AliciaDWright
@aliciadwright.bsky.social
Program Manager ID/TB/HIV/Cancer/Rare Diseases, US & International Research Projects
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It’s Friday 🙌🏼
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Elton Jhon & Lady Gaga- Benny and The Jets - Lady Gaga & the Muppets'
YouTube video by TraduccionMonsters
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September 19, 2026 at 3:19 AM
It’s Friday 🙌🏼
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“According to an analysis by Partners in Health, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is withholding $1.35 billion in bilateral funding that was previously approved by Congress for tuberculosis (TB), malaria, HIV..” www.cidrap.umn.edu/hivaids/advo...
Advocates, lawmakers call for release of congressionally approved global health funds
www.cidrap.umn.edu
September 17, 2026 at 9:19 PM
“According to an analysis by Partners in Health, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is withholding $1.35 billion in bilateral funding that was previously approved by Congress for tuberculosis (TB), malaria, HIV..” www.cidrap.umn.edu/hivaids/advo...
🤐I will let the experts to review👇
FDA Launches Expedited IND Pilot, Begins Accepting Applications
Application open until 30-OCT-2026
The FDA’s Expedited IND Pilot webpage 🔗⤵️
www.fda.gov/industry/fda...
FDA Launches Expedited IND Pilot, Begins Accepting Applications
Application open until 30-OCT-2026
The FDA’s Expedited IND Pilot webpage 🔗⤵️
www.fda.gov/industry/fda...
FDA Launches Expedited IND Pilot, Begins Accepting Applications
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced the final design of the Expedited Investigational New Drug (IND) Pilot.
www.fda.gov
September 16, 2026 at 6:43 PM
🤐I will let the experts to review👇
FDA Launches Expedited IND Pilot, Begins Accepting Applications
Application open until 30-OCT-2026
The FDA’s Expedited IND Pilot webpage 🔗⤵️
www.fda.gov/industry/fda...
FDA Launches Expedited IND Pilot, Begins Accepting Applications
Application open until 30-OCT-2026
The FDA’s Expedited IND Pilot webpage 🔗⤵️
www.fda.gov/industry/fda...
🇲🇽Viva Mexico!!!! 🎉🪅🎶🎺🎻💃🏻
September 16, 2026 at 2:27 AM
🇲🇽Viva Mexico!!!! 🎉🪅🎶🎺🎻💃🏻
Reposted by AliciaDWright
Another year full of climate extremes... Did you know the last 100 days have all set new daily records for global sea surface temperatures? Learn more about our rapidly warming oceans in our webinar this week, & bring your questions!
📣 Register in advance: climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
📣 Register in advance: climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
September 13, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Another year full of climate extremes... Did you know the last 100 days have all set new daily records for global sea surface temperatures? Learn more about our rapidly warming oceans in our webinar this week, & bring your questions!
📣 Register in advance: climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
📣 Register in advance: climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Reposted by AliciaDWright
The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week.
It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.
It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.
September 12, 2026 at 10:56 PM
The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week.
It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.
It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.
Sometimes we just need Barry White🤗
When life is too stressful,
Just breathe and dance 💃🏽🪩
Good night 🎶🍷
When life is too stressful,
Just breathe and dance 💃🏽🪩
Good night 🎶🍷
Barry White - Cant Get Enough Of You Love Babe (Remix)
YouTube video by Marco Bitencourt
youtu.be
September 13, 2026 at 5:55 AM
Sometimes we just need Barry White🤗
When life is too stressful,
Just breathe and dance 💃🏽🪩
Good night 🎶🍷
When life is too stressful,
Just breathe and dance 💃🏽🪩
Good night 🎶🍷
👟🐶🐾🌤️🦆🧡Sunsets 🤗
September 13, 2026 at 4:34 AM
👟🐶🐾🌤️🦆🧡Sunsets 🤗
Reposted by AliciaDWright
Information now posted and open for public comment: www.niaid.nih.gov/about/niaid-...
Public Hearing of NIAID Proposed Reorganization
BackgroundThe National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), conducts and supports biomedical research to better understand, treat, and...
www.niaid.nih.gov
September 10, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Information now posted and open for public comment: www.niaid.nih.gov/about/niaid-...
🔎”…but if we want new ideas rather than rehashed versions of old ones we need to turn away from the narcissistic seductions of the infinite customisation offered by chatbots…we must use AI critically, not blindly. But to accomplish this, we must also think critically, not blindly…”
Letters: Pil and Galia Kollectiv and Jane Roland Martin respond to an article by Daniel Susskind about how parents can embrace the technology
Children need interaction, not AI | Letters
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2026 at 11:57 AM
🔎”…but if we want new ideas rather than rehashed versions of old ones we need to turn away from the narcissistic seductions of the infinite customisation offered by chatbots…we must use AI critically, not blindly. But to accomplish this, we must also think critically, not blindly…”
🧐”Westervelt… singles out “the tech bros [who], armed with algorithms and data, take Lee’s quote about facts being open to interpretation and turn it into millions of splintered realities” and thus wage “an information war against their own people.””⤵️
The Tech Bros’ War on Climate Action Amy Westervelt’s new book exposes the deep history of today’s “information pollution.” ...
The Tech Bros’ War on Climate Action
Amy Westervelt’s new book exposes the deep history of today’s “information pollution.”
newrepublic.com
September 12, 2026 at 11:38 AM
🧐”Westervelt… singles out “the tech bros [who], armed with algorithms and data, take Lee’s quote about facts being open to interpretation and turn it into millions of splintered realities” and thus wage “an information war against their own people.””⤵️
🆘🚨”…announcing a proposed overhaul of the NIAID clinical research program with few details and a brief comment period. Changes of the magnitude suggested deserve a lengthier and meaningful opportunity for input from researchers,clinicians,community partners,and other stakeholders including Congress”
Docs Alarmed by NIH Plan to Redirect Medical Research $$ to Pentagon
Few details are available on the proposal, which has a 5-day comment period
www.medpagetoday.com
September 8, 2026 at 5:33 PM
🆘🚨”…announcing a proposed overhaul of the NIAID clinical research program with few details and a brief comment period. Changes of the magnitude suggested deserve a lengthier and meaningful opportunity for input from researchers,clinicians,community partners,and other stakeholders including Congress”
😳🥶⚠️”preventing harms from these systems…It might look more like sociology than computer science-figuring out why certain groups of A.I.agents collaborate peacefully,while others turn to crime and destruction to get what they want…This time,humans regained control.Next time, we might not be so lucky”
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/t...
Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I. (Gift Article)
The attack by an aggressive “collective” of OpenAI agents shows the danger of artificial intelligence systems that organize themselves.
www.nytimes.com
September 5, 2026 at 7:40 PM
😳🥶⚠️”preventing harms from these systems…It might look more like sociology than computer science-figuring out why certain groups of A.I.agents collaborate peacefully,while others turn to crime and destruction to get what they want…This time,humans regained control.Next time, we might not be so lucky”
🧐🇲🇽 Good time to remember the Hummingbirds = Colibríes in Mexican culture: “pre-Columbian and modern Mexicans to ascribe to the hummingbird, and value in themselves, attributes such as authenticity, braveness, intrepidness, skill, readiness and strength of will.”
www.aav.org/news/615010/...
www.aav.org/news/615010/...
September 5, 2026 at 3:23 PM
🧐🇲🇽 Good time to remember the Hummingbirds = Colibríes in Mexican culture: “pre-Columbian and modern Mexicans to ascribe to the hummingbird, and value in themselves, attributes such as authenticity, braveness, intrepidness, skill, readiness and strength of will.”
www.aav.org/news/615010/...
www.aav.org/news/615010/...
Reposted by AliciaDWright
To comment on the proposed reorganization of NIAID: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Deadline: Sep 18!
Deadline: Sep 18!
September 4, 2026 at 8:47 PM
To comment on the proposed reorganization of NIAID: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Deadline: Sep 18!
Deadline: Sep 18!
🤦🏻♀️👇🏻”The agreement would establish a pathway to move funding out of the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the country’s premier infectious-disease research institute, to support defence initiatives and will last 10 years”
🚨 The NIH is moving to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars in infectious-disease research projects to the DOD under a secret 10-year pact.
Here’s what’s happening inside “Operation Prevailing Edge” 🧵👇
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Here’s what’s happening inside “Operation Prevailing Edge” 🧵👇
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Revealed: inside the US military's plan to tap huge sums from the NIH
An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense.
www.nature.com
September 5, 2026 at 1:43 AM
🤦🏻♀️👇🏻”The agreement would establish a pathway to move funding out of the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the country’s premier infectious-disease research institute, to support defence initiatives and will last 10 years”
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“There are no good outcomes if we remain above 1.5°C. Across the globe, extreme heatwaves are already proving that #climate impacts will strike faster, hit harder, and last longer - costing more lives and causing deeper disruption”
#ClimateChange
“There are no good outcomes if we remain above 1.5°C. Across the globe, extreme heatwaves are already proving that #climate impacts will strike faster, hit harder, and last longer - costing more lives and causing deeper disruption”
#ClimateChange
Action now can still limit the magnitude and duration of the peak and preserve the possibility of returning to or below 1.5°C through an ‘overshoot, peak, and decline’ pathway.
Explore more: tinyurl.com/4k3rdtam
Explore more: tinyurl.com/4k3rdtam
UNEP: World set to cross 1.5°C global warming, but can still limit, adapt to and return from higher temperatures
Global temperature rise is set to cross 1.5°C, likely within the next few years, pushing climate risks and impacts to increasingly dangerous heights, but it is still possible to bring temperatures dow...
tinyurl.com
September 4, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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“There are no good outcomes if we remain above 1.5°C. Across the globe, extreme heatwaves are already proving that #climate impacts will strike faster, hit harder, and last longer - costing more lives and causing deeper disruption”
#ClimateChange
“There are no good outcomes if we remain above 1.5°C. Across the globe, extreme heatwaves are already proving that #climate impacts will strike faster, hit harder, and last longer - costing more lives and causing deeper disruption”
#ClimateChange
👟📸😌”Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”-Anne Frank
September 3, 2026 at 5:54 PM
👟📸😌”Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”-Anne Frank
Reposted by AliciaDWright
🧐🖼️”Romanticists…powerful symbols of the disease. It was believed that they possessed heightened sensibility, and that their work was elevated because of consumption’s effect...
In reality, the slow growth rate of M. #tuberculosis bacteria usually causes a lengthy deterioration for its victims.”
In reality, the slow growth rate of M. #tuberculosis bacteria usually causes a lengthy deterioration for its victims.”
Tuberculosis and the Fatal Beauty of Romanticism
Dying for beauty: Tuberculosis (TB) shaped the Romantic ideal—delicate, ethereal and tinged with mortality. Examine how TB influenced Romantic Period fine arts and how that influence is felt today.
asm.org
September 3, 2026 at 1:13 PM
🧐🖼️”Romanticists…powerful symbols of the disease. It was believed that they possessed heightened sensibility, and that their work was elevated because of consumption’s effect...
In reality, the slow growth rate of M. #tuberculosis bacteria usually causes a lengthy deterioration for its victims.”
In reality, the slow growth rate of M. #tuberculosis bacteria usually causes a lengthy deterioration for its victims.”
📰”Vanderbilt Health informatics leader will head the world’s largest biomedical library and the nation’s leading funder of biomedical informatics and data science research.”
Peter Embí named Director of the National Library of Medicine at NIH
Vanderbilt Health informatics leader will head the world’s largest biomedical library and the nation’s leading funder of biomedical informatics and data science research.
news.vumc.org
September 2, 2026 at 11:22 PM
📰”Vanderbilt Health informatics leader will head the world’s largest biomedical library and the nation’s leading funder of biomedical informatics and data science research.”
🧐🎨🇹🇷”End-stage #tuberculosis in a portrait by Osman Hamdi Bey?An icono diagnostic interpretation”-H.Elbe
“TB was a major public health problem in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire.This study presents an iconodiagnostic analysis of Kökenoğlu Rıza Efendi(1871)”
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“TB was a major public health problem in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire.This study presents an iconodiagnostic analysis of Kökenoğlu Rıza Efendi(1871)”
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 1, 2026 at 2:41 PM
🧐🎨🇹🇷”End-stage #tuberculosis in a portrait by Osman Hamdi Bey?An icono diagnostic interpretation”-H.Elbe
“TB was a major public health problem in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire.This study presents an iconodiagnostic analysis of Kökenoğlu Rıza Efendi(1871)”
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“TB was a major public health problem in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire.This study presents an iconodiagnostic analysis of Kökenoğlu Rıza Efendi(1871)”
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“The more we learn about TB’s ability to spread,the more opportunities we will have to design effective strategies that will make an impact on a global scale…therapies that target the transmission stage of the #Tuberculosis life cycle could complement existing Rxs and help slow the(MDR)emergence..."
🦠💊 Airborne #Tuberculosis #bacteria experience #DNA damage as they dry, triggering repair mechanisms that can generate #mutations linked to #rifampin resistance.
#TB #Mycobacterium #Bacteria #AMR #AntimicrobialResistance #Microsky via @sciencex.bsky.social
phys.org/news/2026-08...
#TB #Mycobacterium #Bacteria #AMR #AntimicrobialResistance #Microsky via @sciencex.bsky.social
phys.org/news/2026-08...
Airborne tuberculosis bacteria may mutate as they dry, revealing a target to curb drug resistance
Tuberculosis bacteria released into the air from infected individuals dry out to form infectious particles that are second only to measles in contagiousness. Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have…
phys.org
September 1, 2026 at 3:27 AM
“The more we learn about TB’s ability to spread,the more opportunities we will have to design effective strategies that will make an impact on a global scale…therapies that target the transmission stage of the #Tuberculosis life cycle could complement existing Rxs and help slow the(MDR)emergence..."
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"You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds." - Henry Thoreau
"You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds." - Henry Thoreau
August 30, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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"You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds." - Henry Thoreau
"You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds." - Henry Thoreau
😔🇳🇵💔”The flood has left more than 10,000Nepalis homeless and 50,000 without electricity, water and connectivity.The loss of 14 hydropower plants has removed eight per cent of Nepal’s grid capacity and four regional clinics have been washed away, leaving tens of thousands without primary medical care”
Teacher saved 1,643 children from Nepal flash floods
Rajendra Dadabi says the pupils were terrified but fear gave them the energy to flee the rising waters close to the border with Tibet
www.thetimes.com
August 30, 2026 at 1:33 AM
😔🇳🇵💔”The flood has left more than 10,000Nepalis homeless and 50,000 without electricity, water and connectivity.The loss of 14 hydropower plants has removed eight per cent of Nepal’s grid capacity and four regional clinics have been washed away, leaving tens of thousands without primary medical care”