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Claire McCarthy @clairem402.bsky.social · 15h

#musicchallenge Albums I've had on repeat at some point in my life

Day 17 - Avicii - True
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Science Magazine @science.org · 1d

Researchers delineate how a pathway drives the growth of bone tumors in a painful inherited bone disorder, new experiments in mice show how an enzyme inhibits the leakage of calcium ions in skeletal muscle cells, and more this week in #ScienceSignaling. https://scim.ag/4obBkmM

$The image is a scanning electron micrograph of a freeze-fractured mammalian skeletal muscle fiber.$

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Science Magazine @science.org · 1d

A new generation of radiotherapies promises a more targeted attack on cancer.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/3IwH8YW

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Nature @nature.com · 1d

It is time to recognize research software as a valuable scientific contribution in itself, beyond a tool — and to support it

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Stop treating code like an afterthought: record, share and value it

Scientists, research institutions, funders, libraries and publishers must all improve software practices.

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Nature @nature.com · 19h

Regulatory T cells, the immune cells at the centre of Monday's Nobel Prize, are showing promise as a treatment for autoimmune diseases, cancer, and even organ transplants

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These immune cells won Nobel fame — can they solve autoimmune disease?

Regulatory T cells, which help to dampen inflammation, are being used in clinical trials against ailments such as rheumatoid arthritis.

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Claire McCarthy @clairem402.bsky.social · 16h

Post a film with an excellent soundtrack! 🎶

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 20h

The 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.” Stay tuned for the full story to come! cen.acs.org/people/nobel...

#ChemNobel #Chem #Chemistry #chemsky 🧪

The 2025 chemistry Nobel goes to MOFs

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi win the prize for developing metal–organic frameworks

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 17h

It’s a material world after all. And this year’s #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to researchers who created a family of materials that could help solve some of humanity’s most critical problems. Read more: cen.acs.org/people/nobel...

#ChemNobel #Chem #Chemistry #chemsky 🧪

The 2025 chemistry Nobel goes to MOFs
Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi win the prize for developing metal–organic frameworks

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Claire McCarthy @clairem402.bsky.social · 1d

#musicchallenge Albums I've had on repeat at some point in my life

Day 16 - Destiny’s Child - The Writing’s on the Wall
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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 3d

HPV vaccination drives cervical cancer rates down in both vaccinated and unvaccinated people www.livescience.com/health/cance...

HPV vaccination drives cervical cancer rates down in both vaccinated and unvaccinated people

Researchers have found that human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines are highly effective at reducing cervical cancer-causing infections and can offer herd immunity, reinforcing previous research and highl...

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 1d

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis have won the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physics “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.” Stay tuned for the full story to come! cen.acs.org/people/nobel... #chemsky 🧪

Quantum tunnelling trio win the 2025 physics Nobel

John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis get the award for demonstrating quantum mechanical effects at the macroscale

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David Hsu @dhsu.bsky.social · 2d

Nobel Prize Week, a great week to celebrate how scientific research can improve everyone's lives and how discovery helps to understand our place in the universe. I'm especially excited by prizes given to multiple countries, a reminder to work together. wapo.st/3WmtESD

Nobel Prize for medicine awarded for discoveries about the immune system

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi shared the Nobel Prize for fundamental discoveries about how the immune system keeps itself in check.

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Claire McCarthy @clairem402.bsky.social · 2d

#musicchallenge Albums I've had on repeat at some point in my life

Day 15 - Green Day - American Idiot
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Claire McCarthy @clairem402.bsky.social · 2d

Listening to Holy Water by Marshmello & Jelly Roll: youtu.be/4wMNUOnH514 #MusicMonday #Musicsky

Marshmello, Jelly Roll - Holy Water (Official Lyric Video)

YouTube video by MarshmelloVEVO

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Claire McCarthy @clairem402.bsky.social · 2d

#CurrentlyReading The Women by Kristin Hannah: www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
#booksky 📚💙

The Women book cover with an illustration of a shadow helicopter

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Nature @nature.com · 4d

Will AI really revolutionize materials discovery, or is it drowning in its own hype?

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AI is dreaming up millions of new materials. Are they any good?

Nature - Critics slammed attempts by Google, Microsoft and Meta to speed up materials discovery. But behind the hype, there is progress.

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Nature @nature.com · 2d

Nature research paper: Proteotoxic stress response drives T cell exhaustion and immune evasion

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Proteotoxic stress response drives T cell exhaustion and immune evasion - Nature

A proteotoxic stress response specific to exhausted T cells, governed by AKT signaling and accompanied by increased protein translation, represents a mechanistic vulnerability and a new therapeutic target to improve cancer immunotherapies.

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Claire McCarthy @clairem402.bsky.social · 2d

🤣 I guess you could say they’re both poetic and lyrical

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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to Fred Ramsdell, Mary Brunkow and Shimon Sakaguchi for winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine!

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#Nobel2025

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Medicine Nobel goes to scientists who revealed secrets of immune system ‘regulation’

Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi discovered cells that protect the body from autoimmune diseases.

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Claire McCarthy @clairem402.bsky.social · 2d

Drop something WITCHY 🔮 🖤 🧹

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Cancer Cell @cp-cancercell.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to the @nobelprize.bsky.social winners in Physiology or Medicine Brunkow, Ramsdell, and Sakaguchi for the discovery of peripheral immune tolerance. In tumor immunology, we are very familiar with FOXP3+ Tregs and their immunosuppressive roles 🧵

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Adrian Liston @labliston.bsky.social · 2d

A small primer on the #NobelPrize awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi today. This prize was for combining two separate fields of immunology research - genetic research on IPEX and immunology research of regulatory T cells (#Tregs), with enormous impact on biology/medicine

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.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.” Stay tuned for the full story to come!

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Claire McCarthy @clairem402.bsky.social · 3d

#musicchallenge Albums I've had on repeat at some point in my life

Day 14 - Avril Lavigne - Let Go
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Avril Lavigne let go album cover with a photo of a woman with long blonde hair wearing a black shirt and pants in front of a blurred city street with cars and people walking

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 3d

Will AI revolutionize materials discovery, or is it drowning in its own hype? Nature reports that many researchers conclude that AI holds great promise in materials science, but that more collaboration with experimental chemists will be crucial for realizing their full potential. 🧪

AI is dreaming up millions of new materials. Are they any good?

Critics slammed attempts by Google, Microsoft and Meta to speed up materials discovery. But behind the hype, there is progress.

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