ASH decries HHS restructuring and CDC layoffs. The Blood Disorders Division addresses SCD, thrombosis, hemophilia, thalassemia, and more. Millions' health is at stake; ASH urges immediate action. #Fight4Hematology #HemeSky #MedSky

My baby in his stroller while walking with me and 2 easily distractible dogs

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

What an absolute embarrassment for our country. To try to publicly shame a top leader of a sovereign country that was unjustly INVADED by Russia. This is not normal and not “making American great” and I vehemently oppose any thoughts to the contrary. #StandWithUkraine

This is Obi. He just got some cool new anti-slip socks, because safety is always in style. 13/10 #SeniorPupSaturday

Welp… the lactation room I’ve been using at the VA is being turned into an office…. Where will I pump now? Not sure.

🧪 If I were Canadian PM I would immediately: 1. Create a new $15B science fund 2. Offer any credentialed US scientist funding for lab startup and replacement of NIH grants if they move to Canada 3. Immediate permanent residency 4. Citizenship after 2 years Overnight a science superpower

Thanks to George Conway for posting Caroline Kennedy's letter so everyone is informed about RFK Jr. Please repost far and wide.

I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

Quickly approaching the alligator wrestling stage of parenthood

Dreams are coming true over here! ✨I’ve officially accepted a position as an attending physician at LCI!✨ I will be doing what I love and focusing on lymphoma and classical hematology patients! My family and I are so excited.

Please consider a donation to an IM resident at my old institution who has battled lupus for years and now needs a kidney transplant. Such an impressive story and human being. It’s a shame to have to crowdfund for healthcare these days, but this is America. #MedSky #NephroSky gofund.me/16c8c72b

Me trying to explain to my baby why naps are needed for him at this age or else none of us will have a good time. My baby:

Got through TSA just short of a cavity search, but excited that I am able to bring all this pumped milk home from my time at #ASH24!

Spending my morning at #ASH24 learning about updates in #CLL! Excellent and informative presentations about some impressive data!

#ASH24 #ASHaPalooza

Made it to #ASH24! Excited for an evening at ASH-a-palooza and a weekend of learning and camaraderie! #TeamHeme

I wasn’t able to log in yesterday, but happy fellowship match to all the internists and pediatricians that found out where they will be starting next year! #FellowshipMatch

If a new pandemic comes to the US we’ll have an NIH dir who advocated for letting COVID burn through the US, an HHS Sec who believes in raw milk but not vaccines, an FDA commissioner who said COVID would be over by 4/2021, & a CDC dir who supported the debunked theory that vaccines cause autism.

The sad thing is that RFK Jr has somehow made people interested in the quality of drinking water but instead of channeling that concern towards PFAS & micro plastics he's got everyone worried about fluoride. Like FFS how did you get everyone to care about water but for the completely wrong reasons?

Please don't call what RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya are going to do medieval. It's not medieval. It's nothing like the Middle Ages. People in the Middle Ages were happy to try all kinds of things to not die of the plague and if you'd given them antibiotics and vaccines they would have loved it.

Every day since November 6 I wake up and I ask myself…. Am I now residing in some sort of unhinged alternate dimension? And every day the evidence tells me that yes, I am now residing in some sort of mad universe

Excellent open-access #MMsm work in @AjHematology by Zabaleta @BrunoPaiva_UNAV et al! An important footnote for all the CAR-T vs bsAb efficacy debates: when stratified by MRD status, CAR-T and bsAbs do identically. Getting to MRD neg is what matters! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/

What an achievement vaccines are. What a monument to our love for each other it is to stare straight into the face of something as horrific and unstoppable as smallpox or measles or polio or cervical cancer and say “You know what, it doesn’t have to be like this.” HUMANS!

The reason we know about RFK Jr’s brain worm is that he mentioned it during a divorce deposition, to argue that he was cognitively impaired and therefore had limited earning potential. Now he’s up for a cabinet post www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/u...

Well said.

I want off this ride we call American government

I can’t wait to see it!

"the new generation of cancer survivor [is] younger, less financially secure, and still having to navigate life after treatment, from dating to career, sex and child rearing" So glad that #AYAcsm #survonc #financialToxicity & #MBC issues are getting time on NPR www.npr.org/2024/11/11/n...

This feels like we’re in one of the Jurassic Park sequels where a lot of us were like “hey let’s not try this again because last time the dinosaurs got loose” but other people were like “well, maybe the dinosaurs won’t get loose this time.”

Do any of my hematology colleagues know if there is/will be a 💙Sky hashtag for the annual ASH meeting in San Diego? #HemeSky?

The fact that my arm aches so much from a friendly bowling match yesterday tells me all I need to know about the current state of my muscle mass

This sticks in my head (from 2021) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Between my MIL not wanting to give me back my crying baby and my FIL yelling violent threats at CNN on the TV, I am going to *lose it*

I only keep my FB these days to stay in touch with distant family. Since the election, I’ve been unfriending wildly for *reasons*. The catharsis is amazing.

Laying here cuddling my IVF baby and wondering how I’ll explain to him in the future that hate won and he may never have siblings because of it

So excited to join #MedSky!