Honored and happy to attend the annual @PittTweet Faculty Honors Convocation last week at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall to receive @Simmons_ILD Chair. Beautiful day in #Pittsburgh with lots of admired colleagues and friends. Kudos and thanks to entire @PACCM team present.

Why fundamental research is fundamental to progress, seeding major breakthroughs Editorial @Nature this week And 7 basic science discoveries that changed the world https://t.co/0YrKabc7ff https://t.co/SM11QSJhWz

Victory Lights looking GOOD tonight 🤩

This is incredibly beautiful!!

This bird just found out that golf balls bounce on concrete, and he’s having the time of his life 😂 https://t.co/VH9mzuYvyF

I was curious to know how many times @NobelPrize laureates in physics were nominated before winning... so I wrote a little code to figure it out. Looks like the median is 17 but there is heavy tail. Incredible that Gell-Mann was nominated 129x before winning!

A species of lungfish found in South America has claimed the title of the animal with the biggest genome sequenced so far. Learn more on #WorldAnimalDay: https://t.co/yXmctCX6PA @NewsfromScience

Viral AlphaFold Database dropped! NCBI RefSeq → 647,000 viral protein seqs MMseqs2 → ~117,000 clusters AlphaFold2 → 26,962 monomers AlphaFold-Multimer → 26,754 homodimers Foldseek → 12,894 structural clusters Enjoy.

Exercise delays brain aging through muscle-brain crosstalk. The younger your muscles, the younger your brain.

How can we study the effects of radiation on immune cells in #cancer? Using innovative human pancreatic tumor models, @joschakraske @science_wallet @peterhuber_hd @DKFZ @uniklinik_hd reveal photon and particle radiotherapy induce signals—grouped as modules—that attract immune

🚨 New publication! 🚨In this perspective published in @JCI_insight, previous APSA Presidents and Executive Committee members highlight key APSA milestones in strengthening the physician-scientist community, including 20 years of the joint ASCI/AAP/APSA annual meeting!

A compelling illustration of the difference between mRNA abundance, ribosome density and protein abundance.

Before you dust off that skeleton costume… @ArteelBeier @m_konigshoff @Eickelberg_MD #Fibrosis

An open letter to the NIH: Value and costs in publishing Here we share our response to the NIH’s request for information on maximizing research funds by limiting allowable publishing costs: https://t.co/vnnqsJoirO #AcademicPublishing #ScholarlyPublishing #OpenAccess

BIG news! Fat Bear Week will take place from September 23-30. The chubby cubby appetizer, Fat Bear Junior, will kick off on September 18-19. Stay tuned for bracket reveals, bear bios, and more details.

In this Review, Akiko Iwasaki @VirusesImmunity & authors @YaleMed discuss the role of complement in long COVID pathogenesis https://t.co/3UZnzK0aG3

Glioblastoma — it’s starting to gel. @ErinAkins1 @kumarlabucb @ManishKAghi @UCBerkeley identify candidate glioblastoma therapeutic targets among M2 macrophage-secreted factors using multi-omics analysis of 3D cell culture and patient biopsies: https://t.co/QAHNNXvPYf The

If it’s one thing we’ve learned hiking, it's the early bird that gets the face full of spiderwebs.

It has long been believed that skin and hair follicles are maintained by compartmentalized stem cells. This issue’s cover features work by @ElnazGhotbi, Lu Q. Le & team @UVA, @MedicineUVA on the contribution of hair follicle epithelial stem cells to interfollicular epidermis

When you get your DNA results back and find out you’re 3% frog.

What's the optimal number of steps of physical activity that is associated with multiple (9) favorable outcomes? The largest, systematic review of 57 studies, 35 cohorts. 7,000 steps is clinically meaningful; some benefit also seen for 4,000 steps cf 2,000 steps @TheLancet