Liliana Elisa Lucca

"Yeah Mr White. Yeah, science!"
Immunologist at CRCT (FR) and Yale (USA).
Cancer immunology, T cell receptor, R
Mother of one, couch gymnast, low-key runner.

[Liliana Elisa Lucca @LaLilli11]

@theHumanBorch Congrats! beautiful work and lots of inspiration. I am also jealous of that orca-shaped UMAP in Fig1! My 4-yo would be so proud of me if I brought that back from work ^^

[Liliana Elisa Lucca @LaLilli11]

@ChelseaParlett when are they ever going to incorporate the "did you mean..?" warning? They already sort of do it with = instead of ==

[Liliana Elisa Lucca @LaLilli11]

You know how grants have very precise deadlines, like Feb 28th by 5pm Eastern? Imagine, just imagine if those agencies imposed the same rigour to themselves, instead of saying "results will be out in the month of July".

[Liliana Elisa Lucca @LaLilli11]

@OdedRechavi Me today! Currently procrastinating said writing

[Liliana Elisa Lucca @LaLilli11]

Only reason why the met Gala should continue to exist

[Liliana Elisa Lucca @LaLilli11]

USB ports are to computers what pockets are to women's clothes. Why can't we have them? No, I don't want to buy an expensive adapter so that I can stick a USB drive in my laptop. I've spent that money to buy a purse to carry all the things that I can't fit in my pocketless outfit

[Liliana Elisa Lucca @LaLilli11]

Tried #ChatGPT for coding in spite of me (I lazily asked for suggestion on our lab chat and a student fwd me a chatGPT response). Mesmerized at the straight face with which it just made up a non-existing function.

[Liliana Elisa Lucca @LaLilli11]

@science_dot @maw_tweets If only they would pay at least some decent proof reading and formatting! There is literally only cash flowing into these journals, no cash flowing out. Amazing business model.

[Liliana Elisa Lucca @LaLilli11]

@maw_tweets @igordownunder For example, 6-7 vials of fluorescent antibodies, each enough to stain 100 samples.

[Liliana Elisa Lucca @LaLilli11]

That feeling when you paste all the text from the pre-application into the full application form and 8 out of 20 pages are already filled #grantseason #humanwriting

[Liliana Elisa Lucca @LaLilli11]

@mbeisen well it's called plink, not wink!

[Liliana Elisa Lucca @LaLilli11]

@Steffen_E_Fuchs So can we get it back??

[Liliana Elisa Lucca @LaLilli11]

@NinaSteele17 @Momademia Mine was born in April 2020 and we really only had two bad winters, 2020/21 and 2021/2022. She must have missed 3-4 days of school since summer 2022! But we live in France where people have a platinum-iridium microbiome..

[Liliana Elisa Lucca @LaLilli11]

@N_Fazilleau What happened to "it was a shame that France was absent from the race to the COVID vaccine, we need to invest more?"

[Liliana Elisa Lucca @LaLilli11]

@moeinminn I once got charged 370$ for a couch that was listed at 730$!

[Liliana Elisa Lucca @LaLilli11]

@eofallthings Accidentally turned off the freezer counter at an ice cream parlor where I was working when I was 20. All the ice creams melted (this was in Italy where ice cream is a year-round basic human right).

[Liliana Elisa Lucca @LaLilli11]

I am having a bad Friday, but luckily twitter delivered.

[Will Owens @willovvens]

heard UMAP was popular on twitter, anyone have any advice on how to tighten up the clusters?

[Liliana Elisa Lucca @LaLilli11]

@angie_rasmussen @mbeisen @eLife More editorial discretion, or I should say, less editorial washing their hands clean of any responsibilities, like they do in traditional journals, sounds like a dreamboat to this author.

[Liliana Elisa Lucca @LaLilli11]

@mbeisen @AllofUsResearch @Nature The tenet of racism is that biology justifies supremacy of white people. Surely we can deny this hierarchy without denying human diversity (that any PCA plot will also show, although more meaningfully)? Feminism doesn't require denying biological differences between genders.

[Liliana Elisa Lucca @LaLilli11]

@lpachter Guilty of using UMAPs in cancer papers (even if I dislike them), but most people don't discuss distance between clusters at all in the actual paper. It's mostly a colourful intro to some more solid data exploration. Can anyone cite an example of a point made about a UMAP alone?