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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 2d

The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

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Ashani Weeraratna @ashi-w.bsky.social · 3d

I was fortunate enough to meet Sen Van Hollen, just after this. Impressive man.

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 7d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Ashani Weeraratna @ashi-w.bsky.social · 7d

Amazing talk by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social at Hopkins yesterday. What an amazing person!

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Ashani Weeraratna @ashi-w.bsky.social · 8d

Cracked. Me. Up. 😂

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We all scream for HEALTHCARE! @stupidtimeonline.bsky.social · 9d

Normalize just posting a recipe with no backstory at all.

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Ashani Weeraratna @ashi-w.bsky.social · 10d

Sun-dried tomato pesto focaccia over here!

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Ashani Weeraratna @ashi-w.bsky.social · 10d

Maybe it’s the stress of the times. Maybe it’s needing to control one small thing in my crazy life, when I see this house once every few weeks. But today my linen closet got the brunt of my angst 😂

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Ashani Weeraratna @ashi-w.bsky.social · 11d

Can’t wait to meet you!

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Doug Aoki @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 11d

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Ashani Weeraratna @ashi-w.bsky.social · 11d

These are the stars with which I grew up. It was one of the things I missed most, among the many I missed (!!) when I moved to America.

america.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · 12d

From the photographer:

The moon rise was about an hour later after this male arrived. If he had come later the moon would have added too much light to show off the stars

Photo taken at the Tamboti Overnight Hide at the Zimanga Private Game Reserve, South Africa

📷: Sean Weekly

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Ashani Weeraratna @ashi-w.bsky.social · 12d

I honestly live for these posts 💕

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Ashani Weeraratna @ashi-w.bsky.social · 12d

Danger, Will Robinson.

Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 13d

A new Ebola outbreak in Congo kills dozens as health officials warn of lack of funds. WHO says 57 cases and 35 deaths have been reported since outbreak was announced this month.
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A new Ebola outbreak in Congo kills dozens as health officials warn of lack of funds

As a deadly new Ebola outbreak kills dozens in southern Congo, health officials are warning that they lack the funds and resources to mount an effective response.

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 13d

Check this out: This is what the human fallopian tube looks like as one travels through its different sections.

We have developed a new 3D single-cell tissue mapping workflow to automatically/accurately detect ovarian cancer precancerous lesions (STICs).

More here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Ashani Weeraratna @ashi-w.bsky.social · 15d

Um did you come to Philly and not tell me??? (Actually I’m in Baltimore all week so you are off the hook!)

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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 18d

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Winner of mRNA Nobel Prize says ACIP member’s claim that Covid vaccines persist is “absolutely impossible”

In a Q&A with STAT, Nobel winner Drew Weissman addressed concerns raised about Covid shots at a recent meeting of federal vaccine advisers.

www.statnews.com

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Nature Reviews Cancer @natrevcancer.nature.com · 22d

Review 🚨
Easwaran&Weeraratna outline how #ageing leads to epigenetic alterations in the #TME, enhancing clonal expansion of mutations and ultimately increasing cancer risk.
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Unravelling the genetics and epigenetics of the ageing tumour microenvironment in cancer - Nature Reviews Cancer

In this Review, Easwaran and Weeraratna outline how ageing leads to epigenetic alterations in the tissue microenvironment, enhancing clonal expansion of mutations and ultimately increasing cancer risk.

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Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 23d

A huge shoutout to all the dedicated grants management specialists at the NIH who are working around the clock to push grants out before the Sep 30 deadline. And also to the POs responding to frantic emails.
Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits.
Thank you!

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Ashani Weeraratna @ashi-w.bsky.social · 23d

I’m just going to say this lantern fly situation is untenable. First, one got into the revolving door with me. Then, one followed me into my uber. THIS CANNOT STAND.

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Ashani Weeraratna @ashi-w.bsky.social · 24d

😂😂😂

Ashani Weeraratna @ashi-w.bsky.social · 25d

I’ll bring the food and tequila

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Ashani Weeraratna @ashi-w.bsky.social · 25d

Ah then wait. Though really I feel fine. I’m hosting 12 people at my house tonight, but I’m generally a mild responder to vaccinations!

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Ashani Weeraratna @ashi-w.bsky.social · 25d

You should do it today actually so you can curl up on the couch under a blanket feeling sorry for yourself while using your enhanced Wi-Fi for a couple of days. 😂

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Ashani Weeraratna @ashi-w.bsky.social · 25d

Went for the over 50 trifecta yesterday- covid, flu and shingles vaccines. A little tired, sore arm but otherwise fine.

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Ashani Weeraratna @ashi-w.bsky.social · 26d

I love when brilliance combines with just genuine niceness. We all loved having you! Please expect a flurry of pre-prints from my lab in the near future 😂

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