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Adrianne Wallace-Povirk
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Pancreas cancer researcher, reader & questioner. Devoted cat mom 🐈. Views my own.
Finally, maybe feeling better. 🤧
December 28, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Cooking success, despite the brief power loss. So many laughs with family I’ve missed. Thankful ❤️
November 28, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Cooking for Thanksgiving just changed to cooking by candlelight. Hoping the power comes back on soon. 🤞
November 26, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Cookies and Christmas Music time.
November 25, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Reposted by Adrianne Wallace-Povirk
Chances are, you've seen one of his recipes online (his hasselback potato gratin for @nytimes.com is having a moment). Author and food scientist J. Kenji Lopez-Alt shares that the secret behind a great Thanksgiving meal is solid chemistry. 🧪🦃
Spice Up Your Thanksgiving With Science
Should you brine your turkey? Why do mashed potatoes get glue-y? Cookbook author Kenji López-Alt tackles the science behind thanksgiving.
buff.ly
November 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Wonderful Saturday of prepping for Thanksgiving, and decorating for Christmas. 🎄 But first…tire rotation.
November 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
New journal and pen really make Monday better ✍️
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Snow! ❄️
November 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Sweatpants, sweatshirt, heated blanket, purring cat. Best Friday night after a long day. ❤️
November 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Happy National Cat Day to my closest pals ❤️ We’ve been through a lot together 💕
October 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Reposted by Adrianne Wallace-Povirk
Last year, two teams have independently found the long-awaited mutation and discovered a protein that influences hair color in a way never seen before in any animal.

Learn more on #NationalCatDay: https://scim.ag/3LdWP8b
October 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Sigh of relief & beautiful fall evening.
September 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
So it begins…again.
September 16, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Reposted by Adrianne Wallace-Povirk
As teams grow, new Ph.D. graduates are less likely to land tenure-track jobs and more likely to leave science—especially women and international researchers, according to research from last year. https://scim.ag/3JHinJs #ScienceMagArchives
Larger teams worsen academic career prospects
As teams grow, new Ph.D. graduates are less likely to land tenure-track jobs and more likely to leave science—especially women and international researchers
scim.ag
August 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Reposted by Adrianne Wallace-Povirk
In the new book Labwork to Leadership, chemist Jen Heemstra offers actionable leadership advice to principal investigators.

Read the #ScienceBooks Review: https://scim.ag/4mljVr1
August 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations Dr. Dobersch! Phenomenal and important work to better understand what drives the basal subtype of PDAC!
HMGA2 and protein leucine methylation drive pancreatic cancer lineage plasticity - Nature Communications
Basal Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is more aggressive than the classical subtype of pancreatic cancer. Here the authors report that RNA-binding protein LIN28B and its target HMGA2 drive bas...
www.nature.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Afternoon walk, peaceful by the water
May 3, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Reposted by Adrianne Wallace-Povirk
90% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die from the disease. That's why the medical community is excited about the results of a small trial in which nearly half of the pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease remained relapse-free three years later.
A Vaccine For Pancreatic Cancer Continues To Show Promise
In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease had no relapse three years later.
www.sciencefriday.com
March 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM