As a pianist I am celebrating today the legend Martha Argerich, one of the greatest pianists of our lifetime, a constant source of inspiration for me at the piano and beyond, and whose openness about her fear and anxiety gives me courage to believe in myself. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/a...

As a pianist I am celebrating today the legend Martha Argerich, one of the greatest pianists of our lifetime, a constant source of inspiration for me at the piano and beyond, and whose openness about her fear and anxiety gives me courage to believe in myself. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/a...

On International Women’s Day, I pay tribute to girls and women everywhere who continue to fight oppression with relentless strength, with unbreakable courage. This strength and courage live within all of us. The power is in us.

I hate to say it, but the worst violence from Iran is yet to come. The regime has a long history of targeting the softest possible targets, particularly civilian sites. We are about to see some truly ugly events across the Middle East and beyond. Brace yourselves, but don't give up on humanity.

The UAE is showing tremendous restraint right now. Repeatedly targeting innocent civilians in the Gulf states is a war crime.

My Dad worked for a Saudi company for many years, and lived in Saudi, the UAE, and North Africa. He always loved the UAE and its people. I know he would be as sad as I am if he were still here to see what the criminal Iranian Regime are doing to you.

I am in deep admiration of the fortitude and dignity of the UAE and its citizens, as they face a criminal and unprovoked onslaught on civilian infrastructure from the Iranian Regime. Your courage is boundless and you continue to be a beacon of light in the Middle East.

#Iran today www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPId...

After a day of everyone getting bombed, the entire Middle East will celebrate tonight. Death to the Dictator.

So many emotions. Khamenei is dead. He was old and would have died sooner or later anyhow. There are for sure succession plans in place. But...may the souls of the hundreds of thousands who have died because of him (not just in Iran but also Syria and elsewhere) plague him for eternity.

My heart goes out to the innocent people across the Middle East who are being affected, or worse, hurt by the Islamic Republic I truly hope this is the end of evil in our beautiful region of the world 💕

Just spoke to Mohamed Bin Zayed of the United Arab Emirates. I conveyed our full support and extended our condolences following Iran’s strikes and the resulting casualties. Europe strongly condemns these unjustifiable attacks.

My quote of the day War does not determine who is right - only who is left. Bertrand Russell

The Iranian Regime is a stain on Iran, a stain on history, a stain on humanity. I stand today with all the people of the Middle East (not just inside Iran), who are being targeted indiscriminately by the IRGC. This Regime has to go.

Iranian Regime is apparently indiscriminately attacking Gulf States and Kurdistan. Middle East is on fire. Around me, people gossip about irrelevant stuff. How long can I continue to keep my scream silent?

I managed to pull myself together enough to get my child to a ballet lesson. All the parents are sitting here gossiping about trivial stuff oblivious to the world outside being on fire. Suppressing the urge to scream. My earring choice today was appropriate...

I know it's hard to imagine, but you can simultaneously want the Regime gone, want a free Kurdistan and a free Balochistan, and feel bad about multiple countries bombing Iran, and the fact that this is the price for any hope of Regime change. These are not contradictory opinions.

Saudi are joining in too now apparently after Iranian strike on Saudi a few hours ago. I feel sick.

Today is Rare Disease Day, a day for all us zebras to show our stripes with pride and celebrate and raise awareness. My heart is too heavy today, but I can't leave the day unnoticed. Rare is many. Rare is strong. Rare is proud.

My childhood was shaped by being bombed by Saddam. The trauma still sits with me decades later. While I would be the first to celebrate regime change, my heart bleeds for a generation of children that will carry the same trauma.

🎉Congrats to Professor @lynnkamerlin.bsky.social on being named an @iop.org Fellow. Kamerlin's research in computational biophysics is at the intersection of chemistry and biology. She investigates fundamental physical chemistry and uses computational tools to understand biomolecular problems.

As everyone gears up for war with Iran without any real plans for what will come next in one of the most volatile regions in the world, tonight I am just very sad. If this Regime stays in power, countless more will die. But the price of removing them will also be very high. 💔

In 1967, physicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered radio pulsars. #OTD in 1968, Burnell, Antony Hewish, and 3 other male colleagues published a paper on the discovery in 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦--but, the 1974 Nobel Prize in #Physics for their discovery was awarded only to Hewish. #MatildaEffect #WomenInSTEM

Becoming Chartered isn’t just gaining a title - it’s earning a respected mark of professional excellence. Professional registration recognises your expertise, validates your experience and demonstrates your commitment to the highest standards in your field.

Accepting AI "collaboration" means stealing ideas with no acknowledgement supporting data centers that are ecologically terrible, socially terrible, and using programs that are killing people. No advance in mathematics is worth this. None.

Please get him off LinkedIn...

The first all-female team to share a Nobel Prize in science: biochemists Jennifer Doudna & Emmanuelle Charpentier. They won the 2020 #Nobel Prize in #Chemistry "for the development of a method for genome editing (CRISPR-Cas9)." Jennifer Doudna was born #OTD in 1964. #WomenInSTEM

Three postdoctoral fellowships in quantitative biology are available as part of a new Quantitative Biology Initiative in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland. Best consideration date: 3/14 Job Ad: umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j... Department: biology.umd.edu/people

Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu died #OTD in 1997. She conducted the Wu experiment (proving parity isn't conserved) for which her male colleagues won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics. Her role wasn't publicly honored until she was awarded the inaugural Wolf Prize in 1978. #WomenInSTEM #MatildaEffect

Please spread the word: the Structural Studies Division @mrclmb.bsky.social is looking for a new tenure-track, independent group leader with an exciting plan in any area of Structural (Molecular & Cell) biology, in discovery biology and/or methods development. 🥳 mrc.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

James Van Der Beek was part of one of the most influential shows of a certain era, a show that loomed large to a certain generation of critics. Beyond that, he was talented, willing to poke fun at himself & seemed like a good man. Extremely sad news. Way, way too young. 💚 people.com/james-van-de...

Deeply honored to be included in this showcase. If interested, you can read my interview here: www.biochemistry.org/about-us/new... Happy UN International Day of Women and Girls in Science!

This year's MSCA call was brutal. My stellar postdoc got 96.4 and was below cutoff. For chemistry it seems cutoff was 97.6, with 96.6 for the reserve list. This was their 3rd time applying, year 1 87, Year 2 93, this year 96.4. Each year the bar moved. At those cutoffs, peer review is meaningless.

Iran sentences Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi to seven more years in prison

Egal, wie die Situation im Iran weitergehen wird, egal wie lange die Mullahs sich noch an der Macht halten werden. Diese hier geschlagene Wunde wird in der mehr als 5500 Jahre währenden iranischen Geschichte eine tiefe Zäsur hinterlassen. Es wird nie wieder ein Leben wie zuvor im Iran geben.

ausreichend, um die massenhaften Gräueltaten zu beschreiben, die die Mullahs im Iran ausführen. Es gibt herzzerreißende Nachrichten von Menschen, die es kurz schaffen, eine Internet- oder Telefonverbindung zu etablieren. Jeder erzählt von Ermordeten. Ich habe von meiner Familie noch nichts gehört.

hingerichtet. Es wird wahllos gezielt auf Menschen geschossen, Menschen werden mit Fahrzeugen überrollt. Es gibt Berichte über Schwerverletzte, die vom Regime einfach so in Leichenhäuser gebracht werden und entweder dort sterben oder ermordet werden. Das Wort bestialisch ist nicht ansatzweise

Im Iran wurden in den letzten Wochen vermutlich mehr als 50.000 Menschen durch das Mullah-Regime ermordet. Das ist ein Massaker von historischem Ausmaß. Die Mullah-Schergen erschießen Menschen in Krankenhäusern, egal ob Bedienstete oder "Protestler". Menschen werden von der Straße weg entführt und

That explains the 10 police cars and 1 ambulance that went by this morning...

They blocked the 85 southbound ramp to make way for ten police cars and an ambulance with sirens on. Nothing in the news yet. I hope nothing too horrific has happened. @ajc.com #Atlanta

As storms and floods continue to strike Portugal and Spain and leaving loss and destruction behind, our thoughts are with everyone affected. Europe stands in solidarity with our Member States and their communities in this difficult moment.

February is Rare Disease Month 🦓 I have three ultra rare unrelated genetic conditions, one of which (Kallmann Syndrome) you probably saw a lot of in the news lately... I also have lost babies to Turner Syndrome and to an ultra rare SRP, an always lethal form of skeletal dysplasia. 1/

"Vi efterfrågar nyskapande forskning, men finansierar trygghet. Vi hyllar originalitet, men belönar förutsägbarhet. Så länge denna innovationsparadox består förblir banbrytande forskning något vi gärna talar om, men mer sällan finansierar." 1/2 www.tidningencurie.se/debatt/vi-be...

به نام خدای رنگین‌کمان (In the name of the G-d of rainbows) 💔 #Iran

When they cut off the internet, we knew a massacre was about to happen, but no one could have imagined the scale. 40,000 killed in two days = 20,000 people / day, 833 people / hour, 14 people / minute, 1 person killed every 5 seconds (on average). Can your heart process that? #Iran

#Iran 💔 (from Insta, not my immediate family, what I got is thanks we're still alive)

I was on the Georgia Tech Research Library's Rock'n'Roll Radio Show "Lost in the Stacks" today. Tune in for Open Science and topical music! lostinthestacks.libsyn.com/episode-671-...

Current mood.