You've likely heard about gas stoves and indoor air pollution. But we don't have a gas stove. Yet, we had an indoor air pollution mystery that took me and my husband (both PhDs) 11 nights of bad air to figure out.

What the heck was going on? A 🧵 1/18 One morning in December I woke up and saw the PurpleAir (air quality sensor) bright red. A color I hadn't seen it since the wildfire smoke in California. A color I never expected to see living in the quiet suburbs of Boston. 2/

I learned something tremendous yesterday.
MENSTRUAL STIGMA is a driving force behind the tremendous diagnosis delays and lack of treatments available for gynecological diseases. This is a tremendous quality of life issue and this is something WE CAN CHANGE!!! 1/3 If we never talk about menstruation, those who are new to it have no way of knowing if what they are experiencing is "normal". Is it supposed to be this painful? Is there supposed to be this much bleeding? Are you supposed to still be able to focus and work and function? 2/3

1/ Can intramuscular vaccination induce an immune response that protects against not only disease (#COVID19), but viral infection and transmission of #SARSCoV2 in the local mucosa? In a new preprint by @GeorgieNahass et al we found that saliva may be KEY🧵
medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… 2/ Secreted *mucosal* antibodies 💦 protect from infection or spread of infection in the mucosa of the nose 👃 and mouth 👄. *Circulating* antibodies 🩸prevent systemic infection and disease. Which antibodies do we make after vaccination? @SalivaStudy💉

https://twitter.com/SalivaStudy/status/1332174878326210560?s=20