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Physician-scientist, Radiologist, Prof & Lab Head in NYC Imaging & treating cancer using particles faster than light + others. Science, Music, Art and History lover and connoisseur. Opinions solely mine and not my employer's or lab members'.

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grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · Nov 12

“I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it, or thinking about it.”
Leonard Bernstein

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grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 39m

So maybe all AI should be free then as well?

grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 44m

U Cal on a run this week…!

grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 51m

Not very eager on checking in to that flight back to the US tbh… perfect city, perfect weather, great food and architecture. Family and friends on this continent… 😞😢

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 4h

I’m compelled to point out that the food assistance we gave to feed children and families on the brink of starvation also helped America’s farmers make ends meet

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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10h

Current mood

A cartoon depicts a man and a woman walking side by side on a street. The woman wears a stylish dress and holds a purse, while the man is in a suit. The caption reads, "My desire to be well-informed is currently at odds with my desire to remain sane.”

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grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 4h

So he doesn’t even care about the laws he signed?
Shocker.

grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 4h

Please do it now. Wouldn’t mind being stuck in Barcelona for a bit.

grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 4h

Nice and refreshing to see 1/6 Nobel laureates speak out openly against the ongoing destruction of science in the US.

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Nobel physics laureate says Trump cuts will 'cripple' US research

It was just past 2:00 am when a mysterious number rang Nobel laureate John Clarke, what he deemed "obviously a joke call" that grew increasingly surreal when he heard "a voice from Sweden."- 'Basic sc...

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grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 19h

Preparation for next November.

grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 1d

I had a HepB+ patient projectile vomit on me through the intubation tube. Hit only clothed areas but still. Fun times.
And thanks for vaccines!!

grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 1d

Why do you have to copy everything the US is doing badly?

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 1d

🚴John Betjeman said that it was worth cycling 40 miles in a headwind to see them.
🪽The early C16th Angel Roof at St Wendreda in Cambs is adorned with over 100 oaken angels.

View along the nave of St. Wendreda’s Church, March, showing the magnificent medieval angel roof with carved wooden angels soaring above the slender stone arcades.

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grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 1d

That was my prediction for the medicine one. Every year overlooked. Frustrating.

grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 1d

Hoping Zelensky gets the award.

grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 1d

Fitting then that @eanm.org has its meeting in Barcelona this week!!

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grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 1d

Breathtaking every single time.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 1d

Another excellent piece by @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social et al. that raises the question: what is the administration doing other than dismantling for dismantling's sake?

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Trump slashed funding for universities that helped create these vital drugs

Medications that prevent HIV, shrink tumors and treat seizures were invented with government funding. At research universities, that money is now canceled or in jeopardy.

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grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 1d

Potential constitutional crisis? We are in a full blown crisis since months now. And going deeper every day.
And many people still don’t seem to realize it.

grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 1d

Not fun but cruel. Provide a shoulder to cry on.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 1d

PubMed Update (no pun intended)

Publications with Pub Date

8/1//24 62209
9/1/24 64765
10/1/24 68211

8/1/25 61610
9/1/25 63719

10/1/25 35936 (as of 10/2/25)
10/1/25 38673 (as of 10/6/25, 8:00 AM)

It appears that ~40% of the expected number of publications are missing for 10/1/25

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a man in a black vest says no bueno in front of mountains

ALT: a man in a black vest says no bueno in front of mountains

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grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 2d

Et tu, UK?
You forgot tax cuts for the rich and increasing health care costs.

grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 2d

You need THAT as a reason to drink??

grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 2d

What worries me is that many of us are already in lists easily accessible. What are you registered as, democrat? Off you go.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 3d

A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads!

Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so this jar would have been a precious possession.

From Merit’s beauty case, found inside Theban tomb (TT8) of Merit and her husband Kha in 1906. 📷 Museo Egizio

#Archaeology

Museo Egizio Turin photo showing a small, dark-blue, core-formed, round glass jar which tapers in at the shoulders below the neck. It has yellow, white, and light blue festoon decoration trailed around the main body. There is a single yellow trail just below the neck of the jar. There is a dark-blue circular glass lid, the top of which is adorned with two dark-blue duck heads with yellow bills, a yellow trailed stripe on the top of each duck’s head, and indents for their eyes. The jar is displayed on a perspex (?) stand against a grey background. Glass jar dimensions: 7.6 cm x 9.6 cm.

Core-forming is one of the earliest glassmaking techniques. Glassmakers shaped the body of the vessel around a core, wound colored trails around it. They then let the vessel cool and removed the core.

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