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Vaughn Smider, MD, PhD

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Biomedical researcher, antibody investigator (especially cow antibodies 🐮, which are the best), drug discoverer, entrepreneur 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 Founder and President at Applied Biomedical Science Institute: https://absinstitute.org

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Vaughn Smider, MD, PhD @vvsmider.bsky.social · Mar 17

I’m a biomedical researcher who lost his wife to cancer. Finding cures is personal to me. What’s happening at the NIH is devastating. Here’s my editorial in my hometown newspaper.

www.vindy.com/opinion/edit...

DOGE ends America’s golden age of biomedical research

Biomedical research impacts all of us. I became curious about how drugs work after my mom was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis when I was a small boy. She received “gold shots” as treatment, which ...

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 4h

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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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 14h

Three scientists, including one from the U.S., share the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing “metal-organic frameworks,” versatile molecular cages that can trap contaminants, store energy and possibly deliver drugs to specific areas of the body.

2025 Chemistry Nobel Goes to Molecular Sponges That Purify Water, Store Energy, and Clean Up the Environment

www.scientificamerican.com

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Vaughn Smider, MD, PhD @vvsmider.bsky.social · 5h

Congrats, great achievement!

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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 14h

Debunkinhg takes hours, misinformation seconds.

Don´t just post. If you didn´t read or understand the paper, don´t post it with conclusions from others. Be very careful with low-impact journals and with predatory journals as well as with pre-prints! If unsure, ask experts, or wait for them.

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

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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Vaughn Smider, MD, PhD @vvsmider.bsky.social · 1d

“Somewhere in the wilds of Idaho, one of the world’s newest Nobel laureates was, his company said, “living his best life”. And, no, they told reporters, they had not been able to reach him. “

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Nobel winner had no idea: he was off-grid in the Rockies — The Times and The Sunday Times

Somewhere in the wilds of Idaho, one of the world’s newest Nobel laureates was, his company said, “living his best life”. And, no, they told reporters, they had not been able to reach him. So it was t...

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 1d

nice writeup on the medicine Nobel

Discovery of cells that keep immune responses in check wins medicine Nobel Prize

Their work revealed a peripheral mechanism that keeps immune system from causing harm.

arstechnica.com

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 1d

I just emailed my "Silence" essay to the Presidents/Chancellors and Provosts of the 9 Compact universities as well as those from the 4 orgs with which I have been formally affiliated.

The essay can be found here:

jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...

and here:

www.linkedin.com/posts/jeremy...

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 2d

Immunity researchers win the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi receive the prize for understanding how the immune system is kept in check. Read more: cen.acs.org/people/nobel...

#chemsky #immunosky 🧪

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 2d

My quote of the day

All of my remaining realisable assets are to be disbursed … to constitute a fund, the interest on which is to be distributed annually as prizes to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.

Alfred Nobel

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Vaughn Smider, MD, PhD @vvsmider.bsky.social · 2d

the “preceding year” requirement is kind of interesting.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 2d

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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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 2d

Faculty positions in animal morphogenesis that may be filled at the Assistant or Associate Professor level in one of my favorite Departments" Cell and Systems Biology at the University of Toronto. 1/n
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 2d

Join in the excitement this week 🤩The #NobelPrizes in Physiology or #Medicine, #Physics, and #Chemistry will be announced on Monday (11:30 a.m.), Tuesday (11:45 a.m.), and Wednesday (11:45 a.m. CEST). Live -> www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

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Shabaana Khader @khadershabaana.bsky.social · 3d

Dear #microbiology and #immunology community- I took a break from social media after I deleted my Twitter account, but am back here. Please help me rebuild my community by following me and amplifying this message- I will follow you back. Thank you and I look forward to our many interactions!

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 3d

My quote of the day

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Winston Churchill

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 4d

Cancer misinformation kills. Literally.

Cancer patients who refuse conventional treatments and rely on unsupported therapies die more often and faster.

Colorectal cancer patients:
A 4.57-fold increased risk of death
Five-year survival plummets from 79.4% to 32.7%.

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 4d

A new generation of radiotherapies promises a more targeted attack on cancer.
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New radioactive isotope therapies promise more targeted attacks on cancer

Recent clinical successes, and profits, have prompted a rush among pharma companies to try new isotopes and targeting strategies

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Allen Institute @alleninstitute.org · 5d

1M+ people live with SYNGAP1-related conditions, which can include severe seizures.

For the first time in mice models, gene therapy has reversed symptoms, even after onset. The breakthrough was achieved in collaboration with BioMarin.

🧠📈 Read the study: www.cell.com/molecular-th...

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AZ Faust @azfaust.bsky.social · 5d

Guys, science may need a superbowl ad…

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 5d

@sciencehomecoming.bsky.social has tools for finding local newspapers and writing for them!

Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 5d

Here's the assignment folks. Write op-eds for your local papers and campus newspapers too. Just. Say. No. This is a classic authoritarian move and risks the future of higher education and science and innovation in the US. Speak out today. No time to lose. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

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altmeyerlab @altmeyerlab.bsky.social · 6d

A comprehensive genetic catalog of human double-strand break repair | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A comprehensive genetic catalog of human double-strand break repair

The analysis of DNA sequence outcomes provides molecular insights into double-strand break (DSB) repair mechanisms. Using parallel in-pool profiling of Cas9-induced insertions and deletions (indels) w...

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 6d

PubMed is in trouble

This is beyond bad for medical research

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Doudna Lab @doudna-lab.bsky.social · 6d

"Jane Goodall showed us what a life in science could look like: rigorous discovery paired with fierce advocacy for what you study. She gave the world six decades of groundbreaking research on chimpanzees and their habitats, then turned that knowledge into a global movement for conservation." (1/2)

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