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Wiped out my 300 day-plus Wordle streak while working on a deadline very early this morning. My sleep-deprived brain missed the (obvious in hindsight) solution in favor of a less common word. D’oh…

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Add a guava and cheese empanada and you have the breakfast of champions! Hope it’s been a good visit. Great group of people in that dept.

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Enjoy your visit to the beautiful Coral Gables campus, the heat and humidity aside! As a longtime Bluesky follower and ‘Cane, I’d have been happy to take you for a Cuban coffee - except I work at the downtown campus (and currently wrangling an R01 deadline…).

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wheel of death (aka the apoptosome)

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@landolfrb.bsky.social something for us to mull over at our next meeting

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It’s been years since I last saw this “mighty woman with a torch” up close but the sight of her, holding her light up to the stormy skies, remains as awe-inspiring as ever.

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Wordle 1,852 4/6* When the solution is also a reaction to the solution ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

That’s tough! The “cool” factor (and my lack thereof) is the only reason my entire wardrobe hasn’t been ransacked 😂

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Took me a while to realize that my teen was taking my socks. I now buy “uncool” patterned ones in bulk and the problem has solved itself!

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Re-reading the Hallmarks reviews in prep for a lecture. Given how critical redox mechanisms and ROS-generating pathways are to oncogenic transformation and cancer metabolism, I can’t believe redox dysregulation isn’t an official hallmark of cancer. Fellow ROS biologists - time to mount a campaign?

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Made me think of ‘30 Rock’… Wordle 1,775 4/6* 🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Excited for #SfRBM2025! Anyone else here heading to DC?

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Hah! Even the iguanas in Miami are fashionable!

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Haven’t seen one drop yet but the fur coats and Ugg boots are out in full force!

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

The local FL nursery where we got ours calls them dragonwing begonias. They’re so pretty!

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

-The Bun Also Rises -Much A Dough About Muffin -The Elves and the Choux maker

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Sometimes I think Wordle is just trolling us… Wordle 1,550 3/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Rod Dagnan @rod-dagnan.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

STUDY: Denmark tracked over a million children for 21 years, and found vaccines linked to zero extra cases of autism, asthma, or 48 other conditions. Vaccines are safe, effective, and the best way to eradicate preventable disease. Period.

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I never fail to be blown away by the intricate beauty of the Blaschka glass flowers at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. The skill and dedication that went into making these botanical specimens is just mind-boggling.

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

A fine example of Nature and nurture

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

My 8th and final year as director of our SURF program - it’s grown a bit from the three students in the year I first took over😃 Couldn’t ask for a better person than our new director @chvolmar.bsky.social to take SURF upwards and onwards!

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

just one of many small actions you can take that make a huge difference in your community, especially now in the face of SNAP cuts — and seriously, no one can stretch a dollar like a food bank

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

When Wordle thinks it’s Spelling Bee🙄 Wordle 1,477 6/6* 🟨🟩⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟨🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Congratulations, Becca - so very well deserved!!

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

As a lifelong sufferer of retinal issues, I’m always excited when I see studies like this. Now if only someone could figure out how to noninvasively get rid of ocular floaters.

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Never thought I’d miss having a Twitter account but here we are…

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Tom Hollenstein @tomhollenstein.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

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Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I don’t know who needs to hear this but it’s more important than ever now to remember institutions don’t love you back. Focus on your science, your trainees and collaborators, and your own well-being. Institutions will always find a way to move the goalposts.

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Michael Battalio @battalio.com · 31/05/2025

The President's Budget request as released yesterday will gut scientific research. Why should you care? 1) Science is fundamentally a jobs program. Many 100,000s are employed to do science and work for you, the US taxpayer.

NSF, NASA and NIH budgets per year, inflation adjusted from 2000-2025 along with the proposed cuts. NSF includes research component only. Massive cuts across all sectors, well below support spanning 25 years.

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Thank you @itaiyanai.bsky.social for an exciting research seminar and an engaging Night Science workshop! People are still buzzing about all the cool stuff they learned during your visit. (Loved the reminder to seek out science buddies who raise our game and encourage new thinking - very timely).

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Wordle 1,421 2/6* ⬜🟨⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Changed my second guess at the last second from a more conventional one!

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Coskun Lipid Cellar @ ZML Dresden @lipid.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

An amazing new enabling technology. Measurements of molecular size and shape on a chip. Couldn't be prouder of our friend Madhavi Krishnan of @ox.ac.uk this was and is one among the must fun collaborations I ever had. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Measurements of molecular size and shape on a chip

Size and shape are critical discriminators between molecular species and states. We describe a microchip-based high-throughput imaging approach offering rapid and precise determination of molecular pr...

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

My wonderful undergrad Bhipasha received the Outstanding Honors Thesis in Biology award for her project characterizing metabolic dysfunction markers in our obesogenic prostate cancer model. Seeing my trainees thrive and succeed right now gives me so much hope.

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Looking forward to having you in FL! Congratulations

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

She’s just looking out for your health. I make similar selfless sacrifices for my spouse 😁

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Looking to hire a PhD level scientist with a solid tumor biology background to work with us on an exciting translational project centered on redox-regulated signaling and metabolism in cancer. Here’s the link (please re-post!): careers.miami.edu/us/en/job/R1...

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

My chocolate mint has come back to life so many times, it’s basically on the path to attaining nirvana…

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

So glad I rotated off study section before having to deal with this horror!

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Stefanie Robel @stefanierobel.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Quick question for New PIs: We’re hosting a New PI Success Essentials Workshop next Friday, April 11, from 10am to 2pm ET. Given the challenging circumstances many of you are facing, we’re making this session free for PIs in the US. Consider it our small contribution ;)

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Thanks - I rarely get them before four tries but I did get one last week on try 2, so this is good to know for the next time this rare event happens and I want to flex!

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Wow thanks - yeah I do them on the mobile website

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Impressive! Took me 5 tries even after getting 4/5 letters in place on try 2… (l can’t seem to post the grid to Bluesky, shows up w the squares all misaligned).

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Today’s happy place - spending the day listening to some amazing cutting-edge science at our annual Tumor Biology symposium. Great talks from external speakers Drs Koumenis, Akbay and Cunniff as well as from our stellar faculty and trainees!

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

TIL cockles get cancer and that mitochondrial transfer is an underlying mechanism of transmission @dbayik.bsky.social @dionysioswatson.bsky.social

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Much will be written about how 4 PhD students and a PhD –Colette Delawalla, Sam Goldstein, Emma Courtney, Leslie Berntsen & JP Flores – organized @standupforscience.bsky.social to unite scientists in the US and worldwide. Now let's keep the momentum going to defend science! bsky.app/starter-pack...

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

There’s already news of confirmed measles cases in a Miami area school 🤦🏽‍♀️

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Well said. No one should think less of immigrants, minorities, and other vulnerable groups for their reticence under the current circumstances when far more powerful and privileged people have chosen not to speak up.

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