Important! PhD students comment on now Trump's cuts affected their research. Our govt has lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs since 2025. Samsara Upadhya qualified for an F31 diversity grant, but her project itself was not DEI related. It was terminated. 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvrA... #Pinks

A good read on the hallmarks of pseudoscience 🚩Oversimplification of complex topics 🚩Science washing of ancient beliefs 🚩Biased handling of positive & negative results 🚩Vague claims using ambiguous language 🚩Logical fallacies, i.e., "it is natural therefore is safe" 🧪 www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

The incomparable Dr. Daphne Haas-Kogan, Janeway Lecturer, at #ARS26 normalizing career lows, the grueling challenges in balancing work and life, and the value of confidently missing out. #radonc #cansky

Excited about our @mdanderson.bsky.social Inflammatory Breast Cancer abstracts at #AACR26! Great job from our IBC lab teams! @debeblab.bsky.social

More of this!! apple.news/ABwts1avMTta...

Awesome nerd day today with our amazing and fun TRIUMP IBC Team talking science and updating our advisory board! @debeblab.bsky.social @annalee-nguyen.bsky.social @mdanderson.bsky.social @utaustin.bsky.social #bcsm #cansky

Ironic the specialists to investigate the LaGuardia crash can’t get there because air travel is such mess. apple.news/AnhIPNeGBTHO...

Happy to share our new work on CCR7 expression profiles in IBC tumors and models. It is a beginning with more functional and protein work needed. But we’re intrigued and will continue to explore. #ibcsky #cansky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Holy shit we might have a cure for sickle cell anemia

lots of jarring statistics and heartbreaking stories I could share from this story, but this particular anecdote made me tear up when @jonathanwosen.bsky.social first shared this story with me For more details from our survey of ~1000 nih-funded researchers, read the report below

What does it mean to co-design cancer care 💰🏥 interventions? Who should be involved and how does it work? Excited to speak today at #APOS2026 as part of this all star panel of #financialToxicity experts. Starting 10:15am today Studio 8-9 (2nd Floor) 🙌 Dr @bthomphd.bsky.social

Proud to advocate for patients, clinicians and researchers who want to see better treatments and a cure for #peripheralneuropathy. The Foundation for PN has had massive growth over the last year, and moving toward an exciting 2027 symposium! 🧪🧪

#Medsky🧪 #Oncosky The study findings suggest that there are therapeutic opportunities to eliminate disseminated tumour cells ( DTCs) , separately from treatments aimed at primary tumours, and GR inhibition is one promising target. PDF www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Another amazing life story cut short by inflammatory breast cancer. I found Clare’s NYT podcast and article unexpectedly, while scrolling last year. I loved hearing she had found love. And I’m so sorry she didn’t get more time. Rest in peace Clare. #IBC #cansky www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/p...

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A response to the opinion that private $ can replace the NIH. Businesses are not charities. They work on profit margins. Decades of $ is essential for research to progress from an initial discovery to treatment. Most of the dirty work goes on in academic labs. 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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I’ve been emailing a ton of politicians and their staffers recently, and they NEVER respond outside of work hours. Don’t they know they can do it as long as they put a disclaimer at the end??

When I Got Aggressive Cancer At 29, I Couldn't Believe What My Friends Began To Imply About My Diagnosis - HuffPost #cansky

"Mother of Chemotherapy" Dr. Jane Wright died #OTD in 2013. + Helped shift cancer treatment from palliative care to modern chemotherapy by establishing methotrexate as a foundational treatment for breast cancer in 1951 + Only woman co-founder, American Society of Clinical Oncology #WomenInSTEM #BHM

A single nasal spray vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus, as well as bacterial lung infections, and may even ease allergies, says U.S. researchers. www.bbc.com/news/article...

When I was in Houston this week, I stopped by a coffee shop that employs people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It can seem like a small thing, but as a child psychiatrist, I know how important it is for all people to feel supported, seen & welcomed at work 🌱

The work done at federal agencies went unacknowledged b/c we were used to qualified experts making decisions. You don't create experts out of thin air. "The beauty of academic research is that people could stick w/ hard problems for a long time to make progress." 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

MD Anderson and SOPHiA GENETICS Announce Strategic Collaboration to Accelerate AI-Driven Precision Oncology @mdanderson.bsky.social oncodaily.com/voices/md-an... #OncoDaily #Oncology #Cancer #Health #Medicine #MedTwitter #MedEd #MedOnc #MedNews #MDAnderson #SOPHiAGENETICS

Happy Caturday from sweet Higgs. #caturday

You can’t import another country’s vaccine policy without first importing their actual healthcare system. Our vaccine recommendations fill structural gaps in our healthcare system, which is widely regarded as fragmented, inaccessible to many, and riven with inequalities.

Many doctors rely on an automated system that flags when a patient is due for a vaccine based on the CDC recommendations. The system does not flag vaccines that fall into the shared decision-making category meaning a child may miss a life-saving vaccine. www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-...

RFK Jr.’s Next Move Is What Anti-Vaxxers Have Been Waiting For - The Atlantic apple.news/AOXesItUBQ7u...

Tennessee--consistently in the top 10 states for domestic violence homicides--created the first US registry to track repeat DV offenders. Savanna's Law: named for Savanna Puckett, killed by her ex-bf, who suffocated her dog & had a history of DV & stalking. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Blood Test Identifies Colon Cancer in Adults Ages 20-35 With 98.5% Accuracy Study: An Exosome-Based Liquid Biopsy for the Detection of Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer: The ENCODER Multicenter Study buff.ly/xi4fYNY #medsky #GIsky 🛟🧪

Science for the win👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻🎉🎉

Cooking a holday dinner? Save your tissues. This cutting technique slashes tears when chopping onions. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/knife-tricks-stop-onion-cutting-crying

Scientists reverse Alzheimer’s in mice and restore memory. For more than 100 years, Alzheimer’s disease has been treated as a one-way decline—but new research is aiming for a cure. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

MD Anderson researchers have identified Rb1 deficiency as a key therapeutic vulnerability for some aggressive breast cancers, including triple-negative and estrogen receptor–positive tumors. How this finding could shape treatment strategies: spr.ly/63328CZpQu #OncSky #EndCancer

Now online in Cancer Discovery @aacrjournals.bsky.social: Residual Breast Cancer Cells Co-opt SOX5-driven Endochondral Ossification to Maintain #Dormancy - by @amulyasreekumar.bsky.social, Lewis Chodosh, and colleagues doi.org/10.1158/2159...#Dormancy@pennmedicine.bsky.social @penncancer.bsky.social

Release Day! GLASS WALLS is now available in more accessible formats: paperback and audiobook. Learn how to identify workplace gender bias and how to stop it. Order here: amy-diehl.com/book

Great job by all of my trainees and team at #SABCS2025!!

Honored to moderate the outstanding local therapy session! Three trials now coalesce around 8Gy x 3 to a small preop focus as an immune engaging dose in breast cancer. Exciting space to watch! Interesting radiation analyses from Insema too. #radoncsky #cansky #sabcs2025

IBC meeting opportunity @sabcs.bsky.social Wednesday 8:30 am- Room 303B - clinical teams, advocates interested in community IBC care please come engage in a discussion on improving consistent care everywhere! #thinkibc #cansky

Trans and non-binary individuals will no longer be listed in cancer registries--even as they use tobacco products at higher rates and are screened at lower rates. #Medsky #LGBTQ #Oncosky #cancer #science #publichealth #epidemiology

Here we go. Its ALL #NIHGrant applications. Dec 8 is the new deadline. And a one page prelim data update will be accepted for all May Council submissions. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

I actually think some incremental research is crucial to effective execution. A research big bang doesn’t achieve a massive impact for patients w/o many,many incremental advances to understand the scope, limitations and nuances. Sweeping generalizations are not overly useful in research impact.

“If your doctor first treats the symptoms as an infection and they don’t improve within a week, ask for more tests, such as imaging or a biopsy, to find the cause. If redness or swelling continues, especially if you’re not breastfeeding, ask for a follow-up visit right away.”

Read how understanding and tracking recent changing trends for lobular breast cancer are important—not only to improve care for those affected by it, but also to advance NBCC’s overarching mission to end all breast cancer. https://nbcc.info/4qmyBbS

Very cool post, thanks for finding our initial paper on this issue interesting. Turns out we had another one just out, where we extend the idea of critical ignoring and relate it to the detrimental consequences of information overload: doi.org/10.1016/j.co... 1/n

Honored to be a presenter at IBC Community Connect Conference - it’s wonderful to be in the presence of so many brilliant, dedicated people. #IBCCC2025 Thank you @ibcradiation.bsky.social for bringing everyone together.

Such wonderful networking and brainstorming today at the IBC Connect and Community - we will create an email distribution to connect clinician and community teams, interested in projects and ideas to improve adherence to guidelines for IBC- Please DM if you would like to join the list! #cansky

Base-pair resolution Micro Capture-C ultra to map chromatin contacts between individual motifs within cis-regulatory elements and reveal a unified model of biophysically mediated enhancer-promoter communication @cellcellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...