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1. This is great
2. Take your antihistamines, Vancouver locals
so 75% of info comes from an echo chamber. got it.
Great to talk with Matt Galloway on CBC The Current this morning about successful gene therapy for a human immune defect.
The Current with Matt Galloway - March 9, 2026: How a gene edit gave a B.C teen his life back.
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
@mattgalloway.bsky.social @bcchresearch.bsky.social
Iran's government is more hardline, its people are poorer and more isolated, the region's on fire, and the global economy feels like its about to go into shock
If you want to know why people wanted to avoid war with Iran for so long, you're finding out in real time
The U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office.
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies. Read more: https://scim.ag/4boPkq8
Stable genius
hands down the absolute *strangest* βon backgroundβ sourcing I have ever seen in the NYT. Completely bonkers stuff www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success. Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302
The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted.
What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards.
Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.
Kanwal Sibal @KanwalSibal β’ 6h X The Iranian ship will not be where it was if we had not invited it to talk part in our Milan exercise. We were the hosts. I am told that as per protocol for this exercise ships cannot carry any ammunition. It was defenceless. The Iranian naval personnel had paraded before our president. The attack by the US submarine was premeditated as the US was aware of the Iranian ship's presence in the exercise to which the US navy was invited but withdrew from participation at the last minute, presumably with this operation in mind. The US has ignored India's sensitivities as the ship was in these waters because of India's invitation. We are far from politically or militarily responsible for the US attack. Our"responsibility" is at a moral and human plane. A word of condolence by the Indian Navy ( after political clearance) at the loss of lives of those who were our invitees and saluted our president would be in order.
Some context to the Iranian boat that was targeted by US off Sri Lanka coast
Former Indian FM: βUS was aware of the Iranian ship's presence in the exercise to which the US navy was invited but withdrew from participation at the last minuteβ
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
latest preprint just dropped! From a fantastic collaboration between our lab and Katie Pollard's @gladstoneinst.bsky.social. @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social graduate student Jodi Lee jodilee539.bsky.social and Gladstone postdoc Jingshing Wu led the project www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/x
gonna walk up to ken sim and wave a fake ai generated photo of elias pettersson holding up the stanley cup so he can tell everyone the canucks are champions
The figure shows gene expression analysis of unsorted, CD49 sorted and CD19 sorted SCΞ²-cells using NanoString analysis.
Luo Ting Huang, Yaser Tahamtani, @nictitate.bsky.social & co explored the possibility of magnetic selection of insulin-expressing stem cellβderived Ξ²βcells using a CRISPR/Cas9 technology and transmembrane glycoprotein CD19 as a marker.
@bcchresearch.bsky.social
Read: doi.org/10.1242/dmm....
Itβs a nice trail and viewpoint, hope you had good weekend on Bowen
(Axios) - Anthropic's Claude hit No. 1 in U.S. app downloads Saturday, overtaking ChatGPT, after the Pentagon blacklisted the company for refusing to loosen safeguards for military use of its AI model.
@axios.com
www.axios.com/2026/03/01/a...
It's nice to know that the Canadian government can re-discover the value of higher education. Perhaps less nice to note that it perceives the value as that of a prop for a PM's visit to another country.
I am not entirely sure how we can have a joint talent strategy with India when we don't actually have a domestic talent strategy of our own.
Biochem tricks are one thing... I've got mentors who were some of the earliest recombinant DNA psuhers but they remind me that there were never "good old days" just lots of logging counts and screening clones
Being fluent in your current assembly and expression system, now that takes time and years
Sigh, here we go again
How about you apologize to Vancouver now
So cool, congrats!
This is an OUTSTANDING LIFE-CHANGING outcome, based on research and healthcare by @turveylab.bsky.social and colleagues @bcchresearch.bsky.social
Hooray for the family!
Hooray for Stuart T & the other clinicians and scientists!
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Ever since I was a little girl, I knew that I wanted to answer 275 emails per day and argue with administrators. Thatβs why I chose a career in academia.
Approximately 20 million vertebrate animals, moslty mice, are used in research each year. Some comparisons on agricultural use.
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Something about doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result seems relevant
Since this will likely come up in the SOTU: Yes, US stock markets are up since Trump took office (14%).
But in the rest of the world, markets are up WAY more. Cumulative market gains are more than triple ours (43%)
