Analysis of publicly reported data identified 272 deaths in #ICEDetention from fiscal year 2004 through January 2026, with mortality rates declining early in the period and increasing again in recent fiscal years. ja.ma/4uRtWQH

I cannot believe it’s been three years. Doing what I did where I did it may have been difficult and clearly not the safest. However, the full room of people this touched and the feedback I got throughout those 3 years showed me it was worth it.

As neurology enters the era of high-cost therapies, financial toxicity is becoming a key determinant of access, adherence, and equity. Proud to work with superstar resident Dr. Gotlieb on this viewpoint in @greenjournal.bsky.social neurology.org/doi/full/10.... @mskcancercenter.bsky.social

Come to our lecture today

For those attending the American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting next week, here are the LGBTQ+ related programming: (in thread 🧵, 1/5)

There have been a lot of “Christians” celebrating Easter. Thinking, “How could people have treated Jesus so poorly.” An immigrant from a single mom, poor, etc. I don’t know, how do they treat those people?

APA Statement | The Supreme Court Decision in Chiles v. Salazar https://ow.ly/nWCp50YBKXK

From @trevorproject.bsky.social

How much protected time do people usually get as primary investigators of clinical trials in neurology?

In a shocking move, the state’s Department of Health utilized its “11th hour” emergency rule just one day ahead of a lawsuit hearing. https://mrf.lu/SLwl

They’re trying to make the First Amendment illegal.

So for someone like me who doesn’t produce hormones, do I just medically deteriorate, or will I be forced to have society force their sex on my body and identity again?

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 12 EITM: HHS General Counsel announces 4 four federally-qualified health centers being referred to HHS's own Inspector General for investigation: DC's Whitman-Walker; NYC"s Callen-Lorde & Institute for Family Health, & LA"s LGBT Center. [1/2]

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 9: Good Law Project's Freedom of Information requests find spike in trans kid's suicide following NHS stopping GAC: from just 9 for 2019 thru 2020 to 32 for 2021 thru 2022-- an increase of 256%. [This is a correction of an earlier post which wrongly said 800%] 1/2

The power of state has been used to kill so many different people up to this point. However, it is a turning point when it is used to kill a white woman and a white man. It shouldn’t make a difference, but we all know that that did.

I stand in solidarity with all nurses today. Especially ICU nurses.

For all those so happy with our money-driven US healthcare system, do you realize that the business model is such that if you get sick your health insurance company actually WANTS you to just die? Their ONLY motivation is the short-term money profits as dictated by those invested in them.

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"A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at an ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3."

Upstate New York is beautiful, but there are in the winter where we are repeating the phrase, “we don’t have earthquakes, we don’t have hurricans, we don’t have alligators“ as we shovel the snow off our car.

Full study here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

ICE is what happens when you give mall cops federal funding. They are less law enforcement and more cruel washouts that peaked in high school football. News is that anyone speaking out against ICE gets put on a government watch list. However, one list you won’t see on is Epstein’s list.

Peace feels like unfamiliar and uncomfortable boredom at first after your system becomes wired for chaos.

I’m honored to be accepted into the American Academy of Neurology’s Transforming Leaders Program.

14 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- 100s current and ex members, leaders, & parents turn out protest at Girlguiding HQ in England over its new ban of trans girls. The group had previously announced itself “proudly trans inclusive.”

Has the idea and practice of academic medicine changed in recent years? My perspective on what it means for early-to-mid career academic neurologists is now online as an OpMed on Doximity. May resonate with other specialties. www.doximity.com/articles/1a1...

This administration is so unserious. Americans want lower health care costs and safe communities — not this Republican obsession with attacking trans people.

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