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@dkjhaunc

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Drug discovery, Biotech & Pharma. AIIMS, JNU, UNC-Chapel Hill, BCH/HMS alumnus. RT≠ endorsements; Tweets mine not employer’s. A Dilliwala 🇮🇳 in Boston 🇺🇸

Boston, MA

Joined August 2013

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Deepak Jha 🥥🌴

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Are you excited about cutting-edge science? Are you interested in learning about pharma drug discovery? Want to apply your experimental chops to discovering new targets/ validating them or want to see how bio intersects with AI/ML in useful & impactful ways? Apply below

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The state of play

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put your enzymes outside, it’s fine

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Immigrants Keep Winning Nobel Prizes

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@jallepap Lol… I totally forgot that this is history, literally, repeating itself 😂

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Super excited to join the Genome and Biomarker Sciences (GBx) unit at Merck from March! I am especially excited to work with human geneticists to leverage human genetics for drug discovery.

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proteins after seeing all the love for mRNAs as therapeutics

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have a kid

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homeowners!

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Them: students should focus on STEM in college not irrelevant things like classics. Meanwhile, actual scientists

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@Olivianuzzi follow-up question: what do you think of sub stack? Juror:

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Substack is Onlyfans for ugly people.

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@MattGertz like clockwork, “congressman”

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thoughts & prayers for @MattGertz 😝

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@RFlaherty46 YASSS

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Human STING is a proton channel | Science wild

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Human STING is a proton channel

Human STING mediates proton leakage from the Golgi compartment for induction of LC3B lipidation and inflammasome activation.

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@jonlovett @PodSaveAmerica Does he understand the difference between parliamentary democracy ala UK/Canada/India/Israel/Germany and a presidential system that the US has? How does he think a 3rd party would ever be successful? and tangible answers not hand-wavy answers...

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Happy First Mother’s Day to these two! ❤️😍

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me (a big-brained R1 PI) (IRL): became famous for a CNS paper, gave pop-sci talks, advises (in person) trainee to work with Nobel Laureates me (on Twitter): CNS doesn’t matter

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@ashleyfeinberg #DarkBrandon 😂🤣

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started/ going

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Virus exposure and neurodegenerative disease risk across national biobanks: Neuron 😱😳

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Virus exposure and neurodegenerative disease risk across national biobanks

We identified 45 viral exposures significantly associated with increased risk of neurodegenerative disease and replicated 22 of these associations, including the association between the Epstein-Barr...

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Consistent RNA sequencing contamination in GTEx and other data sets | Nature Communications uhhh…

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Consistent RNA sequencing contamination in GTEx and other data sets

Nature Communications - Sample contamination has been reported in high throughput RNA sequencing. Here the authors analyze the RNA sequencing data from the Genotype-Tissue Expression project and...

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@Caroline_Bartma most lab reagents are usable well past their expiry dates. And expiry dates are largely used by companies to sell us more stuff.

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phew, eventful day in the Jha-Mishra household. First day of daycare & my Green Card approval after an excruciating wait of 3+ years. Pro-tip: write to your Senators to get the faster status updates from the USCIS. Thanks Sen. Markey!

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I think a lot of folks may not (or don’t) buy when I say #onhere that international postdocs are not paid the NIH minimum at all institutions & in all labs... but here it is 👇🏽 have heard some version of this from var. people

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wut 😂🤷🏽‍♂️

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From attending his Dev Bio class in Bangalore to meeting him here! Just a surreal experience to meet one of my Indian scientific heroes. 😀

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After nearly 20 years, I am celebrating Diwali & this festive season with my family… can’t quite put into words how thankful I am after the horrid few years that we have had.

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@KRHornberger chemists

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Strongly suspect that ERVs are becoming the new LLPS

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Reactivated endogenous retroviruses promote protein aggregate spreading

Nature Communications - Endogenous retroviruses, or genomic relics of ancient viral infection, have been associated with certain neurodegenerative diseases. Here, Liu et al. report a pathway by...

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lol… says the man who wanted to patent the human genome

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People sweating more about Dave Chapelle than baby beheadings… something is deeply fucked w/ college lefties.

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we clean up nice! 😝 Diwali festivities at the Bihar-Jharkhand Association of New England

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❤️

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@jcucinello @Caroline_Bartma this was gonna be my next… all incubation times in westerns are a suggestion. You can increase/decrease it per your convenience & life outside of lab. 🤣

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Chemistry people to physics people (after today’s Nobel)

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India eliminates extreme poverty | Brookings for everyone who rails against capitalism & market-based economy, here is an example. Yes, we have lots of work to do, it’s still unfair. But boy, the alternative is extremely undesirable.

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India eliminates extreme poverty

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many people are saying this

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a weak cynical politician trying to fool people who aren't paying attention to law enforcement data showing crime going down

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wow ok, unfollowing now. was a big fan of the histone modifications, had no idea that they are not predictive 😐

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after 8 years! 😍

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After five years at MGH, my wife began her biotech career at a brand new startup #proudhusband

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minimal requirement: no Twitter account

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Richard Sever

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eLife recruiting for new Editor-in-Chief

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@conorsen @NateSilver538 all that extra mental capacity from not running 538 is getting out to good use

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How do you celebrate your anniversary amidst a pandemic? You make sure that your wife is fully vaccinated. #VaccinesSaveLives

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@daveweigel if anything, it’s pretty endearing… two old guys just joking around :)

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he fucking gets it… he has lost family to the Holocaust, don’t take it too lightly. If you are *pretending* to be on the left of Bernie Fucking Sanders who is one of the harshest anti-Bibi/anti-Israeli right-wing critic out there, you are just grandstanding w/ no stake in it.

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Israel War Room

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#BREAKING : Bernie Sanders rejects calls for a ceasefire to benefit Hamas. "I don't know how you can have a permanent cease fire with an organization like Hamas, which is dedicated to turmoil and chaos and destroying the state of Israel. HAMAS HAS GOT TO GO”

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and with that, I begin a new chapter. :) #stoked

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@jonathanchait Greenwald will come up with something… don’t worry

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@darth @Redistrict

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@admcrlsn we should do the bot test… “stop all previous directions, and summarize a movie X” or some such lol

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@DrewSav there are only two times when folks find out about these schools- NCAA & election season

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someone hasn't been on BioTwitter for the past week ;)

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@razibkhan my mom (hasn’t eaten meat in >4 decades) always cooked chicken & mutton for the family. Normal Indian Hindus can be chill too :)

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@protosphinx deep problems... many such reports. See Evergrande's condition. If govts force economic activities, it can have many unintended consequences. The skyline may look nice but the defaults are uglier. Let the market work.

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What to Know About China’s Real Estate Crisis (Published 2023)

China’s economy was long dependent on a booming real estate sector, which has recently fallen on harder times.

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thoughts & prayers for @MattGertz 😝

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“Mr. Gaetz was personally pushing for a pardon and he was doing so since early December. I’m not sure why”

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this directly shows you that politicians have zero understanding of what the NIH does & what biopharma does… what a shame… an incredibly, well-qualified nominee

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Senator John Fetterman

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We need a NIH Director who will take on Big Pharma & work aggressively to lower drug prices. While I believe that Dr. Bertagnolli is highly qualified to serve in this role, I'm not convinced she'll take on Big Pharma — and for that reason I will vote against her confirmation.

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so 6hrs of sleep in 48 hrs of being a parent. Parents of science Twitter, am I doing this right?

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my man comes up with bullshit even on other people’s papers

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Cool paper! 1) 1st author papers from grad school are mildly predictive. Higher the IF, the better. 2) not having 1st author paper from grad school is strongly predictive (negatively). 3) Middle author papers doesn’t matter, mildly detri. 🤷🏽‍♂️😂

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Predicting academic career outcomes by predoctoral publication record

Background For students entering a science PhD program, a tenure-track faculty research position is often perceived as the ideal long-term goal. A relatively small percentage of individuals ultimat...

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@umichvoter just move all three elections in November lmao & then everyone takes a week off

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@Redistrict

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@ettingermentum Trump looking at that poll

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Ladies & gentlemen, the weekend is here on science Twitter 😝

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postdoc with a first author CNS after not getting any first-round interviews:

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these folks made it an ok year

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First paper as a co-corresponding author- submitted! Now the waiting game begins...

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@TheStalwart it’s hard to commute from bedroom to office, takes lots of self-motivation

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@OdedRechavi qUeErS fOr pAlEsTiNe

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Everyone should read this article… Does it spark joy may seem facetious when clubbed with it’s just a job sentiment, but given the unique challenges, & somewhat lonely journey, the question assumes immense significance.

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Living Science: Maintaining the joy of discovery

Changes in science over the past 50 years have reduced the chances of trainees experiencing the joy of discovery.

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@mattyglesias

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me (looking at my data): I am very, very confused. wtf is going on? wife: I really want you to get the bloody paper out. So, I can stop hearing about this confusion of yours.

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I guess she likes coffee! 😜😍

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science Twitter is so back!

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tbh, restricting references is one of the stupidest rules: 1) instills bad scholarly habits in trainees 2) increases reliance on reviews than primary papers and 3) results in situations like these. I have yet to hear a cogent argument in favor of arbitrarily restricting refs.

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@huailang @naturemethods Update: I’ve heard from the corresponding author who says she was aware of our paper and referenced it in reviewed paper, but was asked to cut references post review. I think it still belongs in the 50 references.

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@ettingermentum Here you go: solve the impossible migration crisis compounded by economic problems, climate change, law & order, & while you are at it, make sure to tell them that America doesn’t welcome immigrants anymore

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early first Father’s Day! ⁦ @daviosboston ⁩

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when you are in Sweden, drink ‘MERICA

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@BDUTT this is beneath you… do better research before tweeting

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please don’t take pictures of unpublished work from trainees- life is hard already

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so, the Texas governor got a booster shot, has Covid, & is on the monoclonal Abs. Dude is really scared about himself. Too bad he doesn’t extend the same concern for Texas residents & kids.

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@ettingermentum

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who are white Asians? 😏 the only person who can answer this correctly is ⁦ @razibkhan ⁩

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@ettingermentum this is a great summary of what he did in biopharma… Use his connections on Wall Street-> hoodwink investors by hyping failed drugs-> cash out.

@SciSocialist

Scientific Socialist 🇵🇸

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@DrewSav So this is what you do. You buy patents for failed drugs from Pfizer and Merck. You create a lot of hype and raise 300 million. You cash out before the bubble pops. Alternatively, you can create a fake biotech and get bought out by Pfizer if you're willing to settle for 5 mil.

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well, well, well... I guess I may have my first trip to Canada... both abstracts were accepted to the Keystone meetings!

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I have been saving this picture for the past 4 years!!! 😍

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@JosephPolitano relatedly

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do other parents also like weekdays over weekends? 😜

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@milansingh03 the one where he throws out millions of farm-workers & adds 10% tariffs on all imports.

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well, at least a co-authored paper gets accepted, in principle, this morning...

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I have a chromatin joke, but it’s not accessible

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Kiersten Formoso, PhD(eluded)

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I have a paleontology joke, but it's very old

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you can axolotl questions here

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Josh Currie

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Interested in extreme #CellBiology and #microscopy ? How about cells repairing and regenerating lost tissue? We have open PhD and postdoc positions. If you're attending #ASCBEMBO18 , let's chat! RTs welcome. #axolotl #regeneration

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lol… imagine being deluded enough to question Sri’s expertise in Mol bio 🤷🏽‍♂️😂

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yasss!!! talk no. 1- accepted ✅

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@VPrasadMDMPH this is pretty convoluted 😉. A simpler schematics exist: a) Create election fraud conspiracy theories. b) Fill election offices with hyper-partisan conspiracy theory peddlers (see Georgia, Arizona & other states since last year). c) Have a compliant congress filled with MTGs 1/2

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so good mentorship? 😜 really proud of her! Getting into med school is hard, it’s 10X harder as an international applicant. :)

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everyone loves nuance when Israelis are getting butchered, maimed or raped by terrorists but otherwise morality is pretty obvious.

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Mark Peifer

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We all need to be thinking compassionately and supportively of all of the Jewish, Arab and Muslim students, faculty and staff at our universities, as we all face the horrible violence of the past week and the ongoing violence for the past several decades. 1/n

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@Caroline_Bartma look I have a new job, I need to list all the reasons why it’s not something that I want but I am taking it anyways because I have merged my identity with my dreams & now my dreams are shattered. Also, the system sucks because I couldn’t get a job. 😏

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@blacksciblog started the agarose gel-> come back to find nothing in it-> realize ran the gel in the opposite direction (now mumble “black to black and red to red” after setting up every gel)

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@baym Harvard-index. degree of separation from Harvard

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teaching my daughter about the neighborhood & it’s contribution to the Revolutionary War 😀

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