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UofT PhD candidate with a side of Taylor Swift | @paulaquaglietta

[Taylor Swift @taylorswift13]

When I was writing the Fortnight music video, I wanted to show you the worlds I saw in my head that served as the backdrop for making this music.  Pretty much everything in it is a metaphor or a reference to one corner of the album or another. For me, this video turned out to be the perfect visual representation of this record and the stories I tell in it. Post Malone blew me away on set as our tortured tragic hero and I’m so grateful to him for everything he put into this collaboration. I’m still laughing from getting to work with the coolest guys on earth, Ethan Hawke and Josh Charles (tortured poets, meet your colleagues from down the hall, the dead poets). I still can’t believe I get to work with the unfathomably brilliant Rodrigo Prieto on cinematography and my team of dream collaborators: Ethan Tobman (production design), Chancler Haynes (editor), Anthony Dimino (1st AD), Jil Hardin (producer) and Dom Thomas (executive producer). Parliament aced the VFX as always. Joseph Cassell, Lorrie Turk and Jemma Muradian made these tortured looks come to life. The entire crew made this a dream to shoot. Thank you to everyone involved and everyone who has watched it!!

https://t.co/fa1qi7qbhO

[Belinda ✨ @yourillus1onist]

GIVEAWAY! 📜🪶

Winner gets a TTPD themed package containing 1 customizable embroidered lyric tee (cropped or full length), a 22” embroidered tote, and a few additional surprise TS gifts added inside!

To enter:
-Repost
-Follow me (so I can dm you if you win!)

That’s all!
Giveaway ends at 11:59pm on Monday (4/22/24). Winner will be chosen at random on Tuesday. Open internationally! 🤍

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, let’s help girls everywhere pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math. Our world is better with their ideas and perspectives.

[Kenneth W Witwer (he/him) @KennethWWitwer]

Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles (MISEV2023): From basic to advanced approaches #MISEV #ExtracellularVesicles
https://t.co/XQf9xHLNYi

@IsevOrg @IsevComms @ISEV_Journals

[Toronto Maple Leafs @MapleLeafs]

“You’re my secret weapon”

The Leaf: Blueprint Moment presented by @Rogers

[Canadian Extracellular Vesicle Society (CanSEV) @CanSEV_Official]

🌟 Exciting News Alert! 🌟 Here is our FIRST-EVER Board of Directors! 🎉 Stay tuned for more to come!

[Taylor Swift Updates @SwiftNYC]

“This is all started when Travis very adorably put me on blast on his podcast, which I thought was metal as hell… we would never be psychotic enough to hard launch a first date. When you say a relationship is public… that means I’m going to see him do what he loves, we’re showing up for each other..” - Taylor Swift on Travis Kelce for @TIME

[Taylor Swift @taylorswift13]

✨🫶 My name is Taylor and I was born in 1989 🫶✨

https://t.co/klomIqGx38

[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 Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) @SickKidsNews]

Last week, SickKids and @SickKids Foundation staff were the first to mark the arrival of #PrecisionChildHealth, a new era of individualized care at SickKids. When we can see the future, we can heal it. 🔮 #SKHealTheFuture #SickKidsVS

[katelyn @noitskatelyn]

all the girls putting on the chiefs/bears game

[Taylor Swift Web @tayswiftdotcom]

Taylor Swift at today’s Chiefs vs Bears game at Arrowhead Stadium!

[Toronto Maple Leafs @MapleLeafs]

FOUR MORE FOR THIRTY FOUR ⚪️🔵

[Taylor Nation @taylornation13]

The rumors are terrible and cruel. But, honey, most of them are true. #1989TaylorsVersion drops October 27 (sound familiar?). Pre-order now at https://t.co/NqTxp3pgPu! 🩵🩵

[hanalia⸆⸉ ia @evermoreguardan]

"I have SUPER diverse music taste."
the music taste:

[Taylor Swift @taylorswift13]

Turns out it’s NOT the end of an era 😝 Miami, New Orleans, Indy and Toronto: The Eras Tour is coming to you in 2024 with @gracieabrams! Verified fan registration for all shows is open now - visit https://t.co/xw6YMN3GMc for more information

[KiSS 92.5 @KiSS925]

Rogers proudly presents Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour

Get ready to dance like it’s 1989, Canada! We're thrilled Swifties are coming together for six unforgettable shows at Rogers Centre in November 2024. For ticket information visit https://t.co/EPL4LAT8Eg

[The Struggling Scientists @TheStrugglingS4]

What a wonderful immune system we have 😅

[Tom Driedonks, PhD @tomdriedonks]

Personal opinion: The biggest challenge in EV research is to stop calling them exosomes
#ISEV2023

[paula🌻 @paulaquags]

Amazed and inspired by all the amazing work in the EV field at @IsevOrg and hearing from some of my research heroes yesterday, led by @KennethWWitwer 🫧🫧🫧