Ting Sun

PostDoc at Castelo-Branco Lab @karolinskainst
Working at #neuroscience and system biology. #Glia enthusiast and fan of geek 🧠👩🏻‍💻🧬. Hopeless dog lover.

[Christoffer Mattsson Langseth @chrislangseth]

I'm happy to share KaroSpace, which is a rapid-access framework for interactive exploration of multi-sample spatial omics data. The preprint can be accessed here: https://t.co/H8JMnlmydh.

[Andrew Octavian Sasmita @AOSasmita]

@JuliaEdgar1 @KlausNave @werner_hauke @DrChapple @tabifromengland @Lina_Komarek @ColinPhD @RebeccaSmithPhD @MacpEuan Congratulations! This is really great

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The complexity of the human brain and its functions in a neat infographic map

[zoomable version: https://t.co/4KyqZPcgRB]

[GonçaloCasteloBranco @GoCasteloBranco]

And now we have Dr. @mukundkabbe!!! 🚀🚀🚀 Thanks the faculty opponent Bing Ren and the committee @sandberglab @JakobssonLab & @ClaudioCantu81 for the grilling and excellent discussions, and @HjerlingLeffler for chairing the defense!

[Min Choi @minchoi]

This is wild.

OpenAI just dropped ChatGPT-4o and it will completely change the AI assistant game.

10 wild examples:

1. Visual assistant in real-time

[Ting Sun @TingSun_KI]

Congrats to @PKukanja, @chrislangseth for their beautiful work published in @CellCellPress! Still remember reading the draft last June and falling in love with it. Big congrats to both ours & the @MatsNilssonLab!

[GonçaloCasteloBranco @GoCasteloBranco]

@PKukanja & @chrislangseth et al. tour-de-force it is now out in Cell @CellCellPress!
An one-of-a-kind collaboration with @MatsNilssonLab, powered by the fantastic in situ sequencing technology Mats pioneered! Check it out at
https://t.co/v49xyCuDiV

[Klaus-Armin Nave @KlausNave]

A short summary of a long line of research on a new function of oligodendrocytes in brain energy metabolism - a big thank you to the many colleagues that should have also been coauthors. https://t.co/OFdFz8sTQv

[Jonah Cool @JCoolScience]

Excited to introduce #CZCellxGene CellGuide–launched today in beta!

It’s an interactive encyclopedia for cell type definitions with marker genes + relevant datasets all in one place.

Try it out by searching for a specific cell type or tissue:
https://t.co/QT1VV7z8zL

[allen institute @AllenInstitute]

Introducing the Allen Brain Cell (ABC) Atlas [ʙᴇᴛᴀ] representing ~5,200 newly transcriptomic-defined cell types and their spatial locations across the whole mouse brain. 🧵

Access ABC Atlas data visualization & pre-publication #openscience datasets: https://t.co/7ogBtSMb14

[Felix Horns @FelixHorns]

Want to sequence RNA from cells without killing them or deliver RNA programs from cell to cell? Today in Cell, we present RNA exporters, which package and secrete cellular RNA, for non-destructively monitoring cell dynamics by sequencing and delivering RNA https://t.co/JG1mzYvLgb

[Andrew Octavian Sasmita @AOSasmita]

Done presenting our poster at #Glia2023! Had such nice discussions with everybody who came and visited. Time to unwind before heading back 🍻

[GonçaloCasteloBranco @GoCasteloBranco]

Come and start your own lab in biomedical research at our department @karolinskainst! With a generous startup package, great critical mass and colleagues as...

https://t.co/r9hvOONMiM

[Dr. Constanze Depp @ConstanzeDepp]

Presenting our latest work on the role of myelin dysfunction in AD #glia2023. What a great conference. Thanks for the great discussion and feedback on my talk!

[GonçaloCasteloBranco @GoCasteloBranco]

..and here is @PKukanja presenting #gliameeting #glia2023!

[GonçaloCasteloBranco @GoCasteloBranco]

PhD position(s) in our lab @karolinskainst!

https://t.co/AZiU6po4yW

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

This is unbelievable!

Kurt Wüthrich, an 84-year-old, Swiss, male scientist, who won the Nobel Prize in 2002 claims that "as a male scientist" he has "a feeling of discrimination."

He said this during the 72nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on a panel that had four old, male scientists including him and an old, male moderator. (It was literally a susage fest!)

When Science Magazine asked him to elaborate on the kind of discrimnation he faced, "Wüthrich said he did not feel personally discriminated against as an individual at the event but thought that all men attendees faced discrimination while women were tokenized."

Here's an example of the discrimination Kurt Wüthrich, a Nobel Prize winner, gave:

In group photos of laureates, women laureates were asked to stand in front while male scientists like him were told to stand behind them 🤦😂😭

This makes him feel "horrible" because asking women laureates to stand in front is "ridiculous, fully ridiculuous."

A young scholar countered Wüthrich's childish tantrum and the moderator tried to shut her up.

For reference, here's a comparison:

Nobel Prizes won:
By men: 892
By women: 60

Speakers invited to this year's Lindau meeting:
Men: 34
Women: 5

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A couple of observations:

1. The feeling among men that gender equality is somehow a form of discrimination against them is not limited to incels (involuntary celibates) on the internet.

Male Nobel Prize winners can feel the same way too.

2. Many young scholars and scientists are still playing the "prestige" game: do a PhD in a "prestigious" university, do a postdoc in a "prestigious" lab, go to "prestigious" meetings like Lindau.

Playing the prestige game takes a lot of toll on one's mental health and personal relationships. The worst part is make you feel extremely insecure.

No amount of external validation, not even a Nobel Prize, will help you overcome your insecurities.

[Britta Engelhardt @Britta_in_Bern]

...and yet another paper out from us... this time on the role of the choroid plexus in autoimmune neuroinflammation. Big thanks to the excellent contributions of all authors! Further thanks to the reviewers who contibuted making this a very nice paper.

[Fabian Theis @fabian_theis]

@naturemethods @lucaspelkmans Happy that CAMPA is out @naturemethods - led by @HannahSpitzer1 & @scottbscience w @lucaspelkmans we developed a conditional autoencoder for multiplexed image analysis, learning subcellular landmarks consistent across perturbations. https://t.co/Kg9IQaAqyI https://t.co/0EHF7SYmxe

[Ting Sun @TingSun_KI]

@Prinetti1 100% agree! 😊

[Ting Sun @TingSun_KI]

It is finally published!
Thanks to everyone who has supported the journey of this paper, especially to @ConstanzeDepp and @KlausNave!
Working with the paper was lots of fun. Even when we struggled, we turned it into fun! 🥳

[Klaus-Armin Nave @KlausNave]

Why is age the main risk for Alzheimer’s disease? Mouse models reveal that the loss of myelin integrity is causally linked to enhanced plaque deposition. Great work by ⁦@ConstanzeDepp⁩, ⁦@TingSun_MPINAT⁩ et al. in Nature https://t.co/iCtnuiTVLW