BioChaff

Biotech & Oncology | 🌾🔬💊💉| Part markets, part science, part snark | Personal opinions only, retweets aren't endorsements

[Cranky Federalist @CrankyFed]

hey CATHOLICS

if the PROTESTANT work ethic is so BAD, then why does the BIBLE have a BOOK called JOB!?!?

[nxthompson @nxthompson]

This is an amazing quote from Lindsey Graham about when he realized how politics works. https://t.co/sh04ahQOFq

[Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy]

There’s a story about author Evelyn Waugh visiting British troops during WWII in Africa, the troops all showed up with flowers and gifts for the female celebrity from home they thought they were meeting only to arrive and get greeted by this very annoyed man

[Timuoxi Cha Le Mei @ch1cken_t3nder]

I actually love living in a time when reading ~2 books a month makes one part of the intellectual elite

[BioChaff @BioChaff]

@Clarksterh @eigenrobot Very true. Former grad TA for an undergrad science course at an Ivy - the paperwork needed to issue a grade below a C was burdensome and a barrier to giving low grades. The system rewards inflation and looking the other way

[Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv]

Gandalf: do not touch the Palantir

Pippin:

[Modern McCarthyist ☭⃠ @SensibleFascist]

“You have no jurisdiction over Americans and we will not cooperate with any investigations”

[Guykings! @poynterton]

I don't see why a baby being born with unexpectedly big feet should be the saddest story ever told.

[BioChaff @BioChaff]

@eigenrobot All I see is label gore and an outright error with Oman coloring

[Prompter @PromptLLM]

Crazy take from Claude

[BioChaff @BioChaff]

NYC transplant dialogue is a recession indicator

[Dirty Texas Hedge @HedgeDirty]

*Every* city exists for the transplants, and always has

Before c. 1880, no city could sustain its own population. Too unhealthy/unsanitary. They depended on continous rural migration

And ever since, any city with few transplants is one deeply into decline

[BioChaff @BioChaff]

They’re already calling it for Lander? Dang that’s fast

[Adam Feuerstein ✡️ @adamfeuerstein]

🚨 New, must-read reporting from STAT's @LizzyLaw_

ELi Lilly, the FDA and a top U.S. physician worked together so that a 79-year-old man could get extraordinary "compassionate use" access to retatrutide, Lilly's still-experimental obesity medicine.

The identity of the man is unknown, but the request came from a senior clinician at the NIH. The man needed retatrutide because he suffered from refractory obesity with obstructive sleep apnea and pulmonary hypertension, STAT reports.

Was the person President Trump? The White House, the FDA and Eli Lilly would not answer STAT's question directly. Arranging for the compassionate use of an obesity drug is highly unusual, experts told STAT.

Read Lizzy Law's story in the link below.

[BioChaff @BioChaff]

@mcmansionhell Bruch is a history
Shostakovich is a tragedy

[BioChaff @BioChaff]

@mcmansionhell Tchaikovsky is also a comedy.
Now I want to categorize all the great violin concerti into tragedy, comedy, and history

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

When scientists put slime mold over a map of Tokyo, they used food to represent urban areas.

After a day the mold created a network nearly identical to Tokyo's rail network: all this without any brain.

[Persimmon Tree Investments @PersimmonTI]

$RVMD $xbi

First and foremost, what a year it’s been for @ft — more power to the crew across the pond, breaking one scoop after another.

But as to $RVMD will they / won’t they… I think it’s time to read between the lions…

1) $RVMD CEO is taking the time to be interviewed by @ft

2) CEO acknowledges big pharma interest, while noting that anything is possible but he’s focused on the business at hand…

Good companies are bought not sold.

Big companies are sometimes bought, but it usually takes some creativity…

Think $BMY x $CELG for example…

[BioChaff @BioChaff]

the uptick in NYC transplant/gentrifier discourse is a recession indicator

[BioChaff @BioChaff]

@eigenrobot @ivieani Love finding an Eigen “extraordinary” in the wild