Pakistan has launched its first nationwide HPV vaccination campaign, a historic step to protect nearly 13 million girls from cervical cancer. At the heart of the campaign are doctors like Dr Saima Zubair, whose advocacy in twelve languages has helped build trust where it matters most. 🧵

The body of evidence for persistent activation of the immune system in #LongCovid and related post-infective syndromes www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...

Happy Diplomates Day 🎉 Today, we celebrate our members who passed the Final FRCA exam in the year to May 2025 🙌 Congratulations on your success and achievements. We hope you have a lovely day at the ceremony and are feeling proud! 👨‍🎓🎓👩‍🎓 #MedSky #AnSky

Tomorrow we continue with Pete Hart’s @intensiveperson.bsky.social suggestions. He just proposes the debate so back off, no need to send the cops around. His debate is…. “Awareness without recall is a perfectly acceptable outcome of general anaesthesia” #MedSkyDebate

New position: Stochastic Systems Modeling postdoc. #science #career #jobs #sciencejobs #job #jobsearch #postdoc #postdocposition www.science.hr/jobs/208438/...

If you’re unfamiliar with his history, start with this article I wrote last year: news.immunologic.org/p/rfk-jr-as-... Please stop endangering the lives of all of us—and not just Americans, but the world. 🧵

Reminder: RFK Jr has made MILLIONS demonizing a vaccine that blocks viral infections AND prevents CANCERS Cervical cancer Penile cancer Oropharyngeal cancer (throat) Vaginal cancer Anal cancer Vulvar cancer I guess he DOESN’T care about reducing chronic illness after all… 1/

I hope you’re all enjoying this descent into madness. The important thing to remember is what while I can’t sing, neither can eels, so this little jingle is very scientifically accurate. So please. Get an eel facts advent calendar. You don’t have to wait until Christmas for eels. EelFacts.Net

Feels terrifyingly correct

Super interesting study. I find that communicating uncertainty in a confident/helpful manner was one of the most important skills I learnt in ICU. This is not often explicitly discussed by communication teaching but clearly is essential given these findings.

Took a break from the news, cleaned up grandma’s antique 1958 Schwinn Chicago Deluxe Twinn Tandem Bike and took it for a spin #bikesky

After the shooting at CDC, Sen. Blumenthal is calling for HHS Secretary Kennedy to fire Dr. Robert Malone — whose Substack posts and other writings are objectively unhinged and tinged with violence — from ACIP and restore the expert panel Kennedy gutted. www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

hard to not interpret this as a casual threat of more violence

"At no other time in modern history has a country so throughly turned its back on its core national strengths."— @vermontgmg.bsky.social Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

Trump’s focus on Washington D.C. is part of a larger pattern in which the president has suggested cities with majority-Black populations are hotbeds of crime and corruption.

Science is effectively dead in the US for at least the next 3½ years, and will then take another several years to even get started again. Canceled research doesn’t just uncancel itself, and scientists who find opportunity elsewhere won’t just come flocking back. The damage is generational.

Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.

How many times a week do you think about the sirens? #askingforafriend

Yaaaaas adaptive clinical trials for the win!

Great thread from @wired.com about longevity grift. 👇🏻 It sells really well. Nobody asks about trials, any data, just push the idea that people can live longer or even forever.

I find it wild that smart people I know with often science/engineering backgrounds aren't applying their reasoning for this when buying this.

Generational public health sabotage

Cher in CLUELESS saying "and may I remind you it does not say RSVP on the Statue of Liberty" is officially left of the Democratic Party

if only doctors had warned us it was dangerous

RFK Jr. has just cancelled all HHS research projects on mRNA vaccines, announcing that HHS has ended $500 million in funding for them. This is a man who just demanded randomized clinical trials for COVID19 vaccines, and now he’s refusing to fund them.

In our episode on the #NIH , @analog-ashley.bsky.social shared examples of the life-changing scientific careers kickstarted by federal funding for diversity in science programs. Don't let them rewrite this narrative; these programs benefit all of us www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis...

get one here btw squidfacts.bigcartel.com

Bringing this paper over from the other place- who would have thought that this might be the challenge forcing change in academic publishing? The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The antidote for despair is action ❤️ * Dial (202) 224-3121 * Enter zip code * Leave voicemail * Say “My name is ___, I’m a constituent in [town]. (If clinician/scientist, say so) “The NIH freeze harms research and patients and must be lifted immediately.” Be brief. Staffers tally all calls. Go! ✅

Pulmonologist, ATS leader Mary Rice, MD, MPH was ousted from Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee for political reasons. She is concerned EPA won't ensure the margin of safety is met for children, people with heart or lung disease, and older adults. #medsky #cleanair www.npr.org/2025/01/29/n...

Midwit paradigm 101

Yess! How do we make the incredibly progress in major common diseases a more captivating narrative?

One major area of progress has been the development of drugs: - Statins, which lower LDL cholesterol levels and stabilize plaque that can clog blood vessels - Blood pressure lowering medications - Clot-busting medicines to improve survival of heart attack and stroke patients

Look it's @jacobtref.bsky.social dropping three of the best blogposts of 2025. “What does AI progress mean for medical progress?” gives a great overview. Then it turns into a choose-your-own adventure to read about the bottlenecks AI won't solve *and* where it can still help.

Terence Tao (@teorth.bsky.social) has written a thread on Mastodon about the impact of the federal grant freeze to UCLA, particularly to his own field of Mathematics. UCLA's IPAM (Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics) could shut down entirely mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1149568...

Love this exploration/visual

The long awaited sequel editorial to 2017’s ‘The illusion of informed consent’ is now available free in @anaesjournal.bsky.social Critics are calling ‘The paradox of informed consent’ a “mindblowing expansion of the CMCU (Chrimes-Marshall Consent Universe)” & praising @maryannturner.bsky.social

I think we underestimate how difficult people find risk is as a concept. I don't think there's an easy answer here by any means.

can’t wait for the NYT write off: “In mayoral race led by Mamdani, corruption persists”

'there's a replication Crisis in science' has now been replicated in clinical practice

1 in 5. That’s how many anesthesiology chairs are women — despite matching men in research output (citations and H-index). We analyzed 133 departments to study this gap. It’s time to rethink how leadership is built. journals.lww.com/anesthesia-a... #Anesthesiology #LeadershipGap #MedSky #MedEd

From @cliffreid.bsky.social a step-by-step summary of my technique for #HAVL #AnSky #AirwayMx

My rapid response at BMJ is online now. I joined the chorus of protest about an opinion piece claiming people with severe ME/CFS can recover by "reframing their beliefs" &c. People with ME/CFS deserve so much better than that: www.bmj.com/content/389/... #MECFS

There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem

How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...

Primum non nubere.

lead poisoning is back baby and this time it smells like blueberries!!

📢 PhD opening at @uoft.bsky.social in the @liisagalea.bsky.social Lab! Work on women’s brain health & Alzheimer’s risk prediction as part of the global CARE initiative. 🧠 🧪 Apply: forms.gle/Lxf5Li5d6wcm...

Brutal interview with a public health professor on how close medical research is to collapse.

Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025