Do something nice today if you can. I hope you make your goal, Ms. Edith!

Picture of three people dressed formally, grinning away. From the left to the right, you can see Mr. Dennis in a checked shirt and black jacket with cream khakis, Sud in an all Blue suit and shirt, and Ms. Edith in a brown top and tan pants holding a cane.

As a testament to her always showing up, here’s a photo of Ms. Edith and Mr. Dennis at my dissertation defense showing up for me! ☺️♥️

As someone who has had the chance to organize alongside Ms. Edith for 2 years, I can say with certainty that she shows up for everyone. She uses her car for multiple grocery runs a week so she can feed her neighbors! Please donate anything you can to help Ms. Edith and, by extension, Healy towers! 🫶🏽

Donate to Help Ms. Edith Feed Her Neighbors!, organized by Matthew Shields Ms. Edith Chisholm is a force of nature. She is one of the most inspiring leaders a… Matthew Shields needs your support for Help Ms. Edith Feed Her Neighbors!

I'm hosting a fundraiser for an incredible community leader, Edith Chisholm: gofund.me/4095ab1ca. In addition to helping organize a powerful tenant union in her building, Edith collects grocery donations to help food insecure neighbors. She needs a new car. Please consider donating and share widely!

They were going to all of their appointments. And now their teachers, their peers at Burton Elementary, and Durham neighborhood are left missing them tremendously. Genesis, Denis and their parents were abducted without warning at a routine Charlotte immigration check-in on Monday.

if anything horrific horrific happens i’m here i used to say if you need me call me and i meant if the darkness makes you feel lost i’ll be your gallows humor i’ll find you by your laughter i used to say if something bad happens let me know and i meant i will close any distance to catch you before you fall i only need a white flag

then if anything unprecedented happens text me i love you but my ringer’s off so many phone calls have ruined my life and i am trying to build one of the arks to carry us through this one horrific isn’t enough we have witnessed humanity dragged by the hair to hell we have seen the charred earth as each day brings unholy tantrums from men who hate the word no

today the president of the united states threatened the annihilation of a people the dictator of reality tv is jealous of the moon in an age of celestial mechanics he fetishizes a nuclear option today we know the names of every coward who claims power but cannot seem to shift a tide to save a life i’d rather worship a rock in the vastness i’d rather cry with astronauts

so if anything horrific horrific happens i’m here screaming NO with you grieving home with you raging ourselves free with all the people of earth at odds with our governments and if i can’t hold you close or again i will name the brightness for you i will be steadfast – an earthling choosing earth choosing earth

choosing earth adriennemareebrown.net/2026/04/08/c...

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

The very obvious evil shit being done directly in our faces is part of my frustration with people committed to conspiracy theories.

As I sit through a night shift in the ED and watch the barrage of news alerts related to wars around the world come in, I certainly felt this part in my soul: "We are all dragging ourselves along, trying to keep up with whatever version of normalcy has been reconstructed each day."

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Goldman Sachs reports that 300 million full-time jobs could be replaced by AI by 2030. Labor turnover is high and hiring has slowed. 71% of Americans worry that AI will cause permanent job loss. As young people about to enter the workforce for the first time, the fear of unemployment is understandable, but we cannot save ourselves with the very tool that is putting us at risk. The irony is that as Penn pours endless money and energy into AI advancement in its attempt to get ahead, the University is only quickening its own demise. AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it. As technology advances and workers are replaced by machines, schools are some of the only places we have left to explore and wrestle with human thought. With our own university leading the charge, AI is now corrupting those few sacred spaces and leaving us with nowhere to engage in true scholarship. Editorials represent the majority view of members of The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board who meet regularly to discuss issues relevant to the Penn community. This body is led by Editorial Board Chair Jack Lakis and is entirely separate from the newsroom. Questions or comments should be directed to letters@thedp.com.

An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it.

From the Penn student paper:
www.thedp.com/article/2026...

Episode 20 - Medical Racism and Indigenous Peoples This episode highlights medical advancements that have occurred at the expense of Indigenous peoples and how Indigenous knowledge systems are the foundation of modern medicine. Guests share strategies to promote truth and reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples in North America.

And this doesn't even get to the number of physicians in the US who are still worshipped as leaders of medicine today who have committed heinous acts against numerous communities...

This podcast episode is a good listen, and speaks to some of this: edhub.ama-assn.org/clinical-pro...

This! 👇🏽 I've quite literally lost count of the number of medical terms that we are renaming so they are not named after the nazi doctors that discovered them...

This is a flyer for the Rest & ME/CFS research study, IRB number 26-6. It says "participate in a survey about rest, energy, and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome". In the upper right corner it says Questions? Email Study Co-PI Victoria: empwrtc@protonmail.com Below the header is interwoven circles, one is black with text that says Fully Virtual, low- energy version included. The circle behind is an image of white silk wrinkled. Next to it text says To participate you must be: Over the age of 18 AND EITHER Have ME/CFS (self or professionally diagnosed) or be A medical/healthcare provider who has worked with at least one person with ME/CFS, currently practicing or conducting research. Below this it says learn more at www.restandmecfs.com. There are two icons on the bottom left corner. One says ETC and above it are six icon-stick figure people holding hands in a circle. Next to it is Cal Poly Pomona's logo, a diamond with an orangey yellow background and palm trees and a building inside. The Cal Poly Pomona Institutional Review Board has reviewed and approved for conduct this research involving human subjects under protocol IRB 26-6

Hi everyone, I wanted to share a research study I just launched on rest, energy, & ME/CFS, open to people with ME/CFS & medical or healthcare providers who are currently practicing or conducting research & have had at least 1 patient or participant with ME/CFS. Visit restandmecfs.com for more.

Go check our new study out -- this work was the 2nd of my dissertation chapters! 😊

Interested in the relationship between place-based social determinants of health (SDoH) and Alzheimer's disease and related dementias biomarkers?

Check out this new research published in #BSEA!

alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#AlzSky

And if you’d rather take a look at our institutional press release, you can check that out here! 🗞️
newsroom.wakehealth.edu/news-release...

If you made it this far, thank you for reading! 😊

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Associations of place‐based social determinants of health with biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias INTRODUCTION Relationships between place-based social determinants of health (SDoH) and Alzheimer's disease and related dementias biomarkers are emerging. METHODS Linear regressions examined assoc...

If you’re interested in diving deeper into the findings of this study, go give it a read here! 🔎📝

alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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REVEALED: US Counties where you're most likely to develop dementia A new study links living in socially and economically disadvantaged neighborhoods to a drastically increased risk of dementia.

In the study, we call for an increased investment in grassroots initiatives and policy efforts to combat the neighborhood-level SDoH burden to remedy the disparities in ADRD outcomes! 📣

See here for some coverage of our work: www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...
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This image is a visual or graphical abstract of the study titled 'Associations of place-based social determinants of health with biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias'. The image describes this to be a retrospective cohort study in the Wake Forest Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, including 679 participants from the Healthy Brain Study, running from 2016 to 2024. The primary outcomes of the study included neuroimaging and plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease and related Dementias. Findings in the study highlighted that the burden of place-based social determinants of health (SDoH) was higher among Black participants. Additionally, among Black participants, higher levels of neighborhood disadvantage, social vulnerability, and environmental injustice is related to worse biomarker outcomes. The discussion of the study highlighted that this higher SDoH burden was associated with changes in dementia-related neuroimaging biomarkers, particularly related to cerebrovascular health and brain structure, among Black participants. It is important to invest in grassroots initiatives and policy efforts to combat SDoH at a neighborhood-level in an effort to improve ADRD outcomes.

Specifically, what we found suggested that the higher SDoH burden was associated with poorer cerebrovascular health and brain structure among Black participants in the study. 🧠‼️

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So, what did we find?🔎

First, we found that Black participants in the study faced a higher burden of place-based SDoH. 🗺️

Second, we found that these higher burdens of SDoH were associated with worse biomarker outcomes among Black participants.‼️

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This image is a visual or graphical abstract of the study titled 'Associations of place-based social determinants of health with biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias'. The image describes this to be a retrospective cohort study in the Wake Forest Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, including 679 participants from the Healthy Brain Study, running from 2016 to 2024. The primary outcomes of the study included neuroimaging and plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease and related Dementias. Findings in the study highlighted that the burden of place-based social determinants of health (SDoH) was higher among Black participants. Additionally, among Black participants, higher levels of neighborhood disadvantage, social vulnerability, and environmental injustice is related to worse biomarker outcomes. The discussion of the study highlighted that this higher SDoH burden was associated with changes in dementia-related neuroimaging biomarkers, particularly related to cerebrovascular health and brain structure, among Black participants. It is important to invest in grassroots initiatives and policy efforts to combat SDoH at a neighborhood-level in an effort to improve ADRD outcomes.

This study was conducted within the Wake Forest Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, and included 679 older adults across the cognitive spectrum! 🧓🏼👵🏼🧓🏾👵🏾

The primary research question in the study was to examine the relationships of place-based SDoH with biomarkers of dementia.❓

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Associations of place‐based social determinants of health with biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias INTRODUCTION Relationships between place-based social determinants of health (SDoH) and Alzheimer's disease and related dementias biomarkers are emerging. METHODS Linear regressions examined assoc...

I’m excited to share the 2nd study from my dissertation work titled “Associations of Place-based Social Determinants of Health with Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias”! ✨

You can read it here: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A short 🧵 here!

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According to NEW STUDY from Timothy Hughes, et al. @wakeforestmed.bsky.social, "the conditions where you live may influence your brain health & risk for #Dementia". Learn More @alzdemjournals.bsky.social @alzassociation.bsky.social 👉 alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Sud with his family — Sud’s dad is on his left, with Sud’s uncle to the extreme left. Sud’s aunt is on his right, with Sud’s uncle to her right. Sud’s partner, Bailey, is on the extreme right — far-left of the image.

Sud at one of their favorite breweries, Lesser-Known Beer Company, in front of barrels where beers are being aged, wearing a sash that reads “Ph.inisheD” and a decorative gold “PHD” sign hanging above!

All of this will also eventually culminate in my life’s work to intervene on those social and structural determinants to improve health for all!

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A picture of cinnabon delights bought for Sud by their partner, Bailey, with little celebratory PhD signs on toothpicks sticking out from it!

Sud along with their dissertation committee members, who could make it in person to the defense. Two of Sud’s committee members could only join virtually — Dr. Sarah Forrester and Dr. Chris Whitlow.

I’m excited to see the work from my dissertation get out there over the coming months, and to further build upon this work to illustrate the influence of the social and structural determinants of health on dementia.

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Front page of Sud’s dissertation titled ‘Investigating the Relationships of Place-based Social Determinants of Health and Structural Racism with Measures of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias”. The rest of the text on the title page reads as follows: BY SUDARSHAN KRISHNAMURTHY A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Molecular Medicine and Translational Science May 2025 Winston-Salem, North Carolina Approved By: Timothy M. Hughes, PhD, MPH, Advisor James R. Bateman, MD, MPH, Chair Sarah N. Forrester, PhD, MS Da Ma, PhD Ellen Quillen, PhD Christopher Whitlow, MD, PhD

Sud standing in a dark blue suit and blue shirt grinning as he wears a sash that reads “Ph.inisheD”.

Not a typical post (🧵) on here, but just over 6 months ago, I successfully defended my dissertation alongside friends, family, my committee, and many loved ones. It was a wonderful day, and I have so many people to thank for their support over the past 3 years and more!

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Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Clinical Studies Reported to ClinicalTrials.gov, 2009-2024 Importance: A lack of transparent reporting of race and ethnicity in clinical research limits the ability to identify health inequities and evaluate to what extent clinical research includes diverse p...

Our new pre-print presents the reporting, and racial and ethnic diversity of 58,000+ studies in clinicaltrials.gov, the largest global clinical study registry. Reporting of race and ethnicity to the registry began in 2009, and we analyzed data through 2024 #MedSky

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Starting residency without money for rent or furniture or groceries until
I get my first paycheck mid July. I’m a physician and surgical resident who beat cancer. Please share and donate

If you would like to donate to an incoming general surgery resident who lost his father after his first year of medical school, who also beat cancer, has food insecurity, & graduated without familial support. All contributions are for a security deposit & rent until I get my first paycheck mid July.