This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING Mychal the Librarian is hosting the Reading Rainbow revival!!! reactormag.com/reading-rain...

AMWA Announces the 2025 INSPIRE Awardees! This Women in Medicine Month, AMWA proudly recognizes 47 extraordinary women physicians whose vision, integrity, service, and leadership continue to shape the culture of medicine. vist.ly/48ekh #AMWA #WomenInMedicine #INSPIREAward

The girl in the yellow dress is me at my 5th birthday party where I hid under the table when everyone started singing Happy Birthday. #SociallyAwkward

Nicholson: Are you still in #despair about the world? #Baldwin: I never have been in despair about the world. I'm enraged by it. But I don't think I'm in despair, I can't afford despair. I can't tell my nephew, my niece, you can't tell the children there's no hope! ~ quoted by Christopher W Hunt

Very much a 2025 vibe here.

My series of oil paintings of Girls-Who-Are-Not-Having-Fun-at-this-“Party” are finally framed and hung together in my study. #MedSky

In her book "In Shock" @ranaawdish.bsky.social who writes "Our greatest gift is our ability to be absolutely present with suffering" us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Two books that should inspire all of us to listen to patients, believe in patients, partner with patients, and change how we do medical research and pratice In Shock by @ranaawdish.bsky.social Unheard by @drrageshri.bsky.social

Please, @theguardian.com, stop writing headlines that give credibility to Trump’s baseless medical misinformation. The way you’re reporting this makes you part of the problem.

“An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients.” What an absolutely incredible, joyous achievement for everyone involved. Hurrah for science and scientists! www.bbc.com/news/article...

I can't wait for this event! I'm so looking forward to talking #health care and #writing with @ranaawdish.bsky.social and Sandap Jauhar and the always amazing @danielleofri.bsky.social Thank you @blreview.bsky.social

Meet Sandeep and the rest of our panelists— @ranaawdish.bsky.social Theresa Brown, and @danielleofri.bsky.social —on September 25th. Bring your questions! Details: 🕐 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM EDT ✨Free and open to the public. buytickets.at/bellevuelite...

Meet Rana and the rest of our panelists—Sandeep Jauhar, Theresa Brown, and @danielleofri.bsky.social—on September 25th. Bring your questions! The event is free and open to the public. RSVP: buytickets.at/bellevuelite...

We're thrilled to welcome @ranaawdish.bsky.social as a panelist in our upcoming "Crafting a Story of Illness" event! 🎙️ Rana is a pulmonary and critical care physician, Clinical Professor of Medicine at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, and an acclaimed author and speaker.

Been an admirer of Dr Awdish for years so this means a lot to me🙏

MASSIVE Congratulations to @crblease.bsky.social on the launch of Dr. Bot. I so admire your ability to imagine a future filled with healing potential, even when it looks very different than we may have imagined. ❤️‍🩹

Painted another in my series of girls who are mot having fun at this party. She still needs a name. #MedSky #OilPainting

A nice thing about small towns. A neighbor babysits me as a kid. I grow up and take care of her dad as a patient. She teaches my kid in middle school. I paint a pic of her and her dad as a thank you. Life is so much more meaningful through our connections. #MedSky

Sometimes summer dinners are homemade 🍓🍰

A recent piece on why HOW we listen matters in healthcare. Especially for leaders. #MedSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

There are many fabulous things about @ranaawdish.bsky.social house but this may be the very best. Besides her, of course.

Annual Rana-for-scale photo with the peonies. I am small and they are big.

How it started. How it’s going.

We have officially survived the construction of the middle school Eiffel Towel French project. And that is something. 🥂

Peony season >> other seasons

Absolutely devastating and affecting a lot of my colleagues here at @scripps.edu who dedicated their whole careers to coming up with a vaccine for HIV. Which, btw, outside HIV, has led to a whole field of much better vaccines and vaccine platforms.

"If the proposal is enacted, Americans today and tomorrow will be sicker, poorer, and die younger” an $18 Billion cut Only 3 NIH Institutes will remain in place, and even they will have their funds markedly reduced www.statnews.com/2025/05/30/n...

For the first time in a long while, I’ve added my most recent paintings to my art site. Felicity and Imogen. Two girls who are definitely not having fun at this party. #MedSky #doctorswhocreate muchmoreart.com/collections/...

So nerdy, and I love it so much.

Getting excited about the selection of a nice Pope really says something about how low our collective expectations bar has dropped.

“Every act of compassion is an act of defiance. Every moment of empathy is a refusal to surrender. Every time we choose decency over cruelty, we reclaim a piece of our shared humanity. This is the fight of our time—not for power, but for the soul of our nation.” open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

Sometimes it’s raining and cold and you don’t know what to cook and then you remember that you can skip dinner and go straight to making a cookie skillet. 🍪 #MedSky

Since this was published yesterday, NPR reports JAMA joins NEJM on the list of journals that confirms they’ve been sent threatening letters by Trump’s DOJ, ominously referencing their tax-exempt status in a bid to compel regime-friendly editorial choices. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

#MedSky Invasive cardiopulm exercise testing (iCPET) at Brigham & Women’s finds people w/ #MECFS & #longCovid have symptomatic ⬇️ aerobic capacity at peak exercise due to preload insufficiency & impaired systemic O2 extraction, latter c/w peripheral L➡️R shunt &/or limb skel muscle dysfunction. /1

An honor and privilege to interview this man.

Modern medical science is bloody wonderful. The way we've turned HIV from a death sentence into an entirely manageable chronic condition in just a couple of decades is absolutely brilliant.

Northwestern just announced that the university will meet the funding needs of any research that is being impacted by stop orders. LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOO! #edusky #academicsky wgntv.com/evanston/nor...

I want politics to be about a better everyday life. Here's what that can look like:

Viewpoint: Political interference in the medical profession threatens evidence-based standards of care and the autonomy of health care professionals. https://ja.ma/4iuXJZ5

increasing failure of the administration to do its job

Still repurposing the Easter lamb my mom made. BBQ lamb hash for dinner. 🐑

When you cut funding for critical global good programs, expect bad things to happen Increases in vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks threaten years of progress, warn WHO, UNICEF, Gavi www.who.int/news/item/24...

Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...

Yes, and… the flowers still bloom. Spring reminding me the world is so beautiful 🌷#MedSky

"With Sadness and Resolve: Why I Resigned as Chief Medical Officer of an #NIH Institute and What Comes Next" www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1513/... [open access @annalsats.bsky.social ] Powerful essay, including resignation letter by Dr Josh Fessel in the tradition of www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...

Measles case in Michigan reported. A baby may have exposed a lot of people recently.

Alright y’all. Went to check out @altmetric.com for my @jama.com iron deficiency article and I’m superstitious so will you please repost so this number changes?! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Powerful report in @theguardian.com about the harms of abortion bans outside obstetrics by @skirchy.bsky.social regarding new scientific study by @hauschildt.bsky.social in @accpchest.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...