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Vijay Raghunathan @vijaykrishna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You should check out Ivan Schwab's (UC Davis) work on it. He did win an IgNobel for it.

Vijay Raghunathan @vijaykrishna.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Unconventional thinking, and raw talent will risk being replaced by mediocrity in the name of efficiency. Unsure if it's going to be a feature or a bug in the future

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Vijay Raghunathan @vijaykrishna.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The human potential is being ignored increasingly, be it AI triaging job applicants, grant applicants, before a peer/ human views. Have we become so lazy that in the name of optimization, we depend on models to filter the essential but mundane. Or have we become reduced to keywords?

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Vijay Raghunathan @vijaykrishna.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think you should ask Nikon small world ;)

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Vijay Raghunathan @vijaykrishna.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Ice cream is in fact recommended therapy for a sore throat. Just follow the food science.

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Vijay Raghunathan @vijaykrishna.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Picture doesn't do justice to the red skies, but that was around mid morning in MA, air quality eh....

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

For context, this is one hundred ninety-two thousand, five-year biomedical research grants. More than five years of complete funding for the entirety of the NIH for cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, blindness, epilepsy, infectious diseases, etc… An entire generation of scientists.

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Vijay Raghunathan @vijaykrishna.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Holy crap! This is an incredible amount of deceit here. Did no one think to verify raw data at Thermo?

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Who do I know at UCSF or Berkeley that would be interested in taking a high school student to shadow for lab work? Kid is interested in bioscience, and lives fine detail work.

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Vijay Raghunathan @vijaykrishna.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Likewise, there are conceptual differences between (a) percentage (a part of), (b) percentile (a ranking of), and (c) percentage points (relative difference between percentages).

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Vijay Raghunathan @vijaykrishna.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

*No context*: while in academia, to all new students joining my lab, I would carry a tradition from my grad lab - talk about fold change vs fold difference (percentage) to understand directionality in movement of values. Just saying, perhaps this needs to be done also to adults with authority.

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Vijay Raghunathan @vijaykrishna.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

My yard stick and yard appeared to have segmental snow accumulation

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Vijay Raghunathan @vijaykrishna.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I don't want to like this post Denis. But this is the sad reality we live in

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Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Prospective students, join us for our virtual open house on Oct 30 from 12-1 pm PST to get all your questions answered, register here: ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Vijay Raghunathan @vijaykrishna.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

That's such a good yield!! Looks yum

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Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems @mpipks.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

IG Nobel Prize in #Physics 2025 to @mpipks.bsky.social researchers for elucidating the phase behaviour of cacio e pepe sauce. The work highlights how physics can also be applied to solve daily-life problems! nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03045-0

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Tipsy bats and perfect pasta: Ig Nobels celebrate ‘improbable’ research

The annual awards are a celebration of weird but thought-provoking science.

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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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scaryr🦊 @merveille.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Hi, are you an academic biology lab in the Boston area? I am a lab manager at a local biotech and I will be getting rid of a lot consumables in the near future (as will many of my colleagues, unfortunately). If you would be interested in free consumables, please reach out to me!

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I just circulated this to faculty in my Department and encourage you all to do likewise "Dear Colleagues NIH has issued a Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs, and is looking for feedback. Please consider responding.

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NOT-OD-25-138: Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs NOT-OD-25-138. NIH

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Vijay Raghunathan @vijaykrishna.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

On a quick glance I thought it was the Iris in an eye

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Vijay Raghunathan @vijaykrishna.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Yup! Happens more often than you'd think

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Nature @nature.com · 10/06/2025

This tiny device can shrink dangerous blood clots. It’s called the ‘milli-spinner’ and its invention was partly an accident…

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Vijay Raghunathan @vijaykrishna.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Congrats on the move, change is always exciting and refreshing

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Vijay Raghunathan @vijaykrishna.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Asking genuinely, do you need to login to use a toothbrush? Why would one need a toothbrush account?

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Paloma Liton @palomaliton.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

🚨 Final Reminder! 🚨 Don't miss your chance to share your research at the ISER BrightFocus Glaucoma Meeting 2025! 📅 Abstract Submission Deadline: May 27, 2025 🔗 iserbrightfocusglaucoma.org/abstract-sub... @iser.bsky.social @brightfocus.bsky.social

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Abstract Submission – Iser/Bright Focus Glaucoma Symposium

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Brian Camley @diffusiveblob.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

How do cells sense electric fields? How quickly can they respond? We show, in a collaboration with Nathan Belliveau and Julie Theriot, that this is limited by the physics of how proteins diffuse. Here's the @bppbseminar.bsky.social seminar I gave on this work: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TDX...

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Brian Camley: The physics of protein diffusion controls how cells respond to electric fields

YouTube video by BPPB Seminar

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Vijay Raghunathan @vijaykrishna.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

So sorry for your loss Bryan. My heartfelt condolences.

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Vijay Raghunathan @vijaykrishna.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Do you use human primary cells in vitro for your studies? Human tissues? Ever wondered how well the cells in vitro map to in vivo? Please check out our data here doi.org/10.1038/s415... this may have importance when studies don't translate well to pre clinical or clinical models. #glaucoma

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Divergence in cellular markers observed in single-cell transcriptomics datasets between cultured primary trabecular meshwork cells and tissues - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - Divergence in cellular markers observed in single-cell transcriptomics datasets between cultured primary trabecular meshwork cells and tissues

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Something you don't see every day! Digitizing the human proteome in >53,000 individuals with 15-year follow-up and, with machine learning, unraveling nearly 500 disease-causing proteins www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... open-access

The cover image portrays a human composed of proteins who is examining their health status (represented by the ECG monitoring interface) with the assistance of artificial intelligence (represented by the chip and binary codes).

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Vijay Raghunathan @vijaykrishna.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Here, we describe a multiparametric approach to grade disease severity using histology in the absence of longitudinal clinical history.

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Vijay Raghunathan @vijaykrishna.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Of course, and I'm sure you have a breeding plan and schedule you have for the lab. You can use the stats and timelines from there too. Good luck Raji

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Vijay Raghunathan @vijaykrishna.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I certainly would highlight that study in both the proposal and vertebrate care use section. Also in the response try to give progeny yield numbers etc. And draw their attention to the vertebrate section for details perhaps

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Vijay Raghunathan @vijaykrishna.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Is it commercially available? KOMP2 consortium? Published evidence?

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Vijay Raghunathan @vijaykrishna.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

They likely want to know your transgenic animal is giving enough progeny, not embryonic lethal, and does live long enough for the duration.

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Vijay Raghunathan @vijaykrishna.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Why the actual F would alumni pledge to such institutions if it's not for students, faculty or native, I fail to understand. It's a predatory business at best

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Vijay Raghunathan @vijaykrishna.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

And where exactly are the supposed to haul their belongings to for the holidays? Universities are no longer for 'education'. The obscene amount of endowments need to be used to stripped away. It's not used for fees, faculty/grad student/postdoc salary/stipend, or lab infrastructure or scholarships.

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Katja Rust @rustflylab.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I was looking for a starter pack for #WomenInSTEM working on #CellBiology and didn't find any - so I created one. And since I am hoping to not misgender anyone I made it #FLINTA (fingers crossed). Let me know if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/5fp61o6

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