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Sam Blackman 🥖 @drsam.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

While Skype may be gone, @skypeascientist.bsky.social is definitely alive and kicking! What a great to talk about cancer biology with two Chapel Hill 7th grade classes yesterday. Want to reaffirm your faith in the power of science to inspire? Teach some kids!

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Sam Blackman 🥖 @drsam.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Hey @billywitz.bsky.social - your “clever” parenthetical does NOT belong in a serious news story about a very serious topic. Cut the cutesy stupid shit. This is a serious situation. #Canada will remain sovereign and to suggest that there a possibility otherwise is bullshit.

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Sam Blackman 🥖 @drsam.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Thanks! I should've put in something about the "double Shaywitz".

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Sam Blackman 🥖 @drsam.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

With all of the news over the past few weeks, and being at the start of a new role, I was contemplating the importance of professional relationships when I came across something while cleaning out an old filing cabinet. timmermanreport.com/2025/03/look...

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Looking Back and Seeing The Future: The Relationships that Propel Biotech - TimmermanReport.com

It’s been a rough week (again) for those of us within the biotech ecosystem. Actually, it’s been a rough month. Hell, let’s just say it’s been a hard year. Or two. Rather than writing about the negati...

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Sam Blackman 🥖 @drsam.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Those patients and parents who have been hoping and working towards innovated cell and gene therapies for kids have just lost their most important champion inside of the FDA. This will truly hurt a field that is already facing so many headwinds. Ugh.

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Sam Blackman 🥖 @drsam.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

It reminds me one of the final scenes of Chernobyl. I'm so ashamed of what our country has become. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4xC...

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HBO Chernobyl, Valery Legasov vs KGB Chairman Charkov -- Episode 5 -- FULL HD

YouTube video by Klevin Gray

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Sam Blackman 🥖 @drsam.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Trying to think hopeful thoughts on this Ides of March. We can always hope.

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Sam Blackman 🥖 @drsam.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I’ve realized that I don’t really need to read the news anymore. I just ask myself, “What are the stupidest and most malicious and ignorant things a government can do today to harm the US?” And voila! Turns out to match the headlines perfectly.

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Sam Blackman 🥖 @drsam.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

drsamblackman.substack.com/p/prophet-song

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Biopharma companies and CEOs are keeping their heads down at their own peril. They should speak up about what’s happening to the NIH and other science agencies before it’s too late. Silence gives consent. And no one should consent to this.

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Stand Up And Be Counted

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Sam Blackman 🥖 @drsam.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

THIS is why I love the internet. I post a cool picture my wife sent me from the flight she's on and 5 minutes later I learn something entirely new from a stranger. Thanks @brewcitychaser.com !

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Sam Blackman 🥖 @drsam.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

My wife just sent me this incredible photo that she took from the window of her @alaskaairlines.bsky.social flight from SNA to SEA. How she managed to capture the shadow of her plane in a rainbow circle is beyond me. But wow! #aviationphotography #alaskaairlines #planespotting #aviation

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Sam Blackman 🥖 @drsam.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Apparently Canada has its own Florida.

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Sam Blackman 🥖 @drsam.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

It’s not #caturday yet but given that the country is on fire, here’s a cat with flames. #abyssinian #catshatetrump

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Sam Blackman 🥖 @drsam.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Fair point. In full disclosure, that cookie was worth its weight in gold.

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Sam Blackman 🥖 @drsam.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I love my various non-profit board roles, but being on the board of @orcasbakery.bsky.social has got to be one of the very best board seats ever. What other board seat gets you backstage access to an incredible bakery, and a chance to try new cookie recipes?

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Welcome immigrants from X interested in science to the friendlier skies of @bsky.app, as documented by a new @nature.com survey (but you already knew that 😉) "Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Sam Blackman 🥖 @drsam.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I do like “abscess” as the word for a collection of #maggots.

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Sam Blackman 🥖 @drsam.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

My #coffee selections are clearly in sync with the current vibe. @cafegrumpy.bsky.social

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Sam Blackman 🥖 @drsam.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Didn’t listen to any news today - the BBc, CBC, nothing. There’s nothing there that’s “news”. These are the worst people doing the worst things they can get away with. So I tried to keep myself occupied with other things, occasionally repeating this mantra.

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Sam Blackman 🥖 @drsam.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Then I will take your ostrich as a reference to my fabulous legs and plumage and not as any other commentary.

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Sam Blackman 🥖 @drsam.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Fair. But let me ask you this, @dshaywitz.bsky.social - if I already know it’s all going to be corrupt and awful, and that I’ll need to #resist and fight, then does it matter if I choose not to eat the stream of their shit every day? Serious question. Can’t I be just as enraged without the noise?

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Sam Blackman 🥖 @drsam.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The world is pretty awful. Fortunately cats don’t seem to care. So here is a picture of our cat Sophie sleeping peacefully.

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Sam Blackman 🥖 @drsam.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

What do you do when you have FOMO from missing JPM and getting to see everyone? You get @luketimmerman.bsky.social ⁩ to come a visit you in the back of beyond!

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Sam Blackman 🥖 @drsam.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I was gonna say … you’re pretty far aft of that wing, my friend.

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Sam Blackman 🥖 @drsam.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Wasn’t a similar instrument used to do the old fashioned “bleeding time” test?

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Sam Blackman 🥖 @drsam.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Even though I'm not reading the news and avoiding NPR, there's enough awfulness in the world that it seeps in. So I decided to take the day off for a personal timeline cleanse. open.substack.com/pub/drsambla...

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Sam Blackman 🥖 @drsam.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

No. (I’m teasing - they may be, they may not. But I’m a 56-year-old pediatric oncologist, so I know *nothing* about cool).

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

It's an old song. But I think it has a vibe for today's stress. youtu.be/gp5JCrSXkJY?...

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Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth 1967

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Sam Blackman 🥖 @drsam.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

My wife loves doing the jigsaw puzzles that people leave on the ferries. And then I looked closely at the one she’s working on tonight …

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Sam Blackman 🥖 @drsam.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I’ve taken this ferry hundreds of times but still never get tired of how beautiful it can be out here on the water. #OrcasIsland #SanJuanIslands #PNW @wsdot.bsky.social @wsferrys.bsky.social

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Sam Blackman 🥖 @drsam.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Drowning my #JPM25 FOMO in a weekend of good Japanese food and Indian food with my family for a long weekend in Vancouver, BC.

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Sam Blackman 🥖 @drsam.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

If there was a scientific journal composed entirely of papers like these (a Cooks Illustrated on steroids), I’d subscribe in a heartbeat.

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Sam Blackman 🥖 @drsam.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

And yes, keep at it. Even flat loaves taste good and make good toast, crostini, breadcrumbs, doorstops, bird food ….

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Sam Blackman 🥖 @drsam.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Looks like my early attempts. Couple of things that helped me: - Making sure my starter was really vigorous - Good proving temps (a Brod & Taylor proving box is a great tool) - I had real success after using recipes in this book, and then branched out: www.amazon.com/Josey-Baker-...

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Josey Baker Bread: Get Baking • Make Great Bread • Be Happy!

Josey Baker Bread: Get Baking • Make Great Bread • Be Happy! [Baker, Josey, Kunkel, Erin] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Josey Baker Bread: Get Baking • Make Great Bread • Be Happy!

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Giacomo Bartolucci (he) @gbart.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

1/n Some time ago my colleague, excellent cook, and friend Ivan told me: "Cacio e pepe is the recipe that I screw up more often. Let's make a project studying systematically the physics of that sauce". Prepare to get cheesy, I'm glad to share the Cacio e paper preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.00536

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Sam Blackman 🥖 @drsam.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

If you lived near 266 Arborway ….

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Sam Blackman 🥖 @drsam.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

It was a while since I did this, but when I was in NYC in December I managed to get to a Moth StorySLAM in Brooklyn and got to get up on stage and tell a (true) story. #TheMoth #Storytelling #AutoInsurance @volkswagen.bsky.social youtu.be/fOE-1DkHt5E

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The Moth StorySLAM (NYC) - December 2, 2024 - "Silver Linings"

YouTube video by Sam Blackman

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Sam Blackman 🥖 @drsam.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

We’re christening this “The Gilman”. Fabulous. Equal parts reposado, Aperol, St. German, and lemon juice. Thanks @gilman.bsky.social - it’s a hit!

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