Skye Opsteen

MD/PhD trainee interested in all things ID/HIV. @UABMSTP | #MedEd #FirstGen | ‘22-‘23 CCTS TL1 trainee | she/her 🏳️‍🌈

[Skye Opsteen @OASkye]

Officially NIH-funded!🥳 Thankful for the strong support of my mentor Dr. Nathan Erdmann, lab members, and committee members

[Jennifer Gunter @DrJenGunter]

The NIH plans to defund the WHI, the largest clinical trial ever for women that was meant to catch up on missed research. This study has been a fountain of knowledge. The hatred of women from this administration is really from cradle to grave. https://t.co/GED2ZR19CF

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

I'm familiar with academics thank you

[touchINFECTIOUSDISEASES @touchINFECTDIS]

🌟 FUTURE LEADERS: Skye Opsteen shares how curiosity, mentorship, and purpose shaped her career in #InfectiousDisease. Valuable advice for aspiring researchers!

Read more about her inspiring story and career tips! https://t.co/0u7qrXdMyz

@OASkye

[Michael Lin, MD PhD 🧬 @michaelzlin]

Our NIH grant to discover coronavirus antiviral meds was terminated today.

With this grant, we had developed a better SARSCoV2 inhibitor than Paxlovid, and we recently discovered an improved drug that looks better than Pfizer's own second-generation inhibitor.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

🤣

[Ravi Mangla @ravi_mangla]

We're close to Cybertrucks having more rights than women

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

January: 2025 is the year I finally get on top of things

March:

[IDSA @IDSAInfo]

This decision — and other federal efforts to undermine well-established science about vaccine safety — puts everyone at risk, says IDSA President Tina Tan, MD, FIDSA, FPIDS, FAAP.

Our statement in response to the cancellation of the FDA meeting: https://t.co/decNz74sa8

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including:
- Holocaust Remembrance Day
- MLK Day
- Juneteenth

[Brittani James, MD @DrBrittaniJ]

Don’t buy this for a minute.

The MD shortage is manufactured by Congress. It exists because of corruption.

The number of residency training spots is capped by Congress under the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. While medical schools have increased enrollment to address physician shortages, the number of residency slots—required for graduates to become licensed physicians—has not grown proportionally due to a lack of federal funding for graduate medical education via Medicare.

This bottleneck disproportionately affects underserved areas, including inner cities and rural communities, where physician shortages are the worst.

Let’s talk about it 🧵

[Jeanne Marrazzo @DrJeanneM]

https://t.co/XfRzDnd4oh

[Drew Comments @sjs856]

Fluoride prevents tooth decay. Tooth decay is a factor in cardiovascular disease.

That’s why.

[Skye Opsteen @OASkye]

Dark times keep getting darker.

[Nick Mark MD @nickmmark]

🚨Apparently all NIH Study Sections have been suspended indefinitely.

For those who don’t know, this means there won’t be any review of grants submitted to NIH

Depending on how long this goes on for, this could lead to an interruption in billions in research funding.

[Infectious Disease Tracker @HmpxvT]

Counties affected by H5N1 bird flu in poultry, according to the CDC.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

they're calling it a PhD

[One Awkward Mom @oneawkwardmom]

Sorry I can’t make it, it’s dark by 6pm and I have an astigmatism and also I don’t want to.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.