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Joel Atallah

@joelatallah

2 years

Drosophila grimshawi, our favorite organism, a Hawaiian fly. Image taken in our lab by Bronwyn Miller and Logan Crees.

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Joel Atallah

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1 year

I just learned that @mbeisen deleted his Twitter/X account because there was a backlash to him reposting an Onion article. This is shocking. Mike Eisen is an inspiring leader in the scientific community and a great blogger. I've followed his work for >15 years.

Vince Buffalo

@vsbuffalo

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A large fraction of faculty act as editors and peer reviewers for journals. Setting the precedent that their public personal views or comments somehow represent the journal is in my view a very bad move. It will effectively open up a new avenue to silence academics’ speech.

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Joel Atallah

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9 months

One of the coolest ways to parade I've seen yet. (Krewe Bohème, French Quarter, New Orleans - Mardi Gras 2024).

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Joel Atallah

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1 year

People in Afghanistan needs urgent help. This story is being buried due to the Israel Gaza war. #AfghanistanEarthquake #Israel #Gaza

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1 year

💔 Janan Sayeeq, spokesman for the Ministry of Disasters in #Afghanistan has said that 2,053 people have been killed, 9,240 injured and 1,320 houses damaged or destroyed in yesterdays series of powerful #earthquake 's with the biggest being a magnitude of 6.3 (USGS)

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Joel Atallah

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@JadeAlexandra32 At least it'll be their last opportunity to waste your time. Some people are outrageously disrespectful.

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Joel Atallah

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1 year

@pictureofitself @mbeisen I tried to see the piece he reposted but his account was already deleted. Please share what you know - I'm just learning about this situation. I know Mike personally and like him a lot and that's why I'm shocked.

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Joel Atallah

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1 year

@CoffindafferFBI While reading the Memorandum, I noticed these images of the patches the jail guards assigned to RA wore on their uniforms. In addition to the separation of church and state issues, in what universe is it acceptable for ANY public employees to wear "I Hate People"?! #Delphi

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Joel Atallah

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9 months

When I was in Cairo last summer, I saw the needs of the Sudanese refugees first-hand. This crisis should be covered in the media. #KeepEyesOnSudan

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9 months

SPEAK UP AND #SHOWUP4SUDAN Video by @/izuokay on Insta. #KeepEyesOnSudan #LiberateSudan

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Joel Atallah

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5 months

I realize that this NY Times article on the origin of the Covid pandemic is highly controversial and I do not have strong opinions one way or the other. What I would like to see is a point-by-point response to each of Dr. Chan's claims without ad hominem attacks or vitriol.

Alina Chan

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5 months

@nytimes I never imagined publishing in @nytimes @nytopinion , not to mention receiving such overwhelming response. I want to thank the editors & team who worked day+night to vastly improve the piece, create compelling graphics & organize fact checks by experts.

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Joel Atallah

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2 years

Submitted a $2.3 million grant application on Thursday. What a relief to have it in! Waking up (multiple times) at 2 am and going to work because you can't sleep ain't fun. But I did enjoy working with colleagues on the grant. They were all stellar and pulled their weight.

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Joel Atallah

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1 year

Best way to explain to students that acquired traits are not inherited

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Joel Atallah

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7 months

Happy 90th, Jane Goodall! Still recall you congratulating us at my Ph.D. commencement in the language of the chimpanzees you'd worked with.

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Joel Atallah

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1 year

Multiple Elife editors have resigned in protest after @mbeisen was replaced as Editor-in-Chief. I realize that this is an extremely painful time that calls for sensitivity, and I weep with all who have lost loved ones. Still, I believe Elife's response sets a dangerous precedent.

Graham Coop

@Graham_Coop

1 year

I'm resigning as an editor at @elife . Elife’s handling of this has been incredibly poor

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1 year

@mattparlmer Insta is infested with aspiring models. Social media should be about communicating, not showing off.

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Joel Atallah

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2 years

Carnival girl #MardiGras

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2 years

We have a lot to learn - even about model organisms

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Joel Atallah

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11 months

The #ActiveShooter suspect at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas @UNLV has been contained. This must bring back traumatic memories for people in the community, given that a few years ago they suffered from one the worst mass shootings in US history.

LVMPD

@LVMPD

11 months

#BREAKING The suspect is contained. This is an active investigation. Please continue to avoid the area and watch for responding emergency units.

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Students working on Hawaiian Drosophila flies in my lab. I was pleasantly surprised to find this picture in the main administration building below the president's office.

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Joel Atallah

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8 months

@JessPected @moorehn The idea of humiliating people at weddings seems to be a western concept. I never saw it in the Middle East, where a wedding is a time of joy for everyone.

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Joel Atallah

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2 years

Another view of #JoanOfArc in the #FrenchQuarter in #NewOrleans . A happy start to the #CarnivalSeason .

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Joel Atallah

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10 months

@politico The lowest form of clickbait: when you read the article, it says "seventh-graders and adults." In other words, people of all ages. The article should have focused on the candidate who skipped the debate.

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Joel Atallah

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1 year

@anthony_berndt It's impossible to have a discussion about this unless we define "immunity". Are we referring to sterilizing immunity (prevention of forward transmission) or a reduction in the severity of the next infection?

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Joel Atallah

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8 months

@RobertKennedyJr @VivaKennedy2024 In Canada, candidates for Prime Minister engage in both an English debate and a French debate. In the US, there should be a Spanish debate in addition to the English debates.

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Joel Atallah

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1 year

@mattparlmer How are they expressing their bleakness on Instagram? Are they showing images of despair? I have friends who've expressed their pain on social media, but it's rarely on Instagram. The platform elevates fluff over genuine communication.

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Joel Atallah

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1 year

The hateful messages attacking Jewish students on a Cornell University discussion forum should be condemned by all

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Joel Atallah

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7 months

Carla Tinuviel sent me this picture for my birthday. Love how baby Lorien was looking at the microscope!

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Joel Atallah

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6 months

@skoularidou I try to speak sensitively but I will take this warning to heart. We also need to train people not to listen to a "rattle" - someone "from whose mouth information, true and false, flows out all day long without consideration, almost with volution". (C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy)

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Joel Atallah

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1 year

Rafael discovers the pyramids! #Egypt #Giza #pyramids

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Joel Atallah

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2 years

Scootering on the Mississippi at sunset. Savor every moment. #NewOrleans #lifewithkids

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Joel Atallah

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7 months

Lived on the 3rd floor of this building in Heliopolis, Egypt, from the age of 7 to 16. Here's a picture with my sister and son from a visit last summer.

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Joel Atallah

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@CoffindafferFBI What I find remarkable is that the defense attorneys are not just claiming RA is innocent- they're saying exactly who they believe committed the crimes and why. Isn't that unusual? Most of the time, the defense just tries to sow "reasonable doubt".

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Joel Atallah

@joelatallah

1 year

Interesting that many people have letters their grandparents wrote 50 years ago but have lost the emails they wrote 10 years ago. Technology will make things harder for biographers.

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Joel Atallah

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1 year

@CoffindafferFBI She was in jail for over 50 years. The state could have kept her locked up a few more years (until her death), with taxpayers footing the bill, but even that wouldn't be justice for such heinous crimes.

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Joel Atallah

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8 months

Visited Gabriel at school this morning

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Joel Atallah

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9 months

The effect that Biden's stance on Gaza will have on Democratic voter turnout in November should not be underestimated

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Joel Atallah

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1 year

Missouri River, Montana

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Joel Atallah

@joelatallah

10 months

Many mothers are mosaics. During pregnancy, fetal cells pass through the placenta and can become part of the mother's body, persisting for decades. The health effects are unclear, but there's evidence that fetal stem cells can seek out injured maternal organs and repair them.

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Joel Atallah

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7 months

@iWatchiAm When you or a loved one have cancer, the last thing you think about is PR

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Joel Atallah

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1 year

@ArsonAtDennys @mbeisen So do I!

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6 months

These are my children

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Joel Atallah

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1 year

Congratulations to Amanda and the @terincox lab

Grad School - UNO

@GradSchoolNola

1 year

University of New Orleans graduate student Amanda Kirkland has been named a 2024 John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellow.

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Joel Atallah

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11 months

Thanksgiving with the munchkins

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Joel Atallah

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11 months

Congratulations to Katie Wyssmann for passing her MS defense! @terincox

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Joel Atallah

@joelatallah

10 months

The tradition in the Middle East is that churches are open 24/7. Think of the churches in Northern Gaza where hundreds of people are sheltering. When it freezes here in the US, I worry a lot about the homeless people I know. It's crazy that this pastor was arraigned.

More Perfect Union

@MorePerfectUS

10 months

Chris Avell, pastor of Dad's Place in Bryan, Ohio, has been arraigned in court because he kept his church open 24/7 to provide warmth to the unhoused during this brutal cold snap. Multiple unhoused people have died in the last week from the cold.

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Joel Atallah

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#NewProfilePic

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Joel Atallah

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2 years

I didn't go this year but glad Bayou colleagues had a chance to meet up in person

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2 years

"Fly Bayou" groups at #Dros23 ! It was very nice to meet several people in person after having virtual monthly meetings for the past couple of years.

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Joel Atallah

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Kudos to a politician who knows that postdocs exist

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

@AOC

11 months

Our courageous postdoc research scientists deserve a strong first contract that expands housing access and meets their childcare needs. There is no research without the researchers. Proud to stand with @spocuaw 💪🏽

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Joel Atallah

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Mass protests against Netanyahu as the situation in Gaza becomes even more desperate following the occupation of Rafah

Ami Dar

@AmiDar

6 months

It’s Saturday night and people across Israel are calling for Netanyahu to go. Enough. Enough.

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Joel Atallah

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11 months

@NateSilver538 The genetic fallacy

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Joel Atallah

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8 months

Happy Egyptian Mother's Day! Mom was born in Haiti, lived there 14 years, immigrated to Canada, where she met a man with the same birthday (at McGill), then later immigrated to Egypt, the country she's called home for many decades. Lots of people envy me for being her son.

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Joel Atallah

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7 months

Iran has retaliated with a drone attack on Israel. Every life is precious, and what the Middle East needs now is not more war, but a comprehensive ceasefire, and freedom, dignity and relief for the starving people in Gaza and Sudan.

April 13: Iran fires 300 missiles and drones; most intercepted; minor damage at IDF base

Unprecedented assault triggered sirens nationwide, booms of interceptions * Bedouin child hurt by shrapnel * IAF, US, UK, Jordan intercepted projectiles

www.timesofisrael.com

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Joel Atallah

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1 year

@CoffindafferFBI Re. RA's confessions- don't care if he confessed 100 times in jail. Most people - especially honest ones - can be made to confess to crimes they didn't commit (read up on the Reid technique), even if they're not being held in horrendous conditions and guarded by members of a cult

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Joel Atallah

@joelatallah

10 months

You also have to ask: Is it a scientific question or a historical one? Both hypotheses are scientifically possible, the question is, "What happened?"

Vince Buffalo

@vsbuffalo

10 months

“I’ll go with the science” is so bizarre here — I informally ask scientists about their beliefs on this, and I’d say it’s much closer to 50/50 than a majority consensus. It’s still very uncertain, and the belief distribution reflects that.

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Joel Atallah

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6 months

There's no shortage of unraveled scientific mysteries. The purpose of sleep is one of them. It was previously hypothesized that sleep might play a role in brain clearance of toxins. Only one problem:

Brain clearance is reduced during sleep and anesthesia

Nature Neuroscience - It has been widely believed that a key function of sleep is to actively clear metabolites and toxins from the brain. Miao, Luo et al. show in mice that brain clearance is...

www.nature.com

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Joel Atallah

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8 months

There was a strong movement by geneticists to put Barbara McClintock on the $10 bill. She's certainly the female scientist I'm most indebted to personally. #InternationalWomensDay #transposons

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Joel Atallah

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9 months

Living in New Orleans, I find the idea of a mass shooting in the vicinity of a parade (on Valentine's Day and Ash Wednesday, no less) particularly reprehensible. Love to our fellow-humans in Kansas City. #ChiefsParade

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Joel Atallah

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10 months

@deanbphillips You either laugh at the unprofessionalism of media outlets these days, or cry

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Joel Atallah

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1 year

Help this girl get jaw reconstruction (see the link to her story)

Gorette's Recovery from Jaw Surgery, organizada por Eva Kelly

UPDATE Gorette had her jaw reconstruction surgery on Tuesday, October 31, 2023 at a … Eva Kelly necesita tu apoyo para Gorette's Recovery from Jaw Surgery

www.gofundme.com

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Joel Atallah

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2 years

Garderners often talk to their plants. Now we know that plants also speak.

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Joel Atallah

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1 year

#NationalDisabilityMonth

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Joel Atallah

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1 year

Happy National Daughters' Day!

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Joel Atallah

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8 months

@SenMarcoRubio Do you really doubt for one minute that foreign intelligence agencies can access all the private data on US-based social media sites like Facebook? The solution is a comprehensive privacy bill, not banning Tiktok, which is a war on the young.

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Joel Atallah

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1 year

My mother is currently assisting 7 orphaned Sudanese child refugees. Don't forget #Sudan ! BOTH the #Israel #Gaza war AND the #SudanWar must end. #Sudan_War_Updates #Gazabombing

Conscious Lee

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1 year

The Sudan Genocide Happening Now…

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Joel Atallah

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Very painful news today re. a close family friend in Cairo, Julia, who was hit by a car while crossing the street and is now intensive care. She is an amazing woman who has done a lot to help people with disabilities. We are hoping she makes it through the night.

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Joel Atallah

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7 months

If you want to understand why relationships in America were so different 100 years, read about heart balms. Far and away the most fascinating piece of history I've learnt about this year.

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Joel Atallah

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7 months

Congratulations @signor_molevol ! Looking forward to reading this.

Spoink, a LTR retrotransposon, invaded D. melanogaster populations in the 1990s

Author summary Horizontal transfer of transposable elements (TE) is a major factor driving genome evolution. Yet well documented cases of such horizontal transfer events are rare. Most evidence is...

journals.plos.org

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Joel Atallah

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2 years

Our poster at InnovateUNO #UNO

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Joel Atallah

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6 months

@phylogenomics @ladygaga This is my all-time favorite. I also like Regulatin' Genes

Regulatin' Genes

How does your foot know it should be a foot? How come you don't grow ears on your arm? Find out in "Regulatin' Genes". ↓ More info and resources below ↓Thank...

www.youtube.com

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Joel Atallah

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1 year

@Graham_Coop @eLife It's very sad how this played out. I understand that many people are in severe pain and are angry, but why should @mbeisen be the object of that anger?

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Joel Atallah

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1 year

"Please touch". So refreshing in a world where "Don't touch" is sadly common. #children #touch #exploration #volcano #CapulinVolcano

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Joel Atallah

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1 year

@ColauttiLab Don't assume that they're spamming and don't put them down. They're mostly international students who may come from a research culture that's very different from ours.

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Joel Atallah

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@CoffindafferFBI The focus now needs to be on ending this horrific war ASAP. Close to ten thousand children in Gaza have been killed, and groups like Doctors Without Borders, who are no stranger to conflict zones, say that this is the worst they've ever seen.

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1 year

@CoffindafferFBI It seems to me that the defense presented a mountain of evidence and what I'd want to see from the prosecution (if I were the judge) is a point-by-point rebuttal.

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Joel Atallah

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@DollyParton @Beyonce "I'm still a Creole banjee bitch from Louisianne" is my favorite line in Beyoncé 's version, which has a totally vibe from Dolly Parton's.

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Joel Atallah

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8 months

Let's hope he makes it to the trial date. He's been in a maximum security prison pre-trial, which is ridiculous. #Delphi #RichardAllen

Defense Diaries

@defense_diaries

8 months

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 #Delphi Update #RichardAllen 's trial has been set for May 13th, 2024. Just in case you were wondering, Gull had no discretion in denying this motion for a 70 day trial date. She HAD to do it. #JusticeforAbbyandLibby

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Joel Atallah

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2 years

Happy Egyptian Mother's Day to the most loyal and affirming mother ever! The commemoration of the first day of spring as a celebration of motherhood was promoted by the late Egyptian journalist Mustafa Amin.

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Joel Atallah

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2 years

@bielleogy In academia, it takes so long to become a PI that once it happens it takes years for it to sink in - if ever

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1 year

First week of #Kindergarten !

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1 year

Exciting

Integrative mapping of the dog epigenome: Reference annotation for comparative intertissue and...

EpiC Dog, Epigenomic Catalog of Dog, gets a comprehensive map, enhancing comparative biology and health research.

www.science.org

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1 year

Fadeke Adeola's pre-commencement celebration. Congratulations, Dr. Adeola!

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2 years

#SpaceVikings #Chewbacchus #NewOrleans #MardiGras

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6 months

When you hear about the US banning one of the world's most popular social media platforms, you ask yourself, "What?! I thought that only happened in authoritarian countries."

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6 months

@AlliBeanMDPhD In the life sciences, the undergrads who work in your lab, and all grad students, typically use your first name; other students use your title

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A student's portrait of the prof

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Oklahoma #camping

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Strong customer-in-training

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@SaraSneath @jenelaina Yikes

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What motivated you to become a scientist?

Jacqueline Gabardy, L.Ac.

@sweetbeetacu

2 years

For me it was bioluminescence. I never saw anything as extreme as these pictures, but my biochemist father had been studying it so we took a small sample of sand while on vacation in Cabo and brought it back to our hotel room. When we got it in a completely dark room it glowed.

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An and Jacy presenting their work at InnovateUNO @UofNO

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Congratulations to @AnnaWeberNOLA for successfully defending her #PhD #UNO

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Joel Atallah

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8 months

Whenever there's an alleged suicide that seems "too convenient", I ask myself, "What is the prior probability of this person committing suicide at this time vs. an alternative hypothesis e.g. the individual was targeted?" It's a difficult question. #Boeing

'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower's prediction before death

A close family friend of John Barnett said he predicted he might wind up dead and that a story could surface that he killed himself.

abcnews4.com

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Joel Atallah

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1 year

Kind of weird that #HurricaneIdalia is striking on the two-year anniversary of #HurricaneIda (not to mention the 18th anniversary of #HurricaneKatrina )

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9 months

@DistractedAnna Last year, in a class of 28, I had students with the following names: Alexander Alexandra (Alex) Alexandra (Lexie) Alexandria Alexa Alexia

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2 years

A lot of false info going around about the #ActiveShooter at #MSU . Follow the MSU police to stay informed.

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The static genomes of living fossils

These gars are the ultimate ‘living fossils’

Fish’s genomes are so static that groups whose last common ancestor lived during the time of the dinosaurs can produce fertile hybrids today

www.science.org

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Joel Atallah

@joelatallah

7 months

I'm excited to read this. We haven't worked specifically on sex peptide but we enjoyed discussing the recent Hopkins et al paper from the Kopp lab in my lab meeting. Congratulations @lizzyzhao

Li Zhao

@lizzyzhao

7 months

I'm very glad to share our new work on the evolution of sex peptide and Sex Peptide Receptor interactions! Congratulations to Junhui @rujpeng , Nicolas, and our collaborator from the Rockefeller Proteomics Core, Henrik.

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@jewstein3000 What about French president Macron who married a woman 24 years older than him? What's interesting is that trends are cyclical. This type of reasoning mirrors the heart balms of 100 years ago when men could be sued for "breach of promise to marry" and "seduction".

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That face!

microscopic images.

@microscopicture

2 years

electron microscope view of a hydrothermal vent polychaete deep sea worm

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People in the west have no idea of the expenses and humiliation that their fellow-humans from the developing world incur when applying for visas. This academic was granted a visa but her 6-year-old daughter was denied one. @DoselineKiguru