Ash💙🍉

Ash | 26 | Med student | Library Assistant | BSc Immunology, MSc Clinical Trials and Stratified Medicine | Really likes myeloid cells | she/her

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1951, Henrietta Lacks died.

Her cells were taken without her knowledge in 1951 (HeLa cells) and became one of the most important tools in medicine. They became vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization & more.

A THREAD

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

THANK YOU @oliviarodrigo and every artist, athlete, and entertainer who uses their platform to speak out in industries where there is immense pressure to say & do little bc many believe silence is more profitable.

Culture matters. Moments like these make a huge, huge difference.

[Stacey Abrams @staceyabrams]

Let me be clear: This won't put an end to abortions. It will only put an end to safe abortions.

[Ash💙🍉 @euglassiawatson]

Please, if you can, get your COVID vaccine.

[Ash💙🍉 @euglassiawatson]

@nypost Just to explain: llama antibodies are smaller than human antibodies, meaning that they’re able to reach areas that human antibodies can’t reach, and may be good for passive immunity for immunocompromised people unable to get the vaccine. It’s not actually a new idea!

[Essa Hansen @EssaHansen]

I feel seen by this accurate muscle chart

[Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot]

Every academic submitting work done in lockdown

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

Here is how you imagine the 150k lives lost to Covid.

It’s just taken me 10 mins to walk the half kilometre length of the national @CovidMemorialUK wall, directly opposite parliament.

Each heart represents one of those 150k lost, those families changed forever.

Please share 💔

[Nik @hvcco]

Your threat model is not my threat model, hospital edition

[Ash💙🍉 @euglassiawatson]

Me after this week

[Ash💙🍉 @euglassiawatson]

AHHHHH

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

THREAD: Help support the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Please reply with more resources.

[genice @genicecream]

#BlackLivesMatter 🖤
organizations you can support
👉Black Visions Collective
https://t.co/ydWZvDA4hC
👉Reclaim The Block https://t.co/JqHGmrbXpN
👉North Star Health Collective
https://t.co/kQ58MOOwmL
more links and resources below👇

[H @dailybrooklyn99]

my only two moods