Ahmed El Kaffas

Science * (world travel + philosophy of science) * entrepreneur ^ polymath wanna be = Pura Vida

[Ahmed El Kaffas @Kffas]

Read my latest #research on tissue perfusion characterization with contrast-ultrasound radiomics and machine learning, published with @SpringerNature in @SciReports

https://t.co/4gsEV41nJt

[Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz]

Federal funding for US biomedical research is moribund.

Since October 1 2025, NIH is -80% in new grants and -70% in values (total dollars).

Labs are closing down and researchers are leaving science.

To what end?

[Alessandro Ingrosso @ai_ngrosso]

The "publish or perish" culture must perish. Scientists need time to think.

We just published our Slow Science Manifesto, where we argue that huge changes are needed in the way we fund, publish, and evaluate science.

Read more and sign here: https://t.co/Y40sYkLEjb

[Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz]

Both chambers of Congress have now passed the FY26 minibus with NIH provisions. The President will sign.

(1) $48.7 billion for NIH
(2) Full IDC recovery
(3) No more multi-year funding
(4) No NIH reorganization, maintaining the current IC structure.

[nature @Nature]

In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”.

https://t.co/ALQlFtfuVd

[Rosa Ritunnano @RRitunnano]

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to put pressure on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research

[Ahmed El Kaffas @Kffas]

Fantastic short read!

[Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz]

US universities ranked by number of "best scientists" (h index>155). Some under- and some overrated unis?

Harvard 69
MIT 21
Johns Hopkins 20
Stanford 20
UCSD 19
Caltech 13
Berkeley 11
Columbia 10
Yale 10
Cornell 8
Penn 8
Princeton 5
U. Michigan 5
U. Wisconsin 5
U. Illinois 2

[Michael Kolios @MichaelKolios]

Calling all graduate students & post-doc fellows! Don't miss the chance to join the upcoming @GordonConf in in-vivo ultrasound imaging. Dive deep into latest research, network with peers, & share your innovative ideas! #GRC2024 #ResearchNetworking

more👇from @EmelinaVienneau

[Agata Exner @AgExner]

Join us at the upcoming 2024 GRC on In Vivo Ultrasound Imaging to learn about the latest research in contrast enhanced US from Mike Averkiou, Misun Hwang & Massimo Mischi. Apply @ https://t.co/VKR94x6vRP #Bubbles #GRC #ultrasound

[Hong Chen @ChenUltrasound]

[Conference📢] For an opportunity to engage with leading experts in diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound over five enriching days, you may want to consider attending the Gordon Conference on In Vivo Ultrasound Imaging @MichaelKolios @OKripfgans @AgExner
https://t.co/htVwKbzlz5

[Hong Chen @ChenUltrasound]

And the list continues: Ahmed El Kaffas, Tatiana Khokhlova, Mengxing Tang, Klazina Kooiman, Brian Fowlkes, Fabian Kiessling, Florideza Villanueva, Siddhartha Sikda. I may still miss some names.

[Itai Yanai @ItaiYanai]

A riddle for scientists: what is (1) better than publishing in Nature, (2) more evil than reviewer 2, (3) the postdocs have it, (4) the Nobel prize winners need it, and (5) if you publish it you perish?

[Michael Kolios @MichaelKolios]

So much 4 Feynman's "a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty"
(see: https://t.co/mU2ZRn2CVD)

We keep witnessing new lows of scientific misconduct in publishing 👇

Would you like the "50 citations package"?

[Aya Kamaya, MD @ayakamaya]

New release of LI-RADS Surveillance US v2024 provides updated management recommendations for surveillance in at-risk individuals. @ShuchiRodgers @VChernyakMD @DTFetzer @KhuranaBody @justintsemd @nirvidahiya @sruradiology @SABImaging @SocietyAbdRad @StanfordBodyRad @StanfordRad

[SAR_DFP_HCC @LIRADS5]

BREAKING NEWS! The NEW #LIRADS v2024 Surveillance Ultrasound Core has been published on the @RadiologyACR website with new terminology, management recommendations, and nomenclature! Download the core today! #HCC #Liver @sruradiology @SocietyAbdRad

https://t.co/mOo4hYTgiB

[John Streicher @JohnStreicher1]

Reviewer, *why* do you want to know how many mice total were used in the entire paper? What possible benefit does that provide you, apart from making me waste the time to count them all up?

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Big #AI discovery: a new structural class of antibiotics (the last one took 38 years) with multiple compounds effective vs methicillin-resistant Staph aureus, without toxicity
@Nature https://t.co/E7YD1zmi7m

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

A new family of antibiotics discovered with graph deep learning.

[Andy Truman PhD @TrumanLab]

In an ideal world, how many NIH R01s should a lab need to operate?