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Ed @edballister.bsky.social · 10h

Actually on closer inspection it’s $0.13 each, so 15 limes should be $1.95?!

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Ed @edballister.bsky.social · 10h

Look I was definitely “that person” first lol no worries

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Ed @edballister.bsky.social · 10h

Yum!!! But I think the alt text should also point out the ridiculous $1 each part, which makes the $2 for 15 all the more striking! 🤣

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Ed @edballister.bsky.social · 11h

Are you telling me that the Abraham Lincoln didn’t found the US in 4000 BCE?

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Ed @edballister.bsky.social · 14h

But is the curve pointing up or down?

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Ed @edballister.bsky.social · 14h

Sir, I think you should delete this.

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 2d

My HPLC was definitely overlooked

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery

The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality.

www.nature.com

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Ed @edballister.bsky.social · 2d

Marcel Behr @mbehr-mcgill.bsky.social is on here. Not sure about Lali Ramakrishnan. I’m a nobody, but in my brief time working on TB, I was super impressed by their willingness to question what had become a widely cited dogma.

Ed @edballister.bsky.social · 2d

1/3rd of world has immune memory against TB: definitely. Question is: do these people harbor living Mtb that will reactivate decades later and cause disease? Argument is no, and instead all the disease we see is driven by (relatively) recent exposures to people with active disease

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Ed @edballister.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely agree on challenge and need for TB drugs. But the “1/3 of world has latent TB” isn’t so clear - Behr, Ramakrishnan et al have made some very interesting arguments that it’s a huge misconception:

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38671272/

Rethinking the burden of latent tuberculosis to reprioritize research - PubMed

Rethinking the burden of latent tuberculosis to reprioritize research

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Ed @edballister.bsky.social · 3d

Go Bears! Go UC Berkeley Chemistry!!!

Ed @edballister.bsky.social · 3d

Perhaps I’d be more influential if I had

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Ed @edballister.bsky.social · 3d

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