic distribution of healthcare professionals sponsored for H-1B visas in the US. Four US maps display percentages for physicians, advanced practice providers, dentists, and other health care workers.

H-1B visa–sponsored physicians are twice as prevalent in rural counties and nearly 4 times as common in high-poverty areas, highlighting the potential harm of rising visa costs to health care access.

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We are thrilled to share this video feature and story about the shared learning and inspiring partnerships taking shape through the Stanford African Scholars in Global Health program. They are part of the new 2025
@stanforddeptmed.bsky.social Annual Report.

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New York Times: "Military Plans to Fire Artillery Over California Freeway on Saturday"

This is a profoundly absurd show of force that could put Californians directly in harm's way.

Flying live rounds over a busy highway without coordination between state, federal, and local partners isn't just wrong — it's dangerous.

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It. Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

This story is about the report that hasn't been published - but it's also about IRIS, the part of EPA that wrote it and has been assessing the toxicity of chemicals for decades.

Of 55 scientists who worked on recent IRIS report, only 8 remain in their posts.

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Scientists behind breakthrough cystic fibrosis treatment awarded top US prize Cystic fibrosis was once a dire, likely deadly diagnosis, destroying a patient's ability to breathe and digest food -- but a revolutionary new treatment offers reason for hope.

www.france24.com/en/live-news... 🧪
#cysticfibrosis #Lasker2025 #LaskerAward #LaskerLaureate
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Mind blowing: “single hydrogen bonds deliver measurable effects confirmed the principle that self association sits on a threshold that can tilt one way or the other.” Low complexity domains allow for needed transient localizing interactions in nuclear transport, RNA processing, and more.

Genomic profiling of pediatric mycosis fungoides, lymphomatoid papulosis z, and primary cutaneous anaplastic large cell lymphoma identifies recurrent tyrosine kinase gene fusions Pediatric cutaneous T-cell lymphoproliferative disorders encompass a diagnostically complex set of rare diseases of undefined pathogenesis, including mycosis fungoides (MF), lymphomatoid papulosis (Ly...

#PediPath Genomic profiling of pediatric mycosis fungoides, lymphomatoid papulosis z, and primary cutaneous anaplastic large cell lymphoma identifies recurrent tyrosine kinase gene fusions - Modern Pathology www.modernpathology.org/article/S089...

Quick Takes: New World screwworm in Mexico, H5N1 in turkeys, West Nile in Europe Mexico has seen 55 human cases of New World screwworm this year. 

Quick Takes: New World screwworm in Mexico, H5N1 in turkeys, West Nile in Europe

Mexico has seen 55 human cases of New World screwworm this year.

An accounting of souls You don’t get to t’shuvah just by accounting. You have to earnestly commit not to keep causing harm, and start working for repair.

On this awful second anniversary of October 7th, as we come out of Yamim Noraim (the days of awe) and begin Sukkot, we need to conduct cheshbon ha’nefashot, an accounting of souls.
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4-panel comic. (1) [person in front of window, shaped like a trapezoid with a curved top] This weekend, I had to make an oversized screen for a porch window. (2) [person sitting with hands on head surrounded by images of assorted equations and measurements] It involved countless tiny problems, each somehow way harder than it should be. Oblique angles. Curved edges. Noncoplanarity. (3) [person in front of window with screen on it, with building detritus strewn on the ground] ...I solved them all. I measured precisely. I did trigonometry. I made custom parts. And it fit *perfectly.* No gaps, no ripples. (4) [person typing at computer] I know that your foundation normally limits its purview to physics, medicine, peace, chemistry, and literature. However, if you review the attached photos showing how well the screen fits into the...

Window Screen

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Medicine Nobel goes to scientists who revealed secrets of immune system ‘regulation’ Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi discovered cells that protect the body from autoimmune diseases.

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi for discovering a class of immune cells that help to prevent the body from attacking its own tissues. #medsky 🧪

Did you check a little ways behind you, amongst the ferns?

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

The FG Phase and Transport Through Nuclear Pores In this Viewpoint, 2025 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award winner Dirk Görlich describes discoveries that exposed the structures and functions of protein sequences of low complexity,…

In his own words—#LaskerAward winner Dirk Görlich explains the scientific thinking behind discovering the critical functions of low-complexity domains within protein sequences. 🧪
#Lasker2025 #phaseseparation
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New faculty position opening at @stanford-chemh.bsky.social . Especially interested in candidates with deep expertise and vision for the future of AI/ML/computational models of biomolecules. Please RT

#StanfordWIM Ami Bhatt is reshaping microbiome science by leading the largest study of its kind in Africa. Her work has uncovered 1,000+ new bacterial genomes & 40,000+ viral genomes — expanding our global understanding of health & disease. https://stanford.io/4hlgmPd

JAMA article from September 11, 2025, features Lucy Shapiro, PhD, recipient of the 2025 Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science. The article, titled "The Logic of Cellular Life," details her career.

2025 Lasker~Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science winner Dr Lucy Shapiro discusses her discovery of how bacteria coordinate their genetic logic to generate distinct daughter cells.

#LaskerAward #Lasker25 @laskerfdn.bsky.social

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@who.int is appalled by the latest evacuation order, demanding 1 million people to move from Gaza City to a “humanitarian zone” in the south.

To civilians: WHO and partners remain in Gaza City.

To the intl. community: Act.

This catastrophe is human-made, & the responsibility rests with us all.

Hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells as a reservoir for trained immunity Inflammation supports selection, differentiation bias, and epigenetic reprogramming of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells to generate innate immune memory.

Central trained immunity is still a nascent field— is there true reprogramming of hematopoietic progenitors to influence innate immunity, or is this selection for lineage biased cells? We explore the nuances in this new review. doi.org/10.7554/eLif... awesome collab with Eva Kaufmann and team!

Acetaminophen remains a safe pain relief option during pregnancy. Despite recent unfounded claims, there’s no clear evidence linking prudent use to fetal development issues. ACOG's guidance remains. When needed in pregnancy, acetaminophen should be used in moderation, after consulting a doctor.