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@mattrweaver.bsky.social

Medical librarian. Opinions expressed are my own.

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Trump Says He Gave Iran Permission to Bomb U.S. Base in Qatar and…Well, Mostly Crickets? A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This...

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30.06.2025 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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RFK Jr. Set to Launch Disease Registry Tracking Autistic People And he’s using private medical records to make it happen.

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25.04.2025 02:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Text: "the most obvious lesson to draw from the leaked Signal chatvl is that these people really are morons. It's not a public act, it's not a shtick, there's not some secret back room where they drop the facade. They are genuinely stupid, incompetent people"

Text: "the most obvious lesson to draw from the leaked Signal chatvl is that these people really are morons. It's not a public act, it's not a shtick, there's not some secret back room where they drop the facade. They are genuinely stupid, incompetent people"

01.04.2025 12:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Agency for older adults, people with disabilities to be shuttered under HHS cuts In 2022, the Administration for Community Living provided more than 261 million meals to older adults, assistance such as respite care to more than 1.5 million family caregivers, and independent-livin...

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31.03.2025 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pete Hegseth, Mike Waltz, Tulsi Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including ...

www.spiegel.de/internationa...

30.03.2025 11:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Patient Safety Network abruptly cut by Trump administration. The latest DOGE destruction targets a respected project that helped protect Americans from medical errors by supporting a cultural shift around safety.

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29.03.2025 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Revenge of the gaslit patients: Now, as scientists, they’re tackling Ehlers-Danlos syndromes A group of young patient-researchers is showing that patient-led research can be indispensable in the effort to crack complex, long-misunderstood illnesses, like hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

As someone close to my heart wrestles with chronic pain and more, and doesn't feel listened to by most doctors, this story gives me hope
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03.03.2025 00:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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At my public library no copies of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century available

16.02.2025 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Now this is cute. Bad baby

15.02.2025 22:09 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
Index of /pubmed/updatefiles

Thank you for this. I am sharing it with my #medlib coworkers. I check the PubMed daily update files at least to see that it's being updated each day: ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/updat...

15.02.2025 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I check the daily updates to see if it still being updated but that's a basic test.

15.02.2025 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Scoop: 950 Indian Health Service employees laid off. The valuable public health program is already under-staffed. All probationary staff were told they would be laid off by the Trump administration.

'Two sources at the Indian Health Service told Inside Medicine that 950 probationary employeesβ€”those serving less than one or two yearsβ€”were laid off on Friday, without any explanation. This accounts for 18% of the IHS.'

insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-950-...

14.02.2025 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
We should all pay attention to what is happening at the National Archives On Friday night, the president officially fired the Archivist of the United States, as he had promised to do before taking office. So, hi there! πŸ‘‹ Former National Archives employee here.

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13.02.2025 02:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Weimar+ Statement by Germany, France, Poland, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, the European External Action Service and the European Commission 12 of February 2025 - Paris We are ready to enhance our support for Ukraine. We commit to its independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity in the face of Russia's war of aggression. We...

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13.02.2025 01:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.

Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying β€œWhy are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”

globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

09.02.2025 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 48940    πŸ” 12504    πŸ’¬ 1139    πŸ“Œ 439

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