James Priest
@jamesrpriestmd.bsky.social
Pediatric Cardiologist & Physician-Scientist
🩺Pediatric Lipds @Stanford Children’s
🔬Early Discovery+Clinical Trials @ Cytokinetics
Oakland A’s ⚾️, 🏃♂️, 🪚 everywhere else!
🩺Pediatric Lipds @Stanford Children’s
🔬Early Discovery+Clinical Trials @ Cytokinetics
Oakland A’s ⚾️, 🏃♂️, 🪚 everywhere else!
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You don't brine your turkey and you don't season your sides or use fresh herbs. I don't know what to tell you.
Turkey isn't bad, people just don't cook it properly
November 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
You don't brine your turkey and you don't season your sides or use fresh herbs. I don't know what to tell you.
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A painful truth all dads must learn: if you wear a baseball cap while running around on playground equipment designed for children, the brim will block your upper view and you will bonk your head.
November 24, 2025 at 2:05 AM
A painful truth all dads must learn: if you wear a baseball cap while running around on playground equipment designed for children, the brim will block your upper view and you will bonk your head.
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
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Gatekeeping by demanding expensive technology or approaches is the ancient tactic of the rich laboratory.
My favorite from an @hhmi.org scientist: “the great thing about optogenetics is it keeps the riff raff out of the field.”
Heard an established successful neuroscientist dismissing junior scientists as "people at the bottom" 🤦♀️
You folks with lots of research funds & power: young scientists more than ever need our respect and support even if you don't agree with their ideas and approaches
#sfn2025
You folks with lots of research funds & power: young scientists more than ever need our respect and support even if you don't agree with their ideas and approaches
#sfn2025
November 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Gatekeeping by demanding expensive technology or approaches is the ancient tactic of the rich laboratory.
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Idea for dunk contest #1: you compete in pairs. Spices it up, gets into teammate choreography and such
Idea for dunk contest #2: It's guys who can barely dunk. Steph, Mike Conley, people like that
Idea for dunk contest #3: stop doing the dunk contest
Idea for dunk contest #2: It's guys who can barely dunk. Steph, Mike Conley, people like that
Idea for dunk contest #3: stop doing the dunk contest
November 23, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Idea for dunk contest #1: you compete in pairs. Spices it up, gets into teammate choreography and such
Idea for dunk contest #2: It's guys who can barely dunk. Steph, Mike Conley, people like that
Idea for dunk contest #3: stop doing the dunk contest
Idea for dunk contest #2: It's guys who can barely dunk. Steph, Mike Conley, people like that
Idea for dunk contest #3: stop doing the dunk contest
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In the biggest games, the biggest players come alive to deliver big moments. There is none bigger than Rose Lavelle 🌹
November 23, 2025 at 3:04 AM
In the biggest games, the biggest players come alive to deliver big moments. There is none bigger than Rose Lavelle 🌹
I read this as “the dehumanizing effects of lame”
Ed Sheeran’s Netflix special captures the dehumanizing effect of fame. slate.trib.al/QoP7OOb
A Music Superstar Took to the Streets of NYC for Netflix. The Result Was Bleak.
One Shot with Ed Sheeran starts with a gimmick. But it’s more notable for something else.
slate.trib.al
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I read this as “the dehumanizing effects of lame”
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Get your own adorable #HCWvsHunger swag at www.bonfire.com/hcwvshunger-...
November 21, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Get your own adorable #HCWvsHunger swag at www.bonfire.com/hcwvshunger-...
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Got mine!
Get your own adorable #HCWvsHunger swag at www.bonfire.com/hcwvshunger-...
November 21, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Got mine!
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Planning to participate in #HCWvsHunger this year?
Let me know and I can be sure you’re on one of my starter packs!
Let me know and I can be sure you’re on one of my starter packs!
November 21, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Planning to participate in #HCWvsHunger this year?
Let me know and I can be sure you’re on one of my starter packs!
Let me know and I can be sure you’re on one of my starter packs!
Hey med students interested in CV research—consider applying to the Sarnoff research program for a fully funded year in an outstanding lab!
Please RT
Please RT
November 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Hey med students interested in CV research—consider applying to the Sarnoff research program for a fully funded year in an outstanding lab!
Please RT
Please RT
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Thanks to all who came out to discuss impacts of federal cuts to science, our work via scienceimpacts.org, and how to constructively speak out with grassroots initiatives:
@standupforscience.bsky.social, @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social
@snapcoalition.bsky.social
Impact Project
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@standupforscience.bsky.social, @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social
@snapcoalition.bsky.social
Impact Project
+ more
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For those in/around College Park, MD come on over to Ledo Pizza, 4509 Knox Rd, next Tuesday 11/18, 6pm+ for Science on Tap, where I will share a talk and dialogue on:
"Science Matters: Confronting the Impacts of Federal Cuts to Research on Communities Nationwide"
science.umd.edu/events/scien...
"Science Matters: Confronting the Impacts of Federal Cuts to Research on Communities Nationwide"
science.umd.edu/events/scien...
November 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Thanks to all who came out to discuss impacts of federal cuts to science, our work via scienceimpacts.org, and how to constructively speak out with grassroots initiatives:
@standupforscience.bsky.social, @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social
@snapcoalition.bsky.social
Impact Project
+ more
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@standupforscience.bsky.social, @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social
@snapcoalition.bsky.social
Impact Project
+ more
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In times like this, It is our civic duty to harken back to 1999s Flat Beat, made specifically for the Flat Eric levis commercial by Mr Oizo
youtu.be/qmsbP13xu6k?...
youtu.be/qmsbP13xu6k?...
Mr Oizo - Flat beat (Official Video with Flat Eric - 1999 - F Communications)
YouTube video by fcommunications
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
In times like this, It is our civic duty to harken back to 1999s Flat Beat, made specifically for the Flat Eric levis commercial by Mr Oizo
youtu.be/qmsbP13xu6k?...
youtu.be/qmsbP13xu6k?...
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Top five film genres
Submarine
It's the 1970s and a guy has to do a thing everybody hates
It's the 1970s and several guys do a thing but they're having a goof
Films by and for morlocks, abhumans, and other tunnel peoples
Somebody does a new kind of punching and there's injustice or whatever
Submarine
It's the 1970s and a guy has to do a thing everybody hates
It's the 1970s and several guys do a thing but they're having a goof
Films by and for morlocks, abhumans, and other tunnel peoples
Somebody does a new kind of punching and there's injustice or whatever
Top five film genres:
- pre-WW2 Hollywood comedy where plot’s tertiary at best, all vibes
- French or Italians lookin’ fabulous, talkin’ sophisticated
- your dad loves this movie & now that you’re 50 so do you
- porn is art when it’s softcore & everyone dresses nice
- L.A. Rebellion
- pre-WW2 Hollywood comedy where plot’s tertiary at best, all vibes
- French or Italians lookin’ fabulous, talkin’ sophisticated
- your dad loves this movie & now that you’re 50 so do you
- porn is art when it’s softcore & everyone dresses nice
- L.A. Rebellion
Top 5 movie genres:
The 60s coulda been cool but kinda sucked, but what came after was worse - American
The 60s coulda been cool but kinda sucked, but what came after was worse - French
Weird stuff happens to baffled but sardonic guy/girl
The horror of existence
Sex has made us insane
The 60s coulda been cool but kinda sucked, but what came after was worse - American
The 60s coulda been cool but kinda sucked, but what came after was worse - French
Weird stuff happens to baffled but sardonic guy/girl
The horror of existence
Sex has made us insane
November 17, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Top five film genres
Submarine
It's the 1970s and a guy has to do a thing everybody hates
It's the 1970s and several guys do a thing but they're having a goof
Films by and for morlocks, abhumans, and other tunnel peoples
Somebody does a new kind of punching and there's injustice or whatever
Submarine
It's the 1970s and a guy has to do a thing everybody hates
It's the 1970s and several guys do a thing but they're having a goof
Films by and for morlocks, abhumans, and other tunnel peoples
Somebody does a new kind of punching and there's injustice or whatever
Pleased to report some owls in my backyard
November 16, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Pleased to report some owls in my backyard
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First time on Bsky and first big announcement!
I am excited to announce that our new study explaining the missing heritability of many phenotypes using WGS data from ~347,000 UK Biobank participants has just been published in @Nature.
Our manuscript is here: www.nature.com/articles/s41....
I am excited to announce that our new study explaining the missing heritability of many phenotypes using WGS data from ~347,000 UK Biobank participants has just been published in @Nature.
Our manuscript is here: www.nature.com/articles/s41....
Estimation and mapping of the missing heritability of human phenotypes - Nature
WGS data were used from 347,630 individuals with European ancestry in the UK Biobank to obtain high-precision estimates of coding and non-coding rare variant heritability for 34 co...
www.nature.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
First time on Bsky and first big announcement!
I am excited to announce that our new study explaining the missing heritability of many phenotypes using WGS data from ~347,000 UK Biobank participants has just been published in @Nature.
Our manuscript is here: www.nature.com/articles/s41....
I am excited to announce that our new study explaining the missing heritability of many phenotypes using WGS data from ~347,000 UK Biobank participants has just been published in @Nature.
Our manuscript is here: www.nature.com/articles/s41....
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And oldie but a goodie.
A classic case of "we did not really think this through..."
A classic case of "we did not really think this through..."
November 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
And oldie but a goodie.
A classic case of "we did not really think this through..."
A classic case of "we did not really think this through..."
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Good NPR story on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior.
www.npr.org/2025/11/06/n....
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www.npr.org/2025/11/06/n....
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50 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 'rock star' ship, sank in Lake Superior
Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.
www.npr.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Good NPR story on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior.
www.npr.org/2025/11/06/n....
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www.npr.org/2025/11/06/n....
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Late breakers that included children:
✅Setanaxib in Alport (12+)
Late breakers that did NOT include children:
🚫Atacicept in IgAN
🚫CONFIDENCE
🚫PISCES: Fish oil in Dialysis
🚫LIBERATE-D
🚫balcinrenone + dapa
🚫Obintuzumab in lupus nephritis
🚫Sibeprenlimab in IgA
🚫MIL62 in membranous
+more
#KidneyWk
✅Setanaxib in Alport (12+)
Late breakers that did NOT include children:
🚫Atacicept in IgAN
🚫CONFIDENCE
🚫PISCES: Fish oil in Dialysis
🚫LIBERATE-D
🚫balcinrenone + dapa
🚫Obintuzumab in lupus nephritis
🚫Sibeprenlimab in IgA
🚫MIL62 in membranous
+more
#KidneyWk
November 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Late breakers that included children:
✅Setanaxib in Alport (12+)
Late breakers that did NOT include children:
🚫Atacicept in IgAN
🚫CONFIDENCE
🚫PISCES: Fish oil in Dialysis
🚫LIBERATE-D
🚫balcinrenone + dapa
🚫Obintuzumab in lupus nephritis
🚫Sibeprenlimab in IgA
🚫MIL62 in membranous
+more
#KidneyWk
✅Setanaxib in Alport (12+)
Late breakers that did NOT include children:
🚫Atacicept in IgAN
🚫CONFIDENCE
🚫PISCES: Fish oil in Dialysis
🚫LIBERATE-D
🚫balcinrenone + dapa
🚫Obintuzumab in lupus nephritis
🚫Sibeprenlimab in IgA
🚫MIL62 in membranous
+more
#KidneyWk
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I am once again reminding you that jury trials are good.
Plea-driven mass adjudication is bad.
If you get a jury summons, *don't whine about serving*.
Plea-driven mass adjudication is bad.
If you get a jury summons, *don't whine about serving*.
BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I am once again reminding you that jury trials are good.
Plea-driven mass adjudication is bad.
If you get a jury summons, *don't whine about serving*.
Plea-driven mass adjudication is bad.
If you get a jury summons, *don't whine about serving*.
Baseball’s hottest club is: Sacramento!
A’s owner John Fisher has gone all out.
This place has everything: a press box shed from Home Depot, insane summer heat, broken down golf carts, disgruntled ex-Yankee pitchers, multiple ROY candidates.
A’s owner John Fisher has gone all out.
This place has everything: a press box shed from Home Depot, insane summer heat, broken down golf carts, disgruntled ex-Yankee pitchers, multiple ROY candidates.
This is the time of year when free agents hit the open market and future rosters begin to take shape.
Where does each team stand going into the offseason?
Our way-too-early 2026 MLB power rankings:
http://dlvr.it/TP2vfz
Where does each team stand going into the offseason?
Our way-too-early 2026 MLB power rankings:
http://dlvr.it/TP2vfz
November 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Baseball’s hottest club is: Sacramento!
A’s owner John Fisher has gone all out.
This place has everything: a press box shed from Home Depot, insane summer heat, broken down golf carts, disgruntled ex-Yankee pitchers, multiple ROY candidates.
A’s owner John Fisher has gone all out.
This place has everything: a press box shed from Home Depot, insane summer heat, broken down golf carts, disgruntled ex-Yankee pitchers, multiple ROY candidates.
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Congrats to Mark Walter, President of Guggenheim Partners and owner of the Dodgers, and his players Teoscar Hernández (Dominican Republic), Shohei Ohtani (Japan), Andy Pages (Cuba), Hyeseong Kim (South Korea), Kiké Hernandez (Puerto Rico), Yoshinobu Yamamoto (Japan), Roki Sasaki (Japan)...
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(1/2)
November 2, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Congrats to Mark Walter, President of Guggenheim Partners and owner of the Dodgers, and his players Teoscar Hernández (Dominican Republic), Shohei Ohtani (Japan), Andy Pages (Cuba), Hyeseong Kim (South Korea), Kiké Hernandez (Puerto Rico), Yoshinobu Yamamoto (Japan), Roki Sasaki (Japan)...
(1/2)
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This is probably a feature of both teams having blue in their team colors
All the thinkpieces about Bluesky don't account for the fact that it's occasionally 100% wall-to-wall baseball on here
November 2, 2025 at 3:50 AM
This is probably a feature of both teams having blue in their team colors
But what if I’ve got an (angry) fever? And the only prescription is more cowbell (replies)?!
October 31, 2025 at 8:56 PM
But what if I’ve got an (angry) fever? And the only prescription is more cowbell (replies)?!
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Yep! “Don’t let them win” sums it up for me.
They want you to be angry and cynical and to close yourself off from everyone and do nothing. Do not let them win! Donate a little money, time, or durable foodstuff if you can, research and vote in your upcoming local election, engage with and help grow your local community!
A thread about keeping one’s head above water under the current conditions and not being incapacitated by rage, fear, despair or some mixture of those (1/11)
October 31, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Yep! “Don’t let them win” sums it up for me.