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Harmit Singh Malik

@harmitmalik.bsky.social

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Study genetic conflicts professionally. Try to avoid conflicts in personal life (with mixed results). Fred Hutch Basic Sciences, UW Genome Sciences, HHMI. Posting in a personal capacity. My posts don’t reflect my employers’ opinions.

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · Feb 7

@harryboschquote.bsky.social :

Everybody counts or nobody counts

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2h

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Fred Hutch Basic Sciences Division @hutchbasicsci.bsky.social · 9d

The Weintraub Award is seeking nominations for 2026! The award recognizes the outstanding achievements of grad students in biology and was established to honor the bold, creative, pioneering spirit embodied by Dr. Hal Weintraub. www.fredhutch.org/en/research/...

Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award

Annual award to honor the bold, creative, pioneering spirit embodied by Hal Weintraub. The Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award recognizes outstanding achievements during graduate studies in the...

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 1d

ANTIFA:

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 6h

I like the title. Short and to the point :)

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 7h

a man is saying please don 't encourage him in a dark room

Alt: A man is saying please don't encourage him in a dark room

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 7h

Someone well-meaning wrote to me saying that I should be careful making jokes about certain people who were not picked for the Nobel Peace Prize.

I shrugged; there is no apPEASing some folks.

Besides, it’s not like I made a crank call from a Norwegian phone number in the middle of the night.

Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 23h

I don’t think this is a controversial opinion but …

Indian style mutter-paneer definitely deserves the Nobel peas prize this year

www.indianhealthyrecipes.com/matar-paneer...

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 8h

This book has never been more timely. Thanks to @sonali-m-19.bsky.social for writing it and for sending me a copy.

Photo of book “Thriving as an International Scientist” written by Sonali Majumdar

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 1d

A gallery of fireflies.

Phenomenal Fireflies - Alex Wild

Fireflies are a family (Lampyridae) of about 2,000 beetle species known for their ability to produce light through chemical reactions.

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Michael Metzger @metzgerm.bsky.social · 10h

Congratulations to Drs. Ramsdell, Brunkow, and Sakaguchi! I actually didn’t realize until today that PNRI’s David Galas was a part of the project to identify the genetic basis of the “scurfy” mice that led to Tregs. (@pnrigenetics.bsky.social) David’s legacy has touched more than I can imagine!

WIRED @wired.com · 2d

Fred Ramsdell was on vacation in the Montana wilderness when he and two colleagues received the honor for their breakthroughs in immunology. www.wired.com/story/nobel-...

Scientist Who Was Offline 'Living His Best Life' Stunned by Nobel Prize Win

Fred Ramsdell was on vacation in the Montana wilderness when he and two colleagues received the honor for their breakthroughs in immunology.

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 9h

None that mutter (matter) :)

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16h

Thoughtful and well-informed op-ed from @ianlmorgan.bsky.social

Definitely worth a read!

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NIH Leadership Is Failing Early Career Researchers

Halted training programs, funding chaos, and hiring freezes jeopardize advancement options for early career researchers.

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 12h

If you intentionally wrote price (or pea-rice) instead of prize, I tip my hat to you

Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 12h

Are you really believing the purported reason for attacks on academia? Project 2025 was drafted long before the horrific Hamas attacks on October 7.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 18h

Thank you @nytopinion.nytimes.com for publishing this rot. Marc Rowan has run hundreds of companies into the dust to extract profits from their failure and bankruptcies. Now he wants to do the same to American higher education. Do not believe a word this man says. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 23h

I don’t think this is a controversial opinion but …

Indian style mutter-paneer definitely deserves the Nobel peas prize this year

www.indianhealthyrecipes.com/matar-paneer...

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 1d

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 1d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 1d

Cause or coronation?

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d

thinking about how fucked up it is to give kids measles on purpose and then withhold tylenol from them

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 1d

Just saw a post which misspelled 'Machine learning' as 'Machine earning', and I wondered if that was a Freudian slip.

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Ryan Hernandez @rdhernand.bsky.social · 1d

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Building a community of PROPEL-affiliated programs at UCSF, U. Utah, UCSC, MUSC, U. Iowa, UW/Fred Hutch, OHSU, and Stanford!

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 2d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 2d

If you have to ask…