Dr. Jill Richmond, PhD

My quote of the day

History is a vast early warning system.

Norman Cousins

To speak or not to speak: Why many aid groups are silent about the Trump cuts Charities usually like to talk to the public about their good works. In the wake of the Trump aid cuts, there's a new approach: "anticipatory silence." It's controversial.

"The term is a close cousin of anticipatory obedience, which describes those who went along with the Nazi agenda, hoping their actions would protect them--this can be a dangerous slippery slope."
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A different way of practicing politics is possible - where we vigorously fight for what’s right while inviting people into our coalition, rather than pushing them away.

Maddie, a Coonhound Who Awed Instagram by Balancing on Things, Dies at 14 In thousands of photos, Maddie stood tall and seemingly unbothered atop fences, cars, road signs and tires, garnering 1.2 million Instagram followers along the way.

Maddie, a coonhound who became a dog influencer because of her impeccable ability to balance on items like signs and fences, has died at age 14. During a life spent traveling with her owner, Maddie amassed over 1.2 million Instagram followers and was the subject of two photography books.

USDA Ends Key Support for Black Farmers Amid Trump Anti-DEI Orders The agency will no longer use the term "socially disadvantaged," saying it has sufficiently addressed historic discrimination.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has ended key support for Black farmers and will no longer use the term “socially disadvantaged,” saying it has sufficiently addressed historic discrimination

View of the WGBH building in Boston with an electronic marquee reading “Local. Trusted. Defunded.”

WGBH building in Boston today

If they think Superman is woke, wait until they learn about Jesus.

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.

America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.

Watch and share his message.

A deep learning system for detecting systemic lupus erythematosus from retinal images Li et al. develop and validate a deep learning system (DeepSLE) to detect SLE and related complications using retinal fundus images solely among diverse multi-ethnic populations, offering a non-invasive and cost-effective digital solution for SLE screening in primary care and low-resource settings.

Online now: A deep learning system for detecting systemic lupus erythematosus from retinal images Online now:

Cardiolipin-mimic lipid nanoparticles without antibody modification delivered senolytic in vivo CAR-T therapy for inflamm-aging Zhang et al. develop Cardiolipin-mimic phosphoramide (CAMP) lipids, which enable T cell transfection without antibody modification. Using CAMP-based LNPs, they generate senolytic CAR-T cells in vivo to target inflamm-aging diseases. Additionally, they employ circular mRNA to prolong transgene expression. The authors also engineer a humanized anti-human uPAR scFv for clinically relevant applications.

Online now: Cardiolipin-mimic lipid nanoparticles without antibody modification delivered senolytic in vivo CAR-T therapy for inflamm-aging Online now:

From a time when childhood vaccines were just a figment of imagination.

Row after row of baby headstones.

Canceled grants get the spotlight at a Capitol Hill 'science fair' On Tuesday, scientists held an event organized by House Democrats in which they stood in front of posters outlining their work — and the federal cuts that now threaten it.

Science fair for cancelled grants:
www.npr.org/2025/07/09/n...

if you’re given to despair in exceedingly dark times, i get it. let’s challenge each other to spend a few minutes a day imagining attainable possibilities. things that are within our control to accomplish, great and small.

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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

Our immune systems can fight cancer (and do it quite effectively most of the time), but immune cells can be hijacked by tumors to „work for“ cancer cells instead of destroying them.

Cutting-Edge Cancer Therapy Offers Hope for Patients With Lupus Lupus can be debilitating and sometimes deadly for the 3 million people who have it. A treatment called CAR T appears to stop it in its tracks.

Lupus can be debilitating and sometimes deadly for the 3 million people who have it. A treatment called CAR T-cell therapy appears to stop it in its tracks.

... That's harm, and I don't want it. So we leave and we come back and we hope for justice and revolution and rebuilding. I don't know if I'll be a part of it, but I hope it for whoever stays.

11/n

I realize that my approach is a risk. But I don't think of risk. I think of justice. I think of the women in my community who are dying, on how to help them. And changing the language in my grants and excluding them?

10/n

Juneteenth calls us to understand the realities of our past, celebrate the resilience and achievements of Black Americans, and align the course of our country toward its founding creed of liberty and justice for all. Wishing everyone a meaningful Juneteenth!

Good morning.

If the the Senate passes the Republican budget bill, 40% of American families - those with lower and middle incomes - will LOSE money. They will become poorer.

But the richest families will get an average $270,000 tax cut.

Because they only care about the rich.

Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month.

Worked on novel antivirals.

I find it fascinating that COVID is apparently a bioweapon made in a lab and also nothing at all to worry about. I know consistency is dead, but it makes my brain hurt anyways.

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Scientists saved lives. The village was evacuated a week ago.

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#FactFriday 💜 Diagnosing #lupus is like piecing together a puzzle. Symptoms, lab tests, medical and family history all play a role. That’s what makes awareness so important.

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M2 Macrophage and Extracellular Matrix Genes Are Enriched in High‐Activity Lichen Planopilaris The pathophysiology of lichen planopilaris (LPP), a lymphocytic primary cicatricial alopecia, is largely unknown. We evaluated RNA expression of lesional scalp biopsies taken before and after 6 month...

Excited to share our latest paper just published today! 🎉
📄 M2 Macrophage and Extracellular Matrix Genes Are Enriched in High-Activity LPP
🔗 doi.org/10.1155/drp/... Huge thanks to @MaryanneSenna, @tcelltracker.bsky.social , and our amazing team 💙 #HairResearch #ScarringAlopecia

At an alumni rally earlier the same day in support of Yale standing up to the Trump administration, there was a historic, unheard-of call-and-response cheer:

"Who do we love?"
"HARVARD!"

"Who do we love?"
"HARVARD!"

Roche taps Broad Institute to test SBX sequencing in the clinic Roche raised the curtain on its novel approach to DNA sequencing earlier this year, and now it's working with the Broad Institute to explore its use cases, ahead of a full public launch s | Roche tapp...

"[Roche] has tapped Broad Clinical Labs, a subsidiary of the MIT & Harvard research center, to apply its sequencing-by-expansion technology in ... critically ill newborns as well as their parents, to help diagnose genetic disorders & rare inherited diseases." 🧬
www.fiercebiotech.com/medtech/roch...

9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything

Basic research is the cornerstone of scientific progress in all realms. Basic science is what hasn't been applied yet. The govt spends $200B/yr on R&D knowing that rewards are yrs away. Google, born in 1994, had a $4M federal grant to help build digital libraries.
🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...