Hajrah Khawaja
@hajrah-khawaja.bsky.social
Editor @The FEBS Journal | Former cancer research scientist | Western blot aficionado 🤓 | Enthusiastic crocheter| Views are my own.
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🩸 Register today for the FEBS Workshop on Aging in Hematopoiesis that will take place in ☀️ Crete on October 20-24, 2025!
🩸 An outstanding scientific program in a beautiful location! More info: buff.ly/bSHhzR3
🩸 An outstanding scientific program in a beautiful location! More info: buff.ly/bSHhzR3
July 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
🩸 Register today for the FEBS Workshop on Aging in Hematopoiesis that will take place in ☀️ Crete on October 20-24, 2025!
🩸 An outstanding scientific program in a beautiful location! More info: buff.ly/bSHhzR3
🩸 An outstanding scientific program in a beautiful location! More info: buff.ly/bSHhzR3
@febsj.bsky.social is at the FEBS Congress 2025! Come say hello to us- we've already had some great visitors 😉 @febspress.bsky.social
July 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM
@febsj.bsky.social is at the FEBS Congress 2025! Come say hello to us- we've already had some great visitors 😉 @febspress.bsky.social
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Me as an author: I really want to wrap up this manuscript today so I can send it out to a journal before the long weekend.
Me as an editor: I really hope people don't dump a bunch of manuscripts on me that I can't help looking at during the long weekend.
I'm complicated, folks.
Me as an editor: I really hope people don't dump a bunch of manuscripts on me that I can't help looking at during the long weekend.
I'm complicated, folks.
July 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Me as an author: I really want to wrap up this manuscript today so I can send it out to a journal before the long weekend.
Me as an editor: I really hope people don't dump a bunch of manuscripts on me that I can't help looking at during the long weekend.
I'm complicated, folks.
Me as an editor: I really hope people don't dump a bunch of manuscripts on me that I can't help looking at during the long weekend.
I'm complicated, folks.
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From student to researcher, a #career in #science can come with a high price tag. @drcraigmc.bsky.social explores how wealth shapes opportunity in #STEM and proposes structural changes to support #equity and inclusion. 🧪
plos.io/4edGlY4
plos.io/4edGlY4
Too poor to science: How wealth determines who succeeds in STEM
From student to researcher, a career in science can come with a high price tag. This Perspective explores how persistent financial barriers limit who can succeed in science, revealing how wealth shape...
plos.io
June 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
From student to researcher, a #career in #science can come with a high price tag. @drcraigmc.bsky.social explores how wealth shapes opportunity in #STEM and proposes structural changes to support #equity and inclusion. 🧪
plos.io/4edGlY4
plos.io/4edGlY4
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On the day we were awarded an #ERCAdG from the @erc.europa.eu, I want to highlight this non-science paper I wrote with @deefitzgerald.bsky.social on research culture:
wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-341
Why? Because I'm often told we need to chose between excellence and kindness
wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-341
Why? Because I'm often told we need to chose between excellence and kindness
June 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
On the day we were awarded an #ERCAdG from the @erc.europa.eu, I want to highlight this non-science paper I wrote with @deefitzgerald.bsky.social on research culture:
wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-341
Why? Because I'm often told we need to chose between excellence and kindness
wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-341
Why? Because I'm often told we need to chose between excellence and kindness
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Very happy that our SIAH1 article - published online in February - was now chosen for the cover of the new issue of the @febsj.bsky.social . Thank you @spartelab.bsky.social for the wonderful collaboration and the lovely cellular images. febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17424658...
June 5, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Very happy that our SIAH1 article - published online in February - was now chosen for the cover of the new issue of the @febsj.bsky.social . Thank you @spartelab.bsky.social for the wonderful collaboration and the lovely cellular images. febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17424658...
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🦠 Fix your #HumpDay blues with our latest issue:
Your journey starts with a healthy helping of #immunology reviews & takes you through the best and brightest original research in the molecular life sciences:
🦠 buff.ly/6W7NkMV
Your journey starts with a healthy helping of #immunology reviews & takes you through the best and brightest original research in the molecular life sciences:
🦠 buff.ly/6W7NkMV
April 23, 2025 at 11:24 AM
🦠 Fix your #HumpDay blues with our latest issue:
Your journey starts with a healthy helping of #immunology reviews & takes you through the best and brightest original research in the molecular life sciences:
🦠 buff.ly/6W7NkMV
Your journey starts with a healthy helping of #immunology reviews & takes you through the best and brightest original research in the molecular life sciences:
🦠 buff.ly/6W7NkMV
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🦠 Our Special Issue now live!
Guest-edited by John Cryan
@jfcryan.bsky.social and full to the brim with unmissable specially commissioned articles on the fascinating world of the human microbiome.
Check it out here:
🦠 buff.ly/pg3VN3o
Image c/o Larissa Tofani
@apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social
Guest-edited by John Cryan
@jfcryan.bsky.social and full to the brim with unmissable specially commissioned articles on the fascinating world of the human microbiome.
Check it out here:
🦠 buff.ly/pg3VN3o
Image c/o Larissa Tofani
@apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
🦠 Our Special Issue now live!
Guest-edited by John Cryan
@jfcryan.bsky.social and full to the brim with unmissable specially commissioned articles on the fascinating world of the human microbiome.
Check it out here:
🦠 buff.ly/pg3VN3o
Image c/o Larissa Tofani
@apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social
Guest-edited by John Cryan
@jfcryan.bsky.social and full to the brim with unmissable specially commissioned articles on the fascinating world of the human microbiome.
Check it out here:
🦠 buff.ly/pg3VN3o
Image c/o Larissa Tofani
@apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social
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It’s so frustrating to see people hide behind the excuse of scientific & political neutrality. @royalsociety.org need to step up & show leadership by expelling a man who is not a scientist & is hell bent on destroying science. Otherwise what’s the point of them? 🧪 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
‘It would be seen as political’: why the Royal Society is torn over Elon Musk
Many fellows feel the billionaire has breached its code of conduct, but others say scientific neutrality is at stake
www.theguardian.com
March 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
It’s so frustrating to see people hide behind the excuse of scientific & political neutrality. @royalsociety.org need to step up & show leadership by expelling a man who is not a scientist & is hell bent on destroying science. Otherwise what’s the point of them? 🧪 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Our newest paper on mtDNA instability signaling by Gustavo Carvalho, Tran Nguyen and Bruno Repolês et al is out: Activating AMPK improves pathological phenotypes due to mtDNA depletion - Carvalho - The FEBS Journal - Wiley Online Library febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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In a cellular model of mitochondrial disease characterized by progressive mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) depletion, we found that advancing mitochondrial dysfunction triggers the early and specific activa...
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 9, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Our newest paper on mtDNA instability signaling by Gustavo Carvalho, Tran Nguyen and Bruno Repolês et al is out: Activating AMPK improves pathological phenotypes due to mtDNA depletion - Carvalho - The FEBS Journal - Wiley Online Library febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Happy to see this published in The FEBS Journal @febspress.bsky.social. We tried to shed some light on how Leishmania parasites use amino acids, particularly proline and glutamate, as energy sources doi.org/10.1111/febs... @uspoficial.bsky.social
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Leishmania species are the causative agents of leishmaniasis. During their life cycles, these parasites transit between invertebrate and vertebrate hosts, and the ability to adapt to different enviro...
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February 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Happy to see this published in The FEBS Journal @febspress.bsky.social. We tried to shed some light on how Leishmania parasites use amino acids, particularly proline and glutamate, as energy sources doi.org/10.1111/febs... @uspoficial.bsky.social
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Happy to share a review by grad student Ravi on the complex crosstalk between redox homeostasis and hypoxia signaling in the FEBS Journal. We also discuss the future research prospects at this exciting interface.
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
FEBS Press
Redox homeostasis, the balance between oxidative and reductive processes, is essential for cellular function and organismal health. Disruption, either through excessive oxidants (oxidative stress) or...
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Happy to share a review by grad student Ravi on the complex crosstalk between redox homeostasis and hypoxia signaling in the FEBS Journal. We also discuss the future research prospects at this exciting interface.
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Here is a link to the article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
We're very happy to see it published in a society journal, The FEBS J.
It's another great collaboration with the team from Rennes led by Sébastien Huet @spartelab.bsky.social .
Thanks to @ercresearch.bsky.social for funding.
We're very happy to see it published in a society journal, The FEBS J.
It's another great collaboration with the team from Rennes led by Sébastien Huet @spartelab.bsky.social .
Thanks to @ercresearch.bsky.social for funding.
February 6, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Here is a link to the article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
We're very happy to see it published in a society journal, The FEBS J.
It's another great collaboration with the team from Rennes led by Sébastien Huet @spartelab.bsky.social .
Thanks to @ercresearch.bsky.social for funding.
We're very happy to see it published in a society journal, The FEBS J.
It's another great collaboration with the team from Rennes led by Sébastien Huet @spartelab.bsky.social .
Thanks to @ercresearch.bsky.social for funding.
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Medical advances in the past few decades have redefined migraine as a treatable and manageable condition. Research is also leading to a better understanding about the condition and pointing to directions for future work. Read the Nature feature. 🧪
Migraine is more than a headache — a radical rethink offers hope to one billion people
Drugs that can prevent or relieve migraine attacks are only effective for some people. Research is starting to untangle the reasons why.
go.nature.com
February 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Medical advances in the past few decades have redefined migraine as a treatable and manageable condition. Research is also leading to a better understanding about the condition and pointing to directions for future work. Read the Nature feature. 🧪
❄️ And that’s a #festiveFEBSJ wrap, folks!
Thank you for getting festive with The FEBS Journal, and celebrating some excellent science with us!
A very happy holiday to you all, and for when it arrives- Happy New Year! 🪩
Thank you for getting festive with The FEBS Journal, and celebrating some excellent science with us!
A very happy holiday to you all, and for when it arrives- Happy New Year! 🪩
December 24, 2024 at 12:00 PM
❄️ And that’s a #festiveFEBSJ wrap, folks!
Thank you for getting festive with The FEBS Journal, and celebrating some excellent science with us!
A very happy holiday to you all, and for when it arrives- Happy New Year! 🪩
Thank you for getting festive with The FEBS Journal, and celebrating some excellent science with us!
A very happy holiday to you all, and for when it arrives- Happy New Year! 🪩
We’re nearly there, folks! 😌 Grab a hot chocolate & keep those Monday blues away with an excellent #festiveFEBSJ #Editorschoice by:
Middleton & team, who identified #ubiquitin variants that can bind to and inhibit a ubiquitin-conjugating E2 #enzyme.
🔎 https://buff.ly/4gnda5g
Middleton & team, who identified #ubiquitin variants that can bind to and inhibit a ubiquitin-conjugating E2 #enzyme.
🔎 https://buff.ly/4gnda5g
December 23, 2024 at 3:00 PM
We’re nearly there, folks! 😌 Grab a hot chocolate & keep those Monday blues away with an excellent #festiveFEBSJ #Editorschoice by:
Middleton & team, who identified #ubiquitin variants that can bind to and inhibit a ubiquitin-conjugating E2 #enzyme.
🔎 https://buff.ly/4gnda5g
Middleton & team, who identified #ubiquitin variants that can bind to and inhibit a ubiquitin-conjugating E2 #enzyme.
🔎 https://buff.ly/4gnda5g
🍿Need a break from (re)watching a bazillion Christmas movies? Check out this #festiveFEBSJ #Editorschoice by:
Costacurta & team, who used proximity labelling to explore how IMiDs & proteasome inhibition affect cereblon’s #interactome in #multiplemyeloma
🔗 https://buff.ly/3VLpR1r
Costacurta & team, who used proximity labelling to explore how IMiDs & proteasome inhibition affect cereblon’s #interactome in #multiplemyeloma
🔗 https://buff.ly/3VLpR1r
December 22, 2024 at 3:00 PM
🍿Need a break from (re)watching a bazillion Christmas movies? Check out this #festiveFEBSJ #Editorschoice by:
Costacurta & team, who used proximity labelling to explore how IMiDs & proteasome inhibition affect cereblon’s #interactome in #multiplemyeloma
🔗 https://buff.ly/3VLpR1r
Costacurta & team, who used proximity labelling to explore how IMiDs & proteasome inhibition affect cereblon’s #interactome in #multiplemyeloma
🔗 https://buff.ly/3VLpR1r
❄️ Today’s #festiveFEBSJ read is an #Editorschoice by:
Jin, Cai & team, who show that #histone acetyltransferase MOF can regulate global #transcription through acetylating CDK9 #kinase 🗺️
Check out this excellent protein-protein interaction study here: https://buff.ly/3BD224Y
Jin, Cai & team, who show that #histone acetyltransferase MOF can regulate global #transcription through acetylating CDK9 #kinase 🗺️
Check out this excellent protein-protein interaction study here: https://buff.ly/3BD224Y
December 21, 2024 at 3:00 PM
❄️ Today’s #festiveFEBSJ read is an #Editorschoice by:
Jin, Cai & team, who show that #histone acetyltransferase MOF can regulate global #transcription through acetylating CDK9 #kinase 🗺️
Check out this excellent protein-protein interaction study here: https://buff.ly/3BD224Y
Jin, Cai & team, who show that #histone acetyltransferase MOF can regulate global #transcription through acetylating CDK9 #kinase 🗺️
Check out this excellent protein-protein interaction study here: https://buff.ly/3BD224Y
Taking a temporary break from tucking into mince pies, lebkuchen & panettone? 😋
Tuck into today’s #festiveFEBSJ #Editorschoice instead:
Ziaunys & team explored alpha-synuclein #aggregation with important implications for disease-related #fibril formation: 🔗https://buff.ly/4ftcutV
Tuck into today’s #festiveFEBSJ #Editorschoice instead:
Ziaunys & team explored alpha-synuclein #aggregation with important implications for disease-related #fibril formation: 🔗https://buff.ly/4ftcutV
December 20, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Taking a temporary break from tucking into mince pies, lebkuchen & panettone? 😋
Tuck into today’s #festiveFEBSJ #Editorschoice instead:
Ziaunys & team explored alpha-synuclein #aggregation with important implications for disease-related #fibril formation: 🔗https://buff.ly/4ftcutV
Tuck into today’s #festiveFEBSJ #Editorschoice instead:
Ziaunys & team explored alpha-synuclein #aggregation with important implications for disease-related #fibril formation: 🔗https://buff.ly/4ftcutV
☃️We are SO ready for the festive period! On the menu:
🥧 mince pies
🎬 cosy film marathon
...aaaand...
⚡ Our 2024 Highlights collection, full of the year's best and brightest science. Join us in unwrapping it:
🎁 https://buff.ly/4fqW5WN
All your #festiveFEBSJ #WeekendReads in one place!
🥧 mince pies
🎬 cosy film marathon
...aaaand...
⚡ Our 2024 Highlights collection, full of the year's best and brightest science. Join us in unwrapping it:
🎁 https://buff.ly/4fqW5WN
All your #festiveFEBSJ #WeekendReads in one place!
December 20, 2024 at 12:00 PM
☃️We are SO ready for the festive period! On the menu:
🥧 mince pies
🎬 cosy film marathon
...aaaand...
⚡ Our 2024 Highlights collection, full of the year's best and brightest science. Join us in unwrapping it:
🎁 https://buff.ly/4fqW5WN
All your #festiveFEBSJ #WeekendReads in one place!
🥧 mince pies
🎬 cosy film marathon
...aaaand...
⚡ Our 2024 Highlights collection, full of the year's best and brightest science. Join us in unwrapping it:
🎁 https://buff.ly/4fqW5WN
All your #festiveFEBSJ #WeekendReads in one place!
🎄 We’re snow excited to share today’s #festiveFEBSJ #Editorschoice article, brought to you by Pavel Hozák, Peter Hoboth & Martin Sztacho @IMCF_Vinicna
Check out their stunning #immunofluorescence images here: https://buff.ly/3BOy9i6
Check out their stunning #immunofluorescence images here: https://buff.ly/3BOy9i6
December 19, 2024 at 3:00 PM
🎄 We’re snow excited to share today’s #festiveFEBSJ #Editorschoice article, brought to you by Pavel Hozák, Peter Hoboth & Martin Sztacho @IMCF_Vinicna
Check out their stunning #immunofluorescence images here: https://buff.ly/3BOy9i6
Check out their stunning #immunofluorescence images here: https://buff.ly/3BOy9i6
You know what goes really well with a #humpday hot chocolate? 🐫
🎄A #festiveFEBSJ read!
Check out this #Editorschoice by Xie, Hou & team, who found that #senescence plays a key role in doxorubicin-mediated cardiotoxicity.
Read more here: https://buff.ly/49DLJBw
🎄A #festiveFEBSJ read!
Check out this #Editorschoice by Xie, Hou & team, who found that #senescence plays a key role in doxorubicin-mediated cardiotoxicity.
Read more here: https://buff.ly/49DLJBw
December 18, 2024 at 3:00 PM
You know what goes really well with a #humpday hot chocolate? 🐫
🎄A #festiveFEBSJ read!
Check out this #Editorschoice by Xie, Hou & team, who found that #senescence plays a key role in doxorubicin-mediated cardiotoxicity.
Read more here: https://buff.ly/49DLJBw
🎄A #festiveFEBSJ read!
Check out this #Editorschoice by Xie, Hou & team, who found that #senescence plays a key role in doxorubicin-mediated cardiotoxicity.
Read more here: https://buff.ly/49DLJBw
🪩Today’s #Editorschoice article will put a #festiveFEBSJ PPEP in your step 💃:
Hensbergen & team explore the structure–function relationship and #protease specificity of pro-pro endopeptidases (PPEPs).
🔎Discover more here: https://buff.ly/3OXNFLD
Hensbergen & team explore the structure–function relationship and #protease specificity of pro-pro endopeptidases (PPEPs).
🔎Discover more here: https://buff.ly/3OXNFLD
December 17, 2024 at 3:00 PM
🪩Today’s #Editorschoice article will put a #festiveFEBSJ PPEP in your step 💃:
Hensbergen & team explore the structure–function relationship and #protease specificity of pro-pro endopeptidases (PPEPs).
🔎Discover more here: https://buff.ly/3OXNFLD
Hensbergen & team explore the structure–function relationship and #protease specificity of pro-pro endopeptidases (PPEPs).
🔎Discover more here: https://buff.ly/3OXNFLD
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‘The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.'
On 16th December 1775 Jane Austen was born, and 247 years later we're all still completely obsessed with her work: www.waterstones.com/author/jane-...
On 16th December 1775 Jane Austen was born, and 247 years later we're all still completely obsessed with her work: www.waterstones.com/author/jane-...
December 16, 2024 at 3:04 PM
‘The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.'
On 16th December 1775 Jane Austen was born, and 247 years later we're all still completely obsessed with her work: www.waterstones.com/author/jane-...
On 16th December 1775 Jane Austen was born, and 247 years later we're all still completely obsessed with her work: www.waterstones.com/author/jane-...
❄️ What could be better than a #festiveFEBSJ read on a Fur-eezing day?
Check out this fascinating #Editorschoice by Bes & team about how ferric uptake regulator (Fur) can help C.difficile adapt to iron scarcity, thereby facilitating its pathogenicity.
🔗 https://buff.ly/3ZPJDuV
Check out this fascinating #Editorschoice by Bes & team about how ferric uptake regulator (Fur) can help C.difficile adapt to iron scarcity, thereby facilitating its pathogenicity.
🔗 https://buff.ly/3ZPJDuV
December 16, 2024 at 3:00 PM
❄️ What could be better than a #festiveFEBSJ read on a Fur-eezing day?
Check out this fascinating #Editorschoice by Bes & team about how ferric uptake regulator (Fur) can help C.difficile adapt to iron scarcity, thereby facilitating its pathogenicity.
🔗 https://buff.ly/3ZPJDuV
Check out this fascinating #Editorschoice by Bes & team about how ferric uptake regulator (Fur) can help C.difficile adapt to iron scarcity, thereby facilitating its pathogenicity.
🔗 https://buff.ly/3ZPJDuV