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John Petrini

@johnpetrini.bsky.social

πŸ§ͺ☺️. 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.

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Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr. We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

07.10.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#HispanicHeritageMonth ✊🏾

#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory

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Oh this is great

15.09.2025 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 91    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 5

So are you saying we SHOULDN’T have raided that battery plant, put the South Koreans in leg irons and frog marched them off to a dank prison for about a week, @katiephang.bsky.social

But how else can we protect β€˜Murica and stop all those criminal engineers from tearing us down by building factories

15.09.2025 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 65    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What happened to Charlie Kirk is also what happened to 20 children (ages 6 and 7) at the Sandy Hook Elementary School.

I don’t remember the right being this upset back thenβ€”do you? 🀨

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Mitotic single-stranded DNA suppression by DDIAS Incomplete DNA replication and chromosome breakage during mitosis pose major threats to chromosome segregation. The CIP2A-TOPBP1 complex acts to mitigate this peril, but its exact role is not yet unde...

New work from the lab! πŸ”¬

We report that DDIAS is a new component of the mitotic CIP2A-TOPBP1 pathway of genome maintenance. 1/n

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

10.09.2025 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jay Bhattacharya claims that RFK Jr is "devoted to the scientific method" πŸ™ƒ

05.09.2025 00:09 β€” πŸ‘ 533    πŸ” 78    πŸ’¬ 176    πŸ“Œ 58

bullshit

05.09.2025 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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RFK Jr. is living in a pretend anti-vax world Unfortunately, he is wreaking havoc in the real one.

In a marathon hearing on Thursday before the Senate Finance Committee, RFK Jr. faced a barrage of questions from senators who were outraged by his recent actions.

In some cases, Kennedy appeared to promote flat-out lies.

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Great start for Bluesky post!

03.09.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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DNA2 enables growth by restricting recombination-restarted replication - Nature DNA2 suppresses recombination-restarted replication and checkpoint activation at stalled forks, and its loss triggers recombination-dependent synthesis, checkpoint signalling and cell-cycle exit, high...

My first post on bsky to share our latest research in @nature.com: β€œDNA2 enables growth by restricting recombination-restarted replication” - defines DNA2’s essential function & elucidates links with primordial dwarfism and cancer. Thanks to the lab, collaborators & @ukri.org @acmedsci.bsky.social

03.09.2025 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1
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Scientists Denounce Trump Administration’s Climate Report

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/c...

02.09.2025 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."

It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

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not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.

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"RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy...it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism."

Were he not a Kennedy...and wealthy...he'd likely be living his life out in a mental institution. Diagnosis: Dumb-Fuckery.

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Honoring Ashli Babbitt Dishonors the Military If there’s no difference between upholding the Constitution and attacking it, then there’s no honor in service.

"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power."

New from @markhertling.bsky.social:

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Opinion | America Is Abandoning One of the Greatest Medical Breakthroughs

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...

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Grew up going to The Shiek downtown way back in the day!

07.08.2025 22:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

if you're going to get stuck with a needle to test your titre, why not just get stuck with a needle carrying the vaccine? seems pointless to test

06.08.2025 00:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Why Dems are not screaming about this is unacceptable!!

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In Game-Changing Climate Rollback, E.P.A. Aims to Kill a Bedrock Scientific Finding

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...

This has to be stopped

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I love this!! πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ’›β€οΈπŸ’œπŸ’šπŸ©·

22.07.2025 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1539    πŸ” 198    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 9

Happy to share my postdoc workβ€”our new preprint is out! 🧬 It’s been a privilege to lead this project.

I'm immensely grateful to Anton @golobor.bsky.social for being such an inspiring and supportive supervisor. Also truly thankful to @danielgerlich.bsky.social for his guidance and collaboration.

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πŸ‘πŸ½πŸ‘πŸ½

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