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We are entering the “falling out of windows” phase.

The 'kin' of ‘napkin’ means "little."

‘Nap’ comes from ‘nape,' which means “tablecloth.”

So a napkin is a little tablecloth.

10/10, no notes.

This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.

An illustration demonstrating the direction of blood flow through the heart

An illustration demonstrating the direction of blood flow through the #heart. This was a modification of an older illustration, redrawn for my CMI portfolio submission.

#sciArt #medicalIllustration #medsky

Right now this is a like a slow moving accident in the United States. We are just waiting for the shoe to drop.

Grateful for this Delta flight attendant for providing some clarity on the upcoming changes to flights during the holidays.

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The National STD Curriculum (www.std.uw.edu) has launched the long-awaited Image Library and Weekly Quiz series...

Test your STI knowledge, learn and obtain free CME!

www.std.uw.edu/image-librar... #IDSky #STI

The White House East Wing has been completely demolished. The demolition is basically at the main White House walls.

You can read all this and more here:
• www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/more...
• www.everydayhealth.com/infectious-d...
• www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
• www.health.harvard.edu/blog/measles...
• www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and...
• www.nfid.org/resource/fre...
• www.yalemedicine.org/news/should-...

Idaho Banned Vaccine Mandates. Activists Want to Make It a Model for the Country. The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive “medical intervention.” Leslie Manookian, the activist behind the law, hopes to make it a “societal norm” ...

The author of the law told ProPublica she believes infectious diseases have been made “the bogeyman.” She thinks measles can protect against cancer and put cancer into remission. (The sources she provided for this claim don't actually say that.)

#Medsky🧪 #IDsky #immunosky #virosky #Publichealth Based on a study in @sciimmunology.bsky.social , a #covid booster immunization drives a germinal center mediated broadening of #Bcell responses by recalling existing #memoryBcells

Medicare telehealth payment for services will mostly end tonight, September 30, 2025. Still works for behavioral/mental health with periodic in-person visits and rural at an approved "originating site", i.e., not the patient's home.

Better yet get an Infectious Disease consult.

Michael Eisner @Michael Eisner X.com Where has all the leadership gone? If not for university presidents, law firm managing partners, and corporate chief executives standing up against bullies, who then will step up for the first amendment? The "suspending indefinitely" of Jimmy Kimmel immediately after the Chairman of the FCC's aggressive yet hollow threatening of the Disney Company is yet another example of out-of-control intimidation. Maybe the Constitution should have said, "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, except in one's political or financial self-interest." By-the-way, for the record, this ex-CEO finds Jimmy Kimmel very talented and funny. 10:17 AM • 9/19/25 • 208K Views

Michael Eisner, who served as CEO of Disney for 21 years and acquired ABC while he was in charge, slams his successor Bob Iger for bending the knee.

CDC Infectious Disease Data Project Shelved Website was going to make data more available, but HHS put it on hold indefinitely

CDC Infectious Disease Data Project Shelved www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

The Mouthy Renegade Writer (@themouthyrenegadewriter) This is incredible. She's a history teacher who explains the cult of Trumpism in less than 6 minutes. Check it out and send it to your MAGA relatives and others. I might have to publish her short t...

substack.com/@themouthyre...

(2/2) As of May 29, there are 1,088 confirmed measles cases in 33 jurisdictions in the US. For context, there were a total of 285 cases in all of 2024. Way to go, America! 🦅 #Measles #VaccinesSaveLives

E. coli outbreak sickened more than 80 people, but details didn’t surface Food safety inspections are being scaled back and the public was not notified after an investigation into E. coli contamination.

E. coli outbreak sickened more than 80 people, but details didn’t surface

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Trump in 2024: we are going to deport illegal immigrants, who committed crimes, to their home country

Trump in early 2025: we are sending legal immigrants, with no criminal record, to random foreign gulags

Trump in midway through 2025: we are going to deport legal visitors studying at Harvard

Yup, one of the terminated NSF awards was #2140743, which allows Harvard to draw funding for its NSF graduate research fellows (GRFP), all current and new.

Confirmed here: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

Just cruel.

A corrupt pro wrestling promoter given the authority to shut down the nation’s oldest university is about where we’re at right now, as a country.

Evolution of brain MRI findings in a 27-year-old woman with acute encephalopathy and painful bilateral cervical lymphadenopathy. Initial MRI of the brain showed multiple foci of restricted diffusion (arrows) present and involving the splenium of the corpus callosum, left periatrial white matter, and left periventricular white matter (A). Repeat MRI of the brain on hospital day two revealed multiple new and progressed sites of FLAIR hyperintensity (arrows) involving the supratentorial brain, including the thalami, right basal ganglia, bilateral temporal lobes, left insula, right frontal lobe, left parietal lobe, and splenium of the corpus callosum (B). MRI of the brain on hospital day eight demonstrated an increased extent of FLAIR hyperintensity (arrows) in the left hippocampus, left para-hippocampal gyrus, and right temporal lobe but with some decrease in the conspicuity of the FLAIR hyperintensity involving the thalami, right basal ganglia, and left frontoparietal lesions (C)

Histopathologic findings from right temporal lobe lesion brain biopsy in a 27-year-old woman with acute encephalopathy and painful bilateral cervical lymphadenopathy. Sections show brain parenchyma with patchy perivascular mononuclear, lymphohistiocyte-rich inflammation (A and B). Immunohistochemical staining highlighted CD68+ macrophages (C) and CD3+ T lymphocytes, including a mix of CD4+ and CD8+ populations (D), in prominent perivascular distributions.

A 27 y/o woman with hx of relapsing Kikuchi disease presented for altered mental status and 1 month of painful, bilateral cervical lymphadenopathy & fever. Brain MRI showed multiple cortical, subcortical, and callosal enhancing T2-FLAIR hyperintensities with restricted diffusion
#Medsky #Neurosky

Inject the second paragraph of this footnote directly into my veins.

(And then send it to the nine firms that have bent the knee.)

asked by Stephen A. Smith about his Harvard shakedown, Trump starts ranting about Harlem and says "I got a very high Black vote"

Will Harvard Bend or Break? Free-speech battles and pressure from Washington threaten America’s oldest university—and the soul of higher education.

Today Harvard University became the first university to directly refuse to comply with the Trump Administration's demands. @nathanheller.bsky.social reports on the pressure from Washington threatening America’s oldest school—and the soul of higher education.

Projected Lifetime Cancer Risks From Current Computed Tomography Imaging This risk model projects how many future cancers in the United States could result from annual computed tomography examinations.

Cancers related to CT scanning could account for 5% of all new future cancer diagnoses, annually. In this risk model, the 93 million CT scans performed in 2023 were projected to result in approximately 103,000 future cancers. (H/t Topol)

CT scans exposes patients to ionizing
#BlueSky #MedSky