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Individualized mRNA vaccines evoke durable T cell immunity in adjuvant TNBC - Nature In a phase 1 trial, personalized mRNA vaccines tailored to individual tumour mutations in triple-negative breast cancer induced robust, long-lasting T cell responses and improved prognosis.

Another example of how mRNA vaccine technology is revolutionizing medicine in real time. Individualized mRNA vaccination triggered robust anti-tumor T cell responses in triple negative breast cancer leading to durable cancer remission.
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Remembering Sly Dunbar by Wrongtom | The Quietus Sly Dunbar has died aged 73; Wrongtom celebrates a life of reggae and pop innovation reaching from Jamaica across the globe.

Remembering Sly Dunbar, the drummer who helped steer reggae and worked globally with everyone from Serge Gainsbourg to Grace Jones. Words by @wrongtom.bsky.social

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Bob Weir, Grateful Dead founding member and a jam band icon, dies at 78 Weir had been diagnosed with cancer in July and beat it, but "succumbed to underlying lung issues," a statement said.

BREAKING: Bob Weir, a founding member of the Grateful Dead and a jam band icon, dies at 78.

I keep coming back to this

This is the MO of much of the reactionary centrist crowd, supporting monstrous policies but pushing them with a veneer of civility.

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🧵 *From Pride Month 2024* (on X)

Have you heard of David Mancuso, Larry Levan or Mel Cheren? Probably not, but these three unsung legends laid the groundwork for the club music/house that you hear today.

It started in my hometown, NYC.

Let's get started!💃🕺🏾 (cont)

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So many of us have been warning the public that RFK Jr. is going to take away access to as many vaccines as he can.

The December ACIP meeting is dedicating an entire day to reviewing “the safety” of the childhood vaccine schedule.

There’s not a shred of credible evidence that warrants this.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have unveiled a promising new vaccine that generates a powerful immune response against HIV and other viruses including SARS-CoV-2 and influenza with just ONE dose. By combining immune-boosting adjuvants, the vaccine encourages the body to generate more antibody variations.

Most red states are just violently gerrymandered states.

AND — as I’ve said before and will say again — if you genuinely care about liberation, you want liberation for EVERYONE.

Freedom is not to be hoarded.

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The Rothko Room The intimate Rothko Room features four paintings by abstract expressionist Mark Rothko, and reflects the artist’s preference for exhibiting his art “in a scale of normal living.”

Every time I visit DC (which happens to be where I was born), I visit the Rothko Room at the Phillips Collection and just sit for a while. www.phillipscollection.org/curation/rot...

Every news broadcast should run the facts split-screen in real time while Trump spews his lies.

Nice work, @msnbc.com — every network had time to prepare because they knew what was coming.

Really made my evening!! Thanks for posting!

One of the most memorable scenes in Les Miserables is where Jean Valjean briefly visualizes the full cosmic horror of French society crushing him with inhuman intent.

He pictures in detail every priest and gendarme, every bureaucrat, all the million moving pieces of the machine crushing him.

I tend to describe what they do, what they're designed to do, is generate "answer-shaped objects".

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds.

He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings.

He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights.

This is political intimidation.

Weingarten: Their attacks on public education are relentless and why? Because they fear knowledge. Why do they fear teachers? They fear us because we teach critical thinking… their brand of greed, power, and privilege cannot survive in a democracy of diverse educated citizens

what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!

A bad President, for instance, has the power to do what? What can he not do? If he wanted to revolutionize this government, he could easily do it with this ponderous power; it would be an auxiliary power. He could cry “havoc, and let slip the dogs of war,”29 and say to the conspirators: “I am with you. If you succeed, all is well. If you fail, I will interpose the shield of my pardon, and you are safe. If your property is taken away from you by Congress, I will pardon and restore your property. Go on and revolutionize the government; I will stand by you.” The bad man will say or might say this. I am not sure but we have got a man now who comes very near saying it. Let us have done with this pardoning power. We have had enough of this. Pardoning! How inexpressibly base have been the uses made by this power—this beneficent power. It has been that with which a treacherous President has trafficked. He has made it the means of securing adherents to himself instead of securing allegiance to the government.

very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

To add:
Some folks w invisible disabilities are inherently unwell/ in pain (like some fibro pain)
Some folks w invisible disabilities are inherently fine, but how we live life around them *makes* their lives difficult (like some neurodiversity)

But both ppl are conditioned to hide the difficulty

Sun Ra at a keyboard with a cape with a mass of electric squiggles in a cloud emanating from his head

Sun Ra came to this planet from the cosmos to be born in Alabama today. Celebrating the intergalactic music traveler through time & space on his birthday.

Screenshot from linked article reads: Indeed, in all of the debates about science funding, one point seems to be lost: The reason that the federal government funds science is not just to provide scientists or government bureaucrats with jobs, nor is it an act of charity towards universities and academic hospitals. We fund science because it is in our national interest to do so! Whether it's DARPA creating the original Internet, or an NSF grant funding the origins of Google, or the NIH funding work that led to a miracle cure for a type of leukemia, or NSF funding work that ended up making PCR usable, or Defense research that led to the GPS system that made it possible to have real-time maps on our phones, we all benefit from putting public money towards scientific R&D.

This from @stuartbuck.bsky.social ought to be obvious, but is no longer so in the age DOGE. open.substack.com/pub/goodscie...