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Marc Halushka MD, PhD

@marchalushka.bsky.social
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Autopsy & cardiovascular pathologist at the Cleveland Clinic. I engage in microRNAs, heart disease, spatial single cell, and scientific integrity. Facts are facts, but opinions are my own.

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Marc Halushka MD, PhD @marchalushka.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
This is a must read about the challenges of microRNA research. academic.oup.com/nar/article/... Brilliant work by @frommlab.bsky.social and other great collaborators. Here are some key points...
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Cardiovascular Pathology @cardiovascularpath.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
#medsky #pathsky #cardiosky
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Cardiovascular Pathology @cardiovascularpath.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
What’s the cardiac disease depicted in this EM image? Give it a shot in the comments! Answer here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #cardiacsky #pathsky #medsky
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Marc Halushka MD, PhD @marchalushka.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Has anyone in the #miRNA community tried to interact with the #GTEx small RNA datasets they made available? I have questions….
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 08/05/2025
A Sage journal that holds the distinction of highest number of retracted articles in the Retraction Watch Database likely made in excess of $400,000 in revenue from those papers, by our calculations.
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Journal collected $400,000 from papers it later retracted
A Sage journal that holds the distinction of highest number of retracted articles in the Retraction Watch Database likely made in excess of $400,000 in revenue from those papers, by our calculation…
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Cardiovascular Pathology @cardiovascularpath.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Attention autopsy, forensic, and cardiovascular pathologists! Did you miss this 2023 Consensus Statement with recommended examination procedures for sudden cardiac death? It’s still available at: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #medsky #pathsky #cardiosky
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Alan Dreams of Candy Corn @alans9.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
#pathsky
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Marc Halushka MD, PhD @marchalushka.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The Satija Lab single cell genomics day is starting now. Always interesting and free to watch at YouTube or satijalab.org/sgcd25.
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Cardiovascular Pathology @cardiovascularpath.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Open Access Alert! What are the causes of biomaterial degeneration in patients with congenital heart disease? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Marc Halushka MD, PhD @marchalushka.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/jamescla... Interesting idea on paper mills. If we allow a second publishing ecosystem where everyone in mainstream science knows to avoid it and not cite it, it might be better than the current grey area where we live.
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Life After Paper Mills
You won't like this.
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Marc Halushka MD, PhD @marchalushka.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
This was a great collaboration to determine just how many T lymphocytes are in a non-myocarditis biopsy. Not many! (But sometimes it's not as few as you would think). This is informing us for thresholds on new myocarditis criteria coming your way shortly.
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Marc Halushka MD, PhD @marchalushka.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Excited to be part of ‘The best of the USCAP journals’ session. Our manuscript ‘Patterns of Unwanted Biological and Technical Expression Variation Among 49 Human Tissues’ was discussed. #USCAP2025 @labinvest.bsky.social
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USCAP @uscap.org · 26/03/2025
#USCAP2025 is still going strong, with a host of courses and activities on this Annual Meeting Wednesday! So much knowledge, so little time... mailchi.mp/uscap/wednes...
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USCAP @uscap.org · 24/03/2025
Good morning and happy Annual Meeting Monday! Today is one of the busiest days of the meeting - with lots to do and learn. mailchi.mp/uscap/monday... #USCAP2025
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Marc Halushka MD, PhD @marchalushka.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Congratulations to Cristina Basso for winning the SCVP distinguished achievement award. We had a wonderful banquet to celebrate her career with a heartfelt roast by Giulia d’Amati and Monica De Gaspari. #USCAP2025
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Marc Halushka MD, PhD @marchalushka.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Packed crowd and great presentations at the SCVP companion society meeting on sudden cardiac death at #USCAP2025. A good day for cardiovascular pathology.
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Marc Halushka MD, PhD @marchalushka.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Congratulations to all of the medical students who matched in pathology today. Welcome to the best field in all of medicine. Very excited about the new trainees coming to the Cleveland Clinic. #pathsky
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Marc Halushka MD, PhD @marchalushka.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Looking forward to #USCAP2025! Always a good time to catch up with friends.
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Cleveland Clinic @clevelandclinic.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Measles is a highly contagious illness caused by a virus. It causes a widespread rash and flu-like symptoms. But measles isn’t just a rash. It can make you severely ill and lead to life-threatening complications like brain inflammation and pneumonia. Read more: cle.clinic/3DPymCG
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Marc Halushka MD, PhD @marchalushka.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Big changes coming? Researchers have sued six big academic publishers, arguing their practices are illegal and anticompetitive.
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Marc Halushka MD, PhD @marchalushka.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
The Cavs play a beautiful style of basketball. #Letemknow #Cavs
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 18/02/2025
"I thought I was fairly cynical about the kinds of misconduct that goes on, but it turns out I am not cynical enough." A Q&A with sleuth @nhwise.bsky.social, now working at a publisher.
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When a sleuth gets hired by a publisher: A Q&A with Nick Wise
Nick Wise had a prolific start to his sleuthing journey. In July 2021, the fluid dynamics researcher started looking for tortured phrases in published papers, and has since had a hand in at least 1…
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Marc Halushka MD, PhD @marchalushka.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
In these difficult times for science, this is wonderful to see: Retraction Watch is thrilled to be partnering with foremost scientific sleuth Elisabeth Bik on a new way to support scientific integrity: The Elisabeth Bik Scie…
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Rick Huganir @rhuganir.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
This is the end of science as we know it if it stands—15% IDCs for all NIH Grants. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Here is a great new initiative in #ScientificPublishing: * Transparant and collaborative peer review * Recognition for peer reviewers * Affordable publishing: single article submission is only $400 ! www.stacksjournal.org
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Stacks Journal | Create better science, together.
A scientific journal designed for ethics and ease. Publishing articles, Special Issues, and entire journals.
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 31/01/2025
"Thousands of highly cited scientists have at least one retraction" "Oransky says the results throw into question the practice of ranking scientists on the basis of citations at all."
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Thousands of highly cited scientists have at least one retraction
Database shows that researchers with retracted papers had higher self-citation rates and published more than those without retractions.
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Marc Halushka MD, PhD @marchalushka.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I just went to two nice talks by our Dermatopathology house staff. Lots of entities in little time. I'd say my knowledge of melanocytomas and adnexal tumors is now skin deep 😀. #Pathsky
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Marc Halushka MD, PhD @marchalushka.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
You don't see this everyday in cardiac pathology! Great photo. @joemaleszewski.bsky.social
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Marc Halushka MD, PhD @marchalushka.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
I hope our recent microRNA and EV review might be of interest to the genomics community 🧬&🖥️
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Marc Halushka MD, PhD @marchalushka.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
A decade of research points to a regulatory mechanism of #microRNAs being selectively enriched in extracellular vesicles. But is this really happening? With Xiao-Man Liu, we debate the merits of this science with a deep dive into the literature. 🧪 authors.elsevier.com/a/1kNW15OfBz...
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Marc Halushka MD, PhD @marchalushka.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
This is exciting and could be very impactful for the community. retractionwatch.com/2025/01/02/i...
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Introducing the Retraction Watch Sleuth in Residence Program
We’re thrilled to announce the creation of the Retraction Watch Sleuth in Residence Program, an opportunity for a sleuth to spend a year working with us. Too often, sleuths work for free, often at …
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
What's your "Paper of the Year"? Join us and link your favorite one and let's create the best reading list ever :) @petrovadmitri.bsky.social Here's my favorite of 2024: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39481381/
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Viroid-like colonists of human microbiomes - PubMed
Here, we describe "obelisks," a class of heritable RNA elements sharing several properties: (1) apparently circular RNA ∼1 kb genome assemblies, (2) predicted rod-like genome-wide secondary structures...
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Marc Halushka MD, PhD @marchalushka.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 18 The Pinballs by Betsy Byars
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Marc Halushka MD, PhD @marchalushka.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Quick thoughts on my glance at this new preprint. 1. It makes sense. Glad they did it. 2. They don't say if they'll use it to clean up MirBase 3. They fail to compare results to MirGeneDB (why not?) @frommlab.bsky.social 4. They show MirDeep2 overcalls novel miRNAs (yep)
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Marc Halushka MD, PhD @marchalushka.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 12 Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Charles Piller’s new book ‘Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s’ will come out in February. A fantastic read about those who discover science fraud and the lack of response by institutions and publishers. www.publishersweekly.com/9781668031247
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Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s by Charles Piller
Alzheimer’s research is a cesspool of faked results and moneygrubbing, according to this hard-hitting exposé. Science magazine j...
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Marc Halushka MD, PhD @marchalushka.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 7 Pathologic Basis of Disease by Eds. Kumar, Abbas, Fausto, Aster
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Marc Halushka MD, PhD @marchalushka.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Tom Hamilton is simply the best baseball play by play announcer in the country. No one can match his excitability. #Cleveland is blessed. Congrats to Hammy!
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Marc Halushka MD, PhD @marchalushka.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 1 Harrison Bergeron, by Kurt Vonnegut
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Marc Halushka MD, PhD @marchalushka.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I’m excited to have been part of a productive meeting on the state and future of the #USCAP journals. Mod Path and Lab Invest are in capable hands and well positioned to bring important discoveries to pathologists and researchers.
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Marc Halushka MD, PhD @marchalushka.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
A Science Breakthrough Too Good to Be True? It Probably Isn’t - this is a nice article again reminding us to approach science critically. Good science is reproducible and builds on other discoveries. 🧪
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The Fromm Lab @frommlab.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
We are going to be teaching microRNA annotation and expression profiling in Oslo in a few week. Register! www.mn.uio.no/sbi/english/...
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Oslo Bioinformatics Workshop Week 2024 - Centre for Bioinformatics
December 9th-13th 2024 will see the third edition of the Oslo Bioinformatics Workshop Week at the University of Oslo, Norway. This event is organised by the Student Committee of the Centre for Bioinfo...
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Marc Halushka MD, PhD @marchalushka.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
A colleague posted that GTEx V10 has now been released. It contains the small RNA-seq data (#miRNAs) they have been sitting on for 6+ years. I thought that NIH contract awardees had a responsibility to get data out in a timely fashion. I'm looking forward to seeing what is in there.
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Marc Halushka MD, PhD @marchalushka.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Helping a colleague with a miRNA biomarker project in whole blood. Amazed that in the 10+ years since Colin Pritchard warned about blood cell levels impacting results, I could not find a single study adjusting/normalizing/just discussing their data relative to a CBC. Over 10k papers - nothing?!?
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