You can't trust ACIP vaccine recommendations, a committee that has abandoned evidence in favor of conspiracies. Truly a sad time in the history of human health. I fully agree with this message from reputable medical advocacy organizations. www.idsociety.org/news--public...

The Soulmate Equation. Here's a romance novel that hinges on good laboratory practices: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... think _The Fugitive_ if Harrison Ford is a 30-year-old single parent with a sex-positive wingwoman

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Reading "We", Orwell before Orwell. People living in glass houses. Wall around the city gives shades of Divergent

'What surprised them was that 16.3% of those babies received a neurodevelopmental diagnosis by three years, compared with 9.7% of the babies who were not exposed to COVID-19 in utero'. www.propublica.org/article/covi...

Pie is breakfast.

I’m thankful for Chicago’s trains on snowy days like today

Nurse: can you please tell that previa to try not to bleed overnight? Me: gentle parenting does not work for the placenta.

Image of the Week! Contributed by: Kelly Magliocca, D.D.S., M.P.H. Textbook topic: Mandible & maxilla Diagnosis: Ameloblastic carcinoma Textbook topic link: www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/mandib... #Pathology #PathologyOutlines #PathSky

Frikkin amazing stuff.

So many eosinophils in this case of tubulointerstitial nephritis secondary to recent antibiotic administration. Few tiny granulomas as well. Eos seen in EM as well. #renalpath #pathsky #nephsky

This is the blood that RFK Jr has on his hands. www.cidrap.umn.edu/pertussis/th...

Man Hoping People Notice How Many Folding Chairs He’s Carrying At Once https://theonion.com/man-hoping-people-notice-how-many-folding-chairs-he-s-c-1819576444/

A 75-year-old woman with a history of breast cancer treated with mastectomy of both breasts and adjuvant hormonal therapy presented with a 1-year history of a rash on her chest. Read the full case details: nej.md/47YGxI4 #MedSky #Oncology #DermSky

#pathsky #pathology #pulmpath 3 thoracic pathologists discuss pathology of mesothelioma youtu.be/LVXlir8s8ik?...

interesting take on how to create 3D models from 2D images

Spent today catching up on some Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks. Finally saw the crossover episode and I think it's one of my favorite Star Trek episodes ever. Such a love letter to fandom and science and exploration. <3

Unfortunate but not rare IgAN presentation. Pt in their 30's, no PMHx, presented with HTN emergency, CKD, hematuria, proteinuria. Advanced IgAN with severe IFTA, focal active crescents (M1 E1 S1 T2 C1). Wish we could catch these cases earlier. #renalpath #pathsky #nephsky

Hot off the press! New paper by Paula Toro et al showing the accuracy of fungal infection by pathology. 26-year experience! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Fungal hyphae are more tricky to diagnose by pathology alone than yeasts See detailed discussion here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #pathsky #fungal #pathology

Frozen-section-Friday: Adult with 2 cm parotid mass sent for intraoperative consultation 📸: solitary, largely circumscribed, cut surface w internal heterogeneity 📸: touch prep - monotonous cells (myoeps) w/i basophilic matrix 📸: low mag nodule contour at frozen section …next #PathSky #ENTsky

Unusual granular casts with annular appearance. Light chain, hemoglobin, myoglobin, chromogranin casts excluded. Patient on IV vancomycin. Suspicious for vancomycin cast nephropathy. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31871855/ #renalpath #pathsky #nephsky

Case of the Month: A 70 year old woman presents with a 6 mm pink keratotic papule with central erosion on the skin of the left paraspinal mid-back. What is your diagnosis? Follow the link in the comments for the case! #Pathology #PathologyOutlines #Diagnosis #PathSky

It’s World AMR Awareness Week, and this year I had the honor to re-imagine and doodle the antibiotics in the antibiotic personality quiz 😇🖍️ Thank u @brxad.bsky.social for this amazing and fun opportunity! C’mon, take the quiz, it’s a #WAAW tradition 😉💊 #IDSky quiz.tryinteract.com#/59e68e3a8ec...

Check out this new podcast! and the many other ones before this one on "making sense of pregnancy" podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Diagnosis unmasked. Young F with 2g proteinuria, weak +dsDNA. Membranous pattern, IF with C3 dominant staining. Pronase IF --> IgG-k. Membranous-like glomerulopathy with masked monotypic IgG-k deposits. Considered to be autoimmune; not MGRS. #renalpath #pathsky #nephsky.

A 1-week-old full-term baby boy was brought to the hospital for evaluation of discharge from his navel. A growth of pink tissue at the umbilicus that seeped yellow liquid was noted. Read the full case details: nej.md/4hLNwIQ #MedSky #Neonatology @chugrenoblealpes.bsky.social

Did they get a picture of the placenta?

A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Took my students to the Neofuturists. last field trip for awhile. My beloved IIT (0 snark— I love it) is under strain from the federal everything and for right now I won’t be hired next semester. Here’s hoping, tho. I love teaching. #theatresky #chicagotheatre

Why We Know So Little About What Medications Are Safe for Pregnancy “There’s a growing consensus that we should be thinking less about protecting pregnant women from research and instead think about the benefits of protecting people through research.”

my wife got frustrated with the kids wanting the crust cut off their sandwiches, so (in revenge), she’s going to bake the crusts into something the idea is still percolating, we’ll see what it ends up being. but they will like it!!

🚨 We're hiring a Postdoc to investigate the fascinating mechanisms of maternal-fetal tolerance & immunity! If you're passionate about immunology, and ready to make discoveries, apply here: //https://lnkd.in/g2HyCd-W #PostdocOpportunity #Immunology #Hiring #AcademicJobs #MaternalFetalImmunology

Case of the Month: A 2 year old boy presents to his pediatrician with pallor, fatigue and shortness of breath when playing. He lives with his parents and 4 siblings on a dairy farm. Access the rest of the clinical history and more via the link in comments. #Pathology #PathologyOutlines #PathSky

IgNobel --> Nobel pipeline continues

Scientists that won the 2024 IgNobel Prize for "discovering that many mammals are capable of breathing through their anus" have completed a successful first-in-human trial testing the safety and tolerability of enteral ventilation, a technique that gets oxygen-rich fluid pumped into the anus.

Reading Julia by Sandra Newman bookshop.org/p/books/juli... different point of view on Orwell's Oceania.

Star with rings xkcd.com/3063/

The Amargant i Riera lab was at the Upper Midwest Summit for Reproductive Science! Great science & amazing trainees. Andy won Best Oral Presentation for his talk on follicle mechanosensing, and Karen & Sara rocked their posters! #ProudPI

A startling biopsy. Severe acute TMA in a pt with suspected scleroderma renal crisis. Massive vascular thrombosis, mucoid intimal edema, and early onion skin change associated with severe cortical necrosis. #renalpath #nephsky #pathsky

Is it worse to have the gene variant that hates cilantro or the variant that loves milk chocolate? I have both of these gene variants and my partner has neither.

Thanks to Dr. Serdar Bulun (Chair, Dept. of Ob/Gyn) for kicking off our Reproductive Research Update presentations this year! Dr. Bulun presented on "Uterine disease: how genetics and environment inform clinical decision-making." We're looking forward to a year of great research and community!

Still life with Zebra Mussels, Chicago

Image of the Week! Submitted by: Jacqueline Birkness-Gartman, M.D. Directory Profile: www.pathologyoutlines.com/directory/ja... Subspecialty: GI / liver Diagnosis: Juvenile polyp #Pathology #PathologyOutlines #GIPath #PathSky

Was going to write a long thread about why Peter Guillam (a.k.a. Blonde Sherlock) is not a good spy in John le Carre's Quest for Karla trilogy, but realized it's pointless.

Listen, I know not everyone is an interested as I am in these things but this platelet is HUGE! It's surrounded by some normal-sized ones for reference. #hematology #pathsky

Congratulations to CRS faculty member Dr. Elnur Babayev for being accepted into the Summer Training Course in Experimental Aging Research! Dr. Francesca Duncan will also be participating as faculty with her focus on reproductive aging research. www.nia.nih.gov/news/nia-exp...

Dr. Francesca Duncan will speak on this virtual webinar on "Women’s health: insights in research and inclusion" Learn more and register for the event on August 28! www.chemistryworld.com/webinars/wom...