Nicole Malachowski

Keynote Speaker, USAF Veteran & Fighter Pilot, National Women's Hall of Fame, Tick Borne Illness Patient Advocate, ©️2025 Nicole Malachowski & Associates, LLC

[Bay Area Lyme Foundation @BayAreaLyme]

🔥 IN ONE WEEK: Artist Jiatong Lu’s “Nowhere Land” exhibition in NYC shines a light on the hidden struggles of chronic #Lyme patients & the fight to be believed. Opening Nov 19 at BAXTER ST at CCNY (through Jan 27).

[Women in Aviation International @WomenInAviation]

🧰 WAI On Air Podcast — Season 2 Episode 23, "Keeping American Airlines Flying," is live! Meet Stacy Morrissey, Vice President of Technical Operations Engineering and Quality at American Airlines.

Watch the full episode here:
https://t.co/siQxfI2siY
https://t.co/tJaqoeMCEU

Stacy joined American Airlines in 1998 as a Fleet Operations Engineer, and has since held roles across quality and safety management. In 2026, Stacy received the Airlines for America (A4A) Nuts and Bolts Award, recognizing outstanding achievement in engineering or maintenance in commercial aviation. She is the third woman honored in the award's 60-year history. Stacy shares how she approaches complex technical challenges, how digital tools and predictive maintenance are changing aircraft reliability, and her advice for young women considering engineering and maintenance careers.

🎧 Available on Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, and Amazon Music.

📲 Follow us on Spotify: WAI On Air Podcast

#WomeninAviationInternational #IamWAI #WeAreWAI #Aviation #Aerospace #WAITogether #WAIOnAir #WAIPodcast #AviationPodcast

[Nicole Malachowski @RealMalachowski]

@TickBootCamp Thank you 🇺🇸

[Tick Boot Camp @TickBootCamp]

🇺🇸 From fighting for our country to fighting for #Lyme patients, her mission to serve continues.

This Veterans Day, we honor our friend Col. @RealMalachowski (USAF, Ret.) for her military service and tireless #LymeDisease advocacy. ❤️

🎧 https://t.co/hl0VnovBSu

[Nicole Malachowski @RealMalachowski]

@PeteHegseth @WhiteHouse @POTUS @VP @SecVetAffairs @JennyHegseth It’s is unacceptable & deeply disrespectful to use The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier as a photo op moment for you and your group.

[Nicole Malachowski @RealMalachowski]

Who uses the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier for a photo op? We took our 5-year-old twins there years ago, and they knew to behave better than this. As a combat veteran, I’m pissed. As an American, I’m left completely speechless. If you don’t understand why this is horrific and disrespectful at the highest levels, there’s nothing I can say to help you understand.

And on Veterans Day, no less. I just can’t.

[CSPAN @cspan]

"All visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times!"

A Sentinel at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier yells after laughter could be heard from a group near Secretary Hegseth, who was taking posed photographs at the site.

[Nicole Malachowski @RealMalachowski]

Behind every mission is a team. Maintainers who work hard so jets can fly, wingmen who have each other’s back, families holding down the home front.

To all veterans who raised their hand & showed up to serve: I see you. I honor you. I thank you. On this Veterans Day & every day.

[Nicole Malachowski @RealMalachowski]

@JayRCallahan @JuanCbendana Looking forward to it!

[Nicole Malachowski @RealMalachowski]

@theAMGA I’m looking forward to joining all of you!

[Buffalo Bills @BuffaloBills]

On Veterans Day and every day, we salute the real heroes.

Thank you veterans! 🇺🇸

[Nicole Malachowski @RealMalachowski]

@ThePOTSPostman This hits hard.

[Nicole Malachowski @RealMalachowski]

Working through hard things together toward a common goal makes sustained effort a normal part of how the team operates and builds their confidence.
United teams know they can overcome obstacles if they work together.
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[Nicole Malachowski @RealMalachowski]

When your team has a shared purpose, unity and grit reinforce each other. Unity fuels grit, and grit builds unity. 🧵(1/3)

[Nicole Malachowski @RealMalachowski]

Grit can be hard to sustain without every team member taking part, because no one can carry the load alone. When one person’s motivation dips or a teammate is fully absorbed in a difficult challenge, a united team steps in to keep moving forward. 🧵(2/3)

[Bay Area Lyme Foundation @BayAreaLyme]

🎉 Big news from @HHSGov: the TOPx prize pool has been expanded to $3.8M, with $3.7M awarded to 40 teams building AI tools for Lyme disease and other invisible illnesses. Faster diagnosis, better care coordination, and real tools for patients.
Read more ⬇️

[Dr. Gustavo Aguirre-Chang @Aguirre1Gustavo]

Millions of chronically ill patients have been living for decades with persistent infections that no one is looking for.

Chronic fatigue. Unexplained pain and stiffness. Brain fog. Shortness of breath. Palpitations. Disability.

The official position remains stuck on a simplistic formula:
👉 “acute infection + short course of antibiotics = cure.”

But the biological evidence shows a different reality:
🔬 Active DNA and RNA in tissues
🔬 Biofilms that protect the microbes
🔬 Persistent forms of Bartonella, Babesia and Borrelia (the “3 Bs”) and other co-infections
…that do not respond to short-course monotherapy.

Studies that repeatedly investigate symptoms and other consequences in the body are preferentially funded, while research aimed at eradicating the root cause is blocked.

The result: patients who remain ill for decades without an etiological diagnosis, labeled as “somatization,” chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis, stiff-person syndrome, or psychiatric disorders… while combination protocols already used in clinical practice (such as those of Dr. Horowitz and other leading physicians) wait for a formal evaluation that never arrives.

In Australia the situation has reached extremes. To the denial of persistent infections has been added the defunding of etiological research and a deterrent effect on physicians, so that many have chosen to avoid diagnosing these infections or to treat them in silence. The price: thousands of patients without access to treatments directed at the cause.

This is no longer just a scientific debate.
It is a bioethical failure that prolongs the suffering of millions.

We have published several papers on this topic:
🔗 https://t.co/MQSkzlzLph
https://t.co/zMex5QbJXq
https://t.co/welTE8Hy6X
https://t.co/IPJB1YLa0X
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[Nicole Malachowski @RealMalachowski]

📢𝙄𝘾𝙔𝙈𝙄 : HHS announced the LymeX Visible Voices Prize winners on Oct. 30!

🎯The competition goal: “to elevate patient experiences & improve understanding of Lyme & tickborne disease diagnosis.”

🔗𝙈𝙊𝙍𝙀: https://t.co/vR0cDPB6cz (LINK IN BIO)

[Global Lyme Alliance @LymeAlliance]

Nobody talks enough about the mental load of managing your own medical care.

Between patient portals, prescription refills, and repeating your history to new specialists, the to-do list never seems to end.

#lymedisease #lymewarrior

[Nicole Malachowski @RealMalachowski]

🎯The good news? This is one threat you can control. Here’s how:
➜ Protect trust.
➜ Clarify purpose.
➜ Disagree productively.

👉What’s one thing you’ve done to build unity within your team?
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[Nicole Malachowski @RealMalachowski]

🔥The closest, hottest threat to your team is lack of unity. 🧵(1/4)

[Nicole Malachowski @RealMalachowski]

I’ve seen teams with great talent miss deadline after deadline because no one defined what “done” meant.

That’s what disunity looks like.
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