Big news on the feline front. @cats.bsky.social

Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families?

Now you know.

NC State Behavioral Specialist Gets $5.5 Million NIH Grant for Research Contributing to Opioid Fight

With a $5.5 million NIH grant, an NC State behavioral vet has joined the fight against #opioidaddiction. Dr. Margaret Gruen aims to find ways to measure how chronic pain affects how dogs think and behave. Knowing those biopsychosocial effects of pain is important for treatment.

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‘He’s Got to Live!’ — The Case of WALL-E and the Power of Exploring Possibilities

“He came into the room, and there was just something about him. I looked at that tail! I looked at the interaction he has with Phillip and Cara! There was no way this dog was ready to stop.”

#pugs #pugrescue @dogs.bsky.social @i-love-pugs.bsky.social

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The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

Another beautiful human being who gives me hope.

NC State Student Creates Coloring Book to Help Children Picture Possibilities in Veterinary Medicine

Loved ❤️ meeting this beauty: ✍️ Third-year NC State vet student Azariah Spurlock, a West Virginia native, created an interactive coloring book to help children with limited opportunities see that anyone can be a veterinarian — and not just for puppies and kittens. news.cvm.ncsu.edu/nc-state-stu...

#overheard in WV: a series. "I'm just glad I'm going to be dead soon."

Alert: NC State Seeing Cats Severely Ill From Ingesting Chewable Allergy Medicine for Dogs

✍️ Cat owners, @cats.bsky.social take note! If you also have dogs prescribed chewable Apoquel for allergies, the meds can result in acute kidney injury in felines that find the pork liver-flavored pills impossible to resist. Two cats have needed dialysis at #NCStateVetMed. ncst.at/CWSP50WAoSI

The Future of Cancer Care Starts Here

🖋️Because scientists can take their cutting-edge research, study its efficacy and then apply it directly to life-changing patient care — all at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine — #NCStateVetMed is at the center of cancer treatment innovation.

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#NCStateVetMed is on @bsky.app now! Follow for the latest on the latest life-changing research, innovative patient-centered care and leadership in veterinary education. Oh, and for pictures of cute animals and endangered red wolves. :) #veterinaryeducation

NC State’s Success with Recrafting Veterinary Curriculum Leads to International Forum

📝 #NCStateVetMed was so successful at crafting and relaunching its veterinary curriculum last fall that it planned a forum to share lessons learned, and more than 100 veterinary educators from across the globe have signed up to attend in person in Raleigh.

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A note that says it's ok if all you did today was survive.

Just a little something from the trinket bowl at therapy. #mentalhealth

Dr. Nanette Nascone-Yoder in her lab at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine campus.

A teal graphic displays how research slides of stomach cells look and then how the computer modeling of the slides looks.

Dr. Julio Belmonte

✍️ Dr. Nanette Nascone-Yoder, #NCStateVetMed cell biologist and prof, has been awarded a $2.8 million grant from the NIH for her cutting-edge research into understanding how organs develop. Dr. Julio Belmonte, assistant professor of physics, is her co-investigator. 🖊️ graphic, too

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NC State Clinician Scientist Honored for Career Achievements in Feline Research

👏🏿👏🏼👏🏾 Dr. Ronald Li, #NCStateVetMed associate professor of emergency and critical care, is the recipient of the 2025 American Veterinary Medical Foundation’s Career Achievement in Feline Research Award for his groundbreaking work in blood disorders in cats.

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Summer Research Program Opens Doors of Discovery for Veterinary Students

Innovative research is a pillar of #NCStateVetMed and its Veterinary Scholars Program is one of the strongest in the US. More than 50 students are spending 10 weeks immersed in meaningful mentorship and diving deeply into the innovative research projects that our faculty lead.

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NC State Offers ‘Livestock Boot Camp’ to Aspiring Registered Veterinary Technicians

BOVINE BOOT CAMP. Lauren Buslinger, an RVT and preclinical laboratory instructor at #NCStateVetMed, had the idea to offer Cape Fear Community College students a chance to experience top-tier training and hands-on learning with large animals at NC State’s 80-acre working farm.

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HEADS UP, @dogs.bsky.social! I was so happy to exercise my creative brain yesterday and create this graphic, but the message is more important! We've had fatal cases of mushroom toxicity at #NCStateVetMed this week. Read more here: news.cvm.ncsu.edu/pet-owner-al...

Attending a book reading @quailridgebooks.bsky.social by Rob Christensen, political reporter and editor extraordinaire. He has written a book about @newsobserver.com and the Daniels family. Trained Frank3 how to be a copy editor when I worked there almost 30 years. 30. Years.

Studies Led by NC State’s Top Researcher Propelling First Drug to Treat Feline Heart Condition to Market

BREAKTHROUGH: #Veterinarians have had no drug to help cats fight hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, but research led by Dr. Joshua Stern at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine has shown that the drug rapamycin can reverse underlying pathology of #HCM. @cats.bsky.social
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One of the reasons we are all freaking out is because Democratic leadership is nowhere to be seen.
We need a democratic pseudo president to address what is going on and what we can do about it.
Someone who has rallies, interviews. Show us sane in an insane world.

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#overheard in West Virginia (from a North Carolinian): “I didn’t have any of those iced hamburger-looking things.” For the record, this is the same man who asked for baby asparagus balls when he wanted Brussels sprouts. 😂

Watching NCAA National men’s soccer championship. Go, Herd!!! @formarshallu.bsky.social #ncaamenssoccer

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Pretty cat on a dining room table Table.

If you want to understand why healthcare pricing is horrific, the first thing to know is that our system puts 100% of the credit risk for deductibles, copays and co-insurance on hospitals and doctors. That's insane.

We have turned them into Sub Prime Lenders 🧵

A Man Was Murdered in Cold Blood and You’re Laughing? What the death of a health-insurance C.E.O. means to America.

"Nurses, residents, aides, specialists—they are asked to absorb the rage and panic induced by the American health-care system, whose private insurers generate billions of dollars in profit and pay executives eight figures because they deny care to desperate people."
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The ACLU gets *zero* funding from the government.

A bit disconcerting that the fellow tasked with reducing government funding doesn't know that.

Is it a hotdog without slaw?

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget