Bill Walkowicz
@WalkowiczBill
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Chemist, realistic optimist. Afflict the comfortable; comfort the afflicted.
Brooklyn, NY
Joined June 2015
People ask me all the time if I am "pro-Israel" because I am a Jew who has lived in Israel, and my answer is that being "pro-Israel" or being "pro-Palestine" or being a "Zionist" does not properly capture the nuance of thought most people do or should have about this issue. It
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“A new type of vaccine developed by researchers at the University of Chicago has shown in a lab setting that it can completely reverse autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis and type 1 diabetes—all without shutting down the rest of the immune system.”
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I didn't take any flights for almost 4 years, ending a couple of weeks ago. Here's what I learned. Also, ask me anything! 🧵
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How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk: See my dialect map and make your own. https://t.co/Xvuir9SPEb via @nytgraphics
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Neat! How about a panel of dipeptides?
After much debate, the results of the official Jacobsen Lab amino acid taste test are in:
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(1) > 1/2 of the most valuable startups in the US were founded by immigrants (2) 2/3 of billion-dollar companies (unicorns) were founded by immigrants/children of immigrants (3) ~ 80% of unicorn companies have an immigrant founder or key leader Ref:
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Americans should be pleased so many immigrants have succeeded armed only with ambition, a keen mind and a desire to work hard.
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April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. https://t.co/3ID91uMXvn
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"It's like arraign on your wedding day"
Good morning from downtown Manhattan where this lovely couple is getting married right next door to the media scrum waiting for the Trump indictment.
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Science and bonsai: two endeavors where obsessiveness has a home.
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Our DREAM paper is out: We found the first master regulator of DNA repair capacities! Read and re-tweet now: The DREAM complex functions as conserved master regulator of somatic DNA repair capacities, @CECAD_ @UKKoeln @UniCologne
https://t.co/rVMe4rAxaf
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Nature Structural & Molecular Biology - In this work, the authors show that the DREAM complex suppresses the expression of numerous DNA-repair proteins in somatic cells. Suppression of the...
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I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means
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I have *always* been interested in how people change their minds. I think it started with my Dad's story - he was a conservative, religious Jew until he was 18, then he had an argument with a union activist on a picket line. 1/
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Feeling all the feels this morn…Congratulations, @CarolynBertozzi and Profs. Sharpless and Meldal!!! Here’s a throwback photo in honor of #bioorthogonal chemistry. #ChemNobel
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Congratulations @CarolynBertozzi for bringing #glycotime to prime time!
BREAKING NEWS: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”
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found out today that in my 7-unit "no pets allowed" apartment building, I am the only one without a cat. I've been surrounded by secret cats this whole time
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Interesting #monkeypox vaccine background from @ZariaGorvett: "...the vaccines that were used to eradicate smallpox...are based on an unknown virus that no one has been able to identify – a 'ghost' pathogen that has only ever been found in vaccine form." https://t.co/d2ZmUnG5HK
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The vaccine being used to prevent monkeypox is made from a lost virus that no one has ever been able to identify. How has this happened? And could it still exist in the wild?
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This is apparently a “small rubbish fire” at the recycling facility.
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