Alexander Morgan, MD PhD

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hi

Party like it’s 2021.

@elsabirch.bsky.social and I had a great time at the @glasscannonnetwork.bsky.social retreat and got to play @deltagreen.bsky.social with @sydneygayle.bsky.social which was a lot of fun. If you are interested in TTRPGing, check out some of GCN’s great content. @chaosium.bsky.social

U.S. VCs Race to Tap China’s Biotech Innovation Western drugmakers, investors increasingly aim to acquire Chinese compounds.

The US needs to be making its own medicines, especially for the new generation of personalized medicines (genomic, cell therapies, etc). We believe AI/automation is how that will happen. 🇺🇸💊 @wsj.com

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A great read!

👇 This is my political stance too

A Vietcong Memoir: An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath Amazon.com: A Vietcong Memoir: An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath (Audible Audio Edition): Truong Nhu Tang, Trieu Tran, David Chanoff, Doan Van Toai, Tantor Audio: Audible Books & Originals

Part way through this fascinating book.

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Based on the replies l, it looks like there a lot of fed workers on @bsky.app

I just wanted to say THANK YOU. I can't imagine the shit you are going through right now

Thanks for your service to our country

There are so many ways to rev up our immune response against cancer. Here, the oncolytic viruses
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This Doctor’s Primary Care Startup Focuses On Keeping Older Adults Out Of The ER Khosla-backed Gather Health has signed up more than 2,500 patients, the majority on both Medicare and Medicaid, for its primary-care service. With $17 million in new funding, it’s growing fast—and exp...

Gather Health's mission to improve healthcare for older Americans.

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A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments. Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.

This is exactly what happened to me, except that my story ends with a near death experience and an emergency D&C after transfusion. Pregnant women in Texas are in danger. And I worry most about Black women who experience medical racism. www.propublica.org/article/pors...

For Beginning Readers

HTS in vivo with barcoded genomic medicines is now a standard technique, but it's cool to see that approach applied to antibodies.

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner book

Got a cool book on Die Brücke artist Kirchner. He was a leader of German Expressionism in the first two decades of the 20th century with a somewhat haunting style of rendering the figure.

GoPro Footage Reveals Dazzling Visual Tricks Cuttlefish Use to Hunt its Prey They used a GoPro camera, a plexiglass plate, and live crabs as bait.

Cephalopod craziness

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His arrest and attempted deportation seem very much like a writ of attainder to me. The President can pardon federal crimes, but not convict them.

There is the important element that the jobs DOGE is cutting are US jobs, including a lot of veterans who live in states who voted for Trump.

It just keeps getting worse

Some other example regular words that have a very narrow and specific meaning in medicine: adherent, disposition, provider, admit, line, failure, acute, code, delivery, onset, manage. It’s surprising to me how big that list is as I think it through.

I assume you knew that generally, but I think it’s interesting how often “unremarkable” is used in medicine as a term with actually a fairly narrow use/meaning.

I think it’s because it comes from radiologists remarking on findings of disease in an imaging study report. It’s one of those case of a specific meaning of a regular word. When you work through a medical case (esp in a published case study), you collect remarks from the consulting specialists.

In fact the opposite has generally been the case: we discover insight into micro-level phenomena as a result of developing accurate meso-scale theories.

Thermodynamics came before statistical mechanics and served as the key constraint on it.

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Infographic: The Countries Most Addicted to Coffee This chart shows per capita consumption of coffee around the world in 2020.

Interesting to see which countries drink the most coffee.

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Antiaging pill for dogs clears key FDA hurdle The start-up Loyal developed a pill to extend dogs’ lifespan that has been recognized by the FDA as having “reasonable expectation of effectiveness.”

Extending dog lifespan. @loyalfordogs

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For those with a medical background, I think learning startup related finance is no harder, and with a lot of overlap, to learning how to manage ins and outs and electrolytes.

SRE’s may have more in common with emergency room physicians in things like personality and hobbies than I would have at first considered.

Calling yourself a king doesnt make you a king. Delivering an all-time banger of a speech on St. Crispin’s Day does.

A screen shot showing that the Japanese spider crab is taller than Bernie sanders when he’s sitting down

Back on the other website I made a whole thread on the size of ocean animals in relation to Bernie Sanders. These crabs are so much bigger than people realize

The one thing I like about his stated goals is the focus on general wellness: nutrition and fitness. The approach to infectious disease is terrifying.

Neuroactive steroid biosynthesis during pregnancy predicts future postpartum depression: a role for the 3α and/or 3β-HSD neurosteroidogenic enzymes? - Neuropsychopharmacology Neuropsychopharmacology - Neuroactive steroid biosynthesis during pregnancy predicts future postpartum depression: a role for the 3α and/or 3β-HSD neurosteroidogenic enzymes?

Pretty neat study, raises the possibility of a blood test for postpartum depression and some new potential pharmacological approaches to treat.

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