@JSheltzer Avatar @JSheltzer Jason Sheltzer

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Social category influence countries 3.67% social networks 2.75% technology brands 2.75% finance 2.75% stocks 1.83% cryptocurrencies 0.92% travel destinations 0.92%

Social topic influence science 10.09%, this is 6.42%, if you 6.42%, share 5.5%, breaking news 4.59%, pi 3.67%, breaking 3.67%, nih 3.67%, the new 2.75%, the most 2.75%

Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @sciencemagazine @mankosmash @joans @cahleom @precedent_vice @marco20307855 @zguy53 @stanfordcancer @philholliger @nejm @xkcd @naturecancer @zstorchova @molsystbiol @heatherwilhelm @cwgreider @mclneuro @daniafrancis @alliecmorgan @aaronclauset

Top assets mentioned Eli Lilly and Company (LLY) MultiVAC (MTV)

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"My lab at @StanfordCancer is hiring research technicians for multiple projects on cancer genomics and therapeutics. This is a great opportunity for individuals looking to gain additional lab experience before applying to PhD or MD programs. More info below - please share"
X Link 2026-01-27T16:38Z 18.6K followers, 27.9K engagements

"The new class of HHMI investigators average [---] papers as corresponding author in Cell Nature or Science. [--] out of [--] members of this group previously trained with a PI who is in the National Academy of Sciences or who was an HHMI investigator themselves"
X Link 2024-07-24T14:41Z 18.6K followers, 350K engagements

"If you're an international PhD student at Harvard working on something that my lab is familiar with and you're at risk of deportation shoot me an email. We may be able to host you or find someone else who can. Breaking News: The Trump administration halted Harvards ability to enroll international students a major escalation in its battle with the school. https://t.co/ncsGwrDK0M Breaking News: The Trump administration halted Harvards ability to enroll international students a major escalation in its battle with the school. https://t.co/ncsGwrDK0M"
X Link 2025-05-23T02:32Z 18.6K followers, 87.7K engagements

"And Multivac said "let there be GGC AGG GCA GCG CAG UCG GAC AUU GAU AAC GGA AUC GAG CCC GCC" and there was life"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:24Z 18.6K followers, 39.8K engagements

"Check out our new study in @ScienceMagazine where we take on a 100-year-old debate: whats the role of aneuploidy in cancer We discovered that genetically removing extra chromosomes blocks cancer growth - a phenomenon we call aneuploidy addiction. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg4521 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg4521"
X Link 2023-07-06T18:14Z 18.6K followers, 383.9K engagements

"In two weeks the [----] Nobel Prizes will be announced. Based on looking at other pre-Nobel predictor prizes I think that these [--] scientists are the most likely candidates:"
X Link 2025-09-23T21:03Z 18.6K followers, 87.1K engagements

"Looking for ideas - does anyone have an LLM-resistant approach to screen bioinformatician candidates"
X Link 2026-02-02T18:07Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Im open to ideas or advice Has anyone had success with an LLM-resistant coding challenge"
X Link 2026-02-02T18:07Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements

"AI is cool and all. but a new paper in @ScienceMagazine kind of figured out the origin of life The paper reports the discovery of a simple 45-nucleotide RNA molecule that can perfectly copy itself"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:24Z 18.6K followers, 845.1K engagements

"This demonstrates that a pretty simple biological molecule can execute two complex functions at the same time - catalyzing nucleotide ligation while also serving as its own template"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:24Z 18.6K followers, 37.1K engagements

"Amazing paper from @PhilHolliger https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt2760 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt2760"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:25Z 18.6K followers, 58.3K engagements

"I don't know who needs to hear it but there is an S. pyogenes Cas9 PAM sequence exactly 4bp downstream of the wild-type allele. DNA mutation lets some people live healthily on only [--] hours' sleep https://t.co/pDUrjQ2heh https://t.co/LzODNgNq1p DNA mutation lets some people live healthily on only [--] hours' sleep https://t.co/pDUrjQ2heh https://t.co/LzODNgNq1p"
X Link 2019-09-02T21:23Z 18.6K followers, [---] engagements

"What does it take to become an HHMI Investigator I looked at the pub histories and training records of the new HHMI Investigators appointed in [----]. The median PI had [--] last-author papers in CNS when they were selected and [--] out of [--] were trained in an HHMI or NAS lab"
X Link 2019-10-16T16:30Z 18.6K followers, [---] engagements

"And to everyone out there feeling disappointed about not making the #ForbesUnder30 list please remember that Feng Zhang was never chosen while Elizabeth Holmes was awarded the [--] under [--] lifetime achievement prize and gave the keynote address at their conference"
X Link 2019-12-03T16:52Z 18.6K followers, [---] engagements

"This arrived in the mail this morning. (Perfect timing) But uhh. what on earth should I do with it"
X Link 2019-12-19T15:37Z 18.6K followers, [---] engagements

"Question: Your PI gives you [--] flasks: [--] with cancer cells and [--] with rapidly-dividing non-cancer cells (ES cells 3T3's etc). She then locks you in a very fancy metabolism lab and says figure out which ones are cancers. What experiment(s) should you do"
X Link 2020-01-03T17:07Z 18.6K followers, [---] engagements

"New research from @joans and me on COVID-19: smoking triggers the expansion of a subpopulation of lung cells that express the coronavirus receptor ACE2. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.28.013672v1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.28.013672v1"
X Link 2020-03-31T15:48Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements

"It seems so out-of-place to be receiving any good news this month but Im incredibly grateful to the NIH and NCI for funding my labs R01 and Im excited to (eventually) get started on the work"
X Link 2020-04-15T15:12Z 18.6K followers, [---] engagements

"New data in @NEJM: smoking increases your chances of dying from #COVID19 by 80%. If you have COPD COVID19 mortality is tripled. But there's no increased risk of death in former smokers. Quitting smoking is one of the healthiest decisions someone can make. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2007621query=featured_home https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2007621query=featured_home"
X Link 2020-05-03T16:01Z 18.6K followers, [---] engagements

"A glimpse into our future: South Korea re-opens its bars and nightclubs. A Covid+ person visits three nightclubs in one weekend. 1500+ people potentially exposed [--] new Covid cases confirmed. South Korea re-closes its bars and nightclubs. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/09/world/coronavirus-news.html#click=https://t.co/r5eN9KvdPo https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/09/world/coronavirus-news.html#click=https://t.co/r5eN9KvdPo"
X Link 2020-05-09T16:46Z 18.6K followers, [---] engagements

"As labs reopen institutions must have a mechanism for trainees to report unsafe working conditions. If a PI tries to pack their lab do you have someone that employees can turn to Is there someone who can tell Professor Nobel-Graybeard that all [--] PDs can't be in lab at once"
X Link 2020-05-19T21:06Z 18.6K followers, [---] engagements

"👏👏 Cold Spring Harbor has removed Jim Watson's name from its graduate school. Going forward its name will be the "The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory School of Biological Sciences". https://www.cshl.edu/cshl-trustees-vote-on-future-of-graduate-school/ https://www.cshl.edu/cshl-trustees-vote-on-future-of-graduate-school/"
X Link 2020-07-03T23:36Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Scientists on twitter trying to improve the culture of academia by calling out bad behavior encouraging preprints and open-access publications over CNS supporting research that uses a variety of different model systems and promoting a healthy work-life balance"
X Link 2020-07-22T16:38Z 18.6K followers, [---] engagements

"Rosalind Franklin's 100th birthday is this weekend. I've seen many people claim that she couldn't share the [----] Double Helix Nobel Prize because she died in [----]. This is false. Dag Hammarskjold won the prize posthumously in [----]. 'No posthumous prizes' wasn't a rule until 1974"
X Link 2020-07-26T15:03Z 18.6K followers, [---] engagements

"Here are the publication records and research topic areas of [--] faculty candidates in the life sciences who interviewed at R1 institutions in 2019-2020. 70% have a first-author paper in Cell Nature or Science 22% have a K99 and 30% have unpublished work on bioRxiv"
X Link 2020-08-11T17:16Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements

"What happens to a paper submitted to a top journal Among a set of manuscripts sent out for review by Cell in 2018: -33% were published in Cell -26% were published in another Cell-family journal -7% are still under review at Cell -The median time to publication was [---] days"
X Link 2020-08-26T16:01Z 18.6K followers, [---] engagements

"In two weeks the Nobel Committee at the Karolinska Institute will award the [----] Nobel Prize in Medicine/Physiology. Who will win We dont know for sure - but I think that we can make some educated guesses"
X Link 2020-09-23T14:03Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements

"There may be a fascinating controversy in store for the Nobel Prize this year. One of the awardees Michael Houghton previously was awarded but declined to accept the Gairdner Prize because it didn't include two researchers who he felt made key contributions to the discovery:"
X Link 2020-10-05T10:12Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Something to remember - Feng Zhang was never selected for Forbes' #30Under30 list while Elizabeth Holmes was awarded their Lifetime Achievement Prize and then gave the keynote address at the [--] under [--] summit"
X Link 2020-12-01T15:10Z 18.6K followers, [---] engagements

"Some background: one of the best ways to collect real-world evidence of discrimination is through name-swapping "audit" studies. In these experiments people are presented with job applications resumes mortgage applications etc. that are identical except for the name"
X Link 2021-01-24T15:53Z 18.6K followers, [---] engagements

"The applicants name is varied to suggest the individuals race/ethnicity/gender. Think John vs Juan or Michael vs. Michelle"
X Link 2021-01-24T15:53Z 18.6K followers, [---] engagements

"These audit studies have demonstrated significant discrimination in a variety of contexts. For instance John is more likely to be hired than Jennifer for a scientific position even if they have otherwise-identical resumes. https://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/16474 https://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/16474"
X Link 2021-01-24T15:53Z 18.6K followers, [---] engagements

"The researchers found that when a transcript showing strong grades was given a black female name counselors were 20% less likely to recommend them for AP calc compared to an identical but anonymous transcript"
X Link 2021-01-24T15:53Z 18.6K followers, [---] engagements

"You can see that other gender/race combinations mostly cluster around [--]. But in three of four experiments the black female student was less likely to be recommended for AP calc compared to the nameless transcript. Black female was significant in the pooled analysis as well:"
X Link 2021-01-24T15:53Z 18.6K followers, [---] engagements

"cancer biology via @xkcd"
X Link 2021-05-01T01:26Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Im excited to share that Ill be joining the Yale School of Medicine as an assistant professor My lab will be moving from CSHL to Yale this summer. And were hiring If youre interested in working on cancer genomics chromosome engineering or drug targeting drop me a line"
X Link 2021-05-21T13:10Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements

"David Juliuss family fled European anti-Semitism and moved to NYC. Ardem Patapoutian grew up in Lebanon then immigrated to the US for its educational opportunities. So they both conducted their Nobel-winning research here. When America welcomes immigrants we all benefit"
X Link 2021-10-04T13:55Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements

"David Julius is an academic 4th-generation Nobel Laureate: Julius (2021 Nobel) did his PhD under Randy Schekman (2013 Nobel) who did his PhD under Arthur Kornberg (1959 Nobel) who was trained by Carl and Gerty Cori (1947 Nobel) as well as Severo Ochoa (1959 Nobel)"
X Link 2021-10-04T14:21Z 18.6K followers, [---] engagements

"Ribbon diagrams of [--] eukaryotic kinases. A beautiful illustration of why off-target toxicity is pervasive and drug development is such a motherfucking pain. How do you design a molecule thats 1000-fold selective for one of these and none of the others"
X Link 2021-11-02T19:59Z 18.6K followers, [---] engagements

"Some members of the National Academy who were denied tenure: 1) Victor Ambros. He discovered microRNAs and revolutionized our understanding of gene expression. https://www.telegram.com/story/news/local/north/2008/09/14/umass-scientist-ambros-wins-lasker/52268029007/ https://www.telegram.com/story/news/local/north/2008/09/14/umass-scientist-ambros-wins-lasker/52268029007/"
X Link 2022-02-18T18:00Z 18.6K followers, [---] engagements

"Out now from @Joans and me - (nearly) everything you know about survival analysis in cancer is wrong. https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(22)00313-8 https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(22)00313-8"
X Link 2022-03-29T17:45Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Welcome Tavi Glenn Sheltzer-Smith Born on 4/21/22. [--] pounds [--] ounces [--] inches long. Mother and baby are doing great"
X Link 2022-04-23T16:40Z 18.6K followers, [---] engagements

"Excited to share the launch of the Yale Science Fellows program This is a new program for recent PhD grads featuring: - $90k stipend - mentored research + research funding - structured transition to an independent faculty position Apply here: https://apply.interfolio.com/108050 https://apply.interfolio.com/108050"
X Link 2022-08-11T19:42Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements

"I want the US to be a mecca for the worlds scientific talent. If youre a scientist fighting for a green card and your research involves cancer aneuploidy kinase inhibitors or anything else that I know a little about please send me a USCIS letter and Ill gladly sign it"
X Link 2022-08-28T19:02Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Two weeks from today the winner(s) of the [----] Nobel Prize in Medicine/Physiology will be announced. While we cant know for sure who will win we can make some educated guesses about whos most likely"
X Link 2022-09-19T14:37Z 18.6K followers, [---] engagements

"Pbo's father Sune Bergstrm won the Nobel Prize in [----] for his research on prostaglandins. This is the 8th time the prize has been awarded to the child of a previous winner. BREAKING NEWS: The [----] #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Svante Pbo for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution. https://t.co/fGFYYnCO6J BREAKING NEWS: The [----] #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Svante Pbo for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution. https://t.co/fGFYYnCO6J"
X Link 2022-10-03T10:07Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements

"If you choose to transfer a manuscript between Nature-family journals you can consult a web page that lists the acceptance rates for [---] journals published by the Springer Nature Group. I havent seen this data circulated before so I copied it to share here:"
X Link 2022-11-28T15:28Z 18.6K followers, [---] engagements

"Very disappointed to see this new paper in @NatureCancer on a clinical trial with HDAC6 inhibitor ricolinostat. The paper fails to mention three recent reports demonstrating that this drug exhibits pervasive off-target toxicity"
X Link 2023-01-04T14:53Z 18.6K followers, 182.3K engagements

"Very excited to share a new paper from my lab: using a set chromosome-engineering tools we show that cancers are addicted to aneuploidy. If you genetically eliminate single aneuploid chromosomes cancer cells totally lose their malignant potential https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.09.523344v1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.09.523344v1"
X Link 2023-01-10T16:57Z 18.6K followers, 217.2K engagements

"Yale has announced an across-the-board raise for postdocs with salaries for 1st year postdocs starting at $65000. Plus the administration is giving PIs extra funding (for one year) to cover funding gaps due to the new policy. Seems like a good step https://provost.yale.edu/news/postdoctoral-compensation-increase https://provost.yale.edu/news/postdoctoral-compensation-increase"
X Link 2023-05-02T18:56Z 18.6K followers, 173.5K engagements

"Fascinating new preprint on bioRxiv tackles a whale of a question: Whales are huge. So why dont they get a ton of cancers https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.07.539748v1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.07.539748v1"
X Link 2023-05-09T19:12Z 18.6K followers, 996.1K engagements

"In a cool experiment they found a region of the genome that was conserved between mouse human cow and whale and targeted it with CRISPR. They found that the whale cells were more likely to repair the CRISPR breaks in an error-free manner compared to any other species"
X Link 2023-05-09T19:12Z 18.6K followers, 38.5K engagements

"In total this provides a new model for how big animals avoid cancer - maybe theyre just better at DNA repair than us As a next step Id love to see this validated in an animal model - if you drive high expression of whale CIRBP in the mouse are they cancer-resistant"
X Link 2023-05-09T19:12Z 18.6K followers, 30.9K engagements

"My lab at Yale can host cancer researchers displaced by the violence. Email me if we can help"
X Link 2023-10-14T15:16Z 18.6K followers, 229.2K engagements

"Did you know - the medicine that President Trump takes each day to lower his risk of having a heart attack is a direct result of NIH funding Let me explain -"
X Link 2025-02-27T15:12Z 18.6K followers, 79.8K engagements

"Im thrilled to share that Im joining the faculty at the Stanford University School of Medicine. My lab and I will be relocating to Stanford this summer"
X Link 2025-06-04T17:51Z 18.6K followers, 73.3K engagements

"Thrilled to share my labs new paper with @ZStorchova in @MolSystBiol on dosage compensation in aneuploid cancers"
X Link 2026-01-23T16:32Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Check out the paper here and let me know if you have any questions or feedback https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s44320-026-00187-9 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s44320-026-00187-9"
X Link 2026-01-23T16:32Z 18.6K followers, [---] engagements

"Stanford's email was offline yesterday due to the Outlook outage. If you sent me any positive data manuscript acceptance letters notices of award or introductions to billionaire philanthropists please re-send. Any other emails - don't worry I definitely received them : )"
X Link 2026-01-23T20:45Z 18.6K followers, 25K engagements

"I dont want to just judge based on years of experience or familiarity with the specific approaches that we use. I want to be able to fairly evaluate both a new college grad as well as someone who has been a bioinformatician for 10+ years"
X Link 2026-02-02T18:07Z 18.6K followers, [---] engagements

"Adjusted for inflation Trump's '95 tax loss represents more money than the NIH spends on breast lung colon and liver cancer - combined"
X Link 2016-10-02T02:19Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements

"My mom has degrees in biology chemistry and medicine and has more Pubmed papers than I do. Can we please drop this sexist standard from science communication https://x.com/__michab__/status/930125339220725761 https://x.com/__michab__/status/930125339220725761"
X Link 2017-11-13T23:30Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements

"96 years ago Otto Warburg submitted the following grant application: "Ich bentige [-----] (zehntausend) Mark" or I require [-----] marks. It was fully funded"
X Link 2017-11-25T18:44Z 18.6K followers, [---] engagements

"Wow: thanks to commensal infection with staph bacteria most people have pre-existing antibodies against commonly-studied Cas9 proteins. This may cause a significant hurdle to using CRISPR in the clinic. https://x.com/biorxivpreprint/status/949264311104561152 Identification of Pre-Existing Adaptive Immunity to Cas9 Proteins in Humans https://t.co/nntbks4k8o #bioRxiv https://x.com/biorxivpreprint/status/949264311104561152 Identification of Pre-Existing Adaptive Immunity to Cas9 Proteins in Humans https://t.co/nntbks4k8o #bioRxiv"
X Link 2018-01-05T13:06Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Great except: - Underage wand-use is illegal. - Deadly spells get you sent to jail for life. - Theres a government-run curriculum to teach proper magic use. - Wands are individually registered to each owner. - The heroes win by repeatedly using a non-violent disarming spell. https://x.com/NRO/status/979400304876769281 "Its worth remembering that Hogwarts as an entity was armed to the freaking teeth." https://t.co/S3rPXyt0MK via @HeatherWilhelm https://t.co/Bmna8i3fvQ https://x.com/NRO/status/979400304876769281 "Its worth remembering that Hogwarts as an entity was armed to the freaking teeth.""
X Link 2018-03-30T18:43Z 18.6K followers, [---] engagements

"Verma has received $65000000 in NIH funding since [----]. Proposal: the NIH should put aside a pot of money equal to the total they gave him (and added to each time a new harasser is named) earmarked to launch the careers of junior women. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/04/famed-cancer-biologist-allegedly-sexually-harassed-women-decades http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/04/famed-cancer-biologist-allegedly-sexually-harassed-women-decades"
X Link 2018-04-27T00:28Z 18.6K followers, [---] engagements

"In a national survey of postdocs the only factor found to correlate with life satisfaction was working in a lab with a positive atmosphere. Never underestimate the importance of lab culture https://f1000research.com/articles/6-1642/v2 https://f1000research.com/articles/6-1642/v2"
X Link 2018-05-11T02:06Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements

"The Nobel Prize in Medicine will be announced this coming Monday. You might think that the winner is a secret but with some degree of confidence you can narrow it down to some likely candidates -"
X Link 2018-09-28T15:51Z 18.5K followers, [---] engagements

"Lets play a little game. Lets say that youre the CSO at a cancer pharma company and you have to choose a target to go after. Heres a gene high expression is associated with poor prognosis in brain cancer. Looks like a good candidate for an inhibitor right"
X Link 2019-07-15T18:04Z 18.5K followers, [----] engagements

".in some papers and presentations biologists will use TCGA survival curves showing that their favorite gene is associated with poor prognosis to argue that their gene is super-important. This is weak evidence. Prognostic biomarkers are not necessarily strong cancer drivers"
X Link 2019-07-15T18:04Z 18.5K followers, [---] engagements

"Our new paper is out today. We used CRISPR to uncover some really striking findings with several drugs and drug targets in clinical trials. Also we accidentally found the first-ever inhibitor of the cyclin-dependent kinase CDK11. https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/11/509/eaaw8412 https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/11/509/eaaw8412"
X Link 2019-09-11T18:17Z 18.5K followers, [----] engagements

"Kaelin Semenza and Ratcliffe won the [----] Nobel Prize for discovering how cells sense oxygen. Kaelin previously wrote about how this work would be considered "quaint" and "barely publishable" in today's climate because it lacked a precise mechanism and had no animal studies:"
X Link 2019-10-07T10:09Z 18.5K followers, [---] engagements

"This year's Nobel Prize on oxygen sensing was awarded for papers published in [--] different journals. HIF was first identified in a paper in MCB and its purification was reported in JBC. Groundbreaking work is not determined by a journal's impact factor. Learn more about the [----] #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine Press release: https://t.co/vkkUMMKMhl Advanced information: https://t.co/xjPCdSqbnr https://t.co/2nUowdzCKS Learn more about the [----] #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine Press release: https://t.co/vkkUMMKMhl Advanced information: https://t.co/xjPCdSqbnr https://t.co/2nUowdzCKS"
X Link 2019-10-07T10:42Z 18.5K followers, [----] engagements

"Out today in @sciencemagazine: strategies to combat discrimination against women in STEM. Really proud to have co-written this piece along with @CWGreider Shirley Tilghman Nancy Hopkins Joan Steitz @mclneuro and many others. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6466/692 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6466/692"
X Link 2019-11-07T21:19Z 18.5K followers, [---] engagements

"The original Hallmarks of Cancer the most cited Cell paper of all time was published in [----]. In [----] Hanahan and Weinberg wrote a new version that included four more hallmarks. If you were to update this review for [----] what hallmarks of cancer would you add"
X Link 2019-12-29T20:37Z 18.5K followers, [----] engagements

"An amazing randomized trial on Twitter+academia: [---] papers were randomly chosen to be shared on twitter by a group with 58k followers or to not be shared. Papers that were tweeted accumulated 4x more citations compared to non-tweeted papers over 1yr. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32504611/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32504611/"
X Link 2020-06-15T17:01Z 18.5K followers, 16.8K engagements

"Among [--] biology faculty candidates having more Twitter followers is correlated with having more 1st-author publications. This is very clearly a causal relationship: being popular on Twitter proves that you are doing groundbreaking science. I will not be taking any questions"
X Link 2020-08-22T16:58Z 18.5K followers, [---] engagements

"the most terrifying pumpkins known to academia"
X Link 2020-10-26T19:30Z 18.5K followers, [---] engagements

"Angelika Amon passed away this morning. She was the greatest scientist Ive ever met. This is a huge loss for her family her friends and for every biologist"
X Link 2020-10-29T12:25Z 18.5K followers, [----] engagements

"In a blinded name-swap experiment black female high school students were significantly less likely to be recommended for AP Calculus compared to other students with identical academic credentials. Important new paper from @DaniaFrancis: https://www.smith.edu/sites/default/files/media/Francis_Counselors_BEJEAP_0.pdf https://www.smith.edu/sites/default/files/media/Francis_Counselors_BEJEAP_0.pdf"
X Link 2021-01-24T15:53Z 18.5K followers, [----] engagements

"This new paper used an audit methodology to investigate something different - who gets tracked into an Advanced Placement math class. AP classes are heavily weighed for college admissions so this choice can have significant ramifications for a student's future"
X Link 2021-01-24T15:53Z 18.5K followers, [---] engagements

"These frustrating results underscore the prevalence of implicit biases even among school guidance counselors"
X Link 2021-01-24T15:53Z 18.5K followers, [---] engagements

"I think about these results in terms of the cumulative advantage theory of inequality: one decision (like taking AP Calc) may not be huge by itself but a lifetime of being 20% less likely to recommended for honors promotions etc. can add up to a lot: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.soc.32.061604.123127 https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.soc.32.061604.123127"
X Link 2021-01-24T15:53Z 18.5K followers, [---] engagements

"An important new paper from @alliecmorgan and @aaronclauset investigates the effects of parenthood on academia. In short women are penalized for becoming mothers while men arent penalized for becoming fathers. https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/9/eabd1996 https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/9/eabd1996"
X Link 2021-03-01T18:53Z 18.5K followers, [---] engagements

"Next week the Nobel Prizes will be announced. I dont know who will win - but I think that we can make some educated guesses about who might:"
X Link 2021-09-27T18:10Z 18.5K followers, [---] engagements

"Another academic making the move from basic to translational research"
X Link 2021-11-28T18:00Z 18.5K followers, [---] engagements

"MIT has announced the launch of the Angelika Amon Young Scientist Award a prize for PhD students at non-US institutions who are tackling unique research questions and have an infectious enthusiasm for discovery science Apply here - https://ki.mit.edu/news/events/amon https://ki.mit.edu/news/events/amon"
X Link 2022-01-24T18:29Z 18.5K followers, [---] engagements

"Every time that I get depressed about how cancer research is filled with over-hyped irreproducible results I find a news story to read about anti-aging science and suddenly cancer research doesnt seem so bad anymore. HT @kevinnbass https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.303.5662.1276 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.303.5662.1276"
X Link 2022-05-27T14:09Z 18.5K followers, [---] engagements

"14 years ago this month I started as a PhD student at MIT. Here's what my entering class is doing now:"
X Link 2022-08-01T17:09Z 18.5K followers, [----] engagements

"If I look by gender there's a really striking difference: our entering class was 48% women but all [--] of the people who are currently PI's are male"
X Link 2022-08-01T17:09Z 18.5K followers, [---] engagements

"New from my lab: we show that a clinical-stage oncology drug from Eli Lilly is mischaracterized and its true anti-cancer target is EGFR. We also show how in vitro drug assays can be misleading - cellular+genetic methods are needed to determine drug MOAs. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.16.512438v1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.16.512438v1"
X Link 2022-10-17T17:16Z 18.5K followers, [----] engagements

"Great to see our work on cancer aneuploidy highlighted on the cover of @ScienceMagazine. Using modern biological tools researchers engineered #cancer cells with and without specific chromosome abnormalities showing how tumors rely on them for survival and clarifying the biological role of aneuploidy. Learn more this week in Science: https://t.co/aOSEzppfWX https://t.co/MVPvFAeaX4 Using modern biological tools researchers engineered #cancer cells with and without specific chromosome abnormalities showing how tumors rely on them for survival and clarifying the biological role of aneuploidy."
X Link 2023-08-24T18:43Z 18.5K followers, 88.7K engagements

"In [--] days the Nobel Prize in Medicine/Physiology will be awarded. Here are the [--] scientists most likely to get woken up by a phone call from Stockholm based on looking at recent pre-Nobel predictor prizes:"
X Link 2023-09-22T15:26Z 18.5K followers, 475.9K engagements

"Immigrants - including Dr. Karik - have won about 40% of the Nobel Prizes in STEM that have been awarded to Americans. BREAKING NEWS The [----] #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karik and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. https://t.co/Y62uJDlNMj BREAKING NEWS The [----] #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karik and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development"
X Link 2023-10-02T11:52Z 18.5K followers, 213.8K engagements

"New from my lab: we show that a clinical-stage oncology drug from Eli Lilly is mischaracterized and its true anti-cancer target is EGFR. We also show how in vitro drug assays can be misleading - cellular+genetic methods are needed to determine drug MOAs. Online now Inhibition of a lower potency target drives the anticancer activity of a clinical p38 inhibitor by @Deb_Bhattacharj @JaweriaBakar David E. Heppner @JSheltzer et al at @YaleMed @MelioraTx @UBuffalo and others #chembiol https://t.co/bUXFaSfug1 Online now Inhibition of a lower potency target drives the anticancer activity of a"
X Link 2023-10-12T15:03Z 18.5K followers, 200.6K engagements

"An interesting trend I found: Among the top [--] national winners at the Intel/Westinghouse Science Fair from [----] to [----] 66% of them are now in academia. Among the same group from [----] to [----] less than a third are academics"
X Link 2024-01-08T17:36Z 18.5K followers, 239.6K engagements

"One week from today the Nobel Prize in Medicine/Physiology will be announced. Here are the [--] most likely awardees each of whom has won two or more pre-Nobel predictor prizes:"
X Link 2024-09-30T15:36Z 18.5K followers, 178.3K engagements

"Another scientist whose work initially didn't get the recognition that it deserved - Victor Ambros was denied tenure at Harvard even after publishing the seminal work that resulted in him receiving the Nobel Prize today BREAKING NEWS The [----] #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. https://t.co/rg3iuN6pgY BREAKING NEWS The [----] #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in"
X Link 2024-10-07T10:38Z 18.5K followers, 404.6K engagements

"John Jumper went from getting a PhD to getting a Nobel Prize in just seven years BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the [----] #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker for computational protein design and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper for protein structure prediction. https://t.co/gYrdFFcD4T BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the [----] #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker for computational protein design and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M."
X Link 2024-10-09T09:54Z 18.5K followers, 707.5K engagements

"Many incredible biomedical scientists have left academia for biotech/pharma. While also noting many caveats I want to share the observation that among top scientists who left academia for industry their biggest new discoveries almost always happened in academia:"
X Link 2025-06-18T18:43Z 18.5K followers, 97.1K engagements

"Dr. Yaghi did his Nobel-winning work in the US at the University of Michigan UCLA and UC Berkeley. Being welcoming to immigrants helps make American science the best in the world. This years chemistry laureate Omar Yaghi was born in Amman Jordan in [----] to parents who were refugees from Palestine. When we spoke to him he shared his story: I grew up in a very humble home we were a dozen of us in one room sharing it with the cattle that we used to https://t.co/R33AGezHVx This years chemistry laureate Omar Yaghi was born in Amman Jordan in [----] to parents who were refugees from Palestine. When"
X Link 2025-10-08T16:20Z 18.5K followers, 45.2K engagements

"To narrow down the candidate pool I provided the [--] qualified candidates with a short coding challenge and I interviewed the [--] who scored highest. That was a few years ago. This week I uploaded our old coding challenge to Claude and it produced a perfect response in minutes"
X Link 2026-02-02T18:07Z 17.7K followers, [----] engagements

"@KentsisResearch What does that look like Do you have an example of a conceptual challenge that an llm couldn't fully solve"
X Link 2026-02-02T21:55Z 17.7K followers, [--] engagements

"@BenSiranosian can you give an example of a key bioinformatics decision where an LLM would provide the wrong answer"
X Link 2026-02-03T02:26Z 17.7K followers, [--] engagements

"Princeton neuroscientist Sam Wang is running to represent New Jersey in the House of Representatives It goes without saying - Congress needs more scientists"
X Link 2026-02-04T06:02Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Hey guys - loving #first7jobs Can we get these trending too #NameofFirstPet #HighSchoolMascot #MothersMaidenName #YourZipCode #Last4ofSSN"
X Link 2016-08-06T21:32Z 18.5K followers, [----] engagements

"Adjusted for inflation Trump's '95 tax loss is more money than NASA spent sending the rovers Spirit and Opportunity to Mars"
X Link 2016-10-02T02:56Z 18.5K followers, [---] engagements

"Ben Barres visionary neuroscientist and out-spoken advocate for women in STEM has died. Ben was trans and used his own experience transitioning to motivate discussion of the many ways that gender can affect academic careers. A huge loss for science. http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2017/12/neuroscientist-ben-barres-dies-at-63.html http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2017/12/neuroscientist-ben-barres-dies-at-63.html"
X Link 2017-12-28T01:05Z 18.5K followers, [---] engagements

"Fascinating paper. Knockout mutations that cause mRNA decay trigger the up-regulation of homologous genes allowing cells to compensate for the LOF alteration. People who do CRISPR experiments will have to wrestle with these findings. Some thoughts https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/05/22/328153 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/05/22/328153"
X Link 2018-05-24T22:26Z 18.5K followers, [---] engagements

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