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Yannis Zervantonakis

@zervanto.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor University of Pittsburgh, Cancer Bioengineering, www.zervalab.com

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Yannis Zervantonakis @zervanto.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Thank you for highlighting our work
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Adam Grant @adamgrant.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Personality is how you respond on a typical day. Character is how you show up on a hard day. It's easy to demonstrate fairness, integrity, and generosity when things are going well. The real question is whether you stand by those values when the deck is stacked against you.
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Emma Chory, Ph.D. @chorye.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Happy New Year! 🎉 If your 2025 resolution is to finally get your lab life together (read: #NewPIs), you’re not alone. A few people have requested I share how we use automation to survive: 1️⃣ Recruitment & Scheduling 👩‍🔬 2️⃣ Finance & Ordering 💸 3️⃣ Alerts & Emergencies 🚨 So here goes!—A 🧵... 1/n...
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a man in an office holding a burning piece of wood with the words everything is fine behind him
ALT: a man in an office holding a burning piece of wood with the words everything is fine behind him
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Alejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
"Here, we show that this Ab appears to be unreliable due to providing false-positive signals at the expected molecular weight of Bax in immunoblotting experiments and likewise provides false-positive signals in immunofluorescence-based detection of Bax expression" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Why Bax detection in >1400 publications might be flawed - Cell Death & Disease
Cell Death & Disease - Why Bax detection in >1400 publications might be flawed
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Adam Grant @adamgrant.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Great minds don’t think alike. They challenge each other to think differently. The people who teach you the most are the ones who share your principles but not your thought processes. Converging values draw you to similar questions. Diverging views introduce you to new answers.
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Adam Grant @adamgrant.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
When groups meet to brainstorm, good ideas are lost. People bite their tongues due to conformity pressure, noise, and ego threat. A better approach is brainwriting: generate ideas separately, then meet to assess and refine. Group wisdom begins with individual creativity.
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Adam Grant @adamgrant.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Criticizing is fast and easy. Creating is slow and difficult. The two hours you spent on a book or movie took someone two years to produce. Anyone can tear down someone else's work. The true test of insight is whether you can help them improve it or build something of your own.
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Ending this 🧵 with the 50th scientist announced today 🎉 Manu Prakash, #Foldscope inventor! "I get so much joy out of sharing the tools we invent with people to make their own discoveries.. science doesn’t move one paper at a time; it moves one inspired person at a time" #50ScientistsThatInspire 🧪
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Bioengineer and cell biologist Manu Prakash on embracing and sharing the joy of science
The importance of studying nature in its true “playground” and more from Dr. Prakash.
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Yannis Zervantonakis @zervanto.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
PostDoc Position in Microenvironment and Cancer BioEngineering. Info & apply here: zervalab.com/join-the-team Please repost. @upmchillmancc.bsky.social #AcademicSky #STEMjobs #microfluidics
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Daniel Stover, MD, FASCO @stoverlab.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
More great @stoverlab.bsky.social poster presentations today! Go team! @osucccjames.bsky.social @osuwexmed.bsky.social
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Yannis Zervantonakis @zervanto.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Beautiful
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 04/12/2024
This is good!
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Anne Carpenter @drannecarpenter.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
Blog post on using AI in academia from @arjunraj.bsky.social and the great folks at Mid Career PI Slack! Finally, a How To guide for how to use AI effectively in academia. arjun-raj-lab.gitbook.io/arjun-rajs-t...
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Using AI in academia | Arjun Raj's Tools For Science
Arjun Raj, with input from Anne Carpenter and the members of Mid-Career PI Slack
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Yannis Zervantonakis @zervanto.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Our paper “Cancer-cell derived S100A11 promotes macrophage recruitment in ER+ breast cancer” published in OncoImmunology @tandfresearch.bsky.social , bit.ly/mfs100a11 collab. w/ H. Osmanbeyoglu, S. Oesterreich, A. Lee, led by S. Lee & Y. Cho, support by UPMC Cancer Center & Pitt Bioengineering
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Cancer-cell derived S100A11 promotes macrophage recruitment in ER+ breast cancer
Macrophages are pivotal in driving breast tumor development, progression, and resistance to treatment, particularly in estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) tumors, where they infiltrate the tumor micro...
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The Struggling Scientists @thestrugglings4.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
That elixir of life🧫 #academia #phd #AcademicSky #PhDchat #science
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Bryan Welm @bryanwelm.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I mostly see the protein sculptures I build in the lighting of my workshop. It’s fairly static and dull lighting. When they are close to being finished, I bring them into the house and enjoy watching how they change under different natural lighting throughout the day. They are so much more dynamic!
Light reflecting off a sculpture of different structural domains found in proteins. Made from steel.
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
On the Night Science Podcast we ask: do you have a method for coming up with good ideas?, and, how do you distinguish great ideas that you would like to work on from those that are less promising? The 1st 10 episodes are now on Youtube! www.youtube.com/@NightScienc... @nightsciencepod.bsky.social
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
When I will respond to your email
Histogram peaked at 3 minutes and 2 weeks since sent
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Over 100 postdocs are registered for tomorrow's Postdoc Night Science Boston session! I can't wait to help other places get their own club started.
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Yannis Zervantonakis @zervanto.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Excellent mentor in a great environment
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