Alex M🇺🇦

Treat everyone with kindness and respect.

[Alex M🇺🇦 @AlexIxion755]

No matter what kind of day you have, how you feel, what’s happening in your life, THIS will make it better:

[megumi @caecilia1003]

https://t.co/t4tulTaKzn
#Bach The Well Tempered Clavier, II BWV878 Fugue
#GlennGould

[Robert Stern @RobertCStern]

Harvard University launching FREE college courses online for every US Citizen. Highlighting basic U.S. Government, understanding the Constitution, and How to recognize a Dictatorship takeover 101.
Harvard for the win.

https://t.co/zctFqawj7O

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Nature rejected her paper for not being original,

University of Pennsylvania (her employer) demoted her,

and yesterday Katalin Karikó won the Noble Prize in physiology.

In mid-2000s, Karikó and her Drew Weismann submitted their paper on mRNA (messenger Ribonucleic Acid) to Nature.

Nature desk rejected their paper for being "an incremental contribution" only. The paper was later published in another journal, Immunity.

Earlier in her career at the University of Pennsylvania, Karikó was demoted because her applications for grants kept getting rejected.
But Karikó persevered and kept on going.

In 2013, she joined BioNTech, a German company founded by two scientists, Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci. In 2018, BioNTech partnered with Pfizer to develop mRNA vaccines against the influenza virus.

When the COVID-19 hit the world, Karikó's research helped Pfizer to produce the first vaccine against the disease.

I don't know how the Nature editors who desk rejected Karikó's paper and the Penn administration who demoted her feel about Karikó Nobel Prize.

Takeaway: Many academics and scientists worry about getting published in "prestigious" journals. Instead of worrying about prestige, we should try to put our work out as quickly as possible like Karikó did.

Once you put your work out without caring about prestige, two good things happen:

1. Your work will lead to newer opportunities.
2. You will start getting feedback from the scholarly community, which you can use to iterate and improve.

Here's another interesting Nobel Prize story.

Peter Higgs, a British physicist, joined the University of Edinburgh in 1956. By 1964, Higgs has published his groundbreaking work about subatomic particles.

After 1964, Higgs published less than 10 papers.
When his department would ask him how many papers, he published in a given year, he would reply "None."

It happened so often that he stared feeling like an "embarrassment to the department."

The University of Edinburgh, however, never fired Higgs because in 1980 he had been nominated for the Nobel Prize.

Higgs retired in 1996 and stayed on as an emeritus professor at Edinburg.

In 2012, experiments conducted at the CERN laboratory confirmed Higgs work and the existence of Higgs Particle.

And in 2013, Higgs was awarded the Noble Prize in physics and the University of Edinburgh got rewarded for being patient.

[Alex M🇺🇦 @AlexIxion755]

@LondonTitan @nut_history I thought so as well, and wondered what would VAR looks like if we had that

[The White House 46 Archived @WhiteHouse46]

Starting today, every household can order another free round of COVID tests – shipped straight to your door.

Head to https://t.co/GqK9GmYJE2 to order yours.

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

If members of Congress refuse to act on gun violence, we need to elect new members of Congress who will.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

David Hampton planted douglas fir and larch trees in a forest in Oregon to resemble a face. Every autumn the larch pines turn orange and the smiley face stands out

The face is about 300 feet in diameter. 
rope was used to measure the circle douglas fir was planted for the eyes and mouth and the rest of the face was filled out with larch. both species will eventually be harvested but will smile at least for the next 30-50 years

[Heidi Przybyla 🌺 @HeidiReports]

of the independent press to treat their claims with the appropriate scrutiny. Covering impeachment as a process story – Republicans say X, but the White House says Y – is a disservice to the American public who relies on the independent press to hold those in power accountable."

[Yo-Yo Ma @YoYo_Ma]

“Octopus took my camera, turned it and filmed us!” A beautiful reminder that humans are not separate from nature, but a part of it, from my friend Craig Foster of the Sea Change Project. https://t.co/Oml033KIVP

[Yo-Yo Ma @YoYo_Ma]

This version of Bach’s first cello suite was recorded live in the Great Smoky Mountains. I’ve always thought of Suite No. 1 as “Nature at Play,” so it was a dream to play it with the birds, the trees, and the rushing brook. ▶️ https://t.co/AQn2pIuZQM

[Phil Sledge @PhilSledge]

You have to look closely 👀

Reply with 🎒 when you see it.

[Mueller, She Wrote @MuellerSheWrote]

BREAKING: Jack Smith filed a motion early this morning to get permission to file a response to trump’s April, 2026 trail date request in the DC coup case. Judge Chutkan IMMEDIATELY granted it and gave Jack until tomorrow to file. He filed it TODAY, and it’s a SCORCHER. 1/

[Jessica McMaster @JessMcMasterKC]

JUST IN: I’ve obtained video of the police raid from inside Joan Meyer’s home, co-publisher of Marion County Record. Meyer is visibly upset with police and is using a walker as she yells, “this is my home.”
@KSHB41

https://t.co/J5PE8tXsvG

[🥀_ Imposter_🖕 @Imposter_Edits]

This story is crazy!

Cops raided the Marion County Record, a small-town newspaper, and took every bit of their electronic equipment, leaving them without a way to publish their newspaper.

Looks like the police and some connected people in the tiny area of Marion County Kansas didn't appreciate the paper holding them accountable for their actions.

The fact that a local judge would okay a warrant of this type makes me think the entire area wreaks of corruption.

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

At a time when some seek to ban books and bury history, we’re making it clear that we can’t just choose to learn what we want to know.

We should learn everything – the good, the bad, and the truth of who we are as a nation.

That's what great nations do.

[Alex M🇺🇦 @AlexIxion755]

@SecretCFO @AliAbdaal Thanks for this :) long close week..

A name plate would be nice, something to point to instead of “the conversation”

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Dave Carroll was a singer-songwriter and a member of the band Sons of Maxwell. In 2008, he flew with United Airlines from Halifax to Omaha, with a layover in Chicago. He checked in his Taylor guitar, which he valued at $3,500, as part of his luggage.

Upon arriving in Omaha, he discovered that his guitar was broken, apparently due to mishandling by the baggage handlers. He contacted United Airlines to file a claim, but faced indifference and bureaucracy. They informed him that he had missed the 24-hour window to report the damage and was not eligible for compensation.

In his attempts to escalate his complaint to various managers and executives, he received no satisfactory response or resolution. Frustrated, he decided to take matters into his own hands and wrote a song called “United Breaks Guitars”, recording it with his band and posting it on YouTube.

The song quickly went viral and had a significant impact on United Airlines' reputation and customer satisfaction. Within four weeks of the video's release, United Airlines' stock price fell 10%, costing stockholders about $180 million in value.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

It’s not only that the Republicans were wrong about Ukraine and Russia, but just how breathtakingly wrong they have been in the face of undeniable evidence.

They bought and then sold Kremlin propaganda hook, line, and sinker.

They fought against American and western interests, eschewed the analysis of our military experts and rooted for Ukraine’s downfall.

Meanwhile, President Biden formed an international pro-democracy coalition and never wavered in his support of Ukraine. And for pennies on the dollar, he has weakened one of our greatest foreign adversaries, perhaps beyond repair, without putting at risk the life of a single American.

It’s been an absolutely historic stroke of strategic brilliance.

And while Republicans try to weaponize Kremlin propaganda to attack Biden as a war monger, they neglect the fact that he is overseeing a extraordinary time of peace for the United States. He dared to do what no other president before him was willing to do and brought our troops home from Afghanistan.

Republicans also used Kremlin propaganda to accuse Biden of neglecting our needs at home, while he gave aid to Ukraine. Meanwhile, the GOP voted against Biden’s historic investments in the US. Transformational change is underway with the passage of the CHIPs Act, the Infrastructure Act and the Inflation Reduction Act. Experts are calling this “manufacturing investment supercycle” the envy of the world.

Biden protected our veterans’ healthcare with the PACT Act as Republicans fist-bumped after voting against it.

Biden fought and continues to fight for women’s bodily autonomy, while the GOP celebrates stripping it away one year ago.

And Biden delivered for unions workers, aiding them in negotiations as he kept the supply chain open and the American economy thriving, delivering six times more jobs than the previous three Republican presidents combined.

All this, and Republicans still want to reject reality. They want to use Kremlin-style disinformation techniques and launch politically-motivated investigations into their perceived enemies. They have no interest in helping the American people. They just want to live another day on their cult leader Donald Trump’s good side. They strive to dismantle American democracy and take away the rights and freedoms of everyday Americans.

This contrast in leadership could not be greater. History will judge where you stood at this moment.

We stand with the United States. We stand with democracy. We stand with reality. We stand with the free world.

[Steven Beschloss @StevenBeschloss]

If you haven’t read the actual indictment, I urge you to do so. It’s written in plain language, and I would argue that these 49 pages make it hard to miss (as Jack Smith puts it) the “scope and gravity” of the crimes. https://t.co/3EZZzNSvtS https://t.co/rJ3L04lKTh

[fooler initiative @metroadlib]

I LITERALLY stopped working on my memo so I could read this indictment.

I am on page 24 and JESUS LUPITA NYONG'O CHRIST.

HOW this man still has the capacity to shock me after everything that's happened, i'll never know.

but I am sitting here *STUNNED*.