And fun fact...her son was in the band Sha Na Na and played at Woodstock.
@johnpetrini
๐งชโบ๏ธ. Lover of golf and music. Father of amazing kids. Lucky to be a scientist. I work on DNA damage responses, mostlyMre11 complex biology but lots of other stuff. Let's talk! Still waiting to win the lottery. Please Be Safe. Please Be Kind.
And fun fact...her son was in the band Sha Na Na and played at Woodstock.
Thanking Donald Trump for signing the budget bill, which spared NIH from the knife was unseemly and unnecessary. In fact, the destruction of American science is gathering steam under this administration and appeasement won't help. My latest for @thenation.com. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
making the worst of a bad situation....
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days โI donโt want to be in this place I want to go to my school.โ
UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:
โI donโt want to be in this place I want to go to my school.โ
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
Happy Presidentโs Day! ๐๐ผ๐
Donald Trump is "the Epstein Administration."
Pass it on
Key takeaway from Dr. Santosha Vardhana in Beyond the Bench:
When T cells run low on energy, they make priority decisions that shift into self preservation mode. That bioenergetic limit shapes immune exhaustion.
Watch the full episode: bit.ly/4oLrOXu
#BeyondTheBench
Every American needs to watch this:
All he ever does is lie....it's maddening
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can we get behind the paywall??
America is outraged after ICE killed two white people in Minneapolis.
I understand why folks are feeling afraid and angry right now. But I need you to understand something just as clearly: this is what Black America has been living with for generations.
open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
They're not picking up
Trash where I live in Brooklyn for a while. So much snow and it's not going away
Today in @nature.com, we describe how discarded reads in biobank-scale WGS can help resolve the genetic predictors and consequences of Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) infection.
Wonderful working with @ryandhindsa.bsky.social @sherrynyeo.bsky.social @erinmayc.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Minnesota is the best of us.
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
Check out the GRC for DNA damage and Cancer! Join us in Summy California for a week of DNA repair and Cancer! www.grc.org/dna-damage-m...
Seems like Radiohead got some ideas from Portishead...
Stephen Smith is an A hole...
He got the Epstein files off the front page
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Check out this Special Issue of DNA Repair. Lots of very cool stuff in here!
NYers helps us call on @governor.ny.gov to invest in the Empire Biomedical Research Institute. A robust, stable research ecosystem protects jobs, fuels innovation, and builds community health. NY must invest in our global leadership in science. nycures.org @gothamist.com: tinyurl.com/5fab5k7u
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without intending to...this illustrates what lousy year 2025 was...
Don't forget what real leadership looks like...
looks more like brunch...bagels and lox! either way, beautiful
Congrats!!
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Dark times when Dr. Oz appears legit relative to his peers...
We're not at war. Not a war crime. It's simply murder.
This is what community activism looks like!
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There was a discussion on LinkedIn yesterday about the good days of Academic Twitter before everything went to crap and we left. I'm curious why we haven't been able to recreate that here. A lot of the same folks are here, but there's not as much engagement. What's Bluesky missing? โ๏ธ๐งช