Adeel Ahmed
@adeel-ahmed.bsky.social
Microphysiological systems, cell-substrate interactions. Postdoc at the Beebe Lab, UW Madison. Constantly thinking about the future of science! Photography and microscopy enthusiast 📸
Library scenes - with almost all scientific literature being digital, including textbooks, I wonder how many of these books actually got picked up in the past year. Any insights into library functioning folks?
August 5, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Library scenes - with almost all scientific literature being digital, including textbooks, I wonder how many of these books actually got picked up in the past year. Any insights into library functioning folks?
Just like food - junk content and mental obesity will hit the most vulnerable the hardest. In such an environment, we must promote independent thought, nuanced discourse, and sustained engagement with any literature as ever more important skills in the future - starting from primary education. 🧪
Opinion | Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good
www.nytimes.com
July 28, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Just like food - junk content and mental obesity will hit the most vulnerable the hardest. In such an environment, we must promote independent thought, nuanced discourse, and sustained engagement with any literature as ever more important skills in the future - starting from primary education. 🧪
Yikes!
Funding policy for 2025 from NCI. Was just released: 4 percentile…maybe!
www.cancer.gov/grants-train...
www.cancer.gov/grants-train...
Funding Policy - Research Grants
NCI funding policy for research project grant (RPG) awards reflects the funding goals of the institute, NIH, and HHS.
www.cancer.gov
July 24, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Yikes!
Growing up in urban Saudi Arabia, I actually didn’t get to see a true night sky until my mid twenties when I visited Cherry Springs State Park, PA. It is almost a grounding experience and one that a huge chunk of future generations might be deprived of.
July 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Growing up in urban Saudi Arabia, I actually didn’t get to see a true night sky until my mid twenties when I visited Cherry Springs State Park, PA. It is almost a grounding experience and one that a huge chunk of future generations might be deprived of.
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🗓️Upcoming launch!
Join us live on 26 July from 02:40 BST/03:40 CEST to watch our Vega-C rocket take flight once again.
#VV27 will carry Airbus's four CO3D satellites and CNES MicroCarb mission.
🚀 Launch is scheduled for 03:03 BST/04:03 CEST.
Join us live on 26 July from 02:40 BST/03:40 CEST to watch our Vega-C rocket take flight once again.
#VV27 will carry Airbus's four CO3D satellites and CNES MicroCarb mission.
🚀 Launch is scheduled for 03:03 BST/04:03 CEST.
Watch live: Vega-C to launch CO3D and MicroCarb
www.esa.int
July 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🗓️Upcoming launch!
Join us live on 26 July from 02:40 BST/03:40 CEST to watch our Vega-C rocket take flight once again.
#VV27 will carry Airbus's four CO3D satellites and CNES MicroCarb mission.
🚀 Launch is scheduled for 03:03 BST/04:03 CEST.
Join us live on 26 July from 02:40 BST/03:40 CEST to watch our Vega-C rocket take flight once again.
#VV27 will carry Airbus's four CO3D satellites and CNES MicroCarb mission.
🚀 Launch is scheduled for 03:03 BST/04:03 CEST.
Call me skeptical but at this point it all appears symbolic unless someone’s willing to enforce these laws and see the judgement carried through. Unfortunately, symbolic feels good but doesn’t achieve tangible outcomes.
Governments can be held legally responsible for climate inaction, the world’s highest court said in a landmark decision on Wednesday, opening the door to a cascade of lawsuits.
www.politico.eu/article/top-...
www.politico.eu/article/top-...
World’s top court says climate inaction can breach international law
Nonmembership of the Paris Agreement doesn’t exempt countries from duty to fight global warming, ICJ says.
www.politico.eu
July 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Call me skeptical but at this point it all appears symbolic unless someone’s willing to enforce these laws and see the judgement carried through. Unfortunately, symbolic feels good but doesn’t achieve tangible outcomes.
I made this bluesky account a little less than a year ago. Didn’t use it much because lack of users and low adoption. Thought other social media might bounce back (delusional me). But now I’m convinced that traditional social media has very little to offer. Back on here to give it another chance!
July 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I made this bluesky account a little less than a year ago. Didn’t use it much because lack of users and low adoption. Thought other social media might bounce back (delusional me). But now I’m convinced that traditional social media has very little to offer. Back on here to give it another chance!
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Washington Post published my resignation letter in its entirety (even the damn typos...)
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Read the resignation letter by former NIH official Nate Brought
Brought is the former director of the National Institutes of Health’s Executive Secretariat.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 6, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Washington Post published my resignation letter in its entirety (even the damn typos...)
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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It seems easy to make fun of basic science – for example why would you want to study bacterial immune systems? But then you would have to admit that that’s exactly what led to the discovery of using CRISPR as an insanely good technology for genome engineering.
November 30, 2024 at 10:24 PM
It seems easy to make fun of basic science – for example why would you want to study bacterial immune systems? But then you would have to admit that that’s exactly what led to the discovery of using CRISPR as an insanely good technology for genome engineering.
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Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.
November 29, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.
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1/23 Big news for the #ObenaufLab! So excited to finally share our new study providing another puzzle piece, why immunotherapy fails in many tumors, now out in @Nature 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2024 at 5:58 PM
1/23 Big news for the #ObenaufLab! So excited to finally share our new study providing another puzzle piece, why immunotherapy fails in many tumors, now out in @Nature 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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First panel discussion of the symposium: (Generative) AI and its implications for bioimage analysis. Panellists are Assaf Zaritsky, Lydia France and Xiaoxuan Liu. Chaired by Amy Strange #CBIAS2024
November 25, 2024 at 4:07 PM
First panel discussion of the symposium: (Generative) AI and its implications for bioimage analysis. Panellists are Assaf Zaritsky, Lydia France and Xiaoxuan Liu. Chaired by Amy Strange #CBIAS2024
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The goal is not to have a zero risk project; those are generally not worth working on. People with a good relationship with risk are definitely not avoiding it. They are super honest about it and they basically make it their goal to slowly chip away at it.
nightscience.buzzsprout.com/1744020/epis...
nightscience.buzzsprout.com/1744020/epis...
66 | Michael Fischbach and the scientific decision tree - Night Science
In this episode, Stanford professor Michael Fischbach discusses insights from his course on how to choose meaningful research problems. Highlights include:- Invest time in problem selection: Spend mor...
nightscience.buzzsprout.com
November 25, 2024 at 4:16 PM
The goal is not to have a zero risk project; those are generally not worth working on. People with a good relationship with risk are definitely not avoiding it. They are super honest about it and they basically make it their goal to slowly chip away at it.
nightscience.buzzsprout.com/1744020/epis...
nightscience.buzzsprout.com/1744020/epis...
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The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on?
direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A 🧵 1/n
#AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub
direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A 🧵 1/n
#AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub
November 19, 2024 at 12:27 PM
The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on?
direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A 🧵 1/n
#AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub
direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A 🧵 1/n
#AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub
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My one constructive criticism on BlueSky, as a community: we need to “like” less and “retweet” more. In the absence of an algorithm, that’s the way we find each other and reward good content.
November 24, 2024 at 2:08 PM
My one constructive criticism on BlueSky, as a community: we need to “like” less and “retweet” more. In the absence of an algorithm, that’s the way we find each other and reward good content.
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Please allow me to re-share my rough sketch of some advanced carbon capture technology
November 22, 2024 at 11:20 AM
Please allow me to re-share my rough sketch of some advanced carbon capture technology
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🎨 In case anyone need…
The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏!
Check it out 👇
bioart.niaid.nih.gov
The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏!
Check it out 👇
bioart.niaid.nih.gov
November 23, 2024 at 3:50 PM
🎨 In case anyone need…
The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏!
Check it out 👇
bioart.niaid.nih.gov
The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏!
Check it out 👇
bioart.niaid.nih.gov
Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the skyline
November 18, 2024 at 1:51 AM
Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the skyline
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We need to have a ‘code of conduct’ for reviewing manuscripts, like (1) if you say that something is not novel then provide the reference. (2) If you propose an experiment, state precisely to which claim it is crucial. (3) If you want to say something nasty then sign your name.
November 17, 2024 at 2:47 PM
We need to have a ‘code of conduct’ for reviewing manuscripts, like (1) if you say that something is not novel then provide the reference. (2) If you propose an experiment, state precisely to which claim it is crucial. (3) If you want to say something nasty then sign your name.
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Too often we spend only two weeks choosing a problem and then many years trying solving it, but this limits our potential impact.
A must read for PhD students: Problem choice and decision trees in science and engineering.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38608651/
A must read for PhD students: Problem choice and decision trees in science and engineering.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38608651/
November 17, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Too often we spend only two weeks choosing a problem and then many years trying solving it, but this limits our potential impact.
A must read for PhD students: Problem choice and decision trees in science and engineering.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38608651/
A must read for PhD students: Problem choice and decision trees in science and engineering.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38608651/
Hi everyone, I am a postdoc at UW-Madison developing microphysiological systems for predicting patient response to cancer therapies.
November 14, 2024 at 4:42 AM
Hi everyone, I am a postdoc at UW-Madison developing microphysiological systems for predicting patient response to cancer therapies.
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wtf this is crazy www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Prediction of single-cell RNA expression profiles in live cells by Raman microscopy with Raman2RNA - Nature Biotechnology
Transcriptional profiles of single living cells are generated from Raman imaging data.
www.nature.com
November 13, 2024 at 9:26 PM
wtf this is crazy www.nature.com/articles/s41...
On the side, please enjoy these stunning view of the northern lights from Wisconsin!
November 13, 2024 at 2:44 PM
On the side, please enjoy these stunning view of the northern lights from Wisconsin!
I had forgotten what it was like to go on social media and not instantly get pissed off, this is refreshing!
November 13, 2024 at 2:42 PM
I had forgotten what it was like to go on social media and not instantly get pissed off, this is refreshing!