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[The Neuro Doc 🩺 @Navneeth47]

URGENT : Stop the Stray Dog menace in Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital, Chennai.

@CMOTamilnadu @Office_of_Udhay @chennaicorp @PriyarajanDMK @kgbias @TNHealthDept @TOIChennai @PTI_News @PttvNewsX @news7tamil @News18TamilNadu @sunnewstamil @polimernews @ThanthiTV

[Autistic Lauren 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @Autistic_Lauren]

I hate the idea that having nothing planned/doing nothing automatically means you should be available when someone wants you to do something. You shouldn't have to have a reason when declining something, sometimes "I just need time to myself" should be a valid reason in itself

[samsfeelingood @samsfeelinggood]

Do you ever meet someone and immediately know they are the human version of a headache

[5hahem @shaTIRED]

you ever hear something seemingly simple that unintentionally changed the way you view life?

[Sanitary Panels @sanitarypanels]

Democracy not allowed

#Parliament #OppositionMPs #TelecomBill

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

Yesterday, the BBC insinuated that ‘Hamas builds tunnels under hospitals’

Today, the Israelis bombed a hospital in Gaza City & killed 500—FIVE HUNDRED—of the doctors, patients, and refugees inside of it.

This is journalism ushering in genocide. We won’t forgive.

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Nature rejected her paper for not being original,

University of Pennsylvania (her employer) demoted her,

and yesterday Katalin Karikó won the Noble Prize in physiology.

In mid-2000s, Karikó and her Drew Weismann submitted their paper on mRNA (messenger Ribonucleic Acid) to Nature.

Nature desk rejected their paper for being "an incremental contribution" only. The paper was later published in another journal, Immunity.

Earlier in her career at the University of Pennsylvania, Karikó was demoted because her applications for grants kept getting rejected.
But Karikó persevered and kept on going.

In 2013, she joined BioNTech, a German company founded by two scientists, Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci. In 2018, BioNTech partnered with Pfizer to develop mRNA vaccines against the influenza virus.

When the COVID-19 hit the world, Karikó's research helped Pfizer to produce the first vaccine against the disease.

I don't know how the Nature editors who desk rejected Karikó's paper and the Penn administration who demoted her feel about Karikó Nobel Prize.

Takeaway: Many academics and scientists worry about getting published in "prestigious" journals. Instead of worrying about prestige, we should try to put our work out as quickly as possible like Karikó did.

Once you put your work out without caring about prestige, two good things happen:

1. Your work will lead to newer opportunities.
2. You will start getting feedback from the scholarly community, which you can use to iterate and improve.

Here's another interesting Nobel Prize story.

Peter Higgs, a British physicist, joined the University of Edinburgh in 1956. By 1964, Higgs has published his groundbreaking work about subatomic particles.

After 1964, Higgs published less than 10 papers.
When his department would ask him how many papers, he published in a given year, he would reply "None."

It happened so often that he stared feeling like an "embarrassment to the department."

The University of Edinburgh, however, never fired Higgs because in 1980 he had been nominated for the Nobel Prize.

Higgs retired in 1996 and stayed on as an emeritus professor at Edinburg.

In 2012, experiments conducted at the CERN laboratory confirmed Higgs work and the existence of Higgs Particle.

And in 2013, Higgs was awarded the Noble Prize in physics and the University of Edinburgh got rewarded for being patient.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

“Ten years ago I was kicked out and forced to retire.”

Our new medicine laureate Katalin Karikó (@kkariko) told us how much it means to be awarded the Nobel Prize after a scientific career that has been full of challenges.

Ten years ago, Karikó was still doing all her experiments by hand but today she has been awarded the medicine prize for her research on mRNA, which led to the development of COVID-19 vaccines.

Listen now:

[Laura Miers @LauraMiers]

I just saw a tweet that goes, “Does anyone else feel like their short-term memory has gotten scary worse?”

There are 4.7 million views, 160,000 likes, 22,500 reposts, 3,500 quotes, & 3,950 bookmarks. Everything is fine! Carry on.

[Jade Munkii @MunkMania]

You don’t realize how powerful hope is until you lose it and get it back.

[Lori Shemek, PhD @LoriShemek]

Did You Know?

You can change your chronic negative thinking.

There are thousands upon thousands of receptor sites on each cell in our body. Each receptor site is specific to one peptide, or protein. When we have chronic negative emotion or positive emotion, those peptides connect with those receptors (like a lock and key) which change the structure of each cell as a whole.

When the cells divide -- If a cell has been exposed to a certain type of peptide more than others, the new cell that is produced will have more of those receptors that match with that specific peptide leading to more positive or negative feelings (making yourself more inclined towards negativity for example.)

Intentionally practicing more positive thoughts such as gratitude, appreciation, kindness will change your overall life and health. You have a choice what input the cells receive over time.

[Moustafa A. Moussally @MAMoussally]

We are often so consumed in taking care of others that we forget to take care of ourselves. Very powerful narrative by @journeycancer

[Iris Höchtl @irisdonell]

Your light is needed more than ever

[Tony Joseph @tjoseph0010]

It is wrong to describe what is happening as a 'failure' of the govt. A 'failure' assumes that the govt tried to do something, but unsuccessfully. Evidence suggests the govt had no concrete plan for suppressing a second wave. The only plan it had was for suppressing data.

[Sandeep Adhwaryu 🇮🇳 @CartoonistSan]

#cartoon

[Satish Acharya @satishacharya]

Compassion is need of the hour!

[James Wilson @jamewils]

India took 109 days to reach the first one lakh cases (Jan 30 to 18 May)

Then it took 49 days to reach (18 May to 6 Jul) to add another 6 lakh cases with the above.

For next 6 lakh cases we hardly take 18 days (6 Jul to 24 Jul)

#COVID19 TRAJECTORY OF 13 LAKH CASES

[Dr Eric Levi @DrEricLevi]

Note about covid test.

You can get tested on Monday.
Be exposed to covid on Tuesday.
Get a negative result on Wednesday.
Go out to meet people on Thursday.
Be mildly symptomatic on Friday (“But I was negative”) .
Then get tested on Saturday.
Only to be positive on Monday.

[Ska Cat @bustertheskacat]

Maybe none of us will ever be the same again.