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Just realized that the glitches I'm having with ScienCV are because I have two NCBI accounts... My ORCiD is linked to the obsolete acct, which means that I can't link it to my current acct... I've send a message to NCBI support desk to merge accts, and I hope they are staffed enough to respond...

Portrait of @nobelprize.org laureate Carol Greider for the @nationalacademies.org. Alongside her mentor Elizabeth Blackburn, Dr Greider identified telomerase, an enzyme that maintains the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes known as telomeres. More: explorers.com/carol-grieder/ #SciArt

Delighted to have our work on 🧬 resilience to 🩸cancer led by @g-agarwal.bsky.social & amazing collaborators, including @kharaslab.bsky.social, published in @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵

My cartoon for the latest @newscientist.com

If you’ve heard me talk in the past ~5 years, you will know I have developed an obsession with acrocentric chromosomes. This is all of that, condensed into one paper. I will do a full thread in the new year, but for those that want something to read over the holidays, have at it. Such a cool story!

Congrats to Nancy Speck, PhD, recipient of the E. Donnall Thomas Lecture and Prize, honoring seminal discoveries in hematopoiesis and leukemogenesis! 6/12

Absolutely thrilled to share the latest work from my lab focused on the variation and evolution of human centromeres among global populations! We assembled 2,110 human centromeres, identifying 226 new major haplotypes and 1,870 α-satellite HOR variants. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Between words of endearment, grandma will gently urge you to buy more crypto...

Q: Why is the brain anxious? A: Because it's made of nervous tissue.

Congratulations to @mafdawson.bsky.social for being awarded the Dameshek Prize by @ash.hematology.org at #ASH25!

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Incredible E. Donnall Thomas award talk by Nancy Speck at #ASH25 @ash.hematology.org. Such a beautiful retrospective of her career and landmark contributions! I'm so honored to have her as a friend and mentor.

Congratulations to Dr. Jorge Di Paola for winning the 2025 ASH Mentor Award and Dr. Diane Krause for winning the ASH Advancing Inclusive Excellence Award! @ash.hematology.org President Dr. Avalos was honored to present these at #ASH25

So great to connect at ASH with Jing Luan, who was a technician in the lab of Mitch Weiss (working with me when I was post-doc there), then an MD/PhD student in the lab of Gerd Blobel, and who will begin her Heme-Onc fellowship at Dana Farber next year!

My dream at the @ash.hematology.org meeting is to get a string of ribbons all the way down to my ankles! 😂

Absolutely fantastic Epigenetics and Genomics session on the latest frontiers of enhancer biology by @andersshansen.bsky.social, Martin Rivas and Mira Kassouf at the @ash.hematology.org annual meeting. Chaired by Megan McNerney.

What an awesome stem cell session speaker group for #ASH25 Workshop on Myeloid Development @vangalenlab.bsky.social @thekinglab.bsky.social @paralkarlab.bsky.social Sandra Pinho and Allison Yeh (love the photobomb!)

ASH is coming! Excited to present alongside Vikram Paralkar, Sandra Pinho, Peter Van Galen, and Alison Yeh at the stem cell session of the myeloid workshop on Friday. @ericpietras.bsky.social will be moderating— don’t miss it!

who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there

I've been making small donations to Wikipedia for many years. Given the enormous service that it provides to all of us, it's in our collective interest to keep it smoothly running.

Listening to Bach and marveling, just marveling, at the fact that such music exists on this earth.

I now know how antigens feel... 😅

Most of us wouldn't be able to tell that this blot is fake! We're headed towards a topsy-turvy future. 😵‍💫

For 40+ years, the ASH Scholar Award has helped jumpstart careers in hematology—funding 678 awards, $82M in research, and $3B in follow-on funding. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4idJLvV #ASHAwards

Why did I never before realize that the Michelin that gives ⭐stars⭐ to restaurants for exquisite dining is the same puffy Michelin dude who sells tyres?!?

Step 1: Don't own any bitcoin.

It's so difficult to "score" applicants for our PhD and MD/PhD program this year - they are all so accomplished, eloquent, intelligent, and driven! My recommendation: Recruit them all! 😁

Hope this terrible law isn't passed by Congress...

No. No. Absolutely not. The ethics of primate research are complicated enough already. Please DO NOT bring back Homo erectus or some other extinct human ancestor!

Mutations in mitochondrial rRNA are recurrently observed in cancers! 😳🤯

Our latest paper has just been published in Cell! doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... We developed a new method called MCC ultra, which allows 3D chromatin structure to be visualised with a 1 base pair pixel size.

👇👇 Mark your calendars! Fri, Dec 5, 3-7pm @ ASH. 🐔🐔

Important PSA! ASH Scientific Workshop website is experiencing a technical problem; YES, the Myeloid Workshop should be on the website and has an excellent speaker lineup already, stay tuned! @steidluli.bsky.social

I am a boring old lady and I already dropped off my mail in ballot weeks ago, but YOU CAN STILL VOTE TOMORROW (well, some of you). These elections REALLY MATTER, so please don't sit them out. Apathy is our enemy.

(1/10) How do diverse leukemia mutations converge on the same molecular program? In #RibackLab first manuscript @cp-cell.bsky.social, collaboration with @goodell-lab.bsky.social shows that disparate mutations rewire shared protein networks to form nuclear condensates called C-bodies.

What is the best fantasy film ever made? I nominate Pan's Labyrinth! One of the most extraordinary and devastating movies I've ever watched.

No spoilers, but was anyone else really frustrated with the ending of "A House of Dynamite"? The structure of the movie itself makes sense, but only if the ending is able to bring it together. The screenwriter and director entirely failed to achieve that goal.

Two PROTAC questions: 1) Does anyone know of a PROTAC for GFP (which could be used to degrade any GFP-tagged protein)? 2) Does anyone have experience with any of the available PROTACs for Halo (like HaloPROTAC3)?

I don't know if it's just me, but it seems like the deluge of fall pumpkin references in everything - recipes, restaurants, social media, television shows, decorations - is just increasing exponentially year over year! 🎃

The actor's Michael J. Fox Foundation is now 25 years old, and has raised over $2.5 billion for Parkinson's research. globalnews.ca/news/1149130...

Congratulations @oawlab.bsky.social! Richly deserved!

Congratulations @ksusztak.bsky.social and Gerd Blobel (not on Bluesky)!!!

New “discrete state” model of hematopoiesis published in Nature Immunology. rdcu.be/eL8oO We propose a hierarchical model of hematopoiesis where stable “discrete states” serve as key regulatory nodes.

This year the ASH Bridge Grant is funding 25 scientists with $3.75M, 5X more than last year, to keep hematology research moving forward. Congratulations to the recipients! https://bit.ly/3HJ51Ma #HemeSky #MedSKy #ASHAwards

Why is it that the one time I don't ask, "Can you see my screen?" it takes three slides of me explaining complex graphs before someone chimes in with, "Uh, I'm not seeing any shared slides..."

Is there a particular kind of PPT "aesthetic" that's most effective for scientific presentations? There's a slide format with a minimalist aesthetic of Cell Press journals (which I like) that I'm increasingly seeing at conferences - is there a website where people are downloading such a template?

Little-known fact: Checking the status of a submitted manuscript multiple times a day does not cause it to more rapidly move along the internal journal pipeline...

There comes a moment in your life when you realize that it's been forever since someone carded you at a bar or liquor store. That is a sad moment indeed ... 😢

It's a strange and vexing feeling to read and score grants for an upcoming NIH study section this month. I have no idea if the study section will even take place, but I do know that I owe each applicant a careful assessment...