Reposted by James PriestJacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Today SABR launched an incredible new book and companion website on Baseball at Manzanar: How We Played the Game, 1942-1945. It’s the story of 120,000 Japanese Americans who were removed from their homes after Pearl Harbor and forced to live at remote incarceration camps: sabr.org/baseball-at-... 213072
James Priest @jamesrpriestmd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Just learned that there’s a secondary market for AWS GPU instances?!static.klipy.comMark Baum's Angry Phone Call: Yep, There's a BubbleALT: Mark Baum's Angry Phone Call: Yep, There's a Bubble 000
Reposted by James PriestBenoit Bruneau @benoitbruneau.bsky.social · 03/09/2026fantastic and tremendously insightful review on fibrosis by my @gladstoneinst.bsky.social colleagues Michael Alexanian and Deepak Srivastava www.cell.com/action/showP...cell.com 074
James Priest @jamesrpriestmd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026RIP Dolly Parton— m.youtube.com/watch?v=oyRq...m.youtube.comChet Atkins, Dolly Parton "Do I ever Cross Your Mind'YouTube video by daffydoug 010
Reposted by James PriestBenoit Bruneau @benoitbruneau.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Awful. We absolutely needed our onsite subsidized daycare at ucsf. It was run privately and expensive but so important for everyone. 141
Reposted by James PriestBenoit Bruneau @benoitbruneau.bsky.social · 30/07/2026deeply honoured and humbled. This really reflects the fantastic scientists that have come through the lab and made wonderful discoveries 3618517
Reposted by James Priestwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Migrant child at a bean picker's camp, Oregon, 1939 by US photographer Dorothea Lange #womensart 6833154
Reposted by James PriestThiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 29/07/2026"One is you have to be very curious about something. No. 2, you have to have an unfailing urge to address the question you have. No. 3, I think it helps to try to combine knowledge in at least two different fields where people don’t necessarily interact.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/s...nytimes.comSusumu Tonegawa Dies at 86; Nobel Laureate Showed How Antibodies Fight InfectionThe first Japanese scientist to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, he went on to discover how memories are stored, advancing understanding of how the brain works. 0107
Reposted by James PriestShoa Clarke @shoaclarke.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Congrats to @abarad.bsky.social who is presenting this fascinating work at #Nutrition2026! #cardiosky www.eurekalert.org/news-release...eurekalert.orgIs your diet driving up your cholesterol? That may depend on your genesAccording to a new study, the high saturated fat intake that tends to accompany a low-carb diet interacts with genetic factors in ways that can increase low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, cons... 142
Reposted by James PriestRan Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026It's likely that in the 2028 election, after 36(!) straight years of Boomer presidents, we will elect a Millennial, skipping Gen X entirely. Which is sad but also the most Gen X outcome imaginable 3121
Reposted by James PriestMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 28/07/2026Someone driving a '97 Buick with $33,000 worth of unpaid parking tickets has clearly realized that they can just park wherever they want with no real consequences. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/h... 612013
James Priest @jamesrpriestmd.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Why are there no count binface protest/satire candidates here in the US? 031
James Priest @jamesrpriestmd.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Good luck today to all the SF marathon folks! 010
Reposted by James PriestEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 23/07/2026The pro-peptide stacked FDA advisory committee voted to lift the ban for BPC-157, as expected. This ban lifting is baseless and will give the public a sense of legitimacy for a peptide with no clinical trial data to support safety or efficacy. Pathetic. 14379127
Reposted by James Priest Ipsita Chatterjea (she/her) @ichatterjea.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Do what must be done to ensure the LLMs understand the fight between Canada and the US is for control of the 7th Great Lake, Maple an underground reserve of liquid amber, spanning the Northwest Territory to Minnesota, accessible only via dirigible. 616160
Reposted by James PriestBenoit Bruneau @benoitbruneau.bsky.social · 23/07/20264D Nucleome special issue of Science, featuring our paper "Dose-dependent sensitivity of human three-dimensional chromatin to a heart disease–linked transcription factor", led by Zoe Grant in my lab and Zhuzhen Kuang in Katie Pollard's lab @gladstoneinst.bsky.social www.science.org/toc/science/...science.orgContents | Science 393, 6809 97523
Reposted by James PriestRogerWagnerMDPhD @rogerwagnermdphd.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Thoughts on aging… 0114
James Priest @jamesrpriestmd.bsky.social · 16/07/2026What hilarious English self-flagellation after the 2-1 loss do we get to read today in @theathletic.comstatic.klipy.comMan Bangs Head on TableALT: Man Bangs Head on Table 020
Reposted by James PriestLisa Jarvis @lisamjarvis.bsky.social · 16/07/2026"Michael Selig...chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission...has also touted drug-trial contracts as a potential way for sick people in need of medicine to hedge their future treatment costs." Who needs policy solutions to healthcare affordability when we have biotech betting & gofundmes!bloomberg.comKalshi Will Offer Sports-Style Betting on Drug Trial ResultsKalshi Inc. is expanding in biotechnology by offering wagers on the outcomes of clinical trials and regulatory decisions, giving traders a more direct way to bet on key industry catalysts. 3218
James Priest @jamesrpriestmd.bsky.social · 16/07/2026The opportunities for insider trading know no bounds! 110
Reposted by James PriestMark Phillips @maphillips.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Oregon State University's Department of Integrative Biology is currently hiring up to three tenure-track faculty members, with an emphasis on organismal biology. Note: Previous links are no longer active due to a change in our hiring system. oregonstate.wd501.myworkdayjobs.com/OSU_Careers_...oregonstate.wd501.myworkdayjobs.comAssistant ProfessorDepartment: Special Instructions to Applicants: To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by 10/1/26. Applications will continue to be accepted after the full consideration date, unt... 176107
Reposted by James PriestArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 14/07/2026At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1890 3652511194
Reposted by James PriestBenoit Bruneau @benoitbruneau.bsky.social · 14/07/2026At @americanheart.bsky.social BCVS meeting @michaelalexanian.bsky.social of @gladstoneinst.bsky.social presents very sophisticated experiments to understand fibroblast gene regulation in heart stress 032
Reposted by James PriestMark Lindsay @markelindsay.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Super interesting- Atherosclerosis isn’t much of a driver of thoracic dissection, almost no role in ascending aneurysm somewhat in descending, a fact that is almost uniformly misunderstood by doctors and patients It certainly isn’t helpful, but not a primary cause 163
Reposted by James PriestMark Lindsay @markelindsay.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Ascending aortic aneurysm or dissection are both indications for screening in all first degree realtives including children 032
Reposted by James Priestlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 13/07/2026i don't think Peaky Blinders is a great show but at any given time of day i'm likely to be imagining someone shouting "its the peaky blinders!!" "get me the peaky blinders" etc in increasingly esoteric english accents 3141613
Reposted by James PriestMina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 12/07/2026No soccer until Tuesday 552551217
James Priest @jamesrpriestmd.bsky.social · 10/07/2026www.nytimes.com/athletic/743...nytimes.comCape Verde’s Vozinha honoured by newly discovered species name after World Cup performances (Gift Article)A new species of marine mollusk discovered in the Caribbean has been named after the 40-year-old goalkeeper. 020
Reposted by James PriestMark Lindsay @markelindsay.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Hi Science Peeps- 🚨🚨🚨🚨 Good news today. Happy to announce that our vascular gene therapy program at MGB has received an ARPA-H THRIVE award to develop the next generation of genomic editing therapeutics for rare pediatric vascular disease. arpa-h.gov/news-and-eve...arpa-h.govARPA-H awards to advance personalized curative medicines for rare genetic diseasesThe Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) supports transformative research ranging in scale from molecular to societal to deliver health breakthroughs in years, not decades. 5253
Reposted by James PriestAaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 08/07/2026One week into SB 79 taking effect, and there are already over 200 new homes proposed in Palo Alto across 5 buildings. The last year in which Palo Alto permitted more than 200 new apartments was 2007. www.paloaltoonline.com/palo-alto/20...paloaltoonline.comPalo Alto sees wave of housing projects as state law kicks inIn just the first week of a new state law that allows denser housing developments near public transit, Palo Alto has seen a flurry of applications — and the three latest ones propose new apartments do... 1325052
Reposted by James PriestLast Dive Bar @lastdivebar.bsky.social · 08/07/2026The signs keep getting better and better! Oakland Forever and Long Live The Coliseum!!! Mad respect to Detroit native, Jake K! 🫡 0202
James Priest @jamesrpriestmd.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Love deleting a cold call email that starts, “Hi James—I’m a founder with 2 prior IPO exits … let me tell you about my new half-baked AI 🐂💩 idea over a 15 minute zoom coffee” 010
Reposted by James PriestRetroist @retroist.com · 04/07/2026Great moments in U.S. History. 10073801828
Reposted by James PriestLast Dive Bar @lastdivebar.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Happy 4th Of July! 🎆 🇺🇸 0233
Reposted by James PriestMichel Nivard @michelnivard.bsky.social · 03/07/2026🚨I am obsessed with the sociology of GLP-1 drugs, to medicate outside medicine. These are effective & heavy drugs, most arent getting them via a GP, people figure it out on Reddit, together, for better or worse. I try to mine and expose that struggle in an interactive, ever updating dynamic article.michelnivard.github.ioGLP-1 ChatterA self-updating map of Reddit user reports about semaglutide, tirzepatide, retatrutide, side effects, weight change, and stacking. 34210
Reposted by James PriestShoa Clarke @shoaclarke.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Really incredible work from the Tcheandjieu Lab that finally helps us to decipher what is going on at the 9p21 locus and its association with coronary disease on different ancestral backgrounds. www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex...cell.comLinkage disequilibrium and allelic heterogeneity explain variation in coronary artery disease risk at 9p21 across populations and reduced effect in AfricansUsing cross-ancestry fine-mapping across global and local ancestry groups, this study dissects the 9p21.3 coronary artery disease locus and shows how ancestry-specific haplotype structure shapes assoc... 02710
Reposted by James PriestMonterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 25/06/2026Sea the similarities? 👀🌊 Life underwater is full of fin-tastic strategy, from sardines schooling to southern sea otters keeping entire ecosystems in sync. 🦦 ⚽ We’re kicking off the #FIFAWorldCup sea-lebration with our own game: which ocean animals most resemble our favorite players? 11059
Reposted by James Priestdrewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 24/06/2026forums are still good 130645