Eyal Metzl-Raz

@HFSP Postdoc fellow, @WJGreenleaf, @Stanford. @BarkaiLab alumnus. Interested in iPSCs, differentiation, basic science, systems biology.

[Eyal Metzl-Raz @EyalMR]

🥳🔥 Excited to finally share the latest work from my Ph.D. studies @barkailab: we set out to understand how and why transcription limit cellular growth.
https://t.co/PqMprqixCE
Together with the amazing and twitterless #giladyaakov and #moshekafri, @GeneticsGSA
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[Ioannis Karakikes @IKarakikes]

New *Metabolism* paper: PHGDH gene therapy boosts cardiac serine biosynthesis, preserves heart function, prevents remodeling in DCM.
📄 https://t.co/OlyfoRFiiC

@stanfordctsurg @StanfordCVI @salkinstitute @StanfordMed
🧵 Key points 👇

[Andreas Hämäläinen @Hamalisk]

@MarinaMedvin

[Fred Simon @freddy33]

@MarinaMedvin

[Israel ישראל @Israel]

To the presidents of @Columbia, @nyuniversity, @Harvard and other universities who have stood SILENT as terror supporters have marched through campus and celebrated raping women, executing children and kidnapping grandmothers, you are cowards.

Listen to Columbia Professor and father @ShaiDavidai’s heartbreaking speech:

[Hussain Abdul-Hussain @hahussain]

I went on a major Arab network late last night. The anchor asked this as a matter of fact: Why did #Israel hit #AlAhliHospital in Gaza? I answered: I haven't yet seen evidence proving that Israel did it. However, even if it were Israel, Biden tomorrow will double down on America's support of Israel because the US, UK, Germany, France and Italy have -- after October 7 -- said in a joint statement that #Hamas is terrorist, Israel should take it out, after which the world would sponsor resumption of peace talks. I said this war was one way for Israel, there was no going back to October 6 (ceasefire with Hamas) because Israel has discovered that a fence is not enough to keep Israelis safe from Hamas's crazy outbursts that might kill 1,300 Israelis in the future.
An Egyptian guest on the show went bonkers over me not being certain that Israel hit Gaza hospital, questioning my motives and agenda. He then thrashed my argument that Biden would continue to support Israel, said Arab countries cancelling the summit with him in Jordan taught him a lesson, and that tomorrow in Israel he would walk back his support of Israel. If he did not, America risked one large flame engulfing the region. Hezbollah would enter the war, Iran, and also nuclear Russia. The world would explode, and hence after the hospital attack, Biden would backtrack and force Israel to stop the war.
Today, Israel presented evidence that the hospital blast was not an Israeli attack but an errant Palestinian rocket. Using their own ways and sources, half a dozen Western intel agencies came to the same conclusion. Biden visited Israel and reiterated his full support of taking out Hamas, saying even ISIS was more rational than Hamas. Western media, for its part, burnt its fingers when it first endorsed the Palestinian unfounded claim that Israel struck the hospital. Western media later walked back its reporting. Today, even The Washington Muslim Brotherhood Post did not call it an attack, only a blast. The only group on planet earth that is still living in its own lala land and believing an unfounded rumor that it had put out, without offering any evidence (not even pictures of hospital rubble), has been the Arab World, all of it-- governments, populations and media. It seems that Arabs think that if we keep on saying it, and shame any Arabic speaker for not supporting our claim, it'll become true.
It's been 11 days. My line of argument on Arabic media has been to explain things and not succumb to the wishful thinking that many Arabs are trafficking in. According to wishful thinking, the world would force Israel to call off decimating Hamas, or even better, Israel would just disappear. In reality, Hamas will be decimated, and the Arabs will only come around, half heartedly, because reality will leave them behind. This insistence on living in fairytales, detached from global reality, has cost the Palestinians everything over the past 75 years. Arabs have been crying victim for 75 years hoping that would shame the world, always thinking that global opinion is changing in Arab favor, often citing deranged Western intellectuals or antisemites and perceiving them as an expanding mainstream opinion.
Palestinians deserve better. The faster we in the Arab world come to terms with reality, the shorter Palestinian misery will be. I know that reality might not accord with wishful thinking and emotions, but the cost of living in fantasy world has brought us here. Let's try reality and see where it takes us.
#musings #exhaustion

[Israel ישראל @Israel]

Hamas terrorists in their own voices:

Listen to the conversation between Hamas operatives as they discuss the failed Islamic Jihad rocket launch on the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital on October 17, 2023.

[Reuven Cazh - ראובן כץ @reuven_cazh]

A few words about the death of innocents in wars:

During World War II, 79,000 British and American citizens were killed, compared to two million German citizens.

In the Vietnam War, 58,000 Americans were killed, compared to more than a million Vietnamese.

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[Reuven Cazh - ראובן כץ @reuven_cazh]

Facts, not narratives, determine reality! Share the facts

all the details about the explosion at the hospital in Gaza:

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#Gaza #GazaAttack #hospital #IsraelAttack #TheRealImage

[Hussain Abdul-Hussain @hahussain]

As Arabs, our message to the world cannot be restricted to eliciting global sympathy for the children of Gaza. We cannot depict ourselves as helpless children, behind whom we hide our failure to control our Hamas thugs who massacred 1300 non-combatant Israelis. This is a moral failure that the world sees but that we try to hide behind the “rights of the Palestinian people,” rights that none of us are willing to articulate. Free Palestine can mean anything, from an Arab Palestinian state living in peace next to Jewish Israel to an Arab Palestinian state instead of Jewish Israel.
For Arab Israeli peace to happen, and since Palestinians are either children, or Hamas thugs, or useless corrupt Mahmud Silicon-Face Abbas, non-Palestinian Arabs should step up to save the Palestinians from themselves and save the region ongoing sorrow. We, Arabs, have to show the world that we are at peace with the idea of a Jewish state, that we are willing to concede what we believe – rightly or wrongly -- is ours (1948 territory), that we genuinely want bygones to be bygones, without secretly holding grudges and passing them to our children. We must seek a better future for ourselves and our kids, as well as for Israelis and their kids.
The Palestine disaster (nakba) is not a disaster of land loss or military defeat. It is a disaster of absence of leadership that can articulate the Arab alternative to war and death. We ask the world to stop the Israeli war on Hamas, but what do we offer as an alternative to stopping the war? Just let those Hamas thugs who massacred 1300 Israelis get away with their crime (because there is a history of dispute)? Ask Israel to go back to October 6? Knowing that Hamas can break out of the Gaza fence and repeat its massacre any minute? Hamas must go. We Arabs must help get rid of it, and most importantly, we must show that we have a plan for the day after Hamas.
Let’s learn from the mistake of Iraq and Arab Spring countries, that once what we have is gone, what comes next looks worse. Let’s preempt the worse by offering the better.
As long as we, the Arabs, do not have answers to all these questions, the world will manage things without us. It does not matter if all of us, 1.3 billion Muslims, think that Israel is at fault. What matters is global perception, which clearly thinks that Islamist terrorism is the problem, not Israelis dancing at a music festival. And we, the Arabs, are not even talking to the world. We are talking to each other, patting ourselves on the back for being utopian and principled on Palestine, while we are in fact idiotically out of touch with reality. We insist on our backward message, then act surprised why many of our states are failing and why we are migrating in droves.
Please stop treating Palestine like religion, like we have to stick to our principles to win credit in the afterlife and to garner social acceptance among each other (Arabs and/or Muslims). Please think of Palestine like a problem that requires troubleshooting, compromise, pragmatism, and most importantly, looking toward the future, not the past.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Kidnapping children is despicable and wholly unjustifiable. For obvious reasons, this picture has hit home with me. May Noya and all hostages taken by Hamas be returned soon, safely, to their families.

[Daphna Rothschild @D_Rothschild_]

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I am excited to share my work at the labs of @mbarnalab and @jkpritch in collaboration with the amazing Theo Susanto, @spence_jeffrey_, Naomi Genuth and Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong

“A comprehensive rRNA variation atlas in health and disease”
https://t.co/K0edJmHqF8

[Eyal Metzl-Raz @EyalMR]

@HFSP started an Initiative called “Scientists for Scientists” to help scientists affected by the war in Ukraine
Problem: I don't personally know these scientists!
If you know of any from the field of Genetics I'll be happy to hear!
#StandUpForUkraine

[Eyal Metzl-Raz @EyalMR]

@dagan_segal @IgorUlitsky Available upon request 😉

[Eyal Metzl-Raz @EyalMR]

@Danidiin Amazing! Congrats!

[Eyal Metzl-Raz @EyalMR]

Innovative and elegant way to measure histone exchange rates in one go! Congrats gilad, @FJonas15 and @BarkaiLab 🎉🥳

[Barkai Lab @BarkaiLab]

Our new paper, led by Gilad Yaakov and @FJonas15 just came out! @NatureBiotech
⏱We used molecular timers to measure histone exchange genome-wide. 1/5
https://t.co/M0kDRAvlSZ

[Aldema Sas-Chen @AldemaSasChen]

Pls RT: Open positions at the #saschen lab studying #RNA modifications. We are #hiring talented and enthusiastic individuals for a research associate position, as well as MSc, PhD and postdocs. More details at https://t.co/Fg8YdQ7A5w @TelAvivUni @ShmunisR

[Georgi Marinov @georgimarinov]

How bad did COVID get in Bulgaria in late-2020 and why?

Here is a detailed look:

https://t.co/aaBQnp8WEF

[William J. Greenleaf @WJGreenleaf]

Our collaborative work with the @LabWinslow revealing the role of kinase KLB1 in regulating chromatin accessibility in lung cancer is on BioRxiv! Congrats to
@Sarah_E_Pierce and @JeffreyGranja:
https://t.co/Ee0IHXoQIj

[Zohar Shipony @zoharshipony]

What a great and fun collaboration with @hamish_king Kristen Wells @WJGreenleaf and many others. scATAC and scRNA analysis of human tonsils.

https://t.co/GvQpXyEUol

[Zohar Shipony @zoharshipony]

Increased ACTL6A Occupancy Within mSWI/SNF Chromatin Remodelers Drives Human Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Beautiful study with Chiung-Ying Chang, Jerry Crabtree and @WJGreenleaf

https://t.co/1uqRzPt1td