This holiday season, I'm leaning into the things that give me hope for the future: 1) LEGO and 2) Star Trek

It's that time of year again when our labs walk, run, and bike to raise money for cancer research @ucirvine.bsky.social! Please consider a donation or joining our team Not Fast Just Furious! All funds raised go directly to funding cancer research at UCI!! www.anti-cancerchallenge.org/nrpann

A number of firsts this year including my first time participating in commencement @ucirvine.bsky.social and hooding my first 2 graduate students that have earned their PhDs!! Congratulations Valeria and Melissa! You are both amazing and this is only the beginning! 💪🧬🧪🦸‍♀️🦸‍♀️

Check out our latest story @natcancer.nature.com co-led with @masrilab.bsky.social that reviews how the circadian clock intersects several aspects of cancer biology. Excited to be part of this collaborative team effort to understand impacts on DNA repair, early onset cancer, and cancer treatment 💪🧬🕔

Such a proud PI moment to have the 1st graduate student in my lab defend and earn her PhD!! Dr. Valeria Rangel is going to take the world by storm, so watch out for her 💪👩‍🔬🧬🧪

Welcome to the winning intersection where everything we need for the lab costs more and we have less funding to buy it. Totally sustainable 🧐

And thus endeth a 227 day streak. Wordle 1,426 X/6* ⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ 🟨⬛⬛🟨🟨 🟨🟩⬛🟩⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩

Just watched this episode. John Oliver did an outstanding job breaking everything down, even what indirects costs are! It’s our job to get all this information out, especially to inform the general public. This needs to stop. Now.

HuffPost feed just openly advertising jobs in Germany now amongst their headlines....

The cast and crew of Pannunzio Lab season 6! Despite everything going on we continue to grow and be productive. Their excitement about science is contagious. These are the people that keep me coming in every day 💪🫀🧬

I just donated to #PanCANPurpleStride and you should, too! Help those impacted by pancreatic cancer thrive by donating today or registering and joining us on Sat., April 26, 2025!

So incredibly proud of this issue, of all the authors that participated in it and shared their views, of all my Cancer Cell colleagues and their hard work and dedication, and our EiC Steve for steering us and the journal into new directions that keep us centered and guided by the patients always 💜

Here’s a starter pack you can send to friends. go.bsky.app/2K6jTi5

Feeling so liberated! Liberated from money...liberated from science...liberated from the Bill of Rights...

Please vote and support our work @ucirvine.bsky.social!! @statnews.com

Final 4, folks! @masrilab.bsky.social has moved into the semi-finals of STAT madness and is up against FIU. C'mon people, get your votes in and help push the @ucirvine.bsky.social team to the championship!!! 💪🧪🧬🕔 www.statnews.com/feature/stat...

Doing exciting undergrad research in SoCal over the summer? Join us at UC Irvine for our annual SoCal Undergraduate Chemistry Research Symposium on Aug 7 to present your awesome work! More event info can be found at sites.uci.edu/ugradchem/. Register here by July 11: forms.gle/6UfTMZ5XcQcM...

Elite 8!!! @masrilab.bsky.social has advanced to the 4th round in Stat Madness and is now up against the team at CMU. Can UCI go all the way? That's up to you...get your votes in now! 🧪🧬🕔 www.statnews.com/feature/stat...

Awesome news, @masrilab.bsky.social has advanced to the round of 16 in STAT madness! If you have a few moments, please participate in this fun activity and vote for UCI! We are excited to see how far we can go! 💪🧬🧪

Calling on all Blueskies to help @masrilab.bsky.social by voting in the STAT Madness competition; a friendly competition for bragging rights. They've made it to round 2 and you can help them go all the way! Set up a free account and vote up to 5x per round! Go UCI! www.statnews.com/feature/stat...

200% tariff will be great for the "Champagne businesses in the U.S." 🤔Time to step it up Champaign, IL. They take away our funding and our alcohol and tell us we are not allowed to protest?! Where did they get this checklist of how to specifically piss off every scientist in the country?

Any plans for this Friday? 👀 Join scientists across the US as they organize to defend science as a public good and a pillar of social, political, and economic progress. Learn how you can participate: standupforscience202... #hematology @standupforscience.bsky.social #HemeSky

Wondering if your study section cancelled? I update this sheet daily. As of today, 56/124 study sections that should have met since Jan 2, 2025 have "not met as scheduled." docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

A federal judge blocked Trump's sweeping executive order ending government support for DEI programs

The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

Very important to get this word out!

I Used to Run the N.I.H. Here’s What Worries Me. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

Petition to Reverse the NIH Indirect Cost Cap. Sign and Circulate. Mobilize. Organize. chng.it/LS57Nk7r6k

Busy changing everyone's NOAs? 🤔

I just contacted my representative in congress, please do the same! We need to be vocal about what this administration is doing to destroy biomedical research! www.house.gov/representati...

Sadly, our colleague and friend Scott Hawley passed away this morning. He was an irreplaceable presence and force for good in the meiosis an Drosophila communities and will be sorely missed.

So we’ve lost Pubmed…

Aaaaaaaaand PubMed is now a 403 Forbidden error.

Have they completely lost their mind? A freeze to all federal spending. Just a blanket statement with no details? As if no one is depending on this funding. Upending 95% of the government and economy to get rid of the 5% that triggers them on their revenge tour www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

Now more than ever it's important for communities that support science to band together. The future of cancer health disparity research in the US is in jeopardy. If you're interested in connecting to other disparities researchers on bsky, I can add you to this starter pack 💪🧬🩸💉🔬 go.bsky.app/HyLFqvg

There is a lot of bad news this week, but the end of the NIH diversity supplement program is hitting hard. I will be looking here for ideas about direct action.

First speaker in the joint session between #KSMetastasis25 and #KSNeuroCancer25: Devon Lawson presented on commonalities in multiorgan metastasis, including to the brain. Using niche labeling and scRNAseq they found a common signaling interaction between cancer cells and macrophages.

Two generations of graduate students! Final year Valeria Rangel and 1st year Alejandra Aguilar Quintero present their poster @keystonesymposia.bsky.social on Precision Oncology in Breckenridge, CO. Next order of business: snowman ☃️

So great to present our work on disparities in Ph-like ALL and on genome dataset diversity @keystonesymposia.bsky.social on Precision Medicine! Many thanks to organizers John Carpten, Chanita Hughes Halbert, and David Solit!

My lab gave me a No button for the holidays. Press it and it says "No" in several ways. An essential tool for any pre-tenure faculty 🤣😅

Amazing @masrilab.bsky.social ! So much good news and good science in 2024!!!

🚨 @masrilab.bsky.social is now on Bluesky 🦋to share more great discoveries and news about @chronobiology.bsky.social #circadian #circadianrhythm #cancer 🚨

Ahhh...the lab...things always get crazy around the holidays. For context, we had to make a dessert from India for our departmental holiday party, and this was apparently the appropriate picture to put next to it 😅🎄☃️

@ucirvine.bsky.social highlighting amazing from Dr. Selma Masri's lab as one of 12 major discoveries from the UC system this year! 🤩💪

Register by Dec. 17 (11:59pm MST) for the Microproteins conference and save $200! Join organizer @thomasmartinez.bsky.social, Keynote Speaker @Jonathan W. Yewdell, and other experts to explore microproteins' roles in health and disease in Massachusetts! keysym.us/KSMicroprote... #KSMicroproteins25

2nd year PhD student Victoria Shen's 1st ever poster presentation is officially in the books 🥳💪 🤩 More great work to come from her! Thanks to the @ucirvine.bsky.social Institute for Immunology for the T32 support.

Still time to register for this Keystone Symposium on Precision Oncology happening in January! Organized by John Carpten, Chanita Hughes-Halbert, and David Solit! I don't ski, so I'll be inside enjoying the science where it is warm 😅🥶❄️⛷️ www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...

Excited to build a cancer health disparities community here 🦋 A place for scientists, clinicians, advocates, activists, and survivors #CancerSky 💪🧬🟰🔬🧪 Let me know if you are interested in joining or have anyone in mind to add! go.bsky.app/HyLFqvg

"I think there is a floor centrifuge down in the basement..."

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