Sami Lux

Immunologist, Mesopotamian History Enthusiast, and Future People Vet.

[nour abi-nakhoul @nourabinakhoul]

Trump defining sex as “sexual features at conception” means inadvertently categorizing every single American as female. Awesome!

[Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager]

don't be ridiculous thats the time you go to grad school

[Lisa Rubin @lawofruby]

In fact, calling out the “uncomfortable and usually unspoken subtext of involuntary servitude swirling about this debate,” he rules forcing a GA woman to carry a non-viable fetus is no more acceptable than forcing her “to serve as a human tissue bank or to give up a kidney for the benefit of another.” 15/

[Alanna Vagianos @AlannaVagianos]

“Women are not some piece of collectively owned community property the disposition of which is decided by majority vote,” Fulton county judge Robert McBurney wrote.

[John Peters @johnthejack]

Scotland has detected no cases of cervical cancer in women born between 1988-1996 who were fully vaccinated against HPV between the ages of 12 and 13.
https://t.co/clCeKqILrP

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Israel’s pager attack in Lebanon detonated thousands of handheld devices across of a slew of public spaces, seriously injuring and killing innocent civilians.

This attack clearly and unequivocally violates international humanitarian law and undermines US efforts to prevent a wider conflict.

Congress needs a full accounting of the attack, including an answer from the State Department as to whether any US assistance went into the development or deployment of this technology.

[Spencer Perry @TheSpencerPerry]

In four days, we could be seeing "unprecedented historical events" every eight hours until they are coming every four minutes

[NYU MSTP @NYU_MSTP]

Congratulations to #SamanthaLux @TheSamiLux on the completion of the Thesis Defense: Integrin-Deficient T Cell Leukemia Accumulates in the Central Nervous System! 🎉

Supervised by Dr. Susan Schwab

[Ryan Feldman (empoisonpharmd.bsky.social) @EMPoisonPharmD]

You're working in the ED when a 30 y.o male presents 30 minutes after envenomation to the right index finger by his pet snake (left).

He has a picture of culprit (right) , and it is definitely NOT from America.

A 🧵on U.S. exotic envenomation management.

(shared with consent)

[Ragon Institute @ragoninstitute]

Congratulations to Ragon faculty member @hernandezmsilva on receiving the MIT 2024 Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Award for faculty!

@MITDiversity @hhminews @mitbiology

#MIT #Research #Leadership #MLK #Diversity #RagonInstitute

[James F. Thomas (of IDLEWILD) @james_f_thomas]

I love this tiny three-paragraph essay about taking one’s 12-year-old son to a Shakespeare play. the final paragraph is like a prose poem https://t.co/9oToE6ZarG

[NASA JPL @NASAJPL]

Ready for their moment in the Sun ☀️

A fleet of six cereal box-size satellites known as SunRISE are complete and awaiting final testing. Once launched, they will act as one giant radio antenna that will study solar radio bursts. https://t.co/HLeGulQa0V

[Séamus Malekafzali @Seamus_Malek]

Doing my journalistic duty by reporting that a massive exodus of an ethnic group from a state on the verge of being totally occupied are "leaving on their own accord." https://t.co/mnF2jZb6uM

[Nora Loreto @NoLore]

Forest fires, eh? Let's take a look at who is running Canada's biggest oil and gas companies.

[NBC Guild @nbcnewsguild]

It’s @NBCUniversal upfronts day, and we’re out here letting people know:

NBC is dragging union negotiations into **the third year*** by refusing industry-standard job security proposals and pushing aggressively anti-worker language that would allow them to terminate us at-will.

[Elisa Granato @Prokaryota]

In confocal microscopy, only a small fraction of the sample is illuminated at the same time, and a tiny pinhole blocks out-of-focus signal to maximize resolution

[Dr. Crystal Grant @itscrystalgrant]

In a meeting of researchers who aim to add sequencing to NBS programs, I asked a simple question: “What will you do to prevent this most identifying and personal data from ending up in the hands of law enforcement?” I was told that was not their concern.

https://t.co/HiaqUKvVAq

[Katie Mack @AstroKatie]

It turns out that really often the new technologies we create to solve hard problems in exploratory science end up being useful for hard problems in other parts of life. #BasicResearch