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Associate Professor at University of Utah #MPNSM @UofUHematology @huntsmancancer @bowdoincollege @emorymsp @brighamheme My own thoughts/(very strong) opinions!

[Jason Locasale @LocasaleLab]

NIH stagnation becomes biology’s stagnation.

This is largely true because NIH sets the course that nonprofits and industry follow. It continues to fund university expansion, bureaucratic centers and programs, and narrow research directions controlled by the same people for decades, while neglecting many of the most important questions in biology, including how environmental influences affect organisms.

AI and lab automation will not solve this bureaucratic stall or the problem of asking the wrong questions and leaving important ones unasked.

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Think about an outspoken woman you “hate” on Twitter. Now think of a man who’s more outspoken. Do you hate him, too? If not, reflect.

[Elf Lab 🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️⚧️👊🏾👊🏽🟧💊🍉💉🌎🐴 @TheElfLab]

The Department of Oncological Sciences at the University of Utah is recruiting faculty at the assistant professor level! Please apply and RT! This department is FANTASTIC! https://t.co/ggI8pckjd0

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

The greatest trick misinformation ever pulled was making expertise look suspicious.

[Venkat Ramaswamy @VenkRamaswamy]

Karl Deisseroth has 4 kids and sees patients in the clinic, in addition to running a lab that does cool work.
I often think of this, when I feel overwhelmed.

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

@VenkRamaswamy Plus his wife is an absolute research powerhouse of her own who received a Macaurther genius award a few years ago. It’s amazing.

[Jason Locasale @LocasaleLab]

I actually agree to a large extent, but there is a bigger issue.

When I was younger, I let more established people take credit for some of my bigger discoveries. I didn’t care because I thought the science would progress anyway, and I would just get more ideas and discover more things. That was my focus.

A couple of them even used those discoveries to get top-level administrative jobs at Harvard and MIT. They contributed very little intellectually but were happy to take as much credit as possible. I really didn’t care at the time.

The issue with doing that is that you let those less deserving get more authority and power.

In this case, Boyden is fine. He has plenty of money, prestige, and power for himself and his lab, and he can keep doing more science if he wants.

Nevertheless, we still need a better merit system for scientists. Otherwise, those who talk the loudest and are the most politically savvy will absorb the credit and use it to gain power, while the people who actually made the discoveries have less ability to keep making them. If you keep doing that, the system decays to zero.

[Elf Lab 🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️⚧️👊🏾👊🏽🟧💊🍉💉🌎🐴 @TheElfLab]

Lucky you, Division of Oncology!!!

[Huntsman Cancer Institute @huntsmancancer]

We are proud to share that Theresa Werner, MD, has been named chief of the Division of Oncology in @UofUInternalMed. Her leadership will help advance cancer care, research, and education for patients across Utah and the Mountain West. https://t.co/IueF8ZvUsQ

[News from Science @NewsfromScience]

Exclusive: “The instant I saw the picture my mouth fell open and my pulse began to race.” So wrote James Watson in The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA, his controversial account of how he and Francis Crick deciphered the structure of DNA in 1953.

The image, now known as photograph 51, showed an elegant, symmetrical pattern of spots formed by x-rays diffracted from strands of DNA—the fingerprint of the molecule’s helical structure.

Rosalind Franklin, an x-ray crystallographer, had produced the image in the spring of 1952. But Watson’s 1968 book, amid other slights and sexist language directed at Franklin, implied the flash of insight was his alone.

Popular accounts still routinely suggest Franklin missed the significance of the photo. She never had a chance to challenge Watson’s dismissive narrative; she died of cancer in 1958, a decade before his memoir was released and became a bestseller.

But a new analysis of her notes on another x-ray image, which she made just days earlier using the same DNA sample, offers a firm rebuttal.

Learn more: https://t.co/M7Jm1ykMkT

[UChicago Leukemia Program @UChicagoLeuk]

check out the upcoming @theNCI Early Drug Development Meeting which features @Anand_88_Patel as a speaker!

https://t.co/w08biuWDqV

[Amer Zeidan عامر زيدان @Dr_AmerZeidan]

Many congratulations to dr Alan List for receiving the 2026 Life Achievement Award from the International Consortium for #MDSsm @ic_MDS in #iwMDSMPN2026 workshop for all the amazing contributions & his lifelong dedication to help patients with myelodysplastic syndromes @VJHemOnc

[Elvin Wagenblast @Elvin_Wag]

🧬 Happy to share our new study in @BloodAdvances! Many inherited cancer predisposition genes only cause disease once a second mutation arrives. We tested that directly, combining CRISPR editing of human primary blood stem cells with xenotransplantation.🧵https://t.co/mPDIjQLQuJ

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

The human nervous system was not built to withstand two Trump administrations.

[VJHemOnc @VJHemOnc]

📸 Snapshots from Session 14 at #iwMDSMPN26, "Short perspectives on future plans for clinical trials around the world" - featuring US, Canadian, and French perspectives from @Dr_AmerZeidan, Steven Gore, Olatoyosi Odenike (@myeloidmalig), Rena Buckstein & @thomas_cluzeau. 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇷

#MDSsm #CTSM #HemOnc

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@MilsomMick @bloodgenes @DKFZ @hi_stem_lab This is so cool! Congrats to you all!!

[Mick Milsom @MilsomMick]

New publication from the labs of Duncan Odom, Marieke Essers, Thomas Höfer and myself @DKFZ @hi_stem_lab Concentrating cell-type-specific transcriptional signatures in bone marrow from interspecies comparisons: Cell Genomics https://t.co/64t19IHcal

[AA&MDSIF @aamdsif]

On World Animal Day, here is a story of how Davina helps Jane as she continues to negotiate life with MDS, or Myelodysplastic Syndromes.
Read the update of here story here: https://t.co/ggEB33RdQP
Does your pet help your emotional or physical health as you live with aplastic anemia, MDS, or PNH? Let us know how in the comments, or write [email protected] to send your response.

#aplasticanemia #mds #pnh #bonemarrowfailure #bloodcancer

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@doctorpemm @VJHemOnc @MPN_RF @mpdrc @AYACOUB7 @harrisoncn1 @GabyHobbs @RaajitRampal @beth_psaila @Dr_AmerZeidan @CarrawayHetty @madanatyazan @KuykendallMd @VivekSubbiah Love you all!

[Naveen Pemmaraju, MD @doctorpemm]

👉👉👉Wonderful meeting 💡 iWMDS/iWMPN meeting this weekend in Washington, DC! #MPNSM | @VJHemOnc @MPN_RF @mpdrc @AYACOUB7