NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” Subheader: “In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

Today, the world marks Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.

This map offers a powerful visual comparison: it shows the vast areas once home to thriving Armenian communities and how that presence has now been drastically reduced.

🚨 MILESTONE ALERT: Network publishes landmark paper in Cancer Cell! 🚨

The paper highlights the Network’s history, objectives and key accomplishments, underscoring how this unprecedented national collaboration is accelerating precision oncology!

More ▶️ bit.ly/4jemiKn

Independent effects of testosterone, estradiol, and sex chromosomes on gene expression in immune cells of trans- and cisgender individuals The origins of sex differences in human disease are elusive, in part because of difficulties in separating the effects of sex hormones and sex chromosomes. To separate these variables, we examined gen...

Sex hormones or sex chromosomes?
More mechanistic insights into #sexdifferences in the immune system.
🧪🖥️🧬 #immunosky

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Whenever I illustrate journal covers and feel confident, I’m reminded of the time I felt VERY confident then proceeded to lose the cover to a picture of a very old rock. #sciart

63 studies: women who assert their ideas, make direct requests, and advocate for themselves are liked less.

They're also less likely to get hired—and it hasn't improved over time.

When will we stop punishing women for violating outdated gender stereotypes?

It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.

Exactly! So peaceful, quiet and everything is clean at all times!

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I officially deleted X! Follow me here for sporadic but semi-useful content about research ( #ovariancancer #bioinformatics #immunology #nkcells #singlecell #spatialbiology), my business (www.designsthatcell.ca #scicomm #sciart), and my very non-chaotic life as a mom of 2 under 4.

PhD parents: the pros and cons of having a child during your doctorate Early-career researchers describe how they juggled workloads, emotions and finances after having children.

Early-career researchers describe to Nature Careers how they juggled workloads, emotions and finances after having children. #AcademicSky 🧪

Comparing Imaging-based #SpatialTranscriptimics methods

CosMx vs MERFISH vs Xenium
1k vs 500 vs 339 plex

FFPE👤Lung/Mesothelium Tumor Microarray

CosMX▶️highest transcript counts/cell
Xenium▶️lowest FDR & highest cell segmentation precision

bioRxiv 2024
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to share our atlas build&use guide, out @naturemethods today. Led by @KHrovatin & @SikkemaLisa w @MDLuecken, our review highlights best practices for building, sharing, and leveraging atlases to unlock new biological discoveries. 🌍@humancellatlas
nature.com/articles/s41592-024-02532-y